Robert Donat
British actor
Died when: 53 years 83 days (638 months)Star Sign: Pisces
Friedrich Robert Donat (18 March 1905 – 9 June 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.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". "The image he projected was that of the romantic idealist, often with a dash of the gentleman adventurer." Donat suffered from chronic asthma, which affected his career and limited him to appearing in only 20 films.
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