Donald Calthrop

Apr 11, 1888 - Jul 15, 1940 (52 years old) in London, England, UK

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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).

Known For

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Blackmail

Tracy

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Scrooge

Bob Cratchit

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Number Seventeen

Nora's Escort Brant

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Murder!

Ion Stewart

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Fire Over England

Don Escobal

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Major Barbara

Peter Shirley

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The Clue of the New Pin

Yeh Ling

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Love from a Stranger

Hobson

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The Man Who Changed His Mind

Clayton

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The Phantom Light

David Owen

Credits

Major Barbara 1941

Peter Shirley

★ 6.7
Charley's (Big-Hearted) Aunt 1940

Guide

★ 5
Let George Do It! 1940

Frederick Strickland

★ 5.8
Band Waggon 1940

Hobday

★ 5
Thunder in the City 1937

Dr. Plumet

★ 5.4
Love from a Stranger 1937

Hobson

★ 5.9
Fire Over England 1937

Don Escobal

★ 6
Café Colette 1937

Nick

★ NR
The Man Who Changed His Mind 1936

Clayton

★ 6
The Man Behind the Mask 1936

Dr. Harold E. Walpole

★ 4.8
Broken Blossoms 1936

Old Chinaman

★ 5.9
Scrooge 1935

Bob Cratchit

★ 6
Man of the Moment 1935

Godfrey

★ 5
The Phantom Light 1935

David Owen

★ 5.4
Me and Marlborough 1935

Drunken Yokel

★ 5.3
The Clairvoyant 1935

Derelict (uncredited)

★ 6
The Divine Spark 1935

Judge Fumaroli

★ NR
Red Ensign 1934

Macleod

★ 5.6
Sorrell and Son 1934

Dr. Richard Orange

★ 5
It's a Cop 1934

Charles Murray

★ NR
This Acting Business 1933

Milton Stafford

★ NR
Friday the Thirteenth 1933

Hugh Nicholls

★ 6
I Was a Spy 1933

Cnockhaert

★ 5.5
Early to Bed 1933

Potsdam Guide

★ NR
F.P.1 1933

Sunshine, the Photographer

★ 6.4
Rome Express 1932

Poole

★ 6.2
Fires of Fate 1932

Sir William Royden

★ NR
Number Seventeen 1932

Nora's Escort Brant

★ 5.5
Money for Nothing 1932

Hotel Manager

★ NR
Industrial Britain 1931

Self - Commentator (uncredited)

★ 5.4
Many Waters 1931

Compton Hardcastle

★ NR
The Bells 1931

Mathias

★ NR
The Ghost Train 1931

Saul Hodgkin

★ NR
Potiphar's Wife 1931

Counsel for Defense

★ NR
Uneasy Virtue 1931

Burglar

★ NR
Cape Forlorn 1931

Parson

★ 7.5
We Take Off Our Hats 1930

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★ NR
Star Impersonations 1930

George Arliss

★ NR
Almost a Honeymoon 1930

Charles, the butler

★ NR
Spanish Eyes 1930

Mascoso

★ NR
Murder! 1930

Ion Stewart

★ 6
Two Worlds 1930

Mendel

★ NR
Loose Ends 1930

Winton Penner

★ NR
The Night Porter 1930

George, the Night Porter

★ NR
Song of Soho 1930

Nobby

★ NR
Elstree Calling 1930

Himself / Petruchio in Taming of the Shrew

★ 5.1
All Riot on the Western Front 1930

★ NR
Atlantic 1929

Pointer

★ 4.9
Blackmail 1929

Tracy

★ 6.5
Up the Poll 1929

The Candidate

★ NR
The Clue of the New Pin 1929

Yeh Ling

★ NR
Shooting Stars 1928

Andy Wilkes

★ 6.9
Nelson 1918

Horatio Nelson

★ 3.5
Nelson; The Story of England's Immortal Naval Hero 1918

Horatio Nelson

★ NR
Masks and Faces 1917

Lovell

★ 4.5

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