Friedrich Robert Donat (18 March 1905 – 9 June 1958) was an English actor.[1] 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.
In his book, The Age of the Dream Palace, Jeffrey Richards wrote that Donat was "British cinema's one undisputed romantic leading man in the 1930s".[2] "The image he projected was that of the romantic idealist, often with a dash of the gentleman adventurer."[3]
Donat suffered from chronic asthma, which affected his career and limited him to appearing in only 19 films.[4]
^"Obituaries: Robert Donat". Variety. 11 June 1958. p. 63. Retrieved 1 September 2020.
^Richards, Jeffrey (2010). The Age of the Dream Palace: Cinema and Society in 1930s Britain (reprint ed.). Bloomsbury Academic. p. 225. ISBN 978-1848851221.
^Cite error: The named reference Richards226 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^"illness May Silence Donat's Golden Voice". Sunday Herald. Sydney. 2 August 1953. p. 14. Retrieved 7 July 2012 – via National Library of Australia.
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