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Robert Donat
Born
18 March 1905
Died
9 June 1958
Place
Withington, Manchester, England, UK
Acting

Robert Donat

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.

As actor

1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year

2009 · Self (archive footage)

A Profile of Hitchcock: The Early Years

2000 · Self (archive footage)

Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage

1983 · Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

That's Entertainment, Part II

1976 · (archive footage) (uncredited)

The Men Who Made the Movies: King Vidor

1973 · Self (archive footage)

Hollywood: The Dream Factory

1972 · Self (archive footage)

The Inn of the Sixth Happiness

1958 · The Mandarin of Yang Cheng

Lease of Life

1954 · Rev William Thorne

The Magic Box

1952 · William Friese-Greene

The Cure for Love

1949 · Sergeant Jack Hardacre

The Winslow Boy

1948 · Sir Robert Morton

Captain Boycott

1947 · Charles Stewart Parnell

Perfect Strangers

1945 · Robert Wilson

Twenty Years After

1944 · (archive footage)

The Adventures of Tartu

1943 · Captain Terence Stevenson, aka Jan Tartu

The New Lot

1943 · Actor

The Young Mr. Pitt

1942 · William Pitt / The Earl of Chatham

Cavalcade of the Academy Awards

1940 · Self (archive footage)

A New Romance of Celluloid: The Miracle of Sound

1940 · Self

Goodbye, Mr. Chips

1939 · Charles Edward Chipping aka 'Mr. Chips'

The Citadel

1938 · Dr. Andrew Manson

Knight Without Armour

1937 · Ainsley J. Fothergill / Peter Ouronov

The 39 Steps

1935 · Richard Hannay

The Ghost Goes West

1935 · Murdoch Glourie / Donald Glourie

The Count of Monte Cristo

1934 · Edmond Dantes

The Private Life of Henry VIII

1933 · Thomas Culpeper

Cash

1933 · Paul Martin

Men of Tomorrow

1932 · Julian Angell

That Night in London

1932 · Dick Warren

As director

The Cure for Love

1949 · Director