Donald SindenFilmography

The Treasure Seekers

Actors: Nicholas Farrell, James Wilby, Gina McKee, Ian Richardson, Donald Sinden

Synopsis: Adapted from the historical novel by Edith Nesbit, this family-oriented comedy-drama concerns Richard Barnstable (Nicholas Farrell), an eccentric widower and father of five who is trying to perfect a new form of refrigeration. Barnstable's tinkering doesn't bring in much money and his children Read More

Balto

Actors: Kevin Bacon, Bob Hoskins, Lola Bates-Campbell, Bridget Fonda, Jim Cummings, Phil Collins

Synopsis: Balto is an animated trifle, based loosely on a true story from the 1920s, that may offer some amusement for young children. A live-action intro and outro set the stage for the story of Balto (voiced by Kevin Bacon), a stray who's half dog and half wolf, who is shunned as a half-breed outcast by Read More

The Children

Actors: Ben Kingsley, Kim Novak, Siri Neal, Geraldine Chaplin, Joe Don Baker

Synopsis: Ben Kingsley stars in this solid adaptation of the Edith Wharton novel (filmed previously in 1929 as The Marriage Playground). Kingsley plays Martin Boyne, an engineer in 1920s Europe who, after five years of correspondence, is planning to travel overseas to marry the recently widowed Rose Sellars Read More

All's Well That Ends Well

Actors: Ian Charleson, Angela Down, Celia Johnson

Two's Company: Series 04

Actors: Elaine Stritch, Donald Sinden

Synopsis: The fourth and final season of the British "culture-clash" sitcom Two's Company stars Elaine Stritch as Dorothy McNab, an overbearing, overtalkative American mystery writer living in Chelsea, and Donald Sinden as Dorothy's highly proper butler, Robert, who never lets his position get in the way of Read More

Two's Company: Series 03

Actors: Elaine Stritch, Donald Sinden

Synopsis: Elaine Stritch is back as the flamboyant, temperamental Dorothy McNab, an American author living in England, and so is Donald Sinden as Dorothy's delightfully snooty and outspoken British butler Robert, in the third season of the London Weekend Television sitcom Two's Company. Eight new episodes Read More

Two's Company: Series 02

Actors: Elaine Stritch, Donald Sinden

Synopsis: Back after a year's absence (save for the 1976 special "A Loving Christmas"), the British sitcom Two's Company still stars Elaine Stritch as Dorothy McNab, an abrasive and demanding American mystery writer living in Chelsea, and Donald Sinden as Dorothy's "veddy" proper butler, Robert Hiller, who Read More

That Lucky Touch

Actors: Roger Moore, Susannah York, Shelley Winters, Lee J. Cobb, Jean-Pierre Cassel

Synopsis: Lee J. Cobb's last film is in this light romantic comedy starring Roger Moore as Michael Scott, an arms dealer who comes complete with a sophisticated playboy patter for the ladies. During war games, Michael attempts to sell weapons to NATO forces by trying to interest NATO general Steedman (Lee J. Cobb Read More

Two's Company: Series 01

Actors: Elaine Stritch, Donald Sinden

Synopsis: The hilarious war of words between American writer Dorothy McNab (Elaine Stritch) and her very proper British butler, Robert Hiller (Donald Sinden), with Dorothy's Chelsea estate as the mismatched couple's battlefield, gets under way in this first season ofLondon Weekend Television's sitcom Two's Company Read More

Two's Company [TV Series]

Actors: Elaine Stritch, Donald Sinden

Synopsis: Not to be confused with the earlier Granada Television variety series of the same name, the British sitcom Two's Company was unveiled by London Weekend Television on September 6, 1975. American actress Elaine Stritch starred as Dorothy McNab, an acerbic Yankee writer who lived and worked on a Read More

The Island at the Top of the World

Actors: Niels Hinrichsen, Gunnar Ohlund, Erik Silju, Rolf Soder, David Hartman, Donald Sinden, Jacques Marin, Mako, David Gwillim

Synopsis: This Disney family adventure, directed by Robert Stevenson in his Jules Verne mode, concern a group of explorers who travel to the Arctic Circle in 1908 to explore the uncharted wastes of the North Pole. Sir Anthony Ross (Donald Sinden), a rich Londoner, organizes an Arctic exploration team in Read More

The National Health, or Nurse Norton's Affair

Actors: Neville Aurelius, George Browne

Synopsis: National Health, or Nurse Norton's Affair is an antic filmization of Peter Nichols' play, originally staged by Britain's National Theatre. A scattershot satire of the red tape and inconsistencies of England's National Health program, the film is set in the men's ward of an old, crumbling hospital. Read More

Father Dear Father

Actors: Patrick Cargill

Synopsis: The British TV sitcom Father Dear Father originally ran from 1968 through 1973. Veteran farceur Patrick Cargill starred as a divorced father with two nubile daughters. Complications ensued when the girls moved into the flat just below Cargill's. You may recognize this property as the basis for the Read More

The Day of the Jackal

Actors: Edward Fox, Michel Lonsdale, Alan Badel, Michel Auclair, Tony Britton, Terry Alexander

Synopsis: In this involving political thriller, a secret French paramilitary organization plans to assassinate French President Charles De Gaulle (Adrien Cayla-Legrand) because of their disagreement with his policies during the Algerian War. They hire a professional killer, known only as "The Jackal" (Edward Fox Read More

Rentadick

Synopsis: In this pre-Monty Python parody of private-eye movies by Graham Chapman and John Cleese, someone has stolen nerve gas that paralyzes victims from the waist down. Now the bumbling boys at Rentadick, Inc. must find them before it is too late. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Villain

Actors: Shirley Cain, Wendy Hutchinson, Lindy Miller, Bonita Thomas, Richard Burton, Ian McShane, Nigel Davenport, Donald Sinden, Fiona Lewis

Synopsis: This melodramatic crime drama tells the story of homosexual gang leader Vic Dakin (Richard Burton), who likes a bit of rough sex with his petty criminal pal Wolfe (Ian McShane). Aside from payroll robberies, his gang is not above blackmailing sexually deviant members of Parliament. A Scotland Yard Read More

Decline and Fall... of a Bird Watcher

Actors: Robin Phillips, Geneviève Page, Donald Wolfit, Colin Blakely, Patience Collier

Synopsis: In this feather-weight version of Evelyn Waugh's novel Decline and Fall, Paul Pennyfeather (Robin Phillips) is an Oxford divinity student who finds himself expelled after a gang of drunken freshmen remove his pants and he is accused of exposing himself to a girl. Looking for work, he retains the Read More

The Prisoner: Many Happy Returns

Synopsis: Originally broadcast in England on November 12, 1967, this episode of The Prisoner was written by Anthony Skene and directed by "Joseph Serf" --- actually a pseudonym for series star Patrick McGoohan. Arising from his slumbers early one morning, Number Six discovers that the Village is deserted Read More

The Comedy of Errors

Twice Round the Daffodils

Actors: Juliet Mills, Donald Sinden, Donald Houston, Ronald Lewis, Kenny Williams, Jill Ireland

Synopsis: This entertaining farce is from the director who brought the world the highly successful "Carry On..." comedies -- Gerald Thomas -- and exhibits some of his hand at slapstick situations. The premise, based on the play Ring for Catty, is hardly complex. Nurse Catty (Juliet Mills) is one of the main Read More

Mix Me a Person

Actors: Anne Baxter, Donald Sinden, Adam Faith, David Kernan, Frank Jarvis

Synopsis: In this confusing drama, the IRA, intrigue, psychiatric analysis, and a young man framed for murder are thrown together in a series of events that were perhaps originally intended to highlight the psychological aspects of the case under study. One night, eighteen-year-old Harry Jukes (British rock Read More

The Siege of Sidney Street

Actors: Donald Sinden, Nicole Maurey, Kieron Moore, Peter Wyngarde, Godfrey Quigley, Leonard Sachs

Synopsis: A real-life incident became the basis for this highly fictionalized drama about a January 1911 confrontation between political anarchists and London police in that city's Whitechapel district that resulted in an infamous, blazing gun battle. Sara (Nicole Berger) is an orphaned Russian girl who Read More

Your Money or Your Wife

Actors: Donald Sinden, Peggy Cummins, Richard Wattis, Peter Reynolds, Georgina Cookson

Synopsis: Donald Sinden and Peggy Cummins co-star as Pelham and Gay Butterworth in this routine comedy about a married couple whose hopes of acquiring an instantaneous fortune are suddenly dashed. When Gay finds out she is going to get a huge inheritance, the young couple go on a spending spree. Just a tad Read More

The Captain's Table

Actors: John Gregson, Peggy Cummins, Donald Sinden, Nadia Gray

Synopsis: A typical light comedy based on a novel by Richard Gordon, The Captain's Table has director Jack Lee at its own helm, riding high on the success of his 1956 A Town Like Alice. Captain Ebbs (John Gregson) brings a part of his freighter experience with him as he takes charge of an ocean liner for Read More

Operation Bullshine

Actors: Donald Sinden, Barbara Murray, Carole Lesley, Ronald Shiner, Naunton Wayne

Synopsis: Set in an anti-aircraft station along the British coast, this light comedy features Donald Sinden as Lt. Gordon Brown and Barbara Murray as his wife, Private Betty Brown. When a group of female recruits are posted to the base, the handsome lieutenant attracts their attention, especially the Read More

Mad Little Island

Actors: Jean Carson, Donald Sinden, Roland Culver, Catherine Lacey, Noel Purcell

Synopsis: The small but resourceful Scots island of Todday, introduced in the 1949 Ealing comedy Whisky Galore!, made a return visit to movie screens in 1958's Rockets Galore--released in the U.S. as Mad Little Island. In the first film, the good people of Todday faced up to the appalling dilemma of a Read More

Doctor at Large

Actors: Dirk Bogarde, Dandy Nichols, Muriel Pavlow, Donald Sinden, Brigitte Bardot, James Robertson Justice, Shirley Eaton

Synopsis: The third of the droll British "Doctor" series, Doctor at Large once more stars Dirk Bogarde as young Dr. Simon Sparrow. Back in his old stamping grounds at St. Swithin's Teaching Hospital, Sparrow misses his chance at becoming chief surgeon when he crosses swords with the formidable Sir Lancelot Read More

The Black Tent

Actors: Anthony Steel, Donald Sinden, Anna Maria Sandri, Andre Morell, Ralph Truman

Synopsis: Anthony Steel stars in this fanciful wartime drama. Stationed in Libya, British soldier Steel is wounded, then nursed back to health by a band of Nomads. He manages to marry the tribal chieftan's daughter (Anna Maria Sandri) before getting down to the serious business of fending off the Nazis. Ten Read More

Tiger in the Smoke

Actors: Donald Sinden, Muriel Pavlow, Tony Wright, Bernard Miles, Alec Clunes

Synopsis: In this British crime drama, an escaped killer heads for the French coast to find a mysterious treasure reportedly buried in a widow's mansion. The lonely widow is preparing to marry a man she doesn't love. Suddenly she begins receiving mysterious photos of her late spouse; they seem to suggest Read More

Eyewitness

Actors: Donald Sinden, Muriel Pavlow, Belinda Lee, Michael Craig, Nigel Stock

Synopsis: In this thriller a woman witnesses a robbery, runs away from the scene and is rundown by a bus. The two thieves, realizing that she could get them arrested, sneak into the hospital where they plan to kill her. Their repeated attempts all end in failure. At the end, one of the thieves, feeling Read More

Above Us the Waves

Actors: John Mills, John Gregson, Donald Sinden, Michael Medwin

Synopsis: Judging by the number of times it has shown up on TV, Above Us the Waves may be American viewers' favorite British war film. Most of the film is set in a British midget submarine, commandeered by John Mills. The sub's mission (together with its "fellow" vessels) is to sink the German battleship Read More

An Alligator Named Daisy

Actors: Donald Sinden, Diana Dors, James Robertson Justice, Jean Carson, Stanley Holloway

Synopsis: You gets what you pays for in An Alligator Named Daisy. Donald Sinden stars as a young songwriter who accidentally picks up someone else's alligator suitcase. Somehow this leads to the luckless Sinden being saddled with a baby alligator, who prefers to sleep within his piano. Glamour girl Diana Dors Read More

Simba

Actors: Dirk Bogarde, Virginia McKenna, Basil Sydney, Marie Ney, Joseph Tomelty

Synopsis: The recent Mau Mau uprising in Kenya served as story material for the 1955 British film Simba. White farmer Dirk Bogarde and his neighbors are targeted for extermination by the zealously nationalistic Mau Maus. Native doctor Joseph Tomelty, whose brother had earlier been killed under questionable Read More

Josephine and Men

Actors: Glynis Johns, Jack Buchanan, Donald Sinden, Peter Finch, Heather Thatcher

Synopsis: In this romantic comedy, a womanizing uncle tells the story of his good-hearted but fickle niece, whose tendency to always champion the underdog causes her endless romantic woes. It all begins when she breaks up with her fiance on the eve of their wedding so she can marry and help out a Read More

The Beachcomber

Actors: Glynis Johns, Robert Newton, Donald Sinden, Paul Rogers, Donald Pleasence

Synopsis: This second film version of Somerset Maugham's Vessel of Wrath lacks the casual charm of the first (which starred Charles Laughton and Elsa Lanchester), but is otherwise quite entertaining. Robert Newton stars as Honorable Ted, a slovenly, bibulous South Sea Island beachcomber. The black sheep of Read More

You Know What Sailors Are

Actors: Akim Tamiroff, Donald Sinden, Sarah Lawson, Naunton Wayne, Bill Kerr

Synopsis: While off on a drunken toot, three British naval officers attach an old baby carriage and a pawnbroker's sign to the stern of a foreign naval vessel. The next morning, a zealous officer spots the curious appendage and comes to the conclusion that the "pram" and sign are actually part of a Read More

Mad About Men

Actors: Glynis Johns, Anne Crawford, Donald Sinden, Margaret Rutherford, Dora Bryan

Synopsis: Mad About Men is the delightful sequel to the saucy British comedy-fantasy Miranda. Glynis Johns returns in the dual role of amorous mermaid Miranda and her somewhat more reserved "human" lookalike Caroline. Having inherited a house in Cornwall, Caroline goes on an extended holiday, whereupon Read More

Mogambo

Actors: Clark Gable, Ava Gardner, Grace Kelly, Donald Sinden, Philip Stainton, Eric Pohlmann

Synopsis: The 1953 Clark Gable film Mogambo is a remake of Gable's 1932 seriocomic adventure Red Dust. Where the earlier film was lensed on the MGM backlot, Mogambo was shot on location in Africa by director John Ford. Gable is safari leader Victor Marswell, who plays "host" to stranded Eloise Y. Kelly (Ava Gardner Read More

Doctor in the House

Actors: Dirk Bogarde, Muriel Pavlow, Kenneth More, Donald Sinden, Kay Kendall

Synopsis: The first of the popular British "Doctor" comedy series, Doctor in the House stars Dirk Bogarde as callow young medical student Simon Sparrow. Beginning his five-year internship at St. Swithin's Teaching Hospital, Sparrow continually runs afoul of head doctor Sir Lancelot Sprat (James Robertson-Justice Read More

A Day to Remember

Actors: Stanley Holloway, Donald Sinden, Joan Rice, Odile Versois, James Hayter

Synopsis: 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 (Donald Sinden Read More

The Cruel Sea

Actors: Jack Hawkins, Donald Sinden, John Stratton, Denholm Elliott, Stanley Baker

Synopsis: In this seagoing military drama set in World War II, Lt. Comdr. Ericson (Jack Hawkins) is made captain of a British corvette, a small escort vessel used to guide and protect convoys traveling through the Atlantic. Ericson had his confidence severely shaken during his last command, in which he lost Read More

Portrait from Life

Actors: Mai Zetterling, Guy Rolfe, Patrick Holt, Herbert Lom, Robert Beatty

Synopsis: Portrait from Life is an over-orchestrated "guilty pleasure" from the glory days of British romance pictures. A German professor sees a portrait in an art gallery which looks exactly like his daughter, who is assumed to have died in the war. The girl (Mai Zetterling) has been living as an amnesiac Read More