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Donald Calthrop

Actor
Born April 11, 1888Died July 15, 1940 (52 years)
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).

Movies & Shows on Plex

  • Blackmail
  • Murder!
  • Number 17
  • Scrooge
  • The Clairvoyant

Known For

  • Blackmail
  • Number 17
  • Scrooge
  • Murder!
  • The Man Who Lived Again
  • The Phantom Light
  • Shooting Stars
  • Rome Express
  • The Clairvoyant
  • A Night of Terror
  • Atlantic
  • Becoming Hitchcock: The Legacy of Blackmail
  • I Was a Spy
  • Strike!
  • The Ghost Train
  • The Love Storm
  • The Night Porter
  • Two Worlds
  • Dreaming Lips

Filmography

2024
1941
Major Barbara · as Peter Shirley
1940
1940
To Hell with Hitler · as Frederick Strickland
1940
Band Waggon · as Hobday
1937
Thunder in the City · as Dr. Plumet
1937
A Night of Terror · as Hobson
1937
Fire Over England · as Don Escobal
1937
Dreaming Lips · as Philosopher
1936
1936
The Man Behind the Mask · as Dr. Harold E. Walpole
1936
Broken Blossoms · as Old Chinaman
1935
Scrooge · as Bob Cratchit
1935
Man of the Moment · as Godfrey
1935
The Phantom Light · as David Owen
1935
Me and Marlborough · as Drunken Yokel
1935
The Clairvoyant · as Derelict (uncredited)
1934
Strike! · as Macleod
1933
The Acting Business · as Milton Stafford
1933
I Was a Spy · as Cnockhaert
1933
Friday the Thirteenth · as Hugh Nicholls
1933
F. P. 1 Doesn't Answer · as Sunshine, The Photographer
1932
Fires of Fate · as Sir William Royden
1932
Number 17 · as Nora's Escort Brant
1932
Rome Express · as Poole
1932
Money for Nothing · as Hotel Manager
1931
The Ghost Train · as Saul Hodgkin
1931
The Love Storm · as Parson
1930
Murder! · as Ion Stewart
1930
Star Impersonations · as George Arliss
1930
Almost a Honeymoon · as Charles, The Butler
1930
Two Worlds · as Mendel
1930
Juno and the Paycock · as Needle Nugent
1930
The Night Porter · as George, The Night Porter
1929
Atlantic · as Pointer
1929
Blackmail · as Tracy
1929
Up the Poll · as The Candidate
1928
Shooting Stars · as Andy Wilkes
1917
Masks and Faces · as Lovell
1916
Altar Chains · as Cast

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