Donald Calthrop
Also Known As: Donald Esme Clayton Calthrop
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Donald Esme Clayton Calthrop (11 April 1888 – 15 July 1940) was an English stage and film actor. Calthrop made his first stage appearance at eighteen years of age. 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).
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: London, England, UK
Birthday: April 11, 1888
Deathday: July 15, 1940
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Gender: Male
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Blackmail
Overview: London, 1929. Frank Webber, a very busy Scotland Yard detective, seems to be more interested in his work than in Alice White, his girlfriend. Feeling herself ignored, Alice agrees to go out with an elegant and well-mannered artist who invites her to visit his fancy apartment.
Genres: Drama Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-07-11
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The Man Who Changed His Mind
Overview: Dr. Laurence, a once-respectable scientist, begins to research the origin of the mind and the soul. The science community rejects him, and he risks losing everything for which he has worked. He begins to use his discoveries to save his research and further his own causes, thereby becoming... a Mad Scientist, almost unstoppable...
Genres: Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-09-11
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We Take Off Our Hats
Overview: Three old muckers meet down the boozer for a natter about their alarmingly swiftly-diminishing circle of friends.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-11-04
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Fire Over England
Overview: The film is a historical drama set during the reign of Elizabeth I (Flora Robson), focusing on the English defeat of the Spanish Armada, whence the title. In 1588, relations between Spain and England are at the breaking point. With the support of Queen Elizabeth I, British sea raiders such as Sir Francis Drake regularly capture Spanish merchantmen bringing gold from the New World.
Genres: History Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-03-05
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Murder!
Overview: When a woman is convicted of murder, one of the jurors selected to serve on the murder-trial jury believes the accused, an aspiring actress, is innocent of the crime and takes it upon himself to apprehend the real killer.
Genres: Mystery Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-07-31
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Scrooge
Overview: Ebenezer Scrooge, the ultimate Victorian miser, hasn't a good word for Christmas, though his impoverished clerk Cratchit and nephew Fred are full of holiday spirit. In the night, Scrooge is visited by spirits of the past, present, and future.
Genres: Drama Fantasy Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-11-26
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Café Colette
Overview: A diplomat falls in love with an exiled Russian princess.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-01-01
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Number Seventeen
Overview: A gang of thieves gather at a safe house following a robbery, but a detective is on their trail.
Genres: Thriller Mystery Crime Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-07-18
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Early to Bed
Overview: 'Manicurist Grete and nightclub waiter Carl share a bed, but not at the same time. They hate each other, even though they have never met. Their rented room is next to a cinema with its frankfurter-munching projectionist and romantic musical numbers that seem to permeate their lives. Might they meet and fall in love?' (BFI)
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-08-08
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Nelson; The Story of England's Immortal Naval Hero
Overview: Timed to bolster public morale at the end of the Great War, Maurice Elvey’s biopic of Nelson frequently steps out of its period setting to give us historical background or contemporary relevance. There are some nice locations but resort to cheap sets and episodic structure don’t quite do justice to the subject.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-01-01
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The Phantom Light
Overview: Criminals pose as ghosts to scare a lighthouse keeper on the Welsh coast, in attempt to distract him. Jim Pearce deliberately maroons himself on the rock along with Alice Bright. When the light is later smashed, Jim reveals that his brother’s ship is the wreckers’ latest target, while Alice is a detective sent to investigate.
Genres: Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-08-05
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Rome Express
Overview: The theft of a famous painting leads to murder and many suspects on a plush train speeding from Paris to Rome.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-10-31
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Industrial Britain
Overview: Grierson set out to make "propaganda," and this film--with it's voice-over proclaiming the great value of the British industrial worker, without a hint of ambiguity or doubt--fits that category well. The authoritatarian narrator feels out-of-date and unsophisticated, but the footage is well shot and interesting, and the transparency of the propaganda aspect is almost a reflief at a time when so many films have hidden agendas.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-12-31
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I Was a Spy
Overview: During World War I, a young nurse in a hospital in German-occupied Belgium is secretly feeding military information to the British. Complicating matters is the guilt she feels when she has to treat the German casualties inflicted as a result of the information she's passed on, and the fact that the local German commandant is falling in love with her.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-09-04
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Cape Forlorn
Overview: William Kell, the keeper of a lighthouse on a lonely stretch of coastline, marries cabaret dancer Eileen. His young wife, however, goes on to have an affair with Henry Cass, the handsome assistant later taken on by her husband; when she then begins to flirt with a stranger who is rescued from the wreck of a motor-launch, a chain of shocking events is set in motion...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-01-08
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Nelson
Overview: Lord Nelson's life, loves and death.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-01-02
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F.P.1
Overview: Urged by famous airman Ellissen the Lennartz Company puts into reality the project proposed by his friend Droste: F.P.1, a huge floating platform in the Atlantic that makes long-distance flights viable. Ellissen is in love with company heiress Claire, but when he returns from his adventures to save the endangered F.P.1 he finds out that he has lost her to Droste. English version of F.P.1 antwortet nicht with Conrad Veidt replacing Hans Albers as the jaded pilot Ellissen.
Genres: Science Fiction Fantasy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-04-02
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Me and Marlborough
Overview: A woman disguises herself in men's clothes in order to follow her husband to the wars.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-07-22
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The Ghost Train
Overview: The story, about the social interaction of a group of railway passengers who have been stranded at a remote rural station overnight who are increasingly threatened by a latent external force. Only five reels of picture and two reels of soundtrack survive.
Genres: Comedy Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-09-22
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Let George Do It!
Overview: Shortly after the start of World War II, a ukelele player (George) takes the wrong boat and finds himself in (still uninvaded) Norway. He is mistaken for a fellow British intelligence agent by a woman (Mary), and becomes involved in trying to defeat Nazi agents.
Genres: Comedy Music War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-07-12
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Up the Poll
Overview: A bibulous election candidate makes a speech.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-07-01
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Loose Ends
Overview: 'A woman reporter is blackmailed for knowledge of freed suspect's involvement in a murder.' (British Film Institute)
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-05-22
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Charley's (Big-Hearted) Aunt
Overview: Charley's (Big-Hearted) Aunt is a 1940 British comedy film directed by Walter Forde starring Arthur Askey and Richard Murdoch as Oxford 'scholars'. The film is one of many to be made based on the farce Charley's Aunt. Taking inspiration from a well-known Victorian play, a modern-day prankster poses as a wealthy woman in a ploy to prevent him and his friends from being expelled from college.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-08-31
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Band Waggon
Overview: A gang of spies held up in a haunted castle gives this team of celebrated British wireless comedians plenty of scope for laughs.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-03-23
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The Man Behind the Mask
Overview: A young couple attend a masked ball before their planned (but secret) elopement. Suddenly everything goes wrong when the young woman is attacked and held hostage by a crazed attacker.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-08-23
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Elstree Calling
Overview: A series of 19 musical and comedy "vaudeville" sketches presented in the form of a live television broadcast hosted by Tommy Handley (as himself).
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-02-06
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Shooting Stars
Overview: The husband and wife acting team of Mae Feather and Julian Gordon is torn apart when he discovers she is having an affair with the screen comedian Andy Wilks.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-02-06
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The Divine Spark
Overview: British musical film directed by Carmine Gallone.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-06-01
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Major Barbara
Overview: Idealistic young Barbara is the daughter of rich weapons manufacturer Andrew Undershaft. She rebels against her estranged father by joining the Salvation Army. Wooed by professor-turned-preacher Adolphus Cusins, Barbara eventually grows disillusioned with her causes and begins to see things from her father's perspective.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-05-14
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The Night Porter
Overview: George, the inebriate night porter at the Hotel Splendide, develops a series of increasingly outlandish suspicions about Billy and Percy, two guests who have arrived separately yet claim to be a married couple and demand to share a room together.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-03-25
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All Riot on the Western Front
Overview: A comedy short Directed by Castleton Knight,
Genres: War Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-02-01
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Almost a Honeymoon
Overview: An ambitious young man secures a job in the colonial service, the only stipulation being that he needs to be married which he isn't. He has just twenty four hours to find a woman to persuade to marry him.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-09-19
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The Bells
Overview: Mathias, an Alsatian innkeeper, murders a rich Pole staying at his inn. However, Mathias' conscience will not let him rest, and the murdered man's spirit drives the innkeeper nearly mad. The victim's brother calls for an inquest and brings with him a sideshow hypnotist, who is supposedly able to read minds. Mathias, as burgomaster, is called upon to conduct the inquest, but under the intuitive eye of the hypnotist cannot resist torment of his own conscience.
Genres: Crime Horror Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-10-09
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Song of Soho
Overview: An ex-French Foreign Legion soldier comes to Soho and ends up as a singer in a cafe.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-03-14
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Spanish Eyes
Overview: A musical directed by G.B. Samuelson.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-08-29
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Two Worlds
Overview: An old Jewish man is forced to hide the Austrian lieutenant who killed his son and loves his daughter.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-07-28
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Potiphar's Wife
Overview: 'A good-looking chauffeur, employed by an aristocratic married lady is tempted to misconduct. His indifference arouses her wrath and he is charged with assault at the Assizes. ' (British Film Institute)
Genres: Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-03-28
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Many Waters
Overview: An elderly couple reminisce about the romantic adventures of their youth.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-11-01
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Fires of Fate
Overview: In Egypt a colonel with a year to live saves a girl from an Arab prince.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-09-06
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Uneasy Virtue
Overview: A comedy film directed by Norman Walker
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-02-05
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This Acting Business
Overview: A British comedy film directed by John Daumery
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-12-19
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Money for Nothing
Overview: As he pursues Joan Blossom, ruined gambler Jeff Cheddar is mistaken for two-faced financier Jay Cheddar, eventually leading to Joan's stockbroker father, Sir Henry Blossom, investing heavily in a supposedly worthless gold mine. Financial chaos ensues in a farcical comedy of confused identities, romantic entanglements, and a fortune hiding in a hat.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-01-20
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Atlantic
Overview: English-language version. "Atlantic" is a drama film based on the sinking of the RMS "Titanic" and set aboard a fictional ship, called the "Atlantic". The main plotline revolves around a man who has a shipboard affair with a fellow passenger, which is eventually discovered by his wife. The ship also has aboard an elderly couple, the Rools, who are on their anniversary cruise. Midway across the Atlantic Ocean, the "Atlantic" strikes an iceberg and is damaged to the point where it is sinking into the Atlantic.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-11-15
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The Clue of the New Pin
Overview: A wealthy recluse is murdered in an absolutely sealed room.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-03-01
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Broken Blossoms
Overview: A Chinese missionary comes to England. He helps a young girl ill-treated by her father. A remake of D. W. Griffith's Masterpiece.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-05-20
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Love from a Stranger
Overview: Ann Harding plays a lovely but somewhat naive young woman who goes on a European vacation after winning a lottery. Swept off her feet by charming Basil Rathbone, Harding finds herself married before she is fully able to grasp the situation. Slowly but surely, Rathbone's loving veneer crumbles; when he casually asks Harding to sign a document turning her entire fortune over to him, she deduces that her days are numbered.
Genres: Mystery Thriller Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-04-18
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Thunder in the City
Overview: A visiting American engages in a bold business promotion, the likes of which the British have not seen.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-04-22
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Man of the Moment
Overview: Love blossoms after a young man rescues a pretty girl who attempted to drown herself.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-09-01
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Masks and Faces
Overview: An actress cures an aged flirt by posing as his wife.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-03-01
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Red Ensign
Overview: David Barr is the manager and chief designer of a British shipyard in decline. The shipyard is in financial trouble but Barr has a design for a new ship that will save them all. Can he get the ship built in spite of the opposition from his own bankers as well as the rival shipbuilders and their infiltrated militants.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-06-17
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The Clairvoyant
Overview: A fake psychic suddenly turns into the real thing when he meets a young beauty. (TCM)
Genres: Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-06-07
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Sorrell and Son
Overview: Stephen Sorrell, a decorated war hero, raises his son Kit alone after Kit's mother deserts husband and child in the boy's infancy. Sorrell loses a promising job offer and is forced to take work as a menial. Both his dignity and his health are damaged as he suffers under the exhausting labor and harsh treatment he receives as a hotel porter. But Sorrell thrives in the knowledge that his son will benefit from his labors. Sorrell has allowed the boy to believe his mother dead, but when the mother shows up, wanting to re-enter the young man's life, Sorrell must make hard decisions.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-03-05
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Star Impersonations
Overview: 'Advertisement for Film Weekly, in which British actors impersonate Hollywood stars in scenes from recent films; the audience is invited to compete for a prize of £100 for naming the best impersonation.' (BFI)
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-10-01
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Friday the Thirteenth
Overview: It is pouring with rain at one minute to midnight on Friday the thirteenth, and the driver of a London bus is peering through his blurred windscreen as his vehicle sails down an empty road. Suddenly, lightning strikes, and a vast crane above topples into the path of the oncoming bus... Then Big Ben begins to wind backwards. Time recedes. And we discover the lives of all the passengers and the events that brought them to that late-night bus journey, from the con-man with a hundred-pound cheque to the businessman's distraught and elderly wife. Time flows on, inevitably, to the crash -- and past it, as some live and some die.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-11-01
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It's a Cop
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-03-01
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