
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.
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The titles people know Donald from.
IMDb rating of each title on Cineora, by year.
as Chairman
as Eddie's Father

as Quincy · 8 episodes
as Sir James · 1 episode

as Bishop Peter Ball · 2 episodes
as Zharkov · 2 episodes
as Mabeuf · 3 episodes
as Haddock / Ghost of Marley
as Paul Macy
as Garson · 10 episodes

as Paddy Ashdown
as Seer · 2 episodes

as Jim Arthurton · 4 episodes
as Lord Halifax
as Kemp · 9 episodes
as Max Planck
as The Fisher King · 1 episode
as Parson Tringham · 3 episodes
as King Edward
as Erasmus Darkening · 2 episodes
as Yuri
as Compeyson

as Compeyson · 2 episodes

as Supt. John Mayberry · 6 episodes
as Tim Settingfield · 1 episode
as Ahmed Yaasin
as Commander Harold Chapple · 4 episodes
as Brackenbury

as Uncle Ginger · 16 episodes
as Cust · 1 episode
as Edward Peveril · 3 episodes

as Makov
as Makov · 1 episode

as 'Nemo' · 2 episodes

as Frank · 1 episode
3 episodes

as Ronnie Day · 1 episode
as Sudbury · 1 episode

as Stanley Reeves · 1 episode
as Pogossian

as Brother Martin Jerome
as Agent
as Donald Neilson

as Spalding
as Ned Corbould · 1 episode

as Leary · 1 episode

as Pete Laver
as Sparks, the Radioman

as Enrico Casali
as David

as Pat Newman · 1 episode
as Enrico Casali · 6 episodes
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