James Donald

James Donald

Known for: Acting
Biography: 1917-05-18
Deathday: 1993-08-03 (76 years old)

Biography

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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.


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Filmography

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Movies 36

TV Shows 6

self 1

Dr. Mathew Roney (archive footage)
Hammer: The Studio That Dripped Blood

Hammer: The Studio That Dripped Blood (1987)

Movie
Inspector Gregory
The Big Sleep

The Big Sleep (1978)

Movie
Richard Warwick
Saint Joan

Saint Joan (1967)

Movie
Col. Gurney-Simms
The Jokers

The Jokers (1967)

Movie
Dr. Andrew Manson
The Citadel

The Citadel (1960)

Movie
Harry Pope / Mark Cavendish
Alfred Hitchcock Presents

Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955)

TV
4.75
Lord Edwin Mercer
Beau Brummell

Beau Brummell (1954)

Movie
Prof. Michael Heathley
The Net

The Net (1953)

Movie
Lt. Richard Jennings RN
Gift Horse

Gift Horse (1952)

Movie
6
Prince Albert / Henry Higgins / Warwick
Hallmark Hall of Fame

Hallmark Hall of Fame (1951)

TV
8.33
Lord Digby Landon
Trottie True

Trottie True (1949)

Movie
Gunnery Officer - H.M.S. Jervis Bay
San Demetrio London

San Demetrio London (1943)

Movie
James DonaldJames Donald

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Known For
Acting

Gender
Male

Birthday
1917-05-18

Deathday
1993-08-03 (76 years old)

Birth Place
Aberdeen, United Kingdom

Citizenships
United Kingdom

Also Known As
Джеймс Дональд

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