Donald Sinden
Nacimiento : 1923-10-09, Plymouth, Devon, England, UK
Muerte : 2014-09-11
Historia
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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Man on Bus
John Smith has been happily involved in a bigamous marriage for five years. He lives with Stephanie in Finsbury and Michelle in Stockwell. Fortunately, for John, he's a taxi driver which involves varying shift work! Simple? Well, when John unwittingly becomes a have-a-go hero and the Finsbury and Stockwell police forces discover something suspicious in their paperwork, John's happy bubble is about to be burst. The action of the movie takes place during the next hectic 24 hours as John, with the assistance of his gullible neighbor Gary, rush between North and South London attempting to thwart the police and prevent the two loving wives coming face to face!
Duc d'Albufera
A docu-drama portrait of the early-20th-century French author Marcel Proust, based on Alain de Botton's updated analysis of his work as a modern-day self-help guide. Ralph Fiennes plays Proust, with Phyllida Law and Donald Sinden as his contemporaries, while commentators including de Botton, Louis de Bernières and Doris Lessing explain their enthusiasm for his work.
Gryphon (voice)
Alicia está en su casa con sus padres y algunos invitados. Todos esperan la pequeña representación que la tímida Alicia ha preparado cuando, de repente, la pequeña decide huir de la casa presa de los nervios que no ha podido contener. En su huida, se cruzará con un enorme conejo blanco al que seguirá hasta su madriguera... desde donde entrará en un increíble mundo de mágicas aventuras. En su fantástico viaje, Alicia se encontrará con multitud de sorprendentes personajes que le darán inolvidables lecciones. Cuando, finalmente, llega a la corte del Croquet, el rey, furioso con su actitud, decretará: “Es hora de volver al mundo real”. Al despertarse en el bosque se dará cuenta que todo ha sido un sueño producto de su imaginación desbordante... o tal vez no.
Robin Jarvis
La hija de un coronel es la nueva cuidadora de la casa. Ella lucha por mantener la casa y lidia con sus problemas amorosos.
Col. Pickering
'Hey, Mr Producer!' presenta escenas seleccionadas de las producciones del productor musical más exitoso del mundo, Cameron Mackintosh: canciones clásicas de musicales clásicos interpretados por el elenco máximo.
Lord Dumbleton
'The Canterville Ghost' is one of the most popular choice for making a film in Oscar Wilde's works, and the original short story deserves the popularity. It is a witty spoof about a ghost and the 'haunted' mansion where a rich American family start to live. In this story, the family are not annoyed by the presence of the ghost; no, it is the ghost who is annoyed by the family who just refuse to be terrified. After all, why should we be scared by an old man wearing rusty coat of mail, whose best trick is to walk in the middle of night making big noises?
Super-talented comic Ronnie Corbett pulls out all the stops to entertain a celebrity audience including on-screen sidekick Ronnie Barker, Damien Hirst and Frank Skinner in this 1997 special.
Mr. Umney
Una clásica familia americana se traslada a Inglaterra a vivir en un castillo habitado por un fantasma (Patrick Stewart). Allí los miembros de la familia perderán toda su incredulidad sobre unos seres en los que nunca habían creído. Sólo una joven (Neve Campbell) puede salvar al fantasma de Canterville de vagar eternamente...
Old Wincott
Five motherless children, with the help of a famous doctor, are determined to save their financially strapped father.
Lord Wrench
Rose Sellars (Kim Novak) es una mujer de mediana edad que quiere conquistar el corazón de un viudo. La tarea no será fácil, pues tendrá que enfrentarse a la oposición de los hijos de su amado, que consideran que su padre es demasiado mayor para empezar una nueva relación.
Himself-Interviewee
Documentary - After starting his career producing religious film shorts, J. Arthur Rank went on to become Britain's first and only movie mogul with his establishment of the legendary Pinewood Studios. Narrated by Michael Caine, THE GOLDEN GONG chronicles Pinewood's rise to success. - Richard Attenborough, Dirk Bogarde, Betty E. Box
Garry Essendine
Often regarded as semi-autobiographical, Present Laughter follows a few days in the life of successful and self-obsessed actor Garry Essendine as he prepares to travel for a touring commitment. Amid a series of events bordering on farce, Garry must deal with interruptions including the numerous women who want to seduce him, placating his long-suffering secretary Monica Reed, avoiding his estranged wife Liz Essendine, being confronted by a crazed young playwright, and overcoming his fear of his own approacing fortieth birthday and impending mid-life crisis.
King of France
Helena loves Bertram, but he's of noble birth, while she's just a doctor's daughter. But Bertram is at the court of the King of France, who is ill, and Helena has a remedy that might cure him and win her the right to marry Bertram. But does Bertram want to marry her?
Sir Anthony Ross
A comienzos del siglo XX, Sir Anthony Ross, un hombre adinerado de Londres, organiza una expedición rumbo al Ártico con la esperanza de encontrar a su hijo desaparecido pero lo que encuentra es un reino vikingo.
Philip Glover
After divorcing his wife, Patrick Glover decides it is time to remarry, and chooses his literary agent, only to then mistakenly propose to the cleaning lady. Part of his reason for wanting to remarry is to regain some control over his wayward daughters, but they and their lovers continue to complicate his home and his life... A farcical comedy full of hilarious confusions, this feature-length version of the popular sitcom Father, Dear Father is a real gem of British humour at its best.
Mallinson
La OAS, un grupo ultra francés, contrata a un asesino profesional, cuya verdadera identidad nadie sabe, conocido como Chacal para que acabe con la vida del general De Gaulle, Presidente de la República Francesa. La policía francesa descubre el plan e inicia una operación contrarreloj para localizar y detener al asesino.
Mr. Carr / Senior Surgeon Boyd
Peter Nichols adapted his own hit play to the screen, based on his experiences in hospitals. A riotous black comedy that's as timely today as ever, it contrasts the appalling conditions in a overcrowded London hospital with a soap opera playing on the televisions there. In an ingenious touch, the same actors appear in the "real" story as well as the "TV" one, thus blurring the distinctions even further. Jack Gould directs such outstanding British actors as Lynn Redgrave, Colin Blakely, Eleanor Bron, Jim Dale, Donald Sinden, Mervyn Johns, and, in only his second film, Bob Hoskins. The renowned Carl Davis composed the score.
Jeffrey Armitage
Armitage es el director de una compañía de productos químicos que está a punto de producir un gas que causa incapacidad temporal. Los militares lo codician, pero también un grupo japonés. Tanto Armitage como madame Greenfly contratan detectives en la misma agencia para robárselo mutuamente...
Gerald Draycott
Cuenta la historia de un bandido despiadado, Vic Dakin, y de sus planes para robar la nómina de una fábrica de plástico. El modo en que se lleva a cabo el golpe no es el modus operandi habitual de Dakin y el asunto se complicará aún más porque tendrá que colaborar con otro delincuente, Frank Fletcher.
The Prison Governor
A young man's attempts at seduction and social climbing lead to mayhem.
Duke of York
A 1965 BBC adaptation of William Shakespeare's first historical tetralogy (1 Henry VI, 2 Henry VI, 3 Henry VI and Richard III), which deals with the conflict between the House of Lancaster and the House of York over the throne of England, a conflict known as the Wars of the Roses. It was based on the 1963 theatre adaptation by John Barton, and directed by Peter Hall for the Royal Shakespeare Company.
Philip Bellamy, QC
Eighteen-year-old Harry Jukes is literally holding a smoking gun in his hand. His lawyer thinks he did it, but his psychiatrist disagrees -- and sets out to prove she is right.
Ian Richards
Twice Round the Daffodils is a 1962 British comedy drama film directed by Gerald Thomas and starring Juliet Mills, Donald Sinden, Donald Houston, Kenneth Williams, Ronald Lewis, Andrew Ray, Joan Sims and Jill Ireland. A new group of patients arrive at a hospital to be treated for tuberculosis where they all take a fancy to one of the nurses. The film was adapted from the play Ring for Catty by Patrick Cargill and Jack Beale. Carry on Nurse from 1959 was based on the same play. The cast and production team of Twice Round the Daffodils create a noticeable similarity with the Carry On films, but the film is not an official member of the Carry On series.
Inspector Mannering
A police inspector (Donald Sinden) tracks down Russian anarchist Peter the Painter (Peter Wyngarde) and his gang in circa-1911 London.
Pelham Butterworth
A domestic comedy about a couple who take in boarders to pay the rent on their large house.
Lt. Gordon Brown
During World War II, a Royal Artillery officer is assigned to an anti-aircraft battery that is filled with female soldiers of the Auxiliary Territorial Service. His wife who has enlisted is mistakenly posted to the battery in violation of regulations of husbands and wives serving together in the same formation. She becomes jealous of what she perceives as him paying too much attention to the other Auxiliary Territorial Service women.
Shawe-Wilson
A captain is promoted by his company from tramp steamers to their flagship passenger liner. Although he is a thoroughly competent sailor ready to take charge of such a ship, he is less prepared for the social duties his new position involves, not least the way he in which becomes the target for all the unattached women on board.
Hugh Mander
The inhabitants of Todday are content to live their lives in peace and quiet, until, that is, the government decides their little corner of the world would be the perfect place for a rocket launch site.
Dr Tony Benskin
The third of the "Doctor" films. Newly qualified doctor Simon Sparrow goes in search of a job. He applies for a surgery position at the hospital where he studied, but manages to insult the senior surgeon and one of the hospital's governors. So, instead he ends up as assistant to with a niggardly and rather scary GP with an amerous wife, followed by cushy but rather unmedical job with a Harley Street doctor, and then a job with a very nice GP whp is the opposite to the first one. But after getting the chance to rescue the hospital governor from a group of angry ladies at a resort in France, he finally lands a job at his beloved hosdpital.
Geoffrey Leavitt
El cabecilla de una peligrosa banda escapa de prisión para buscar un misterioso tesoro que se encuentra enterrado en la mansión de una viuda, que se prepara para casarse con un hombre. De repente, ella comienza a recibir misteriosas fotos de su difunto cónyuge, quien fue dado por desaparecido, por lo que podría estar vivo. Asustada, entrega las fotos a la policía, que iniciará una investigación a fin de esclarecer el misterio.
Wade
Tras una discusión con su marido, Lucy abandona su casa y se va al cine. Allí mientras se dirige a los servicios es testigo del asesinato del gerente por dos delincuentes, Ward y Barney, que intentan forzar la caja fuerte a continuación. Es descubierta y en la persecución Lucy es atropellada por un autobús y llevada al hospital. Wade decide vigilarla y asesinarla para evitar que los identifique y, en consecuencia, ser ahorcados, en contra de la opinión de Barney. Intenta colarse en el hospital para estrangularla, pero una anciana paciente lo descubre. Decide disfrazarse de enfermero y se dirige a la sala de operaciones, donde Lucy está a punto de ser intervenida…
Col. Sir Charles Holland
Durante la retirada británica, David Holland se refugia en una tribu beduina y se casa con la hija del jeque. No obstante, muere cuando intenta reunirse con su regimiento. (FILMAFFINITY)
Peter Weston
Returning from a cricket match in Ireland, Peter Weston gains a pet alligator from another passenger who abandons it with him. He is horrified and while his first instinct is to get rid of it he develops a relationship with a young Irishwoman who appears to be entwined with the reptile. He soon discovers that Daisy is tame and seems to be the way to Moira's heart.
Alan Hartley
The trouble with Josephine is that her ever-loving and over-sympathetic nature leads her to switch from needful men to even more needful men...
Lieutenant Tom Corbett
II Guerra Mundial. La marina de guerra británica se encuentra amenazada por el acorazado alemán Tirpitz. Con una gran potencia de fuego, sobretodo sus ochos cañones de 381 milímetros con alcance de hasta 34 kilómetros, este acorazado podría acabar fácilmente con sus líneas de suministros marítimos, siendo este un riesgo que Inglaterra no puede consentir. Resguardado en el fiordo de Trondheim, Noruega, es imposible atacarlo con una oportunidad de éxito. Pero el Comandante Fraser (John Mills) propone un ingenioso y arriesgado plan. Su idea consiste en llegar a Trondheim camuflados con un pesquero noruego y una vez próximos al objetivo usar tres submarinos de bolsillo experimentales que deberán depositar bajo su casco varias cargas explosivas subacuáticas.
Inspector Drummond
Alan Howard se va a África para visitar a su hermano, pero cuando llega se entera de que ha sido asesinado por los Mau Mau. Decide entonces quedarse para hacerse cargo de la granja de su hermano y, además, para reanudar su relación amorosa con María, una joven que vive en África con sus padres. Pero los Mau Mau siguen constituyenndo una amenaza, y en este punto María y Alan se encuentran en bandos opuestos.
Jeff Saunders
Flirtatious mermaid Miranda swaps places with a schoolteacher who has gone on holiday. All is well until she falls in love with a human.
Ewart Gray
Mr. Gray is the new Resident in Charge of the Welcome Islands in the Indian Ocean. The Islands are full of life, but the only other Europeans are the "sanctimonious, psalm-singing" brother-sister missionary team of Martha and Owen Jordans, and the Honourable Ted - a hard-drinking, womanizing social outcast whose English family pays him to stay away. Martha and Ted become an unlikely team when cholera threatens the islands and they must do their best to stop its spread.
Tony Benskin
Simon Sparrow es un joven estudiante de medicina que llega al hospital de St Swithin's de Londres. Animado por sus amigos, empieza a salir con una enfermera de la que acaba enamorándose.
The best of British humor is on display in this satirical cold war romp! Donald Sinden plays Lieutenant Green, a radar expert in the Royal Navy. One night, whilst under the influence of alcohol, he welds an old pram to the deck of a foreign destroyer for a joke. The next morning, British Intelligence is desperate to know what the enemy’s new weapon is. To cover his tracks, Green calls it the ‘998’. When he is posted to the destroyer to explain about radar techniques, Green soon realizes that his prank has gone too far.
Jim Carver
Based on The Hand and the Flower, a novel by Jerrard Tickell, A Day to Remember stars Stanley Holloway as Charley Porter, captain of London darts team. When the team travels to the French town of Boulogne for the annual darts tournament, a good time is had by all--and more besides. Jim Carver one of the team's members, is reunited with a little French girl he'd befriended during the war, who has now developed into a beautiful young woman. And Fred Collins makes a poignant journey to the hotel where he'd honeymooned with his late wife. The film works best as a low-key comedy-drama; it is least successful when it ventures into O. Henry territory and strains for "surprise" story twists. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
Donald Nordley
Durante un safari en África, un cazador profesional (Gable) se encuentra dividido entre una recién casada, rubia y de apariencia gélida (Kelly), y una volcánica morena de turbio pasado (Gardner). Victor Marswell se dedica a la caza de animales salvajes para venderlos a los zoológicos de todo el mundo. Los Nordley, una pareja de recién casados, llegan al campamento buscando la ayuda de Marswell para filmar un documental sobre los gorilas.
Lockhart
Aventuras de un buque escolta de convoy británico durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Al comienzo de la guerra al Capitán de Corbeta Ericson se le asigna el buque HMS Compass Rose con oficiales sin experiencia y hombres que acaban de salir de la formación militar. Tendrán que enfrentarse al mar invernal y a los temibles submarinos alemanes
Minor Role
A British army officer becomes fascinated by the portrait of a young woman. He travels to Germany to find her, only to discover that she is suffering from amnesia.
