Doc in the Box
2015 · Movie
as Crabs Guy
James Donald
1917-05-18
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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.
Filmography
Hammer: The Studio That Dripped Blood
1987 · Movie
as Dr. Mathew Roney (archive footage)
The Big Sleep
1978 · Movie
as Inspector Gregory
Conduct Unbecoming
1975 · Movie
as The Doctor
Destiny of a Spy
1969 · Movie
as Sir Martin Rolfe
David Copperfield
1969 · Movie
as Mr. Murdstone
The Royal Hunt of the Sun
1969 · Movie
as King Carlos
Hannibal Brooks
1969 · Movie
as Padre
Quatermass and the Pit
1967 · Movie
as Dr. Mathew Roney
The Jokers
1967 · Movie
as Col. Gurney-Simms
Cast a Giant Shadow
1966 · Movie
as Maj. Safir
King Rat
1965 · Movie
as Dr. Kennedy
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Thursday Theatre
1964 · TV Show
as Edward Chamberlayne
The Great Escape
1963 · Movie
as Ramsey 'The SBO'
Pygmalion
1963 · Movie
as Henry Higgins
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Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
1963 · TV Show
Victoria Regina
1961 · Movie
as Prince Albert
Ben Casey
1961 · TV Show
The Citadel
1960 · Movie
as Dr. Andrew Manson
Third Man on the Mountain
1959 · Movie
as Franz Lerner
Perilous Assignment
1959 · Movie
as Self
Play of the Week
1959 · TV Show
as Priest
The Vikings
1958 · Movie
as Lord Egbert
The Bridge on the River Kwai
1957 · Movie
as Maj. Clipton
DuPont Show of the Month
1957 · TV Show
as Sydney Carton
Lust for Life
1956 · Movie
as Theo van Gogh
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1955 · TV Show
as Harry Pope, Mark Cavendish
Beau Brummell
1954 · Movie
as Lord Edwin Mercer
The Net
1953 · Movie
as Michael Heathley
Gift Horse
1952 · Movie
as Lt. Richard Jennings, No. 1
The Pickwick Papers
1952 · Movie
as Nathaniel Winkle
Brandy for the Parson
1952 · Movie
as Bill Harper
White Corridors
1951 · Movie
as Neil Marriner
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951 · TV Show
as Prince Albert, Henry Higgins, Warwick
Cage of Gold
1950 · Movie
as Alan
Edward, My Son
1949 · Movie
as Bronton
Trottie True
1949 · Movie
as Lord Digby Langdon
Broken Journey
1948 · Movie
as Bill Haverton
The Small Voice
1948 · Movie
as Murray Byrne
The Way Ahead
1944 · Movie
as Pvt. Evans Lloyd
San Demetrio London
1943 · Movie
as Gunnery Officer - H.M.S. Jervis Bay
In Which We Serve
1942 · Movie
as Doc
One of Our Aircraft Is Missing
1942 · Movie
as (uncredited)
