Cast: Donald Sinden
Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Donald Sinden. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.
Titles found: 41
The Day of the Jackal
1973 · Movie · 141 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Fred Zinnemann
Cast Edward Fox · Michael Lonsdale · Derek Jacobi · Alan Badel
Synopsis Year 1963. President De Gaulle decides to grant independence to French Algeria, several of the soldiers, who fought in that campaign, feel that De Gaulle is belittling the lives of the men who died there. So they form a group...
7.5
9K votes
7.5
9K votes
The Prisoner (TV Series)
1967 · Series · 50 min. · United Kingdom
Direction George Markstein · Patrick McGoohan · Pat Jackson · Don Chaffey
Cast Patrick McGoohan · Leo McKern · Colin Gordon · Angelo Muscat
Synopsis TV Series (1967-1968). 17 Episodes. After resigning from his job, a high-ranking Agent in the British Government is gassed and taken to a beautiful but deadly prison known only as "The Village", where given a Number to be called by...
7.3
689 votes
7.3
689 votes
Mogambo
1953 · Movie · 115 min. · United States
Direction John Ford
Cast Clark Gable · Ava Gardner · Grace Kelly · Donald Sinden
Synopsis Clark Gable reprises his role as veteran big-game trapper and guide Vic Marswell in John Ford's remake of RED DUST, the actor's 1932 hit directed by Victor Fleming. After a brief fling with Eloise Kelly (Ava Gardner), an adventurer temporarily...
7.2
9K votes
7.2
9K votes
The Cruel Sea
1953 · Movie · 126 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Charles Frend
Cast Jack Hawkins · Donald Sinden · John Stratton · Denholm Elliott
Synopsis At the start of World War II, Cmdr. Ericson is assigned to convoy escort HMS Compass Rose with inexperienced officers and men just out of training. The winter seas make life miserable enough, but the men must also harden themselves...
6.9
102 votes
6.9
102 votes
Miss Marple: The Blue Geranium (TV)
2010 · Movie · 87 min. · United Kingdom
Direction David Moore
Cast Julia McKenzie · Sharon Small · Toby Stephens · Claudie Blakley
Synopsis A superstitious woman dies of apparent fright after her fate is foretold by a medium, but Miss Marple is convinced of foul play.
6.4
67 votes
6.4
67 votes
Eyewitness
1956 · Movie · 82 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Muriel Box
Cast Donald Sinden · Muriel Pavlow · Belinda Lee · Michael Craig
Synopsis When she has a fight, with her husband, Lucy runs out of the house, and into a night of terror. She heads for the local cinema, and in doing so, becomes the only eyewitness to a couple of crooks, who...
6.3
32 votes
6.3
32 votes
Tiger in the Smoke
1956 · Movie · 94 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Roy Ward Baker
Cast Donald Sinden · Muriel Pavlow · Tony Wright · Bernard Miles
Synopsis 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...
6.0
43 votes
6.0
43 votes
Villain
1971 · Movie · 98 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Michael Tuchner
Cast Richard Burton · Ian McShane · Nigel Davenport · Donald Sinden
Synopsis Murderous, sadistic London gang leader Vic Dakin, a mother-obsessed homosexual modeled on real-life gangster Ronnie Kray, is worried about potential stool pigeons that may bring down his criminal empire. The brutal Vic cuts the throat of one bloke who has...
6.0
61 votes
6.0
61 votes
The Island at the Top of the World
1974 · Movie · 94 min. · United States
Direction Robert Stevenson
Cast Donald Sinden · David Hartman · Jacques Marin · Mako
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),...
6.0
667 votes
6.0
667 votes
Above Us the Waves
1955 · Movie · 99 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Ralph Thomas
Cast John Mills · John Gregson · Donald Sinden · James Robertson Justice
Synopsis The greatest threat to the British navy is the German battleship Tirpitz. Being anchored in a Norwegian fjord, it is impossible to attack it with any chance of success. But the navy trains a special commando to attack it, using...
5.7
116 votes
5.7
116 votes
Simba
1955 · Movie · 99 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Brian Desmond Hurst
Cast Dirk Bogarde · Donald Sinden · Virginia McKenna · Basil Sydney
Synopsis When Alan Howard, a young Englishman, arrives in Kenya to visit his older brother on his farm he finds the latter has been brutally murdered by the Mau Mau. He decides to go on exploiting the farm and to fight...
5.5
68 votes
5.5
68 votes
Doctor in the House
1954 · Movie · 92 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Ralph Thomas
Cast Dirk Bogarde · Muriel Pavlow · Kenneth More · Donald Sinden
Synopsis Simon Sparrow is a newly arrived medical student at St Swithin's hospital in London. Falling in with three longer-serving hopefuls he is soon immersed in the wooing, imbibing and fast sports-car driving that constitute 1950's medical training. There is, however,...
5.5
43 votes
5.5
43 votes
That Lucky Touch
1975 · Movie · 89 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Christopher Miles
Cast Roger Moore · Susannah York · Shelley Winters · Lee J. Cobb
Synopsis A European arms dealer (Roger Moore) meets a liberated woman journalist (Susannah York), who is writing a story about the ridiculous things men do with the armaments during a NATO war games meeting. Needless to say, the two meet and...
5.4
32 votes
5.4
32 votes
The Black Tent
1956 · Movie · 93 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Brian Desmond Hurst
Cast Donald Sinden · Anthony Steel · Anna-Maria Sandri · André Morell
Synopsis During the British retreat, David Holland (Anthony Steel) takes shelter with a Bedouin tribe and marries the sheik's daughter (Anna-Maria Sandri). He dies, however, while trying to rejoin his regiment.
4.9
55 votes
4.9
55 votes
The Canterville Ghost (TV)
1996 · Movie · 92 min. · United States
Direction Sydney Macartney
Cast Patrick Stewart · Neve Campbell · Joan Sims · Donald Sinden
Synopsis When a teenaged girl moves to England, with her brothers and parents into the ancient Canterville Hall, she's not at all happy. Especially as there's a ghost and a mysterious re-appearing bloodstain on the hearth. She campaigns to go back...
4.6
714 votes
4.6
714 votes
Mix Me a Person
1962 · Movie · 116 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Leslie Norman
Cast Anne Baxter · Donald Sinden · Adam Faith · David Kernan
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Great West End Theatres (TV Series)
2012 · Documentary · 65 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Marc Sinden
Cast Donald Sinden · Ian McKellen · Marc Sinden · Steven Berkoff
Synopsis Great West End Theatres is a documentary series of its kind to document all 40 of London's theatres, such as Her Majesty’s, Noël Coward, Palace, Piccadilly, St. Martin’s, The Ambassadors, The Prince Of Wales, Theatre Royal Drury Lane, Theatre Royal...
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The National Health
1973 · Movie · 95 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Jack Gold
Cast Lynn Redgrave · Colin Blakely · Eleanor Bron · Donald Sinden
Synopsis A hospital is filled with wacky staff members and patients, and the film strives to get all it can from their humorous escapades.
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Nancherrow (TV Miniseries)
1999 · Series · 100 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Simon Langton
Cast Joanna Lumley · Katie Ryder Richardson · Lara-Joy Körner · George Asprey
Synopsis A colonel's daughter is the new caretaker of the house. She fights to keep the house and deals with her love problems.
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Portrait from Life
1948 · Movie · 90 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Terence Fisher
Cast Mai Zetterling · Robert Beatty · Guy Rolfe · Herbert Lom
Synopsis 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.
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