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.
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Acting
Movie
Balto
as Doc (voice)
1995
Movie
The Day of the Jackal
as Mallinson
1973
Movie
Alice in Wonderland
as Gryphon (voice)
1999
TV
Midsomer Murders
as Colonel Henry Hammond
1997
TV
The Prisoner
as The Colonel
1967
Movie
Mogambo
as Donald Nordley
1953
Movie
The Island at the Top of the World
as Sir Anthony Ross
1974
Movie
The Cruel Sea
as Lockhart
1953
Movie
The Canterville Ghost
as Mr. Umney
1996
Movie
Villain
as Gerald Draycott
1971
Movie
Above Us the Waves
as Lieutenant Tom Corbett
1955
Movie
Doctor in the House
as Tony Benskin
1954
Movie
Doctor at Large
as Dr. Tony Benskin
1957
Movie
Mad About Men
as Jeff Saunders
1954
Movie
Simba
as Inspector Drummond
1955
TV
Judge John Deed
as Sir Joseph Channing
2001
Movie
The National Health
as Mr. Carr / Senior Surgeon Boyd
1973
Movie
Rentadick
as Jeffrey Armitage
1972
Movie
Mix Me a Person
as Philip Bellamy, QC
1962
Movie
Run For Your Wife
as Man on Bus
2012
TV
The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes
as Romney Pringle
1971
TV
Never the Twain
as Simon Peel
1981
Movie
Portrait from Life
as Minor Role
1948
TV
Omnibus
as Self
1967
