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Charles Dance
Known for: ActingWalter 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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The Imitation Game
as Commander Denniston 
Me Before You
as Stephen Traynor 
Alien³
as Clemens 
Frankenstein
as Leopold Frankenstein 
The King's Man
as Kitchener 
Wildcat
as Frasier Mahoney 
Rabbit Hole
as Dr. Ben Wilson 
Godzilla: King of the Monsters
as Alan Jonah 
The First Omen
as Father Harris 
For Your Eyes Only
as Claus 
Ladies First
as Fred Powell 
Bleak House
as Mr. Tulkinghorn 
Ghostbusters
as Harold Fillmore 
Dracula Untold
as Master Vampire 
Child 44
as Major Grachev 
Moley
as Mr. Moley (voice) 
Last Action Hero
as Benedict 
Underworld: Blood Wars
as Thomas 
Testament: The Story of Moses
as Self - Narrator (voice) 
Johnny English Strikes Again
as Agent Seven 
Savage Kingdom
as Self - Narrator (voice) 
Rise of Empires: Ottoman
as Self - Narrator (voice) 
And Then There Were None
as Justice Lawrence Wargrave 
Woman in Gold
as Sherman 
Iron Mask
as Lord Dudley 
Underworld: Awakening
as Thomas 
Gosford Park
as Raymond Stockbridge 
Your Highness
as King Tallious 
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
as Mr. Bennet 
Going Postal
as Lord Vetinari 
Swimming Pool
as John Bosload 
Victor Frankenstein
as Frankenstein 
Ali G Indahouse
as Deputy Prime Minister David Carlton 
The Batman: Part II
as Christopher Dent 
The Golden Child
as Sardo Numspa 
Childhood's End
as Karellen 
The Great Fire
as Lord Denton 
The Widow
as Martin Benson 
Justin and the Knights of Valour
as Legantir (voice) 
Against the Ice
as Minister Neergaard 
The Contractor
as DCS Andrew Windsor 
Mank
as William Randolph Hearst 
Ironclad
as Stephen Langton, Archbishop of Canterbury 
Starter for 10
as Michael Harbinson 
Secret State
as John Hodder 
Trinity
as Dr. Edmund Maltravers 
Churchill at War
as Self - Narrator (voice) 
Michael Collins
as Soames 
Fingersmith
as Mr. Chistopher Lilly 
Space Truckers
as Nabel / Macanudo 
China Moon
as Rupert Munro 
Deadline Gallipoli
as Sir Ian Hamilton 
Rebecca
as Maxim de Winter 
Scoop
as Mr. Malcolm 
Rosamunde Pilcher's Shades of Love
as Edmund Aird 
Admiral
as King Charles II 
Ladies in Lavender
Director, Screenplay 
White Mischief
as Josslyn Hay 
Fanny Lye Deliver'd
as John Lye 
Despite the Falling Snow
as Old Alexander Ivanov 
Fallen Angel
as David Byfield 
Rumours
as Edison Wolcott 
There Be Dragons
as Solono 
Hilary and Jackie
as Derek du Pré 
Euphoria
as Mr. Daren 
Pascali's Island
as Anthony Bowles 
Hammer: Heroes, Legends and Monsters
as Narrator 
Last Rights
as Richard Wheeler 
The Surgeon
as Dr. Ed Mittlesbay 
Hero
as Charles Reynard 
The Book Of Vision
as Dr. Johan Anmuth 
Master Moley by Royal Invitation
as Mr. James Moley (voice) 
St George's Day
as Trenchard 
Midnight's Children
as William Methwold 
Intervention
as Private Investigator 
Dark Blue World
as Wing Commander Bentley 
Father's Day
as Don 
Patrick
as Doctor Roget 
The Blood Oranges
as Cyril 
What Rats Won't Do
as Gerald Burton Jr 
Black and White
as Roderic Chamberlain 
Rainy Day Women
as John Truman 
That Good Night
as The Visitor 
Spitfire
as Narrator (voice) 
Don't Go Breaking My Heart
as Frank 
In the Presence of Mine Enemies
as Captain Richter 
Twice Upon a Time
as Battar Master of Ceremonies 
Lancaster
as Narrator (voice) 