Robert Donat
- Acting
- March 18, 1905 · Withington, Manchester, England, UK
- June 9, 1958
Biography
Robert Donat (born Friedrich Robert Donat) was a star English film and stage actor. He is best remembered for his roles in The 39 Steps (1935) and Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939), the latter which earned him a Best Actor Academy Award.
Known for
Filmography
- 1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year · Self
- A Profile of Hitchcock: The Early Years · Self
- Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage · Self
- That's Entertainment, Part II · (archive footage) (uncredited)
- The Men Who Made the Movies: King Vidor · Self
- Hollywood: The Dream Factory · Self
- The Inn of the Sixth Happiness · The Mandarin of Yang Cheng
- Lease of Life · Rev William Thorne
- The Magic Box · William Friese-Greene
- The Cure for Love · Sergeant Jack Hardacre, Director
- The Winslow Boy · Sir Robert Morton
- Captain Boycott · Charles Stewart Parnell
- Perfect Strangers · Robert Wilson
- Twenty Years After · (archive footage)
- The Adventures of Tartu · Captain Terence Stevenson, aka Jan Tartu
- The New Lot · Actor
- The Young Mr. Pitt · William Pitt / The Earl of Chatham
- A New Romance of Celluloid: The Miracle of Sound · Self
- Cavalcade of the Academy Awards · Self
- Goodbye, Mr. Chips · Charles Edward Chipping aka 'Mr. Chips'
- The Citadel · Dr. Andrew Manson
- Knight Without Armour · Ainsley J. Fothergill / Peter Ouronov
- The Ghost Goes West · Murdoch Glourie / Donald Glourie
- The 39 Steps · Richard Hannay
- The Count of Monte Cristo · Edmond Dantes
- Cash · Paul Martin
- The Private Life of Henry VIII · Thomas Culpeper
- Men of Tomorrow · Julian Angell
- That Night in London · Dick Warren