Donald Sinden - Rank Organisation

Rank Organisation

In 1953 he was contracted for seven years to the Rank Organisation at Pinewood Studios and subsequently starred in many outstanding British films of the 1950s including The Cruel Sea, Mogambo, Doctor in the House, Above Us The Waves, Doctor at Large, The Siege of Sidney Street, Twice Round the Daffodils and with a very young Adam Faith in Mix Me a Person. In 1956 a profile was written on him which stated:

In the three years since his debut in The Cruel Sea, the untemperamental Sinden has moved steadily up the British film ladder until people are noticing, not without surprise, that he is suddenly one of the country's prime box-office favorites. It's as though he arrived on tiptoe. He is not colorful or flamboyant, yet he has his niche in public favor, as a recent poll proved. British women folk voted him "the face we'd most like to see across the breakfast table." This defines with a certain accuracy the sure, dependable appeal of the man who, so far, has shared star billing with some other more boisterous male idols. He has usually been left, crestfallen and jilted, in the last reel.