Robert Donat
ActingMarch 18, 1905 – June 9, 1958 (aged 53)
Withington, Manchester, England, UK
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.
Filmography
1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year2009 · Self (archive footage)
A Profile of Hitchcock: The Early Years2000 · Self (archive footage)
Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage1983 · Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
That's Entertainment, Part II1976 · (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Men Who Made the Movies: King Vidor1973 · Self (archive footage)
Hollywood: The Dream Factory1972 · Self (archive footage)
The Inn of the Sixth Happiness1958 · The Mandarin of Yang Cheng
Lease of Life1954 · Rev William Thorne
Perlasca: The Courage of a Just Man1952 · William Friese-Greene
The Cure for Love1949 · Sergeant Jack Hardacre
The Winslow Boy1948 · Sir Robert Morton
Captain Boycott1947 · Charles Stewart Parnell
Perfect Strangers1945 · Robert Wilson
Twenty Years After1944 · (archive footage)
The Adventures of Tartu1943 · Captain Terence Stevenson, aka Jan Tartu
The New Lot1943 · Actor
The Young Mr. Pitt1942 · William Pitt / The Earl of Chatham
Český slavík1940 · Self
Cavalcade of the Academy Awards1940 · Self (archive footage)
Goodbye, Mr. Chips1939 · Charles Edward Chipping aka 'Mr. Chips'
The Citadel1938 · Dr. Andrew Manson
Knight Without Armour1937 · Ainsley J. Fothergill / Peter Ouronov
The Ghost Goes West1935 · Murdoch Glourie / Donald Glourie
Sinchronicity1935 · Richard Hannay
The Count of Monte Cristo1934 · Edmond Dantes
Cash1933 · Paul Martin
The Private Life of Henry VIII1933 · Thomas Culpeper
Men of Tomorrow1932 · Julian Angell
That Night in London1932 · Dick Warren