Donald Calthrop, the nephew of the celebrated playwright Dion Boucicault, made his stage debut in 1906 at the Comedy Theatre; his first part in a Shakespeare play was as Solanio in The Merchant of Venice. In 1914 he played Puck in A Midsummer Night's Dream. He managed the King's Way Theatre in 1923 and produced revivals of Twelfth Night and A Midsummer Night's Dream.

Calthrop had an active career in films as well as the stage. Starting in 1916 with Wanted: A Widow and ending with Shaw's Major Barbara in 1940, the year of his death, he appeared in fifty films.

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As Puck in A Midsummer Night's Dream