Donald Sinden
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- October 9, 1923
- Died
- September 11, 2014 (aged 90)
- Birthplace
- Plymouth, Devon, England, UK
Biography
Sir Donald Alfred Sinden CBE (born 9 October 1923) is an English actor of theatre, film and television. Sinden was born in Plymouth, Devon, England, on 9 October 1923. The son of Alfred Edward Sinden and his wife Mabel Agnes (née Fuller), he grew up in the Sussex village of Ditchling, where their home ('The Limes') doubled as the local chemist shop. He was married to actress Diana Mahony from 1948 until her death in 2004. He lives near Tenterden, Kent. The couple had two sons: actor Donald Sinden, who died of lung cancer in 1996, and Marc Sinden who is a West End theatre producer. Early career He trained as an actor at the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art and made his first stage appearance at the Brighton Little Theatre (of which he later became President) in January 1941, playing Dudley in George and Margaret. He broke into professional acting after appearing with the Mobile Entertainments Southern Area company in modern comedies for the armed forces during the Second World War. Rank Organisation In 1953 he was contracted for seven years to the Rank Organisation at Pinewood Studios and subsequently starred in many outstanding British films of the 1950s including The Cruel Sea, Mogambo, Doctor in the House, Above Us The Waves, Doctor at Large, The Siege of Sidney Street, Twice Round the Daffodils and with a very young Adam Faith in Mix Me a Person. Description above from the Wikipedia article Donald Sinden, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Filmography
Network First
TV · 2 eps
Run For Your Wife
Movie · as Man on Bus
The Accidental Detective
Movie · as Professor Stein
Judge John Deed
TV · as Sir Joseph Channing · 28 eps
How Proust Can Change Your Life
Movie · as Duc d'Albufera
Nancherrow
Movie · as Robin Jarvis
Alice in Wonderland
Movie · as Gryphon (voice)
Nancherrow
TV · 2 eps
Hey, Mr. Producer! The Musical World of Cameron Mackintosh
Movie · as Col. Pickering
Atatürk
Movie · as Narrator (voice)
The Canterville Ghost
Movie · as Lord Dumbleton
An Audience with Ronnie Corbett
Movie
Midsomer Murders
TV · as Colonel Henry Hammond · 1 ep
The Canterville Ghost
Movie · as Mr. Umney
The Treasure Seekers
Movie · as Old Wincott
Cuts
Movie · as Sir Luke Trimingham
Balto
Movie · as Doc (voice)
Performance
TV · as Edmund of Langley · 1 ep
The Children
Movie · as Lord Wrench
Challenge Anneka
TV · as Self · 1 ep
The Golden Gong: The Story of Rank Films - British Cinema's Legendary Studio
Movie · as Self
Theatre Night
TV · as Sir Anthony Absolute · 1 ep
An Audience with Mel Brooks
Movie · as Self (uncredited)
Playing Shakespeare
TV · 9 eps
Present Laughter
Movie · as Garry Essendine
All's Well That Ends Well
Movie · as King of France
Never the Twain
TV · as Simon Peel · 67 eps
That Lucky Touch
Movie · as British Gen. Armstrong
Two's Company
TV · as Robert Hiller · 28 eps
The Island at the Top of the World
Movie · as Sir Anthony Ross
The Day of the Jackal
Movie · as Mallinson
The National Health
Movie · as Mr. Carr / Senior Surgeon Boyd
Father Dear Father
Movie · as Philip Glover
Rentadick
Movie · as Jeffrey Armitage
The Organization
TV · as David Pulman · 7 eps
Villain
Movie · as Gerald Draycott
The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes
TV · as Romney Pringle · 1 ep
The Ten Commandments
TV · as Major · 1 ep
Decline and Fall ...of a Birdwatcher
Movie · as The Prison Governor
The Judgement of Albion
Movie · as Voice
William and Mary
Movie · as William Pearl
Ooh La La!
TV · 1 ep
Late Night Horror
TV · as William Pearl · 1 ep
The Prisoner
TV · as The Colonel · 1 ep
Omnibus
TV · as Self · 1 ep
The Wars of the Roses
Movie · as Duke of York
BBC Play of the Month
TV · as Philip Carter · 1 ep
Thirty-Minute Theatre
TV · as Andrew Pelham · 7 eps
The Wars of the Roses
TV · as Plantagenet · 1 ep
Festival
TV · as Solinus, Duke of Ephesus · 1 ep
Mix Me a Person
Movie · as Philip Bellamy, QC
Twice Round the Daffodils
Movie · as Ian Richards
The Siege of Sidney Street
Movie · as Inspector Mannering
Your Money or Your Wife
Movie · as Pelham Butterworth
Operation Bullshine
Movie · as Lt. Gordon Brown
The Captain's Table
Movie · as Chief Officer Shawe-Wilson
Rockets Galore
Movie · as Hugh Mander
Doctor at Large
Movie · as Dr. Tony Benskin
Tiger in the Smoke
Movie · as Geoffrey Leavitt
The Black Tent
Movie · as Col. Sir Charles Holland
Eyewitness
Movie · as Wade
Armchair Theatre
TV · as Faulk · 1 ep
Above Us the Waves
Movie · as Lieutenant Tom Corbett
Simba
Movie · as Inspector Drummond
Josephine and Men
Movie · as Alan Hartley
An Alligator Named Daisy
Movie · as Peter Weston
This Is Your Life
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Doctor in the House
Movie · as Tony Benskin
Mad About Men
Movie · as Jeff Saunders
You Know What Sailors Are
Movie
The Beachcomber
Movie · as Ewart Gray
Mogambo
Movie · as Donald Nordley
The Cruel Sea
Movie · as Lockhart
A Day to Remember
Movie · as Jim Carver
Portrait from Life
Movie · as Minor Role