Known For
Acting
Born
Oct 10, 1946
Place of Birth
Redditch, Worcestershire, England, UK
Credits
192 titles
Charles Dance
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.
Known For
Filmography
The Batman: Part II
Christopher Dent
Ladies First
Fred Powell
The Big Fat Quiz of Telly
Self - Guest
Wildcat
Frasier Mahoney
Frankenstein
Leopold Frankenstein
Creditors
Gustaf
Churchill at War
Self - Narrator (voice)
Renaissance: The Blood and the Beauty
Old Michaelangelo
Samaná Sunrise
Noah Blum
The Day of the Jackal
Timothy Winthrop
Hammer: Heroes, Legends and Monsters
Narrator
The Big Fat Quiz of Telly
Self
Rumours
Edison Wolcott
The First Omen
Father Harris
Testament: The Story of Moses
Self - Narrator (voice)
Savage Waters
Rabbit Hole
Dr. Ben Wilson
Portrait of the Queen
This England
Max Hastings
The Hanging Sun
Jacob
The Serpent Queen
Clement VII
The Sandman
Roderick Burgess
Lancaster
Narrator (voice)
Against the Ice
Minister Neergaard
The King's Man
Kitchener
Moley
Mr. Moley (voice)
The Book Of Vision
Dr. Johan Anmuth
The Magic of the Movies: Behind the Scenes of David Fincher's Mank
Self
Mank
William Randolph Hearst
The Singapore Grip
Mr Webb
Rise of Empires: Ottoman
Self - Narrator (voice)
Master Moley by Royal Invitation
Mr. James Moley (voice)
Fanny Lye Deliver'd
John Lye
Iron Mask
Lord Dudley
Godzilla: King of the Monsters
Alan Jonah
The Widow
Martin Benson
The Little Drummer Girl
Commander Picton
Happy New Year, Colin Burstead
Uncle Bertie
Johnny English Strikes Again
Agent Seven
Hang Ups
Jeremy Pitt
Spitfire
Narrator (voice)
The Muppets Take The O2
Self
The Woman in White
Frederick Fairlie
Euphoria
Mr. Daren
Wimbledon Official Film 2017
Narrator (voice)
That Good Night
The Visitor
Savage Kingdom
Self - Narrator (voice)
Underworld: Blood Wars
Thomas
The Crown
Lord Mountbatten
Ghostbusters
Harold Fillmore