The 39 Steps
1935
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Friedrich Robert Donat (/ ˈ d oʊ n æ t / DOH-nat; March 18, 1905 – June 9, 1958) was an English actor. He is best remembered for his roles in Alfred Hitchcock's The 39 Steps (1935) and Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939), winning for the latter the Academy Award for Best Actor.
Robert Donat. Actor: The 39 Steps. Robert Donat's pleasant voice and somewhat neutral English accent were carefully honed as a boy because he had a stammer and took elocution lessons starting at age 11 to overcome the impediment.
But the evening included one astonishing upset when the statuette for Best Actor, which everyone assumed would go to Gable, went instead to a British player who few in Hollywood actually knew. His name was Robert Donat, and sadly, he is all but forgotten today.
Robert Donat. Actor: The 39 Steps. Robert Donat's pleasant voice and somewhat neutral English accent were carefully honed as a boy because he had a stammer and took elocution lessons starting at age 11 to overcome the impediment.
In the 1930’s and 40’s, Robert Donat was a household name, Britain’s answer to the big Hollywood stars (his beautiful voice, versatility, charisma, and mastery of stage and screen acting making him a better actor than many of them).
Friedrich Robert Donat was an Oscar winning English film and stage actor born in the beginning of the twentieth century England. At eleven, he was put under eminent elocutionist James Bernard for speech impairment.
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.
Friedrich Robert Donat (18 March 1905 – 9 June 1958) was an English actor. He is best remembered for his roles in Alfred Hitchcock 's The 39 Steps (1935) and Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939), winning for the latter the Academy Award for Best Actor.
Filmography. The links will take you to the IMDb (International Movie Database) listing for each film. That Night in London (1932) Dick Warren. Men of Tomorrow (1932) Julian Angell. Cash (1933) Paul Martin (aka For Love or Money, USA) The Private Life of Henry VIII (1933) Thomas Culpeper. The Count of Monte Cristo (1934) Edmond Dantes.
Robert Donat (1905-1958) From: Note by Renee Asherson, J.C. Trewin’s ‘Biography of Robert Donat’. His films had an immense impact, principally because one could see his tenderness, strong feeling, vulnerability. The hard crust of worldliness, which would often have made life more bearable, never grew on him.
