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Donald Calthrop

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Donald Calthrop

Born April 11, 1888 in London, England, UKDied July 15, 194053 films

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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).

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Blackmail posterFirst watchBlackmail19296.5as TracyLondon, 1929. Frank Webber, a very busy Scotland Yard detective, seems to be more interested in his work than in Alice White, his girlfriend.View film

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Filmography

53 films as actor
  1. 1941Major BarbaraPeter Shirley
  2. 1940Charley's (Big-Hearted) AuntGuide
  3. 1940Let George Do It!Frederick Strickland
  4. 1940Band WaggonHobday
  5. 1937Thunder in the CityDr. Plumet
  6. 1937Love from a StrangerHobson
  7. 1937Fire Over EnglandDon Escobal
  8. 1937Café ColetteNick
  9. 1936The Man Who Changed His MindClayton
  10. 1936The Man Behind the MaskDr. Harold E. Walpole
  11. 1936Broken BlossomsOld Chinaman
  12. 1935ScroogeBob Cratchit
  13. 1935Man of the MomentGodfrey
  14. 1935The Phantom LightDavid Owen
  15. 1935Me and MarlboroughDrunken Yokel
  16. 1935The ClairvoyantDerelict (uncredited)
  17. 1935The Divine SparkJudge Fumaroli
  18. 1934Red EnsignMacleod
  19. 1934Sorrell and SonDr. Richard Orange
  20. 1934It's a CopCharles Murray
  21. 1933This Acting BusinessMilton Stafford
  22. 1933Friday the ThirteenthHugh Nicholls
  23. 1933I Was a SpyCnockhaert
  24. 1933Early to BedPotsdam Guide
  25. 1933F.P.1Sunshine, the Photographer
  26. 1932Rome ExpressPoole
  27. 1932Fires of FateSir William Royden
  28. 1932Number SeventeenNora's Escort Brant
  29. 1932Money for NothingHotel Manager
  30. 1931Many WatersCompton Hardcastle
  31. 1931The BellsMathias
  32. 1931The Ghost TrainSaul Hodgkin
  33. 1931Potiphar's WifeCounsel for Defense
  34. 1931Uneasy VirtueBurglar
  35. 1931Cape ForlornParson
  36. 1930We Take Off Our Hats'erb
  37. 1930Star ImpersonationsGeorge Arliss
  38. 1930Almost a HoneymoonCharles, the butler
  39. 1930Spanish EyesMascoso
  40. 1930Murder!Ion Stewart
  41. 1930Two WorldsMendel
  42. 1930Loose EndsWinton Penner
  43. 1930The Night PorterGeorge, the Night Porter
  44. 1930Song of SohoNobby
  45. 1930All Riot on the Western Front
  46. 1929AtlanticPointer
  47. 1929BlackmailTracy
  48. 1929Up the PollThe Candidate
  49. 1929The Clue of the New PinYeh Ling
  50. 1928Shooting StarsAndy Wilkes
  51. 1918NelsonHoratio Nelson
  52. 1918Nelson; The Story of England's Immortal Naval HeroHoratio Nelson
  53. 1917Masks and FacesLovell