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