James Donald

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1917-05-18 (76 years old)

Deathday

1993-08-03

Place of Birth

Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, UK

James Donald

Biography

​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia James Donald (18 May 1917 - 3 August 1993) was a Scottish actor. Tall and gaunt, he specialised in playing authority figures; military officers, doctors or scientists. Donald was born in Aberdeen, and made his first professional stage appearance sometime in the late-1930s, having been educated at Rossall School on Lancashire's Fylde coast. During World War II he appeared in minor roles in such propaganda classics as In Which We Serve (1942), Went the Day Well? (1942) and The Way Ahead (1944), and he played Mr. Winkle in the 1952 film version of The Pickwick Papers. However, leading roles eluded him unti...

Acting

1957

1963

The Great Escape

as Ramsey 'The SBO'

1966

Cast a Giant Shadow

as Maj. Safir

1960

The Citadel

as Dr. Andrew Manson

1967

Quatermass and the Pit

as Dr. Mathew Roney

1944

The Way Ahead

as Pvt. Evans Lloyd

1965

King Rat

as Dr. Kennedy

1956

Lust for Life

as Theo van Gogh

1954

Beau Brummell

as Lord Edwin Mercer

1959

1943

San Demetrio London

as Gunnery Officer - H.M.S. Jervis Bay

1952

Gift Horse

as Lt. Richard Jennings, No. 1

1949

Edward, My Son

as Bronton

1950

1967

The Jokers

as Col. Gurney-Simms

1952

The Pickwick Papers

as Nathaniel Winkle

1948

Broken Journey

as Bill Haverton

1948

The Small Voice

as Murray Byrne

1969

Destiny of a Spy

as Sir Martin Rolfe

1949

Trottie True

as Lord Digby Langdon

1978

The Big Sleep

as Inspector Gregory

1961

Victoria Regina

as Prince Albert

1969

David Copperfield

as Mr. Murdstone

1963

Pygmalion

as Henry Higgins

1952

Brandy for the Parson

as Bill Harper

1969

1958

The Vikings

as Lord Egbert

1953

The Net

as Michael Heathley

1975

Conduct Unbecoming

as The Doctor

1987

Hammer: The Studio That Dripped Blood

as Dr. Mathew Roney (archive footage)

1951

White Corridors

as Neil Marriner

2015

Doc in the Box

as Crabs Guy

1969

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