The 39 Steps
1935
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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.
Robert Donat was a British actor who overcame a stammer and asthma to become a star of stage and screen. He won an Oscar for Goodbye, Mr. Chips and worked with Hitchcock, Korda and Reed, but declined many Hollywood offers.
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- Withington, Manchester, England, UK
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- London, England, UK
Mar 28, 2017 · Robert Donat was a British actor who won the Best Actor Oscar in 1939 for his role in "Goodbye, Mr. Chips". He also starred in Hitchcock's "The 39 Steps" and other classics, but retired from films due to his asthma and brain tumor.
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Robert Donat was a British actor who overcame a stammer and asthma to become a stage and film star. He won an Oscar for Goodbye, Mr. Chips and worked with Hitchcock in The 39 Steps, but declined many Hollywood offers and died young.
- March 18, 1905
- June 9, 1958
Learn about the life and career of Robert Donat, one of Britain's finest actors, who starred in films such as The Private Life of Henry VIII, The 39 Steps and Goodbye, Mr Chips. Discover his stage roles, his asthma struggles, his family and his legacy.
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.
One of Britain's biggest stars from the Golden Age of movies, handsome Manchester native Robert Donat established himself as a formidable stage performer via one of Britain's leading Shakespearean companies and made a splash in "The Private Life of Henry VIII" (1933), which also proved to be a...
