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Charles Dance

Charles Dance

Birthday: 1946-10-10 | Place of Birth: 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.

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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

2026
The Big Fat Quiz of Telly

as    Self - Guest

2025
Alien ³ - The Legacy Cut

as    Clemens

2025
Wildcat

as    Frasier Mahoney

2025
Creditors

as    Gustaf

2025
Frankenstein

as    Leopold Frankenstein

2025
World of Westeros Ambient Video

as    Tywin Lannister

2024
Rumours

as    Edison Wolcott

2024
The First Omen

as    Father Harris

2024
2024
Samaná Sunrise

as    Noah Blum

2024
Renaissance: The Blood and the Beauty

as    Old Michaelangelo

2024
Testament: The Story of Moses

as    Self - Narrator (voice)

2024
Churchill at War

as    Self - Narrator (voice)

2023
Rabbit Hole

as    Dr. Ben Wilson

2022
The Hanging Sun

as    Jacob

2022
This England

as    Max Hastings

2022
Against the Ice

as    Minister Neergaard

2022
Lancaster

as    Narrator (voice)

2021
The Book Of Vision

as    Dr. Johan Anmuth

2021
The King's Man

as    Kitchener

2021
Moley

as    Mr. Moley (voice)

2020
Rise of Empires: Ottoman

as    Self - Narrator (voice)

2019
Godzilla: King of the Monsters

as    Alan Jonah

2019
The Widow

as    Martin Benson

2019
Euphoria

as    Mr. Daren