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Known For
Acting
Birthday
April 11, 1888
Died
July 15, 1940
Place of Birth
London, England, UK
Also Known As
- Donald Esme Clayton Calthrop
Donald Calthrop
0.3 Popularity
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 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).
Known For
6.7
Peter Shirley
Major Barbara
1941
5.0
Guide
Charley's (Big-Hearted) Aunt
1940
6.1
Frederick Strickland
Let George Do It!
1940
5.3
Hobday
Band Waggon
1940
5.4
Dr. Plumet
Thunder in the City
1937
6.0
Hobson
Love from a Stranger
1937
6.2
Don Escobal
Fire Over England
1937
0.0
Nick
Café Colette
1937
6.1
Clayton
The Man Who Changed His Mind
1936
4.8
Dr. Harold E. Walpole
The Man Behind the Mask
1936
Credits
Major Barbara
as Peter Shirley
1941
6.7
Charley's (Big-Hearted) Aunt
as Guide
1940
5.0
Let George Do It!
as Frederick Strickland
1940
6.1
Band Waggon
as Hobday
1940
5.3
Thunder in the City
as Dr. Plumet
1937
5.4
Love from a Stranger
as Hobson
1937
6.0
Fire Over England
as Don Escobal
1937
6.2
Café Colette
as Nick
1937
0.0
The Man Who Changed His Mind
as Clayton
1936
6.1
The Man Behind the Mask
as Dr. Harold E. Walpole
1936
4.8
Broken Blossoms
as Old Chinaman
1936
5.9
Scrooge
as Bob Cratchit
1935
6.0
Man of the Moment
as Godfrey
1935
5.0
The Phantom Light
as David Owen
1935
5.4
Me and Marlborough
as Drunken Yokel
1935
5.0
The Clairvoyant
as Derelict (uncredited)
1935
6.0
🎬
The Divine Spark
as Judge Fumaroli
1935
0.0
Red Ensign
as Macleod
1934
5.6
Sorrell and Son
as Dr. Richard Orange
1934
5.0
🎬
It's a Cop
as Charles Murray
1934
0.0
🎬
This Acting Business
as Milton Stafford
1933
0.0
Friday the Thirteenth
as Hugh Nicholls
1933
6.0
I Was a Spy
as Cnockhaert
1933
5.5
🎬
Early to Bed
as Potsdam Guide
1933
0.0
F.P.1
as Sunshine, the Photographer
1933
6.4
Rome Express
as Poole
1932
6.0
🎬
Fires of Fate
as Sir William Royden
1932
0.0
Number Seventeen
as Nora's Escort Brant
1932
5.5
Money for Nothing
as Hotel Manager
1932
0.0
Industrial Britain
as Self - Commentator (uncredited)
1931
5.4
Many Waters
as Compton Hardcastle
1931
0.0
The Bells
as Mathias
1931
0.0
The Ghost Train
as Saul Hodgkin
1931
0.0
Potiphar's Wife
as Counsel for Defense
1931
0.0
Uneasy Virtue
as Burglar
1931
0.0
Cape Forlorn
as Parson
1931
7.5
🎬
We Take Off Our Hats
as 'erb
1930
0.0
Star Impersonations
as George Arliss
1930
0.0
Almost a Honeymoon
as Charles, the butler
1930
0.0
🎬
Spanish Eyes
as Mascoso
1930
0.0
Murder!
as Ion Stewart
1930
6.0
Two Worlds
as Mendel
1930
0.0
Loose Ends
as Winton Penner
1930
0.0
The Night Porter
as George, the Night Porter
1930
0.0
Song of Soho
as Nobby
1930
0.0
Elstree Calling
as Himself / Petruchio in Taming of the Shrew
1930
5.0
🎬
All Riot on the Western Front
1930
0.0
Atlantic
as Pointer
1929
5.0
Blackmail
as Tracy
1929
6.5
🎬
Up the Poll
as The Candidate
1929
0.0
🎬
The Clue of the New Pin
as Yeh Ling
1929
0.0
Shooting Stars
as Andy Wilkes
1928
6.9
🎬
Nelson
as Horatio Nelson
1918
2.7
🎬
Nelson; The Story of England's Immortal Naval Hero
as Horatio Nelson
1918
0.0
🎬
Masks and Faces
as Lovell
1917
4.5