Cast: Donald Sinden

Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Donald Sinden. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.


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

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

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

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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...

Not rated

Not rated

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.

Not rated

Not rated

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.

Not rated

Not rated

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.

Not rated

Not rated