Peter Donat
Highest Rated: 88% The China Syndrome (1979)
Lowest Rated: 0% Billy Jack Goes to Washington (1977)
Birthday: Jan 20, 1928
Birthplace: Kentville, Nova Scotia, Canada
Canadian-born actor Peter Donat began his career with a gallant performance as the title character in a production of "Cyrano de Bergerac." While his nearly five-decade run in Hollywood as a minor character player has seldom matched such grandiose beginnings, Donat has made consistent, quality contributions to such major films as "The Godfather Part II" (1974), "The China Syndrome" (1979), and "The Babe" (1992), among a slew of others. Beginning in the 1970s, Dobson landed regular appearances on American television, including the Emmy-nominated drama "Rich Man, Poor Man: Book II" and the prime-time soap "Flamingo Road," where he played the editor of a small town newspaper. But Donat's most notable TV appearances would come in the 1990s: as the time-traveling villain Dr. Mordecai Sahmbi on the short-lived show "Time Trax" and as agent Fox Mulder's (David Duchovny) father, William Mulder, on the hit conspiracy series "The X-Files." Peter Donat died on September 10, 2018 at the age of 90.
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Peter Donat
Filmography
Movies
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No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Murder, She Wrote: The Celtic Riddle | Eamon Byrne (Character) | - | 2003 |
82% |
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The Deep End | Jack Hall (Character) | $8.8M | 2001 |
27% |
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Red Corner | David McAndrews (Character) | $22.4M | 1997 |
77% |
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The Game | Samuel Sutherland (Character) | $48.3M | 1997 |
No Score Yet |
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Seduced and Betrayed | Judge Van Owen (Character) | - | 1995 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Dieppe | McNaughton (Character) | - | 1994 |
47% |
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The Babe | Harry Frazee (Character) | $17.0M | 1992 |
60% |
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School Ties | Headmaster Dr. Bartram (Character) | $12.5M | 1992 |
83% |
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The War of the Roses | Jason Larrabee (Character) | $84.1M | 1989 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Christine Cromwell: Things That Go Bump in the Night | Walker Garrison (Character) | - | 1989 |
81% |
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Tucker: The Man and His Dream | Kerner, Prosecuter (Character) | $19.2M | 1988 |
No Score Yet |
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Massive Retaliation | Lee Briscoe (Character) | - | 1984 |
No Score Yet |
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The Bay Boy | Will Campbell (Character) | - | 1984 |
69% |
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Ladies and Gentlemen, the Fabulous Stains | Harley Dennis (Character) | - | 1982 |
No Score Yet |
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Mazes and Monsters | Harold (Character) | - | 1982 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Princess and the Cabbie | Edward James (Character) | - | 1981 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Highpoint | Maronzella (Character) | - | 1980 |
88% |
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The China Syndrome | Don Jacovich (Character) | - | 1979 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Suicide's Wife | Wayne Harrington (Character) | - | 1979 |
67% |
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F.I.S.T. | Arthur St. Clair (Character) | - | 1978 |
38% |
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A Different Story | Sills (Character) | - | 1978 |
0% |
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Billy Jack Goes to Washington | Ralph Butler (Character) | - | 1977 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Mirrors | Dr. Philip Godard (Character) | - | 1977 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Delta County, U.S.A. | John McCain Jr. (Character) | - | 1977 |
No Score Yet |
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The Lindbergh Kidnapping Case | Col. H. Norman Schwarzkopf (Character) | - | 1976 |
No Score Yet |
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Russian Roulette | McDermott (Character) | - | 1975 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Last Hours Before Morning | Peter Helms (Character) | - | 1975 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The First 36 Hours of Dr. Durant | Dr. Bryce (Character) | - | 1975 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Return of Charlie Chan | Noel Adamson (Character) | - | 1973 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Lost Lagoon | David Burnham (Character) | - | 1958 |
TV
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74% | 85% | The X-Files | William Mulder (Guest Star) | 1995 1999 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Outer Limits | Principal Kern (Character) | 1996 |
40% | No Score Yet | Time Trax | Dr. Mordecai "Mo" Sahmbi (Character) | 1993-1994 |
No Score Yet | 89% | Murder, She Wrote | Floyd Larkin (Guest Star) | 1989 1993-1994 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Simon & Simon | Michael Eichler (Guest Star) | 1984 |
97% | 82% | Hill Street Blues | Schuster (Guest Star) | 1983 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Hart to Hart | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1982 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Charlie's Angels | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1978 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | McMillan and Wife | Murray Starr (Guest Star) | 1977 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Harry O | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1975 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Mannix | Edwin Mansfield (Guest Star) | 1969 1971 1973 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Waltons | Oscar Cockrell (Guest Star) | 1973 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | I Spy | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1968 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Startime | Unknown (Character) | 1959 |