James Donald

James Donald

​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia James Donald (18 May 1917 - 3 August 1993) was a Scottish actor. Tall and gaunt, he specialised in playing authority figures; military officers, doctors or scientists. Donald was born in Aberdeen, and made his first professional stage appearance sometime in the late-1930s, having been educated at Rossall School on Lancashire's Fylde coast. During World War II he appeared in minor roles in such propaganda classics as In Which We Serve (1942), Went the Day Well? (1942) and The Way Ahead (1944), and he played Mr. Winkle in the 1952 film version of The Pickwick Papers. However, leading roles eluded him until Lust for Life (1956), in which he played Theo Van Gogh. His work in the theatre included Noël Coward's Present Laughter (1943) which starred Coward himself, and The Eagle with Two Heads (1947), You Never Can Tell (1948), and The Heiress (1949) with Ralph Richardson, Peggy Ashcroft and Donald Sinden. He memorably portrayed Major Clipton, the doctor who expresses grave doubts about the sanity of Col. Nicholson's (Alec Guinness) efforts to build the bridge in order to show up his Japanese captors, in the film The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957). The final words are his: "Madness!, Madness!" He also played Group Captain Ramsey, the Senior British Officer in The Great Escape (1963), as well as supporting roles in other notable films both in Britain and the United States, including The Vikings (1958), King Rat (1965), Cast a Giant Shadow (1966), and Quatermass and the Pit (1967). Donald starred in a 1960 television adaptation of A. J. Cronin's The Citadel and appeared regularly in many other television dramas in the UK and USA, as well as on stage. In 1961, he played Prince Albert opposite Julie Harris's Queen Victoria, in the Hallmark Hall of Fame production of Laurence Housman's play Victoria Regina. Description above from the Wikipedia article James Donald, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

  • Teitl: James Donald
  • Poblogrwydd: 3.879
  • Yn adnabyddus Am: Acting
  • Pen-blwydd: 1917-05-18
  • Man Geni: Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, UK
  • Tudalen hafan:
  • Hefyd yn hysbys fel: Джеймс Дональд
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  • 1957
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    The Bridge on the River Kwai

    The Bridge on the River Kwai

    7.8 1957 HD

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  • 1963
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    The Great Escape

    The Great Escape

    7.9 1963 HD

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  • 1966
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    Cast a Giant Shadow

    Cast a Giant Shadow

    6.3 1966 HD

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  • 1960
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    The Citadel

    The Citadel

    1 1960 HD

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  • 1967
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    Quatermass and the Pit

    Quatermass and the Pit

    6.6 1967 HD

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  • 1944
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    The Way Ahead

    The Way Ahead

    6.4 1944 HD

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  • 1965
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    King Rat

    King Rat

    7 1965 HD

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  • 1956
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    Lust for Life

    Lust for Life

    7.1 1956 HD

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  • 1954
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    Beau Brummell

    Beau Brummell

    6.5 1954 HD

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  • 1959
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    Third Man on the Mountain

    Third Man on the Mountain

    6.7 1959 HD

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  • 1943
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    San Demetrio London

    San Demetrio London

    6.7 1943 HD

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  • 1952
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    Gift Horse

    Gift Horse

    6.6 1952 HD

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  • 1949
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    Edward, My Son

    Edward, My Son

    6.526 1949 HD

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  • 1950
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    Cage of Gold

    Cage of Gold

    6.6 1950 HD

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  • 1967
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    The Jokers

    The Jokers

    6 1967 HD

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  • 1952
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    The Pickwick Papers

    The Pickwick Papers

    6.6 1952 HD

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  • 1959
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    Perilous Assignment

    Perilous Assignment

    10 1959 HD

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  • 1948
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    Broken Journey

    Broken Journey

    6 1948 HD

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  • 1948
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    The Small Voice

    The Small Voice

    6.2 1948 HD

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  • 1942
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    In Which We Serve

    In Which We Serve

    6.807 1942 HD

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  • 1969
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    Destiny of a Spy

    Destiny of a Spy

    1 1969 HD

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  • 1949
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    Trottie True

    Trottie True

    7 1949 HD

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  • 1978
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    The Big Sleep

    The Big Sleep

    5.9 1978 HD

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  • 1961
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    Victoria Regina

    Victoria Regina

    1 1961 HD

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  • 1969
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    David Copperfield

    David Copperfield

    5.4 1969 HD

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  • 1963
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    Pygmalion

    Pygmalion

    1 1963 HD

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  • 1952
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    Brandy for the Parson

    Brandy for the Parson

    6.286 1952 HD

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  • 1969
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    The Royal Hunt of the Sun

    The Royal Hunt of the Sun

    6 1969 HD

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  • 1969
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    The Royal Hunt of the Sun

    The Royal Hunt of the Sun

    6 1969 HD

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  • 1958
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    The Vikings

    The Vikings

    7 1958 HD

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  • 1953
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    The Net

    The Net

    6 1953 HD

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  • 1975
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    Conduct Unbecoming

    Conduct Unbecoming

    6.2 1975 HD

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  • 1987
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    Hammer: The Studio That Dripped Blood

    Hammer: The Studio That Dripped Blood

    6.4 1987 HD

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  • 1942
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    One of Our Aircraft Is Missing

    One of Our Aircraft Is Missing

    6.4 1942 HD

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  • 1951
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    White Corridors

    White Corridors

    6.2 1951 HD

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  • 2015
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    Doc in the Box

    Doc in the Box

    1 2015 HD

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  • 1951
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    Hallmark Hall of Fame

    Hallmark Hall of Fame

    8.667 1951 HD

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  • 1955
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    Alfred Hitchcock Presents

    Alfred Hitchcock Presents

    7.7 1955 HD

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  • 1963
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    Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre

    Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre

    5.5 1963 HD

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  • 1961
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    Ben Casey

    Ben Casey

    5.7 1961 HD

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  • 1955
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    Alfred Hitchcock Presents

    Alfred Hitchcock Presents

    7.7 1955 HD

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  • 1951
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    Hallmark Hall of Fame

    Hallmark Hall of Fame

    8.667 1951 HD

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  • 1951
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    Hallmark Hall of Fame

    Hallmark Hall of Fame

    8.667 1951 HD

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  • 1959
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    Play of the Week

    Play of the Week

    1 1959 HD

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  • 1957
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    DuPont Show of the Month

    DuPont Show of the Month

    6.7 1957 HD

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