Donald Crisp
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Donald Crisp (born George William Crisp, 27 July 1882 – 25 May 1974) was an English film actor.
He was an early producer, director, and screenwriter.
His career spanned the silent film age to the 1960s.
In 1942, he received an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in How Green Was My Valley.
Early life
On July 27, 1882, Donald Crisp was born George William Crisp in Bow, London, in a family's house. He was the youngest of ten children (four boys and six girls) born to Elizabeth (née Christy) and James Crisp, a labourer. He was educated locally and in 1901 he was living with his parents and working as a driver of a horse-drawn vehicle.
Crisp made several assertions about his early life that were later discovered to be false decades after his death. He claimed he was born in 1880 in Aberfeld, Scotland, and went so far as to have a Scottish accent throughout his life in Hollywood. He had no ties to Scotland, but a plaque commemorating him was unveiled in Crisp's ostensible hometown, Aberfeldy. On several occasions, he claimed that his father was a cattle farmer, a country doctor, or a royal physician to King Edward VII. He also stated that he was educated at Eton and Oxford, and that he served as a trooper in the 10th Hussars in the Boer War.
Early career
Crisp's singing abilities during a ship's concert caught opera impresario John C. Fisher's attention, who immediately offered him a job with his firm. Crisp spent his first year as a stage director in New York City and the following year as a stage director. Crisp first became interested in theatre while touring with the company in the United States and Cuba. Crisp, now using the word Donald, was working as a stage manager for the celebrated entertainer, composer, playwright, and director George M. Cohan by 1910, Crisp, who retained George as a middle name. It was during this time that D.W. Griffith, a film producer, met and befriended him. Crisp accompanied Griffith as he went west to find his fortune in Hollywood in 1912.
Crisp, from 1908 to 1930, in addition to directing hundreds of films, appeared in over a hundred silent films, but many were in bit or small parts. In Griffith's legendary film The Birth of a Nation (1915), one notable exception was Griffith's casting as General Ulysses S. Grant. "Battling Burrows," Griffith's 1919 film Broken Blossoms, the film's protagonist, Lucy Burrows' violent and abusive father (played by Lillian Gish; the actor was only 11 years old).
Military career
Crisp managed to return to the United Kingdom after serving in British army intelligence during the First World War (1914-1918) while working for Griffith and other producers, as well as his many acting roles. Crisp became an American citizen in 1930, and he served in the United States Army Reserve from 1939-1955, earning the rank of colonel.