Robert Donat

Robert Donat

Birthday: 1905-03-18

Place of Birth: Withington, Manchester, England, UK

Biography: Robert Donat (born Friedrich Robert Donat) was a star English film and stage actor. He is best remembered for his roles in The 39 Steps (1935) and Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939), the latter which earned him a Best Actor Academy Award.

Movies

The 39 Steps
The 39 Steps

Richard Hanney has a rude awakening when a glamorous female spy falls into his bed - with a knife in...

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Goodbye, Mr. Chips
Goodbye, Mr. Chips

Over several decades throughout the late 19th-century and early 20th-century, Mr Arthur Chipping ris...

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The Private Life of Henry VIII
The Private Life of Henry VIII

Renowned for his excess, King Henry VIII goes through a series of wives during his rule. With Anne B...

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The Inn of the Sixth Happiness
The Inn of the Sixth Happiness

All her life, Englishwoman Gladys Aylward knew that China was the place where she belonged. Not qual...

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The Count of Monte Cristo
The Count of Monte Cristo

After greedy men have Edmound Dantes unjustly imprisoned for 20 years for innocently delivering a le...

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The Adventures of Tartu
The Adventures of Tartu

British Captain Terence Stevenson (Robert Donat) accepts an assignment even more dangerous than his ...

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The Magic Box
The Magic Box

Now old, ill, poor, and largely forgotten, William Freise-Greene was once very different. As young a...

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The Citadel
The Citadel

Andrew Manson, a young, idealistic, newly qualified Scottish doctor arrives in Wales takes his first...

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The Winslow Boy
The Winslow Boy

In pre-WW1 England, a youngster is expelled from a naval academy over a petty theft, but his parents...

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Knight Without Armour
Knight Without Armour

British agent working in Russia is forced to remain longer than planned once the revolution begins. ...

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Hollywood: The Dream Factory
Hollywood: The Dream Factory

A documentary about the glorious history of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios and its decline leading to t...

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The Ghost Goes West
The Ghost Goes West

Donald Glourie shares his crumbling ancestral home with the ghost of his Highland ancestor, Murdoch,...

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Perfect Strangers
Perfect Strangers

After World War II service changes them, a married couple dread their postwar reunion....

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Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage

Out-takes (mostly from Warner Bros.), promotional shorts, movie premieres, public service pleas, war...

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Cash
Cash

A formerly wealthy man and his daughter try to regain wealth by selling a scheme to some investors, ...

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Lease of Life
Lease of Life

The parson of a small rural community knows he is dying and this makes him reconsider his life so fa...

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Captain Boycott
Captain Boycott

Based on real events, this historical drama is set in 19th-century Ireland, when poverty-stricken te...

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The Men Who Made the Movies: King Vidor
The Men Who Made the Movies: King Vidor

Overview of director King Vidor's filmography....

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The New Lot
The New Lot

A new batch of Army recruits, from diverse backgrounds and with varying degrees of commitment, is sh...

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The Young Mr. Pitt
The Young Mr. Pitt

This biopic tells the story of the life of Pitt The Younger, who became Prime Minister of Great Brit...

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Men of Tomorrow
Men of Tomorrow

In the years after his graduation Allen Shepherd has become a successful novelist and has married Ja...

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That Night in London
That Night in London

A young bank clerk steals £500 and plans to go on a spree before shooting himself but a bad girl tur...

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Cavalcade of the Academy Awards
Cavalcade of the Academy Awards

This 1940 presentation features highlights of earlier (1928 onward) Oscar ceremonies including Shirl...

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That's Entertainment, Part II
That's Entertainment, Part II

Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire present more golden moments from the MGM film library, this time includi...

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A New Romance of Celluloid: The Miracle of Sound
A New Romance of Celluloid: The Miracle of Sound

This short documentary, presented and directed by MGM sound engineer Douglas Shearer, goes behind th...

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Twenty Years After
Twenty Years After

This short celebrates the 20th anniversary of MGM. Segments are shown from several early hits, then ...

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The Cure for Love
The Cure for Love

Sergeant Jack Hardacre returns from the war to his contemptible fiancée Janey Jenkins intending to r...

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1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year
1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year

This documentary focuses on 1939, considered to be Hollywood's greatest year, with film clips and in...

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A Profile of Hitchcock: The Early Years
A Profile of Hitchcock: The Early Years

Focussing on his early career, this profile looks at director Alfred Hitchcock’s breakthrough in sil...

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