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Charles Dance
Charles Dance

Charles Dance

ActingBorn October 10, 1946 (age 79)Redditch, Worcestershire, England, UK

Biography

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.

Filmography

2027
The Batman: Part II

as Charles Dent

Movie
2026
Ladies First

as Fred Powell

Movie
2026Movie
2025
Wildcat

as Frasier Mahoney

Movie
2025
Frankenstein

as Leopold Frankenstein

Movie
2025
Creditors

as Gustaf

Movie
2024
Churchill at War

as Self - Narrator (voice)

TV
2024TV
2024
Samaná Sunrise

as Noah Blum

Movie
2024
The Day of the Jackal

as Timothy Winthrop

TV
2024
Rumours

as Edison Wolcott

Movie
2024
The First Omen

as Father Harris

Movie
2024
Testament: The Story of Moses

as Self - Narrator (voice)

TV
2023Movie
2023
Rabbit Hole

as Dr. Ben Wilson

TV
2022
This England

as Max Hastings

TV
2022Movie
2022
The Serpent Queen

as Clement VII

TV
2022
The Sandman

as Roderick Burgess

TV
2022
Lancaster

as Narrator (voice)

Movie
2022
Against the Ice

as Minister Neergaard

Movie
2021
The King's Man

as Kitchener

Movie
2021
Moley

as Mr. Moley (voice)

TV
2021
The Book Of Vision

as Dr. Johan Anmuth

Movie
2020
Mank

as William Randolph Hearst

Movie
2020TV
2020
Rise of Empires: Ottoman

as Self - Narrator (voice)

TV
2019
Master Moley by Royal Invitation

as Mr. James Moley (voice)

Movie
2019Movie
2019
Iron Mask

as Lord Dudley

Movie
2019Movie
2019
The Widow

as Martin Benson

TV
2018
The Little Drummer Girl

as Commander Picton

TV
2018Movie
2018Movie
2018
Hang Ups

as Jeremy Pitt

TV
2018
Spitfire

as Narrator (voice)

Movie
2018Movie
2018
The Woman in White

as Frederick Fairlie

TV
2018
Euphoria

as Mr. Daren

Movie
2017
Wimbledon Official Film 2017

as Narrator (voice)

Movie
2017
That Good Night

as The Visitor

Movie
2016
Savage Kingdom

as Self - Narrator (voice)

TV
2016Movie
2016
The Crown

as Lord Mountbatten

TV
2016
Ghostbusters

as Harold Fillmore

Movie
2016
Me Before You

as Stephen Traynor

Movie
2016Movie
2016
Despite the Falling Snow

as Old Alexander Ivanov

Movie
2015
And Then There Were None

as Justice Lawrence Wargrave

TV
2015
Childhood's End

as Karellen

TV
2015Movie
2015
Victor Frankenstein

as Frankenstein

Movie
2015
Deadline Gallipoli

as Sir Ian Hamilton

TV
2015
Woman in Gold

as Sherman

Movie
2015
Child 44

as Major Grachev

Movie
2015
Admiral

as King Charles II

Movie
2015Movie
2014
The Imitation Game

as Commander Denniston

Movie
2014
The Great Fire

as Lord Denton

TV
2014
Dracula Untold

as Master Vampire

Movie
2014
Retrospective

as Jonathan Hoyle

Movie
2014
Forbidden Empire

as Lord Dudley

Movie
2013
Patrick

as Doctor Roget

Movie
2013
Was It Something I Said?

as Self - Narrator

TV
2013Movie
2013Movie
2013
The Relics of Buddha

as Narrator (voice)

Movie
2012
Secret State

as John Hodder

TV
2012
The Door

as Thomas Arlington

Movie
2012
The Mapmaker

as Rowan

Movie
2012
St George's Day

as Trenchard

Movie
2012
Midnight's Children

as William Methwold

Movie
2012Movie
2011
Neverland

as Dr. Fludd

TV
2011
Celebrity Antiques Road Trip

as Self - Participant

TV
2011
Game of Thrones

as Tywin Lannister

TV
2011
Your Highness

as King Tallious

Movie
2011Movie
2011
Ironclad

as Stephen Langton, Archbishop of Canterbury

Movie
2010
The Commuter

as The Traffic Warden

Movie
2010
Paris Connections

as Aleksandr Borinski

Movie
2010
Going Postal

as Lord Vetinari

TV
2010Movie
2010
Strike Back

as Conrad Knox

TV
2009
Trinity

as Dr. Edmund Maltravers

TV
2008
Merlin

as Aredian

TV
2008
Dickens' Secret Lover

as Self - Narrator (voice)

Movie
2007
Consenting Adults

as Jack Wolfenden

Movie
2007TV
2007
The Contractor

as DCS Andrew Windsor

Movie
2007
Fallen Angel

as David Byfield

TV
2007
Intervention

as Private Investigator

Movie
2006TV
2006
Twice Upon a Time

as Battar Master of Ceremonies

Movie
2006
Starter for 10

as Michael Harbinson

Movie
2006TV
2006
Scoop

as Mr. Malcolm

Movie
2005
Bleak House

as Mr. Tulkinghorn

TV
2005
To the Ends of the Earth

as Sir Henry Somerset

TV
2005
Titanic: Birth of a Legend

as Narrator (voice)

Movie
2005
Fingersmith

as Mr. Chistopher Lilly

TV
2005
Last Rights

as Richard Wheeler

TV
2004
Agatha Christie's Marple

as Septimus Bligh

TV
2004Movie
2003
Wreckage and Rage: Making 'Alien³'

as Self (archive footage)

Movie
2003
Looking for Victoria

as Charles Greville

TV
2003
Henry VIII

as Edward Stafford

TV
2003
Swimming Pool

as John Bosload

Movie
2002
Black and White

as Roderic Chamberlain

Movie
2002
Foyle's War

as Guy Spencer

TV
2002
Top Gear

as Self

TV
2002
Dan Dare: Pilot of the Future

as Colonel Simon Lasker (voice)

TV
2002
The Making of Gosford Park

as Self (uncredited)

Movie
2002
Ali G Indahouse

as Deputy Prime Minister David Carlton

Movie
2001
Gosford Park

as Raymond Stockbridge

Movie
2001
Alien Evolution

as Self / Clemens

Movie
2001Movie
2001
Dark Blue World

as Wing Commander Bentley

Movie
1999
Chrono-Perambulator

as James 'Dougie' Douglas

Movie
1998
Hilary and Jackie

as Derek du Pré

Movie
1998
What Rats Won't Do

as Gerald Burton Jr

Movie
1997Movie
1997Movie
1997
Rebecca

as Maxim de Winter

TV
1996Movie
1996
Space Truckers

as Nabel / Macanudo

Movie
1996
Undertow

as Lyle Yates

Movie
1995
The Surgeon

as Dr. Ed Mittlesbay

Movie
1994Movie
1994
Room 101

as Self

TV
1994
China Moon

as Rupert Munro

Movie
1994
Kabloonak

as Robert Flaherty

Movie
1993
Century

as Professor Mandry

Movie
1993
Last Action Hero

as Benedict

Movie
1992
Alien³

as Clemens

Movie
1992Movie
1990
The Phantom of the Opera

as Erik/The Phantom

TV
1989
Goldeneye

as Ian Fleming

Movie
1988
First Born

as Edward Forester

Movie
1988
First Born

as Edward Forester

TV
1988
Out of the Shadows

as Michael Hayden

Movie
1988
Pascali's Island

as Anthony Bowles

Movie
1987
White Mischief

as Josslyn Hay

Movie
1987
Hidden City

as James Richards

Movie
1987
Good Morning, Babylon

as D.W. Griffith

Movie
1987
Out on a Limb

as Gerry Stamford

TV
1986
The Golden Child

as Sardo Numspa

Movie
1986TV
1986
The McGuffin

as Paul Hatcher

Movie
1985
Time for Murder

as James Latimer

TV
1985
Plenty

as Raymond Brock

Movie
1985
Screen Two

as Paul Hatcher

TV
1985
Screen Two

as Professor Mandry

TV
1984
The Secret Servant

as SAS Major Harry Maxim

TV
1984
Rainy Day Women

as John Truman

Movie
1984TV
1982
Little Eyolf

as Borghejm

Movie
1981Movie
1980
Fatal Spring

as Siegfried Sassoon

Movie
1980Movie
1979
Tales of the Unexpected

as Robert Smythe

TV
1978TV
1977TV
1977TV
1974
Father Brown

as Commandant Neil O'Brien

TV
1974
The Inheritors

as Simon Leadbetter

TV
1974
Playhouse

as Siegfried Sassoon

TV
1965TV
A Patriot

as Dr. Hastings

Movie
The Liar

as Tickford

Movie

Personal Info

DepartmentActing
BirthdayOctober 10, 1946
Place of BirthRedditch, Worcestershire, England, UK
Popularity2.8
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