Charles Dance

Acting · 4.1 popularity

Age

Movies

120

Born: October 10, 1946
From: 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.

Works

120 films

Frankenstein

20257.6

Me Before You

20167.9

The Imitation Game

20148.0

Wildcat

20256.1

Godzilla: King of the Monsters

20196.7

Alien³

19926.4

The King's Man

20216.7

Ladies First

20266.0

Ghostbusters

20165.3

Child 44

20156.3

Johnny English Strikes Again

20186.3

Last Action Hero

19936.5

The First Omen

20246.8

Underworld: Blood Wars

20165.9

Dracula Untold

20146.5

For Your Eyes Only

19816.5

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies

20166.2

Gosford Park

20016.8

Underworld: Awakening

20126.3

Iron Mask

20196.1

Swimming Pool

20036.5

The Batman: Part II

2028

Victor Frankenstein

20156.0

Your Highness

20115.3

The Golden Child

19865.9

The Contractor

20075.5

Ali G Indahouse

20026.1

Justin and the Knights of Valour

20135.9

Mank

20206.7

Scoop

20066.6

Ironclad

20116.2

Woman in Gold

20157.3

China Moon

19946.1

Against the Ice

20226.8

Forbidden Empire

20145.9

Space Truckers

19965.4

Michael Collins

19966.9

Euphoria

20186.3

Starter for 10

20066.4

Despite the Falling Snow

20165.7

Master Moley by Royal Invitation

20195.8

Hilary and Jackie

19986.6

Game of Thrones The IMAX Experience

20158.6

Admiral

20156.5

The 50 Greatest Television Dramas

2007

White Mischief

19876.1

Plenty

19855.7

Hammer: Heroes, Legends and Monsters

20248.2

There Be Dragons

20115.1

Pascali's Island

19886.4

Rumours

20244.9

Twice Upon a Time

20065.9

Dark Blue World

20016.9

Spitfire

20187.2

The Surgeon

19955.1

The Big Fat Quiz of Telly

2026

The Making of Gosford Park

20025.3

Fanny Lye Deliver'd

20196.3

Happy New Year, Colin Burstead

20186.4

Intervention

20075.5

Patrick

20134.9

Wreckage and Rage: Making 'Alien³'

20037.8

Out of the Shadows

19886.5

Saint John Bosco Mission to Love

20046.8

Midnight's Children

20125.5

Lancaster

20226.8

Viy 3: Travel to India

2026

Goldeneye

19895.9

The Big Fat Quiz of Telly

2024

That Good Night

20176.9

What Rats Won't Do

19985.0

Instruments of Darkness

20158.0

In the Presence of Mine Enemies

19975.7

The Blood Oranges

19973.9

Don't Go Breaking My Heart

19995.2

Good Morning, Babylon

19876.1

Father's Day

20135.5

Shortcut to Paradise

19945.4

Retrospective

2014

The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby

20017.6

The Book Of Vision

20216.0

Black and White

20026.2

The Hanging Sun

20225.6

The Mapmaker

20126.5

Undertow

19965.7

Creditors

2025

St George's Day

20124.7

The Muppets Take The O2

20188.3

Alien Evolution

20015.9

Consenting Adults

20075.0

The Commuter

20105.5

Century

19935.1

The Relics of Buddha

2013

Hidden City

19875.4

Wimbledon Official Film 2017

20175.5

First Born

19887.0

Titanic: Birth of a Legend

20057.7

Speeches That Shook the World

2013

The Science of Doctor Who

20137.3

The Liar

2026

Kabloonak

19947.5

Murder Rooms: The Dark Beginnings of Sherlock Holmes

20008.0

Portrait of the Queen

20226.0

Samaná Sunrise

20245.7

Justice in Wonderland

2000

Savage Waters

20237.0

A Patriot

2026

Little Eyolf

19827.0

Rainy Day Women

19847.0

Paris Connections

20103.3

Dreams of Leaving

19807.0

The Magic of the Movies: Behind the Scenes of David Fincher's Mank

2021

Jurij

20018.0

The McGuffin

19866.5

La valle di pietra

19927.0

The Door

2012

Fatal Spring

1980

Dickens' Secret Lover

2008

Chrono-Perambulator

199910.0

The Clerk's Tale

2010