James Donald

Personal Info

Birthday

May 18, 1917

Day of Death

1993-08-03

(76 years old)

Place of Birth

Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, UK

Also Known As

Джеймс Дональд

James Donald

Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 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.

Known For

Alfred Hitchcock Presents

The Great Escape

DuPont Show of the Month

The Bridge on the River Kwai

Hallmark Hall of Fame

The Vikings

Play of the Week

Cage of Gold

Filmography

2015
Doc in the Box
as Crabs Guy
1987
Hammer: The Studio That Dripped Blood
as Dr. Mathew Roney (archive footage)
1978
The Big Sleep
as Inspector Gregory
1975
Conduct Unbecoming
as The Doctor
1969
David Copperfield
as Mr. Murdstone
Destiny of a Spy
as Sir Martin Rolfe
The Royal Hunt of the Sun
as King Carlos
Hannibal Brooks
as Padre
1967
Quatermass and the Pit
as Dr. Mathew Roney
The Jokers
as Col. Gurney-Simms
1966
Cast a Giant Shadow
as Maj. Safir
1965
King Rat
as Dr. Kennedy
1963
The Great Escape
as Ramsey 'The SBO'
Pygmalion
as Henry Higgins
1961
Victoria Regina
as Prince Albert
1960
The Citadel
as Dr. Andrew Manson
1959
Third Man on the Mountain
as Franz Lerner
Perilous Assignment
as Self
1958
The Vikings
as Lord Egbert
1957
The Bridge on the River Kwai
as Maj. Clipton
1956
Lust for Life
as Theo van Gogh
1954
Beau Brummell
as Lord Edwin Mercer
1953
The Net
as Michael Heathley
1952
The Pickwick Papers
as Nathaniel Winkle
Gift Horse
as Lt. Richard Jennings, No. 1
Brandy for the Parson
as Bill Harper
1951
White Corridors
as Neil Marriner
1950
Cage of Gold
as Alan
1949
Trottie True
as Lord Digby Langdon
Edward, My Son
as Bronton
1948
The Small Voice
as Murray Byrne
Broken Journey
as Bill Haverton
1944
The Way Ahead
as Pvt. Evans Lloyd
1943
San Demetrio London
as Gunnery Officer - H.M.S. Jervis Bay
1942
In Which We Serve
as Doc
One of Our Aircraft Is Missing
as (uncredited)