Donald Calthrop
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Donald Esme Clayton Calthrop (11 April 1888 – 15 July 1940) was an English stage and film actor.
Calthrop made his first stage appearance at eighteen years of age. His first film was The Gay Lord Quex released in 1917. He starred as the title character in the successful musical The Boy in the same year. He then appeared in 63 films between 1916 and 1940, including five films directed by Alfred Hitchcock.
He died in Eton, Berkshire from a heart attack while he was filming Major Barbara (1941).
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.3553 |
| Birthday | 1888-04-11 |
| Place of Birth | London, England, UK |
| Also Known As | Donald Esme Clayton Calthrop, |
1929
Blackmail
6.547/277
London, 1929. Frank Webber, a very busy Scotland Yard detective, seems to be more interested in his work than in Alice White, his girlfriend. Feeling...
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Blackmail
1936
The Man Who Changed His Mind
6.147/34
Dr. Laurence, a once-respectable scientist, begins to research the origin of the mind and the soul. The science community rejects him, and he risks lo...
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The Man Who Changed His Mind
1930
We Take Off Our Hats
7/1
Three old muckers meet down the boozer for a natter about their alarmingly swiftly-diminishing circle of friends.
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We Take Off Our Hats
1937
Fire Over England
6.188/40
The film is a historical drama set during the reign of Elizabeth I (Flora Robson), focusing on the English defeat of the Spanish Armada, whence the ti...
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Fire Over England
1930
Murder!
5.972/145
When actress Diana Baring is found in a daze beside her colleague’s murdered body, all evidence points to her guilt. During the trial, juror Sir John...
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Murder!
1935
Scrooge
6.088/51
Ebenezer Scrooge, the ultimate Victorian miser, hasn't a good word for Christmas, though his impoverished clerk Cratchit and nephew Fred are full of h...
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Scrooge
1937
Café Colette
10/1
A diplomat falls in love with an exiled Russian princess.
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Café Colette
1932
Number Seventeen
5.484/122
A gang of jewel thieves hides out in an abandoned London house after a robbery, unaware that a detective is among them in disguise.
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Number Seventeen
1933
Early to Bed
10/1
'Manicurist Grete and nightclub waiter Carl share a bed, but not at the same time. They hate each other, even though they have never met. Their rent...
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Early to Bed
1918
Nelson; The Story of England's Immortal Naval Hero
0/0
Timed to bolster public morale at the end of the Great War, Maurice Elvey’s biopic of Nelson frequently steps out of its period setting to give us his...
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Nelson; The Story of England's Immortal Naval Hero
1935
The Phantom Light
5.667/15
A series of mysterious deaths in a Welsh lighthouse lead locals to believe it is haunted. But the new keeper is sceptical.
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The Phantom Light
1932
Rome Express
6.063/24
The theft of a famous painting leads to murder and many suspects on a plush train speeding from Paris to Rome.
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Rome Express
1931
Industrial Britain
5.625/8
Grierson set out to make "propaganda," and this film--with it's voice-over proclaiming the great value of the British industrial worker, without a hin...
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Industrial Britain
1933
I Was a Spy
6.4/5
During World War I, a young nurse in a hospital in German-occupied Belgium is secretly feeding military information to the British. Complicating matte...
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I Was a Spy
1931
Cape Forlorn
8.25/2
William Kell, the keeper of a lighthouse on a lonely stretch of coastline, marries cabaret dancer Eileen. His young wife, however, goes on to have an...
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Cape Forlorn
1918
Nelson
2.7/3
Lord Nelson's life, loves and death.
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Nelson
1933
F.P.1
6.6/10
Urged by famous airman Ellissen the Lennartz Company puts into reality the project proposed by his friend Droste: F.P.1, a huge floating platform in t...
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F.P.1
1935
Me and Marlborough
5.6/5
A woman disguises herself in men's clothes in order to follow her husband to the wars.
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Me and Marlborough
1931
The Ghost Train
8/1
The story, about the social interaction of a group of railway passengers who have been stranded at a remote rural station overnight who are increasing...
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The Ghost Train
1940
Let George Do It!
6.179/15
Shortly after the start of World War II, a ukelele player (George) takes the wrong boat and finds himself in (still uninvaded) Norway. He is mistaken...
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Let George Do It!
1929
Up the Poll
0/0
A bibulous election candidate makes a speech.
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Up the Poll
1930
Loose Ends
9/1
'A woman reporter is blackmailed for knowledge of freed suspect's involvement in a murder.' (British Film Institute)
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Loose Ends
1940
Charley's (Big-Hearted) Aunt
5.571/7
Charley's (Big-Hearted) Aunt is a 1940 British comedy film directed by Walter Forde starring Arthur Askey and Richard Murdoch as Oxford 'scholars'. T...
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Charley's (Big-Hearted) Aunt
1940
Band Waggon
5.714/7
A gang of spies held up in a haunted castle gives this team of celebrated British wireless comedians plenty of scope for laughs.
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Band Waggon
1936
The Man Behind the Mask
5.333/6
A young couple attend a masked ball before their planned (but secret) elopement. Suddenly everything goes wrong when the young woman is attacked and h...
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The Man Behind the Mask
1930
Elstree Calling
5.114/22
A series of 19 musical and comedy "vaudeville" sketches presented in the form of a live television broadcast hosted by Tommy Handley (as himself).
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Elstree Calling
1928
Shooting Stars
7.053/19
The husband and wife acting team of Mae Feather and Julian Gordon is torn apart when he discovers she is having an affair with the screen comedian And...
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Shooting Stars
1935
The Divine Spark
8/1
Recounting the life and romantic struggles of the celebrated Italian opera composer Vincenzo Bellini. Set in 19th-century Naples, the story follows th...
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The Divine Spark
1941
Major Barbara
6.848/23
Idealistic young Barbara is the daughter of rich weapons manufacturer Andrew Undershaft. She rebels against her estranged father by joining the Salvat...
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Major Barbara
1930
The Night Porter
7/1
George, the inebriate night porter at the Hotel Splendide, develops a series of increasingly outlandish suspicions about Billy and Percy, two guests w...
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The Night Porter
1930
All Riot on the Western Front
7/1
A comedy short Directed by Castleton Knight,
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All Riot on the Western Front
1930
Almost a Honeymoon
10/1
An ambitious young man secures a job in the colonial service, the only stipulation being that he needs to be married which he isn't. He has just twent...
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Almost a Honeymoon
1931
The Bells
8/1
Mathias, an Alsatian innkeeper, murders a rich Pole staying at his inn. However, Mathias' conscience will not let him rest, and the murdered man's spi...
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The Bells
1930
Song of Soho
10/1
An ex-French Foreign Legion soldier comes to Soho and ends up as a singer in a cafe.
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Song of Soho
1930
Spanish Eyes
10/1
A musical directed by G.B. Samuelson.
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Spanish Eyes
1930
Two Worlds
10/1
An old Jewish man is forced to hide the Austrian lieutenant who killed his son and loves his daughter.
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Two Worlds
1931
Potiphar's Wife
8/1
'A good-looking chauffeur, employed by an aristocratic married lady is tempted to misconduct. His indifference arouses her wrath and he is charged wit...
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Potiphar's Wife
1931
Many Waters
8/1
An elderly couple reminisce about the romantic adventures of their youth.
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Many Waters
1932
Fires of Fate
8/1
In Egypt a colonel with a year to live saves a girl from an Arab prince.
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Fires of Fate
1931
Uneasy Virtue
7/1
A comedy film directed by Norman Walker
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Uneasy Virtue
1933
This Acting Business
8/1
A lighthearted look at the personal struggles of two newlywed stage performers who are driven to separation by their interfering parents.
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This Acting Business
1932
Money for Nothing
10/1
As he pursues Joan Blossom, ruined gambler Jeff Cheddar is mistaken for two-faced financier Jay Cheddar, eventually leading to Joan's stockbroker fath...
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Money for Nothing
1929
Atlantic
5.25/12
English-language version. "Atlantic" is a drama film based on the sinking of the RMS "Titanic" and set aboard a fictional ship, called the "Atlantic"....
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Atlantic
1929
The Clue of the New Pin
8/1
A wealthy recluse is murdered in an absolutely sealed room.
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The Clue of the New Pin
1936
Broken Blossoms
6.125/8
A Chinese missionary comes to England and helps a young girl ill-treated by her father. A remake of D. W. Griffith's masterpiece.
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Broken Blossoms
1937
Love from a Stranger
6.308/13
Ann Harding plays a lovely but somewhat naive young woman who goes on a European vacation after winning a lottery. Swept off her feet by charming Basi...
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Love from a Stranger
1937
Thunder in the City
6/6
A visiting American engages in a bold business promotion, the likes of which the British have not seen.
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Thunder in the City
1935
Man of the Moment
7.5/2
Love blossoms after a young man rescues a pretty girl who attempted to drown herself.
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Man of the Moment
1917
Masks and Faces
4.5/2
An actress cures an aged flirt by posing as his wife.
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Masks and Faces
1934
Red Ensign
6/8
David Barr is the manager and chief designer of a British shipyard in decline. The shipyard is in financial trouble but Barr has a design for a new sh...
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Red Ensign
1935
The Clairvoyant
6.025/20
A fake psychic suddenly turns into the real thing when he meets a young beauty. (TCM)
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The Clairvoyant
1934
Sorrell and Son
5/1
Stephen Sorrell, a decorated war hero, raises his son Kit alone after Kit's mother deserts husband and child in the boy's infancy. Sorrell loses a pro...
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Sorrell and Son
1930
Star Impersonations
7/1
'Advertisement for Film Weekly, in which British actors impersonate Hollywood stars in scenes from recent films; the audience is invited to compete fo...
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Star Impersonations
1933
Friday the Thirteenth
6.4/10
It is pouring with rain at one minute to midnight on Friday the thirteenth, and the driver of a London bus is peering through his blurred windscreen a...
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Friday the Thirteenth
1934
It's a Cop
8/1
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