Charles Dance
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.
Filmography (38)
Ladies First
Frankenstein
Wildcat
The First Omen
Against the Ice
The King's Man
Mank
Godzilla: King of the Monsters
Fanny Lye Deliver'd
Johnny English Strikes Again
Euphoria
Ghostbusters
Underworld: Blood Wars
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
Me Before You
Victor Frankenstein
Child 44
Woman in Gold
Dracula Untold
The Imitation Game
Patrick
Underworld: Awakening
Ironclad
Your Highness
Scoop
Starter for 10
Ladies in Lavender
Swimming Pool
Ali G Indahouse
Gosford Park
Hilary and Jackie
Michael Collins
Space Truckers
China Moon
Last Action Hero
Alien³
The Golden Child
