Sir Donald Sinden, CBE

Career: actor; first stage performance 1942; assoc artist RSC 1967-; pres: Fedn of Playgoers' Socs 1968-93, Royal Theatrical Fund 1983-, Theatre Museum Assoc 1985-1995; patron: Green Room Club Benevolent Fund 1998-2005, Ellen Terry Theatre 2001-, Irving Soc 2001-; tstee Br Actors' Equity Assoc 1988-2004; Hon DLitt Univ of Leicester 2005, Hon DArts Univ of Kent 2011; Freeman City of London 1997; FRSA 1966; Television incl: Two's Company, Never the Twain, Discovering English Churches, Judge John Deed; Film Rank Orgn 1952-60 appearing in 23 films incl: Doctor in the House, The Cruel Sea; Awards incl: Drama Desk Award (for London Assurance) 1974, Variety Club of GB Stage Actor of 1976, Evening Standard Drama Award Best Actor 1977 (both for King Lear), Pragnell Shakespeare Award 2006

Books and Publications: A Touch of the Memoirs (autobiography, 1982), Laughter in the Second Act (autobiography, 1985), The Everyman Book of Theatrical Anecdotes (ed, 1987), The English Country Church (1988), The Last Word (ed, 1994)