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
- Band Waggon as Hobday
- Let George Do It! as Frederick Strickland
- Charley's (Big-Hearted) Aunt as Guide
1937
- Fire Over England as Don Escobal
- Love from a Stranger as Hobson
- Café Colette as Nick
- Thunder in the City as Dr. Plumet
1936
- The Man Who Changed His Mind as Clayton
- Broken Blossoms as Old Chinaman
- The Man Behind the Mask as Dr. Harold E. Walpole
1935
- The Clairvoyant as Derelict (uncredited)
- Scrooge as Bob Cratchit
- Me and Marlborough as Drunken Yokel
- Man of the Moment as Godfrey
- The Phantom Light as David Owen
- The Divine Spark as Judge Fumaroli
1934
- Sorrell and Son as Dr. Richard Orange
- Red Ensign as Macleod
- It's a Cop as Charles Murray
1933
- Friday the Thirteenth as Hugh Nicholls
- I Was a Spy as Cnockhaert
- Early to Bed as Potsdam Guide
- This Acting Business as Milton Stafford
- F.P.1 as Sunshine, the Photographer
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
- Uneasy Virtue as Burglar
- Potiphar's Wife as Counsel for Defense
- The Bells as Mathias
- The Ghost Train as Saul Hodgkin
- Many Waters as Compton Hardcastle
- Cape Forlorn as Parson
- Industrial Britain as Self - Commentator (uncredited)
1930
- Murder! as Ion Stewart
- 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
- The Night Porter as George, the Night Porter
- Spanish Eyes as Mascoso
- Song of Soho as Nobby
- Loose Ends as Winton Penner
- All Riot on the Western Front
- Almost a Honeymoon as Charles, the butler
1929
- Blackmail as Tracy
- The Clue of the New Pin as Yeh Ling
- Atlantic as Pointer
- 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