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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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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.
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.
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 (1905-1958) 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).
Donat clearly wanted his audience to know that he was unwilling to play the romantic young man, contrasting the importance of image (which made a Hollywood star) with the acting skill that he felt was integral to British stardom.
Donat took elocution lessons to overcome the speech impediment and began performing in local repertory companies, making his first stage appearance in 1921, at the age of 16. He continued his stage career in London, appearing in the West End as early as 1924.
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.
