Robert Donat

Home video, soundtrack and tealing The film has faced a longer, rockier road that the characters it depicts Bad luck on the small screen: home video has not been kind …

Fictionalised but effective biopic of a brave, tenacious humanitarian A blockbuster that brought global attention to a very worthy cause But quasi-historical epic presents Hollywoodised version of the facts Heroic …

Robert Donat was awarded the Best Actor Oscar for his signature role No mean feat against stiff competition in Hollywood’s Greatest Year Convincingly plays caring, diffident schoolteacher from youth to …

1948–1958 Flag waver: Continues to pick projects highlighting the best of British The theatre, radio and film star expands into still-new medium of TV However, despite best heroic efforts his …

1942–1947 His international stardom continued throughout the 1940s Featured in a broad range of romantic, action and political parts They were aimed at boosting wartime morale and national pride All …

1935–1939 He marches triumphant through the 1930s, topping it with cinema’s biggest prize Iconic: Stars in Alfred Hitchcock’s best film and a blueprint for his later success Followed with dual …

1932–1934 Shooting star: By his late 20s, Robert Donat had assumed leading man status Sadly, his first two films are lost and the third is a shadow of its former …

Britain’s biggest stage, radio and film star of the early sound era Carved internationally renowned career despite lifelong ill-health Hollywood and Broadway beckoned but he resisted big money offers Mostly worked …

Wrong Man on the run: racing from a charge of murder and the noose, à la The 39 Steps Unmissable: This breathless adventure is easily one of Hitchcock’s purest love …

Highlight of the Master’s British years; perhaps his tightest, tautest film His peerless run of 1930s thrillers are essential viewing for any film fan Plot is as sadly relevant today …