Charles Dance

Known for ActingBorn 1946-10-10 (age 79)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.Read more

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Chrono-Perambulator

The Muppets Take The O2

Instruments of Darkness

The Secret Servant

Game of Thrones The IMAX Experience

Game of Thrones

The Day of the Jackal

Hammer: Heroes, Legends and Monsters

The Crown

The Imitation Game

Bleak House

The Sandman

Me Before You

Raffles

Jurij

Murder Rooms: The Dark Beginnings of Sherlock Holmes

Savage Kingdom

Merlin

Frankenstein

Would I Lie to You?

Wreckage and Rage: Making 'Alien³'

Agatha Christie's Marple

Churchill at War

Foyle's War

The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby

Titanic: Birth of a Legend

Rise of Empires: Ottoman

And Then There Were None

Top Gear

The Serpent Queen

Testament: The Story of Moses

Strike Back

Kabloonak

The Science of Doctor Who

Woman in Gold

Rabbit Hole

The Little Drummer Girl

Fingersmith

Going Postal

The Professionals

Spitfire

Savage Waters

The Phantom of the Opera

Natural World

Secret State

Childhood's End

Jam and Jerusalem

That Good Night