Donald Calthrop

April 11, 1888 · London, England, UK

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.

Often works with

Joan Barry
3 titles together
Blackmail, Rome Express, Atlantic
Percy Parsons
3 titles together
Blackmail, Friday the Thirteenth, Red Ensign
Garry Marsh
3 titles together
Number Seventeen, Scrooge, Let George Do It!
Emlyn Williams
3 titles together
Major Barbara, Friday the Thirteenth, Broken Blossoms
Felix Aylmer
3 titles together
Major Barbara, The Clairvoyant, Charley's (Big-Hearted) Aunt
Gordon Harker
3 titles together
Rome Express, The Phantom Light, Friday the Thirteenth

Full filmography · 51

Major Barbara
as Peter Shirley
19416.8
Charley's (Big-Hearted) Aunt
as Guide
1940
Let George Do It!
as Frederick Strickland
1940
Band Waggon
as Hobday
1940
Thunder in the City
as Dr. Plumet
1937
Love from a Stranger
as Hobson
1937
Fire Over England
as Don Escobal
19376.2
Café Colette
as Nick
1937
The Man Who Changed His Mind
as Clayton
19366.1
The Man Behind the Mask
as Dr. Harold E. Walpole
1936
Broken Blossoms
as Old Chinaman
1936
Scrooge
as Bob Cratchit
19356.1