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person_profile-James Donald

James Donald Died at age: 76

Actor | Producer

Fullname:

James Donald

Date of Birth:

May 18, 1917

Country of birth:

UK

Died:

Aug 03, 1993

Biography of

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.

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Filmography of

James Donald

Found 35 Movies in total

Hammer: The Studio That Dripped Blood

(archive footage) ( Actor )

... 1987

The Big Sleep

Inspector Gregory ( Actor )

... 1978

Conduct Unbecoming

The Doctor ( Actor )

... 1975

David Copperfield

Mr. Murdstone ( Actor )

... 1969

Destiny of a Spy

Sir Martin Rolfe ( Actor )

... 1969

The Royal Hunt of the Sun

Carlos V ( Actor )

... 1969

Hannibal Brooks

Padre ( Actor )

... 1969

Quatermass and the Pit

Dr. Mathew Roney ( Actor )

... 1967

The Jokers

Col. Gurney-Simms ( Actor )

... 1967

Cast a Giant Shadow

Maj. Safir ( Actor )

... 1966

King Rat

Dr. Kennedy ( Actor )

... 1965

The Great Escape

Ramsey 'The SBO' ( Actor )

... 1963

Pygmalion

Henry Higgins ( Actor )

... 1963

Victoria Regina

Prince Albert ( Actor )

... 1961

Third Man on the Mountain

Franz Lerner ( Actor )

... 1959

Perilous Assignment

Self ( Actor )

... 1959

The Vikings

Lord Egbert ( Actor )

... 1958

The Bridge on the River Kwai

Maj. Clipton ( Actor )

... 1957

Lust for Life

Theo van Gogh ( Actor )

... 1956

Beau Brummell

Lord Edwin Mercer ( Actor )

... 1954

The Net

Michael Heathley ( Actor )

... 1953

The Pickwick Papers

Nathaniel Winkle ( Actor )

... 1952

Gift Horse

Lt. Richard Jennings, No. 1 ( Actor )

... 1952

Brandy for the Parson

Bill Harper ( Actor )

... 1952

White Corridors

Neil Marriner ( Actor )

... 1951

Cage of Gold

Alan ( Actor )

... 1950

Trottie True

Lord Digby Langdon ( Actor )

... 1949

Edward, My Son

Bronton ( Actor )

... 1949

The Small Voice

Murray Byrne ( Actor )

... 1948

Broken Journey

Bill Haverton ( Actor )

... 1948

The Way Ahead

Pvt. Evans Lloyd ( Actor )

... 1944

San Demetrio London

Gunnery Officer - H.M.S. Jervis Bay ( Actor )

... 1943

In Which We Serve

Doc ( Actor )

... 1942

One of Our Aircraft Is Missing

(uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1942