Donald Calthrop

Donald Calthrop (11 April 1888 – 15 July 1940) was an English stage and film actor. He starred as the title character in the hit musical The Boy in 1917. He then appeared in 63 films between 1916 and 1940, including five films directed by Alfred Hitchcock.

He was born in London and died in Eton, Berkshire from a heart attack while he was filming "Major Barbara". According to Ronald Neame in his autobiography, some shots in the final film had a stand-in playing Calthrop (from the back) and a bit of dialog was recorded using an unnamed person who impersonated Calthrop's voice.

He was the nephew of Dion Boucicault. He was educated at St Paul's School and made his first stage appearance when eighteen years old at the Comedy Theatre, London. His first film was The Gay Lord Quex.

Selected filmography

• The Gay Lord Quex (1917)
• Nelson (1918)
• Shooting Stars (1927)
• Atlantic (1929)
• Blackmail (1929)
• The Flying Squad (1929)
• The Clue of the New Pin (1929)
• Elstree Calling (1930)
• Juno and the Paycock (1930)
• Murder! (1930)
• Spanish Eyes (1930)
• Uneasy Virtue (1931)
• Many Waters (1931)
• Number Seventeen (1932)
• Rome Express (1932)
• Fires of Fate (1932)
• I Was a Spy (1933)
• Early to Bed (1933)
• Friday the Thirteenth (1933)
• Red Ensign (1934)
• The Divine Spark (1935)
• The Phantom Light (1935)
• Scrooge (1935) (as Bob Cratchit)
• The Man Who Changed His Mind (1936)
• Cafe Colette (1937)
• Dreaming Lips (1937)
• Fire Over England (1937)
• Thunder in the City (1937)
• Love from a Stranger (1937)
• Band Waggon (1940)
• Let George Do It! (1940)
• Charley's (Big-Hearted) Aunt (1940)
• Major Barbara (1941)

External links

• Donald Calthrop at the Internet Movie Database
• Donald Calthrop at the British Film Institute's Screenonline
• Donald Calthrop at the Internet Broadway Database