1917-05-18 ( 107 years old ) in Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, UK
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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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Movies
Doc in the Box
2015-01-15
Hammer: The Studio That Dripped Blood
1987-06-26
The Big Sleep
1978-03-13
Conduct Unbecoming
1975-10-04
David Copperfield
1969-12-01
Destiny of a Spy
1969-10-27
The Royal Hunt of the Sun
1969-10-05
The Royal Hunt of the Sun
1969-10-05
Quatermass and the Pit
1967-11-09
The Jokers
1967-05-15
Cast a Giant Shadow
1966-03-30
King Rat
1965-10-27
The Great Escape
1963-07-03
Pygmalion
1963-02-06
Victoria Regina
1961-11-30
The Citadel
1960-02-19
Third Man on the Mountain
1959-11-10
Perilous Assignment
1959-11-06
The Vikings
1958-06-11
The Bridge on the River Kwai
1957-10-11
Lust for Life
1956-09-15
Beau Brummell
1954-11-16
The Net
1953-02-09
The Pickwick Papers
1952-11-14
Gift Horse
1952-06-01
Brandy for the Parson
1952-05-02
White Corridors
1951-01-12
Cage of Gold
1950-10-23
Trottie True
1949-09-29
Edward, My Son
1949-03-01
The Small Voice
1948-11-27
Broken Journey
1948-04-14
The Way Ahead
1944-06-09
San Demetrio London
1943-12-07
In Which We Serve
1942-09-17
One of Our Aircraft Is Missing
1942-04-24
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