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James Donald

James Donald

Oyuncu · 1917 – 1993 · Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, UK

​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.

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  • Film7.9

    The Great Escape

    Büyük Firar

    1963 · 3K votes

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    The Bridge on the River Kwai

    Kwai Köprüsü

    1957 · 2.5K votes

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    The Vikings

    Vikingler

    1958 · 386 votes

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    Cast a Giant Shadow

    Devlerin Gölgesi

    1966 · 64 votes

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    Quatermass and the Pit

    Dr. Quatermass ve Çukur

    1967 · 284 votes

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    Perilous Assignment

    1959 · 1 votes

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    In Which We Serve

    Denizler Hâkimi

    1942 · 107 votes

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    Lust for Life

    Ölmeyen İnsanlar

    1956 · 210 votes

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    Third Man on the Mountain

    Tepedeki Üçüncü Adam

    1959 · 32 votes

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    The Big Sleep

    Derin Uyku

    1978 · 105 votes

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    Beau Brummell

    1954 · 35 votes

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    Hannibal Brooks

    1969 · 40 votes

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    Victoria Regina

    1961 · 1 votes

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    King Rat

    Hain Kral

    1965 · 83 votes

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    Gift Horse

    1952 · 23 votes

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    Conduct Unbecoming

    1975 · 24 votes

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    White Corridors

    1951 · 6 votes

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    Destiny of a Spy

    1969 · 1 votes

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    The Pickwick Papers

    1952 · 16 votes

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    Trottie True

    1949 · 3 votes

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    The Citadel

    1960 · 1 votes

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    Ben Casey

    1961 · 15 votes

  • Dizi7.8

    Alfred Hitchcock Presents

    Alfred Hitchcock Sunar

    1955 · 268 votes

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    Play of the Week

    1959 · 1 votes

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    Hallmark Hall of Fame

    1951 · 8 votes