Donald Sinden
ActingAlso Known As
Sir Donald Sinden, Donald Alfred 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.
Movies
(50 total)
Balto
as Doc (voice)
The Day of the Jackal
as Mallinson
Alice in Wonderland
as Gryphon (voice)
Mogambo
as Donald Nordley
The Island at the Top of the World
as Sir Anthony Ross
The Cruel Sea
as Lockhart
The Canterville Ghost
as Mr. Umney
Villain
as Gerald Draycott
Above Us the Waves
as Lieutenant Tom Corbett
Doctor in the House
as Tony Benskin
Doctor at Large
as Dr. Tony Benskin
Mad About Men
as Jeff Saunders
Simba
as Inspector Drummond
The National Health
as Mr. Carr / Senior Surgeon Boyd
Rentadick
as Jeffrey Armitage
Run For Your Wife
as Man on Bus
Mix Me a Person
as Philip Bellamy, QC
Tiger in the Smoke
as Geoffrey Leavitt
The Black Tent
as Col. Sir Charles Holland
Eyewitness
as Wade
TV Shows
(18 total)
Midsomer Murders
as Colonel Henry Hammond
The Prisoner
as The Colonel
Judge John Deed
as Sir Joseph Channing
The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes
as Romney Pringle
Never the Twain
as Simon Peel
Omnibus
as Self
This Is Your Life
as Self
BBC Play of the Month
as Philip Carter
Thirty-Minute Theatre
as Andrew Pelham
Two's Company
as Robert Hiller
Performance
as Edmund of Langley
The Organization
as David Pulman
