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Charles Dance
Redditch, Worcestershire, England, UK
Walter Charles Dance OBE (born 10 October 1946) is an English actor. He is known for playing intimidating, authoritarian characters and villains. Dance started his career on stage…
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Walter Charles Dance OBE (born 10 October 1946) is an English actor. He is known for playing intimidating, authoritarian characters and villains. Dance started his career on stage with the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) before appearing in film and television. For his services to drama, he was appointed an OBE by Queen Elizabeth II in 2006. He made his feature film debut in the James Bond film For Your Eyes Only (1981). He has since appeared in a string of critically acclaimed period films, including Michael Collins (1996), Gosford Park (2001), The Imitation Game (2014), Mank (2020), and The King's Man (2021). He has also appeared in the films The Golden Child (1986), Alien 3 (1992), Last Action Hero (1993), Dracula Untold (2014), and Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019). He made his directorial film debut with the drama film Ladies in Lavender (2004), which he also wrote and executive-produced. On television, Dance played Guy Perron in The Jewel in the Crown (1984), Mr Tulkinghorn in Bleak House (2005), for which he was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series or Movie, Tywin Lannisterin Game of Thrones (2011–2015), and Lord Mountbatten in the third and fourth seasons of The Crown (2019–2020), for which he was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series. Description above from the Wikipedia article Charles Dance, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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2028
The Batman: Part II
Movie Christopher Dent
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2026
Ladies First
Movie Fred Powell
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2026
The Big Fat Quiz of Telly
Movie Self - Guest
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2025
Wildcat
Movie Frasier Mahoney
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2025
Frankenstein
Movie Leopold Frankenstein
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2025
Creditors
Movie Gustaf
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2024
Churchill at War
TV show Self - Narrator (voice)
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2024
Renaissance: The Blood and the Beauty
TV show Old Michaelangelo
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2024
Samaná Sunrise
Movie Noah Blum
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2024
The Day of the Jackal
TV show Timothy Winthrop
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2024
Hammer: Heroes, Legends and Monsters
Movie Narrator
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2024
Rumours
Movie Edison Wolcott
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2024
The First Omen
Movie Father Harris
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2024
Testament: The Story of Moses
TV show Self - Narrator (voice)
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2023
Savage Waters
Movie
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2023
Rabbit Hole
TV show Dr. Ben Wilson
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2022
Portrait of the Queen
Movie
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2022
This England
TV show Max Hastings
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2022
The Hanging Sun
Movie Jacob
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2022
The Serpent Queen
TV show Clement VII
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2022
The Sandman
TV show Roderick Burgess
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2022
Lancaster
Movie Narrator (voice)
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2022
Against the Ice
Movie Minister Neergaard
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2021
The King's Man
Movie Kitchener
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2021
Moley
TV show Mr. Moley (voice)
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2021
The Book Of Vision
Movie Dr. Johan Anmuth
- 2021
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2020
Mank
Movie William Randolph Hearst
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2020
The Singapore Grip
TV show Mr Webb
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2020
Rise of Empires: Ottoman
TV show Self - Narrator (voice)
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2019
Master Moley by Royal Invitation
Movie Mr. James Moley (voice)
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2019
Fanny Lye Deliver'd
Movie John Lye
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2019
Iron Mask
Movie Lord Dudley
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2019
Godzilla: King of the Monsters
Movie Alan Jonah
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2019
The Widow
TV show Martin Benson
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2018
The Little Drummer Girl
TV show Commander Picton
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2018
Happy New Year, Colin Burstead
Movie Uncle Bertie
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2018
Johnny English Strikes Again
Movie Agent Seven
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2018
Hero
Movie Charles Reynard
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2018
Hang Ups
TV show Jeremy Pitt
