Donald Sinden
Born: 1923-10-09 in Plymouth, Devon, England, UK
Died: 2014-09-11
Known For: Acting
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.
Filmography
2012
- Run For Your Wife as Man on Bus
2003
- The Accidental Detective as Professor Stein
2001
- Judge John Deed as Sir Joseph Channing
2000
- How Proust Can Change Your Life as Duc d'Albufera
1999
- Alice in Wonderland as Gryphon (voice)
- Nancherrow
- Nancherrow as Robin Jarvis
1998
- Hey, Mr. Producer! The Musical World of Cameron Mackintosh as Col. Pickering
- Atatürk as Narrator (voice)
1997
- Midsomer Murders as Colonel Henry Hammond
- The Canterville Ghost as Lord Dumbleton
- An Audience with Ronnie Corbett
1996
- The Canterville Ghost as Mr. Umney
- The Treasure Seekers as Old Wincott
1995
- Balto as Doc (voice)
1991
- Performance as Edmund of Langley
1990
- The Children as Lord Wrench
1984
- Playing Shakespeare
- An Audience with Mel Brooks as Self (uncredited)
1981
- Never the Twain as Simon Peel
- Present Laughter as Garry Essendine
- All's Well That Ends Well as King of France
1975
- Two's Company as Robert Hiller
- That Lucky Touch as British Gen. Armstrong
1974
- The Island at the Top of the World as Sir Anthony Ross
1973
- The Day of the Jackal as Mallinson
- The National Health as Mr. Carr / Senior Surgeon Boyd
- Father Dear Father as Philip Glover
1972
- The Organization as David Pulman
- Rentadick as Jeffrey Armitage
1971
- The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes as Romney Pringle
- The Ten Commandments as Major
- Villain as Gerald Draycott
1968
- Ooh La La!
- Late Night Horror as William Pearl
- Decline and Fall ...of a Birdwatcher as The Prison Governor
- The Judgement of Albion as Voice
1967
- Omnibus as Self
- The Prisoner as The Colonel
1965
- BBC Play of the Month as Philip Carter
- Thirty-Minute Theatre as Andrew Pelham
- The Wars of the Roses as Plantagenet
- The Wars of the Roses as Duke of York
1963
- Festival as Solinus, Duke of Ephesus
1962
- Twice Round the Daffodils as Ian Richards
- Mix Me a Person as Philip Bellamy, QC
1960
- The Siege of Sidney Street as Inspector Mannering
- Your Money or Your Wife as Pelham Butterworth
1959
- The Captain's Table as Chief Officer Shawe-Wilson
- Operation Bullshine as Lt. Gordon Brown
1958
- Rockets Galore as Hugh Mander
1957
- Doctor at Large as Dr. Tony Benskin
1956
- Armchair Theatre as Faulk
- Eyewitness as Wade
- The Black Tent as Col. Sir Charles Holland
- Tiger in the Smoke as Geoffrey Leavitt
1955
- This Is Your Life as Self
- Above Us the Waves as Lieutenant Tom Corbett
- Josephine and Men as Alan Hartley
- An Alligator Named Daisy as Peter Weston
- Simba as Inspector Drummond
1954
- Mad About Men as Jeff Saunders
- Doctor in the House as Tony Benskin
- The Beachcomber as Ewart Gray
- You Know What Sailors Are
1953
- Mogambo as Donald Nordley
- The Cruel Sea as Lockhart
- A Day to Remember as Jim Carver
1948
- Portrait from Life as Minor Role