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Donald Sinden
Plymouth, Devon, England, UK
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…
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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.
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2012
Run For Your Wife
Movie Man on Bus
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2003
The Accidental Detective
Movie Professor Stein
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2001
Judge John Deed
TV show Sir Joseph Channing
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2000
How Proust Can Change Your Life
Movie Duc d'Albufera
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1999
Nancherrow
TV show
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1999
Alice in Wonderland
Movie Gryphon (voice)
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1999
Nancherrow
Movie Robin Jarvis
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1998
Hey, Mr. Producer! The Musical World of Cameron Mackintosh
Movie Col. Pickering
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1998
Atatürk
Movie Narrator (voice)
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1997
The Canterville Ghost
Movie Lord Dumbleton
- 1997
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1997
Midsomer Murders
TV show Colonel Henry Hammond
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1996
Cuts
Movie Sir Luke Trimingham
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1996
The Treasure Seekers
Movie Old Wincott
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1996
The Canterville Ghost
Movie Mr. Umney
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1995
Balto
Movie Doc (voice)
More credits
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1991
Performance
TV show Edmund of Langley
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1990
The Children
Movie Lord Wrench
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1989
Challenge Anneka
TV show Self
- 1985
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1984
Playing Shakespeare
TV show
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1984
An Audience with Mel Brooks
Movie Self (uncredited)
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1981
Present Laughter
Movie Garry Essendine
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1981
Never the Twain
TV show Simon Peel
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1981
All's Well That Ends Well
Movie King of France
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1975
Two's Company
TV show Robert Hiller
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1975
That Lucky Touch
Movie British Gen. Armstrong
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1974
The Island at the Top of the World
Movie Sir Anthony Ross
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1973
Father Dear Father
Movie Philip Glover
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1973
The Day of the Jackal
Movie Mallinson
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1973
The National Health
Movie Mr. Carr / Senior Surgeon Boyd
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1972
Rentadick
Movie Jeffrey Armitage
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1972
The Organization
TV show David Pulman
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1971
The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes
TV show Romney Pringle
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1971
Villain
Movie Gerald Draycott
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1971
The Ten Commandments
TV show Major
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1968
The Judgement of Albion
Movie Voice
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1968
Decline and Fall ...of a Birdwatcher
Movie The Prison Governor
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1968
William and Mary
Movie William Pearl
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1968
Late Night Horror
TV show William Pearl
