Portrait of Donald Calthrop

Donald Calthrop

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).

Born: April 11, 1888

Place of Birth: London, England, UK

Filmography

1941
Major Barbara

as Peter Shirley

1940
Let George Do It!

as Frederick Strickland

1940
Band Waggon

as Hobday

1937
Thunder in the City

as Dr. Plumet

1937
Fire Over England

as Don Escobal

1937
1936
The Man Behind the Mask

as Dr. Harold E. Walpole

1936
Broken Blossoms

as Old Chinaman

1935
Scrooge

as Bob Cratchit

1935
1935
The Phantom Light

as David Owen

1935
Me and Marlborough

as Drunken Yokel

1935
The Clairvoyant

as Derelict (uncredited)

1934
Red Ensign

as Macleod

1934
Sorrell and Son

as Dr. Richard Orange

1933
Friday the Thirteenth

as Hugh Nicholls

1933
I Was a Spy

as Cnockhaert

1933
F.P.1

as Sunshine, the Photographer

1932
Rome Express

as Poole

1932
Number Seventeen

as Nora's Escort Brant

1932
Money for Nothing

as Hotel Manager

1931
Industrial Britain

as Self - Commentator (uncredited)

1931
Many Waters

as Compton Hardcastle

1931
The Bells

as Mathias

1931
The Ghost Train

as Saul Hodgkin

1931
Potiphar's Wife

as Counsel for Defense

1931
Uneasy Virtue

as Burglar

1931
Cape Forlorn

as Parson

1930
Star Impersonations

as George Arliss

1930
Almost a Honeymoon

as Charles, the butler

1930
Murder!

as Ion Stewart

1930
Two Worlds

as Mendel

1930
Loose Ends

as Winton Penner

1930
The Night Porter

as George, the Night Porter

1930
Song of Soho

as Nobby

1930
Elstree Calling

as Himself / Petruchio in Taming of the Shrew

1929
Atlantic

as Pointer

1929
Blackmail

as Tracy

1928
Shooting Stars

as Andy Wilkes

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