Robert Donat

1905–1958 · English actor

Friedrich Robert Donat was an English actor. Making his breakthrough film role in Alexander Korda's The Private Life of Henry VIII (1933), today he is best remembered for his roles in The Count of Monte Cristo (1934), Alfred Hitchcock's The 39 Steps (1935), and Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939), for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor as the gentle English schoolmaster Mr. Chips.

Robert Donat, in order

1. 1932 That Night in London: acted · directed by Rowland V. Lee
2. 1933 Cash: acted · directed by Zoltan Korda
3. 1933 The Private Life of Henry VIII: acted · directed by Alexander Korda · critics 94%, audiences 74% · streaming on Prime Video, fuboTV, HBO Max
4. 1934 The Count of Monte Cristo: acted · directed by Rowland V. Lee
5. 1935 The 39 Steps: acted · directed by Alfred Hitchcock · critics 96%, audiences 85% · streaming on Prime Video, HBO Max, Philo
6. 1935 The Ghost Goes West: acted · directed by René Clair
7. 1937 Knight Without Armour: acted · directed by Jacques Feyder
8. 1938 The Citadel: acted · directed by King Vidor
9. 1939 Goodbye, Mr. Chips: acted · directed by Sam Wood
10. 1942 The Young Mr Pitt: acted · directed by Carol Reed
11. 1943 The Adventures of Tartu: acted · directed by Harold S. Bucquet
12. 1943 The New Lot: acted · directed by Carol Reed
13. 1945 Perfect Strangers: acted · directed by Alexander Korda
14. 1948 The Winslow Boy: acted · directed by Anthony Asquith
15. 1950 The Cure for Love: directed, produced, acted
16. 1951 The Magic Box: acted · directed by John Boulting · audiences 76%
17. 1954 Lease of Life: acted · directed by Charles Frend
18. 1958 The Inn of the Sixth Happiness: acted · directed by Mark Robson