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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).
Known For
Blackmail
(1929)
Tracy
Number Seventeen
(1932)
Nora's Escort Brant
Scrooge
(1935)
Bob Cratchit
Murder!
(1930)
Ion Stewart
Full Filmography
Acting
Masks and Faces
(1917)
Lovell
Nelson; The Story of England's Immortal Naval Hero
(1918)
Horatio Nelson
Nelson
(1918)
Horatio Nelson
Shooting Stars
(1928)
Andy Wilkes
Up the Poll
(1929)
The Candidate
Blackmail
(1929)
Tracy
Atlantic
(1929)
Pointer
The Clue of the New Pin
(1929)
Yeh Ling
Star Impersonations
(1930)
George Arliss
The Night Porter
(1930)
George, the Night Porter
Murder!
(1930)
Ion Stewart
Spanish Eyes
(1930)
Mascoso
Song of Soho
(1930)
Nobby
Elstree Calling
(1930)
Himself / Petruchio in Taming of the Shrew
Almost a Honeymoon
(1930)
Charles, the butler
Loose Ends
(1930)
Winton Penner
All Riot on the Western Front
(1930)
Two Worlds
(1930)
Mendel
We Take Off Our Hats
(1930)
'erb
Cape Forlorn
(1931)
Parson
The Bells
(1931)
Mathias
Industrial Britain
(1931)
Self - Commentator (uncredited)
Uneasy Virtue
(1931)
Burglar
Potiphar's Wife
(1931)
Counsel for Defense
The Ghost Train
(1931)
Saul Hodgkin
Many Waters
(1931)
Compton Hardcastle
Fires of Fate
(1932)
Sir William Royden
Rome Express
(1932)
Poole
Number Seventeen
(1932)
Nora's Escort Brant
Money for Nothing
(1932)
Hotel Manager
Early to Bed
(1933)
Potsdam Guide
Friday the Thirteenth
(1933)
Hugh Nicholls
F.P.1
(1933)
Sunshine, the Photographer
I Was A Spy
(1933)
Cnockhaert
This Acting Business
(1933)
Milton Stafford
Red Ensign
(1934)
Macleod
Sorrell and Son
(1934)
Dr. Richard Orange
The Divine Spark
(1935)
Judge Fumaroli
The Clairvoyant
(1935)
Derelict (uncredited)
Man of the Moment
(1935)
Godfrey
Me and Marlborough
(1935)
Drunken Yokel
The Phantom Light
(1935)
David Owen
Scrooge
(1935)
Bob Cratchit
Broken Blossoms
(1936)
Old Chinaman
The Man Behind the Mask
(1936)
Dr. Harold E. Walpole
The Man Who Changed His Mind
(1936)
Clayton
Love from a Stranger
(1937)
Hobson
Fire Over England
(1937)
Don Escobal
Café Colette
(1937)
Nick
Thunder in the City
(1937)
Dr. Plumet
Charley's (Big-Hearted) Aunt
(1940)
Guide
Let George Do It!
(1940)
Frederick Strickland
Band Waggon
(1940)
Hobday
Major Barbara
(1941)
Peter Shirley