Known For
Acting
Born
Feb 13, 1943
Place of Birth
Brixworth, Northamptonshire, England, UK
Credits
128 titles
Donald Sumpter
Biography
Donald Sumpter (born 13 February 1943) is an English actor. He has appeared in film and television since the mid-1960s. One of his early television appearances was the 1968 Doctor Who serial The Wheel in Space with Patrick Troughton as the Doctor. He appeared in Doctor Who again in the 1972 serial The Sea Devils with Jon Pertwee. He also appeared in the Doctor Who spin-off The Sarah Jane Adventures. His early film work included a lead role as real life British criminal Donald Neilson in the 1977 film, The Black Panther. He also appeared in many television films and serials, including adaptations of Dickens' novels: Nicholas Nickleby in 2001, Great Expectations in 1999 and Bleak House in 1985. Also in 1985, he was remembered for the part of villain Ronnie Day in Big Deal. He played the part of suspected serial killer Alexander Bonaparte Cust in the (1992) Agatha Christie's Poirot episode, The ABC Murders. He has also appeared in episodes of Midsomer Murders, The Bill, Holby City, and A Touch of Frost. He also had a recurring role as Uncle Ginger in the Children's BBC series The Queen's Nose. He played Harold Chapple in Our Friends in the North, and portrayed the physicist Max Planck in Einstein and Eddington. He has also been seen as Kemp in the horror-drama series Being Human. In 2011 he portrayed Maester Luwin in the HBO series Game of Thrones. His film appearances include The Constant Gardener (2005), K-19: The Widowmaker (2002), Enigma (2001) and Ultramarines: The Movie (2010).
Known For
Filmography
The Phoenician Scheme
Chairman
Limonov: The Ballad
Eddie's Father
Entitled
Quincy
The Cleaner
Sir James
Exposed: The Church's Darkest Secret
Bishop Peter Ball
Chernobyl
Zharkov
Les Misérables
Mabeuf
The Man Who Invented Christmas
Haddock / Ghost of Marley
In the Heart of the Sea
Paul Macy
Jekyll and Hyde
Garson
Coalition
Paddy Ashdown
12 Monkeys
Seer
One Child
Jim Arthurton
Bypass
Grandfather
New Worlds
Sidney
Quirke
Josh Crawford
Atlantis
Tiresius
Peaky Blinders
Arthur Bigge
The Mill
Samuel Greg
Endeavour
Emil Valdemar
The Secret of Crickley Hall
Gordon Pyke
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Detective Inspector Gustaf Morell
Black Mirror
Julian Hereford
The Murder at Road Hill House
Peter Edlin QC
Game of Thrones
Maester Luwin
Way of the Morris
Voice of Creation
Ultramarines: A Warhammer 40,000 Movie
Pythol (voice)
London Boulevard
Pentonville Governor
Among Us
Man on bench
Into the Storm
Lord Halifax
Being Human
Kemp
Einstein and Eddington
Max Planck
Merlin
The Fisher King
Tess of the D'Urbervilles
Parson Tringham
Hello Sailor!
Heist
King Edward
Heroes and Villains
The Sarah Jane Adventures
Erasmus Darkening
Eastern Promises
Yuri
Fallen Angel
Simon Martlesham
Dracula
Alfred Singleton
The Chatterley Affair
Mr. Gerald Gardiner
Eleventh Hour
Anatomy of a Global Thriller: Behind the Scenes of The Constant Gardener
Self
The Constant Gardener
Tim Donohue
Doctor Who
The President
The Eagle: A Crime Odyssey
Indenrigsminister Nacuk
The Long Bank Holiday
Alfie Clemens
New Tricks
Bobby 'Tar' Mcadam
Seven Wonders of the Industrial World
Farrington