Robert Donat Movies

Want to know the best Robert Donat movies?  How about the worst Robert Donat movies?  Curious about Robert Donat box office grosses or which Robert Donat movie picked up the most Oscar® nominations? Need to know which Robert Donat movie got the best reviews from critics and audiences and which got the worst reviews? Well you have come to the right place….because we have all of that information.

Robert Donat (1905-1958) was an Oscar® winning English actor.  Donat is best remembered for his roles in Alfred Hitchcock’s The 39 Steps (1935) and his Oscar® winning role in 1939’s Goodbye, Mr. Chips.  He suffered from chronic asthma, which affected his career and limited him to appearing in only 20 films..   His IMDb page shows 21 acting credits from 1932 to 1958.  This page will rank 17 Robert Donat movies from Best to Worst in six different sortable columns of information. Television shows, shorts, cameos and movies that were not released in North American and a handful of his movies that we could not find box office on, were not included in the rankings.

Robert Donat in 1939’s Goodbye Mr. Chips

Robert Donat Movies Ranked In Chronological Order With Ultimate Movie Rankings Score (1 to 5 UMR Tickets) *Best combo of box office, reviews and awards.

1937’s Knight Without Armour

Robert Donat Movies Can Be Ranked 6 Ways In This Table
The really cool thing about this table is that it is “user-sortable”. Rank the movies anyway you want.

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Sort Robert Donat movies by adjusted domestic box office grosses using current movie ticket cost.
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Sort Robert Donat movies how they were received by critics and audiences.  60% rating or higher should indicate a good movie.
Sort by how many Oscar® nominations and how many Oscar® wins each Robert Donat movie received.
Sort Robert Donat movies by Ultimate Movie Rankings (UMR) Score.  UMR Score puts box office, reviews and awards into a mathematical equation and gives each movie a score.

Check out Robert Donat’s career compared to current and classic actors.  Most 100 Million Dollar Movies of All-Time.

Be aware.  Normally we have some great resources for classic box office grosses.  In this case we had to rely on the Harrison Reports for many of our estimated grosses.   We like the Harrison Reports, but they are not our favorite source.  Usually we feel pretty good in our calculations.  That is not the case on this page.   After years of looking, we have determined Robert Donat grosses are nowhere to be found.  So going with the “something is better than nothing” approach, we decided to finally show our estimated Robert Donat box office grosses.   But we freely admit…we are standing on thin ice on this page.

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18 thoughts on “Robert Donat Movies

  1. I saw 4 including 3 of top 4. 10 and favorite the inn of the 6th happiness. 9 the private life of henry the eigth. I have some catching up to do

  2. Hey Bob….thanks for explaining the conversation between you and Steve. It at least make a little more sense to me. I freely admit I do not know much about Cthulhu and Lovecraft. More good points about Donat. Off to work…going to be a long day….as tonight is open house at school. Good stuff as always.

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