Donald Sumpter
Acting
Born 1943-02-13
Brixworth, Northamptonshire, England, UK
128 credits
Awards
Nominated for 1 Screen Actors Guild Award
Screen Actors Guild Awards 1 nominated
- 2012 Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series Nominated Game of Thrones
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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).
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Filmography
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Acting
52 credits
Game of Thrones
Midsomer Murders
Doctor Who
Peaky Blinders
Agatha Christie's Poirot
Black Mirror
Doctor Who
Chernobyl
Minder
A Touch of Frost
Merlin
Endeavour
Spooks
12 Monkeys
Bergerac
Screen Two
New Tricks
ITV Saturday Night Theatre
The Sarah Jane Adventures
Les Misérables
The Ruth Rendell Mysteries
Being Human
The Phoenician Scheme
In the Heart of the Sea
BBC2 Play of the Week
Justice
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Jesus of Nazareth
Atlantis
The Chief
Eastern Promises
The Cleaner
The Mill
The Eagle: A Crime Odyssey
Shoestring
Centre Play
K-19: The Widowmaker
Target
Rose and Maloney
Our Friends in the North
The Constant Gardener
Tess of the D'Urbervilles
Jekyll and Hyde
The Queen's Nose
The Man Who Invented Christmas
Big Deal
Seven Wonders of the Industrial World
Quirke
Curse of the Pink Panther
Richard III
Great Expectations
Serious & Organised
Other credits
8 credits
Play for Today
The Bill
Taggart
Between the Lines
Ultimate Force
Drop the Dead Donkey
The Last Detective
Crocodile Shoes
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