Donald Calthrop
Acting
Born: 1888-04-11 in London, England, UK
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).
Known For
Shooting Stars
Andy Wilkes
Blackmail
Tracy
Murder!
Ion Stewart
Number Seventeen
Nora's Escort Brant
Uneasy Virtue
Burglar
Fire Over England
Don Escobal
Scrooge
Bob Cratchit
Me and Marlborough
Drunken Yokel
Sorrell and Son
Dr. Richard Orange
Let George Do It!
Frederick Strickland
The Bells
Mathias
I Was a Spy
Cnockhaert
Major Barbara
Peter Shirley
The Clairvoyant
Derelict (uncredited)
Star Impersonations
George Arliss
Band Waggon
Hobday
The Ghost Train
Saul Hodgkin
Friday the Thirteenth
Hugh Nicholls
The Man Who Changed His Mind
Clayton
Love from a Stranger
Hobson
Rome Express
Poole
Elstree Calling
Himself / Petruchio in Taming of the Shrew
Charley's (Big-Hearted) Aunt
Guide
Thunder in the City
Dr. Plumet
The Man Behind the Mask
Dr. Harold E. Walpole
Potiphar's Wife
Counsel for Defense
Red Ensign
Macleod
Broken Blossoms
Old Chinaman
Many Waters
Compton Hardcastle
Man of the Moment
Godfrey
The Phantom Light
David Owen
The Night Porter
George, the Night Porter
Atlantic
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