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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.
Filmography 89
The Imitation Game
+6
as Commander Denniston 
Child 44
+4
as Major Grachev 
Me Before You
+2
as Stephen Traynor 
Alien³
+2
as Clemens 
Frankenstein
as Leopold Frankenstein 
The King's Man
+5
as Kitchener 
Wildcat
as Frasier Mahoney 
Rabbit Hole
as Dr. Ben Wilson 
Godzilla: King of the Monsters
+7
as Alan Jonah 
The First Omen
+5
as Father Harris 
For Your Eyes Only
+6
as Claus 
Last Action Hero
+3
as Benedict 
Ladies First
as Fred Powell 
Bleak House
+2
as Mr. Tulkinghorn 
Dracula Untold
+2
as Master Vampire 
Moley
as Mr. Moley (voice) 
Victor Frankenstein
+2
as Frankenstein 
Ghostbusters
+6
as Harold Fillmore 
Underworld: Blood Wars
+2
as Thomas 
Testament: The Story of Moses
as Self - Narrator (voice) 
Johnny English Strikes Again
+4
as Agent Seven 
Savage Kingdom
as Self - Narrator (voice) 
Rise of Empires: Ottoman
as Self - Narrator (voice) 
And Then There Were None
+1
as Justice Lawrence Wargrave 
Woman in Gold
+5
as Sherman 
Mank
as William Randolph Hearst 
Iron Mask
+4
as Lord Dudley 
Underworld: Awakening
+4
as Thomas 
Gosford Park
+2
as Raymond Stockbridge 
Your Highness
+4
as King Tallious 
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
+1
as Mr. Bennet 
Going Postal
as Lord Vetinari 
Swimming Pool
as John Bosload 
The Batman: Part II
as Christopher Dent 
The Golden Child
+2
as Sardo Numspa 
Childhood's End
as Karellen 
Ali G Indahouse
as Deputy Prime Minister David Carlton 
The Great Fire
as Lord Denton 
The Widow
+4
as Martin Benson 
Justin and the Knights of Valour
as Legantir (voice) 
Against the Ice
as Minister Neergaard 
The Contractor
+2
as DCS Andrew Windsor 
Admiral
as King Charles II 
Ironclad
+4
as Stephen Langton, Archbishop of Canterbury 
Starter for 10
as Michael Harbinson 
Secret State
+5
as John Hodder 
Trinity
as Dr. Edmund Maltravers 
Churchill at War
as Self - Narrator (voice) 
Michael Collins
+3
as Soames 
Fingersmith
+3
as Mr. Chistopher Lilly 
Space Truckers
+4
as Nabel / Macanudo 
Deadline Gallipoli
as Sir Ian Hamilton 
China Moon
+4
as Rupert Munro 
Rebecca
as Maxim de Winter 
Scoop
as Mr. Malcolm 
Rosamunde Pilcher's Shades of Love
as Edmund Aird 
Ladies in Lavender
+1
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 
Last Rights
as Richard Wheeler 
There Be Dragons
+2
as Solono 
Rumours
+3
as Edison Wolcott 
Lancaster
as Narrator (voice) 
Hilary and Jackie
as Derek du Pré 
Euphoria
+3
as Mr. Daren 
Pascali's Island
as Anthony Bowles 
Hammer: Heroes, Legends and Monsters
as Narrator 
Spitfire
+2
as Narrator (voice) 
The Surgeon
as Dr. Ed Mittlesbay 
Hero
as Charles Reynard 
Patrick
as Doctor Roget 
The Book Of Vision
as Dr. Johan Anmuth 
Master Moley by Royal Invitation
as Mr. James Moley (voice) 
St George's Day
+2
as Trenchard 
Midnight's Children
as William Methwold 
Intervention
as Private Investigator 
Dark Blue World
as Wing Commander Bentley 
Father's Day
as Don 
The Blood Oranges
+2
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
+3
as The Visitor 
Don't Go Breaking My Heart
as Frank 
In the Presence of Mine Enemies
as Captain Richter 
Twice Upon a Time
+1
as Battar Master of Ceremonies