From Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaJames 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 Lancashires 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 Pickwick Papers. However, leading roles eluded him until Lust for Life (1956), in which he played Theo Van Gogh. His work in the theatre included Noël Cowards Present Laughter (1943) which starred Coward himself, and The Eagle with Two Heads (1947), You Never Can Tell (1948), and The Heiress (1949) with Ralph Richardson, Peggy Ashcroft and Donald Sinden. He memorably portrayed Major Clipton, the doctor who expresses grave doubts about the sanity of Col. Nicholsons (Alec Guinness) efforts to build the bridge in order to show up his Japanese captors, in the film The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957). The final words are his Madness!, Madness! He also played Group Captain Ramsey, the Senior British Officer in The Great Escape (1963), as well as supporting roles in other notable films both in Britain and the United States, including The Vikings (1958), King Rat (1965), Cast a Giant Shadow (1966), and Quatermass and the Pit (1967). Donald starred in a 1960 television adaptation of A. J. Cronins The Citadel and appeared regularly in many other television dramas in the UK and USA, as well as on stage. In 1961, he played Prince Albert opposite Julie Harriss Queen Victoria, in the Hallmark Hall of Fame production of Laurence Housmans play Victoria Regina.Description above from the Wikipedia article James Donald, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Maj. Clipton
Film 1957
Maj. Safir
Film 1966
Dr. Andrew Manson
Film 1960
Dr. Mathew Roney
Film 1967
Pvt. Evans Lloyd
Film 1944
Theo van Gogh
Film 1956
Dr. Kennedy
Film 1965
Lord Edwin Mercer
Film 1954
Franz Lerner
Film 1959
Gunnery Officer - H.M.S. Jervis Bay
Film 1943
Lt. Richard Jennings, No. 1
Film 1952
Bronton
Film 1949
Alan
Film 1950
Nathaniel Winkle
Film 1952
Self
Film 1959
Bill Haverton
Film 1948
Murray Byrne
Film 1948
Doc
Film 1942
Sir Martin Rolfe
Film 1969
Lord Digby Langdon
Film 1949
Inspector Gregory
Film 1978
Prince Albert
Film 1961
Henry Higgins
Film 1963
Bill Harper
Film 1952
Carlos V
Film 1969
King Carlos
Film 1969
Lord Egbert
Film 1958
Michael Heathley
Film 1953
The Doctor
Film 1975
Dr. Mathew Roney (archive footage)
Film 1987
(uncredited)
Film 1942
Neil Marriner
Film 1951
Crabs Guy
Film 2015
Tv 1963
Tv 1961