Known For
Acting
Born
Oct 09, 1923
Died
Sep 11, 2014
Place of Birth
Plymouth, Devon, England, UK
Credits
73 titles
Donald Sinden
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.
Known For
Filmography
Run For Your Wife
Man on Bus
The Accidental Detective
Professor Stein
Judge John Deed
Sir Joseph Channing
How Proust Can Change Your Life
Duc d'Albufera
Nancherrow
Alice in Wonderland
Gryphon (voice)
Nancherrow
Robin Jarvis
Hey, Mr. Producer! The Musical World of Cameron Mackintosh
Col. Pickering
Atatürk
Narrator (voice)
The Canterville Ghost
Lord Dumbleton
An Audience with Ronnie Corbett
Midsomer Murders
Colonel Henry Hammond
Cuts
Sir Luke Trimingham
The Treasure Seekers
Old Wincott
The Canterville Ghost
Mr. Umney
Balto
Doc (voice)
Performance
Edmund of Langley
The Children
Lord Wrench
Challenge Anneka
Self
The Golden Gong: The Story of Rank Films - British Cinema's Legendary Studio
Self
Playing Shakespeare
An Audience with Mel Brooks
Self (uncredited)
Present Laughter
Garry Essendine
Never the Twain
Simon Peel
All's Well That Ends Well
King of France
Two's Company
Robert Hiller
That Lucky Touch
British Gen. Armstrong
The Island at the Top of the World
Sir Anthony Ross
Father Dear Father
Philip Glover
The Day of the Jackal
Mallinson
The National Health
Mr. Carr / Senior Surgeon Boyd
Rentadick
Jeffrey Armitage
The Organization
David Pulman
The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes
Romney Pringle
Villain
Gerald Draycott
The Ten Commandments
Major
The Judgement of Albion
Voice
Decline and Fall ...of a Birdwatcher
The Prison Governor
William and Mary
William Pearl
Late Night Horror
William Pearl
Ooh La La!
Omnibus
Self
The Prisoner
The Colonel
BBC Play of the Month
Philip Carter
Thirty-Minute Theatre
Andrew Pelham
The Wars of the Roses
Plantagenet
The Wars of the Roses
Duke of York
Festival
Solinus, Duke of Ephesus
Mix Me a Person
Philip Bellamy, QC
Twice Round the Daffodils
Ian Richards