Donald Calthrop
Biography
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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).
Filmography
Major Barbara
1941
as Peter Shirley
Charley's (Big-Hearted) Aunt
1940
as Guide
Let George Do It!
1940
as Frederick Strickland
Band Waggon
1940
as Hobday
Thunder in the City
1937
as Dr. Plumet
Love from a Stranger
1937
as Hobson
Fire Over England
1937
as Don Escobal
Café Colette
1937
as Nick
The Man Who Changed His Mind
1936
as Clayton
The Man Behind the Mask
1936
as Dr. Harold E. Walpole
Broken Blossoms
1936
as Old Chinaman
Scrooge
1935
as Bob Cratchit
Man of the Moment
1935
as Godfrey
The Phantom Light
1935
as David Owen
Me and Marlborough
1935
as Drunken Yokel
The Clairvoyant
1935
as Derelict (uncredited)
- No poster
The Divine Spark
1935
as Judge Fumaroli
Red Ensign
1934
as Macleod
Sorrell and Son
1934
as Dr. Richard Orange
- No poster
It's a Cop
1934
as Charles Murray
- No poster
This Acting Business
1933
as Milton Stafford
Friday the Thirteenth
1933
as Hugh Nicholls
I Was a Spy
1933
as Cnockhaert
- No poster
Early to Bed
1933
as Potsdam Guide