Robert Donat Movies

Richard Hanney has a rude awakening when a glamorous female spy falls into his bed - with a knife in her back. Having a bit of trouble explaining it...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Robert Donat

A shy British teacher looks back nostalgically at his long career, taking note of the people who touched his life.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Robert Donat

Renowned for his excess, King Henry VIII goes through a series of wives during his rule. With Anne Boleyn, his second wife, executed on charges of...

Genre: History

Cast: Charles Laughton

All her life, Englishwoman Gladys Aylward knew that China was the place where she belonged. Not qualified to be sent there as a missionary, Gladys...

Genre: War

Cast: Ingrid Bergman

After greedy men have Edmound Dantes unjustly imprisoned for 20 years for innocently delivering a letter entrusted to him, he escapes to revenge...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Robert Donat

British Captain Terence Stevenson (Robert Donat) accepts an assignment even more dangerous than his everyday job of defusing unexploded bombs. Fluent...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Robert Donat

Now old, ill, poor, and largely forgotten, William Freise-Greene was once very different. As young and handsome William Green he changed his name to...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Robert Donat

Andrew Manson, a young, idealistic, newly qualified Scottish doctor arrives in Wales takes his first job in a mining town, and begins to wonder at...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Robert Donat

In pre-WW1 England, a youngster is expelled from a naval academy over a petty theft, but his parents raise a political furor by demanding a trial.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Robert Donat

British agent working in Russia is forced to remain longer than planned once the revolution begins. After being released from prison in Siberia he...

Genre: History

Cast: Marlene Dietrich

A documentary about the glorious history of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios and its decline leading to the sale of its back lot and props. By extension...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Dick Cavett

Donald Glourie shares his crumbling ancestral home with the ghost of his Highland ancestor, Murdoch, who has been condemned to haunt the castle until...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Robert Donat

After World War II service changes them, a married couple dread their postwar reunion.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Robert Donat

Out-takes (mostly from Warner Bros.), promotional shorts, movie premieres, public service pleas, wardrobe tests, documentary material, and archival...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Bud Abbott

A formerly wealthy man and his daughter try to regain wealth by selling a scheme to some investors, when they come upon a huge amount of unclaimed...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Edmund Gwenn

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.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Robert Donat

Based on real events, this historical drama is set in 19th-century Ireland, when poverty-stricken tenants dispossessed by greedy landowner Capt....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Stewart Granger

Overview of director King Vidor's filmography.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: King Vidor

A new batch of Army recruits, from diverse backgrounds and with varying degrees of commitment, is shaped into an efficient fighting unit.

Genre: War

Cast: John Laurie

This biopic tells the story of the life of Pitt The Younger, who became Prime Minister of Great Britain at the age of 24.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Robert Donat

In the years after his graduation Allen Shepherd has become a successful novelist and has married Jane Anderson. A firm proponent of traditional sex...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Joan Gardner

A young bank clerk steals £500 and plans to go on a spree before shooting himself but a bad girl turned good tries to convince him to return...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Robert Donat

This 1940 presentation features highlights of earlier (1928 onward) Oscar ceremonies including Shirley Temple and Walt Disney, plus acceptance...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Carey Wilson

Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire present more golden moments from the MGM film library, this time including comedy and drama as well as classic musical...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Fred Astaire

This short celebrates the 20th anniversary of MGM. Segments are shown from several early hits, then from a number of 1944 releases.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Frank Whitbeck

This short documentary, presented and directed by MGM sound engineer Douglas Shearer, goes behind the scenes to look at how the sound portion of a...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Douglas Shearer

Sergeant Jack Hardacre returns from the war to his contemptible fiancée Janey Jenkins intending to reconcile with her against all odds. But he...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Robert Donat

This documentary focuses on 1939, considered to be Hollywood's greatest year, with film clips and insight into what made the year so special.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Kenneth Branagh

This documentary covers Hitchcock's early British career, up to his move to America in 1940.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Roy Ward Baker