Acting

James Donald

Born 1917-05-18 Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, UK 36 films

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 …

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Filmography

36 films

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Two bungling robbers try to play doctors at a 24hr. clinic while they wait for the time lock safe t…

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Doc in the Box

★ 0.0 2015

Hammer: The Studio That Dripped Blood poster

A retrospective of the films of Britain's Hammer Studios, renowned for making stylish horror films…

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Hammer: The Studio That Dripped Blood

★ 6.4 1987

Private eye Philip Marlowe investigates a case of blackmail involving the two wild daughters of a r…

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The Big Sleep

★ 5.8 1978

A company of British soldiers in colonial India is shaken when the widow of their most honored hero…

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Conduct Unbecoming

★ 5.9 1975

A young man journeys from a difficult childhood to maturity, exploring social injustice, personal d…

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David Copperfield

★ 5.6 1969

A veteran Russian spy is brought out of retirement to be sent to the West to do an important sabota…

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Destiny of a Spy

★ 9.0 1969

The Spanish explorer Pizarro captures the Inca god-chief Atahualpa and promises to free him upon th…

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The Royal Hunt of the Sun

★ 6.1 1969

A POW in World War II is put to work in a Munich zoo, looking after an Asian elephant. The zoo is b…

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Hannibal Brooks

★ 6.4 1969

A mysterious artifact unearthed below a London Underground station proves to have powerful psychic…

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Quatermass and the Pit

★ 6.7 1967

Brothers Michael and David Tremayne decide to steal the Crown Jewels from the Tower of London, not…

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The Jokers

★ 6.2 1967

An American Army officer is recruited by the yet to exist Israel to help them form an army. He is d…

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Cast a Giant Shadow

★ 6.3 1966

When Singapore surrendered to the Japanese in 1942, the Allied POWs, mostly British but including a…

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King Rat

★ 7.2 1965