Charles Dance

Known for ActingBorn 1946-10-10 (age 80)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

Movies & web series

When Hitler Invaded Britain

Chrono-Perambulator

The Secret Servant

Game of Thrones The IMAX Experience

Game of Thrones

The Day of the Jackal

The Muppets Take The O2

The Crown

Raffles

Instruments of Darkness

The Imitation Game

Me Before You

Savage Kingdom

The Sandman

Bleak House

Jurij

Murder Rooms: The Dark Beginnings of Sherlock Holmes

Foyle's War

Murder Rooms: The Dark Beginnings of Sherlock Holmes

Hammer: Heroes, Legends and Monsters

Merlin

Would I Lie to You?

Frankenstein

Churchill at War

Agatha Christie's Marple

Wreckage and Rage: Making 'Alien³'

Titanic: Birth of a Legend

Rise of Empires: Ottoman

And Then There Were None

The Serpent Queen

Top Gear

The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby

Nancy Astor

Strike Back

The Phantom of the Opera

Testament: The Story of Moses

Woman in Gold

Kabloonak

Mission: Impossible

The Science of Doctor Who

Spitfire

The Professionals

Going Postal

Call My Bluff

Rabbit Hole

The Little Drummer Girl

Natural World

Fingersmith