Donald Sinden

Donald Sinden
Pinewood Studios publicity shot, c. 1956
Born
Donald Alfred Sinden

(1923-10-09)9 October 1923
Plymouth, Devon, England
Died12 September 2014(2014-09-12) (aged 90)
Wittersham, Kent, England
OccupationActor
Years active1941–2012
Spouse
Diana Mahony
(m. 1948; died 2004)
Children
AwardsKnight Bachelor; CBE; FRSA; D.Litt; D.Arts
see awards table

Sir Donald Alfred Sinden CBE FRSA (9 October 1923 – 12 September 2014)[1] was a British actor.

Sinden featured in the film Mogambo (1953), and achieved early fame as a Rank Organisation film star in the 1950s in films including The Cruel Sea (1953), Doctor in the House (1954), Simba (1955), Eyewitness (1956) and Doctor at Large (1957). He then became highly regarded as an award-winning Shakespearean and West End theatre actor and television sitcom star, winning the 1977 Evening Standard Award for Best Actor for King Lear, and starring in the sitcoms Two's Company (1975–79) and Never the Twain (1981–91).

  1. ^ "Sir Donald Sinden – obituary". The Telegraph. 12 September 2014.