Donald Sinden
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.
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Movies (52)
Run For Your Wife
2012 · Man on Bus
The Accidental Detective
2003 · Professor Stein
How Proust Can Change Your Life
2000 · Duc d'Albufera
Alice in Wonderland
1999 · Gryphon (voice)
Nancherrow
1999 · Robin Jarvis
Hey, Mr. Producer! The Musical World of Cameron Mackintosh
1998 · Col. Pickering
Atatürk
1998 · Narrator (voice)
The Canterville Ghost
1997 · Lord Dumbleton
An Audience with Ronnie Corbett
1997
Cuts
1996 · Sir Luke Trimingham
The Treasure Seekers
1996 · Old Wincott
The Canterville Ghost
1996 · Mr. Umney
Balto
1995 · Doc (voice)
The Children
1990 · Lord Wrench
The Golden Gong: The Story of Rank Films - British Cinema's Legendary Studio
1985 · Self
An Audience with Mel Brooks
1984 · Self (uncredited)
Present Laughter
1981 · Garry Essendine
All's Well That Ends Well
1981 · King of France
That Lucky Touch
1975 · British Gen. Armstrong
The Island at the Top of the World
1974 · Sir Anthony Ross
Father Dear Father
1973 · Philip Glover
The Day of the Jackal
1973 · Mallinson
The National Health
1973 · Mr. Carr / Senior Surgeon Boyd
Rentadick
1972 · Jeffrey Armitage
Villain
1971 · Gerald Draycott
The Judgement of Albion
1968 · Voice
Decline and Fall ...of a Birdwatcher
1968 · The Prison Governor
William and Mary
1968 · William Pearl
The Wars of the Roses
1965 · Duke of York
Mix Me a Person
1962 · Philip Bellamy, QC
Twice Round the Daffodils
1962 · Ian Richards
The Siege of Sidney Street
1960 · Inspector Mannering
Your Money or Your Wife
1960 · Pelham Butterworth
Operation Bullshine
1959 · Lt. Gordon Brown
The Captain's Table
1959 · Chief Officer Shawe-Wilson
Rockets Galore
1958 · Hugh Mander
Doctor at Large
1957 · Dr. Tony Benskin
Tiger in the Smoke
1956 · Geoffrey Leavitt
Eyewitness
1956 · Wade
The Black Tent
1956 · Col. Sir Charles Holland
An Alligator Named Daisy
1955 · Peter Weston
Josephine and Men
1955 · Alan Hartley
Above Us the Waves
1955 · Lieutenant Tom Corbett
Simba
1955 · Inspector Drummond
Mad About Men
1954 · Jeff Saunders
The Beachcomber
1954 · Ewart Gray
Doctor in the House
1954 · Tony Benskin
You Know What Sailors Are
1954
A Day to Remember
1953 · Jim Carver
Mogambo
1953 · Donald Nordley
The Cruel Sea
1953 · Lockhart
Portrait from Life
1948 · Minor Role
TV shows (23)
Judge John Deed
2001 · Sir Joseph Channing
Nancherrow
1999
Midsomer Murders
1997 · Colonel Henry Hammond
Performance
1991 · Edmund of Langley
Challenge Anneka
1989 · Self
Theatre Night
1985 · Sir Anthony Absolute
Playing Shakespeare
1984
Never the Twain
1981 · Simon Peel
Two's Company
1975 · Robert Hiller, Theme Song Performance
The Organization
1972 · David Pulman
The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes
1971 · Romney Pringle
The Ten Commandments
1971 · Major
Late Night Horror
1968 · William Pearl
Ooh La La!
1968
Omnibus
1967 · Self
The Prisoner
1967 · The Colonel
BBC Play of the Month
1965 · Philip Carter
Thirty-Minute Theatre
1965 · Andrew Pelham
The Wars of the Roses
1965 · Plantagenet
Festival
1963 · Solinus, Duke of Ephesus
Armchair Theatre
1956 · Faulk
This Is Your Life
1955 · Self
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