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Donald Sumpter
Brixworth, Northamptonshire, England, UK
Donald Sumpter (born 13 February 1943) is an English actor. He has appeared in film and television since the mid-1960s. One of his early television appearances was the 1968 Docto…
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Donald Sumpter (born 13 February 1943) is an English actor. He has appeared in film and television since the mid-1960s. One of his early television appearances was the 1968 Doctor Who serial The Wheel in Space with Patrick Troughton as the Doctor. He appeared in Doctor Who again in the 1972 serial The Sea Devils with Jon Pertwee. He also appeared in the Doctor Who spin-off The Sarah Jane Adventures. His early film work included a lead role as real life British criminal Donald Neilson in the 1977 film, The Black Panther. He also appeared in many television films and serials, including adaptations of Dickens' novels: Nicholas Nickleby in 2001, Great Expectations in 1999 and Bleak House in 1985. Also in 1985, he was remembered for the part of villain Ronnie Day in Big Deal. He played the part of suspected serial killer Alexander Bonaparte Cust in the (1992) Agatha Christie's Poirot episode, The ABC Murders. He has also appeared in episodes of Midsomer Murders, The Bill, Holby City, and A Touch of Frost. He also had a recurring role as Uncle Ginger in the Children's BBC series The Queen's Nose. He played Harold Chapple in Our Friends in the North, and portrayed the physicist Max Planck in Einstein and Eddington. He has also been seen as Kemp in the horror-drama series Being Human. In 2011 he portrayed Maester Luwin in the HBO series Game of Thrones. His film appearances include The Constant Gardener (2005), K-19: The Widowmaker (2002), Enigma (2001) and Ultramarines: The Movie (2010).
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2025
The Phoenician Scheme
Movie Chairman
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2024
Limonov: The Ballad
Movie Eddie's Father
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2023
Entitled
TV show Quincy
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2021
The Cleaner
TV show Sir James
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2020
Exposed: The Church's Darkest Secret
TV show Bishop Peter Ball
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2019
Chernobyl
TV show Zharkov
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2018
Les Misérables
TV show Mabeuf
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2017
The Man Who Invented Christmas
Movie Haddock / Ghost of Marley
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2015
In the Heart of the Sea
Movie Paul Macy
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2015
Jekyll and Hyde
TV show Garson
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2015
Coalition
Movie Paddy Ashdown
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2015
12 Monkeys
TV show Seer
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2014
One Child
TV show Jim Arthurton
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2014
Bypass
Movie Grandfather
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2014
New Worlds
TV show Sidney
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2014
Quirke
TV show Josh Crawford
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2013
Atlantis
TV show Tiresius
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2013
Peaky Blinders
TV show Arthur Bigge
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2013
The Mill
TV show Samuel Greg
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2013
Endeavour
TV show Emil Valdemar
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2012
The Secret of Crickley Hall
TV show Gordon Pyke
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2011
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Movie Detective Inspector Gustaf Morell
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2011
Black Mirror
TV show Julian Hereford
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2011
The Murder at Road Hill House
Movie Peter Edlin QC
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2011
Game of Thrones
TV show Maester Luwin
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2011
Way of the Morris
Movie Voice of Creation
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2010
Ultramarines: A Warhammer 40,000 Movie
Movie Pythol (voice)
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2010
London Boulevard
Movie Pentonville Governor
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2010
Among Us
Movie Man on bench
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2009
Into the Storm
Movie Lord Halifax
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2009
Being Human
TV show Kemp
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2008
Einstein and Eddington
Movie Max Planck
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2008
Merlin
TV show The Fisher King
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2008
Tess of the D'Urbervilles
TV show Parson Tringham
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2008
Hello Sailor!
Movie
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2008
Heist
Movie King Edward
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2007
Heroes and Villains
TV show
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2007
The Sarah Jane Adventures
TV show Erasmus Darkening
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2007
Eastern Promises
Movie Yuri
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2007
Fallen Angel
TV show Simon Martlesham
