Donald Crisp
Date of birth: 1882-07-26
Place of birth: Bow, London, England, UK
Known for: Acting
Also known as: George William Crisp, James Needham, Дональд Крисп
Biography
Donald Crisp was born George William Crisp at the family home in Bow, London. Donald's parents were James Crisp and Elizabeth Crisp, his birth was registered by his mother on 4th September 1882. Donald's sisters were Elizabeth, Ann, Alice (known as Louisa) and Eliza and his brothers were James, John and Mark. Family memories state that Donald's brother-in-law James Needham (Louisa's husband) lent/gave Donald the fare to USA. The family have a photo of Donald which he sent to 'Jimmy' and signed. On 16th February 1937 Donald applied for a US Social Security account number giving his address as N Vista Street Hollywood California, and his employers Warner Brothers Pictures, Burbank California. On his application Donald did not know his mother's maiden name.
Movie Credits
Broken Blossoms or The Yellow Man and the Girl
1919-05-13
The love story of an abused English girl and a Chinese Buddhist in a time when London was a brutal a
The Birth of a Nation
1915-03-08
Two families, abolitionist Northerners the Stonemans and Southern landowners the Camerons, intertwin
Lassie Come Home
1943-12-01
Hard times come for the Carraclough family and they are forced to sell their dog, Lassie, to the ric
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
1941-08-12
Dr. Jekyll believes good and evil exist in everyone and creates a potion that allows his evil side,
Wuthering Heights
1939-04-07
The Earnshaws are Yorkshire farmers during the early 19th Century. One day, Mr. Earnshaw returns fro
Jezebel
1938-03-26
In 1850s Louisiana, the willfulness of a tempestuous Southern belle threatens to destroy all who car
Pollyanna
1960-05-19
A young girl comes to an embittered town and confronts its attitude with her determination to see th
City for Conquest
1940-09-21
The heartbreaking but hopeful tale of Danny Kenny and Peggy Nash, two sweethearts who meet and strug
Mutiny on the Bounty
1935-11-22
Fletcher Christian successfully leads a revolt against the ruthless Captain Bligh on the HMS Bounty.
Brother Orchid
1940-06-07
When retired racket boss John Sarto tries to reclaim his place and former friends try to kill him, h
The Sea Hawk
1940-08-10
Dashing pirate Geoffrey Thorpe plunders Spanish ships for Queen Elizabeth I and falls in love with D
The Avenging Conscience
1914-08-02
Thwarted by his despotic uncle from continuing his love affair, a young man's thoughts turn dark as
Home Town Story
1951-05-18
Blake Washburn blames manufacturer MacFarland for his defeat in the race for re-election to the stat
The Escape
1914-06-01
A dramatic comparison between the mating habits of animals and the way humans choose their own partn
How Green Was My Valley
1941-10-28
A man in his fifties reminisces about his childhood growing up in a Welsh mining village at the turn
The Life of Emile Zola
1937-09-09
A fictionalized account of famous French writer Emile Zola and his involvement in the Dreyfus Affair
Ramrod
1947-05-02
A cattle-vs.-sheepman feud loses Connie Dickason her fiance, but gains her his ranch, which she dete
Challenge to Lassie
1949-10-31
When Lassie's master dies, an old friend tries to convince a judge that the dog's life should be spa
Son of Lassie
1945-04-20
Laddie (Son of Lassie) and his master are trapped in Norway during WW2 - has he inherited his mother
Knute Rockne All American
1940-10-05
The story of legendary Notre Dame football player and coach Knute Rockne.
The Valley of Decision
1945-05-03
Mary Rafferty comes from a poor family of steel mill workers in 19th Century Pittsburgh. Her family
Beloved Enemy
1936-12-25
In 1921, British Lord Athleigh arrives in Dublin with his daughter, Helen, to engage in peace talks.
The Little Minister
1934-12-28
The stoic, proper Rev. Gavin Dishart, newly assigned to a church in the small Scottish village of Th
The Charge of the Light Brigade
1936-10-20
In 1853, as the British and Russian empires compete to gain and maintain their place in the dreadful
The Long Gray Line
1955-01-04
The life story of a salt-of-the-earth Irish immigrant, who becomes an Army Noncommissioned Officer a
Red Dust
1932-10-22
Dennis, owner of a rubber plantation in Cochinchina, is involved with Vantine, who left Saigon to ev
Spencer's Mountain
1963-05-16
Clay Spencer and his wife, Olivia, live in a small town deep in the mountains. When Clay isn't busy
The Old Maid
1939-08-16
The lives of two cousins are complicated by the return of an ex-boyfriend and an illegitimate child.
Svengali
1931-05-20
A music maestro uses hypnotism on a young model he meets in Paris to make her both his muse and wife
The Uninvited
1944-02-24
A brother and sister move into an old seaside house that has been abandoned for many years on the Co
Greyfriars Bobby
1961-07-17
In Scotland 1865, An old shepherd and his little Skye terrier go to Edinburgh. But when the shepherd
The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex
1939-11-11
This period drama frames the tumultuous affair between Queen Elizabeth I and the man who would be Ki
Prince Valiant
1954-04-05
A young Viking prince strives to become a knight in King Arthur's Court and restore his exiled fathe
Stand and Deliver
1928-02-18
Our heroine, Miss Velez (despite the fact that she seems to be just along for the ride) is much her
The Dawn Patrol
1938-12-24
In 1915 France, Major Brand commands the 39th Squadron of the Royal Flying Corps. The young airmen g
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse
1938-07-20
A wealthy society doctor decides to research the medical aspects of criminal behaviour by becoming o
National Velvet
1945-01-26
Mi Taylor is a young wanderer and opportunist who finds himself in the quiet English countryside hom
The Crime Doctor
1934-03-14
When he finds out that his wife is having an affair, a criminologist commits the perfect murder--and
The Oklahoma Kid
1939-03-11
McCord's gang robs the stage carrying money to pay Indians for their land, and the notorious outlaw
The Man from Laramie
1955-08-19
Will Lockhart arrives in Coronado, an isolated town in New Mexico, in search of someone who sells ri
The Black Pirate
1926-03-08
A nobleman vows to avenge the death of his father by the hands of pirates. To this end, he infiltrat
The Key
1934-06-09
A British officer stationed in Ireland falls for the wife of an intelligence man.
Bright Leaf
1950-06-16
Two tobacco growers battle for control of the cigarette market.
The Battle of Midway
1942-09-14
The Japanese attack on Midway in June 1942, filmed as it happened. Preserved by the Academy Film Ar
The Last Hurrah
1958-12-31
In a changing world where television has become the main source of information, Adam Caulfield, a yo
Confession
1937-08-19
Vera Kowalska is put on trial for murdering concert pianist Michael Michailow. In court it is reveal
Pirate Gold
1913-01-13
Elusive as is the pursuit of pirate gold it is found in this picture and brought to the ship by the
Near To Earth
1913-03-20
This is the story of Gato, an Italian immigrant, who lives with his wife, Marie, and his younger bro
The Gay Sisters
1942-08-01
The eldest of three sisters protects their Fifth Avenue mansion from a developer she once married.
The Great O'Malley
1937-02-13
His role in the plight of an unemployed man (Humphrey Bogart) and his disabled daughter profoundly a
Juarez
1939-06-10
The newly-named emperor Maximilian and his wife Carlota arrive in Mexico to face popular sentiment f
Saddle the Wind
1958-03-20
Steve Sinclair is a world-weary former gunslinger, now living as a peaceful farmer. Things go wrong
That Certain Woman
1937-08-30
A gangster's widow fights for love despite society's disapproval.
Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet
1940-02-23
True story of the doctor who considered it was not immoral to search for a drug that would cure syph
Down the Hill to Creditville
1914-09-18
Marcus Down makes only $15 a week. He has always paid spot cash for everything, until he meets Mamie
Her Awakening
1911-09-28
An attempt to hide her working-class origins appears to have disastrous consequences for an attracti
Another Chance
1914-11-24
Mason, discharged from jail, promises his wife to lead a new life. While searching for work, he resc
Over the Ledge
1914-12-12
A poor widow dies, leaving her two young children, Bob and Mabel, in the care of a poor neighbor, wh
Drango
1957-01-01
A few months after the end of the civil war, Major Drango is sent as military governor in a southern
The Adventures of Mark Twain
1944-07-20
A dramatised life of Samuel Langhorn Clemens, or Mark Twain.
A Woman Rebels
1936-11-06
A defiant young woman struggles against the norms and morals established by Victorian society and en
The Sisters
1938-10-14
Three daughters of a small down pharmacist undergo trials and tribulations in their problematic marr
The Mysterious Shot
1914-04-04
A feud between the families of Gourd and Fork Ranches
Don Q Son of Zorro
1925-06-15
Don Cesar De Vega crosses swords with a vicious member of the Queen's Guard, and steals the affectio
Hills of Home
1948-11-25
William McClure is the villlage doctor in a remote Scottish glen. Tricked into buying Lassie, a coll
A Dog of Flanders
1959-03-17
The emotional story of a boy, his grandfather, and his dog. The boy's dream of becoming a great clas
Daughters Courageous
1939-06-23
Nan Masters, a single mother living with her four marriageable daughters, plans to marry Sam Sloane,
The Miser's Heart
1911-11-20
Thieves decide to steal the money an old miser has hidden away. He refuses to open the safe for them
What Shall We Do with Our Old?
1911-02-13
An elderly carpenter is told by a doctor that his wife is seriously ill. Soon afterwards, an insensi
The Battle
1911-11-06
Union soldiers march off to battle amid cheering crowds. After the battle turns against the Union Ar
The Viking
1928-11-02
In this historical adventure based on traditional legend concerning Leif Ericsson and the first Viki
Sergeant Murphy
1938-01-01
An Army private proves his horse is fit for service and wins his colonel's daughter.
The Pagan
1929-04-26
Henry, the pagan son of a white father and native mother, has inherited land and a store, but he pre
Vanessa: Her Love Story
1935-03-01
The Victorian wife of a mad baron waits years for a British soldier sent to Egypt.
The Life of Vergie Winters
1934-06-14
A small town politician, kept from marrying the love of his life, eventually marries another woman a
Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
1983-02-25
Out-takes (mostly from Warner Bros.), promotional shorts, movie premieres, public service pleas, war
Valley of the Giants
1938-09-17
A lumberman takes on a sleezy corporate giant wanting to move in and do whatever it takes to drive e
Trent's Last Case
1929-03-31
Who killed the vicious millionaire Sigsbee Manderson? Not that pretty wife of his, surely? Philip Tr
The Beloved Brat
1938-04-30
Roberta Morgan is being raised in a wealthy home where her mother is occupied with her society-club
Oil for the Lamps of China
1935-06-08
An American oil company representative risks sacrificing his marriage for his career in the rural la
What Every Woman Knows
1934-10-18
Aspiring young Scottish politician John Shand enters into an unusual agreement with the wealthy Wyli
Parnell
1937-06-04
Irish politician Charles Stewart Parnell struggles to free his country from English rule, but his re
Comet Over Broadway
1938-12-03
Story of a rising stage star and the trouble she causes by her ambition.
Scotland Yard
1930-10-19
A criminal fleeing a bank robbery has a chance encounter with a banker and his wife and takes a lock
Shining Victory
1941-05-30
In a Scottish sanitarium, a brilliant research psychiatrist works on a treatment for dementia praeco
Sons of Liberty
1939-05-20
Set during the American Revolution, this colorful 2 reel short tells the story of Haym Salomon, Amer
Fate's Turning
1911-01-22
A young girl working as a waitress at a resort for the wealthy is swept off her feet by a rich young
Broadway Bad
1933-02-24
Showgirl Tony Landers, supported by her friend Flip Daly, fights for the custody of her son during a
By Man's Law
1913-11-22
An oil tycoon corners the market, then cuts jobs and causes much suffering. Because she's lost her j
The Different Man
1914-05-05
Francelia Billington and Dorothy Gish battle outlaw Ralph Lewis out on the range with assistance fro
The Mountain Rat
1914-05-01
A 1914 silent Western short
The Newer Woman
1914-06-02
There is, at once, quite a change in Dot and her sweetheart Robert plainly doesn't like it. After a
Their First Acquaintance
1914-06-16
Bob Taylor was a valuable man. Talbot, his employer, told Miriam as much, showing his daughter the g
The Tavern of Tragedy
1914-08-09
Maximillo Corto, a Mexican crook, keeps a tavern on the Mexican border and has a daughter whom he ab
Her Mother's Necklace
1914-08-16
Bessie's father is a widower contemplating remarriage to widow Irene Hunt but Bessie jealously objec
May Blossom
1915-04-15
May Blossom loves Richard Ashcroft, a Southern officer, and accepts his proposal of marriage immedia
A Lesson in Mechanics
1914-08-21
Ruth Wilson, daughter of a wealthy landowner, receives a visit from her country sweetheart, Joe Merr
The Warning
1914-10-13
Dorothy, flighty little country girl, dissatisfied with humdrum country life. longs for the gaiety o
The Sisters
1914-11-29
May and her younger sister, Carol, live in a small town. May is the more lovely of the two, but Caro
An Old-Fashioned Girl
1915-02-02
Abigail, the pretty daughter of a village school teacher, and Jared Guild are lovers. Bertha comes f
A Passport to Hell
1932-08-25
Just prior to the outbreak of World War I, in the British West African town of Akkra, English woman
Laddie
1935-03-18
A romance between two young lovers is complicated by their prohibitive parents. Preserved by the Ac
Mary of Scotland
1936-07-28
The recently widowed Mary Stuart returns to Scotland to reclaim her throne but is opposed by her hal
Whispering Smith
1948-12-09
Smith is an iron-willed railroad detective. When his friend Murray is fired from the railroad and be
The White Angel
1936-06-25
In Victorian England, Florence Nightingale's heroic measures slowly change the attitude towards nurs
The Primal Call
1911-06-21
A young woman who is engaged to a millionaire she doesn't love meets and falls in love with a rough
Black and White
1913-08-27
They were two hobos, black and white, master and man, a regular slave driver white, while black went
The Musketeers of Pig Alley
1912-10-31
A man recognizes the thief who had previously robbed him as one of the men involved in an unrelated
The Return of Sherlock Holmes
1929-10-26
The Return of Sherlock Holmes was the first sound film to feature Sherlock Holmes.
The Italian Barber
1911-01-09
Tony, a barber, becomes enchanted by Alice, a young newsgirl, and the two quickly fall in love. Howe
Ramona
1916-04-05
Silent version of the 1884 Helen Hunt Jackson novel originally ran 3 hours but all but 50 minutes of
Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages
1916-09-04
The story of a poor young woman, separated by prejudice from her husband and baby, is interwoven wit
Forever and a Day
1943-01-21
In World War II, American Gates Trimble Pomfret is in London during the Blitz to sell the ancestral
The Bonnie Brier Bush
1921-11-27
A Lord's son is engaged to his rich ward, but prefers a peasant.
Kick In
1931-05-22
Chick Hewes is released from prison and finds work as an accountant. Two years later, Chick's crooke
Home, Sweet Home
1914-05-16
John Howard Payne leaves home and begins a career in the theater. Despite encouragement from his mot
The Making of a Man
1911-10-04
A young woman becomes infatuated with the leading man of a traveling theatrical troupe. She sneaks a
A Girl of Yesterday
1915-10-07
A lost film. A girl with old-fashioned values becomes a modern sophisticate.
The Adventures of Billy
1911-10-18
Little Billy, the bootblack, finding luck against him, decides to move to some other town. To do thi
The Long Road
1911-10-26
Edith enters a convent after losing her fiancé to someone else. Years later, Edith finds him again,
Sunshine Sue
1910-11-14
A country girl follows a city suitor, but is left alone and must fend for herself.
A Star Is Born World Premiere
1954-09-28
Live television broadcast of the world premiere. Described by various participants as the biggest wo
The Battle of the Sexes
1914-04-12
Frank Andrews is a successful businessman. He has always found pride and joy in the company of his w
The Failure
1911-12-07
A man loses his business and his fiancée, and drifts into the saloons. There he meets a similarly-do
Olaf—An Atom
1913-05-19
Broken by grief after his mother's death, Olaf becomes a wanderer. He is treated cruelly until he is
Hamlet, Act I: Scenes IV and V
1933-04-04
A 1933 screen test for a proposed, but never filmed, movie version of "Hamlet" in Technicolor, starr
The Red, White and Blue Line
1955-06-01
A promotional film for United States Savings Bonds
The River Pirate
1928-08-26
This film concerns a youth torn between his fatherly gangland mentor and the beautiful, virtuous dau
The Blue or the Gray
1913-11-29
It was Christmas Eve in the south, but the spirit of peace and love did not pervade the northern gir
Through the Breakers
1909-12-06
A society couple, neglect their young daughter in favor of their social life. When the girl becomes
Winning Back His Love
1910-12-25
A Husband thinks the grass is greener on the other side of the fence. His wife shows him its not.
The Golden Supper
1910-12-12
Julian loves his cousin and foster sister Camilla, who is wooed and won by Lionel, his friend and ri
Heart Beats of Long Ago
1911-02-06
A feud existed between two Italian houses and it meant disaster to any one of the belligerents to in
Fire on the Heather
1956-12-31
Docu-drama with re-enactments about three figures in the history of Christianity of Scotland: Saint
The Love Route
1915-02-25
John Ashby and Allene Houston, two neighboring ranchers, are in love, but their parents' violent dis
The Commanding Officer
1915-03-25
When Colonel Archer, the commanding officer of the military post, refuses to lend money to his secon