James Donald

Ator

18 de maio de 1917 — 3 de agosto de 1993 (76 anos)
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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 until Lust for Life (1956), in which he played Theo Van Gogh. His work in the theatre included Noël Coward's Present Laughter (1943) which starred Coward himself, and The Eagle with Two Heads (1947), You Never Can Tell (1948), and The Heiress (1949) with Ralph Richardson, Peggy Ashcroft and Donald Sinden. He memorably portrayed Major Clipton, the doctor who expresses grave doubts about the sanity of Col. Nicholson's (Alec Guinness) efforts to build the bridge in order to show up his Japanese captors, in the film The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957). The final words are his: "Madness!, Madness!" He also played Group Captain Ramsey, the Senior British Officer in The Great Escape (1963), as well as supporting roles in other notable films both in Britain and the United States, including The Vikings (1958), King Rat (1965), Cast a Giant Shadow (1966), and Quatermass and the Pit (1967). Donald starred in a 1960 television adaptation of A. J. Cronin's The Citadel and appeared regularly in many other television dramas in the UK and USA, as well as on stage. In 1961, he played Prince Albert opposite Julie Harris's Queen Victoria, in the Hallmark Hall of Fame production of Laurence Housman's play Victoria Regina.

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Filmes e Séries no Plex

  • Sangue, Suor e Lágrimas
    Sangue, Suor e Lágrimas1942
  • O Sono Derradeiro
    O Sono Derradeiro1978
  • Falta um dos Nossos Aviões
    Falta um dos Nossos Aviões1942
  • Têmpera de Aço
    Têmpera de Aço1944
  • Real caçada ao Sol
    Real caçada ao Sol1969

Conhecido Por

  • A Grande Evasão
    A Grande Evasão1963
  • A Ponte do Rio Kwai
    A Ponte do Rio Kwai1957
  • O Mundo das Trevas
    O Mundo das Trevas1967
  • Os Vikings
    Os Vikings1958
  • Rei de um Inferno
    Rei de um Inferno1965
  • À Sombra de um Gigante
    À Sombra de um Gigante1966
  • Têmpera de Aço
    Têmpera de Aço1944
  • Glory at Sea
    Glory at Sea1952
  • Meu Filho Eduardo
    Meu Filho Eduardo1949
  • O Belo Brummell
    O Belo Brummell1954
  • As Aventuras de Pickwick
    As Aventuras de Pickwick1952
  • O 3º. Homem sobre a Montanha
    O 3º. Homem sobre a Montanha1959
  • Prisão Dourada
    Prisão Dourada1950
  • M-7 Não Responde
    M-7 Não Responde1953
  • A Honra do Regimento
    A Honra do Regimento1975
  • Real caçada ao Sol
    Real caçada ao Sol1969

Filmografia

1987
Hammer: The Studio That Dripped Blood! · as Dr. Mathew Roney (archive Footage)
1978
The Big Sleep · as Inspector GregoryNo Plex
1975
Conduct Unbecoming · as The Doctor
1970
David Copperfield · as Mr. Murdstone
1969
The Royal Hunt of the Sun · as King CarlosNo Plex
1969
Hannibal Brooks · as Padre
1967
Five Million Years to Earth · as Dr. Mathew Roney
1967
The Jokers · as Col. Gurney-Simms
1966
Cast a Giant Shadow · as Maj. Safir
1965
King Rat · as Dr. Kennedy
1963
1963
The Great Escape · as Ramsey 'the Sbo'
1961
1961
The Dick Powell Show · as Major Frazer
1960
BBC Sunday-Night Play · as Jack Tanner
1959
Third Man on the Mountain · as Franz Lerner
1959
1959
1958
The Vikings · as Lord Egbert
1957
The Bridge on the River Kwai · as Maj. Clipton
1957
Suspicion · as James Thomason
1957
The DuPont Show of the Month · as Sydney Carton
1956
Playhouse 90 · as Miles Denshaw
1956
Lust for Life · as Theo Van Gogh
1956
1955
Alfred Hitchcock Presents · as Harry Pope
1955
ITV Play of the Week · as Dr. Davidson
1955
1954
Beau Brummell · as Lord Edwin Mercer
1953
Project M7 · as Michael Heathley
1952
The Pickwick Papers · as Nathaniel Winkle
1952
Glory at Sea · as Lt. Richard Jennings, No. 1
1952
Brandy for the Parson · as Bill Harper
1951
Hallmark Hall of Fame · as Warwick
1951
White Corridors · as Neil Marriner
1950
Cage of Gold · as Alan
1950
Sunday Night Theatre · as Philip Sturgess
1949
The Gay Lady · as Lord Digby Langdon
1949
Edward, My Son · as Bronton
1948
The Hideout · as Murray Byrne
1948
Broken Journey · as Bill Haverton
1944
The Way Ahead · as Pvt. Evans LloydNo Plex
1943
San Demetrio London · as Gunnery Officer - H.m.s. Jervis Bay
1942
Went the Day Well? · as German Corporal
1942
In Which We Serve · as DocNo Plex
1942
Alibi · as Barman
1942
One of Our Aircraft Is Missing · as (uncredited)No Plex
1942
The Missing Million · as Assistant To Dicker
1937
Daily Round · as Man In Top Hat

1959
1954
Disneyland · as Self