Charles Dance
Acting
- Born:
- 1946-10-10
- Place of birth:
- 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.
Known For
Filmography
The Batman: Part II
My Duchess
Ladies First
The Big Fat Quiz of Telly
Wildcat
Frankenstein
Creditors
Churchill at War
Renaissance: The Blood and the Beauty
Samaná Sunrise
The Day of the Jackal
Hammer: Heroes, Legends and Monsters
Rumours
The First Omen
Testament: The Story of Moses
Savage Waters
Rabbit Hole
Portrait of the Queen
This England
The Hanging Sun
The Serpent Queen
The Sandman
Lancaster
Against the Ice
The King's Man
Moley
The Book Of Vision
The Magic of the Movies: Behind the Scenes of David Fincher's Mank
Mank
The Singapore Grip
Rise of Empires: Ottoman
Master Moley by Royal Invitation
Fanny Lye Deliver'd
Iron Mask
Godzilla: King of the Monsters
The Widow
The Little Drummer Girl
Happy New Year, Colin Burstead
Johnny English Strikes Again
Hero
Hang Ups
Spitfire
The Muppets Take The O2
The Woman in White
Euphoria
Wimbledon Official Film 2017
That Good Night
Savage Kingdom
Underworld: Blood Wars
The Crown
Ghostbusters
Me Before You
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
Despite the Falling Snow
And Then There Were None
Childhood's End
Instruments of Darkness
Victor Frankenstein
Deadline Gallipoli
Woman in Gold
Child 44
Admiral
Game of Thrones The IMAX Experience
The Imitation Game
The Great Fire
Dracula Untold
Retrospective
Forbidden Empire
The Science of Doctor Who
Speeches That Shook the World
Patrick
Was It Something I Said?
Justin and the Knights of Valour
Father's Day
The Relics of Buddha
Secret State
The Door
The Mapmaker
St George's Day
Midnight's Children
Underworld: Awakening
Neverland
Celebrity Antiques Road Trip
Going Postal 2in1
Rosamunde Pilcher's Shades of Love
Game of Thrones
Your Highness
There Be Dragons
Ironclad
The Commuter
Paris Connections
Drama Trails
Going Postal
The Clerk's Tale
Strike Back
Trinity
Merlin
Dickens' Secret Lover
Consenting Adults
Would I Lie to You?
The Contractor
Fallen Angel
The 50 Greatest Television Dramas
Intervention
Jam and Jerusalem
Starter for 10
Twice Upon a Time
The One Show
Scoop
Bleak House
To the Ends of the Earth
Titanic: Birth of a Legend
Fingersmith
Last Rights
Agatha Christie's Marple
Who Do You Think You Are?
Saint John Bosco Mission to Love
Saint John Bosco Mission to Love
Wreckage and Rage: Making 'Alien³'
Looking for Victoria
Henry VIII
Swimming Pool
Black and White
Foyle's War
Top Gear
Dan Dare: Pilot of the Future
The Making of Gosford Park
Ali G Indahouse
Gosford Park
Alien Evolution
Jurij
Dark Blue World
The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby
The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby
Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased)
Justice in Wonderland
Murder Rooms: The Dark Beginnings of Sherlock Holmes
Chrono-Perambulator
Don't Go Breaking My Heart
Hilary and Jackie
What Rats Won't Do
The Blood Oranges
In the Presence of Mine Enemies
Rebecca
Michael Collins
Space Truckers
Undertow
The Surgeon
Shortcut to Paradise
Room 101
China Moon
Kabloonak
Century
Last Action Hero
Alien³
La valle di pietra
The Making of 'Alien³'
The Phantom of the Opera
Goldeneye
First Born
First Born
Out of the Shadows
Pascali's Island
White Mischief
Hidden City
Good Morning, Babylon
Out on a Limb
The Golden Child
The Flying Doctors
The McGuffin
Time for Murder
Plenty
Screen Two
The Secret Servant
Rainy Day Women
The Jewel in the Crown
Natural World
Little Eyolf
For Your Eyes Only
Fatal Spring
Dreams of Leaving
Tales of the Unexpected
An Audience with...
The Professionals
Raffles
Father Brown
The Inheritors
Playhouse
Film '72
Play for Today
BBC Play of the Month
A Patriot
The Liar
Viy 3: Travel to India