Page 1 of Donald Sinden now RIP at 90 :(

Another british stalwart bites the dust, a classic in my childhood

I remember watching Never the Twain when I was a kid.

Pretty well anything filmed for a while back in the B&W days seemed to have Donald Sinden in it.
Fondly remember The Cruel Sea and I'll still sit and watch it if it's back on.

Just checking on IMDB and bought back one I'd completely forgotten. TV series from the mid sixties Our Man at St Marks.

Nicked from the Telegraph but nails him beautifully.
Quote:
To hear him in full spate is not unlike being shot between the eyes by the world's largest plum.
Snaps

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I used to be with it, but then they changed what `it` was.
Now, what I`m with isn`t it, and what`s `it` seems weird and scary

Was it spitting Image who had a running gag about him trying to get a knighthood?

Cruel thinking by me......but as usual with old actors, did not know he was still alive.

Same as with Norman Wisdom recently, was a shock to see that he had died, considering I thought he had died a decade before.

Maybe actors die more than once 

Was only if they played the glasgow empire they died more than once i think :)

Yeh, the famous story was that Des O'Conner collaped on stage and had to be dragged off unconsious