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Biography
Donald Esme C Calthrop (11 April 1888 – 15 July 1940) was an English stage and film actor.
Born in London, Calthrop was educated at St Paul's School and made his first stage appearance at eighteen years of age at the Comedy Theatre, London. His first film was The Gay Lord Quex released in 1917. He starred as the title character in the successful musical The Boy in the same year. He then appeared in 63 films between 1916 and 1940, including five films directed by Alfred Hitchcock.
He died in Eton, Berkshire from a heart attack while he was filming Major Barbara (1941). According to Ronald Neame in his autobiography, some shots in the final film had a stand-in playing Calthrop's role (from the back) and a piece of dialogue was recorded using an unnamed person who impersonated Calthrop's voice.
He was the nephew of dramatist Dion Boucicault.
Filmography
- Masks and Faces (1917)
- The Gay Lord Quex (1917)
- Nelson (1918)
- Goodbye (1918)
- Shooting Stars (1927)
- Atlantic (1929)
- Blackmail (1929)
- The Flying Squad (1929)
- The Clue of the New Pin (1929)
- Elstree Calling (1930)
- Juno and the Paycock (1930)
- Murder! (1930)
- Song of Soho (1930)
- Loose Ends (1930)
- Two Worlds (1930)
- Almost a Honeymoon (1930)
- The Night Porter (1930)
- Spanish Eyes (1930)
- Uneasy Virtue (1931)
- Cape Forlorn (1931)
- The Ghost Train (1931)
- The Bells (1931)
- Potiphar's Wife (1931)
- Many Waters (1931)
- Number Seventeen (1932)
- Money for Nothing (1932)
- Rome Express (1932) (as Mr. Poole)
- Fires of Fate (1932)
- I Was a Spy (1933)
- F.P.1 (1933)
- Sorrell and Son (1933)
- Early to Bed (1933)
- Friday the Thirteenth (1933)
- Red Ensign (1934)
- Nine Forty-Five (1934)
- Orders Is Orders (1934)
- It's a Cop (1934)
- The Divine Spark (1935)
- Man of the Moment (1935)
- The Phantom Light (1935)
- Scrooge (1935)
- The Clairvoyant (1935)
- The Man Who Changed His Mind (1936)
- The Man Behind the Mask (1936)
- Broken Blossoms (1936)
- Cafe Colette (1937)
- Dreaming Lips (1937)
- Fire Over England (1937)
- Thunder in the City (1937)
- Love from a Stranger (1937)
- Band Waggon (1940)
- Let George Do It! (1940)
- Charley's (Big-Hearted) Aunt (1940)
- Major Barbara (1941)