List of the best Robert Donat movies: Goodbye, Mr. Chips(1939), The 39 Steps(1935), The Count of Monte Cristo(1934), The Citadel(1938), Vacation From Marriage(1945), Lease of Life(1954), The Magic Box(1951), The Ghost Goes West(1936), The Winslow Boy(1948), For Love or Money(1934), Adventures of Tartu(1943), Knight Without Armor(1937) ... ...
Drama
UK
1939
114 Minutes
Robert Donat Greer Garson Terry Kilburn John Mills Paul Henreid Judith Furse Lyn Harding Milton Rosmer Frederick Leister Louise Hampton Austin Trevor
teacher suffragette friend student heartwarming boarding school classroom england austria school love war transformation growing up 1930s
An aged teacher and former headmaster of a boarding school recalls his career and his personal life over the decades.
Mystery & Thriller
UK
1935
80 Minutes
Robert Donat Madeleine Carroll Godfrey Tearle Lucie Mannheim Peggy Ashcroft Wylie Watson John Laurie Helen Haye
tourist spy bystander police officer suspenseful intricate amusing london scotland espionage murder fugitives romance escape pursuit adventure love 1930s
A man in London tries to help a counter-espionage Agent. But when the Agent is killed, and the man stands accused, he must go on the run to save himself and stop a spy ring which is trying to steal top secret information.
Adventure
USA
1934
113 Minutes
Edmond Dantes
Robert Donat Elissa Landi Louis Calhern Sidney Blackmer Raymond Walburn O.P. Heggie Irene Hervey Georgia Caine Walter Walker Lawrence Grant Luis Alberni
prisoner count villain fiancée spirited gutsy rousing gripping paris italy island revenge fortune imprisonment rags to riches adventure revenge rivalry transformation 1810s
After greedy men have Edmound Dantes unjustly imprisoned for 20 years for innocently delivering a letter entrusted to him, he escapes to get his revenge on them.
Drama
UK
1938
112 Minutes
Dr. Andrew Manson
Robert Donat Rosalind Russell Rex Harrison Ralph Richardson Emlyn Williams Penelope Dudley Ward Francis L. Sullivan Mary Clare Cecil Parker Nora Swinburne Edward Chapman
doctor wife miner gutsy engaging inspiring moving wales london mining town hypocrisy tuberculosis medicine aspirations wretched excess underdog 1930s
Andrew Manson (Robert Donat), a young, enthusiastic doctor takes his first job in a Welsh mining town, and begins to wonder at the persistent cough many of the miners have. When his ... See full summary »
Comedy, Drama
UK
1945
92 Minutes
Robert Donat Deborah Kerr Glynis Johns Ann Todd Roland Culver Elliott Mason Eliot Makeham Brefni O'Rorke Edward Rigby Muriel George Allan Jeayes
sailor wife friend nurse lover melodramatic emotional england london marriage war romance separation infidelity love transformation discovery 1940s
A dull married couple, separated by their enlistment during World War II, reunite after three years to find that they have become very different people.
Drama
UK
1954
94 Minutes
Rev. William Thorne
vicar wife daughter passionate charming england village religion christianity faith illness family discovery love 1950s
The parson of a small rural community knows he is dying and this makes him reconsider his life so far and what he can still do to help the community.
Biography
USA
1951
103 Minutes
William Friese-Greene
Robert Donat Maria Schell Margaret Johnston Janette Scott Bernard Miles Frederick Valk John Howard Davies Eric Portman Richard Attenborough
inventor photographer family wife somber solemn moving england inventions movie camera family dysfunction quest fall love victorian era
Biography of celebrated American jurist Oliver Wendell Holmes.
Comedy
UK
1936
85 Minutes
Murdoch Glourie , Donald Glourie
Robert Donat Jean Parker Eugene Pallette Elsa Lanchester Ralph Bunker Patricia Hilliard Everley Gregg Morton Selten Chili Bouchier Herbert Lomas Elliott Mason
suitor pretty woman father ghost wealthy man charming eerie endearing scotland castle florida ghosts family love romance love discovery adventure 1930s
A haunted Scottish castle is dismantled and transported to Florida, bringing the family ghost along with it.
Drama
1948
117 Minutes
Sir Robert Morton
Robert Donat Cedric Hardwicke Margaret Leighton Basil Radford Kathleen Harrison Francis L. Sullivan Marie Lohr Jack Watling Frank Lawton Neil North Walter Fitzgerald
father son sister mother lawyer emotional spirited england courtroom school court battles lawsuit family justice school quest sacrifice 1900s
The plight of a young boy unjustly accused of stealing touches off a massive lawsuit for defamation of character.
Comedy
1934
64 Minutes
Paul Martin
Robert Donat Edmund Gwenn Wendy Barrie Morris Harvey Lawrence Grossmith Clifford Heatherley Hugh E. Wright Anthony Holles
A bankrupt British businessman (Edmund Gwenn) lures investors with a well-dressed impostor (Robert Donat) and found money.
Mystery & Thriller
1943
103 Minutes
Captain Terence Stevenson
Robert Donat Valerie Hobson Walter Rilla Phyllis Morris Glynis Johns Martin Miller Anthony Eustrel Percy Walsh Friedrich Richter John Penrose
spy soldier nazi pretty woman gutsy suspenseful tense romania czechoslovakia factory deception espionage world war ii nazism dangerous assignment adventure quest 1940s
A British spy (Robert Donat) helps the Czech underground blow up a Nazi poison-gas factory in Prague.
Drama
UK
1937
107 Minutes
Ainsley J. Fothergill
Marlene Dietrich Robert Donat Irene Vanbrugh Herbert Lomas Austin Trevor Basil Gill David Tree John Clements
double agent aristocrat bolshevik spy police officer soldier melodramatic engaging russia train countryside england hideout revolution communism espionage escape pursuit 1910s
After two years as a Czarist British agent posing as a Russian Commissar, he rescues a Russian countess from her Bolshevik captors.
Biography
USA
1958
158 Minutes
The Mandarin of Yang Cheng
Ingrid Bergman Curt Jurgens Robert Donat Ronald Squire Athene Seyler Richard Wattis Noel Hood Joan Young
innkeeper military officer love interest mandarin spirited emotional china small town mountain england inn daunting task romance culture clash war rescue escape love 1930s
A tenacious British woman becomes a missionary and runs an inn for travelling merchants in China during the Japanese invasion and the tumultuous years leading up to the Second World War.
Drama, History
USA
1933
92 Minutes
Thomas Culpeper
Charles Laughton Elsa Lanchester Binnie Barnes Robert Donat Merle Oberon Miles Mander Wendy Barrie John Loder
anne boleyn wife queen king cheeky melodramatic emotional england royal court castle king henry viii marriage royalty death infidelity forbidden love love 16th century
Lederer is a Hessian soldier who defects to the Americans during the Revolutionary War.He falls in love with a Yankee girl, but a thuggish local militiaman jealously makes things hard for him while he's a prisoner of war.
Drama, History
1947
94 Minutes
Charles Stewart Parnell
Stewart Granger Kathleen Ryan Cecil Parker Mervyn Johns Alastair Sim Robert Donat
farmer landowner priest irishman love interest patriotic tense ireland village historical events rebellion poverty greed courage rise love underdog 19th century
An Irish tenant farmer (Stewart Granger) leads others against a land agent (Cecil Parker) threatening eviction.