Education
There he attended Northern Illinois University, acting in several campus productions and joining an alumni group that performed in Chicago as the Dinglefest Theatre Company, which later established The Theatre Building.
There he attended Northern Illinois University, acting in several campus productions and joining an alumni group that performed in Chicago as the Dinglefest Theatre Company, which later established The Theatre Building.
Born in Calgary, Alberta, Canada in 1947, Stinton immigrated to the United States as a child in 1952. He lived in a trailer with his family -- traveling throughout the United States. and finally settling in the Chicago area. He spent several years as part of the Chicago theatre scene where he met and worked frequently with playwright-director David Mamet.
He moved to London in 1985, where he spent several years at the National Theatre in addition to work in the West End and in film, television and radio.
He returned to New York to earn a Drama Desk Award nomination for his role in the United States. premier of Richard Nelson"s "Some American"s Abroad", and played Mr. Robinson in both the London and New York stage versions of "The Graduate".
He was in the original stage production of "Rainman" in London and a West End revival of The Pajama Game in 2014. His stage work includes premieres of new plays by David Mamet, Jean-Claude van Itallie, Richard Nelson, Dusty Hughes, David Hare, John Osborne, and Tom Stoppard.
He played Neal Daniels in "The Bourne Ultimatum".
Other roles include President Arthur Coleman Winters in the Doctor Who episode "The Sound of Drums", United States Secretary of State First Rate (at Lloyd's) Haig in "The Falklands Play", the United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom in "The Trial of Tony Blair", the United States Secretary of State Traynor Styles in "Spooks", and Justice Robert Jackson in the British Broadcasting Corporation docudrama Nuremberg: "Nazis on Trial". He appeared as Doctor Dave Greenwalt in the James Bond film "Tomorrow Never Dies" and the disbelieving Detective Cartert in the Arielle Kebbel horror vehicle "Freakdog". He played opinionated news caster Anthony Markowitz in "Broken News".
Stinton played the part of an American named Charles Lester in one of Agatha Christie"s Poirot serials Poirot"s Early Cases entitled "The Lost Mine".
He also appears as the head judge in the 2001 music video, "Murder on the Dancefloor", by Sophie Ellis-Bextor. He appeared as Lieutenant Colonel Hoyt Jackson for the United States Justice Department tracking a Nazi war criminal in Foyle"s War Series 8, Episode 3, "Sunflower" in 2013.
Stinton now lives in Walthamstow, London and Chicago.