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.
Movies (113)
Untitled The Batman Sequel
2027
Ladies First
2026
The Big Fat Quiz of Telly
2026
World of Westeros Ambient Video
2025
Wildcat
2025
Frankenstein
2025
Creditors
2025
Samaná Sunrise
2024
Hammer: Heroes, Legends and Monsters
2024
The Big Fat Quiz of Telly
2024
Rumours
2024
The First Omen
2024
Savage Waters
2023
Portrait of the Queen
2022
The Hanging Sun
2022
Lancaster
2022
Against the Ice
2022
The King's Man
2021
The Book Of Vision
2021
The Magic of the Movies: Behind the Scenes of David Fincher's Mank
2021
Mank
2020
Master Moley by Royal Invitation
2019
Fanny Lye Deliver'd
2019
Iron Mask
2019
Godzilla: King of the Monsters
2019
Happy New Year, Colin Burstead
2018
Johnny English Strikes Again
2018
Spitfire
2018
Euphoria
2018
Wimbledon Official Film 2017
2017
That Good Night
2017
Underworld: Blood Wars
2016
Ghostbusters
2016
Me Before You
2016
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
2016
Despite the Falling Snow
2016
Instruments of Darkness
2015
Victor Frankenstein
2015
Woman in Gold
2015
Child 44
2015
Admiral
2015
Game of Thrones The IMAX Experience
2015
The Imitation Game
2014
Dracula Untold
2014
Retrospective
2014
Forbidden Empire
2014
The Science of Doctor Who
2013
Speeches That Shook the World
2013
Patrick
2013
Justin and the Knights of Valour
2013
Father's Day
2013
The Relics of Buddha
2013
The Door
2012
St George's Day
2012
Midnight's Children
2012
Underworld: Awakening
2012
Your Highness
2011
There Be Dragons
2011
Ironclad
2011
Paris Connections
2010
Consenting Adults
2007
The Contractor
2007
The 50 Greatest Television Dramas
2007
Intervention
2007
Twice Upon a Time
2006
Starter for 10
2006
Scoop
2006
Titanic: Birth of a Legend
2005
Saint John Bosco Mission to Love
2004
Wreckage and Rage: Making 'Alien³'
2003
Swimming Pool
2003
Black and White
2002
The Making of Gosford Park
2002
Ali G Indahouse
2002
Gosford Park
2001
Alien Evolution
2001
Jurij
2001
Dark Blue World
2001
The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby
2001
Murder Rooms: The Dark Beginnings of Sherlock Holmes
2000
Don't Go Breaking My Heart
1999
Hilary and Jackie
1998
What Rats Won't Do
1998
The Blood Oranges
1997
In the Presence of Mine Enemies
1997
Michael Collins
1996
Space Truckers
1996
Undertow
1996
The Surgeon
1995
Shortcut to Paradise
1994
China Moon
1994
Kabloonak
1994
Century
1993
Last Action Hero
1993
Alien³
1992
La valle di pietra
1992
Goldeneye
1989
First Born
1988
Out of the Shadows
1988
Pascali's Island
1988
White Mischief
1987
Hidden City
1987
Good Morning, Babylon
1987
The Golden Child
1986
The McGuffin
1986
Plenty
1985
Rainy Day Women
1984
Little Eyolf
1982
For Your Eyes Only
1981
Fatal Spring
1980
Dreams of Leaving
1980
The Liar
Viy 3: Travel to India
TV Shows (64)
Churchill at War
2024
Renaissance: The Blood and the Beauty
2024
The Day of the Jackal
2024
Testament: The Story of Moses
2024
Rabbit Hole
2023
This England
2022
The Serpent Queen
2022
The Sandman
2022
Moley
2021
The Singapore Grip
2020
Rise of Empires: Ottoman
2020
The Widow
2019
The Little Drummer Girl
2018
Hang Ups
2018
The Woman in White
2018
Savage Kingdom
2016
The Crown
2016
And Then There Were None
2015
Childhood's End
2015
Deadline Gallipoli
2015
The Great Fire
2014
Was It Something I Said?
2013
Secret State
2012
Neverland
2011
Celebrity Antiques Road Trip
2011
Rosamunde Pilcher's Shades of Love
2011
Game of Thrones
2011
Going Postal
2010
Strike Back
2010
Trinity
2009
Merlin
2008
Would I Lie to You?
2007
Fallen Angel
2007
Jam and Jerusalem
2006
The One Show
2006
Bleak House
2005
To the Ends of the Earth
2005
Fingersmith
2005
Last Rights
2005
Agatha Christie's Marple
2004
Who Do You Think You Are?
2004
Henry VIII
2003
Foyle's War
2002
Top Gear
2002
Dan Dare: Pilot of the Future
2002
Rebecca
1997
Room 101
1994
The Phantom of the Opera
1990
First Born
1988
Out on a Limb
1987
The Flying Doctors
1986
Time for Murder
1985
Screen Two
1985
The Secret Servant
1984
The Jewel in the Crown
1984
Natural World
1983
Tales of the Unexpected
1979
An Audience with...
1978
The Professionals
1977
Raffles
1977
Father Brown
1974
Playhouse
1974
Play for Today
1970
BBC Play of the Month
1965