Donald Family History & Genealogy

Robert H. Donald was born on April 15, 1818 in South Carolina USA, and died at age 72 years old on January 28, 1891 in Texas. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Robert H. Donald.

Jean Ross (Donald) Laurie was born in 1863. She was married to Peter Laurie Jr, and had children William Donald Laurie and Peter Frederick Laurie. Jean Laurie died at age 78 years old on December 13, 1942, and was buried at Springvale Crematorium in Springvale, Greater Dandenong City County, VIC Australia.

Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Florence Myrtle Donald.

Louisa Caroline (Donald) Dryman was born on January 16, 1847 in Newton USA, and died at age 82 years old on January 1, 1930 in Ridge, Robertson County, Texas. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Louisa Caroline (Donald) Dryman.

Bruce Galbraith Donald of Geelong, Greater Geelong City County, VIC Australia was born on June 8, 1907 in Elsternwick, City of Glen Eira County, and died at age 59 years old on August 2, 1966 in Geelong, Greater Geelong City County.

Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Elsie Rose Donald.

William G Donald of Phoenix, Maricopa County, AZ was born on September 28, 1920, and died at age 79 years old on July 27, 2000.

Ellen (Johnson) Donald of Goulburn, Goulburn Mulwaree Council County, NSW Australia was born on May 24, 1849 in Sydney, and died at age 42 years old on December 16, 1891 in Goulburn.

Elizabeth Mac Donald was born in 1889 at Scotland, and died at age 50 years old in 1939 at Lynn MA. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Elizabeth Mac Donald.

Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Henry James "Jim" Donald.

Shirley L Donald of Shelbyville, Shelby County, IL was born on May 2, 1938, and died at age 70 years old on October 27, 2008.

Agnes Ellen (Bienvenu) Donald of Oakleigh, City of Monash County, VIC Australia was born on September 24, 1870 in Melbourne, and died at age 82 years old on June 18, 1953 in Parkville, City of Melbourne County.

Elizabeth (Gartrell) Donald was born in 1842 at St Hilary, Penzance, Cornwall, UK, and died at age 23 years old on May 13, 1866 at Perranuthnoe, Penzance, UK. Elizabeth Donald was buried at St. Piran and St. Michael Churchyard, in Perranuthnoe, Cornwall County, England United Kingdom. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Elizabeth (Gartrell) Donald.

William Donald of Goulburn, Goulburn Mulwaree Council County, NSW Australia was born on May 30, 1849 in Bungonia, and died at age 68 years old on March 29, 1918 in Goulburn.

Avis Amanda (Donald) Carr was born in 1854 in Mississippi USA, and died at age 59 years old on September 3, 1914 in Robertson County, TX. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Avis Amanda "Mandy" (Donald) Carr.

William John Donald was born in 1863 to Elizabeth (Gartrell) Donald and John Donald, and died at age 73 years old in 1936. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember William John Donald.

Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Donald Mc Donald.

Samuel Everett Donald of Nashville, Davidson County, TN was born in 1909, and died at age 86 years old in 1995.

Movie and Theatre Star. Early life Donald was born in Aberdeen, the fourth son of a Scottish Presbyterian minister. His mother died when he was 18 months old and his father remarried. Donald grew up in Galashiels and was educated at Rossall School on Lancashire's Fylde coast. He briefly attended McGill University in Montreal, but his asthma meant he transferred to the University of Edinburgh. Donald originally intended to be a teacher but seeing Sir Cedric Hardwicke and Dame Edith Evans in The Late Christopher Bean made him decide to be an actor. He began seeing as many shows as possible and studied at the London Theatre Studio for two years. He made his stage debut in 1938 in The White Guard and he began to get work regularly on stage. He appeared in Twelfth Night with Michael Redgrave and understudied John Gielgud in King Lear. He toured the provinces in The Cherry Orchard. War service In 1939, Donald tried to enlist but a medical classified him as unfit for military service so he joined ENSA. He played minor roles in several war films, including Alibi (1942), In Which We Serve (1942), Went the Day Well? (1942), San Demetrio London (1943) and The Way Ahead (1944). He achieved fame on stage appearing in Present Laughter by Noël Coward. In 1943 he was signed by MGM. After The Way Ahead in 1944, the British Army reversed its earlier decision and called up Donald. He joined the RASC before being assigned to British Army Intelligence where he typed up decoded enemy messages.[3] Acting career After the war he resumed his acting career. On stage he was in The Eagle with Two Heads (1947) and You Never Can Tell (1948) In films, MGM loaned him to Gainsborough Studios for Broken Journey (1948). He was also in The Small Voice (1948) and MGM's Edward, My Son (1949). Donald had a big success on stage in The Heiress (1949) with Ralph Richardson, Peggy Ashcroft and Donald Sinden. It led to Laurence Olivier casting him in a production of Captain Caravallo (1950).[4] For films, he was Jean Kent's love interest in Trottie True (1949) and supported Jean Simmons in Cage of Gold (1950) and Googie Withers in White Corridors (1951). Donald had the lead in a comedy Brandy for the Parson (1952) and supported Trevor Howard and Richard Attenborough in Gift Horse (1952). He played Mr Winkle in the 1952 film version of The Pickwick Papers. He had the lead in The Net (1953) and was cast in his first Hollywood film in MGM's Beau Brummell (1954). The same studio hired him to play Theo Van Gogh in Lust for Life (1956). It was Donald's voice, and not that of Kirk Douglas, that read aloud the famous letters from the artist to his brother and formed the narrative backbone of the film. International work He portrayed Major Clipton, the doctor who expresses grave doubts about the sanity of Colonel Nicholson's (Alec Guinness) efforts to build the bridge in order to show up his Japanese captors, in the war film The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957). He spoke the film's final words: "Madness! Madness!" Donald was in much demand to play supporting roles in action and prisoner-of-war films: The Vikings (1958); Third Man on the Mountain (1959); Group Captain Ramsey, the Senior British Officer in The Great Escape (1963); King Rat (1965), a doctor in a POW camp; and Cast a Giant Shadow (1966). He played a colonel in a comedy The Jokers (1967) and had a part as a heroic scientist in Quatermass and the Pit (1967). Donald starred in a 1960 television adaptation of A. J. Cronin's The Citadel and appeared regularly in many other television dramas in the UK and US. He starred in two episodes of Alfred Hitchcock Presents directed by Hitchcock himself: "Poison" (from the story by Roald Dahl) and "The Crystal Trench" (based on the story by A.E.W. Mason). In 1961, he played Prince Albert opposite Julie Harris's Queen Victoria, in the Hallmark Hall of Fame production of Laurence Housman's play Victoria Regina, for which he received an Emmy nomination. He performed Write Me a Murder (1961) on Broadway. Later life Later film roles included Hannibal Brooks (1969), The Royal Hunt of the Sun (1969), David Copperfield (1969), Conduct Unbecoming (1975) and The Big Sleep (1978). Death Donald retired from acting in part because of a lifelong asthmatic condition. He grew grapes and made wine in his farm in Hampshire. He died of stomach cancer on 3 August 1993 in West Tytherley, Hampshire. He was survived by his wife Ann, and a stepson.

Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember William Eric-Dook Donald.