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James Donald
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James Donald
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1917-05-18,Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, UK
Gender
Male
Biography
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.

Filmography

The Bridge on the River Kwai

7.8

The Bridge on the River Kwai
1957-10-11

The Great Escape

7.9

The Great Escape
1963-07-03

Cast a Giant Shadow

6.3

Cast a Giant Shadow
1966-03-30

0

The Citadel
1960-02-19

Quatermass and the Pit

6.6

Quatermass and the Pit
1967-11-09

6.375

The Way Ahead
1944-06-09

7.1

Lust for Life
1956-09-15

7

King Rat
1965-10-27

6.5

Beau Brummell
1954-11-16

Third Man on the Mountain

6.7

Third Man on the Mountain
1959-11-10

San Demetrio London

6.7

San Demetrio London
1943-12-07

6.556

Gift Horse
1952-06-01

6.5

Edward, My Son
1949-03-01

6.6

Cage of Gold
1950-10-23

6.029

The Jokers
1967-05-15

The Pickwick Papers

6.7

The Pickwick Papers
1952-11-14

Perilous Assignment

10

Perilous Assignment
1959-11-06

6

Broken Journey
1948-04-14

The Small Voice

6.2

The Small Voice
1948-11-27

In Which We Serve

6.8

In Which We Serve
1942-09-17

Destiny of a Spy

0

Destiny of a Spy
1969-10-27

7

Trottie True
1949-09-29

5.9

The Big Sleep
1978-03-13

Victoria Regina

0

Victoria Regina
1961-11-30

David Copperfield

5.4

David Copperfield
1969-12-01

0

Pygmalion
1963-02-06

Brandy for the Parson

6.3

Brandy for the Parson
1952-05-02

The Royal Hunt of the Sun

6

The Royal Hunt of the Sun
1969-10-05

The Royal Hunt of the Sun

6

The Royal Hunt of the Sun
1969-10-05

7

The Vikings
1958-06-11

5.5

The Net
1953-02-09

Conduct Unbecoming

6.2

Conduct Unbecoming
1975-10-04

Hammer: The Studio That Dripped Blood

6.4

Hammer: The Studio That Dripped Blood
1987-06-26

One of Our Aircraft Is Missing

6.5

One of Our Aircraft Is Missing
1942-04-24

White Corridors

6.6

White Corridors
1951-01-12

0

Doc in the Box
2015-01-15

Hallmark Hall of Fame

8.7

Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951-12-24

Alfred Hitchcock Presents

7.7

Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1955-10-02

Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre

5.5

Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
1963-10-04

5.6

Ben Casey
1961-10-02

Alfred Hitchcock Presents

7.7

Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1955-10-02

Hallmark Hall of Fame

8.7

Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951-12-24

Hallmark Hall of Fame

8.7

Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951-12-24

Play of the Week

0

Play of the Week
1959-10-12

DuPont Show of the Month

6.7

DuPont Show of the Month
1957-09-29