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Lugar y fecha de nacimiento. Donald Crisp (1880 - 1974) Actor, director Born: July 27, 1880, Aberfeldy, Perthshire, Scotland Died: May 25, 1974, Van Nuys, CA Education: Oxford In the US from 1906, Crisp enjoyed a long and varied career as an actor and, until 1930, a director; he later featured as a fatherly character performer in some 400 movies through the early 1960s. At the Biograph studios, Crisp appeared in numerous David Wark Griffith films—portraying General Grant in THE BIRTH OF A NATION (1915), playing Lillian Gish brutal father in BROKEN BLOSSOMS (1919) and serving as Griffith assistant director on both. He also directed a good number of silents including DON Q, SON OF ZORRO (1925), starring Douglas Fairbanks; THE NAVIGATOR (1924) was co-directed with Buster Keaton. As a supporting actor, Crisp fought alongside Errol Flynn in LA CARGA DE LA BRIGADA LIGERA (1936), was a stuffy military man opposite Kay Francis in THE WHITE ANGEL (1936) and played a judge in THE OKLAHOMA KID (1939). After winning a supporting actor Oscar as the head of a Welsh mining family in John Ford HOW GREEN WAS MY VALLEY (1941), Crisp was typecast as white-haired, crusty but good-hearted fathers or men of the cloth in a slew of sentimental classics como LASSIE COME HOME (1943) y NATIONAL VELVET (1944).
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