Donald Symington
Acting
Biography
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Born: August 30, 1925
Place of Birth: Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Known For
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
In the criminal justice system, sexually-based offenses are considered especially heinous. In New York City, the dedicated detectives who investigate these vicious felonies are members of an elite squad known as the Special Victims Unit. These are their stories.
Annie Hall
New York comedian Alvy Singer falls in love with the ditsy Annie Hall.
The Front
A cashier poses as a writer for blacklisted talents to submit their work through, but the injustice around him pushes him to take a stand.
A Question of Honor
Television account of an honest New York narcotics cop who becomes unwillingly involved in a plan to uncover corruption in his department.
Mighty Aphrodite
When Lenny and his wife, Amanda, adopt a baby, Lenny realizes that his son is a genius and becomes obsessed with finding the boy's biological mother in hopes that she will be brilliant too. But when he learns that Max's mother is Linda Ash, a kindhearted prostitute and porn star, Lenny is determined to reform her immoral lifestyle. A Greek chorus chimes in to relate the plot to Greek mythology in this quirky comedy.
From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
A precocious young girl and her younger brother run away from home and hide in the Metropolitan Museum in New York.
Diary of a Mad Housewife
Tina Balser is a bored New York housewife-mother married to Jonathan, a pompous, social-climbing lawyer who ridicules her in front of their children, criticizing everything she does or wears. She begins an affair with George Prager, a dashing, successful, and blatantly sadistic writer.
Gidget Grows Up
After spending the last two years in Europe as an exchange student, Gidget returns home to California only to discover that things have changed. The letters she had been writing to her beloved "Moondoggie" to try to make him jealous have had the wrong effect. Disillusioned with love, and after hearing a speech on television, she decides to make a real difference in the world by going to New York to become a youth worker at the United Nations. While there she has a proposal of marriage from an extremely wealthy Arabian sheik, but instead she falls for a handsome but older Australian diplomat.
Sanctuary of Fear
A Manhattan priest with a penchant for solving crimes goes to the aid of a young actress. She is becoming enmeshed in a series of bizarre incidents she can't explain, and her complaints to the police have gone ignored.
Judge Horton and the Scottsboro Boys
In 1930s Alabama, nine young black men are accused of raping two white women. The judge in the case, unlike the rest of the town, comes to believe that the boys are innocent and, against all advice from his friends and family, sets them free, which turns the entire community against him.
Filmography
as Edward
as Amanda's Father
as Ernest Dalby
as Manager in Club
as Robert Trench
as Kane
as Lawyer
as Henley
as Russell Heyman
as Dad Hall
as Congressman
as Richard Henry Lee
as Museum Director
as Morrison
as Pediatrician
as Clerk
as Warren Sheffield
as Ayers