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| Born | October 9, 1923 |
| Hometown | Plymouth, England |
| Height | 5'11" (1.80m) |
| Spouse | Diana Mahony (m 1948 - 2004) |
| Children | Jeremy Sinden , Marc Sinden |
| Parents | Mabel Agnes Fuller , Alfred Edward Sinden |
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The 1920s bohemians who put the sex into Sussex
- Flint and brick, hill and meadow, river and coast. The South Downs make for a magical landscape. Heading south from London they are the last rolling swell of high grassland before you get to the chalk cliffs, marshes, beaches and winding estuaries of the coast. It’s a gentle, sometimes mysterious world of dead-end lanes, wildflower meadows, sudden unexpected views, quiet villages and isolated farmhouses. The perfect place for a rural getaway.
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Windsor Davies: Star of ‘It Ain’t Half Hot Mum’ and ‘Never the Twain’
The role of the bawling Battery Sergeant-Major Williams, training a bunch of rag-bag British army concert party performers in India and Burma during the last days of empire, in the 1970s BBC sitcom It Ain’t Half Hot Mum made Windsor Davies a star. The sitcom (1974-81), launched by the writers Jimmy Perry and David Croft while their legendary series Dad’s Army was still being made, became another long-running success, attracting up to 17 million viewers. Although it was accused by some of being
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Holby City at 20: How the NHS has been depicted on screen, from Carry On Nurse to Casualty and Getting On
BBC medical drama Holby City celebrates its 20th birthday on 12 January. The 20th series of the show, which was spun off from Casualty in 1999, commenced on 2 January, meaning Holby City has now wracked up some 800 hours of broadcasting, attracting awards and criticism in equal measure. Britain's health service has given us a rich source of drama on screen since its introduction in 1948, hospitals being venues where citizens of all classes and walks of life come together, often in emergency si
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NHS at 70: How Britain's health service has been depicted on screen, from Carry On Nurse to Casualty and Getting On
In addition to the miracle of universal healthcare free at the point of delivery, the NHS has also given us a rich source of drama on screen since its inception, hospitals being venues where citizens of all classes and walks of life come together, often in emergency situations where tensions run high. One of the earliest films to address conditions in British healthcare since its inauguration under Labour health secretary Aneurin Bevan in 1948 was White Corridors (1951). The tale of surgeon Dr
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When that CBE, MBE or knighthood comes calling, be sure you know how to greet it
In a wide-ranging new interview, the artist Damien Hirst reveals that he was once offered an honour — “he thinks it was a CBE” — but turned it down: “It was a few years ago but I don’t think it was made public. If you turn down an honour, setting at nought the baubles of worldly acclaim, you are then presented with the dilemma of whether to keep your high-mindedness to yourself or to tell interviewers, pretend-reluctantly, that you were asked but that you don’t hold with that sort of thing. It
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Richard Gordon obituary
Gordon Ostlere, who has died aged 95, was a real-life doctor until 1952, when he left medical practice so that his alter ego, Richard Gordon, could pursue what he considered the more congenial occupation of writing. The movie was a great success, making a star of Dirk Bogarde as Simon Sparrow, the hapless medical student with matinee idol good looks. Authority came in the form of the fearsome chief surgeon, Sir Lancelot Spratt, realised with aplomb by James Robertson Justice.
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Twelfth Night, National's Olivier Theatre review: Tamsin Greig shines in a production otherwise at sea
Well it ain't necessarily so: last night comic actress Tamsin Greig stepped into the breach to give us a female spin on this party-pooping steward who reaps richly deserved humiliation after being duped into believing the mistress of the house reciprocates her servant’s adoration. Greig makes the part – rechristened Malvolia - her own, wearing an attitude of a forbidding school ma'am, a joyless array of black clothing and a severe Cleopatra bob that would give a child nightmares. The letter pl
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Veteran Actor Sir Donald Sinden Dies Aged 90
The veteran stage and television actor Sir Donald Sinden has died at the age of 90, his son has said. The star, who made his name as a Shakespearean actor before becoming well known in sitcoms and TV dramas, had been battling prostate cancer for several years. He died at his home in Romney Marsh, Kent. Sir Donald's best known roles on TV included parts in Never The Twain, Two's Company and Judge John Deed.
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