
Robert Donat
Robert Donat (born Friedrich Robert Donat) was a star English film and stage actor. He is best remembered for his roles in The 39 Steps (1935) and Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939), the latter which earned him a Best Actor Academy Award.
Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 0.061 |
Birthday | 1905-03-18 |
Place of Birth | Withington, Manchester, England, UK |
Also Known As | Friedrich Robert Donat, Роберт Донат, Friedrich Robert Donath, |

1935

The 39 Steps
7.3/965
Richard Hanney has a rude awakening when a glamorous female spy falls into his bed - with a knife in her back. Having a bit of trouble explaining it a...
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The 39 Steps

1939

Goodbye, Mr. Chips
7.4/123
A shy British teacher looks back nostalgically at his long career, taking note of the people who touched his life.
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Goodbye, Mr. Chips

1933

The Private Life of Henry VIII
6.4/82
Renowned for his excess, King Henry VIII goes through a series of wives during his rule. With Anne Boleyn, his second wife, executed on charges of tre...
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The Private Life of Henry VIII

1958

The Inn of the Sixth Happiness
6.7/76
All her life, Englishwoman Gladys Aylward knew that China was the place where she belonged. Not qualified to be sent there as a missionary, Gladys wor...
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The Inn of the Sixth Happiness

1934

The Count of Monte Cristo
6.7/53
After greedy men have Edmound Dantes unjustly imprisoned for 20 years for innocently delivering a letter entrusted to him, he escapes to revenge himse...
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The Count of Monte Cristo

1943

The Adventures of Tartu
6.2/16
British Captain Terence Stevenson (Robert Donat) accepts an assignment even more dangerous than his everyday job of defusing unexploded bombs. Fluent...
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The Adventures of Tartu

1952

The Magic Box
6.3/21
Now old, ill, poor, and largely forgotten, William Freise-Greene was once very different. As young and handsome William Green he changed his name to i...
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The Magic Box

1938

The Citadel
6.3/27
Andrew Manson, a young, idealistic, newly qualified Scottish doctor arrives in Wales takes his first job in a mining town, and begins to wonder at the...
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The Citadel

1948

The Winslow Boy
7/26
In pre-WW1 England, a youngster is expelled from a naval academy over a petty theft, but his parents raise a political furor by demanding a trial.
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The Winslow Boy

1937

Knight Without Armour
5.6/15
British agent working in Russia is forced to remain longer than planned once the revolution begins. After being released from prison in Siberia he pos...
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Knight Without Armour

1972

Hollywood: The Dream Factory
6/2
A documentary about the glorious history of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios and its decline leading to the sale of its back lot and props. By extension th...
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Hollywood: The Dream Factory

1935

The Ghost Goes West
6.5/34
Donald Glourie shares his crumbling ancestral home with the ghost of his Highland ancestor, Murdoch, who has been condemned to haunt the castle until...
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The Ghost Goes West

1945

Perfect Strangers
6.604/24
After World War II service changes them, a married couple dread their postwar reunion.
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Perfect Strangers

1983

Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
6.5/2
Out-takes (mostly from Warner Bros.), promotional shorts, movie premieres, public service pleas, wardrobe tests, documentary material, and archival fo...
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Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage

1933

Cash
4.571/7
A formerly wealthy man and his daughter try to regain wealth by selling a scheme to some investors, when they come upon a huge amount of unclaimed cas...
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Cash

1954

Lease of Life
7.4/7
The parson of a small rural community knows he is dying and this makes him reconsider his life so far and what he can still do to help the community.
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Lease of Life

1947

Captain Boycott
6.7/8
Based on real events, this historical drama is set in 19th-century Ireland, when poverty-stricken tenants dispossessed by greedy landowner Capt. Boyco...
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Captain Boycott

1973

The Men Who Made the Movies: King Vidor
6/1
Overview of director King Vidor's filmography.
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The Men Who Made the Movies: King Vidor

1943

The New Lot
0/0
A new batch of Army recruits, from diverse backgrounds and with varying degrees of commitment, is shaped into an efficient fighting unit.
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The New Lot

1942

The Young Mr. Pitt
5.7/8
This biopic tells the story of the life of Pitt The Younger, who became Prime Minister of Great Britain at the age of 24.
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The Young Mr. Pitt

1932

Men of Tomorrow
0/0
In the years after his graduation Allen Shepherd has become a successful novelist and has married Jane Anderson. A firm proponent of traditional sex r...
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Men of Tomorrow

1932

That Night in London
0/0
A young bank clerk steals £500 and plans to go on a spree before shooting himself but a bad girl turned good tries to convince him to return the money...
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That Night in London

1940

Cavalcade of the Academy Awards
6.5/3
This 1940 presentation features highlights of earlier (1928 onward) Oscar ceremonies including Shirley Temple and Walt Disney, plus acceptance speeche...
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Cavalcade of the Academy Awards

1976

That's Entertainment, Part II
6.851/37
Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire present more golden moments from the MGM film library, this time including comedy and drama as well as classic musical num...
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That's Entertainment, Part II

1940

A New Romance of Celluloid: The Miracle of Sound
6.7/6
This short documentary, presented and directed by MGM sound engineer Douglas Shearer, goes behind the scenes to look at how the sound portion of a tal...
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A New Romance of Celluloid: The Miracle of Sound

1944

Twenty Years After
6/1
This short celebrates the 20th anniversary of MGM. Segments are shown from several early hits, then from a number of 1944 releases.
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Twenty Years After

1949

The Cure for Love
0/0
Sergeant Jack Hardacre returns from the war to his contemptible fiancée Janey Jenkins intending to reconcile with her against all odds. But he falls i...
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The Cure for Love

2009

1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year
7.5/12
This documentary focuses on 1939, considered to be Hollywood's greatest year, with film clips and insight into what made the year so special.
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1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year

1999

Hitchcock: The Early Years
6.3/3
This documentary covers Hitchcock's early British career, up to his move to America in 1940.
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