Robert Donat (1905 - 1958)

English film and stage actor.

* March 18, 1905 Withington, Manchester, England, UK
 as Friedrich Robert Donath
 June 9, 1958 London, England, UK



Vintage magazines

Photoplay, January 1936
Photoplay, February 1936
Photoplay, February 1936

Photoplay, April 1936

Articles by Robert Donat

Film Acting, in: Bert Cardullo, Harry Geduld, Ronald Gottesman, and Leigh Woods (ed.), Playing to the Camera, New Haven and London, 1998

Books on Robert Donat

J.C. Trewin
Robert Donat, A Biography
London, 1968

Books with substantial mentioning of Robert Donat

Foreword by John-Michael Howson Cut! Foreword by John-Michael Howson
Cut!, Hollywood murders, accidents, and other tragedies
Willoughby, Australia, 2005

Tom Pendergast, Sara Pendergast (eds.)
International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers, 3. Actors and Actresses
Detroit/New York/San Francisco/London/Boston/Woodbridge, CT, 2000

Danny Peary Alternate Oscars Danny Peary
Alternate Oscars, One Critic's Defiant Choices for Best Picture, Actor, and Actress - From 1927 to the Present
New York, 1993

Robert A. Nowlan and Gwendolyn Wright Nowlan
Movie Characters of Leading Performers of the Sound Era
Chicago and London, 1990

Ann Lloyd (ed.) Movies of the Thirties Ann Lloyd (ed.)
Movies of the Thirties
London, 1983

Ray Stuart (ed.) Immortals of the Screen Ray Stuart (ed.)
Immortals of the Screen
New York, 1965

Books with an entry on Robert Donat

David Thomson The New Biographical Dictionary of Film David Thomson
The New Biographical Dictionary of Film
New York, 2003

Brian McFarlane (ed.) The Encyclopedia of British Film Brian McFarlane (ed.)
The Encyclopedia of British Film
London, 2003

Kay Weniger Das große Personenlexikon des Films Kay Weniger
Das große Personenlexikon des Films, Zweiter Band, C-F
Berlin, 2001

Articles on Robert Donat

Vicky Lowe, Acting with feeling: Robert Donat, the 'Emotion Chart' and The Citadel (1938), in: Film History, vol. 19, 2007 pp. 73-85

Articles with substantial mentioning of Robert Donat

How to love Alfred Hitchcock, in: Empire, nr. 253, 2010 pp. 143-155

Films

1932
Men of Tomorrow
That Night in London

1933
The Private Life of Henry VIII
Cash

1934
The Count of Monte Cristo

1935
The 39 Steps
The Ghost Goes West

1937
Knight Without Armour

1938
The Citadel

1939
Goodbye, Mr. Chips

1942
The Young Mr. Pitt

1943
The New Lot
Sabotage Agent
The Adventures of Tartu

1945
Perfect Strangers

1947
Captain Boycott

1948
The Winslow Boy

1949
The Cure for Love

1951
The Magic Box

1954
Lease of Life

1956
The Stained Glass at Fairford

1958
The Inn of the Sixth Happiness

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