Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
5/18/1917
Place of Birth
Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, UK
Also Known As
Джеймс Дональд
James Donald
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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 Pickw...
Known For
The Vikings
as Lord Egbert
King Rat
as Dr. Kennedy
Gift Horse
as Lt. Richard Jennings, No. 1
The Bridge on the River Kwai
as Maj. Clipton
Trottie True
as Lord Digby Langdon
David Copperfield
as Mr. Murdstone
Conduct Unbecoming
as The Doctor
The Jokers
as Col. Gurney-Simms
Beau Brummell
as Lord Edwin Mercer
Hannibal Brooks
as Padre
The Big Sleep
as Inspector Gregory
The Great Escape
as Ramsey 'The SBO'
Lust for Life
as Theo van Gogh
The Way Ahead
as Pvt. Evans Lloyd
Edward, My Son
as Bronton
Quatermass and the Pit
as Dr. Mathew Roney
Broken Journey
as Bill Haverton
San Demetrio London
as Gunnery Officer - H.M.S. Jervis Bay
White Corridors
as Neil Marriner
In Which We Serve
as Doc