Donald Calthrop
Born: 1888-04-11 in London, England, UK
Died: 1940-07-15
Known For: Acting
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Donald Esme Clayton Calthrop (11 April 1888 – 15 July 1940) was an English stage and film actor. Calthrop made his first stage appearance at eighteen years of age. His first film was The Gay Lord Quex released in 1917. He starred as the title character in the successful musical The Boy in the same year. He then appeared in 63 films between 1916 and 1940, including five films directed by Alfred Hitchcock. He died in Eton, Berkshire from a heart attack while he was filming Major Barbara (1941).
Filmography
1941
- Major Barbara as Peter Shirley
1940
- Charley's (Big-Hearted) Aunt as Guide
- Let George Do It! as Frederick Strickland
- Band Waggon as Hobday
1937
- Fire Over England as Don Escobal
- Love from a Stranger as Hobson
- Thunder in the City as Dr. Plumet
- Café Colette as Nick
1936
- Broken Blossoms as Old Chinaman
- The Man Who Changed His Mind as Clayton
- The Man Behind the Mask as Dr. Harold E. Walpole
1935
- The Clairvoyant as Derelict (uncredited)
- Scrooge as Bob Cratchit
- Man of the Moment as Godfrey
- The Divine Spark as Judge Fumaroli
- Me and Marlborough as Drunken Yokel
- The Phantom Light as David Owen
1934
- Sorrell and Son as Dr. Richard Orange
- Red Ensign as Macleod
- It's a Cop as Charles Murray
1933
- I Was a Spy as Cnockhaert
- Friday the Thirteenth as Hugh Nicholls
- Early to Bed as Potsdam Guide
- F.P.1 as Sunshine, the Photographer
- This Acting Business as Milton Stafford
1932
- Number Seventeen as Nora's Escort Brant
- Fires of Fate as Sir William Royden
- Rome Express as Poole
- Money for Nothing as Hotel Manager
1931
- Potiphar's Wife as Counsel for Defense
- Uneasy Virtue as Burglar
- The Bells as Mathias
- The Ghost Train as Saul Hodgkin
- Many Waters as Compton Hardcastle
- Industrial Britain as Self - Commentator (uncredited)
- Cape Forlorn as Parson
1930
- Murder! as Ion Stewart
- The Night Porter as George, the Night Porter
- Star Impersonations as George Arliss
- Elstree Calling as Himself / Petruchio in Taming of the Shrew
- Two Worlds as Mendel
- We Take Off Our Hats as 'erb
- Loose Ends as Winton Penner
- Almost a Honeymoon as Charles, the butler
- All Riot on the Western Front
- Spanish Eyes as Mascoso
- Song of Soho as Nobby
1929
- Blackmail as Tracy
- Atlantic as Pointer
- The Clue of the New Pin as Yeh Ling
- Up the Poll as The Candidate
1928
- Shooting Stars as Andy Wilkes
1918
- Nelson as Horatio Nelson
- Nelson; The Story of England's Immortal Naval Hero as Horatio Nelson
1917
- Masks and Faces as Lovell