James Donald

James Donald

​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.
    Known for
    Acting
    Place of birth
    Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, UK
    Birthday
    5/18/1917
The Bridge on the River Kwai
The Bridge on the River Kwai
7.8
The Great Escape
The Great Escape
8
Cast a Giant Shadow
Cast a Giant Shadow
6.3
The Citadel
The Citadel
0
Quatermass and the Pit
Quatermass and the Pit
6.6
The Way Ahead
The Way Ahead
6.4
Lust for Life
Lust for Life
7.1
King Rat
King Rat
7
Beau Brummell
Beau Brummell
6.5
Third Man on the Mountain
Third Man on the Mountain
6.7
San Demetrio London
San Demetrio London
6.7
Gift Horse
Gift Horse
6.6
Edward, My Son
Edward, My Son
6.5
Cage of Gold
Cage of Gold
6.6
The Jokers
The Jokers
6
The Pickwick Papers
The Pickwick Papers
6.6
Perilous Assignment
Perilous Assignment
10
Broken Journey
Broken Journey
6
The Small Voice
The Small Voice
6.2
In Which We Serve
In Which We Serve
6.8
Destiny of a Spy
Destiny of a Spy
0
Trottie True
Trottie True
7
The Big Sleep
The Big Sleep
5.9
Victoria Regina
Victoria Regina
0
David Copperfield
David Copperfield
5.4
Pygmalion
Pygmalion
0
Brandy for the Parson
Brandy for the Parson
6.3
The Royal Hunt of the Sun
The Royal Hunt of the Sun
6
The Royal Hunt of the Sun
The Royal Hunt of the Sun
6
The Vikings
The Vikings
7
The Net
The Net
6
Conduct Unbecoming
Conduct Unbecoming
6.2
Hammer: The Studio That Dripped Blood
Hammer: The Studio That Dripped Blood
6.4
One of Our Aircraft Is Missing
One of Our Aircraft Is Missing
6.4
White Corridors
White Corridors
6.2
Doc in the Box
Doc in the Box
0
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