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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).
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22 September 1931
The story, about the social interaction of a group of railway passengers who have been stranded at a remote rural station overnight who are increasingly threatened by a latent external force.
22 May 1930
'A woman reporter is blackmailed for knowledge of freed suspect's involvement in a murder.' (British)
31 December 1931
Grierson set out to make "propaganda," and this film--with it's voice-over proclaiming the great value of the British industrial worker, without a hint of ambiguity or doubt--fits that category well.
08 January 1931
William Kell, the keeper of a lighthouse on a lonely stretch of coastline, marries cabaret dancer Eileen.
09 October 1931
Mathias, an Alsatian innkeeper, murders a rich Pole staying at his inn. However, Mathias' conscience will not let him rest, and the murdered man's spirit drives the innkeeper nearly mad.
23 March 1940
A gang of spies held up in a haunted castle gives this team of celebrated British wireless comedians plenty of scope for laughs.
28 July 1929
London, 1929. Frank Webber, a very busy Scotland Yard detective, seems to be more interested in his work than in Alice White, his girlfriend.
11 September 1936
Dr. Laurence, a once-respectable scientist, begins to research the origin of the mind and the soul. The science community rejects him, and he risks losing everything for which he has worked.
01 March 1917
An actress cures an aged flirt by posing as his wife.
01 November 1933
It is pouring with rain at one minute to midnight on Friday the thirteenth, and the driver of a London bus is peering through his blurred windscreen as his vehicle sails down an empty road.
01 November 1931
An elderly couple reminisce about the romantic adventures of their youth.
31 July 1930
When actress Diana Baring is found in a daze beside her colleague’s murdered body, all evidence points to her guilt.
08 August 1933
'Manicurist Grete and nightclub waiter Carl share a bed, but not at the same time. They hate each other, even though they have never met.
22 April 1937
A visiting American engages in a bold business promotion, the likes of which the British have not seen.
26 November 1935
Ebenezer Scrooge, the ultimate Victorian miser, hasn't a good word for Christmas, though his impoverished clerk Cratchit and nephew Fred are full of holiday spirit.
01 September 1935
Love blossoms after a young man rescues a pretty girl who attempted to drown herself.
22 July 1935
A woman disguises herself in men's clothes in order to follow her husband to the wars.
07 June 1935
A fake psychic suddenly turns into the real thing when he meets a young beauty. (TCM)
15 November 1929
English-language version. "Atlantic" is a drama film based on the sinking of the RMS "Titanic" and set aboard a fictional ship, called the "Atlantic".
06 February 1930
A series of 19 musical and comedy "vaudeville" sketches presented in the form of a live television broadcast hosted by Tommy Handley (as himself).
06 September 1932
In Egypt a colonel with a year to live saves a girl from an Arab prince.
04 September 1933
During World War I, a young nurse in a hospital in German-occupied Belgium is secretly feeding military information to the British.
31 October 1932
The theft of a famous painting leads to murder and many suspects on a plush train speeding from Paris to Rome.
01 March 1929
A wealthy recluse is murdered in an absolutely sealed room.
18 July 1932
A gang of jewel thieves hides out in an abandoned London house after a robbery, unaware that a detective is among them in disguise.
19 December 1933
A lighthearted look at the personal struggles of two newlywed stage performers who are driven to separation by their interfering parents.
14 May 1941
Idealistic young Barbara is the daughter of rich weapons manufacturer Andrew Undershaft. She rebels against her estranged father by joining the Salvation Army.
02 April 1933
Urged by famous airman Ellissen the Lennartz Company puts into reality the project proposed by his friend Droste: F.
31 August 1940
Charley's (Big-Hearted) Aunt is a 1940 British comedy film directed by Walter Forde starring Arthur Askey and Richard Murdoch as Oxford 'scholars'.
02 January 1918
Lord Nelson's life, loves and death.
28 March 1931
'A good-looking chauffeur, employed by an aristocratic married lady is tempted to misconduct. His indifference arouses her wrath and he is charged with assault at the Assizes.
17 June 1934
David Barr is the manager and chief designer of a British shipyard in decline. The shipyard is in financial trouble but Barr has a design for a new ship that will save them all.
01 July 1929
A bibulous election candidate makes a speech.
01 January 1918
Timed to bolster public morale at the end of the Great War, Maurice Elvey’s biopic of Nelson frequently steps out of its period setting to give us historical background or contemporary relevance.
04 November 1930
Three old muckers meet down the boozer for a natter about their alarmingly swiftly-diminishing circle of friends.
01 October 1930
'Advertisement for Film Weekly, in which British actors impersonate Hollywood stars in scenes from recent films; the audience is invited to compete for a prize of £100 for naming the best impersonation.
25 March 1930
George, the inebriate night porter at the Hotel Splendide, develops a series of increasingly outlandish suspicions about Billy and Percy, two guests who have arrived separately yet claim to be a married couple and demand to share a room together.
14 March 1930
An ex-French Foreign Legion soldier comes to Soho and ends up as a singer in a cafe.
05 March 1937
The film is a historical drama set during the reign of Elizabeth I (Flora Robson), focusing on the English defeat of the Spanish Armada, whence the title.
12 July 1940
Shortly after the start of World War II, a ukelele player (George) takes the wrong boat and finds himself in (still uninvaded) Norway.
18 April 1937
Ann Harding plays a lovely but somewhat naive young woman who goes on a European vacation after winning a lottery.
06 February 1928
The husband and wife acting team of Mae Feather and Julian Gordon is torn apart when he discovers she is having an affair with the screen comedian Andy Wilks.
05 August 1935
A series of mysterious deaths in a Welsh lighthouse lead locals to believe it is haunted. But the new keeper is sceptical.
05 March 1934
Stephen Sorrell, a decorated war hero, raises his son Kit alone after Kit's mother deserts husband and child in the boy's infancy.
23 August 1936
A young couple attend a masked ball before their planned (but secret) elopement. Suddenly everything goes wrong when the young woman is attacked and held hostage by a crazed attacker.
05 February 1931
A comedy film directed by Norman Walker
29 August 1930
A musical directed by G.B. Samuelson.
20 May 1936
A Chinese missionary comes to England and helps a young girl ill-treated by her father. A remake of D.
01 June 1935
Recounting the life and romantic struggles of the celebrated Italian opera composer Vincenzo Bellini.
19 September 1930
An ambitious young man secures a job in the colonial service, the only stipulation being that he needs to be married which he isn't.
01 February 1930
A comedy short Directed by Castleton Knight,
20 January 1932
As he pursues Joan Blossom, ruined gambler Jeff Cheddar is mistaken for two-faced financier Jay Cheddar, eventually leading to Joan's stockbroker father, Sir Henry Blossom, investing heavily in a supposedly worthless gold mine.
28 July 1930
An old Jewish man is forced to hide the Austrian lieutenant who killed his son and loves his daughter.
01 January 1937
A diplomat falls in love with an exiled Russian princess.
