It was up against Gone with the Wind in all seven categories ; Robert Donat won for Best Actor, beating out Clark Gable, but Goodbye, Mr. Chips lost to Gone With the Wind in five of the six remaining categories.

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.

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

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.

At the suggestion of Senator Donat Raymond, William Northey developed a plan for a 12, 500 seat capacity rink.

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.

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.

Richard Hannay has been portrayed on screen in four versions of The Thirty Nine Steps by Robert Donat, Kenneth More, Robert Powell and Rupert Penry-Jones ( in a 2008 BBC production ), while Powell reprised the role for the ITV series Hannay ( 1988 – 1989 ).

Donat argued above all for the extermination of malaria in the countryside surrounding the capital.

The NHL also granted a second franchise for Montreal to James Strachan and Donat Raymond.

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

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.

In 1938, he was featured in The Citadel, starring Robert Donat, and a decade later, he played the role of Pierre Cauchon in the technicolor version of Joan of Arc, starring Ingrid Bergman.

It stars Jane Fonda, Jack Lemmon, Michael Douglas, Scott Brady, James Hampton, Peter Donat, Richard Herd, and Wilford Brimley.

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.

Edmond Dantès has been portrayed on film many times by actors such as Robert Donat, Jean Marais, Louis Jourdan, Gérard Depardieu, Richard Chamberlain and, most recently, James Caviezel.

* Robert Donat as Charles Stewart Parnell

* 1905 – Robert Donat, English actor ( d. 1958 )

This is the best known screen version, starring Robert Donat, Greer Garson, Terry Kilburn, John Mills and Paul Henreid.

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.

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

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

Donat was born in Withington, Manchester, Lancashire, to Ernst Emil Donat and his wife Rose Alice ( née Green ) who were married at Withington's St Paul's Church, in 1895.

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

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 made his film debut in 1932 in Men of Tomorrow.

Donat lobbied hard to be cast in two film roles, neither of which he gained.

Donat suffered from chronic asthma, which affected his career and limited him to appearing in only twenty films.

His nephew is the actor Peter Donat.

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

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.

He made his film debut in The Midshipmaid ( 1932 ), and appeared as Colley in the 1939 film version of Goodbye, Mr Chips, opposite Robert Donat.

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.

Other triumphs include `` Random Harvest '', `` Madame Curie '', `` Pride and Prejudice '', `` The Forsythe Saga '' and `` Mrs. Miniver '' ( which won her the Academy Award in 1943 ).

The film won the Academy Award for Best Picture in 1930 for its producer Carl Laemmle Jr., and an Academy Award for Directing for Lewis Milestone.

In the film he is played by F. Murray Abraham, who won the Academy Award for Best Actor.

He won three Tony Awards and three Academy Awards, among other honors.

During his post-ABBA career Andersson won four Swedish Grammis awards, and together with Ulvaeus received the " Special International " Ivor Novello award from ' The British Academy of Composers and Songwriters ', twice " The Music Export Prize " from the Swedish Ministry of Industry and Trade ( 2008 ), as well as the " Lifetime Achievement " award from the Swedish Music Publishers Association ( SMFF ).

His film Pelle the Conqueror from 1987 won the Palme D ' or, Academy Award and Golden Globe.

** won the Golden Palm at the 1988 Cannes Film Festival and an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film

Lancaster was nominated four times for Academy Awards and won once — for his work in Elmer Gantry in 1960.

Lancaster won the 1960 Academy Award for Best Actor, a Golden Globe Award, and the New York Film Critics Award for his performance in Elmer Gantry.

)" Together they produced the films Apache ( 1954 ), Vera Cruz ( 1954 ), Marty ( 1955 ) ( which won both the Academy Award for Best Picture and the Palme d ' Or award at the Cannes Film Festival ), The Kentuckian ( 1955 ), Trapeze ( 1956 ), The Bachelor Party ( 1956 ), Sweet Smell of Success ( 1957 ), Run Silent, Run Deep ( 1958 ), Separate Tables ( 1958 ), ( 1959 ), Take a Giant Step ( 1959 ), Summer of the Seventeenth Doll ( 1960 ), and ( 1960 ).

The film won five Academy Awards at the 68th Academy Awards, including the Academy Award for Best Picture and Best Director, and was nominated for an additional five.

The following year, he received the Academy Award for Best Original Score for Limelight, the only competitive Academy Award he won during his career.

Downey Jr. was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor and won a BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role for his performance.

The film won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film ( Taiwan ) and three other Academy Awards, and was nominated for six other Academy Awards, including Best Picture.

It was nominated for seven Academy Awards and won four, including Best Picture.

The film is also notable for its memorable theme by Greek composer Vangelis, who won an Academy Award for Best Original Score.

He entered the Kriegsakademie ( also cited as " The German War School ," the " Military Academy in Berlin ," and the " Prussian Military Academy ") in Berlin in 1801 ( age 21 ), studied the writings of the philosopher Immanuel Kant, and won the regard of General Gerhard von Scharnhorst, the future first chief of staff of the new Prussian Army ( appointed 1809 ).

Among his best-known films are Cleopatra ; Samson and Delilah ; The Greatest Show on Earth, which won the Academy Award for Best Picture ; and The Ten Commandments, which was his last and most successful film.