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At age 11, Robert Donat began taking elocution lessons to overcome a stutter, going on to develop an exceptional and versatile voice. At 16 he debuted onstage and later played a number of Shakespearean and classical roles in repertory and touring... more
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The Inn of the Sixth Happiness (1958)
Cast: Ingrid Bergman
Tags: Period Film Biopic Drama
Length: 158min
Alan Burgess' novel The Small Woman was the source for the British/American co-production Inn of the Sixth Happiness. Set in the China of the 1930s, the film stars Ingrid Bergman as real-life missionary Gladys Aylward. Against the advice of...
Cast: Richard Attenborough John Boulting Laurence Olivier
Tags: Drama Biopic Period Film
Length: 103min
The Magic Box was the English film industry's contribution to the 1951 Festival of Britain. Its all-star cast generously forsook their usual salaries for the privilege of paying tribute to that unsung pioneer of cinema, William Friese-Greene, here...
Cast: Denholm Elliott
Tags: Drama
Length: 94min
Lease of Life was the next-to-last film in the relatively short cinema career of actor Robert Donat. Written for the screen by Eric Ambler, the story is set in a small rural community, where William Thorn (Donat) serves as parson. Upon learning that...
Cast: Anthony Asquith
Tags: Courtroom Drama Melodrama Family Drama Drama
Length: 112min
Based on the infamous Archer-Shee case of 1912, The Winslow Boy features Neil North as the 14-year-old title character. Accused of a petty theft, North is expelled from Naval College. His father, retired bank official Sir Cedric Hardwycke, is...
Tags: Romantic Comedy Drama
Length: 98min
British actor Robert Donat's one-and-only film directorial effort was Cure for Love. Adapted from a popular stage play by Walter Greenwood, the film stars Donat as Jack, an army sergeant who returns home on leave. Having falling in love, Jack hopes...
The Adventures of Tartu (1943)
Tags: Spy Film War Spy Film
Length: 103min
Tartu--or more formally, The Adventures of Tartu--stars Robert Donat as a Rumanian-born British spy, dispatched to Czechoslovakia during World War II. Posing as an ineffectual milquetoast, Donat is hired as a chemist in a Nazi-controlled poison gas...
Cast: Alexander Korda Deborah Kerr
Tags: Marriage Drama War Romance Romance
Length: 92min
A couple's wartime separation provides an unexpected tonic for their romance in this drama. Robert and Catherine Wilson (Robert Donat and Deborah Kerr) are a married couple whose relationship has hit a dry patch; neither of them have much enthusiasm...
Cast: Robert Donat John Mills Paul Henreid Greer Garson
Tags: Marriage Drama Melodrama Period Film Drama
Length: 115min
Goodbye, Mr. Chips, based on James Hilton's novel, is a melodrama about a shy British teacher named Mr. Chipping (Robert Donat) who devotes his life to teaching "his boys" after the death of his lovely, energetic American wife Katherine (Greer...
Tags: Biopic Drama Historical Film
Length: 118min
Released worldwide by 20th Century Fox, Carol Reed's The Young Mr. Pitt is a static but sincere filmed iography of 19th century British prime minister William Pitt Jr., here played by Robert Donat. Appointed to his office at the tender age of 24, Mr....
Cast: Rosalind Russell King Vidor Rex Harrison Ralph Richardson
Tags: Medical Drama Psychological Drama Drama
Length: 114min
Robert Donat stars as Dr. Andrew Manson in this adaptation of A.J. Cronin's best-selling novel. Manson devotes himself to treating the residents of a poverty-stricken Welsh mining community. Tuberculosis runs rampant in the village, and Manson is...
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