In 1954 the English composer Alan Rawsthorne set six of the poems in a work for speaker and orchestra entitled Practical Cats, which was recorded soon after, with the actor Robert Donat as the speaker.

In 1951 a romanticised account of his life, starring Robert Donat, was filmed as part of the Festival of Britain.

Margaret, who was standing godmother to the child, matter-of-factly disproved the rumour: as the Christening party left the church of St Donat, she conclusively proved that the child was an undoubted male, by undressing him and presenting him to the assembled crowd.

Friedrich Robert Donat ( 18 March 19059 June 1958 ) was an English film and stage actor.

Donat had a brother, John Donat, who was a trapper in Canada and later moved to Shelton, Connecticut, USA.

According to Judy Garland in an interview, although she first sang " You Made Me Love You " for Clark Gable, she was disappointed because she really had wanted to sing it for her idol Donat, to whom she wrote a fan letter after seeing The Count of Monte Cristo ( 1934 ).

Donat was twice married, first to Ella Annesley Voysey ( 1929 – 1946 ), with whom he had three children, and subsequently to British actress Renée Asherson ( 1953 – 1958 ).

In 1935, Buchan's literary work was adapted to the cinematic theatre with the completion of Alfred Hitchcock's The 39 Steps, starring Robert Donat as Richard Hannay, though with Buchan's story much altered.

Yves Henri Donat Mathieu-Saint-Laurent, known as Yves Saint Laurent (, August 1, 1936 – June 1, 2008 ), was a French fashion designer, one of the greatest names in fashion history.

Bob Donat wrote in Rolling Stone Magazine in 1972 that while the film's message " was diluted by schizoid cross-purposes " because it " glamorizes machismo-cocaine consciousness ... the anti-drug message on soundtrack is far stronger and more definite than in the film.

Parnell was portrayed by Robert Donat in the 1947 film Captain Boycott.

Hitchcock wanted to cast Robert Donat ( with whom he had previously worked in The 39 Steps ) but was forced to cast John Loder due to Donat's chronic asthma.

The first bishop of this new Dublin diocese was Dúnán or Donat, and the diocese was at that time a small island of land surrounded by the much larger Diocese of Glendalough, and was for a time answerable to Canterbury rather than to the Irish Church hierarchy.

Robert Donat, who played the mandarin of the town in which Aylward lived, died before the film was released.

The Deutsche Riesengebirgsverein ( German Giant Mountains Club ), an organization to protect the environment of the Giant Mountains ( Krkonoše ) and to promote tourism, was founded in 1880 by Theodor Donat and 47 other dignitaries of the region.

The play was later made into a famous 1948 film directed by Anthony Asquith, starring Robert Donat as Sir Robert Morton KC, Sir Cedric Hardwicke as Arthur Winslow, and Margaret Leighton as Catherine Winslow.

In the 1933 film The Private Life of Henry VIII, Culpeper was played by Robert Donat, and in the BBC series The Six Wives of Henry VIII, he was played by Ralph Bates.

A replica of this piano was also featured in the 1975 film The Hindenburg where Reed Channing ( Peter Donat ) sings.

Roger Caron was born to extremely poor parents Donat and Yvonne in Cornwall, Ontario, Canada in 1938.

Von Donat published his idea in Rome and Berlin, and succeeded in gaining the attention of Emil Rathenau, the general manager of AEG in Berlin.

This, along with the fact that both teams were owned by the Canadian Arena Company by 1935 ( Ernest Savard and Maurice Forget, who owned the Canadiens, were part of the Canadian Arena Company, as were Maroons owners James Strachan and Donat Raymond ) made it obvious that only one team could represent Montreal.

Lambert's biggest enemy was Dr. Mordecai Sahmbi ( Peter Donat ), who was responsible for sending the fugitives to 1993, and who tried several times to kill him.

Other artistes who gained experience at the theatre include Robert Donat, Lilian Braithwaite, Cecil Parker, John Gregson, Clive Brook, C. Aubrey Smith, Richard Burton, Michael Redgrave, Diana Wynyard, Rex Harrison, Patricia Routledge, Anthony Hopkins, and Richard Briers.

His father Donat, being twenty years older than Yvonne, had children from a previous marriage, Caron's half-brothers and-sisters, who by this time were off fighting in World War II.

Likewise, the two leads, British actor Robert Donat and Austrian actor Curt Jurgens were not even Chinese.

They were introduced to New Orleans by Donat Pucheu.

At times, Robert Donat and William Holden were considered for the film.

Lead actor Robert Donat was kidnapping actress Madeleine Carroll and they were handcuffed.

Ball's mid-1970s productions of Shakespeare's Taming of the Shrew, starring Marc Singer, and Rostand's Cyrano de Bergerac, starring Peter Donat and Marsha Mason were televised by PBS and are available on video.

Her first husband was Canadian-American actor Peter Donat, whom she married in 1956, when she was 17 years old.

It stars Robert Donat and Deborah Kerr as a married couple whose relationship is shaken by their service in the Second World War.

Robert and Catherine Wilson ( Robert Donat and Deborah Kerr ) are a timid married couple in 1940 London.

Robert Donat played Becket at the Old Vic in 1953 in a production directed by Robert Helpmann.

Donat made his first stage appearance in 1921, at the age of 16, with Henry Baynton's company at the Prince of Wales Theatre, Birmingham, playing Lucius in Julius Caesar.

Donat has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for motion pictures at 6420 Hollywood Blvd.

A blue plaque commemorates Donat at 8 Meadway in Hampstead Garden Suburb.

He played Mercutio in a production of Romeo and Juliet mounted by the Old Vic company at Streatham in 1939, with Robert Donat as Romeo.

Acting editor and all-round lazy slob Lewis Donat ( Vegas ) is furious at Gordon's appointment, convinced that the job should be his.

The film was directed by Sam Wood for the British division of MGM at Denham Studios, and starred Robert Donat, Greer Garson, Terry Kilburn, John Mills, and Paul Henreid.

In the beginning it was a small-scale operation, but it soon grew to a level at which Donat would have to rent parking for his customers and find hiding places for the surplus booze.

Donat would chuckle at having outwitted the law once again all while young Caron sat by observing everything, wondering what was " right " and what was " wrong.

Pierre-Arnoul Frédéric Guy Donat de Marneffe is a Belgian computer scientist and professor emeritus at the University of Liège ( ULg ).

Near the end of the 19th century, a Prussian officer, Major Fedor Maria von Donat ( 1847 – 1919 ), had an idea ; he would build a channel that followed the base of the mountains, cutting through a sand dune at Terracina.

She had a successful career at MGM, RKO and Columbia including important roles such as the tragic Beth in the original Little Women, among many other film appearances including Frank Capra's Lady for a Day and Gabriel Over the White House ; Sequoia ; Limehouse Blues with George Raft and Anna May Wong ; The Ghost Goes West, opposite Robert Donat ; and Rasputin and the Empress, with the Barrymore siblings ( John, Ethel, and Lionel ) in the only movie they all made together.