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).
Acted in 41
1940s
- 1941
Major Barbara
Peter Shirley
- 1940
Charley's (Big-Hearted) Aunt
Guide
Let George Do It!
Frederick Strickland
Band Waggon
Hobday
1930s
- 1937
Thunder in the City
Dr. Plumet
Café Colette
Nick
- 1936
The Man Who Changed His Mind
Clayton
The Man Behind the Mask
Dr. Harold E. Walpole
Broken Blossoms
Old Chinaman
- 1935
Scrooge
Bob Cratchit
Man of the Moment
Godfrey
The Phantom Light
David Owen
Me and Marlborough
Drunken Yokel
The Clairvoyant
Derelict (uncredited)
- 1934
Red Ensign
Macleod
Sorrell and Son
Dr. Richard Orange
- 1933
Friday the Thirteenth
Hugh Nicholls
I Was a Spy
Cnockhaert
F.P.1
Sunshine, the Photographer
- 1932
Rome Express
Poole
Money for Nothing
Hotel Manager
- 1931
Many Waters
Compton Hardcastle
The Bells
Mathias
The Ghost Train
Saul Hodgkin
Potiphar's Wife
Counsel for Defense
Uneasy Virtue
Burglar
Cape Forlorn
Parson
- 1930
Star Impersonations
George Arliss
Almost a Honeymoon
Charles, the butler
Two Worlds
Mendel
Loose Ends
Winton Penner
The Night Porter
George, the Night Porter
Song of Soho
Nobby
1920s
- 1929
Atlantic
Pointer
- 1928
1910s
- 1918
Nelson
Horatio Nelson
Appearances2
1930s
- 1931
Industrial Britain
Self - Commentator (uncredited)
- 1930
Elstree Calling
Himself / Petruchio in Taming of the Shrew