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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Donald Sinden, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known For: Acting

Born: Plymouth, Devon, England, UK, 1923-10-09

Died: 2014-09-11

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1948	Portrait from Life	Minor Role	59
2	1953	The Cruel Sea	Lockhart	69
3	1953	Mogambo	Donald Nordley	64
4	1953	A Day to Remember	Jim Carver	71
5	1954	You Know What Sailors Are		42
6	1954	Doctor in the House	Tony Benskin	65
7	1954	The Beachcomber	Ewart Gray	60
8	1954	Mad About Men	Jeff Saunders	61
9	1955	Simba	Inspector Drummond	65
10	1955	Above Us the Waves	Lieutenant Tom Corbett	61
11	1955	Josephine and Men	Alan Hartley	60
12	1955	An Alligator Named Daisy	Peter Weston	62
13	1956	The Black Tent	Col. Sir Charles Holland	60
14	1956	Eyewitness	Wade	67
15	1956	Tiger in the Smoke	Geoffrey Leavitt	71
16	1957	Doctor at Large	Dr Tony Benskin	56
17	1958	Rockets Galore	Hugh Mander	60
18	1959	The Captain's Table	Shawe-Wilson	58
19	1959	Operation Bullshine	Lt. Gordon Brown	51
20	1960	Your Money or Your Wife	Pelham Butterworth	40
21	1960	The Siege of Sidney Street	Inspector Mannering	20
22	1962	Twice Round the Daffodils	Ian Richards	66
23	1962	Mix Me a Person	Philip Bellamy, QC	62
24	1965	The Wars of the Roses	Duke of York	85
25	1968	Decline and Fall ...of a Birdwatcher	The Prison Governor	50
26	1968	The Judgement of Albion	Voice	0
27	1971	Villain	Gerald Draycott	63
28	1972	Rentadick	Jeffrey Armitage	41
29	1973	The National Health	Mr. Carr / Senior Surgeon Boyd	69
30	1973	The Day of the Jackal	Mallinson	75
31	1973	Father Dear Father	Philip Glover	48
32	1974	The Island at the Top of the World	Sir Anthony Ross	64
33	1975	That Lucky Touch	British Gen. Armstrong	60
34	1981	All's Well That Ends Well	King of France	63
35	1981	Present Laughter	Garry Essendine	0
36	1984	An Audience with Mel Brooks	Self (uncredited)	65
37	1985	The Golden Gong: The Story of Rank Films - British Cinema's Legendary Studio	Self	60
38	1990	The Children	Lord Wrench	38
39	1995	Balto	Doc (voice)	73
40	1996	The Canterville Ghost	Mr. Umney	60
41	1996	The Treasure Seekers	Old Wincott	53
42	1997	An Audience with Ronnie Corbett		65
43	1997	The Canterville Ghost	Lord Dumbleton	0
44	1998	Atatürk	Narrator (voice)	47
45	1998	Hey, Mr. Producer! The Musical World of Cameron Mackintosh	Col. Pickering	20
46	1999	Nancherrow	Robin Jarvis	60
47	1999	Alice in Wonderland	Gryphon (voice)	62
48	2000	How Proust Can Change Your Life	Duc d'Albufera	47
49	2003	The Accidental Detective	Professor Stein	0
50	2012	Run For Your Wife	Man on Bus	44

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1955	This Is Your Life	Self	64
2	1965	BBC Play of the Month	Philip Carter	50
3	1967	The Prisoner	The Colonel	77
4	1967	Omnibus	Self	72
5	1968	Ooh La La!		0
6	1968	Late Night Horror	William Pearl	0
7	1971	The Ten Commandments	Major	0
8	1971	The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes	Romney Pringle	73
9	1972	The Organization	David Pulman	70
10	1975	Two's Company	Robert Hiller	70
11	1981	Never the Twain	Simon Peel	66
12	1984	Playing Shakespeare		100
13	1991	Performance	Edmund of Langley	60
14	1997	Midsomer Murders	Colonel Henry Hammond	75
15	1999	Nancherrow		80
16	2001	Judge John Deed	Sir Joseph Channing	66

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