Donald Sinden
Birthday
1923/10/09
Day of death
2014/09/11 (90 years old)
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
Plymouth, Devon, England, UK
Also know as
Sir 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 Sin...Read more
Acting
(1973) The Day of the Jackal
as Mallinson
(1971) Villain
as Gerald Draycott
(1953) Mogambo
as Donald Nordley
(1955) Above Us the Waves
as Lieutenant Tom Corbett
(1974) The Island at the Top of the World
as Sir Anthony Ross
(1953) The Cruel Sea
as Lockhart
(1984) An Audience with Mel Brooks
as Self (uncredited)
(1954) Doctor in the House
as Tony Benskin
(1957) Doctor at Large
as Dr Tony Benskin
(1956) Tiger in the Smoke
as Geoffrey Leavitt
(1968) Decline and Fall ...of a Birdwatcher
as The Prison Governor
(1956) The Black Tent
as Col. Sir Charles Holland
(1975) That Lucky Touch
as British Gen. Armstrong
(1955) Simba
as Inspector Drummond
(1958) Rockets Galore
as Hugh Mander
(1954) Mad About Men
as Jeff Saunders
(1968) The Judgement of Albion
as ---
(1960) The Siege of Sidney Street
as Inspector Mannering
(1999) Nancherrow
as Robin Jarvis
(1973) The National Health
as Mr. Carr / Senior Surgeon Boyd
(1956) Eyewitness
as Wade
(1972) Rentadick
as Jeffrey Armitage
(1955) Josephine and Men
as Alan Hartley
(1973) Father Dear Father
as Philip Glover
(1998) Hey, Mr. Producer! The Musical World of Cameron Mackintosh
as Col. Pickering
(1953) A Day to Remember
as Jim Carver
(1955) An Alligator Named Daisy
as Peter Weston
(1965) The Wars of the Roses
as Duke of York
(1959) Operation Bullshine
as Lt. Gordon Brown
(1959) The Captain's Table
as Shawe-Wilson
(1996) The Canterville Ghost
as Mr. Umney
(1997) The Canterville Ghost
as Lord Dumbleton
(2012) Run For Your Wife
as Man on Bus
(1954) You Know What Sailors Are
as ---
(1960) Your Money or Your Wife
as Pelham Butterworth
(1997) An Audience with Ronnie Corbett
as ---
(1985) The Golden Gong: The Story of Rank Films - British Cinema's Legendary Studio
as Self
(1990) The Children
as Lord Wrench
(1995) Balto
as Doc (voice)
(1962) Mix Me a Person
as Philip Bellamy, QC
(1999) Alice in Wonderland
as Gryphon (voice)
(1954) The Beachcomber
as Ewart Gray
(1962) Twice Round the Daffodils
as Ian Richards
(1981) Present Laughter
as Garry Essendine
(1981) All's Well That Ends Well
as King of France
(1948) Portrait from Life
as Minor Role
(1996) The Treasure Seekers
as Old Wincott
(2000) How Proust Can Change Your Life
as Duc d'Albufera
(1967) The Prisoner
as The Colonel
(1981) Never the Twain
as Simon Peel
(2001) Judge John Deed
as Sir Joseph Channing
(1975) Two's Company
as Robert Hiller
(1968) Ooh La La!
as ---
(1999) Nancherrow
as ---
(1984) Playing Shakespeare
as ---
(1972) The Organization
as David Pulman
(1971) The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes
as Romney Pringle
(1967) Omnibus
as Self
(1997) Midsomer Murders
as Colonel Henry Hammond
(1955) This Is Your Life
as Self