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
- Thunder in the City as Dr. Plumet
- Fire Over England as Don Escobal
- Love from a Stranger as Hobson
- Café Colette as Nick
1936
- The Man Behind the Mask as Dr. Harold E. Walpole
- The Man Who Changed His Mind as Clayton
- Broken Blossoms as Old Chinaman
1935
- Scrooge as Bob Cratchit
- The Clairvoyant as Derelict (uncredited)
- The Phantom Light as David Owen
- Man of the Moment as Godfrey
- Me and Marlborough as Drunken Yokel
- The Divine Spark as Judge Fumaroli
1934
- Red Ensign as Macleod
- It's a Cop as Charles Murray
- Sorrell and Son as Dr. Richard Orange
1933
- Friday the Thirteenth as Hugh Nicholls
- I Was a Spy as Cnockhaert
- This Acting Business as Milton Stafford
- F.P.1 as Sunshine, the Photographer
- Early to Bed as Potsdam Guide
1932
- Number Seventeen as Nora's Escort Brant
- Rome Express as Poole
- Money for Nothing as Hotel Manager
- Fires of Fate as Sir William Royden
1931
- Industrial Britain as Self - Commentator (uncredited)
- Uneasy Virtue as Burglar
- The Bells as Mathias
- Potiphar's Wife as Counsel for Defense
- The Ghost Train as Saul Hodgkin
- Cape Forlorn as Parson
- Many Waters as Compton Hardcastle
1930
- Murder! as Ion Stewart
- Elstree Calling as Himself / Petruchio in Taming of the Shrew
- Spanish Eyes as Mascoso
- Two Worlds as Mendel
- Almost a Honeymoon as Charles, the butler
- Song of Soho as Nobby
- Star Impersonations as George Arliss
- The Night Porter as George, the Night Porter
- All Riot on the Western Front
- Loose Ends as Winton Penner
- We Take Off Our Hats as 'erb
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