Cast: Donald Crisp

Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Donald Crisp. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.


How Green Was My Valley

1941 · Movie · 118 min. · United States

Direction John Ford

Cast Walter Pidgeon · Maureen O'Hara · Roddy McDowall · Donald Crisp

Plot This story of a Welsh valley's turn-of-the-century descent from pristine paradise to despoiled coal mining region, is told in flashback form by Huw Morgan, an old man who has decided...

8.2

11K votes

8.2

11K votes

Jezebel

1938 · Movie · 103 min. · United States

Direction William Wyler

Cast Bette Davis · Henry Fonda · George Brent · Margaret Lindsay

Plot Set in antebellum New Orleans during the early 1850's, this film follows Julie Marsden through her quest for social redemption on her own terms. Julie is a beautiful and free...

7.7

4K votes

7.7

4K votes

Mutiny on the Bounty

1935 · Movie · 132 min. · United States

Direction Frank Lloyd

Cast Charles Laughton · Clark Gable · Franchot Tone · Herbert Mundin

Plot MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY is the classic tale of one of the most infamous adventures on the high seas. The story is based on the fictional accounts written by Charles...

7.5

4K votes

7.5

4K votes

The Man from Laramie

1955 · Movie · 101 min. · United States

Direction Anthony Mann

Cast James Stewart · Arthur Kennedy · Donald Crisp · Aline MacMahon

Plot Mysterious Will Lockhart delivers supplies to storekeeper Barbara Waggoman at Coronado, an isolated town in Apache country. Before long, he's tangled with Dave Waggoman, vicious son of autocratic rancher Alec...

7.5

4K votes

7.5

4K votes

The Last Hurrah

1958 · Movie · 121 min. · United States

Direction John Ford

Cast Spencer Tracy · Jeffrey Hunter · Dianne Foster · Basil Rathbone

Plot An aging politician tries to get re-elected one last time in the changing world of the 1950s when TV started to play a bigger part in politics. Based loosely on...

7.5

2K votes

7.5

2K votes

Broken Blossoms

1919 · Movie · 90 min. · United States

Direction D.W. Griffith

Cast Lillian Gish · Richard Barthelmess · Donald Crisp · Arthur Howard

Plot Tragic and poetic D.W. Griffith drama about a young girl who leaves her abusive boxer father and finds friendship with a Chinese shopkeeper in London's Limehouse district.

7.5

2K votes

7.5

2K votes

Wuthering Heights

1939 · Movie · 103 min. · United States

Direction William Wyler

Cast Merle Oberon · Laurence Olivier · David Niven · Flora Robson

Plot The Earnshaws are Yorkshire farmers during the early 19th Century. One day, Mr. Earnshaw returns from a trip to the city, bringing with him a ragged little boy called Heathcliff....

7.4

5K votes

7.4

5K votes

The Old Maid

1939 · Movie · 95 min. · United States

Direction Edmund Goulding

Cast Bette Davis · Miriam Hopkins · George Brent · Donald Crisp

Plot Delia marries Jim, not Joe After Delia breaks her engagement to Clem and marries Jim, Clem promises to marry Delia's cousin Charlotte, but he dies at the battle of Vicksburg...

7.4

732 votes

7.4

732 votes

Confession

1937 · Movie · 87 min. · United States

7.2

35 votes

7.2

35 votes

Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet

1940 · Movie · 103 min. · United States

Direction William Dieterle

Cast Edward G. Robinson · Ruth Gordon · Otto Kruger · Donald Crisp

Plot Dr. Paul Ehrlich was the German physician who developed the first synthetic antimicrobial drug, 606 or Salvarsan. The film describes how Ehrlich first became interested in the properties of the...

7.1

115 votes

7.1

115 votes

The Life of Emile Zola

1937 · Movie · 116 min. · United States

Direction William Dieterle

Cast Paul Muni · Henry O'Neill · Joseph Schildkraut · Gale Sondergaard

Plot The biopic of the famous French muckraking writer and his involvement in fighting the injustice of the Dreyfuss Affair. Paul Cezanne and Émile Zola were friends when both were starting...

7.1

880 votes

7.1

880 votes

The Charge of the Light Brigade

1936 · Movie · 116 min. · United States

Direction Michael Curtiz

Cast Errol Flynn · Olivia de Havilland · Patric Knowles · Nigel Bruce

Plot Major Vickers is an officer at the 27th Lancers in India 1856. When the regiment is on maneuver, the barracks are attacked by Surat Khan and his soldiers who massacre...

7.0

2K votes

7.0

2K votes

City for Conquest

1940 · Movie · 104 min. · United States

Direction Anatole Litvak

Cast James Cagney · Ann Sheridan · Anthony Quinn · Frank Craven

Plot Cagney is Danny Kenny, a truck driver who enters "the fight game" and Sheridan his former girlfriend, Peggy. While Danny is realizing success in the ring, he is blinded by...

7.0

313 votes

7.0

313 votes

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

1941 · Movie · 113 min. · United States

Direction Victor Fleming

Cast Spencer Tracy · Ingrid Bergman · Lana Turner · Donald Crisp

Plot Dr. Jekyll believes good and evil exist in everyone. Experiments reveal his evil side, named Hyde. Experience teaches him how evil Hyde can be: he kills Ivy who earlier expressed...

7.0

2K votes

7.0

2K votes

The Sea Hawk

1940 · Movie · 109 min. · United States

Direction Michael Curtiz

Cast Errol Flynn · Flora Robson · Brenda Marshall · Claude Rains

Plot In the 1580s, the Sea Hawks -- the name given to the bold privateers who prowl the oceans taking ships and treasure on behalf the British crown -- are the...

7.0

5K votes

7.0

5K votes

The Long Gray Line

1955 · Movie · 138 min. · United States

Direction John Ford

Cast Tyrone Power · Maureen O'Hara · Ward Bond · Donald Crisp

Plot The life story of a salt-of-the-earth Irish immigrant, who becomes an Army Noncommissioned Officer and spends his 50 year career at the United States Military Academy at West Point. This...

7.0

1K votes

7.0

1K votes

Red Dust

1932 · Movie · 83 min. · United States

Direction Victor Fleming

Cast Clark Gable · Jean Harlow · Gene Raymond · Mary Astor

Plot Conditions are spartan on Dennis Carson's Indo-china rubber plantation during a dusty dry monsoon. The latest boat upriver brings Carson an unwelcome guest: Vantine, a floozy from Saigon, hoping to...

6.9

328 votes

6.9

328 votes

Bright Leaf

1950 · Movie · 110 min. · United States

6.8

387 votes

6.8

387 votes

The Black Pirate

1926 · Movie · 88 min. · United States

Direction Albert Parker

Cast Douglas Fairbanks · Billie Dove · Anders Randolf · Donald Crisp

Plot Douglas Fairbanks plays a nobleman who wants to revenge his father's murder, so he boards a pirate vessel disguised as one of the thieving, villainous rapscallions, and sets about achieving...

6.7

199 votes

6.7

199 votes

The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex

1939 · Movie · 106 min. · United States

Direction Michael Curtiz

Cast Bette Davis · Errol Flynn · Olivia de Havilland · Donald Crisp

Plot A romantic drama film based on the relationship between Queen Elizabeth I (played by Bette Davis) and Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex (played by Errol Flynn).

6.6

853 votes

6.6

853 votes