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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 appear... more

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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(2011)
Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
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Runtime:
158 min
Director:
David Fincher
Cast:
Daniel Craig, Rooney Mara, Christopher Plummer, Stellan Skarsgård, Robin Wright
7.8
86%
71
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Eastern Promises
(2007)
Crime, Mystery, Thriller
A Russian teenager, living in London, dies during childbirth but leaves clues to a midwife in her journal, that could tie her child to a rape involving a violent Russian mob family.
Runtime:
100 min
Director:
David Cronenberg
Cast:
Naomi Watts, Naomi Watts, Viggo Mortensen, Vincent Cassel, Armin Mueller-Stahl
7.6
89%
82
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The Constant Gardener
(2005)
Drama, Mystery, Thriller
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 Tessa is killed he becomes determined to find out why, thrusting himself into the middle of a very dangerous conspiracy.
Runtime:
129 min
Director:
Fernando Meirelles
Cast:
Ralph Fiennes, Rachel Weisz, Danny Huston, Bill Nighy, Donald Sumpter
7.4
84%
82
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K-19: The Widowmaker
(2002)
Drama, History, Mystery, Thriller, War
When Russia's first nuclear submarine malfunctions on its maiden voyage, the crew must race to save the ship and prevent a nuclear disaster.
Runtime:
138 min
Director:
Kathryn Bigelow
Cast:
Harrison Ford, Liam Neeson, Peter Sarsgaard, Joss Ackland, John Shrapnel
6.7
61%
58
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Jesus of Nazareth
(1977)
Drama, History
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Runtime:
371 min
8.6
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Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead
(1991)
Comedy, Drama
Two minor characters from the play "Hamlet" stumble around unaware of their scripted lives and unable to deviate from them.
Runtime:
117 min
Director:
Tom Stoppard
Cast:
Gary Oldman, Tim Roth, Richard Dreyfuss, Livio Badurina, Iain Glen
7.4
61%
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London Boulevard
(2010)
Crime, Drama
A parolee falls for a reclusive movie star while trying to evade a ruthless gangster.
Runtime:
103 min
Director:
William Monahan
Cast:
Keira Knightley, Colin Farrell, Anna Friel, Ray Winstone, Jamie Campbell Bower
6.2
36%
52
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Enigma
(2001)
Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller, War
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.
Runtime:
119 min
Director:
Michael Apted
Cast:
Dougray Scott, Kate Winslet, Saffron Burrows, Jeremy Northam, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau
6.4
72%
64
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Einstein and Eddington
(2008)
Drama, History, TV Movie
A look at the evolution of Albert Einstein's theory of relativity, and Einstein's relationship with British scientist Sir Arthur Eddington, the first physicist to understand his ideas.
Runtime:
90 min
Director:
Philip Martin
Cast:
David Tennant, Richard McCabe, Andy Serkis, Patrick Kennedy, Rebecca Hall
7.3
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(2017)
Comedy, Drama, Family, History
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Runtime:
105 min
Cast:
Dan Stevens, Christopher Plummer, Jonathan Pryce, Jonathan Pryce, Justin Edwards
7.0
80%
60
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Into the Storm
(2009)
Drama, History, TV Movie
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Runtime:
100 min
Director:
Thaddeus O'Sullivan
Cast:
Brendan Gleeson, Iain Glen, James D'Arcy, Janet McTeer, Robert Pugh
7.1
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Ultramarines: A Warhammer 40,000 Movie
(2010)
Animation, Science Fiction
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 answer from them. The squad investigates to find out what has happened there.
Runtime:
76 min
5.7
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Great Expectations
(1999)
Drama, Romance
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Runtime:
168 min
Director:
Julian Jarrold
Cast:
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7.2
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The ABC Murders
(1992)
Crime
Poirot receives taunting letters from a serial killer who appears to choose his victims and crime scenes alphabetically.
Runtime:
103 min
Director:
Andrew Grieve
Cast:
David Suchet, Hugh Fraser, Philip Jackson, Donald Sumpter, Donald Douglas
8.5
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The Murder at Road Hill House
(2011)
Crime, Drama, Mystery, TV Movie
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Runtime:
94 min
Director:
James Hawes
Cast:
Paddy Considine, Peter Capaldi, Tom Georgeson, William Beck, Emma Fielding
6.5
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The Lost Continent
(1968)
Adventure, Fantasy
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Runtime:
97 min
Director:
Michael Carreras
Cast:
Eric Porter, Hildegard Knef, Suzanna Leigh, Tony Beckley, Nigel Stock
5.6
40%
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Quirke
(2014)
Crime, Thriller
A chief pathologist in the Dublin city morgue investigates sudden death victims in the 1950s.
Runtime:
270 min
Director:
John Alexander, Diarmuid Lawrence, Jim O'Hanlon
Cast:
Gabriel Byrne, Nick Dunning, Brian Gleeson, Aisling Franciosi, Stanley Townsend
6.9
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The Black Panther
(1977)
Crime, Drama, Horror
A gung-ho ex-military man pursues a secret life of crime, culminating in the kidnapping of a teenage heiress.
Runtime:
102 min
Director:
Ian Merrick
Cast:
Donald Sumpter, Debbie Farrington, Marjorie Yates, Sylvia O'Donnell, Andrew Burt
6.8
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N/A
Fallen Angel
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Fallen Angel
(2007)
Crime, Drama, Mystery
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205 min
Director:
David Drury
Cast:
Charles Dance, Clare Holman, Emilia Fox, Peter Capaldi, Sheila Hancock
6.8
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(2014)
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Runtime:
180 min
Director:
John Alexander
Cast:
Katie Leung, Mardy Ma, Elizabeth Perkins, Linh Dan Pham, Sebastian So
6.6
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Coalition
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Coalition
(2015)
Drama, TV Movie
Political drama about the rise of Nick Clegg and the Liberal Democrats during the 2010 election. After the election failed to produce an outright winner, Clegg was catapulted into an unaccustomed position of influence and was the recipient of political courtship from both Labour's Gordon Brown and David Cameron of the Conservative Party.
Runtime:
95 min
Cast:
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7.3
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Among Us
(2010)
Drama
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 in what has happened. As they drift further and further apart a suspicious stranger with exceptional gifts changes their lives in an unexpected way.
Runtime:
90 min
Director:
Johan Brisinger
Cast:
Izabella Scorupco, Tchéky Karyo, Donald Sumpter, Jacob Ericksson, Saga Gärde
5.1
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Bypass
(2014)
Drama, Thriller
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 above water and protect those he loves?
Runtime:
105 min
Director:
Duane Hopkins
Cast:
George MacKay, Donald Sumpter, Charlotte Spencer, Anton Saunders, Felicity Gilbert
5.8
50%
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I Am a Groupie
(1970)
Drama
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 road with a rock band called Opal Butterfly, and soon discovers that being a rock band's groupie isn't as glamorous or exciting as she thought it would be.
Runtime:
86 min
5.3
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Night After Night After Night
(1969)
Crime, Horror
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 sentences to everyone who comes before him.
Runtime:
88 min
5.5
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The Point Men
(2001)
Action
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 leader must get to the bottom of things before the killer(s) plan is complete.
Runtime:
100 min
Director:
John Glen
Cast:
Christopher Lambert, Vincent Regan, Cal Macaninch, Nicolas de Pruyssenaere, Donald Sumpter
4.3
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Hardcore
(1977)
Drama
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Runtime:
80 min
Director:
James Kenelm Clarke
Cast:
Fiona Richmond, Donald Sumpter, Anthony Steel, Victor Spinetti, Ronald Fraser
4.5
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Kommissar Wallander - Händelse om hösten
Crime
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