Donald Calthrop
Birthday: 1888-04-11
Place of Birth: London, England, UK
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 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).
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Blackmail
London, 1929. Frank Webber, a very busy Scotland Yard detective, seems to be more interested in his ...
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The Man Who Changed His Mind
Dr. Laurence, a once-respectable scientist, begins to research the origin of the mind and the soul. ...
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We Take Off Our Hats
Three old muckers meet down the boozer for a natter about their alarmingly swiftly-diminishing circl...
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Fire Over England
The film is a historical drama set during the reign of Elizabeth I (Flora Robson), focusing on the E...
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Murder!
When actress Diana Baring is found in a daze beside her colleague’s murdered body, all evidence poin...
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Scrooge
Ebenezer Scrooge, the ultimate Victorian miser, hasn't a good word for Christmas, though his impover...
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Number Seventeen
A gang of jewel thieves hides out in an abandoned London house after a robbery, unaware that a detec...
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Early to Bed
'Manicurist Grete and nightclub waiter Carl share a bed, but not at the same time. They hate each o...
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Nelson; The Story of England's Immortal Naval Hero
Timed to bolster public morale at the end of the Great War, Maurice Elvey’s biopic of Nelson frequen...
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The Phantom Light
Criminals pose as ghosts to scare a lighthouse keeper on the Welsh coast, in attempt to distract him...
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Rome Express
The theft of a famous painting leads to murder and many suspects on a plush train speeding from Pari...
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Industrial Britain
Grierson set out to make "propaganda," and this film--with it's voice-over proclaiming the great val...
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I Was a Spy
During World War I, a young nurse in a hospital in German-occupied Belgium is secretly feeding milit...
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Cape Forlorn
William Kell, the keeper of a lighthouse on a lonely stretch of coastline, marries cabaret dancer Ei...
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F.P.1
Urged by famous airman Ellissen the Lennartz Company puts into reality the project proposed by his f...
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Me and Marlborough
A woman disguises herself in men's clothes in order to follow her husband to the wars....
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The Ghost Train
The story, about the social interaction of a group of railway passengers who have been stranded at a...
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Let George Do It!
Shortly after the start of World War II, a ukelele player (George) takes the wrong boat and finds hi...
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Loose Ends
'A woman reporter is blackmailed for knowledge of freed suspect's involvement in a murder.' (British...
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Charley's (Big-Hearted) Aunt
Charley's (Big-Hearted) Aunt is a 1940 British comedy film directed by Walter Forde starring Arthur ...
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Band Waggon
A gang of spies held up in a haunted castle gives this team of celebrated British wireless comedians...
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The Man Behind the Mask
A young couple attend a masked ball before their planned (but secret) elopement. Suddenly everything...
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Elstree Calling
A series of 19 musical and comedy "vaudeville" sketches presented in the form of a live television b...
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Shooting Stars
The husband and wife acting team of Mae Feather and Julian Gordon is torn apart when he discovers sh...
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Major Barbara
Idealistic young Barbara is the daughter of rich weapons manufacturer Andrew Undershaft. She rebels ...
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The Night Porter
George, the inebriate night porter at the Hotel Splendide, develops a series of increasingly outland...
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Almost a Honeymoon
An ambitious young man secures a job in the colonial service, the only stipulation being that he nee...
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The Bells
Mathias, an Alsatian innkeeper, murders a rich Pole staying at his inn. However, Mathias' conscience...
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Song of Soho
An ex-French Foreign Legion soldier comes to Soho and ends up as a singer in a cafe....
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Two Worlds
An old Jewish man is forced to hide the Austrian lieutenant who killed his son and loves his daughte...
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Potiphar's Wife
'A good-looking chauffeur, employed by an aristocratic married lady is tempted to misconduct. His in...
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Fires of Fate
In Egypt a colonel with a year to live saves a girl from an Arab prince....
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Money for Nothing
As he pursues Joan Blossom, ruined gambler Jeff Cheddar is mistaken for two-faced financier Jay Ched...
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Atlantic
English-language version. "Atlantic" is a drama film based on the sinking of the RMS "Titanic" and s...
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Broken Blossoms
A Chinese missionary comes to England. He helps a young girl ill-treated by her father. A remake of ...
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Love from a Stranger
Ann Harding plays a lovely but somewhat naive young woman who goes on a European vacation after winn...
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Thunder in the City
A visiting American engages in a bold business promotion, the likes of which the British have not se...
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Man of the Moment
Love blossoms after a young man rescues a pretty girl who attempted to drown herself....
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Red Ensign
David Barr is the manager and chief designer of a British shipyard in decline. The shipyard is in fi...
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The Clairvoyant
A fake psychic suddenly turns into the real thing when he meets a young beauty. (TCM)...
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Sorrell and Son
Stephen Sorrell, a decorated war hero, raises his son Kit alone after Kit's mother deserts husband a...
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Star Impersonations
'Advertisement for Film Weekly, in which British actors impersonate Hollywood stars in scenes from r...
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Friday the Thirteenth
It is pouring with rain at one minute to midnight on Friday the thirteenth, and the driver of a Lond...
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