Donald Pleasence
Acting
Biography
Donald Henry Pleasence OBE (October 5, 1919 – February 2, 1995) was an English actor who gained more than 200 screen credits during a career which spanned over four decades. Often typecast as villainous and/or psychopathic characters, Pleasence is arguably best-known for his work in two of cinema's most successful franchises - James Bond and Halloween.
Born: October 5, 1919
Place of Birth: Worksop, Nottinghamshire, England, UK
Known For
The News-Benders
An idealistic young television producer is approached by the representative of a clandestine agency offering an unusual job: creating the news - before it happens. And a refusal, it seems, is not an option.
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Hallmark Hall of Fame is an anthology program on American television, sponsored by Hallmark Cards, a Kansas City based greeting card company. The longest-running primetime series in the history of television, it has a historically long run, beginning during 1951 and continuing into 2013. From 1954 onward, all of its productions have been shown in color, although color television video productions were extremely rare in 1954. Many television movies have been shown on the program since its debut, though the program began with live telecasts of dramas and then changed to videotaped productions before finally changing to filmed ones. The series has received eighty Emmy Awards, twenty-four Christopher Awards, eleven Peabody Awards, nine Golden Globes, and four Humanitas Prizes. Once a common practice in American television, it is the last remaining television program such that the title includes the name of the sponsor. Unlike other long-running TV series still on the air, it differs in that it broadcasts only occasionally and not on a weekly broadcast programming schedule.
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Hallmark Hall of Fame is an anthology program on American television, sponsored by Hallmark Cards, a Kansas City based greeting card company. The longest-running primetime series in the history of television, it has a historically long run, beginning during 1951 and continuing into 2013. From 1954 onward, all of its productions have been shown in color, although color television video productions were extremely rare in 1954. Many television movies have been shown on the program since its debut, though the program began with live telecasts of dramas and then changed to videotaped productions before finally changing to filmed ones. The series has received eighty Emmy Awards, twenty-four Christopher Awards, eleven Peabody Awards, nine Golden Globes, and four Humanitas Prizes. Once a common practice in American television, it is the last remaining television program such that the title includes the name of the sponsor. Unlike other long-running TV series still on the air, it differs in that it broadcasts only occasionally and not on a weekly broadcast programming schedule.
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Hallmark Hall of Fame is an anthology program on American television, sponsored by Hallmark Cards, a Kansas City based greeting card company. The longest-running primetime series in the history of television, it has a historically long run, beginning during 1951 and continuing into 2013. From 1954 onward, all of its productions have been shown in color, although color television video productions were extremely rare in 1954. Many television movies have been shown on the program since its debut, though the program began with live telecasts of dramas and then changed to videotaped productions before finally changing to filmed ones. The series has received eighty Emmy Awards, twenty-four Christopher Awards, eleven Peabody Awards, nine Golden Globes, and four Humanitas Prizes. Once a common practice in American television, it is the last remaining television program such that the title includes the name of the sponsor. Unlike other long-running TV series still on the air, it differs in that it broadcasts only occasionally and not on a weekly broadcast programming schedule.
The Twilight Zone
An anthology series containing drama, psychological thriller, fantasy, science fiction, suspense, and/or horror, often concluding with a macabre or unexpected twist.
Columbo
Columbo is a friendly, verbose, disheveled-looking police detective who is consistently underestimated by his suspects. Despite his unprepossessing appearance and apparent absentmindedness, he shrewdly solves all of his cases and secures all evidence needed for indictment. His formidable eye for detail and meticulously dedicated approach often become clear to the killer only late in the storyline.
Halloween: A Cut Above the Rest
Using original interviews with director John Carpenter, stars Jamie Lee Curtis and P.J. Soles, and crew members, 'Halloween': A Cut Above the Rest unveils the production of the horror classic and how the ingenuity of Carpenter and his team, coupled with the shoestring budget of $325,000, drove the filmmakers to create one of the most influential horror films of all time.
The Great Escape
The Nazis, exasperated at the number of escapes from their prison camps by a relatively small number of Allied prisoners, relocate them to a high-security 'escape-proof' camp to sit out the remainder of the war. Undaunted, the prisoners plan one of the most ambitious escape attempts of World War II. Based on a true story.
Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music
Untold stories behind the culture-defining and newsmaking musical performances, sketches and cameos of the past 50 years.
Jesus of Nazareth
Dramatizes the Birth, Life, Ministry, Crucifixion, and Resurrection of Jesus Christ, largely according to the Holy Bible's New Testament Gospels.
Filmography
as Self - (archive footage)
as Self (archive footage)
as Dr. Sam Loomis (archive footage)
as Self / Dr. Samuel 'Sam' Loomis (archive footage)
as Professor Robinson
as Dr. Sam Loomis
as Cornelius Van Damm
as Self (archive footage)
as Merlin
as Sinister Dentist
as Soup slurper
as Pincheon
as Phido the Vulture (voice)
as Victor Harty
as Howard Simpson
as Doctor
as Ripa
as Dreyfuss
as The Art Collector
as Winston Churchill
as Jason Rafiel
as Colonel Bats
as Dr. Sam Loomis
as Heinrich Spaatz
as Mr. Justice Lawrence Wargrave
as Dr. Schaeffer
as Mr. Pickett
as Walter Usher
as Rev. Mortom
as Dr. Absalon
as Dr. Absalon
as Dr. Loomis
as Don Alvise
as Colonel B. Abrahams
as Prof. Livingstone
as Henry Carlson
as Captain Thomas Rosza
as Inspector Datti
as Priest
as Ben Gunn
as Prosper Gaffney
as Sen. Blaster
as Mr. Kidd (segment "The Room")
as Lord Copper
as Professor Lasky
as Clodius Flaucus
as Joe Gardenia
as Olindo Cuomo
as Father Lenoir
as Col. Kostik
as Aldo Rossi
as David Beckett
as Commissioner Danesi
as Sir Oliver Oates
as Axel MacGregor (archive footage)
as Klaus von Blantz
as George Hill
as The Chancellor
as Professor John McGregor
as Minister Eretz
as Victor Harty
as Ivon Haake
as Self - Host
as J.P. Whittier
as Salomon Van der Merwe
as Mackintosh
as Victor Frankenstein / Baron Frankenstein
as Dr. Warley
as Dr. Samuel Johnson
as Prossor
as Mr. Myers
as Leo Bain
as Septimus Harding
as George Dettler
as Self
as Gilbert Carson
as Dr. Sam Loomis
as President of the United States
as Pickering, Chief of the B-Squad
as John Cavendish
as Kobras
as Max Dechambre
as Kantorek
as Colonel Riddle
as General Villanova
as Dr. Jack Seward
as Dr. Steiner
as Albert Rumpelmayer
as Clarence Blasko
as Ignatius Slake
as Blair
as Loomis
as Sam Purchas
as Rothko
as B.D. Brockhurst
as Axel MacGregor
as Solomon Sholto
as Dr. Todd
as James Doniac
as Narrator (voice)
as Capt. Vladimir Popov
as Nicolai Dalchimsky
as Doctor Harmon
as Valentine De'ath (segment "Hollywood 1936")
as Melchior
as Himmler
as Nat Jeffcote
as Nat Jeffcote
as Boxley
as Pontius Pilate
as George Livingston
as John Tyler Jones
as Father Roche
as Bendel
as Sir Giles Marley
as Dr. Finch
as Danglars
as Self - Host
as A.J. Nietz
as Kuvetli
as Lucas Deranian
as Erich Count von Plasma
as Martin Zayas
as Christo Kabak
as Aaron
as Professor Nolter
as Cedric Harper
as Doctor
as George Livingston
as Bendel
as Aaron
as Jim Underwood
as Prof. R.C. Tremayne
as Malachi
as Cawser
as The Spirit (voice)
as Ralph Logan
as Fred Smudge
as The Baron
as Jim Dougall, Sr.
as Inspector Calhoun
as Loomis
as Thomas Cromwell
as Major Samuels
as Ebenezer Balfour
as Gerry Muddiman
as Carnacki
as Adrian Carsini
as Doc Tydon
as Tom
as SEN
as Samuel Johnson
as Gerry Muddiman
as Isaac Q. Cumber
as The Prospector
as Arthur Brownjohn / Sir Easonby 'E' Mellon
as Dr. Freedom
as Hans Vogler
as Clive
as J.G.
as James Thorne
as Preacher Quint
as Albert Dussel
as Gregori Andreanu
as Ernst Stavro Blofeld
as (voice)
as General Kahlenberge
as Pere Dominic
as Dr. Michaels
as George
as 'Oracle' Jones
as The Dark Hermit - Satan
as Mac Davies / Bernard Jenkins
as Max Pfeiffer
as Harold J. Finley
as Dr. Hawley Harvey Crippen
as Blythe 'The Forger'
as Wolters
as Captain Pinski
as Dr. Byron Saul
as Everett Sloane
as Mr. Jenkins
as Pop
as Renfrew
as Caterpillar
as Fred Watson
as Nabal
as Graham Coates
as Parsons, alias Bill Brown
as Victor Partridge
as Mr. Pappleworth
as Gus Hawkins
as Vanet
as Irwin Hoffman
as William Hare
as Jessel Brown
as Ellis Fowler
as Captain
as Hurst
as Karl Haussman
as Harvey Laurence
as Gen. Hardt
as Organ Grinder
as Doctor
as Spiel
as Barsad
as Cashier
as Evans
as Crabtree
as President of the USA
as Ali
as Self - Nominee
as R. Parsons
as Prince John
as Limpy
as Syme
as Captain Pinski
as Cpl. Martin (as Donald Plesance)
as Tromp
as Second batlon
as Kantorek
as Myers
as The Chancellor
as Syme
as Corporal