Donald Calthrop

Personal Info

Birthday

April 11, 1888

Day of Death

1940-07-15

(52 years old)

Place of Birth

London, England, UK

Also Known As

Donald Esme Clayton Calthrop

Donald Calthrop

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).

Known For

Number Seventeen

Blackmail

Fire Over England

Scrooge

Murder!

The Man Who Changed His Mind

The Clairvoyant

Band Waggon

Filmography

1941
Major Barbara
as Peter Shirley
1940
Charley's (Big-Hearted) Aunt
as Guide
Let George Do It!
as Frederick Strickland
Band Waggon
as Hobday
1937
Thunder in the City
as Dr. Plumet
Love from a Stranger
as Hobson
Fire Over England
as Don Escobal
Café Colette
as Nick
1936
The Man Who Changed His Mind
as Clayton
The Man Behind the Mask
as Dr. Harold E. Walpole
Broken Blossoms
as Old Chinaman
1935
Scrooge
as Bob Cratchit
Man of the Moment
as Godfrey
The Phantom Light
as David Owen
Me and Marlborough
as Drunken Yokel
The Clairvoyant
as Derelict (uncredited)
The Divine Spark
as Judge Fumaroli
1934
Red Ensign
as Macleod
Sorrell and Son
as Dr. Richard Orange
It's a Cop
as Charles Murray
1933
This Acting Business
as Milton Stafford
Friday the Thirteenth
as Hugh Nicholls
I Was a Spy
as Cnockhaert
Early to Bed
as Potsdam Guide
F.P.1
as Sunshine, the Photographer
1932
Rome Express
as Poole
Fires of Fate
as Sir William Royden
Number Seventeen
as Nora's Escort Brant
Money for Nothing
as Hotel Manager
1931
Industrial Britain
as Self - Commentator (uncredited)
Many Waters
as Compton Hardcastle
The Bells
as Mathias
The Ghost Train
as Saul Hodgkin
Potiphar's Wife
as Counsel for Defense
Uneasy Virtue
as Burglar
Cape Forlorn
as Parson
1930
We Take Off Our Hats
as 'erb
Star Impersonations
as George Arliss
Almost a Honeymoon
as Charles, the butler
Spanish Eyes
as Mascoso
Murder!
as Ion Stewart
Two Worlds
as Mendel
Loose Ends
as Winton Penner
The Night Porter
as George, the Night Porter
Song of Soho
as Nobby
Elstree Calling
as Himself / Petruchio in Taming of the Shrew
1929
Atlantic
as Pointer
Blackmail
as Tracy
Up the Poll
as The Candidate
The Clue of the New Pin
as Yeh Ling
1928
Shooting Stars
as Andy Wilkes
1918
Nelson
as Horatio Nelson
Nelson; The Story of England's Immortal Naval Hero
as Horatio Nelson
1917
Masks and Faces
as Lovell