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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Donald Sinden, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
71 acting credits
Acting · 71
Midsomer Murders
1997
BBC Play of the Month
1965
Omnibus
1967
The Prisoner
1967
Performance
1991
The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes
1971
Festival
1963
Judge John Deed
2001
This Is Your Life
1955
Thirty-Minute Theatre
1965
Never the Twain
1981
The Day of the Jackal
1973
Playing Shakespeare
1984
Balto
1995
Ooh La La!
1968
Alice in Wonderland
1999
Two's Company
1975
Armchair Theatre
1956
The Ten Commandments
1971
Mogambo
1953
The Cruel Sea
1953
Nancherrow
1999
Villain
1971
Late Night Horror
1968
The Wars of the Roses
1965
An Audience with Mel Brooks
1984
The Organization
1972
The Canterville Ghost
1996
Hey, Mr. Producer! The Musical World of Cameron Mackintosh
1998
The Island at the Top of the World
1974
The Golden Gong: The Story of Rank Films - British Cinema's Legendary Studio
1985
An Alligator Named Daisy
1955
Above Us the Waves
1955
The Children
1990
The Wars of the Roses
1965
The Treasure Seekers
1996
Run For Your Wife
2012
Rentadick
1972
Doctor in the House
1954
Doctor at Large
1957
All's Well That Ends Well
1981
Simba
1955
Portrait from Life
1948
How Proust Can Change Your Life
2000
Rockets Galore
1958
The Black Tent
1956
Josephine and Men
1955
Eyewitness
1956
Mad About Men
1954
Decline and Fall ...of a Birdwatcher
1968
That Lucky Touch
1975
Mix Me a Person
1962
A Day to Remember
1953
Twice Round the Daffodils
1962
The Captain's Table
1959
Nancherrow
1999
You Know What Sailors Are
1954
Father Dear Father
1973
Tiger in the Smoke
1956
The Beachcomber
1954
Operation Bullshine
1959
The National Health
1973
The Canterville Ghost
1997
The Accidental Detective
2003
The Siege of Sidney Street
1960
Present Laughter
1981
Your Money or Your Wife
1960
Atatürk
1998
An Audience with Ronnie Corbett
1997
The Judgement of Albion
1968
William and Mary
1968