Donald Sinden

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

Midsomer Murders

BBC Play of the Month

Omnibus

Thirty-Minute Theatre

The Prisoner

Performance

The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes

This Is Your Life

All Movies (51)

• Run For Your Wife2012 · as Man on Bus
• The Accidental Detective2003 · as Professor Stein
• How Proust Can Change Your Life2000 · as Duc d'Albufera
• Alice in Wonderland1999 · as Gryphon (voice)
• Nancherrow1999 · as Robin Jarvis
• Hey, Mr. Producer! The Musical World of Cameron Mackintosh1998 · as Col. Pickering
• Atatürk1998 · as Narrator (voice)
• The Canterville Ghost1997 · as Lord Dumbleton
• An Audience with Ronnie Corbett1997
• The Treasure Seekers1996 · as Old Wincott
• The Canterville Ghost1996 · as Mr. Umney
• Balto1995 · as Doc (voice)
• The Children1990 · as Lord Wrench
• The Golden Gong: The Story of Rank Films - British Cinema's Legendary Studio1985 · as Self
• An Audience with Mel Brooks1984 · as Self (uncredited)
• Present Laughter1981 · as Garry Essendine
• All's Well That Ends Well1981 · as King of France
• That Lucky Touch1975 · as British Gen. Armstrong
• The Island at the Top of the World1974 · as Sir Anthony Ross
• Father Dear Father1973 · as Philip Glover
• The Day of the Jackal1973 · as Mallinson
• The National Health1973 · as Mr. Carr / Senior Surgeon Boyd
• Rentadick1972 · as Jeffrey Armitage
• Villain1971 · as Gerald Draycott
• The Judgement of Albion1968 · as Voice
• Decline and Fall ...of a Birdwatcher1968 · as The Prison Governor
• William and Mary1968 · as William Pearl
• The Wars of the Roses1965 · as Duke of York
• Mix Me a Person1962 · as Philip Bellamy, QC
• Twice Round the Daffodils1962 · as Ian Richards
• The Siege of Sidney Street1960 · as Inspector Mannering
• Your Money or Your Wife1960 · as Pelham Butterworth
• Operation Bullshine1959 · as Lt. Gordon Brown
• The Captain's Table1959 · as Chief Officer Shawe-Wilson
• Rockets Galore1958 · as Hugh Mander
• Doctor at Large1957 · as Dr. Tony Benskin
• Tiger in the Smoke1956 · as Geoffrey Leavitt
• Eyewitness1956 · as Wade
• The Black Tent1956 · as Col. Sir Charles Holland
• An Alligator Named Daisy1955 · as Peter Weston
• Josephine and Men1955 · as Alan Hartley
• Above Us the Waves1955 · as Lieutenant Tom Corbett
• Simba1955 · as Inspector Drummond
• Mad About Men1954 · as Jeff Saunders
• The Beachcomber1954 · as Ewart Gray
• Doctor in the House1954 · as Tony Benskin
• You Know What Sailors Are1954
• A Day to Remember1953 · as Jim Carver
• Mogambo1953 · as Donald Nordley
• The Cruel Sea1953 · as Lockhart
• Portrait from Life1948 · as Minor Role

All TV Shows (20)

• Judge John Deed2001 · as Sir Joseph Channing
• Nancherrow1999
• Midsomer Murders1997 · as Colonel Henry Hammond
• Performance1991 · as Edmund of Langley
• Playing Shakespeare1984
• Never the Twain1981 · as Simon Peel
• Two's Company1975 · as Robert Hiller
• The Organization1972 · as David Pulman
• The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes1971 · as Romney Pringle
• The Ten Commandments1971 · as Major
• Late Night Horror1968 · as William Pearl
• Ooh La La!1968
• Omnibus1967 · as Self
• The Prisoner1967 · as The Colonel
• BBC Play of the Month1965 · as Philip Carter
• Thirty-Minute Theatre1965 · as Andrew Pelham
• The Wars of the Roses1965 · as Plantagenet
• Festival1963 · as Solinus, Duke of Ephesus
• Armchair Theatre1956 · as Faulk
• This Is Your Life1955 · as Self