TopTenREVIEWS presents the film career and movie reviews of Robert Donat.

Robert Donat
Birthdate: March 18, 1905
Death date: June 9, 1958

Robert Donat

ACTOR RANKINGS:

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CAREER SPAN

Decade
Movie Score
# Movies
1930s
3.0241
10
total ranking of 3.0241
1940s
1.8897
5
total ranking of 1.8897
1950s
1.4309
4
total ranking of 1.4309
Ratings and rankings are based on all available critic reviews & awards.
Overall Actor Score: Robert Donat is ranked overall as 2.3354 of of 4 stars2.3354

Robert Donat Movie Rankings

1
Robert Donat starring in 39 Steps
Robert Donat scores a combined 3.0973 out of 4 stars for 39 Steps3.0973
Richard Hannay is a Canadian visitor to London. At the end of "Mr Memory"'s show in a music hall, he meets Annabella Smith who is running away from secret agents. He accepts to hide her in his flat, but in the night she is murdered. ...more about 39 Steps
2
Robert Donat starring in Goodbye
Robert Donat scores a combined 3.0441 out of 4 stars for Goodbye3.0441
An old classics teacher looks back over his long career, remembering pupils and colleagues, and above all the idyllic courtship and marriage that transformed his life. ...more about Goodbye
Actor Awards
  • Academy Awards, USA - Best Actor in a Leading Role
3
Robert Donat starring in Citadel
Robert Donat scores a combined 2.9399 out of 4 stars for Citadel2.9399
Andrew Manson, 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 attempts to prove its cause are thwarted, he moves to London. ...more about Citadel
Actor Awards
  • Academy Awards, USA - Best Actor in a Leading Role
  • Not Available on DVD
4
Private Life of Henry VIII., The (1933)
Robert Donat scores a combined 2.8842 out of 4 stars for Private Life of Henry VIII.2.8842
This movie tells the story of King Henry VIII and the last five of his six wives. ...more about Private Life of Henry VIII.
5
Inn of the Sixth Happiness, The (1958)
Robert Donat scores a combined 2.6725 out of 4 stars for Inn of the Sixth Happiness2.6725
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 works as a domestic to earn the money to send herself to a poor, remote village. ...more about Inn of the Sixth Happiness
Actor Awards
  • Golden Globes, USA - Best Motion Picture Actor - Drama
6
Ghost Goes West, The (1935)
Robert Donat scores a combined 2.3903 out of 4 stars for Ghost Goes West2.3903
An American businessman's family convinces him to buy a Scottish castle and disassemble it to ship it to America brick by brick, where it will be put it back together. ...more about Ghost Goes West
  • Not Available on DVD
7
Captain Boycott (1947)
Robert Donat scores a combined 1.9953 out of 4 stars for Captain Boycott1.9953
  • Not Available on DVD
8
Sabotage Agent (1943)
Robert Donat scores a combined 1.8812 out of 4 stars for Sabotage Agent1.8812
Stevenson, a British soldier fluent in Rumanian and German, goes undercover to sabotage a German poison-gas factory. He turns himself into Jan Tartu, a member of the Rumanian Iron Guard. ...more about Sabotage Agent
  • Not Available on DVD
9
Perfect Strangers (1945)
Robert Donat scores a combined 1.8173 out of 4 stars for Perfect Strangers1.8173
Robert and Catherine have a quiet little marriage until WWII separates them for three years. Serving in the navy dramatically transforms both of them and they realize how much they resented their old mundane life together. ...more about Perfect Strangers
  • Not Available on DVD
10
Count of Monte Cristo, The (1934)
Robert Donat scores a combined 1.7031 out of 4 stars for Count of Monte Cristo1.7031
Edmond Dantes is imprisoned in the Chateau d'If without trial, for carrying a message from Napoleon in exile on Elba. After being told that he died in prison, his fiance Mercedes is forced to marry his rival De Villefort. ...more about Count of Monte Cristo
  • Not Available on DVD
11
Lease of Life (1954)
Robert Donat scores a combined 1.5419 out of 4 stars for Lease of Life1.5419
Actor Awards
  • BAFTA Awards - Best British Actor
  • Not Available on DVD
12
Winslow Boy, The (1948)
Robert Donat scores a combined 1.5342 out of 4 stars for Winslow Boy1.5342
In Edwardian England, a thirteen year-old cadet, Ronnie Winslow, is expelled from the naval academy at Osborne for stealing a seven shilling postal order. ...more about Winslow Boy
  • Not Available on DVD
13
Young Mr. Pitt, The (1942)
Robert Donat scores a combined 1.4520 out of 4 stars for Young Mr. Pitt1.4520
  • Not Available on DVD
14
Magic Box, The (1951)
Robert Donat scores a combined 1.4186 out of 4 stars for Magic Box1.4186
Now old, ill, poor, and largely forgotten, William Freise-Greene was once very different. ...more about Magic Box
  • Not Available on DVD
15
That Night in London (1932)
No Reviews Available
  • Not Available on DVD
16
Cash (1933)
No Reviews Available
  • Not Available on DVD
17
Cure for Love, The (1950)
No Reviews Available
  • Not Available on DVD
18
Knight Without Armour (1937)
No Reviews Available
Because he can pass as a Russian, A.J. Fothergill is recruited to spy on the revolutionary movement in Russia in 1913. He becomes imprisoned in Siberia, as a revolutionary, until the 1917 uprisings. ...more about Knight Without Armour
  • Not Available on DVD
19
Men of Tomorrow (1933)
No Reviews Available
  • Not Available on DVD