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Donald Sumpter
🎂 Feb 13, 1943 (83)
Brixworth, Northamptonshire, England, UK 1.2 popularity
Donald Sumpter (born 13 February 1943) is an English actor. He has appeared in film and television since the mid-1960s.
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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
2011
The Phoenician Scheme
2025
In the Heart of the Sea
2015
Eastern Promises
2007
The Constant Gardener
2005
K-19: The Widowmaker
2002
Enigma
2001
The Man Who Invented Christmas
2017
London Boulevard
2010
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead
1991
Richard III
1995
Curse of the Pink Panther
1983
Being Human
1994
Limonov: The Ballad
2024
The Point Men
2001
Hardcore
1977
Great Expectations
1999
Stardust
1974
Ultramarines: A Warhammer 40,000 Movie
2010
The Lost Continent
1968
The Walking Stick
1970
Meetings with Remarkable Men
1979
The Black Panther
1977
Bleak Moments
1971
The Chatterley Affair
2006
Doctor Who: The Sea Devils
1972
Night After Night After Night
1969
I Am a Groupie
1970
Among Us
2010
Bypass
2014
TV Shows
Queen's Nose
1995
Game of Thrones
2011
Jekyll and Hyde
2015
Being Human
2009
Entitled
2023
Doctor Who
1963
Bombay Blue
1997
Jesus of Nazareth
1977
One Child
2014
The Mill
2013
Our Friends in the North
1996
The Ruth Rendell Mysteries
1987
Fallen Angel
2007
Les Misérables
2018
Tess of the D'Urbervilles
2008
The Rose Medallion
1981
The Secret of Crickley Hall
2012
In Deep
2001
12 Monkeys
2015
Chernobyl
2019
Peaky Blinders
2013
The Eagle: A Crime Odyssey
2004
Bleak House
1985
The Sarah Jane Adventures
2007
Great Expectations
1999
New Worlds
2014
Midsomer Murders
1997
Bergerac
1981
Agatha Christie's Poirot
1989
Black Mirror
2011
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Donald Sumpter
1943-02-13 · Brixworth, Northamptonshire, England, UK
Donald Sumpter (born 13 February 1943) is an English actor. He has appeared in film and television since the mid-1960s. One of his early television appearances was the 1968 Doctor Who serial The Wheel in Space with Patrick Troughton as the Doctor. He appeared in Doctor Who again in the 1972 serial The Sea Devils with Jon Pertwee. He also appeared in the Doctor Who spin-off The Sarah Jane Adventures. His early film work included a lead role as real life British criminal Donald Neilson in the 1977 film, The Black Panther.
He also appeared in many television films and serials, including adaptations of Dickens' novels: Nicholas Nickleby in 2001, Great Expectations in 1999 and Bleak House in 1985. Also in 1985, he was remembered for the part of villain Ronnie Day in Big Deal. He played the part of suspected serial killer Alexander Bonaparte Cust in the (1992) Agatha Christie's Poirot episode, The ABC Murders. He has also appeared in episodes of Midsomer Murders, The Bill, Holby City, and A Touch of Frost. He also had a recurring role as Uncle Ginger in the Children's BBC series The Queen's Nose. He played Harold Chapple in Our Friends in the North, and portrayed the physicist Max Planck in Einstein and Eddington. He has also been seen as Kemp in the horror-drama series Being Human. In 2011 he portrayed Maester Luwin in the HBO series Game of Thrones.
His film appearances include The Constant Gardener (2005), K-19: The Widowmaker (2002), Enigma (2001) and Ultramarines: The Movie (2010).