Hugh Sinclair
Biography
Hugh Sinclair was a British actor who studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and spent about forty years working in theater, film and television, in Britain and America. Born in London in 1903, he began on stage in 1922 and made his London debut the following year. Theater stayed his main focus: he played Elyot Chase when Noël Coward's Private Lives reached the West End, running from 1945 to 1946, and in 1950 he took over the lead in the first London staging of T.S. Eliot's The Cocktail Party. Known for light comedy and debonair parts, he appeared in films including The Rocking Horse Winner, Circle of Danger (1951), A Girl Must Live and Escape Me Never. He also played the title role in two films about the Saint and acted in an adaptation of Pride and Prejudice on television in 1958. He died in 1962.
59years old at death
- Born London
- Died
- Star sign: TaurusThe sign runs April 20 to May 20
Movie Career
- Films
- 3
- Career span
- 9 years1942 to 1951
Every film, newest first
- 1951Circle of DangerIMDb rating 6.5
- 1948Corridor of MirrorsIMDb rating 6.4
- 1942Tomorrow We LiveIMDb rating 6.3
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First role
Sinclair's first stage appearance came in 1922, at the Theatre Royal in Portsmouth, as Freddy Eynsford-Hill in Pygmalion with the Macdona Players. He stayed with that company close to two years, taking on all the Shaw plays.
Own stunts
Sinclair started playing piano at seven and grew into an accomplished musician, which allowed him to play composers and musicians in his career.
A first
Sinclair's role as David Naughton in Claudia at the St. Martin's Theatre, London, ran for nearly five hundred performances from September 1942 to January 1944, his longest West End run.
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Worked with
Hugh Sinclair made one film with each of them. Pick a number on the chart or a name in the list to see the films they share.
Films together
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George KingDirector, 1 film, 1942
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