Donald Crisp
Born: 1882-07-26 in Bow, London, England, UK
Died: 1974-05-25
Known For: Acting
Biography
Donald Crisp was born George William Crisp at the family home in Bow, London. Donald's parents were James Crisp and Elizabeth Crisp, his birth was registered by his mother on 4th September 1882. Donald's sisters were Elizabeth, Ann, Alice (known as Louisa) and Eliza and his brothers were James, John and Mark. Family memories state that Donald's brother-in-law James Needham (Louisa's husband) lent/gave Donald the fare to USA. The family have a photo of Donald which he sent to 'Jimmy' and signed. On 16th February 1937 Donald applied for a US Social Security account number giving his address as N Vista Street Hollywood California, and his employers Warner Brothers Pictures, Burbank California. On his application Donald did not know his mother's maiden name.
Filmography
1983
- Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1963
- Spencer's Mountain as Grandpa Spencer
1961
- Greyfriars Bobby as James Brown
1960
- Pollyanna as Mayor Karl Warren
1959
- A Dog of Flanders as Jehan Daas
1958
- The Last Hurrah as The Cardinal
- Saddle the Wind as Dennis Deneen
1957
- Drango as Judge Allen
1956
1955
- The Man from Laramie as Alec Waggoman
- The Long Gray Line as Old Martin
- The Red, White and Blue Line as Self
1954
- Prince Valiant as King Aguar
- A Star Is Born World Premiere as Self
1952
- This Is Your Life as Self
1951
- Home Town Story as John MacFarland
1950
- Bright Leaf as Major Singleton
1949
- Africa Screams ... (Executive Producer)
- Challenge to Lassie as 'Jock' Gray
1948
- The Ed Sullivan Show as Self
- Whispering Smith as Barney Rebstock
- Hills of Home as Drumsheugh
1947
- Ramrod as Jim Crew
1945
- National Velvet as Mr. Herbert Brown
- The Valley of Decision as William Scott
- Son of Lassie as Sam Carraclough
1944
- The Uninvited as Commander Beech
- The Adventures of Mark Twain as J.B. Pond
1943
- Lassie Come Home as Sam Carraclough
- Forever and a Day as Captain Martin
1942
- The Battle of Midway as Main Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
- The Gay Sisters as Ralph Pedloch
1941
- Shining Victory as Dr. Drewett
- Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde as Sir Charles Emery
- How Green Was My Valley as Gwilym Morgan
1940
- Brother Orchid as Brother Superior
- The Sea Hawk as Admiral Sir John Burleson
- Knute Rockne All American as Father John Callahan, C.S.C
- City for Conquest as Scotty MacPherson
- Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet as Minister Althoff
1939
- Juarez as Maréchal Bazaine
- Daughters Courageous as Samuel 'Sam' Sloane
- The Old Maid as Doctor Lanskell
- Wuthering Heights as Dr. Kenneth
- Sons of Liberty as Alexander McDougall
- The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex as Francis Bacon
- The Oklahoma Kid as Judge Hardwick
1938
- Sergeant Murphy as Col. Todd Carruthers
- The Sisters as Tim Hazelton
- The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse as Police Inspector Lewis Lane
- Valley of the Giants as Andy Stone
- The Beloved Brat as Mr. Morgan
- The Dawn Patrol as Phipps
- Comet Over Broadway as Grant
- Jezebel as Dr. Livingstone
1937
- The Life of Emile Zola as Maitre Labori
- Parnell as Michael Davitt
- That Certain Woman as Jack V. Merrick Sr.
- The Great O'Malley as Police Captain Cromwell
- Confession as Presiding Judge
1936
- Beloved Enemy as Liam Burke
- The Charge of the Light Brigade as Colonel Campbell
- A Woman Rebels as Judge Byron Thistlewaite
- The White Angel as Dr. Hunt
- Mary of Scotland as Huntly
1935
- Laddie as Mr. Pryor
- Mutiny on the Bounty as Thomas Burkitt
- Oil for the Lamps of China as J.T. McCarger
- Vanessa: Her Love Story as George
1934
- The Key as Peadar Conlan
- The Little Minister as Docteur McQueen
- The Life of Vergie Winters as Mike Davey
- The Crime Doctor as Mr. Anthony, District Attorney
- What Every Woman Knows as David Wylie
1933
- Broadway Bad as Darrall
- Hamlet, Act I: Scenes IV and V as Marcellus
1932
- A Passport to Hell as Sgt. Snyder
- Red Dust as Guidon
1930
- Scotland Yard as Charles Fox
- The Runaway Bride ... (Director)
1929
- Trent's Last Case as Sigsbee Manderson
- The Return of Sherlock Holmes as Colonel Moran
- The Pagan as Roger Slater
1928
- The Viking as Leif Ericsson
- The Cop ... (Director)
- Stand and Deliver as London Club Member (uncredited)
- The River Pirate as Caxton
1927
- Man Bait ... (Director)
- Vanity ... (Director)
- Nobody's Widow ... (Director)
- The Fighting Eagle ... (Director)
- Dress Parade ... (Director)
1926
- The Black Pirate as MacTavish
- Sunny Side Up ... (Director)
- Young April ... (Director)
1925
- Don Q Son of Zorro as Don Sebastian
1924
- The Navigator ... (Director)
1923
- Ponjola ... (Director)
1922
- Tell Your Children ... (Director)
1921
- The Bonnie Brier Bush as Lachlan Campbell
- The Princess of New York ... (Director)
- The Barbarian ... (Director)
1920
- The Six Best Cellars ... (Director)
- Held by the Enemy ... (Director)
- Miss Hobbs ... (Director)
1919
- Under the Top ... (Director)
- Johnny Get Your Gun ... (Director)
- Broken Blossoms or The Yellow Man and the Girl as Battling Burrows
- Too Much Johnson ... (Director)
- The Poor Boob ... (Director)
- Venus in the East ... (Director)
- Putting It Over ... (Director)
1918
- Rimrock Jones ... (Director)
- The Goat ... (Director)
- The Way of a Man with a Maid ... (Director)
- The House of Silence ... (Director)
- The Firefly of France ... (Director)
- Believe Me, Xantippe ... (Director)
- Less Than Kin ... (Director)
1917
- The Eyes of the World ... (Director)
- The Countess Charming ... (Director)
- The Clever Mrs. Carfax ... (Director)
- The Marcellini Millions ... (Director)
- The Bond Between ... (Director)
1916
- Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages as Extra (uncredited)
- Ramona as Jim Farrar
1915
- The Birth of a Nation as Gen. U.S. Grant
- How Hazel Got Even ... (Director)
- The Love Route as Harry Marshall
- An Old-Fashioned Girl
- May Blossom as Steve Harland
- A Girl of Yesterday as A.H. Monroe
- The Commanding Officer as Col. Archer (the Commandant)
1914
- At Dawn ... (Director)
- The Escape as 'Bull' McGee
- The Sisters
- The Niggard ... (Director)
- Home, Sweet Home as The Mother's Son
- Another Chance as The Tramp
- A Lesson in Mechanics
- The Mountain Rat as Steve
- The Mysterious Shot as Buck
- The Avenging Conscience
- The Little Country Mouse ... (Director)
- Over the Ledge
- Down the Hill to Creditville
- The Battle of the Sexes as Frank Andrews
- Sands of Fate ... (Director)
- The Newer Woman as Cop
- The Tavern of Tragedy as Bob Jameson - the Spy
- Their First Acquaintance
- The Warning as Mr. Edwards
- The Availing Prayer ... (Director)
- Her Mother's Necklace as The Burglar
- Her Father's Silent Partner ... (Director)
- The Different Man as The Ranch Foreman
1913
- Pirate Gold
- The Blue or the Gray as Southern Rival
- Near To Earth
- By Man's Law as Lee Calvert - Brother Owner
- Olaf—An Atom as The Beggar
- Black and White
1912
- The Musketeers of Pig Alley as Rival Gang Member (uncredited)
1911
- The Battle as A Union soldier (uncredited)
- The Primal Call as At Club
- What Shall We Do with Our Old? as Night Court Bailiff
- The Adventures of Billy as First Tramp
- The Making of a Man as Actor / Backstage
- The Long Road as A Servant / The Landlord
- The Miser's Heart as Policeman
- The Failure as Bank Employee
- Her Awakening as Accident Witness
- Heart Beats of Long Ago as Courtier
- Fate's Turning as The Valet
- The Italian Barber as At Ball
1910
- Sunshine Sue as Head of the Sweatshop
- Winning Back His Love as At Stage Door
- The Golden Supper as Courtier/Monk
1909
- Through the Breakers as At the Club