James Donald
Actor/Actriz
36
Filmes
5
Séries
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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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Como Ator/Atriz
Ben Casey
Alfred Hitchcock Presenta
Harry Pope
El gran escape
Ramsey 'The SBO'
El puente sobre el río Kwai
Maj. Clipton
DuPont Show of the Month
Sydney Carton
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Prince Albert
Los vikingos
Lord Egbert
Play of the Week
Priest
King Rat
Dr. Kennedy
Una Tumba a la Eternidad
Dr. Mathew Roney
Sed De Vivir
Theo van Gogh
The Citadel
Dr. Andrew Manson
The Big Sleep
Inspector Gregory
La sombra de un gigante
Maj. Safir
In Which We Serve
Doc
Hannibal Brooks
Padre
Edward, My Son
Bronton
The Way Ahead
Pvt. Evans Lloyd
El hermoso Brummell
Lord Edwin Mercer
Conduct Unbecoming
The Doctor
Gift Horse
Lt. Richard Jennings, No. 1
David Copperfield
Mr. Murdstone
Broken Journey
Bill Haverton
One of Our Aircraft Is Missing
(uncredited)
The Jokers
Col. Gurney-Simms
The Royal Hunt of the Sun
King Carlos
Hammer: The Studio That Dripped Blood
Dr. Mathew Roney (archive footage)
Third Man on the Mountain
Franz Lerner
The Pickwick Papers
Nathaniel Winkle
San Demetrio London
Gunnery Officer - H.M.S. Jervis Bay