Charles Dance
Acting
Biography
Walter Charles Dance OBE (born 10 October 1946) is an English actor, screenwriter, and director. He typically plays strict, authoritarian characters or villains. He is best known for his roles as Tywin Lannister in Game of Thrones, Kitchener in The King's Man, Martin Benson in Amazon Prime's The Widow, Lord Mountbatten in Netflix's The Crown (for which he was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series), Thomas in Underworld: Awakening and Underworld: Blood Wars, Harold Fillmore in Ghostbusters (2016), Mr. Bennet in Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, Frankenstein in Victor Frankenstein, Master Vampire in Dracula Untold, Conrad Knox in the Cinemax series Strike Back, Raymond Stockbridge in Gosford Park, one-eyed hitman Benedict in Last Action Hero, Clemens in Alien³, Sardo Numpsa in The Golden Child, and Guy Perron in The Jewel in the Crown. He 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 Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) by Queen Elizabeth II in 2006. He made his directorial film debut with the drama film Ladies in Lavender (2004), which he also wrote and executive produced.
Born: October 10, 1946
Place of Birth: Redditch, Worcestershire, England, UK
Known For
Instruments of Darkness
A war hero and the lure of ambition and descent into hell. An adaptation of Macbeth.
Game of Thrones The IMAX Experience
The first episode of this IMAX screening takes place entirely at The Wall with the Night’s Watch (S4 EP9) hopelessly outnumbered as they attempt to defend Castle Black from the Wildings and features one the fiercest and most intense battle scenes ever filmed for television. The second episode (S4 EP10), features Dany coming to grips with the realities of ruling a kingdom, Bran learning the startling reality of his destiny and Tyrion facing the truth of his unfortunate situation.
Game of Thrones
Seven noble families fight for control of the mythical land of Westeros. Friction between the houses leads to full-scale war. All while a very ancient evil awakens in the farthest north. Amidst the war, a neglected military order of misfits, the Night's Watch, is all that stands between the realms of men and icy horrors beyond.
Hammer: Heroes, Legends and Monsters
A look at Hammer’s progression from a back office in London’s Regent Street to its iconic status within the horror film genre. The company, started by comedian and businessman William Hinds in 1934, made films such as The Curse of Frankenstein, Dracula, and The Quatermass Xperiment during the period for which it is best known, making stars out of the likes of Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing.
The Crown
The gripping, decades-spanning inside story of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and the Prime Ministers who shaped Britain's post-war destiny. The Crown tells the inside story of two of the most famous addresses in the world – Buckingham Palace and 10 Downing Street – and the intrigues, love lives and machinations behind the great events that shaped the second half of the 20th century. Two houses, two courts, one Crown.
The Day of the Jackal
An unrivalled and highly elusive lone assassin, the Jackal, makes his living carrying out hits for the highest fee. But following his latest kill, he meets his match in a tenacious British intelligence officer who starts to track down the Jackal in a thrilling cat-and-mouse chase across Europe, leaving destruction in its wake.
Bleak House
The generous John Jarndyce, struggling with his own past, and his two young wards Richard and Ada, are all caught up, like Lady Dedlock, in the infamous case of Jarndyce vs. Jarndyce, which will make one of them rich beyond imagination if it can ever be brought to a conclusion. As Tulkinghorn digs deeper into Lady Dedlock's past, he unearths a secret that will change their lives forever, and which is almost as astounding as the final outcome of the Jarndyce case.
Murder Rooms: The Dark Beginnings of Sherlock Holmes
Arthur Conan Doyle reveals the story behind Sherlock Holmes and his mysteries by telling about Dr. Joseph Bell, from whom he drew his inspiration, after meeting him as a medical student in Edinburgh. This TV movie served as the pilot for the later released minisseries Murder Rooms: Mysteries of the Real Sherlock Holmes produced by the BBC. The series then picks up with Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's time as a general practitioner in Southsea, solving mysteries with the help of his mentor, Dr Joseph Bell, who is still based in Edinburgh.
Raffles
Raffles was a 1977 television adaptation of the A. J. Raffles stories by Ernest William Hornung. The series was produced by Yorkshire Television and written by Philip Mackie. The episodes were largely faithful adaptations of the stories in the books, though occasionally two stories would be merged to create one. In Victorian-era London, gentleman thief A. J. Raffles, a renowned cricketer, and his friend, the eager but naive Bunny Manders, test their skills in relieving the wealthy of their valuables whilst avoiding detection, especially from the persistent Inspector Mackenzie.
The Imitation Game
Based on the real life story of legendary cryptanalyst Alan Turing, the film portrays the nail-biting race against time by Turing and his brilliant team of code-breakers at Britain's top-secret Government Code and Cypher School at Bletchley Park, during the darkest days of World War II.
Filmography
as Self - Guest
as Frasier Mahoney
as Leopold Frankenstein
as Gustaf
as Old Michaelangelo
as Noah Blum
as Timothy Winthrop
as Narrator
as Self
as Edison Wolcott
as Father Harris
as Self - Narrator (voice)
as Dr. Ben Wilson
as Max Hastings
as Jacob
as Clement VII
as Roderick Burgess
as Narrator (voice)
as Minister Neergaard
as Kitchener
as Mr. Moley (voice)
as Dr. Johan Anmuth
as William Randolph Hearst
as Mr Webb
as Self - Narrator (voice)
as Mr. James Moley (voice)
as John Lye
as Lord Dudley
as Alan Jonah
as Martin Benson
as Commander Picton
as Uncle Bertie
as Agent Seven
as Jeremy Pitt
as Narrator (voice)
as Frederick Fairlie
as Mr. Daren
as Narrator (voice)
as The Visitor
as Self - Narrator (voice)
as Thomas
as Lord Mountbatten
as Harold Fillmore
as Stephen Traynor
as Mr. Bennet
as Old Alexander Ivanov
as Justice Lawrence Wargrave
as Karellen
as Duncan
as Frankenstein
as Sir Ian Hamilton
as Sherman
as Major Grachev
as Tywin Lannister
as King Charles II
as Commander Denniston
as Lord Denton
as Master Vampire
as Jonathan Hoyle
as Lord Dudley
as Self
as Doctor Roget
as Legantir (voice)
as Don
as Narrator (voice)
as John Hodder
as Thomas Arlington
as Trenchard
as William Methwold
as Thomas
as Dr. Fludd
as Self - Participant
as Edmund Aird
as Tywin Lannister
as King Tallious
as Solono
as Stephen Langton, Archbishop of Canterbury
as Aleksandr Borinski
as Lord Vetinari
as Conrad Knox
as Dr. Edmund Maltravers
as Aredian
as Jack Wolfenden
as Self
as DCS Andrew Windsor
as David Byfield
as Private Investigator
as Self
as Battar Master of Ceremonies
as Michael Harbinson
as Self
as Mr. Malcolm
as Mr. Tulkinghorn
as Sir Henry Somerset
as Narrator (voice)
as Mr. Chistopher Lilly
as Septimus Bligh
as Self
as Marchese Clementi
as Self (archive footage)
as Edward Stafford
as John Bosload
as Roderic Chamberlain
as Guy Spencer
as Self
as Colonel Simon Lasker (voice)
as Self (uncredited)
as Deputy Prime Minister David Carlton
as Raymond Stockbridge
as Self / Clemens
as Wing Commander Bentley
as Ralph Nickleby
as Sir Henry Carlyle
as Frank
as Derek Du Pré
as Gerald Burton Jr
as Cyril
as Captain Richter
as Maxim de Winter
as Soames
as Nabel / Macanudo
as Lyle Yates
as Dr. Ed Mittlesbay
as Quinn
as Self
as Rupert Munro
as Robert Flaherty
as Professor Mandry
as Benedict
as Clemens
as Surveyor
as The Phantom of the Opera
as Ian Fleming
as Edward Forester
as Michael Hayden
as Anthony Bowles
as Josslyn Hay
as James Richards
as D.W. Griffith
as Gerry Stamford
as Sardo Numspa
as Minister
as Paul Hatcher
as James Latimer
as Raymond Brock
as Paul Hatcher
as John Truman
as Guy Perron
as Borghejm
as Claus
as Siegfried Sassoon
as Colin
as Robert Smythe
as Self
as Parker
as Siegfried Sassoon
as Borghejm
as Tickford