James Donald

Acting · Born 1917-05-18 in Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, UK

Biography

​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…

Filmography

• The Bridge on the River Kwai as Maj. Clipton
• The Great Escape as Ramsey 'The SBO'
• Lust for Life as Theo van Gogh
• The Vikings as Lord Egbert
• Cast a Giant Shadow as Maj. Safir
• Quatermass and the Pit as Dr. Mathew Roney
• The Way Ahead as Pvt. Evans Lloyd
• King Rat as Dr. Kennedy
• Beau Brummell as Lord Edwin Mercer
• Third Man on the Mountain as Franz Lerner

TV

• Alfred Hitchcock Presents as Harry Pope
• Alfred Hitchcock Presents as Mark Cavendish
• Hallmark Hall of Fame as Prince Albert
• Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
• Ben Casey
• Hallmark Hall of Fame as Henry Higgins
• Hallmark Hall of Fame as Warwick
• DuPont Show of the Month as Sydney Carton