Person Details

Birthday: 1888-04-11 01:31:32

Death: 1940-07-15 01:31:32

Aliases: Donald Esme Clayton Calthrop

Gender: Male

Place of birth: London, England, UK

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Movie Involvements: 34

TV Involvements: 0


Most Famous Work

Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 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. He died in Eton, Berkshire from a heart attack while he was filming Major Barbara (1941).

Most Famous Work

Murder!
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6

Murder!

(1930) Ion Stewart
Blackmail
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7

Blackmail

(1929) Tracy
Scrooge
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6

Scrooge

(1935) Bob Cratchit
Fire Over England
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6

Fire Over England

(1937) Don Escobal
Rome Express
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6

Rome Express

(1932) Poole
Broken Blossoms
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6

Broken Blossoms

(1936) Old Chinaman
The Man Who Changed His Mind
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6
The Clairvoyant
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6

The Clairvoyant

(1935) Derelict (uncredited)

Acting

Year Character Movie/Tv
1941 Peter Shirley
1940 Guide
Frederick Strickland
Hobday
1937 Dr. Plumet
Hobson
Don Escobal
Nick
1936 Clayton
Dr. Harold E. Walpole
Old Chinaman
1935 Bob Cratchit
Godfrey
David Owen
Drunken Yokel
Derelict (uncredited)
Judge Fumaroli
1934 Macleod
Dr. Richard Orange
1933 Milton Stafford
Hugh Nicholls
Cnockhaert
Potsdam Guide
Sunshine, the Photographer
1932 Poole
Sir William Royden
Nora's Escort Brant
Hotel Manager
1931 Self - Commentator (uncredited)
Compton Hardcastle
Mathias
Saul Hodgkin
Counsel for Defense
Burglar
Parson
1930 'erb
George Arliss
Charles, the butler
Mascoso
Ion Stewart
Mendel
Winton Penner
George, the Night Porter
Nobby
Himself / Petruchio in Taming of the Shrew
N/A
1929 Pointer
Tracy
The Candidate
Yeh Ling
1928 Andy Wilkes
1918 Horatio Nelson
Horatio Nelson
1917 Lovell
Year Character Movie/Tv

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