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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.
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Filmography (Movies)
Doc in the Box
Character:Crabs Guy
Release Date:15/01/2015
Hammer: The Studio That Dripped Blood
Character:Dr. Mathew Roney (archive footage)
Release Date:26/06/1987
The Big Sleep
Character:Inspector Gregory
Release Date:13/03/1978
Conduct Unbecoming
Character:The Doctor
Release Date:04/10/1975
David Copperfield
Character:Mr. Murdstone
Release Date:01/12/1969
Destiny of a Spy
Character:Sir Martin Rolfe
Release Date:27/10/1969
The Royal Hunt of the Sun
Character:King Carlos
Release Date:05/10/1969
Hannibal Brooks
Character:Padre
Release Date:18/01/1969
Quatermass and the Pit
Character:Dr. Mathew Roney
Release Date:09/11/1967
The Jokers
Character:Col. Gurney-Simms
Release Date:15/05/1967
Cast a Giant Shadow
Character:Maj. Safir
Release Date:30/03/1966
King Rat
Character:Dr. Kennedy
Release Date:27/10/1965
The Great Escape
Character:Ramsey 'The SBO'
Release Date:03/07/1963
Pygmalion
Character:Henry Higgins
Release Date:06/02/1963
Victoria Regina
Character:Prince Albert
Release Date:30/11/1961
The Citadel
Character:Dr. Andrew Manson
Release Date:19/02/1960
Third Man on the Mountain
Character:Franz Lerner
Release Date:10/11/1959
Perilous Assignment
Character:Self
Release Date:06/11/1959
The Vikings
Character:Lord Egbert
Release Date:11/06/1958
The Bridge on the River Kwai
Character:Maj. Clipton
Release Date:11/10/1957
Lust for Life
Character:Theo van Gogh
Release Date:15/09/1956
Beau Brummell
Character:Lord Edwin Mercer
Release Date:16/11/1954
The Net
Character:Michael Heathley
Release Date:09/02/1953
The Pickwick Papers
Character:Nathaniel Winkle
Release Date:14/11/1952
Gift Horse
Character:Lt. Richard Jennings, No. 1
Release Date:01/06/1952
Brandy for the Parson
Character:Bill Harper
Release Date:02/05/1952
White Corridors
Character:Neil Marriner
Release Date:12/01/1951
Cage of Gold
Character:Alan
Release Date:23/10/1950
Trottie True
Character:Lord Digby Langdon
Release Date:29/09/1949
Edward, My Son
Character:Bronton
Release Date:01/03/1949
The Small Voice
Character:Murray Byrne
Release Date:27/11/1948
Broken Journey
Character:Bill Haverton
Release Date:14/04/1948
The Way Ahead
Character:Pvt. Evans Lloyd
Release Date:09/06/1944
San Demetrio London
Character:Gunnery Officer - H.M.S. Jervis Bay
Release Date:07/12/1943
In Which We Serve
Character:Doc
Release Date:17/09/1942
One of Our Aircraft Is Missing
Character:(uncredited)
Release Date:24/04/1942
Television Appearances
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
Character:
Ben Casey
Character:
Play of the Week
Character:Priest
DuPont Show of the Month
Character:Sydney Carton
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Character:Harry Pope
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Character:Mark Cavendish
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Character:Prince Albert
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Character:Henry Higgins
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Character:Warwick
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