Charles Dance

Acting · 4.3 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

The Imitation Game

20148.0

Me Before You

20167.9

Godzilla: King of the Monsters

20196.7

Wildcat

20256.1

Alien³

19926.4

The King's Man

20216.7

Ghostbusters

20165.3

Ladies First

20266.0

Child 44

20156.3

Johnny English Strikes Again

20186.3

The First Omen

20246.8

Dracula Untold

20146.5

Underworld: Blood Wars

20165.9

Last Action Hero

19936.5

For Your Eyes Only

19816.5

Underworld: Awakening

20126.3

Gosford Park

20016.8

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies

20166.2

Iron Mask

20196.1

Swimming Pool

20036.5

Victor Frankenstein

20156.0

Your Highness

20115.3

The Batman: Part II

2028

The Contractor

20075.5

The Golden Child

19865.9

Ali G Indahouse

20026.1

Mank

20206.7

Woman in Gold

20157.3

Justin and the Knights of Valour

20135.9

Ironclad

20116.2

China Moon

19946.1

Scoop

20066.6

Against the Ice

20226.8

Forbidden Empire

20145.9

Michael Collins

19966.9

Starter for 10

20066.4

Euphoria

20186.3

Space Truckers

19965.4

Master Moley by Royal Invitation

20195.8

Despite the Falling Snow

20165.7

Hilary and Jackie

19986.6

White Mischief

19876.1

Plenty

19855.7

The 50 Greatest Television Dramas

2007

Hammer: Heroes, Legends and Monsters

20248.2

Game of Thrones The IMAX Experience

20158.6

Rumours

20244.9

Pascali's Island

19886.4

Admiral

20156.5

Dark Blue World

20016.9

Spitfire

20187.2

Happy New Year, Colin Burstead

20186.4

There Be Dragons

20115.1

The Big Fat Quiz of Telly

2026

Twice Upon a Time

20065.9

Out of the Shadows

19886.5

What Rats Won't Do

19985.0

Patrick

20134.9

The Making of Gosford Park

20025.3

The Surgeon

19955.1

Lancaster

20226.8

Wreckage and Rage: Making 'Alien³'

20037.8

Fanny Lye Deliver'd

20196.3

Goldeneye

19895.9

St George's Day

20124.7

The Blood Oranges

19973.9

The Book Of Vision

20216.0

Saint John Bosco Mission to Love

20046.8

Intervention

20075.5

That Good Night

20176.9

Midnight's Children

20125.5

Century

19935.1

Creditors

2025

In the Presence of Mine Enemies

19975.7

Viy 3: Travel to India

2026

Father's Day

20135.5

Good Morning, Babylon

19876.1

Don't Go Breaking My Heart

19995.2

The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby

20017.6

Undertow

19965.7

The Mapmaker

20126.5

The Hanging Sun

20225.6

Retrospective

2014

Hidden City

19875.4

Alien Evolution

20015.9

The Muppets Take The O2

20188.3

Black and White

20026.2

The Liar

2026

The Relics of Buddha

2013

Wimbledon Official Film 2017

20175.5

Shortcut to Paradise

19945.4

The Commuter

20105.5

Instruments of Darkness

20158.0

The Big Fat Quiz of Telly

2024

Consenting Adults

20075.0

Titanic: Birth of a Legend

20057.7

The Door

2012

First Born

19887.0

Kabloonak

19947.5

Fatal Spring

1980

Little Eyolf

19827.0

La valle di pietra

19927.0

Justice in Wonderland

2000

Samaná Sunrise

20245.7

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

2021

The Science of Doctor Who

20137.3

Portrait of the Queen

20226.0

A Patriot

2026

Savage Waters

20237.0

Paris Connections

20103.3

Rainy Day Women

19847.0

Murder Rooms: The Dark Beginnings of Sherlock Holmes

20008.0

Dreams of Leaving

19807.0

Speeches That Shook the World

2013

The McGuffin

19866.5

Jurij

20018.0

The Clerk's Tale

2010

Dickens' Secret Lover

2008

Chrono-Perambulator

199910.0