Biography
Peter Donat (born 20 January 1928) is a Canadian-American actor known for his roles in American television. Description above from the Wikipedia article Peter Donat, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Complete Filmography
The China Syndrome: Creating a Controversy
2004
as Self
Behind-the-scenes documentary about the making of "The China Syndrome."
The China Syndrome: A Fusion of Talent
2004
as Self
Behind-the-scenes documentary about the making of "The China Syndrome."
The Deep End
2001
as Jack Hall
With her husband Jack perpetually away at work, Margaret Hall raises her children virtually alone. Her teenage son is testing the waters of the adult ...
Red Corner
1997
as David McAndrews
An American attorney on business in China, ends up wrongfully on trial for murder and his only key to innocence is a female defense lawyer from the co...
The Game
1997
as Samuel Sutherland
In honor of his birthday, San Francisco banker Nicholas Van Orton, a financial genius and a cold-hearted loner, receives an unusual present from his y...
Seduced and Betrayed
1995
as Judge Van Owen
A beautiful but equally dangerous widow won't take "no" for an answer as she draws a dedicated family man into a world of passion, deceit and betrayal...
Dieppe
1993
as McNaughton
A dramatization of the failed World War II raid which became the most serious defeat of Canadian forces in the war.
School Ties
1992
as Headmaster Bartram
When David Greene receives a football scholarship to a prestigious prep school in the 1950s, he feels pressure to hide the fact that he is Jewish from...
The Babe
1992
as Frazee
A chronicle of Babe Ruth's phenomenal story--from his hard knock beginnings at a Baltimore orphanage, to his meteoric rise to baseball superstardom an...
Scenic Wonders of America: Pacific Frontiers
1991
as Narrator (voice)
Your journey begins in the stark beauty of Death Valley Monument. It ends with enthralling closeups of rare nene birds in the crater of a dormant volc...
Scenic Wonders of America: American West
1991
as Narrator (voice)
Start where America's mighty Mississippi empties into the Gulf of Mexico... voyage upriver and wonder at the majesty of the Great Lakes... then head w...
Scenic Wonders of America: Atlantic Vistas
1991
as Narrator (voice)
From early morning sunlight that lights up the rocky shores of Maine's Acadia National Park to a glowing sunset over the Everglades in Florida, here's...
Video Visits: Bali - A Window on Paradise
1990
as Narrator (voice)
A comprehensive tour of the beautiful Indonesian island of Bali - its slumbering volcanoes, mountain lakes, lush green rice paddies and intricate temp...
The War of the Roses
1989
as Jason Larrabee
Barbara and Oliver Rose live happily as a married couple. When Barbara starts to wonder what life would be like without Oliver and likes what she sees...
Skin Deep
1989
as Sparky
Hard-drinking novelist Zach Hutton spirals out of control after his wife and mistress both leave him. Alone and crippled by a bad case of writer's blo...
Switzerland: The Alpine Wonderland
1989
as Narrator (voice)
A tour of the mountains, valleys and cities of this beautiful country. Visit Neuchatel, then shop in elegant Lausanne. The dungeon of the Chateau de C...
Tucker: The Man and His Dream
1988
as Kerner
Ypsilanti, Michigan, 1945. Engineer Preston Tucker dreams of designing the car of future, but his innovative envision will be repeatedly sabotaged by ...
Earth Star Voyager
1988
as Admiral Beasley
In the late 21st century, planet earth's natural resources are near depletion, and problems like acid rain and limited breathable oxygen abound. In re...
Unfinished Business
1987
as Ferency
Helena, a stage actress is confronted by Ferenc, a Hungarian who left her 15 years before to return to Europe, where he now runs a state-subsidized th...
Fortune Dane
1986
as Dexter
Carl Weathers is a former championship athlete turned police officer. He is about to face the most vicious challenge of his life in this action packed...
Honeymoon
1985
as Novak
A Frenchwoman in Manhattan, in danger of being deported because of her relationship with a recently arrested drug offender, enters into a marriage of ...
The Bay Boy
1984
as Will Campbell
A Roman Catholic teenage boy in Glace Bay, Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia during the 1930s faces various growing-up problems: Should he become a prie...
Massive Retaliation
1984
as Lee Briscoe
Three families that are best friends head to their secret retreat when WW3 seems to be nearing. The adults arrive at the retreat and must endure the s...
Mazes and Monsters
1982
as Harold
Bound together by a desire to play "Mazes and Monsters," Robbie and his four college classmates decide to move the board game into the local cavern. R...
Ladies and Gentlemen, the Fabulous Stains
1982
as Harley Dennis
Corrine Burns retreats far into plans for her band, The Fabulous Stains, after her mother's death.
Highpoint
1982
as Maronzella
James Hatcher embezzles ten million dollars from a joint mafia/CIA operation, leaving them squabbling with each other. Unemployed Lewis Kinney gets ca...
The Princess and the Cabbie
1981
as Edward James
A young woman works to overcome her dyslexia with the help of a good-hearted cab driver.
Golden Gate
1981
as Richard Bryne
A venerable San Francisco publishing family becomes embroiled in a bitter power struggle between the iron-fisted, but ailing, patriarch's son and a ru...
A Matter of Life and Death
1981
as Dr. Whedon
The true story of a nurse who spent her life caring for terminally ill patients.
Fun and Games
1980
as Ted
A divorcee decides to fight back after her hopes of gaining a promotion are dashed by her rejection of the advances of her boss, and it is only after ...
Meteor
1979
as Opening Sequence Narrator (voice)
After a collision with a comet, a nearly 8km wide piece of the asteroid "Orpheus" is heading towards Earth. If it hits it will cause an incredible cat...
Hanging by a Thread
1979
as Mr. Durant
A group of old friends on an outing re-live various traumas and tragedies via flashback whilst trapped high above a ravine in a disabled cable-car.
The China Syndrome
1979
as Don Jacovich
While doing a series of reports on alternative energy sources, opportunistic reporter Kimberly Wells witnesses an accident at a nuclear power plant. W...
Return Engagement
1978
as George Riley
A live-theater production in which Elizabeth Taylor stars as Emily Loomis, a professor of ancient history at a small California college, who reluctant...
A Different Story
1978
as Sills
A gay man and a lesbian enter into a marriage of convenience in order to prevent his deportation, and then gradually fall in love with one another.
F.I.S.T.
1978
as Arthur St. Clair
Johnny Kovak joins the Teamsters trade-union in a local chapter in the 1930s and works his way up in the organization. As he climbs higher and higher ...
Mirrors
1978
as Dr. Philip Godard
A newlywed couple checks into an old hotel in New Orleans where the wife begins having dreams in which she encounters a sinister group of people who s...
The Suicide's Wife
1977
as Wayne Harrington
An unsuccessful middle-aged college professor commits suicide, leaving his wife to cope with guilt, shame, and an angry teenage son who blames her for...
Delta County, USA
1977
as John McCain, Jr.
Delta County is a staid Southern community caught between the old traditions and a rapidly changing way of life. For teenagers Terry Nicholas, his sis...
Billy Jack Goes to Washington
1977
as Ralph Butler
After a senator suddenly dies after completing (and sealing) an investigation into the nuclear power industry, the remaining senator and the state gov...
The Flying Misfits
1976
as Col. Mathis
The dramatized World War II adventures of US Major Gregory "Pappy" Boyington and his Marine Attack Squadron 214, AKA The Black Sheep Squadron. The fil...
The Lindbergh Kidnapping Case
1976
as Col. H. Norman Schwarzkopf
Fact-based story of the kidnapping of Charles Lindbergh Jr., son and namesake of the famed pilot, and ensuing trial of accused and convicted killer, B...
The Hindenburg
1975
as Reed Channing
Colonel Franz Ritter, a former hero pilot now working for military intelligence, is assigned to the great Hindenburg airship as its chief of security....
Russian Roulette
1975
as Inspector McDermott
An RCMP officer is ordered to discreetly take a Russian immigrant into custody in advance of a state visit by the Soviet premier. When the prisoner is...
The First 36 Hours of Dr. Durant
1975
as Dr. Bryce
A young doctor fresh out of medical school takes a job at a big-city hospital, and on his first day finds himself making life-and-death decisions.
Last Hours Before Morning
1975
as Peter Helms
An ex-cop, now a private detective, investigating a gambler's murder finds that there may be a connection between that crime and the jewel robbery at ...
The Godfather Part II
1974
as Questadt
In the continuing saga of the Corleone crime family, a young Vito Corleone grows up in Sicily and in 1910s New York. In the 1950s, Michael Corleone at...
The Missiles of October
1974
as David Ormsby-Gore, British Ambassador to U.S.
Based in part on Robert F. Kennedy's book, "Thirteen Days," this film profiles the Kennedy Administration's actions during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Cyrano de Begerac
1974
as Cyrano de Bergerac
Cyrano de Begerac helps an army officer woo Roxanne, the woman he loves.
Enemies
1974
as Zakhar
In a sun-dappled garden in provincial Russia in 1905, some factory owners and their wives discuss the unrest among the workers. Rather than submit to ...
The Return of Charlie Chan
1973
as Noel Adamson
Charlie Chan comes out of retirement to investigate a murder case aboard the yacht of a wealthy Greek shipping tycoon.
My Old Man's Place
1971
as Car Salesman
Two soldiers return from Vietnam with serious PTSD. They decide to go for a couple of days to a peaceful farm owned by the father of one of the men. A...
The Last Voyage of Henry Hudson
1964
as Greene
This short film realistically portrays the conflict Henry Hudson experienced when he went in search of an open water route to the Orient, and no one w...
Lost Lagoon
1957
as David Burnham
Saddled with a loveless marriage and three ungrateful children, Charlie Walker (Jeffrey Lynn) dreams of escape. When he falls overboard on a boating t...