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Charles Dance

Born 10 October 1946 · 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 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.

Films and shows

  1. 2028The Batman: Part IICharles Dent
  2. 2026Ladies First1h 34mFred Powell
  3. 2026The Big Fat Quiz of Telly1h 31mSelf - Guest
  4. 2026My Duchess1h 35mLord Mountbatten
  5. 2025Creditors1h 23mGustaf
  6. 2025Wildcat1h 39mFrasier Mahoney
  7. 2025Frankenstein2h 30mLeopold Frankenstein
  8. 2024Hammer: Heroes, Legends and Monsters1h 30mNarrator
  9. 2024Renaissance: The Blood and the Beauty1 seasonOld Michaelangelo
  10. 2024Churchill at War1 seasonSelf - Narrator (voice)
  11. 2024Testament: The Story of Moses1 seasonSelf - Narrator (voice)
  12. 2024Rumours1h 44mEdison Wolcott
  13. 2024Samaná Sunrise1h 39mNoah Blum
  14. 2024The First Omen1h 59mFather Harris
  15. 2024The Big Fat Quiz of Telly1h 32mSelf
  16. 2023Savage Waters1h 33mNarrator
  17. 2023Rabbit Hole1 seasonDr. Ben Wilson
  18. 2022Portrait of the Queen1h 35m
  19. 2022Lancaster1h 50mNarrator (voice)
  20. 2022Against the Ice1h 41mMinister Neergaard
  21. 2022The Hanging Sun1h 33mJacob
  22. 2021The Book Of Vision1h 40mDr. Johan Anmuth
  23. 2021The Magic of the Movies: Behind the Scenes of David Fincher's Mank29mSelf
  24. 2021Moley1 seasonMr. Moley (voice)
  25. 2021The King's Man2h 11mKitchener
  26. 2020Rise of Empires: Ottoman2 seasonsSelf - Narrator (voice)
  27. 2020Mank2h 12mWilliam Randolph Hearst
  28. 2019Fanny Lye Deliver'd1h 50mJohn Lye
  29. 2019The Widow1 seasonMartin Benson
  30. 2019Master Moley by Royal Invitation32mMr. James Moley (voice)
  31. 2019Godzilla: King of the Monsters2h 12mAlan Jonah
  32. 2019Iron Mask2h 1mLord Dudley
  33. 2018Hero19mCharles Reynard
  34. 2018Spitfire1h 39mNarrator (voice)
  35. 2018Euphoria1h 44mMr. Daren
  36. 2018The Woman in White1 seasonMr Fairle
  37. 2018Happy New Year, Colin Burstead1h 35mUncle Bertie
  38. 2018Johnny English Strikes Again1h 28mAgent Seven
  39. 2017Wimbledon Official Film 2017Narrator (voice)
  40. 2017That Good Night1h 32mThe Visitor
  41. 2016Savage Kingdom4 seasonsSelf - Narrator (voice)
  42. 2016Despite the Falling Snow1h 34mOld Alexander Ivanov
  43. 2016Me Before You1h 50mStephen Traynor
  44. 2016Underworld: Blood Wars1h 31mThomas
  45. 2016Pride and Prejudice and Zombies1h 48mMr. Bennet
  46. 2016Ghostbusters1h 57mHarold Fillmore
  47. 2015And Then There Were None1 seasonJustice Lawrence Wargrave
  48. 2015Deadline Gallipoli1 seasonSir Ian Hamilton
  49. 2015Childhood's End1 seasonKarellen
  50. 2015Instruments of Darkness9mDuncan
  51. 2015Admiral2h 8mKing Charles II
  52. 2015Woman in Gold1h 49mSherman
  53. 2015Victor Frankenstein1h 50mFrankenstein
  54. 2015Game of Thrones The IMAX Experience2h 8mTywin Lannister
  55. 2015Child 442h 17mMajor Grachev
  56. 2014Retrospective20mJonathan Hoyle
  57. 2014Dracula Untold1h 32mMaster Vampire
  58. 2014The Imitation Game1h 53mCommander Denniston
  59. 2014The Great Fire1 seasonLord Denton
  60. 2013The Relics of BuddhaNarrator (voice)
  61. 2013Father's Day18mDon
  62. 2013Patrick1h 36mDoctor Roget
  63. 2013Speeches That Shook the World1hSelf
  64. 2013The Science of Doctor Who1hSelf
  65. 2013Justin and the Knights of Valour1h 30mLegantir (voice)
  66. 2012The Door1h 38mThomas Arlington
  67. 2012The Mapmaker18mRowan
  68. 2012St George's Day1h 49mTrenchard
  69. 2012Secret State1 seasonJohn Hodder
  70. 2012Underworld: Awakening1h 28mThomas
  71. 2012Midnight's Children2h 28mWilliam Methwold
  72. 2011Rosamunde Pilcher's Shades of Love1 seasonEdmund Aird
  73. 2011Going Postal 2in1Lord Vetinari
  74. 2011Neverland1 seasonDr. Fludd
  75. 2011Ironclad2h 1mStephen Langton, Archbishop of Canterbury
  76. 2011There Be Dragons1h 52mSolono
  77. 2011Your Highness1h 42mKing Tallious
  78. 2010The Clerk's Tale15mRalph
  79. 2010Going Postal1 seasonLord Vetinari
  80. 2010The Commuter8mThe Traffic Warden
  81. 2010Paris Connections1h 24mAleksandr Borinski
  82. 2009Trinity1 seasonDr. Edmund Maltravers
  83. 2008Dickens' Secret Lover48mSelf - Narrator (voice)
  84. 2007Fallen Angel1 seasonDavid Byfield
  85. 2007Consenting Adults1h 20mJack Wolfenden
  86. 2007The Contractor1h 45mDCS Andrew Windsor
  87. 2007The 50 Greatest Television Dramas3hSelf
  88. 2007Intervention1h 33mPrivate Investigator
  89. 2006Scoop1h 36mMr. Malcolm
  90. 2006Twice Upon a Time1h 32mBattar Master of Ceremonies
  91. 2006Starter for 101h 36mMichael Harbinson
  92. 2005Titanic: Birth of a Legend1h 15mNarrator (voice)
  93. 2005Last Rights1 seasonRichard Wheeler
  94. 2005Fingersmith1 seasonMr. Chistopher Lilly
  95. 2005Bleak House1 seasonMr. Tulkinghorn
  96. 2004When Hitler Invaded Britain1h 30mNarrator
  97. 2004Saint John Bosco Mission to Love3h 16mMarchese Clementi
  98. 2004Saint John Bosco Mission to Love1 seasonMarchese Clementi
  99. 2004Ladies in Lavender1h 44mExecutive Producer
  100. 2003Henry VIII1 seasonDuke of Buckingham
  101. 2003Looking for Victoria1 seasonCharles Greville
  102. 2003Swimming Pool1h 42mJohn Bosload
  103. 2002Black and White1h 39mRoderic Chamberlain
  104. 2002Ali G Indahouse1h 25mDeputy Prime Minister David Carlton
  105. 2001JurijK (Padre di Jurij)
  106. 2001The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby1 seasonRalph Nickleby
  107. 2001The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby3h 20mRalph Nickleby
  108. 2001Gosford Park2h 17mRaymond Stockbridge
  109. 2001Alien Evolution1h 15mSelf / Clemens
  110. 2001Dark Blue World1h 52mWing Commander Bentley
  111. 2000Murder Rooms: The Dark Beginnings of Sherlock Holmes1h 44mSir Henry Carlyle
  112. 2000Justice in Wonderland1h 25mNeil Hamilton
  113. 1999Chrono-Perambulator11mJames 'Dougie' Douglas
  114. 1999Don't Go Breaking My Heart1h 35mFrank
  115. 1998What Rats Won't Do1h 28mGerald Burton Jr
  116. 1998Hilary and Jackie2h 1mDerek du Pré
  117. 1997The Blood Oranges1h 45mCyril
  118. 1997Rebecca1 seasonMaxim de Winter
  119. 1997In the Presence of Mine Enemies1h 40mCaptain Richter
  120. 1996Undertow1h 33mLyle Yates
  121. 1996Space Truckers1h 35mNabel / Macanudo
  122. 1996Michael Collins2h 12mSoames
  123. 1995The Surgeon1h 39mDr. Ed Mittlesbay
  124. 1994Kabloonak1h 43mRobert Flaherty
  125. 1994Shortcut to Paradise1h 37mQuinn
  126. 1994China Moon1h 39mRupert Munro
  127. 1993Century1h 52mProfessor Mandry
  128. 1993Last Action Hero2h 11mBenedict
  129. 1992La valle di pietra1h 42mSurveyor
  130. 1992Alien³1h 54mClemens
  131. 1992The Making of 'Alien³'24mSelf
  132. 1990The Phantom of the Opera1 seasonErik/The Phantom
  133. 1989Goldeneye1h 45mIan Fleming
  134. 1988Out of the Shadows1h 38mMichael Hayden
  135. 1988First Born2h 30mEdward Forester
  136. 1988First Born1 seasonEdward Forester
  137. 1988Pascali's Island1h 44mAnthony Bowles
  138. 1987Hidden City1h 48mJames Richards
  139. 1987White Mischief1h 47mJosslyn Hay
  140. 1987Out on a Limb1 seasonGerry Stamford
  141. 1987Good Morning, Babylon1h 57mD.W. Griffith
  142. 1986The McGuffin2hPaul Hatcher
  143. 1986The Golden Child1h 34mSardo Numspa
  144. 1985Plenty2h 4mRaymond Brock
  145. 1984Rainy Day Women1h 15mJohn Truman
  146. 1984The Secret Servant1 seasonSAS Major Harry Maxim
  147. 1982Little Eyolf1h 35mBorghejm
  148. 1981Very Like a Whale1h 23mParty Guest
  149. 1981For Your Eyes Only2h 8mClaus
  150. 1980The Fatal SpringSiegfried Sassoon
  151. 1980Dreams of Leaving1hColin
  152. Viy 3: Travel to India2h 1m
  153. A PatriotDr. Hastings
  154. The LiarTickford