
Donald Pleasence
Born October 5, 1919 · Worksop, Nottinghamshire, England, UK
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.
Notable Appearances
Movies

Halloween

The Great Escape

Escape from New York

You Only Live Twice

Halloween II

Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers

Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers

Prince of Darkness

Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers

The Greatest Story Ever Told

The Eagle Has Landed

Soldier Blue

The Night of the Generals

Shadows and Fog

The Thief and the Cobbler

Escape to Witch Mountain

Watch Out, We're Mad

Fantastic Voyage

The Count of Monte-Cristo

All Quiet on the Western Front

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

Phenomena

Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music

Alone in the Dark

The Great Escape II: The Untold Story

Warrior Queen

Will Penny

THX 1138

Dracula

Telefon

The Last Tycoon

Hearts of the West

The Monster Club

Buried Alive

Breakdown: 1975

Good Luck, Miss Wyckoff

Race for the Yankee Zephyr

Witness for the Prosecution

Miss Marple: A Caribbean Mystery

Wake in Fright
TV Shows

Tony Awards

Play for Today

Screen Two

The Twilight Zone

Wogan

The Defenders

The Wednesday Play

Playhouse

The Adventures of Robin Hood

The Outer Limits

One Step Beyond

Thirty-Minute Theatre

Orson Welles' Great Mysteries

Danger Man

The Ray Bradbury Theater

Sunday Night Theatre

ITV Play of the Week

The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes

Espionage

Interpol Calling

The World of Hammer

The Wonderful World of Disney

Jesus of Nazareth

Centennial

The Adventures of William Tell

Dick Turpin

Mrs. Columbo

Hallmark Hall of Fame

The French Atlantic Affair

Master of the Game

NBC Experiment in Television

Laurence Olivier Presents

The Bastard

The Dark Secret of Harvest Home

Armchair Theatre

Signs and Wonders

The Barchester Chronicles

The Great Escape II: The Untold Story

Shades of Greene

Donne armate
More Movies

Look Back in Anger

The Hallelujah Trail

Tales That Witness Madness

Eye of the Devil

Cul-de-sac

The Two-Headed Spy

From Beyond the Grave

No Love for Johnnie

Django Strikes Again

A Breed Apart

The Battle of the Sexes

1984

The Black Windmill

Guinevere

The Flesh and the Fiends

Terror in the Aisles

Death Line

I Don't Want to Be Born

The Madwoman of Chaillot

Henry VIII and His Six Wives

A Tale of Two Cities

Nothing Underneath

Blood Relatives

Oh, God!

The Horsemasters

Nosferatu in Venice

Hell Is a City

River of Death

The Hour of the Pig

Innocent Bystanders

The Hands of Orlac

L'Homme en colère

Treasure of the Amazon

Warrior of the Lost World

Arch of Triumph

Hanna's War

Circus of Horrors

Better Late Than Never

The Devonsville Terror

Hindle Wakes

Manuela

What a Carve Up!

Halloween: A Cut Above the Rest

Kidnapped

Fatal Frames

The Uncanny

Dien Bien Phu

The Devil's Men

The House of Usher

Femme Fatale

The Pied Piper

Phantom of Death

The Diary of Anne Frank

The Wind Cannot Read

To Kill a Stranger

The Joke

The Man in the Sky

Barry McKenzie Holds His Own

Barnacle Bill

Goldenrod

Pumaman

Gold of the Amazon Women

The Caretaker

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Blade on the Feather

Heart of a Child

American Rickshaw

The Defection of Simas Kudirka

Trial by Combat

The Ambassador

Journey into Fear

Basements

Life of General De Gaulle

Killers of Kilimanjaro

Power Play

Halloween 6: Producer's Cut

Scoop

Black Arrow

Meriel the Ghost Girl

House of the Damned

Ten Little Indians

Computercide

Occupations

The Wind of Change

A Story of David

Jaguar Lives!

Sons and Lovers

Alice Through the Looking Box

Reel Horror

Tomorrow Never Comes

Double Target

Last In, First Out

Millions

Frankenstein's Great Aunt Tillie

Cobra Mission

Malachi's Cove

Ground Zero

The Moment of Truth

The Dybbuk

Last Platoon

The Commander

The Mutations

Where Is Parsifal?

Nineteen Eighty-Four

Value for Money

The Black Tent

Casablanca Express

The Big Freeze

Freeze: But is it Art?

The Inspector

The Corsican Brothers

Gila and Rik

Mr. Freedom

Paganini Horror

Suspect

The Man Inside

Arthur? Arthur!

Spare the Rod

Matchless

Night Creature

Into the Darkness

Sleep is Lovely

Deadheat

Metropolitan Animals

The Shakedown

Specters

The Beachcomber

Skin Deep

The Passover Plot

Orders Are Orders

The Jerusalem File

The Cafeteria

The Falklands Factor

Creature of Comfort

The News-Benders

The Big Day

Dr. Crippen

Wedding in White

The Fox Trot

The Cupboard

The Dr. Loomis Tapes

The Rainbow Boys




