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  Donald Crisp at Reel Classics
Besides being one of the great character actors of the classic era, playing in over 130 films including three Best Pictures, Donald Crisp was also an early Hollywood director with 61 films to his credit (all before 1930).
Crisp played Burkitt, one of the supporting characters in this classic high sea adventure story.
Crisp played Dr. Livingstone in JEZEBEL, nominated for five Academy Awards in 1938 including Best Picture.
www.reelclassics.com /Actors/Crisp/crisp.htm   (234 words)

  
  Donald Crisp - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Donald Crisp was born George William Crisp in London, at the family home in Bow (historically known as Stratford) on July 27, 1882.
Crisp worked as an assistant to Griffith for several years and learned much during this time from Giffith, an early master of movie story telling who was influential in advancing a number early techniques such as cross cutting in editing his films.
Crisp was in his eighties by the time he quite acting entirely, contintuing to work long after he needed to finanically simply because he enjoyed it.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Donald_Crisp   (1229 words)

  
 Don Crisp receives 2005 Outstanding Alumnus of the Year Award
Crisp graduated from ACU in 1964 with a B.S. in accounting and business administration and is now chair of the university Board of Trustees.
Crisp's award was presented in recognition of his service to ACU, his Christ-like attitude in the business arena, his seflessness, his commitment to the Board of Trustees, his teamwork and integrity and the humble example he sets daily.
Crisp described his timidity as a young man and suggested it is his wife's presence to which he attributes his success.
www.acu.edu /events/news/archives2006/060222_don_crisp.html   (750 words)

  
 Donald Crisp @ Filmbug
Born George William Crisp in London, England, he began his film acting career in 1908, and appeared in D. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation in 1915.
With the advent of talking pictures, Crisp established a career as a versatile character actor, and won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role as the Welsh father in How Green Was My Valley (1941).
Donald Crisp has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for his contribution to Motion Pictures, at 1620 Vine St.
www.filmbug.com /db/260430   (232 words)

  
 Donald Crisp - Best Supporting Actor: MovieActors.com
Donald Crisp won his Supporting Oscar for playing the stern, but loving father.
All in all, Donald Crisp has appeared in over 400 films.Crisp is one of the movie industry's true pioneers, active on both sides of the camera, working alongside such legends as D.W. Griffth, Lillian Gish and Buster Keaton.
Donald Crisp had supporting roles in such movies as National Velvet, Jezebel, Mutiny on the Bounty (1935), and Wuthering Heights (1939).
www.movieactors.com /winsm/sm41.htm   (144 words)

  
 Amazon.co.uk: Greyfriars Bobby (1960) (Disney): Video: Donald Crisp,Laurence Naismith,Don Chaffey,Alex Mackenzie,Duncan ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Based on a true story, the film follows the adventures of a wee Skye terrier who refuses to be separated from his master, even in death.
Bobby sleeps on the old man's grave in the cemetery of Greyfriars church; he won't be driven away by Mr Brown, the groundskeeper (Donald Crisp), or adopted by Mr Trail (Laurence Naismith), the kindly restaurant owner.
Crisp and Naismith offer engaging performances as the reluctant friends (and rivals for Bobby's affection).
www.amazon.co.uk /Greyfriars-Bobby-Disney-Donald-Crisp/dp/B00004R7BB   (909 words)

  
 Home Town Story (1951) Starring: Jeffrey Lynn, Donald Crisp, Marjorie Reynolds - Three Movie Buffs Review
Frank Sinatra: It Was a very Good Life Frank Sinatra will always be remembered for his life and his singing, but along the way he made some good films as well.
Donald Crisp is also in the movie as the wealthy benevolent businessman that comes to the rescue.
His character boasts that he will soon turn 65 and still has the vigor of a young man. In real life Donald Crisp was over 70.
www.threemoviebuffs.com /review.php?movieID=hometownstory   (561 words)

  
 Slant Magazine - Film Review: Broken Blossoms
Just as Griffith felt he was falsely accused of racism, the film's heroine constantly suffers the scorn of her vicious father.
Battling Burrows (Oscar-winner Donald Crisp) is a monster, but Griffith understands the man's frustrated desire to lash out against something (here, his own daughter) in the face of economic and masculine defeat.
So horrible is Lucy's torture at the hands of her father that she has to literally sculpt a smile from her perpetually downtrodden expression using the tips of her fingers.
www.slantmagazine.com /film/film_review.asp?ID=760   (859 words)

  
 Donald Crisp (I)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
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Donald Crisp was born George William Crisp at the family home in Bow, London...
Fought in the British army during the Boer War in South Africa.
www.imdb.com /name/nm0187981   (440 words)

  
 What A Character!   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
With a career that spanned seven decades, Donald Crisp’s films included his Academy Award winning performance in How Green Was My Valley, and such notable films as Jezebel, National Velvet, and Wuthering Heights.
Born in Aberfeddy, Perthshire, Scotland, Crisp first came to the screen in film’s earliest days appearing in the 1907 silent film The French Maid, as well as, D.W. Griffith’s landmark silents The Birth of a Nation and Intolerance.
A director, as well as, actor, Crisp directed more than fifty films, including The Warning, Don Q Son of Zorro, and The Runaway Bride.
www.what-a-character.com /cgi-bin/display.cgi?id=982802692   (136 words)

  
 Barnes & Noble.com - DVD, Movie, Video: How Green Was My Valley, Walter Pidgeon, DVD, Black & White / Pan ...
Over the years, the family has to survive through unionization, strikes, and child abuse and, as they do so, their hometown and its culture begins to slowly decline.
It's a moving, affectionate tribute to family and lost innocence, highlighted by Donald Crisp's portrayal of the family's father.
Donald Crisp portrays Gwilym, the patriarch of the Morgan household, who dreams of a better life for young Huw.
video.barnesandnoble.com /search/Product.asp?ean=24543000310   (469 words)

  
 Amazon.co.uk: Home Town Story: Marilyn Monroe (NTSC): DVD: Jeffrey Lynn,Donald Crisp,Marjorie Reynolds,Alan Hale ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Actors: Jeffrey Lynn, Donald Crisp, Marjorie Reynolds, Alan Hale Jr.
Undaunted, Washburn rakes big business up and down the coals of his editorial pages, even after one local businessman, John McFarland (Donald Crisp), gives him an Economics 101 lecture on the importance of big business and its products in everyday life.
Then Washburn's little sister Katie (Melinda Plowman) enters an old mine to retrieve her new puppy and becomes the victim of a terrible cave-in.
www.amazon.co.uk /Home-Town-Story-Marilyn-Monroe/dp/B00008G8B5   (800 words)

  
 Location DVD - Les films avec Donald Crisp
Avec : Fredric March, Katharine Hepburn, Donald Crisp, John Carradine
Le Dr. Jekyll est persuadé que chacun abrite une face sombre.
Avec : Ingrid Bergman, Donald Crisp, Spencer Tracy, Turner Lana
www.locafilm.com /acteur.php?id_artiste=4337   (125 words)

  
 Academy Award® Winners and Nominees - Oscar® List at Movies Unlimited
Cast: Spring Byington, Mamo Clark, Donald Crisp, Dudley Digges, Clark Gable, Charles Laughton, Francis Lister, Movita, Herbert Mundin, Eddie Quillan, Byron Russell, Henry Stephenson, Franchot Tone, David Torrence, Percy Waram
John Ford's powerful winner of the Best Picture Academy Award is set in Wales at the turn of the century, and tells the story of a family of miners, looked over by a loving but stern patriarch, whose lives are filled with danger and repression.
Cast: Sara Allgood, Donald Crisp, Mary Field, Barry Fitzgerald, Richard Fraser, Mary Gordon, Patric Knowles, Marten Lamont, Anna Lee, John Loder, Morton Lowry, Roddy McDowall, Maureen O'Hara, Irving Pichel, Walter Pidgeon, Ann Todd, Rhys Williams
www.moviesunlimited.com /musite/oscars.asp?sRow=1   (2162 words)

  
 Movie Info for Greyfriars Bobby: The True Story of a Dog on MSN Movies
Disney's Greyfriars Bobby is a remake of A Challenge to Lassie; both are based on the same novel by Eleanor Atkinson, and both feature Donald Crisp in a major role.
Slowly but surely, the taciturn Brown comes to love the steadfast dog, which brings him into conflict with stiff-necked Constable MacLean (Donald MacRae), who intends to "arrest" Bobby if Brown doesn't pay the minimal license fee.
Standing on principle, Brown refuses, but a group of local children raise the necessary funds, setting the stage for a heartwarmingly Disneyesque finale.
movies.msn.com /movies/movie.aspx?m=108777   (148 words)

  
 Donald Crisp Biography :: Hollywood.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
In the USA from 1906, Donald Crisp was a leading man in silents by 1910 and went on to have a long and varied career as an actor, and until 1930 as a director; later featured as a fatherly character performer in allegedly over 400 movies by 1963.
At the Biograph studios, Crisp appeared in numerous D.W. Griffith films, portraying General Grant in "Birth of a Nation" (1915), playing Lillian Gish's brutal father in "Broken Blossoms" (1919) and serving as Griffith's assistant director on both.
He also directed a good number of silents including "Don Q, Son of Zorro" (1925) starring Douglas Fairbanks and co-directed "The Navigator" (1924) with Buster Keaton.
www.hollywood.com /celebs/fulldetail/id/198534   (229 words)

  
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 Donald Crisp   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
When's Donald Crisp coming up on UK TV As "Jock Gray" in Challenge to Lassie
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 Charge of the Light Brigade, The - 1936 - Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Patric Knowles, Henry Stephenson, Nigel ...
Charge of the Light Brigade, The - 1936 - Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Patric Knowles, Henry Stephenson, Nigel Bruce, Donald Crisp, David Niven, Robert Barrat
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Alfred Tennyson’s epic poem of the heroic charge at Balaklava during the Crimea War (1853 — 1856) is brought to the screen in all its magnificence and glory.
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 Broken Blossoms (1919) Starring: Lillian Gish, Richard Barthelmess, Donald Crisp - Three Movie Buffs Review
He is disillusioned by life and spends time in an opium den.
The one bright light in his dismal world is young Lucy Burrows, a local urchin that also happens to be the abused daughter of the brutal prizefighter Battling Burrows (Donald Crisp).
After one particularly vicious beating Lucy staggers into The Yellow Man's shop and collapses on the floor.
www.threemoviebuffs.com /review.php?movieID=brokenblossoms   (461 words)

  
 Donald Crisp Bio, News and Movie Credits - RopeofSilicon.com
Donald Crisp Bio, News and Movie Credits - RopeofSilicon.com
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