​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.

Фільмографія

• 2012Run For Your Wife — Man on Bus
• 2003The Accidental Detective — Professor Stein
• Judge John Deed — Sir Joseph Channing
• 2000How Proust Can Change Your Life — Duc d'Albufera
• 1999Alice in Wonderland — Gryphon (voice)
• 1999Nancherrow — Robin Jarvis
• Nancherrow
• 1998Atatürk — Narrator (voice)
• 1998Hey, Mr. Producer! The Musical World of Cameron Mackintosh — Col. Pickering
• 1997An Audience with Ronnie Corbett
• 1997The Canterville Ghost — Lord Dumbleton
• Суто англійські вбивства — Colonel Henry Hammond
• 1996Cuts — Sir Luke Trimingham
• 1996The Canterville Ghost — Mr. Umney
• 1996The Treasure Seekers — Old Wincott
• 1995Балто — Doc (voice)
• Performance — Edmund of Langley
• 1990The Children — Lord Wrench
• Playing Shakespeare
• 1981All's Well That Ends Well — King of France
• Never the Twain — Simon Peel
• 1981Present Laughter — Garry Essendine
• 1975That Lucky Touch — British Gen. Armstrong
• Two's Company — Robert Hiller, Theme Song Performance
• 1974The Island at the Top of the World — Sir Anthony Ross
• 1973Father Dear Father — Philip Glover
• 1973The National Health — Mr. Carr / Senior Surgeon Boyd
• 1973День Шакала — Mallinson
• 1972Rentadick — Jeffrey Armitage
• The Organization — David Pulman
• The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes — Romney Pringle
• The Ten Commandments — Major
• 1971Villain — Gerald Draycott
• 1968Decline and Fall ...of a Birdwatcher — The Prison Governor
• Late Night Horror — William Pearl
• Ooh La La!
• 1968The Judgement of Albion — Voice
• 1968William and Mary — William Pearl
• В'язень — The Colonel
• BBC Play of the Month — Philip Carter
• 1965The Wars of the Roses — Duke of York
• The Wars of the Roses — Plantagenet
• Thirty-Minute Theatre — Andrew Pelham
• Festival — Solinus, Duke of Ephesus
• 1962Mix Me a Person — Philip Bellamy, QC
• 1962Twice Round the Daffodils — Ian Richards
• 1960The Siege of Sidney Street — Inspector Mannering
• 1960Your Money or Your Wife — Pelham Butterworth
• 1959Operation Bullshine — Lt. Gordon Brown
• 1959The Captain's Table — Chief Officer Shawe-Wilson
• 1958Rockets Galore — Hugh Mander
• 1957Doctor at Large — Dr. Tony Benskin
• Armchair Theatre — Faulk
• 1956Eyewitness — Wade
• 1956The Black Tent — Col. Sir Charles Holland
• 1956Tiger in the Smoke — Geoffrey Leavitt
• 1955Above Us the Waves — Lieutenant Tom Corbett
• 1955An Alligator Named Daisy — Peter Weston
• 1955Josephine and Men — Alan Hartley
• 1955Simba — Inspector Drummond
• 1954Doctor in the House — Tony Benskin
• 1954Mad About Men — Jeff Saunders
• 1954The Beachcomber — Ewart Gray
• 1954You Know What Sailors Are
• 1953A Day to Remember — Jim Carver
• 1953Mogambo — Donald Nordley
• 1953The Cruel Sea — Lockhart
• 1948Portrait from Life — Minor Role

Ток-шоу, премії та інші появи (5)

• Challenge Anneka — Self
• 1985The Golden Gong: The Story of Rank Films - British Cinema's Legendary Studio — Self
• 1984An Audience with Mel Brooks — Self (uncredited)
• Omnibus — Self
• This Is Your Life — Self