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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
October 9, 1923
Died
September 11, 2014
Place of Birth
Plymouth, Devon, England, UK
Also Known As
- Sir Donald Sinden
Donald Sinden
0.7 Popularity
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
4.4
Man on Bus
Run For Your Wife
2012
0.0
Professor Stein
The Accidental Detective
2003
6.7
Sir Joseph Channing
Judge John Deed
2001
4.7
Duc d'Albufera
How Proust Can Change Your Life
2000
8.0
Nancherrow
1999
6.2
Gryphon (voice)
Alice in Wonderland
1999
6.0
Robin Jarvis
Nancherrow
1999
2.0
Col. Pickering
Hey, Mr. Producer! The Musical World of Cameron Mackintosh
1998
4.7
Narrator (voice)
Atatürk
1998
0.0
Lord Dumbleton
The Canterville Ghost
1997
Credits
Run For Your Wife
as Man on Bus
2012
4.4
The Accidental Detective
as Professor Stein
2003
0.0
Judge John Deed
as Sir Joseph Channing
2001
6.7
How Proust Can Change Your Life
as Duc d'Albufera
2000
4.7
Nancherrow
1999
8.0
Alice in Wonderland
as Gryphon (voice)
1999
6.2
Nancherrow
as Robin Jarvis
1999
6.0
Hey, Mr. Producer! The Musical World of Cameron Mackintosh
as Col. Pickering
1998
2.0
Atatürk
as Narrator (voice)
1998
4.7
The Canterville Ghost
as Lord Dumbleton
1997
0.0
An Audience with Ronnie Corbett
1997
6.5
Midsomer Murders
as Colonel Henry Hammond
1997
7.5
The Treasure Seekers
as Old Wincott
1996
5.3
The Canterville Ghost
as Mr. Umney
1996
6.2
Balto
as Doc (voice)
1995
7.3
Performance
as Edmund of Langley
1991
6.0
The Children
as Lord Wrench
1990
3.8
🎬
The Golden Gong: The Story of Rank Films - British Cinema's Legendary Studio
as Self
1985
6.0
Playing Shakespeare
1984
10.0
An Audience with Mel Brooks
as Self (uncredited)
1984
6.5
Present Laughter
as Garry Essendine
1981
0.0
Never the Twain
as Simon Peel
1981
6.6
All's Well That Ends Well
as King of France
1981
6.3
Two's Company
as Robert Hiller
1975
7.0
That Lucky Touch
as British Gen. Armstrong
1975
6.0
The Island at the Top of the World
as Sir Anthony Ross
1974
6.5
Father Dear Father
as Philip Glover
1973
4.8
The Day of the Jackal
as Mallinson
1973
7.5
The National Health
as Mr. Carr / Senior Surgeon Boyd
1973
6.8
Rentadick
as Jeffrey Armitage
1972
3.8
The Organization
as David Pulman
1972
7.0
The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes
as Romney Pringle
1971
7.4
Villain
as Gerald Draycott
1971
6.1
🎬
The Ten Commandments
as Major
1971
0.0
The Judgement of Albion
as Voice
1968
0.0
Decline and Fall ...of a Birdwatcher
as The Prison Governor
1968
5.0
🎬
Late Night Horror
as William Pearl
1968
0.0
🎬
Ooh La La!
1968
0.0
Omnibus
as Self
1967
7.2
The Prisoner
as The Colonel
1967
7.7
BBC Play of the Month
as Philip Carter
1965
5.0
Thirty-Minute Theatre
as Andrew Pelham
1965
3.4
The Wars of the Roses
as Duke of York
1965
8.5
🎬
Festival
as Solinus, Duke of Ephesus
1963
8.0
Mix Me a Person
as Philip Bellamy, QC
1962
6.2
Twice Round the Daffodils
as Ian Richards
1962
6.6
The Siege of Sidney Street
as Inspector Mannering
1960
2.0
Your Money or Your Wife
as Pelham Butterworth
1960
4.0
Operation Bullshine
as Lt. Gordon Brown
1959
5.1
The Captain's Table
as Chief Officer Shawe-Wilson
1959
5.8
Rockets Galore
as Hugh Mander
1958
6.0
Doctor at Large
as Dr. Tony Benskin
1957
5.6
Tiger in the Smoke
as Geoffrey Leavitt
1956
6.5
Eyewitness
as Wade
1956
6.7
The Black Tent
as Col. Sir Charles Holland
1956
6.0
An Alligator Named Daisy
as Peter Weston
1955
6.2
Josephine and Men
as Alan Hartley
1955
6.0
This Is Your Life
as Self
1955
6.4
Above Us the Waves
as Lieutenant Tom Corbett
1955
6.1
Simba
as Inspector Drummond
1955
6.7
Mad About Men
as Jeff Saunders
1954
6.4
The Beachcomber
as Ewart Gray
1954
6.0
Doctor in the House
as Tony Benskin
1954
6.5
You Know What Sailors Are
1954
4.2
A Day to Remember
as Jim Carver
1953
6.9
Mogambo
as Donald Nordley
1953
6.4
The Cruel Sea
as Lockhart
1953
6.9
Portrait from Life
as Minor Role
1948
5.9