Donald Calthrop

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Donald Calthrop (born April 11, 1888 in London-Chelsea , † July 15, 1940 in Eton , Berkshire ) was a British actor and theater manager.

Life

The grandson of the Irish-American playwright Dion Boucicault made his stage debut in 1906 at the London Comedy Theater in the play A Wire Entanglement . He then worked on various other theaters in the capital, such as the Haymarket Theater . There Calthrop was successful in both comedic and classical roles, and in 1917 he had a great success with the musical Westend comedy The Boy . In 1923, Calthrop went to the King's Way Theater as a manager, where he performed various Shakespeare plays . From June to August 1926 Calthrop appeared on Broadway in New York in the music revue The Merry World (87 performances).

Calthrop first appeared in front of the camera in 1916, the following year he starred in Masks and Faces at the side of his uncle Dion Boucicault junior (1859-1929). Another year later, in the last year of the World War, 1918, Donald Calthrop drew attention to himself with the title role of the legendary British navigator Nelson in the eponymous historical epic by Maurice Elvey . Since the late 1920s, Calthrop appeared regularly in films.

The slim actor with the short hairline was subscribed to shady, malicious and openly villainous characters for a good ten years; especially the young Alfred Hitchcock used Calthrop several times in the first years of the sound film. Another important role Calthrop played with the Bob Crachit in Henry Edwards' Dickens film adaptation Scrooge . Donald Calthrop died shortly before the completion of the shooting of the Shaw adaptation Major Barbara .

Filmography

  • 1916: Wanted a Widow
  • 1916: Altar Chains
  • 1917: Masks and Faces
  • 1917: The Gay Lord Quex
  • 1918: Goodbye
  • 1918: Nelson
  • 1928: Shooting Stars
  • 1928: The Flying Squad
  • 1929: Blackmail (Blackmail)
  • 1929: Atlantic
  • 1929: Elstree Calling
  • 1929: Song of Soho
  • 1930: Juno and the Paycock
  • 1930: loose ends
  • 1930: Two Worlds
  • 1930: Murder
  • 1930: Spanish Eyes
  • 1930: Cape Forlorn
  • 1931: Uneasy Virtue
  • 1931: Many Waters
  • 1931: The Bells
  • 1931: The Ghost Train
  • 1932: Number Seventeen (Number 17)
  • 1932: Rome Express (Rome Express)
  • 1933: Early to Bed
  • 1933: Friday the Thirteenth
  • 1933: I Was a Spy (I Was a Spy)
  • 1934: Captain Sorrell and Son (Sorrell and Son)
  • 1934: Red Ensign
  • 1934: Nine Forty-Five
  • 1934: The Phantom Light
  • 1935: Maddalena (The Divine Spark)
  • 1935: The Clairvoyant
  • 1935: Scrooge
  • 1936: Love From a Stranger
  • 1936: Café Colette
  • 1936: Broken Blossoms
  • 1936: The Man Who Changed His Mind
  • 1936: Fire Over England (Fire Over England)
  • 1937: Dreaming Lips
  • 1938: Shadow of Death
  • 1939: Band wagon
  • 1939: Let George Do it
  • 1940: Charley's (Big-Hearted) Aunt
  • 1940: Major Barbara

literature

  • Kay Less : The film's great personal dictionary . The actors, directors, cameramen, producers, composers, screenwriters, film architects, outfitters, costume designers, editors, sound engineers, make-up artists and special effects designers of the 20th century. Volume 1: A - C. Erik Aaes - Jack Carson. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-340-3 , p. 645.

Web links

Individual proof

  1. ^ Calthrop in the Internet Broadway Database
personal data
SURNAME Calthrop, Donald
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British actor and theater manager
DATE OF BIRTH April 11, 1888
PLACE OF BIRTH London Chelsea
DATE OF DEATH July 15, 1940
Place of death Eton , Berkshire