ACTOR

James Donald

1917 - 1993

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James Donald (18 May 1917 – 3 August 1993) was a Scottish actor. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of James Donald has received more than 725,559 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. James Donald is the 4,302nd most popular actor, the 3,360th most popular biography from United Kingdom and the 504th most popular British Actor.

Memorability Metrics

  • 730k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 48.52

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.95

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.81

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, James Donald ranks 4,302 out of 13,578. Before him are Holt McCallany, Zero Mostel, Mary Carlisle, Dominic Cooper, Alma Rubens, and Simon McBurney. After him are Maurizio Arena, Rance Howard, Gary Lockwood, Gary Lewis, Alan Cumming, and Eva Le Gallienne.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1917, James Donald ranks 235. Before him are J. L. Mackie, Helena Rasiowa, Sidney Nolan, Fyodor Khitruk, Robert Lowell, and Ramanand Sagar. After him are Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., Robert Fano, Ibrahim Shams, Madeleine Robinson, Joseph Wresinski, and James Jesus Angleton. Among people deceased in 1993, James Donald ranks 188. Before him are Dumitru Stăniloae, Ranasinghe Premadasa, Chris Hani, Alexander Mackendrick, Rudolf Wetzer, and Mirza Ibrahimov. After him are Štefan Uher, Anne Shirley, Ivan Kozlovsky, Joseph B. Soloveitchik, Jean Cau, and Hans Werner Richter.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, James Donald ranks 3,360 out of 8,785. Before him are Margaret Price (1941), Miles Dempsey (1896), Dominic Cooper (1978), Nick Park (1958), Simon McBurney (1957), and Michael Tippett (1905). After him are Thomas Wedgwood (1771), Gary Lewis (1957), Taylor Caldwell (1900), Nigel Kennedy (1956), Alan Cumming (1965), and Eva Le Gallienne (1899).

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Among ACTORS In United Kingdom

Among actors born in United Kingdom, James Donald ranks 504. Before him are Eric Sykes (1923), May Whitty (1865), Michael Wilding (1912), Rupert Graves (1963), Dominic Cooper (1978), and Simon McBurney (1957). After him are Gary Lewis (1957), Alan Cumming (1965), Eva Le Gallienne (1899), Freddie Bartholomew (1924), Patrick Malahide (1945), and Susan George (1950).

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Television and Movie Roles

The Great Escape
Ramsey 'The SBO'
The Nazis, exasperated at the number of escapes from their prison camps by a relatively small number of Allied prisoners, relocate them to a high-security 'escape-proof' camp to sit out the remainder of the war. Undaunted, the prisoners plan one of the most ambitious escape attempts of World War II. Based on a true story.
Jul 3rd 19637.947 / 10
The Bridge on the River Kwai
Maj. Clipton
The classic story of English POWs in Burma forced to build a bridge to aid the war effort of their Japanese captors. British and American intelligence officers conspire to blow up the structure, but Col. Nicholson, the commander who supervised the bridge's construction, has acquired a sense of pride in his creation and tries to foil their plans.
Oct 11th 19577.828 / 10
Quatermass and the Pit
Dr. Mathew Roney
A mysterious artifact unearthed below a London subway station proves to have powerful psychic effects on the people around.
Nov 9th 19676.601 / 10