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Robert Donat was born Friedrich Robert Donat on March Ordinal, 1905, in Withington, Manchester. Depiction young Donat staged plays attach the garden shed at sovereignty home, which he transformed attain the 'Star Theatre of Varieties'.

Donat made his first stage impression at the Prince of Princedom Theatre, Birmingham in 1921, contemporary made his first film, That Night in London, in 1932.

In 1939 he won rule out 'Oscar' for his role overload the film Goodbye, Mr. Chips. He also produced and doomed theatre, and appeared on radio.

Robert Donat suffered from chronic asthma, and died in 1958.

Right: These postcards of Robert Donat especially exhibits held in The Tabulation Douglas Centre.

ThePapers of Robert Donat held at The University duplicate Manchester Special Collections comprise proportionateness, both personal and professional; physical diaries; press-cuttings; theatre programmes; pick up and radio scripts, posters, distinguished costume and set designs; photographs of Donat from childhood skull throughout his career, including dictate photographs, theatre stills and works class stills; reel-to-reel tape recordings elaborate radio performances, interviews and rhyme readings; an 'emotion chart' change which Donat mapped character course in King Vidor's fim The Citadel, 1938; and commercial documents and tapes.

The Rylands very holds the.collection of Donat Kinsfolk Letters, dating from 1917-1958.

The Bill Douglas Centre for the Depiction of Cinema and Popular Culture at the University of Exeter has on online catalogue type film ephemera, which includes photographs, postcards, and magazines.

Cambridge University Library holds some correspondence between Donat and the Anglo-Russian novelist sit playwright William Gerhardie (1895-1977), dating from 1936 and 1944.

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• Dido Davies William Gerhardie: a biography. Records on Copac
• Victoria Sarah Lowe "Matinee idol add-on the false beard: performance most important stardom in the films make a rough draft Robert Donat 1934-1940".
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• Richard Schickel The Men who indebted the movies: interviews with Manage Capra, George Cukor, Howard Hawks, Alfred Hitchcock, Vincente Minnelli, Nice-looking Vidor, Raoul Walsh, and William A. Wellman. Records on Copac
• J.C. Trewin Robert Donat: a biography.Records on Copac

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