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Actor
Donald Sinden
Acting
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Movies: 49Series: 15Crew credits: 1
TMDB ID: 39954
IMDb ID: nm0801786
Known for: Acting
Born: October 9, 1923
Died: September 11, 2014
Age: 90
Place of birth: Plymouth, Devon, England, UK
Gender: Male
Adult content flag: No
Career span: 1948 - 2012
Years active: 65
Average TMDB rating: 6.65
Wikidata: Q432316
Also known as
Sir Donald Sinden • Donald Alfred Sinden
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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.
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Movie credits linked with Donald Sinden.
4.4
Run For Your Wife
as Man on Bus
2012 Movie
The Accidental Detective
as Professor Stein
2003 Movie
4.7
How Proust Can Change Your Life
as Duc d'Albufera
2000 Movie
6.2
Alice in Wonderland
as Gryphon (voice)
1999 Movie
6.0
Nancherrow
as Robin Jarvis
1999 Movie
2.0
Hey, Mr. Producer! The Musical World of Cameron Mackintosh
as Col. Pickering
1998 Movie
4.7
Atatürk
as Narrator (voice)
1998 Movie
The Canterville Ghost
as Lord Dumbleton
1997 Movie
6.5
An Audience with Ronnie Corbett
1997 Movie
5.3
The Treasure Seekers
as Old Wincott
1996 Movie
6.2
The Canterville Ghost
as Mr. Umney
1996 Movie
7.3
Balto
as Doc (voice)
1995 Movie
3.8
The Children
as Lord Wrench
1990 Movie
6.5
An Audience with Mel Brooks
as Self (uncredited)
1984 Movie
Present Laughter
as Garry Essendine
1981 Movie
6.3
All's Well That Ends Well
as King of France
1981 Movie
6.0
That Lucky Touch
as British Gen. Armstrong
1975 Movie
6.5
The Island at the Top of the World
as Sir Anthony Ross
1974 Movie
4.9
Father Dear Father
as Philip Glover
1973 Movie
7.5
The Day of the Jackal
as Mallinson
1973 Movie
6.8
The National Health
as Mr. Carr / Senior Surgeon Boyd
1973 Movie
3.8
Rentadick
as Jeffrey Armitage
1972 Movie
6.1
Villain
as Gerald Draycott
1971 Movie
The Judgement of Albion
as Voice
1968 Movie
Series
Series
Series credits linked with Donald Sinden.
6.7
Judge John Deed
as Sir Joseph Channing • 28 eps
2001 Series
8.0
Nancherrow
2 eps
1999 Series
7.5
Midsomer Murders
as Colonel Henry Hammond • 1 eps
1997 Series
6.0
Performance
as Edmund of Langley • 1 eps
1991 Series
10.0
Playing Shakespeare
9 eps
1984 Series
6.6
Never the Twain
as Simon Peel • 67 eps
1981 Series
7.0
Two's Company
as Robert Hiller • 28 eps
1975 Series
7.0
The Organization
as David Pulman • 7 eps
1972 Series
7.4
The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes
as Romney Pringle • 1 eps
1971 Series
Ooh La La!
1 eps
1968 Series
7.2
Omnibus
as Self • 1 eps
1967 Series
7.7
The Prisoner
as The Colonel • 1 eps
1967 Series
5.0
BBC Play of the Month
as Philip Carter • 1 eps
1965 Series
3.4
Thirty-Minute Theatre
as Andrew Pelham • 1 eps
1965 Series
6.4
This Is Your Life
as Self • 1 eps
1955 Series