Donald Pitts
Classically trained, Donald has played roles from the Duchess in Alice in Wonderland to Clarence Darrow. During his study of theater performance and design at Southern Methodist University - Meadows School of Fine Arts, he was cast in several supporting and leading roles in a number of stage productions, including 'A Man's Man' by Bertolt Brecht and 'The Royal Hunt of The Sun' by Peter Schaefer. Pitts first became interested in acting during his freshman year at Brian Adams High School in Dallas, TX and continued his study on full scholarship at SMU. His studies have included classical acting, stage and screen combat techniques, set and costume design, pantomime, modern dance, musical theater and improvisation. Since retiring from the practice of law, Don has turned his focus, once again, to performance in the film, television, advertising commercial, radio, music video, and voice-over genres. More recently, Don has worked on numerous short and festival film productions, including Virgil in "The Secret's We Keep", Antonio in"Misfit's Prick" and Grandpa Art in "Sunsprite." All who have worked with Don will attest to his dedication to the acting craft; his ability to breathe life into a character; and the creative "added value" he brings to any project. He is a people person and a gifted actor. Donald Pitts lives in Topanga, California, and when not working, enjoys jamming and writing music with friends, cooking, painting and helping with animal rescue projects.
Donald Pleasence
Balding, quietly-spoken, of slight build and possessed of piercing blue eyes -- often peering out from behind round, steel-rimmed glasses -- Donald Pleasence had the necessary physical attributes which make a great screen villain. In the course of his lengthy career, he relished playing the obsessed, the paranoid and the purely evil. Even the Van Helsing-like psychiatrist Sam Loomis in the Halloween (1978) franchise seems only marginally more balanced than his prey. An actor of great intensity, Pleasence excelled on stage as Shakespearean villains. He was an unrelenting prosecutor in Jean Anouilh's "Poor Bitos" and made his theatrical reputation in the title role of the seedy, scheming tramp in Harold Pinter's "The Caretaker" (1960). On screen, he gave a perfectly plausible interpretation of the head of the SS, Heinrich Himmler, in The Eagle Has Landed (1976). He was a convincingly devious Thomas Cromwell in Henry VIII and His Six Wives (1972), disturbing in his portrayal of the crazed, bloodthirsty preacher Quint in Will Penny (1967); and as sexually depraved, alcohol-sodden 'Doc' Tydon in the brilliant Aussie outback drama Wake in Fright (1971). And, of course, he was Ernst Stavro Blofeld in You Only Live Twice (1967). These are some of the films, for which we may remember Pleasence, but there was a great deal more to this fabulous, multi-faceted actor. Donald Henry Pleasence was born on October 5, 1919 in Worksop, Nottinghamshire, England, to Alice (Armitage) and Thomas Stanley Pleasence. His family worked on the railway; his grandfather had been a signal man and both his brother and father were station masters. When Donald failed to get a scholarship at RADA, he joined the family occupation working as a clerk at his father's station before becoming station master at Swinton, Yorkshire. While there he wrote letters to theatre companies eventually being accepted by one on the island of Jersey in Spring 1939 as an assistant stage manager. On the eve of World War II, he made his theatrical debut in "Wuthering Heights". In 1942, he played Curio in "Twelfth Night", but his career was then interrupted by military service in the RAF. He was shot down over France, incarcerated and tortured in a German POW camp. Once repatriated, Donald returned to the stage in Peter Brook's 1946 London production of "The Brothers Karamazov" with Alec Guinness although he missed the opening due to measles, followed by a stint on Broadway with Laurence Olivier's touring company in "Caesar and Cleopatra" and "Anthony and Cleopatra". Upon his return to England, he won critical plaudits for his performance in "Hobson's Choice". In 1952, Donald began his screen career, rather unobtrusively, in small parts. He was only really noticed once having found his métier as dastardly, sneaky Prince John in The Adventures of Robin Hood (1955). It took several more years, until international recognition came his way: first, through the filmed adaptation of The Caretaker (1963); and, secondly, with his blind forger in The Great Escape (1963), a role imbued with added conviction due to his own wartime experience. Some of his best acting Donald reserved for the small screen. In 1962, the producer of The Twilight Zone (1959), Buck Houghton, brought Donald to the United States ('damn the expense'!) to guest star in the third season episode "The Changing of the Guard". He was given a mere five days to immerse himself in the part of a gentle school teacher, Professor Ellis Fowler, who, on the eve of Christmas is forcibly retired after fifty-one years of teaching. Devastated, and believing himself a failure who has made no mark on the world, he is about to commit suicide when the school's bell summons him to his classroom. There, he is confronted by the spirits of deceased students who exhort him to consider that his lessons have had fundamental effects on their lives, even leading to acts of great heroism. Upon hearing this, Fowler is now content to graciously accept his retirement. Managing to avoid maudlin sentimentality, Donald's performance was intuitive and, arguably, one of the most poignant ever accomplished in a thirty-minute television episode. Once again, against type, he was equally delightful as the mild-mannered Reverend Septimus Harding in Anthony Trollope's The Barchester Chronicles (1982). Whether eccentric, sinister or given to pathos, Donald Pleasence was always great value-for-money and his performances have rarely failed to engage.
Donald Prabatah
Donald Prabatah is an actor and director, known for St. Giavanni (2021), Brix and the Bitch (2016) and Trust No 1 (2019).
Donald Prince
Donald Prince is an actor, known for Hotel Secrets & Legends (2014), Murder Book (2014) and Walking the Halls (2012).
Donald Randolph
Donald Randolph was born on January 5, 1906 in Lichtenburg, Transvaal, South Africa. He was an actor, known for Topaz (1969), Assignment - Paris (1952) and Gambling House (1950). He died on March 16, 1993 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
Donald Ray Arnold
Donald Ray Arnold was born on January 3, 2000 in Birmingham, Alabama. He is an actor and writer, known for The Greater Good (2016), Starship Tristan: Moving Day (2015) and The Monsters Are with Us (2017).
Donald Ray Fairweather
Donald Ray Fairweather is known for Old Man Jackson (2022), Jurica Road (2020) and Roach (2019).
Donald Ray Jones
Donald Ray Jones is known for Taken Notes (2018), All That Remains (2019) and The Dream Motel (2019).
Donald Rey
Donald Rey is an actor, known for Queen of the South (2016), Tazmanian Devil (2020) and Two-Minute Heist (2009).
Donald Rhoades
Donald, or "Dusty" to his friends, is the Michigan-born son of an auto assembly worker and a hotel manager, and has a twin brother as well as a younger brother. His athletic career has included high school and college varsity baseball and football, as well as amateur hockey. Over the years, he has been a chef, professional bodyguard, heavy equipment operator, and a Harley-Davidson motorcycle mechanic. When not in front of the camera, Dusty can usually be found on one of his motorcycles.
