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Acting

James Donald

Born
May 18, 1917 · Aged 76
Died
Aug 3, 1993
Place of birth
Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, UK
Gender
Male
Movie credits
36
TV credits
10
Also known as (1)
  • Джеймс Дональд

Biography

​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 In Which We Serve (1942), Went the Day Well? (1942) and The Way Ahead (1944), and he played Mr. Winkle in the 1952 film version of The…