
Charles Dance
Born October 10, 1946 · 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Charles Dance, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Notable Appearances
Movies

The Imitation Game

Frankenstein

Me Before You

The King's Man

Godzilla: King of the Monsters

The First Omen

Ghostbusters

Last Action Hero

Underworld: Blood Wars

Child 44

Ladies First

Alien³

For Your Eyes Only

Johnny English Strikes Again

Iron Mask

Underworld: Awakening

Dracula Untold

Wildcat

The Batman: Part II

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies

Justin and the Knights of Valour

The Golden Child

Your Highness

Swimming Pool

Woman in Gold

Gosford Park

Victor Frankenstein

The Contractor

Ali G Indahouse

Against the Ice

Mank

Scoop

Ironclad

Starter for 10

Space Truckers

White Mischief

Forbidden Empire

China Moon

Michael Collins

There Be Dragons

St George's Day

Game of Thrones The IMAX Experience

Euphoria

Admiral

The 50 Greatest Television Dramas

Hilary and Jackie

Rumours

Despite the Falling Snow

Pascali's Island

Going Postal 2in1

Hero

The Making of Gosford Park

Hammer: Heroes, Legends and Monsters

Master Moley by Royal Invitation

Fanny Lye Deliver'd

Dark Blue World

The Book Of Vision

Good Morning, Babylon

What Rats Won't Do

Happy New Year, Colin Burstead

Wreckage and Rage: Making 'Alien³'

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

BBC Play of the Month

Top Gear

Tales of the Unexpected

Screen Two

Playhouse

Natural World

The Day of the Jackal

Merlin

The Professionals

Agatha Christie's Marple

Would I Lie to You?

The Sandman

An Audience with...

Foyle's War

Celebrity Antiques Road Trip

The Flying Doctors

Strike Back

Who Do You Think You Are?

Room 101

Rabbit Hole

The Serpent Queen

Bleak House

Fingersmith

The Little Drummer Girl

And Then There Were None

Rise of Empires: Ottoman

Moley

Childhood's End

Father Brown

Savage Kingdom

Jam and Jerusalem

The Jewel in the Crown

Testament: The Story of Moses

To the Ends of the Earth

Henry VIII

The Widow

The Singapore Grip

Raffles

The Great Fire

Hang Ups

Dan Dare: Pilot of the Future

The Woman in White

Deadline Gallipoli

This England

Going Postal

Neverland

Rosamunde Pilcher's Shades of Love

Trinity

Time for Murder

Secret State

Out on a Limb

Churchill at War

The Phantom of the Opera

Was It Something I Said?

First Born

Rebecca

The Secret Servant

Last Rights

The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby

Fallen Angel

Saint John Bosco Mission to Love

Renaissance: The Blood and the Beauty
More Movies

In the Presence of Mine Enemies

The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby

Patrick

Spitfire

Murder Rooms: The Dark Beginnings of Sherlock Holmes

The Big Fat Quiz of Telly

The Surgeon

Midnight's Children

Don't Go Breaking My Heart

Plenty

The Blood Oranges

Black and White

Speeches That Shook the World

That Good Night

The Science of Doctor Who

Out of the Shadows

Paris Connections

Goldeneye

The Hanging Sun

Titanic: Birth of a Legend

Saint John Bosco Mission to Love

Hidden City

Rainy Day Women

Dreams of Leaving

Father's Day

La valle di pietra

Twice Upon a Time

Intervention

Century

Instruments of Darkness

The Liar

Viy 3: Travel to India

Little Eyolf

Lancaster

Alien Evolution

Consenting Adults

Retrospective

Shortcut to Paradise

Wimbledon Official Film 2017

Creditors

Samaná Sunrise

Fatal Spring

The Door

The McGuffin

Portrait of the Queen

Undertow

Kabloonak

First Born

Savage Waters

The Relics of Buddha




