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      • Friedrich Robert Donat (/ ˈdoʊnæt / 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.
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    Friedrich Robert Donat (/ ˈdoʊnæt / DOH-nat; March 18, 1905 – June 9, 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.

  3. Robert Donat (1905-1958) In the 1930’s and 40’s, Robert Donat was a household name, Britains 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).

  4. Mar 28, 2017 · 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.

  5. 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.

  6. 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.

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    • June 9, 1958
  7. Mar 24, 2023 · When speaking of great stars from the golden age of Hollywood, one name is often conspicuous by its absence: Robert Donat. Yes, he was British, but he also worked in Hollywood and the year that Gone With The Wind swept the Academy Awards he walked off with the Oscar for his performance in Goodbye, Mr.….

  8. 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.