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- Birth nameDonald A Sumpter
- Height5′ 9″ (1.75 m)
- Donald Sumpter was born on February 13, 1943 in Brixworth, Northamptonshire, England, UK. He is an actor, known for In the Heart of the Sea (2015), The Constant Gardener (2005) and The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011).
- Among around half a dozen actors to have acted in both the black and white era and the 21st Century series of Doctor Who.
- One of the 39 actors that have acted in both the 20thCentury and 21st Century Doctor Who TV Series.
- Has acted in 2 works with the title "Being Human" - the 2009 TV series and Bill Forsyth's 1993 film.
- British character actor of great screen presence, perhaps best known as Maester Luwin in the HBO series 'Game of Thrones' and as film star Emil Valdemar in 'Endeavour' (Series 5, Episode 2: "Cartouche). He has excelled in many a villainous role in films and on television.
- Sumpter appeared on stage at the Nottingham Playhouse in a 1966 production of Saint Joan. Between 1979 and 1988, He spent several seasons with the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford-Upon-Avon, both as actor and as director. He has frequently portrayed Orsini in Twelfth Night and Marcus Andronicus in Titus Andronicus.
- When I've written episodes of 'Doctor Who', when it comes to the monster chasing somebody, it's the Doctor and the companion, running down the corridor, being chased by a guy with a stick and a tennis ball on the end. Whereas, when I see the rushes of 'Being Human', we're actually looking at the werewolf, and it just looks real.
- The bedrock of 'Being Human' has to be characters. I would hope that even if suddenly we had a huge budget per episode, the foundation of the show, and the thing that actually makes it what it is, is character.
- The way they do things in the U.S., if you have a show, you'll option your actors for five, six or seven seasons. In the U.K., we just don't have the financing to be able to do that.
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