Donald Sinden
Personal Info
Known For Actor
Gender Male
Birthday 1923-10-09
Deathday 2014-09-11 (90 years old)
Place of Birth Plymouth, Devon, England, UK
Also Known As Sir Donald Sinden
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 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.
Known For
Actor
as Man on Bus
as Sir Joseph Channing
as Duc d'Albufera
as Gryphon (voice)
as Robin Jarvis
as Col. Pickering
as Lord Dumbleton
as Colonel Henry Hammond
as Old Wincott
as Mr. Umney
as Doc (voice)
as Lord Wrench
as Self (uncredited)
as Garry Essendine
as King of France
as Simon Peel
as British Gen. Armstrong
as Robert Hiller
as Sir Anthony Ross
as Philip Glover
as Mallinson
as Mr. Carr / Senior Surgeon Boyd
as Jeffrey Armitage
as David Pulman
as Gerald Draycott
as Romney Pringle
as The Prison Governor
as Self
as The Colonel
as Duke of York
as Philip Bellamy, QC
as Ian Richards
as Inspector Mannering
as Pelham Butterworth
as Lt. Gordon Brown
as Shawe-Wilson
as Hugh Mander
as Dr Tony Benskin
as Geoffrey Leavitt
as Wade
as Col. Sir Charles Holland
as Peter Weston
as Alan Hartley
as Lieutenant Tom Corbett
as Inspector Drummond
as Self
as Jeff Saunders
as Ewart Gray
as Tony Benskin
as Jim Carver
as Donald Nordley
as Lockhart
as Minor Role
Sound
as Theme Song Performance