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Robert Donat
Friedrich Robert Donat (18 March 1905 – 9 June 1958), was an English film and stage actor. He is best-known for his roles in Alfred Hitchcock's The 39 Steps and Goodbye, Mr. Chips for which he won an Academy Award for Best Actor.
Donat was born in Withington, Manchester, England, to Ernst Emil...
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Goodbye, Mr. Chips
Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939) is a British film based on the novel of the same name by James Hilton. It was directed by Sam Wood, and starred Robert Donat, Greer Garson, Terry Kilburn, John Mills and Paul Henreid. The screenplay was adapted from the...
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- Arthur Chipping
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The 39 Steps
The 39 Steps is a 1935 British thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, based on the adventure novel The Thirty-nine Steps by John Buchan. The film stars Robert Donat and Madeleine Carroll.
There have been four major film versions of the book....
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The Citadel
The Citadel is a 1938 film based on the novel by A. J. Cronin, first published in 1937. The film was directed by King Vidor and produced by Victor Saville.
Robert Donat stars as the idealistic newly-qualified Scottish Doctor, Andrew Manson, who is...
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- Andrew Mason
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The Count of Monte Cristo
The Count of Monte Cristo is a 1934 film adaptation of Alexandre Dumas, père's novel The Count of Monte Cristo. It was directed by Rowland V. Lee and starred Robert Donat, Elissa Landi, and Louis Calhern. The film also has two sequels that followed,...
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The Magic Box
The Magic Box is a Technicolor British film released in 1951. It was a project of the Festival of Britain. Adapted by Eric Ambler from the controversial biography by Ray Allister, it gave a biographic account of William Friese-Greene, who first...
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The Private Life of Henry VIII
The Private Life of Henry VIII is a 1933 film about Henry VIII, King of England. It was written by Lajos Biró and Arthur Wimperis, and directed by Sir Alexander Korda.
Charles Laughton won the 1933 Academy Award as Best Actor for his performance as...
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The Winslow Boy
The Winslow Boy is a 1948 film adaptation of Terence Rattigan's play The Winslow Boy. It was made by De Grunwald Productions and distributed by the British Lion Film Corporation. It was directed by Anthony Asquith and produced by Anatole de Grunwald...
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Knight Without Armour
Knight Without Armour is a 1937 historical British drama film made by London Films and distributed by United Artists. It was directed by Jacques Feyder and produced by Alexander Korda from a screenplay by Lajos Biró adapted by Frances Marion from...
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The Ghost Goes West
The Ghost Goes West (1935) is a British romantic comedy/fantasy film starring Robert Donat, Jean Parker, and Eugene Pallette, and directed by Rene Clair, his first English-language film. The film contrasts an Old World ghost dealing with American...
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Perfect Strangers
Perfect Strangers , (US title: Vacation from Marriage), is a 1945 British drama film made by London Films. It stars Robert Donat and Deborah Kerr as a married couple whose relationship is shaken by their service in the Second World War. The...
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Men of Tomorrow
Men of Tomorrow is a British dramatic film, released in 1932. It was directed by Zoltan Korda and Leontine Sagan. It stars Maurice Braddell and Joan Gardner. It was Robert Donat’s debut in film.
This is the story of an Oxford University student in...
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The Inn of the Sixth Happiness
The Inn of the Sixth Happiness is a 1958 20th Century Fox film based on the true story of Gladys Aylward, a tenacious British maid, who became a missionary in China during the tumultuous years leading up to World War II. Directed by Mark Robson, who...
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The Young Mr Pitt
The Young Mr Pitt is a 1942 biopic of William Pitt the Younger. Filmed in wartime, it mirrors his struggle against revolutionary France and Napoleon with Britain's struggle against Hitler's Germany. The period costumes were by Cecil Beaton and...
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The Adventures of Tartu
Sabotage Agent (American title: The Adventures of Tartu ) is a 1943 World War II spy film starring Robert Donat.
British Captain Terence Stevenson (Robert Donat) accepts an assignment even more dangerous than his usual job - defusing unexploded...
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