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Donald Crisp - biography, date of birth, place of birth, filmography, clips, Actor, Director, Writer, Producer.
July 27, 1882 - May 25, 1974 - British actor, director, producer and screenwriter, Academy Award winner for Best Supporting Actor in 1942.
Born in the suburbs of London into a large Scottish family of eight children. He received his education at Oxford University, after which he served as a soldier in the 10th Royal Hussars during the Boer War. In 1906, Crisp went to the United States. On the ship that transported him, he performed several musical numbers during the concert, and thus attracted the attention of opera impresario John S. Fisher, who offered him a job. Crisp took part in Fischer's tours to the United States and Cuba, after which he decided to seriously pursue a theatrical career. In 1910, having changed, by that time, the name George to Donald, Crisp began working as a director for the famous playwright and director George M. Cohen. At the same time, he met the director D.W. Griffith, with whom he went to Hollywood in 1912, where he decided to try his luck at the cinema. From 1908 to 1930, Donald Crisp worked in Hollywood as an assistant to Griffith, and also made 9 films of his own and appeared in almost a hundred silent films in small roles. Exceptions were his work for Griffith in The Birth of a Nation in 1915 and Broken Shoots in 1919, where Crisp had larger and more prominent roles. During World War I, Donald Crisp served in the Allied Army and in the UK Intelligence Department. In 1930, his last directorial work, The Runaway Bride, was released, after which he no longer returned to creating his own films, justifying this by the fact that he was tired of following the producers' lead and hiring their numerous relatives in his films. The decade that has begun has been very successful in Crisp's acting career. During those years, he brilliantly performed many bright character roles, including roles in the films Mutiny on the Bounty (1935), Attack of the Light Cavalry (1936), The Amazing Doctor Clitterhouse (1938), Jezebel (1938) , "Wuthering Heights" (1939) and "Sea Hawk" (1940) .
With the outbreak of World War II, Donald Crisp again responded to the call of duty, despite the fact that his acting career was at the peak of success, and joined the US Reserve Army, where he rose to the rank of colonel. During these years, he occasionally appeared on the screen, playing in 1941 one of his most memorable roles - Gwilym Morgan in the drama by John Ford "How Green Was My Valley." The film, which received ten Academy Award nominations, earned Donald Crisp an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor.
In the early 1950s, Crisp achieved unprecedented success in Hollywood, becoming one of the most influential people there. For many years he was a consultant as well as chairman of the financial company Bank of America, which is why many of the film projects that Crisp liked received financial support from this company. For the last time on the big screen, Donald Crisp appeared in 1963 in the film "Spencer's Mountain" with Henry Fonda in the title role.

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