Donald Calthrop

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1888-04-11 (52 years old)

Deathday

1940-07-15

Place of Birth

London, England, UK

Donald Calthrop

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).

Acting

1929

Blackmail

as Tracy

1937

Fire Over England

as Don Escobal

1930

Murder!

as Ion Stewart

1935

Scrooge

as Bob Cratchit

1937

1932

Number Seventeen

as Nora's Escort Brant

1933

Early to Bed

as Potsdam Guide

1935

The Phantom Light

as David Owen

1932

Rome Express

as Poole

1931

Industrial Britain

as Self - Commentator (uncredited)

1933

I Was a Spy

as Cnockhaert

1931

Cape Forlorn

as Parson

1918

Nelson

as Horatio Nelson

1933

F.P.1

as Sunshine, the Photographer

1935

Me and Marlborough

as Drunken Yokel

1931

The Ghost Train

as Saul Hodgkin

1940

Let George Do It!

as Frederick Strickland

1929

Up the Poll

as The Candidate

1930

Loose Ends

as Winton Penner

1940

Band Waggon

as Hobday

1936

The Man Behind the Mask

as Dr. Harold E. Walpole

1930

Elstree Calling

as Himself / Petruchio in Taming of the Shrew

1928

Shooting Stars

as Andy Wilkes

1935

The Divine Spark

as Judge Fumaroli

1941

Major Barbara

as Peter Shirley

1930

The Night Porter

as George, the Night Porter

1930

Almost a Honeymoon

as Charles, the butler

1931

The Bells

as Mathias

1930

Spanish Eyes

as Mascoso

1930

Song of Soho

as Nobby

1930

Two Worlds

as Mendel

1931

Potiphar's Wife

as Counsel for Defense

1931

Many Waters

as Compton Hardcastle

1932

Fires of Fate

as Sir William Royden

1931

Uneasy Virtue

as Burglar

1933

This Acting Business

as Milton Stafford

1932

Money for Nothing

as Hotel Manager

1929

Atlantic

as Pointer

1936

Broken Blossoms

as Old Chinaman

1937

Thunder in the City

as Dr. Plumet

1935

1917

1934

Red Ensign

as Macleod

1935

The Clairvoyant

as Derelict (uncredited)

1934

Sorrell and Son

as Dr. Richard Orange

1930

Star Impersonations

as George Arliss

1933

Friday the Thirteenth

as Hugh Nicholls

1934

It's a Cop

as Charles Murray

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