Donald Crisp
1882-1974
Known for How Green Was My Valley, The Man from Laramie, Broken Blossoms or The Yellow Man and the Girl.
Biography
Donald Crisp was born George William Crisp at the family home in Bow, London. Donald's parents were James Crisp and Elizabeth Crisp, his birth was registered by his mother on 4th September 1882. Donald's sisters were Elizabeth, Ann, Alice (known as Louisa) and Eliza and his brothers were James, John and Mark. Family memories state that Donald's brother-in-law James Needham (Louisa's husband) lent/gave Donald the fare to USA. The family have a photo of Donald which he sent to 'Jimmy' and signed. On 16th February 1937 Donald applied for a US Social Security account number giving his address as N Vista Street Hollywood California, and his employers Warner Brothers Pictures, Burbank California. On his application Donald did not know his mother's maiden name.
Movie Credits
National Velvet (1945)
Broken Blossoms or The Yellow Man and the Girl (1919)
Saddle the Wind (1958)
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1941)
How Green Was My Valley (1941)
City for Conquest (1940)
The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex (1939)
Comet Over Broadway (1938)
The Dawn Patrol (1938)
The Black Pirate (1926)
Bright Leaf (1950)
Wuthering Heights (1939)
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938)
The Sisters (1938)
That Certain Woman (1937)
The Life of Emile Zola (1937)
The Charge of the Light Brigade (1936)
The Key (1934)
Broadway Bad (1933)
Mary of Scotland (1936)
The Birth of a Nation (1915)
Forever and a Day (1943)
