Donald Sumpter
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).
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 1.8734 |
| Birthday | 1943-02-13 |
| Place of Birth | Brixworth, Northamptonshire, England, UK |
| Also Known As | 唐纳德·桑普特, دونالد سامپتر, |
2007
Eastern Promises
7.346/3691
A Russian teenager living in London dies during childbirth but leaves clues in her diary that could tie her child to a rape involving a violent Russia...
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Eastern Promises
2005
The Constant Gardener
6.98/1708
Justin Quayle is a low-level British diplomat who has always gone about his work very quietly, not causing any problems. But after his radical wife Te...
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The Constant Gardener
2001
Enigma
6.307/334
The story of the WWII project to crack the code behind the Enigma machine, used by the Germans to encrypt messages sent to their submarines.
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Enigma
1994
Grushko
7.5/2
A restaurant is fire-bombed, a TV journalist and a member of a local mafia are murdered, and a valuable statuette is stolen. Yevgeni Grushko is Head o...
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Grushko
2002
K-19: The Widowmaker
6.547/1162
When Russia's first nuclear submarine malfunctions on its maiden voyage, the crew must race to save the ship and prevent a nuclear disaster.
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K-19: The Widowmaker
2006
Anatomy of a Global Thriller: Behind the Scenes of The Constant Gardener
4/2
The Constant Gardener featurette.
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Anatomy of a Global Thriller: Behind the Scenes of The Constant Gardener
2011
Way of the Morris
8/1
As quintessentially homegrown as a game of cricket or a plate of fish-and-chips, Morris dancing is one of England's most ancient roots traditions. And...
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Way of the Morris
2009
Into the Storm
6.386/88
This powerful follow-up to “The Gathering Storm” follows Churchill from 1940 to 1945 as he guided his beleaguered nation through the crucible of the w...
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Into the Storm
2010
Among Us
6.2/3
An accident overthrows Ernst and Cecilia's well-ordered life. Chance rules in Ernst's rational world while Cecilia is searching for a deeper meaning i...
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Among Us
1978
Les Misérables
7.159/41
In 19th century France, Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless policeman named Javert. The pursuit consumes both me...
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Les Misérables
2011
The Murder at Road Hill House
6.1/51
In 1860, Inspector Jack Whicher of Scotland Yard is sent to rural Wiltshire to investigate the murder of the three-year-old boy Saville Kent, who was...
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The Murder at Road Hill House
2001
The Point Men
4.214/28
Some time after their botched operation to capture a known Palestinian terrorist, a team of Israeli agents starts to get killed off one by one. Their...
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The Point Men
2010
London Boulevard
5.896/810
A parolee falls for a reclusive movie star while trying to evade a ruthless gangster.
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London Boulevard
2010
Ultramarines: A Warhammer 40,000 Movie
5.861/155
A squad of Ultramarines answer a distress call from an Imperial Shrine World. A full Company of Imperial Fists was stationed there, but there is no an...
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Ultramarines: A Warhammer 40,000 Movie
1971
Sunday Bloody Sunday
6.588/137
Recently divorced career woman Alex Greville begins a romantic relationship with glamorous mod artist Bob Elkin, fully aware that he's also intimately...
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Sunday Bloody Sunday
1977
The Black Panther
5.826/23
A gung-ho ex-military man pursues a secret life of crime, culminating in the kidnapping of a teenage heiress.
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The Black Panther
1970
I Am a Groupie
3.417/12
A bored teenage girl decides that she wants to meet rock stars, and the best way to do that is to become a groupie. She finds herself going on the roa...
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I Am a Groupie
1972
Doctor Who: The Sea Devils
7.6/8
The Doctor and Jo visit the Master in his high-security prison on an island off the south coast of England. The governor, Colonel Trenchard, says ship...
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Doctor Who: The Sea Devils
1977
Hardcore
3.813/8
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Hardcore
1979
Meetings with Remarkable Men
6.735/17
The story of G.I. Gurdjieff an Asian mystic who after a lifetimes study developed a form of meditation incorporating modern dance.
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Meetings with Remarkable Men
2014
Bypass
5.875/8
Tim has no job, but Tim ‘works’, selling stolen goods... In the face of mounting internal and external pressure, how far will he go to keep his head a...
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Bypass
1991
Aimée
4.667/3
A white Mercedes, the English countryside, a cathedral city, a haunted figure at the wheel with an overnight bag in the boot. Frank Summers has run aw...
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Aimée
2011
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
7.383/7564
Disgraced journalist Mikael Blomkvist investigates the disappearance of a weary patriarch's niece from 40 years ago. He is aided by the pierced, tatto...
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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
1969
Night After Night After Night
5.556/9
There's a killer on the loose in London, and whilst our typically craggy copper DI Rowan investigates, Judge Lomax is busy in court, dishing out harsh...
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Night After Night After Night
1983
Curse of the Pink Panther
4.604/197
Inspector Clouseau disappears, and the Surete wants the world's second best detective to look for him. However, Clouseau's enemy, Dreyfus, rigs the Su...
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Curse of the Pink Panther
2008
Hello Sailor!
0/0
Cast and crew discuss the making of The Sea Devils, from the television series Doctor Who.
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Hello Sailor!
1980
The Tom Machine
0/0
100 years in the future: Tom is both bored and worried in the humdrum, violent times. Also he is unable to remember what his job is and thus decides t...
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The Tom Machine
2015
Coalition
7/7
Political drama about the rise of Nick Clegg and the Liberal Democrats during the 2010 election. After the election failed to produce an outright winn...
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Coalition
2015
In the Heart of the Sea
6.76/4337
In the winter of 1820, the New England whaling ship Essex is assaulted by something no one could believe—a whale of mammoth size and will, and an almo...
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In the Heart of the Sea
1970
Mad Jack
9/1
Play dealing with the life of British Army lieutenant Siegfried Sassoon, and his protests against the inhumanity of the First World War
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Mad Jack
1972
The Breaking of Colonel Keyser
0/0
Battalion Commander of the Third Wiltshire Light Infantry is Colonel Keyser. On recent evidence, he is either a psychopathic personality or something...
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The Breaking of Colonel Keyser
2008
Einstein and Eddington
6.871/151
Brilliant physicist Albert Einstein, and English scientist Arthur Eddington form an unlikely friendship during World War I, which leads to the creatio...
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Einstein and Eddington
2006
Dracula
5.588/51
The Romanian count known as Dracula is summoned to London by Arthur Holmwood, a young Lord who is one the verge of being wed. Unknown to Arthur's futu...
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Dracula
1975
The Saliva Milkshake
8/1
Howard Brenton's play, written for television, examines terrorism and the state's complex relationship with it and language surrounding it.
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The Saliva Milkshake
2024
Limonov: The Ballad
6.392/83
A revolutionary militant, a thug, an underground writer, a butler to a millionaire in Manhattan. But also a switchblade-waving poet, a lover of beauti...
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Limonov: The Ballad
1968
The Lost Continent
5.615/52
An eclectic group of characters set sail on Captain Lansen’s leaky cargo ship in an attempt to escape their various troubles. When a violent storm str...
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The Lost Continent
1968
The Window Cleaner
0/0
A window cleaner suffers from a fear of heights, until he is seduced by one of his customers.
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The Window Cleaner
1999
Great Expectations
6.381/21
Orphan Pip discovers through lawyer Mr. Jaggers that a mysterious benefactor wishes to ensure that he becomes a gentleman. Reunited with his childhood...
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Great Expectations
1995
Richard III
6.8/195
Having helped his brother King Edward IV take the throne of England, the jealous hunchback Richard, Duke of Gloucester, plots to seize power for himse...
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Richard III
2001
The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby
7.711/19
A young, compassionate man struggles to save his family and friends from the abusive exploitation of his cold-hearted, grasping uncle.
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The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby
1991
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead
6.901/319
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, minor characters from the play 'Hamlet', find themselves on the road to Elsinore Castle at the behest of the King of Den...
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Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead
1971
Bleak Moments
6.075/40
Moments from the uncompromisingly bleak existence of a secretary, her intellectually disabled sister, aloof and uneasy teacher boyfriend, bizarre neig...
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Bleak Moments
2008
Heist
5.2/3
In 1303, a ragtag bunch of crooks and ne'er-do-wells plot to take revenge on Edward I, the King of England.
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Heist
1994
Being Human
5.2/62
One man must learn the meaning of courage across four lifetimes centuries apart.
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Being Human
1974
Stardust
5.442/26
Jim MacLaine is now enjoying the nomadic 'gigs and groupies' life on tour with his band. When he achieves all his wildest dreams of international star...
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Stardust
2017
The Man Who Invented Christmas
6.85/866
In 1843, despite the fact that Dickens is a successful writer, the failure of his latest book puts his career at a crossroads, until the moment when,...
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1970
The Walking Stick
7/9
A young woman's highly ordered and structured life is turned upside-down when she meets a handsome stranger at a party. Friendship soon develops into...
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The Walking Stick
1974
Mr. Axelford's Angel
8.667/3
A romantic tale of a scatty secretary and a stuffy boss.
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Mr. Axelford's Angel
1981
Antony & Cleopatra
7.25/4
Octavius Caesar (later renamed Augustus Caesar, son of the murdered Julius Caesar), Marc Antony, and Lepidus form the triumvirate, the three rulers of...
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Antony & Cleopatra
1968
Doctor Who: The Wheel in Space
5.8/5
The Second Doctor and Jamie arrive on what appears to be a space station called the "Wheel in Space" it's here that they meet Zoe Herriot a young par...
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Doctor Who: The Wheel in Space
1977
Catchpenny Twist
0/0
Roy and Martyn want to write the next Irish winner for the Eurovision Song Contest. So who thinks they are working for British Army Intelligence? And...
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Catchpenny Twist
1997
Tangier Cop
3.667/3
Yaasin, a policeman from Tangier who has almost become an alcoholic, spends most of his time in an exclusive brothel. Several characters arrive in the...
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Tangier Cop
1992
Bad Ronald
9/1
A teenager, Ronald, unintentionally causes the death of a young girl on a beach. So that the police do not find him, his mother locks him in a cubicle...
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Bad Ronald
1979
A Light That Shines
0/0
' I'm a spy, you know ... I've got to report back.' Conroy has been asked by the teaching order's recruitment officer Brother Martin Jerome , to be gu...
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A Light That Shines
2025
The Phoenician Scheme
6.5/883
Wealthy businessman Zsa-zsa Korda appoints his only daughter, a nun, as sole heir to his estate. As Korda embarks on a new enterprise, they soon becom...
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The Phoenician Scheme
2004
The Long Bank Holiday
8/1
A spate of computer thefts from government offices, a possible suicide under the wheels of a high-speed train, an absconded lifer on the loose, and a...
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The Long Bank Holiday
1985
Time Trouble
0/0
A child chess prodigy from Liverpool plays the Russian world champion, at a time of crisis in both their lives.
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Time Trouble
2006
The Chatterley Affair
5.3/9
The trial, under The Obscene Publications Act, of the publishers of D.H. Lawrence's 'Lady Chatterley's Lover'in 1960 was a sensation that consumed the...
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