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Charles Dance

Born 1946-10-10

📍 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.

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Untitled The Batman Sequel

The Big Fat Quiz of Telly

as Self - Guest

World of Westeros Ambient Video

as Tywin Lannister

as Frasier Mahoney

as Leopold Frankenstein

Churchill at War

as Self - Narrator (voice)

Renaissance: The Blood and the Beauty

as Old Michaelangelo

Samaná Sunrise

The Day of the Jackal

as Timothy Winthrop

Hammer: Heroes, Legends and Monsters

The Big Fat Quiz of Telly

as Edison Wolcott

as Father Harris

Testament: The Story of Moses

as Self - Narrator (voice)

as Dr. Ben Wilson

Portrait of the Queen

as Max Hastings

The Hanging Sun

The Serpent Queen

as Roderick Burgess

as Narrator (voice)

Against the Ice

as Minister Neergaard

as Mr. Moley (voice)

The Book Of Vision

as Dr. Johan Anmuth

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

as William Randolph Hearst

The Singapore Grip

Rise of Empires: Ottoman

as Self - Narrator (voice)

Master Moley by Royal Invitation

as Mr. James Moley (voice)

Fanny Lye Deliver'd

Godzilla: King of the Monsters

as Martin Benson

The Little Drummer Girl

as Commander Picton

Happy New Year, Colin Burstead

as Uncle Bertie

Johnny English Strikes Again

as Narrator (voice)

The Woman in White

as Frederick Fairlie

Wimbledon Official Film 2017

as Narrator (voice)

That Good Night

as Self - Narrator (voice)

Underworld: Blood Wars

as Lord Mountbatten

as Harold Fillmore

as Stephen Traynor

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies

Despite the Falling Snow

as Old Alexander Ivanov

And Then There Were None

as Justice Lawrence Wargrave

Childhood's End

Instruments of Darkness

Victor Frankenstein

as Frankenstein

Deadline Gallipoli

as Sir Ian Hamilton

as Major Grachev

as King Charles II

Game of Thrones The IMAX Experience

as Tywin Lannister

The Imitation Game

as Commander Denniston

as Master Vampire

as Jonathan Hoyle

Forbidden Empire

The Science of Doctor Who

Speeches That Shook the World

as Doctor Roget

Justin and the Knights of Valour

as Legantir (voice)

The Relics of Buddha

as Narrator (voice)

as Thomas Arlington

St George's Day

Midnight's Children

as William Methwold

Underworld: Awakening

Celebrity Antiques Road Trip

as Self - Participant

Rosamunde Pilcher's Shades of Love

Game of Thrones

as Tywin Lannister

as King Tallious

There Be Dragons

as Stephen Langton, Archbishop of Canterbury

Paris Connections

as Aleksandr Borinski

as Lord Vetinari

as Dr. Edmund Maltravers

Consenting Adults

as Jack Wolfenden

Would I Lie to You?

as DCS Andrew Windsor

as David Byfield

The 50 Greatest Television Dramas

as Private Investigator

Jam and Jerusalem

Twice Upon a Time

as Battar Master of Ceremonies

as Michael Harbinson

as Mr. Tulkinghorn

To the Ends of the Earth

as Sir Henry Somerset

Titanic: Birth of a Legend

as Narrator (voice)

as Mr. Chistopher Lilly

as Richard Wheeler

Agatha Christie's Marple

as Septimus Bligh

Who Do You Think You Are?

Saint John Bosco Mission to Love

as Marchese Clementi

Wreckage and Rage: Making 'Alien³'

as Self (archive footage)

as Edward Stafford

as John Bosload

Black and White

as Roderic Chamberlain

Dan Dare: Pilot of the Future

as Colonel Simon Lasker (voice)

The Making of Gosford Park

as Self (uncredited)

Ali G Indahouse

as Deputy Prime Minister David Carlton

as Raymond Stockbridge

Alien Evolution

as Self / Clemens

Dark Blue World

as Wing Commander Bentley

The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby

as Ralph Nickleby

Murder Rooms: The Dark Beginnings of Sherlock Holmes

as Sir Henry Carlyle

Don't Go Breaking My Heart

Hilary and Jackie

as Derek du Pré

What Rats Won't Do

as Gerald Burton Jr

Trial & Retribution

The Blood Oranges

In the Presence of Mine Enemies

as Captain Richter

as Maxim de Winter

Michael Collins

as Nabel / Macanudo

as Dr. Ed Mittlesbay

Shortcut to Paradise

as Rupert Munro

as Robert Flaherty

as Professor Mandry

Last Action Hero

La valle di pietra

The Phantom of the Opera

as Erik/The Phantom

as Edward Forester

as Edward Forester

Out of the Shadows

as Michael Hayden

Pascali's Island

as Anthony Bowles

as James Richards

Good Morning, Babylon

as D.W. Griffith

as Gerry Stamford

The Golden Child

as Sardo Numspa

The Flying Doctors

as Paul Hatcher

Time for Murder

as James Latimer

as Raymond Brock

as Paul Hatcher

The Secret Servant

as SAS Major Harry Maxim

Rainy Day Women

The Jewel in the Crown

For Your Eyes Only

as Siegfried Sassoon

Dreams of Leaving

Tales of the Unexpected

as Robert Smythe

An Audience with...

The Professionals

as Siegfried Sassoon

BBC Play of the Month

Viy 3: Travel to India