Personal Life
Sinden was born in Plymouth, Devon, on 9 October 1923. The son of Alfred Edward Sinden and his wife Mabel Agnes (née Fuller), he, his elder sister Joy and his brother Leon (born 1927, also an actor), grew up in the Sussex village of Ditchling, where their home "The Limes" doubled as the local chemist shop.
Sinden was married to actress Diana Mahony from 1948 until her death, aged 77, in 2004. The couple had two sons: actor Jeremy Sinden (born 1950), who died of lung cancer in 1996 and the West End theatre producer, Marc Sinden (born 1954). He has four grandchildren: Kezia (born 1979), Hal (born 1980), Harriet (born 1984) and Bridie (born 1990).
Sinden lives on the Isle of Oxney, near Tenterden, Kent.
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