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Robert Donat
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English actor (1905–1958)
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Vinony catalogs Robert Donat in its Best Actor collection (186 entries). It also appears in Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Within Vinony's link graph, Robert Donat is referenced by 347 other articles, and connects out to Goodbye, Mr. Chips, London and Marlene Dietrich.
Vinony files it under 1905 births, 1958 deaths and 20th-century English male actors.
Its subject is documented across 51 Wikipedia language editions.
Film & TV
Withington, Manchester, England, UK
Robert Donat (born Friedrich Robert Donat) was a star English film and stage actor. He is best remembered for his roles in The 39 Steps (1935) and Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939), the latter which earned him a Best Actor Academy Award.
Known for
- 1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year — Self (archive footage)2009
- A Profile of Hitchcock: The Early Years — Self (archive footage)2000
- Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage — Self (archive footage) (uncredited)1983
- That's Entertainment, Part II — (archive footage) (uncredited)1976
- The Men Who Made the Movies: King Vidor — Self (archive footage)1973
- Hollywood: The Dream Factory — Self (archive footage)1972
- The Inn of the Sixth Happiness — The Mandarin of Yang Cheng1958
- Lease of Life — Rev William Thorne1954
- The Magic Box — William Friese-Greene1952
- The Cure for Love — Sergeant Jack Hardacre1949
via TMDB
Key facts
- Died
- 9 June 1958 (1958-06-09) (aged 53), London , England
- Occupation
- Actor
- Years active
- 1921–1958
- Spouses
- Ella Annesley ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1929 ; divorced</span>"}]]}'>div. 1946 ) Renée Asherson , ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1953 )
- Relatives
- Peter Donat (nephew), Richard Donat (nephew)
- Born
- Friedrich Robert Donat , ( 1905-03-18 ) 18 March 1905, Withington , Manchester , England
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Robert
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Place of birth
- Withington
- Place of death
- London
- Spouse
- Renée Asherson
- Occupation
- director
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Genre
- Shakespearean comedy
- Image
- GoodbyeMrChipsTrailer1.jpg
- Number of children
- 3
- Residence
- Withington
Show 12 more facts
- date of birth
- 1905-03-18
- date of death
- 1958-06-09
- Commons category
- Robert Donat
- cause of death
- brain tumor
- place of burial
- East Finchley Cemetery
- time period
- 20th century
- start of work period
- 1921-00-00
- end of work period
- 1958-00-00
- birth name
- Friedrich Robert Donath
- name in native language
- Robert Donat
- manner of death
- natural causes
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Encyclopedic overview
Friedrich Robert Donat (/ˈdoʊnæt/ DOH-nat; 18 March 1905 – 9 June 1958) was an English actor. Making his breakthrough film role in Alexander Korda's The Private Life of Henry VIII (1933), today he is best remembered for his roles in The Count of Monte Cristo (1934), Alfred Hitchcock's The 39 Steps (1935), and Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939), for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor as the gentle English schoolmaster Mr. Chips.
Beginning his career in theatre, Donat made his stage debut in 1921 playing Lucius in Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, and in 1928 he appeared in productions at the Liverpool Playhouse, starring in plays by John Galsworthy, George Bernard Shaw among others, before moving to London in 1930. He appeared in the West End when he starred in A Sleeping Clergyman in 1933, and in 1936 he took on the management of the West End's Queen's Theatre.
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