---
name: "Scott Sunderland"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/scott-sunderland"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "19 September 1883"
died: "12 December 1952"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 83
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-09-20T21:10:37.058501+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Scott Sunderland

Actor. Born 19 September 1883 in Rock Ferry, Cheshire, England, UK. Died 12 December 1952.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 19 September 1883, Rock Ferry, Cheshire, England, UK
- **Died:** 12 December 1952
- **Active:** 1938–1939
- **Average Fi1m score:** 83, as actor, over 2 titles
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Sunderland_(actor), https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7437336, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0839152/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/248150

## Streaming the US now

- **HBO Max:** [*Pygmalion*](https://film.one/film/pygmalion.md) (84)

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## Biography

Scott Sunderland was an English actor. Born in Rock Ferry, Cheshire, he was educated in England and Germany. His first professional stage appearance was in 1909 with the F.R. Benson company at Stratford-upon-Avon.

He worked principally in the theatre until the mid-1940s, including roles in Shakespeare, Shaw and other plays, and later with the Birmingham Repertory Company. His film appearances were as Colonel George Pickering in *Pygmalion* (1938) and Sir John Colley in *Goodbye, Mr. Chips* (1939).

His life partner was the theatre director Sir Barry Jackson. Sunderland died in Malvern, Worcestershire, in 1952.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (2)

- *Goodbye, Mr. Chips* (1939), Fi1m 82, as Sir John Colley — [page](https://film.one/film/goodbye-mr-chips.md)
- *Pygmalion* (1938), Fi1m 84, as Colonel George Pickering — [page](https://film.one/film/pygmalion.md)

## Complete filmography (2)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Goodbye, Mr. Chips* (1939), as Sir John Colley — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/film/goodbye-mr-chips.md)
- *Pygmalion* (1938), as Colonel George Pickering — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/film/pygmalion.md)

## Gallery

- ![Promotional still from the 1938 film Pygmalion, published in National Board of Review Magazine. L-R: Scott Sunderland, Leslie Howard, Wendy Hiller. (1939)](https://film.one/media/person/1231006/gallery-0343df4e52c7.jpg) Promotional still from the 1938 film Pygmalion, published in National Board of Review Magazine. L-R: Scott Sunderland, Leslie Howard, Wendy Hiller. (1939) — Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c3/Pygmalion-1938.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![L. to R. : O. B. Clarence, Leslie Howard, Marie Lohr & Scott Sunderland in Pygmalion (1938) - U.S. publicity still (cropped)](https://film.one/media/person/1231006/gallery-d5cac61079d8.jpg) L. to R. : O. B. Clarence, Leslie Howard, Marie Lohr & Scott Sunderland in Pygmalion (1938) - U.S. publicity still (cropped) — MGM Release, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/62/Pygmalion_%281938%29_still_2.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)

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