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Donald Crisp was the quintessential Scotsman. Contrary to the usual dour Scot, he most often played loving, admirable characters. With his cherubic face, rosy cheeks, white curly hair and smiling eyes, he won the hearts of many an audience. He was born in Aberfeldy, Scotland on July 27, 1880 the son of a country doctor and educated at Oxford University. Some sources claim he was born in England; Obituaries at the time of his death list Aberfeldy, Scotland. His father ran a dairy farm and at age 19 he left home and became a trooper in the 10th Hussars where he fought in the Boer War.
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Donald Crisp was born George William Crisp in London, England, at the family home in Bow (historically known as Stratford) on July 27, 1882. Some sources say he was born in Aberfeldy, Perthshire, Scotland in 1880, but U.S. Census records indicate the London birthplace and date are correct.[1] He was one of eight children (four boys and four girls) born to James and Elizabeth Crisp. He was educated at the University of Oxford and allegedly at Eton College, though the Eton archivist denies this.
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One of the unassuming pillars of the industry, Donald Crisp had a very long and successful career in motion pictures. A Scot who was educated at Oxford and served as a soldier in the Boer War, he emigrated to New York and appeared in opera as a leading tenor in 1906. He ... acted in stage plays before joining the Biograph Company as an extra in 1909. He moved with D. W. Griffith to Majestic as a director, and made 35 one- and two-reelers in a little over one year. He never stopped working; he also acted in several of these films and served as assistant director to Griffith on The Birth of a Nation and Broken Blossoms. His performance as Lillian Gish's brutal father in the latter brought him much acclaim.
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Huw's parents (Donald Crisp and Sara Allgood) shoulder much hardship throughout the film. Huw's father is thoroughly respected by his adult sons, but he and they part company on the unionization issue until the chapel's junior minister, Mr. Gruffydd (Walter Pidgeon), finds them some middle ground. Huw's mother dares to invade a “men's meeting” and confront those who are about to make a bad decision; on another occasion, she utters what sounds like a profanity but can't be made out clearly; on still another, she (like her daughter-in-law before her) seems to lose touch with reality and imagine that lost loved ones are still nearby.
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Donald Crisp movies DVDs filmography available to buy at CDUniverse are listed below. Information on films includes: other actor and actress, star cast and crew information, reviews, director, photo of cover art, product pics and more.
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Donald Crisp was born in Abberfeldy, Scotland, in 1880, and was educated at Oxford. He served as a trooper in the 10th Hussars in the Boer War, which allowed him to cross paths with a young Winston Churchill, before emigrating to the United States in 1906. While on the boat coming over, he chanced to sing in a ship's concert and impressed John C. Fisher, an opera impresario, sufficiently to offer him a job with his company as both a member of the chorus and a handyman. It was while touring with the company in the United States and Cuba that Crisp became interested in theater. By the end of the first decade of the 20th century, he was working as a stage manager for George M. Cohan, and soon after that he met D.W. Griffith, a former stage actor who had developed a yen for making movies; Crisp accompanied the legendary director to Hollywood in 1912.
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