Robert Donat (born Friedrich Robert Donat) was a star English film and stage actor. He is best remembered for his roles in The 39 Steps (1935) and Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939), the latter which earned him a Best Actor Academy Award.

Filmography

• 1976That's Entertainment, Part II — (archive footage) (uncredited)
• 1958The Inn of the Sixth Happiness — The Mandarin of Yang Cheng
• 1954Lease of Life — Rev William Thorne
• 1952The Magic Box — William Friese-Greene
• 1949The Cure for Love — Sergeant Jack Hardacre, Director, Writer, Producer
• 1948The Winslow Boy — Sir Robert Morton
• 1947Captain Boycott — Charles Stewart Parnell
• 1945Perfect Strangers — Robert Wilson
• 1944Twenty Years After — (archive footage)
• 1943The Adventures of Tartu — Captain Terence Stevenson, aka Jan Tartu
• 1943The New Lot — Actor
• 1942The Young Mr. Pitt — William Pitt / The Earl of Chatham
• 1939Goodbye, Mr. Chips — Charles Edward Chipping aka 'Mr. Chips'
• 1938The Citadel — Dr. Andrew Manson
• 1937Knight Without Armour — Ainsley J. Fothergill / Peter Ouronov
• 1935The 39 Steps — Richard Hannay
• 1935The Ghost Goes West — Murdoch Glourie / Donald Glourie
• 1934The Count of Monte Cristo — Edmond Dantes
• 1933Cash — Paul Martin
• 1933The Private Life of Henry VIII — Thomas Culpeper
• 1932Men of Tomorrow — Julian Angell
• 1932That Night in London — Dick Warren

Appearances as themselves (7)

• 20091939: Hollywood's Greatest Year — Self (archive footage)
• 2000A Profile of Hitchcock: The Early Years — Self (archive footage)
• 1983Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage — Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
• 1973The Men Who Made the Movies: King Vidor — Self (archive footage)
• 1972Hollywood: The Dream Factory — Self (archive footage)
• 1940A New Romance of Celluloid: The Miracle of Sound — Self
• 1940Cavalcade of the Academy Awards — Self (archive footage)