Donald sinden

Born on October 9, 1923, in St. Budeaux (Devon), in the south of England, Donald Alfred Sinden started in the theater by chance, when he replaced his cousin Frank, who had been called up, as an actor in a performance amateur. A stage manager who happened to come as a spectator recruited him to become a professional.

While developing an intense activity as an interpreter, Donald Sinden began a close friendship with Lord Alfred Douglas, who had been the lover of Oscar Wilde , and in fact was one of only two people who attended his funeral.

In cinema he began with The Cruel Sea , where he played a World War II soldier, who was enormously successful in his country. This prompted the great John Ford to call him to Mogambo , where he played anthropologist Donald Norley, who went to Kenya to shoot a documentary with his wife, Linda ( Grace Kelly ), who was attracted to Victor, a mature hunter ( Clark gable ).

Despite the fact that the film was enormously successful and has become a great classic, Sinden made the decision to return to his native country, where he developed most of his career, in titles that normally have not had much impact in the rest of the world. Highlights her work in Fred Zinnemann ‘s Jackal , where she played Scotland Yard commissioner Anthony Mallinson. He also had international repercussions in the hilarious sitcom Two in Discord , where he was one of two antiquarians facing each other, whose children fall in love.

In this last series, he was accompanied in the cast by Diana Sinden, his wife, who died of cancer in 2004, with whom he had two children. Both followed in the footsteps of their parents, as Jeremy Sinden (who also died of the terrible disease in 1996) was an actor, while the other has succeeded as a theater producer in London’s West End.

In addition to publishing two autobiographical books, Donald Sinden was recognized by the Queen with the title of Sir.