Robert Donat

Biography

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

The 39 Steps

The Inn of the Sixth Happiness

Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage

That's Entertainment, Part II

Goodbye, Mr. Chips

The Count of Monte Cristo

1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year

The Winslow Boy

All Movies (29)

• 1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year2009 · as Self (archive footage)
• A Profile of Hitchcock: The Early Years2000 · as Self (archive footage)
• Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage1983 · as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
• That's Entertainment, Part II1976 · as (archive footage)
• The Men Who Made the Movies: King Vidor1973 · as Self (archive footage)
• Hollywood: The Dream Factory1972 · as Self (archive footage)
• The Inn of the Sixth Happiness1958 · as The Mandarin of Yang Cheng
• Lease of Life1954 · as Rev William Thorne
• The Magic Box1952 · as William Friese-Greene
• The Cure for Love1949 · as Sergeant Jack Hardacre
• The Winslow Boy1948 · as Sir Robert Morton
• Captain Boycott1947 · as Charles Stewart Parnell
• Perfect Strangers1945 · as Robert Wilson
• Twenty Years After1944 · as (archive footage)
• The Adventures of Tartu1943 · as Captain Terence Stevenson, aka Jan Tartu
• The New Lot1943 · as Actor
• The Young Mr. Pitt1942 · as William Pitt / The Earl of Chatham
• A New Romance of Celluloid: The Miracle of Sound1940 · as Self
• Cavalcade of the Academy Awards1940 · as Self (archive footage)
• Goodbye, Mr. Chips1939 · as Charles Edward Chipping aka 'Mr. Chips'
• The Citadel1938 · as Dr. Andrew Manson
• Knight Without Armour1937 · as Ainsley J. Fothergill / Peter Ouronov
• The Ghost Goes West1935 · as Murdoch Glourie / Donald Glourie
• The 39 Steps1935 · as Richard Hannay
• The Count of Monte Cristo1934 · as Edmond Dantes
• Cash1933 · as Paul Martin
• The Private Life of Henry VIII1933 · as Thomas Culpeper
• Men of Tomorrow1932 · as Julian Angell
• That Night in London1932 · as Dick Warren