Donald Sinden
Acting • Born 1923-10-09 – Died 2014-09-11
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
68 credits
The Day of the Jackal
Movie • 1973
Mallinson
Villain
Movie • 1971
Gerald Draycott
Mogambo
Movie • 1953
Donald Nordley
Above Us the Waves
Movie • 1955
Lieutenant Tom Corbett
The Island at the Top of the World
Movie • 1974
Sir Anthony Ross
The Cruel Sea
Movie • 1953
Lockhart
An Audience with Mel Brooks
Movie • 1984
Self (uncredited)
Doctor in the House
Movie • 1954
Tony Benskin
Doctor at Large
Movie • 1957
Dr. Tony Benskin
Tiger in the Smoke
Movie • 1956
Geoffrey Leavitt
Decline and Fall ...of a Birdwatcher
Movie • 1968
The Prison Governor
The Black Tent
Movie • 1956
Col. Sir Charles Holland
That Lucky Touch
Movie • 1975
British Gen. Armstrong
Simba
Movie • 1955
Inspector Drummond
Rockets Galore
Movie • 1958
Hugh Mander
Mad About Men
Movie • 1954
Jeff Saunders
The Judgement of Albion
Movie • 1968
Voice
The Siege of Sidney Street
Movie • 1960
Inspector Mannering
Nancherrow
Movie • 1999
Robin Jarvis
The National Health
Movie • 1973
Mr. Carr / Senior Surgeon Boyd
Eyewitness
Movie • 1956
Wade
Rentadick
Movie • 1972
Jeffrey Armitage
Josephine and Men
Movie • 1955
Alan Hartley
Father Dear Father
Movie • 1973
Philip Glover
Hey, Mr. Producer! The Musical World of Cameron Mackintosh
Movie • 1998
Col. Pickering
A Day to Remember
Movie • 1953
Jim Carver
An Alligator Named Daisy
Movie • 1955
Peter Weston
The Wars of the Roses
Movie • 1965
Duke of York
Operation Bullshine
Movie • 1959
Lt. Gordon Brown
The Captain's Table
Movie • 1959
Chief Officer Shawe-Wilson
The Canterville Ghost
Movie • 1996
Mr. Umney
The Canterville Ghost
Movie • 1997
Lord Dumbleton
Run For Your Wife
Movie • 2012
Man on Bus
You Know What Sailors Are
Movie • 1954
Your Money or Your Wife
Movie • 1960
Pelham Butterworth
An Audience with Ronnie Corbett
Movie • 1997
The Golden Gong: The Story of Rank Films - British Cinema's Legendary Studio
Movie • 1985
Self
The Children
Movie • 1990
Lord Wrench
Balto
Movie • 1995
Doc (voice)
Mix Me a Person
Movie • 1962
Philip Bellamy, QC
Alice in Wonderland
Movie • 1999
Gryphon (voice)
The Beachcomber
Movie • 1954
Ewart Gray
Twice Round the Daffodils
Movie • 1962
Ian Richards
Present Laughter
Movie • 1981
Garry Essendine
All's Well That Ends Well
Movie • 1981
King of France
Portrait from Life
Movie • 1948
Minor Role
The Treasure Seekers
Movie • 1996
Old Wincott
How Proust Can Change Your Life
Movie • 2000
Duc d'Albufera
Atatürk
Movie • 1998
Narrator (voice)
The Accidental Detective
Movie • 2003
Professor Stein
The Prisoner
TV • 1967
The Colonel
Never the Twain
TV • 1981
Simon Peel
Judge John Deed
TV • 2001
Sir Joseph Channing
Two's Company
TV • 1975
Robert Hiller
Ooh La La!
TV • 1968
Nancherrow
TV • 1999
Playing Shakespeare
TV • 1984
The Organization
TV • 1972
David Pulman
The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes
TV • 1971
Romney Pringle
Omnibus
TV • 1967
Self
Midsomer Murders
TV • 1997
Colonel Henry Hammond
This Is Your Life
TV • 1955
Self
The Ten Commandments
TV • 1971
Major
Performance
TV • 1991
Edmund of Langley
BBC Play of the Month
TV • 1965
Philip Carter
Late Night Horror
TV • 1968
William Pearl
Festival
TV • 1963
Solinus, Duke of Ephesus
Thirty-Minute Theatre
TV • 1965
Andrew Pelham