Charles Dance
Acting
1946-10-10 · 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.
Filmography
TheatersThe Batman: Part II
2028 · Movie
Ladies First
2026 · Movie
The Big Fat Quiz of Telly
2026 · Movie
Wildcat
2025 · Movie
Frankenstein
2025 · Movie
Creditors
2025 · Movie
Churchill at War
2024 · Series
Renaissance: The Blood and the Beauty
2024 · Series
Samaná Sunrise
2024 · Movie
The Day of the Jackal
2024 · Series
Hammer: Heroes, Legends and Monsters
2024 · Movie
The Big Fat Quiz of Telly
2024 · Movie
Rumours
2024 · Movie
The First Omen
2024 · Movie
Testament: The Story of Moses
2024 · Series
Savage Waters
2023 · Movie
Rabbit Hole
2023 · Series
Portrait of the Queen
2022 · Movie
This England
2022 · Series
The Hanging Sun
2022 · Movie
The Serpent Queen
2022 · Series
The Sandman
2022 · Series
Lancaster
2022 · Movie
Against the Ice
2022 · Movie
The King's Man
2021 · Movie
Moley
2021 · Series
The Book Of Vision
2021 · Movie
The Magic of the Movies: Behind the Scenes of David Fincher's Mank
2021 · Movie
Mank
2020 · Movie
The Singapore Grip
2020 · Series
Rise of Empires: Ottoman
2020 · Series
Master Moley by Royal Invitation
2019 · Movie
Fanny Lye Deliver'd
2019 · Movie
Iron Mask
2019 · Movie
Godzilla: King of the Monsters
2019 · Movie
The Widow
2019 · Series
The Little Drummer Girl
2018 · Series
Happy New Year, Colin Burstead
2018 · Movie
Johnny English Strikes Again
2018 · Movie
Hang Ups
2018 · Series
Spitfire
2018 · Movie
The Muppets Take The O2
2018 · Movie
The Woman in White
2018 · Series
Euphoria
2018 · Movie
Wimbledon Official Film 2017
2017 · Movie
That Good Night
2017 · Movie
Savage Kingdom
2016 · Series
Underworld: Blood Wars
2016 · Movie
The Crown
2016 · Series
Ghostbusters
2016 · Movie
Me Before You
2016 · Movie
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
2016 · Movie
Despite the Falling Snow
2016 · Movie
And Then There Were None
2015 · Series
Childhood's End
2015 · Series
Victor Frankenstein
2015 · Movie
Instruments of Darkness
2015 · Movie
Deadline Gallipoli
2015 · Series
Woman in Gold
2015 · Movie
Child 44
2015 · Movie
Admiral
2015 · Movie
Game of Thrones The IMAX Experience
2015 · Movie
The Imitation Game
2014 · Movie
The Great Fire
2014 · Series
Dracula Untold
2014 · Movie
Retrospective
2014 · Movie
Forbidden Empire
2014 · Movie
The Science of Doctor Who
2013 · Movie
Speeches That Shook the World
2013 · Movie
Patrick
2013 · Movie
Was It Something I Said?
2013 · Series
Justin and the Knights of Valour
2013 · Movie
Father's Day
2013 · Movie
The Relics of Buddha
2013 · Movie
Secret State
2012 · Series
The Door
2012 · Movie
The Mapmaker
2012 · Movie
St George's Day
2012 · Movie
Midnight's Children
2012 · Movie
Underworld: Awakening
2012 · Movie
Neverland
2011 · Series
Celebrity Antiques Road Trip
2011 · Series
Rosamunde Pilcher's Shades of Love
2011 · Series
Game of Thrones
2011 · Series
Your Highness
2011 · Movie
There Be Dragons
2011 · Movie
Ironclad
2011 · Movie
The Commuter
2010 · Movie
Paris Connections
2010 · Movie
Drama Trails
2010 · Series
Going Postal
2010 · Series
The Clerk's Tale
2010 · Movie
Strike Back
2010 · Series
Trinity
2009 · Series
Merlin
2008 · Series
Dickens' Secret Lover
2008 · Movie
Consenting Adults
2007 · Movie
Would I Lie to You?
2007 · Series
The Contractor
2007 · Movie
Fallen Angel
2007 · Series
The 50 Greatest Television Dramas
2007 · Movie
Intervention
2007 · Movie
Jam and Jerusalem
2006 · Series
Twice Upon a Time
2006 · Movie
Starter for 10
2006 · Movie
The One Show
2006 · Series
Scoop
2006 · Movie
Bleak House
2005 · Series
To the Ends of the Earth
2005 · Series
Titanic: Birth of a Legend
2005 · Movie
Fingersmith
2005 · Series
Last Rights
2005 · Series
Agatha Christie's Marple
2004 · Series
Ladies in Lavender
2004 · Movie
Who Do You Think You Are?
2004 · Series
Saint John Bosco Mission to Love
2004 · Series
Saint John Bosco Mission to Love
2004 · Movie
Wreckage and Rage: Making 'Alien³'
2003 · Movie
Looking for Victoria
2003 · Series
Henry VIII
2003 · Series
Swimming Pool
2003 · Movie
Black and White
2002 · Movie
Foyle's War
2002 · Series
Top Gear
2002 · Series
Dan Dare: Pilot of the Future
2002 · Series
The Making of Gosford Park
2002 · Movie
Ali G Indahouse
2002 · Movie
Gosford Park
2001 · Movie
Alien Evolution
2001 · Movie
Jurij
2001 · Movie
Dark Blue World
2001 · Movie
The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby
2001 · Movie
The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby
2001 · Series
Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased)
2000 · Series
Justice in Wonderland
2000 · Movie
Murder Rooms: The Dark Beginnings of Sherlock Holmes
2000 · Movie
Chrono-Perambulator
1999 · Movie
Don't Go Breaking My Heart
1999 · Movie
Hilary and Jackie
1998 · Movie
What Rats Won't Do
1998 · Movie
The Blood Oranges
1997 · Movie
In the Presence of Mine Enemies
1997 · Movie
Rebecca
1997 · Series
Michael Collins
1996 · Movie
Space Truckers
1996 · Movie
Undertow
1996 · Movie
The Surgeon
1995 · Movie
Shortcut to Paradise
1994 · Movie
Room 101
1994 · Series
China Moon
1994 · Movie
Kabloonak
1994 · Movie
Century
1993 · Movie
Last Action Hero
1993 · Movie
Alien³
1992 · Movie
La valle di pietra
1992 · Movie
The Phantom of the Opera
1990 · Series
Goldeneye
1989 · Movie
First Born
1988 · Series
First Born
1988 · Movie
Out of the Shadows
1988 · Movie
Pascali's Island
1988 · Movie
White Mischief
1987 · Movie
Hidden City
1987 · Movie
Good Morning, Babylon
1987 · Movie
Out on a Limb
1987 · Series
The Golden Child
1986 · Movie
The Flying Doctors
1986 · Series
The McGuffin
1986 · Movie
Time for Murder
1985 · Series
Plenty
1985 · Movie
Screen Two
1985 · Series
The Secret Servant
1984 · Series
Rainy Day Women
1984 · Movie
The Jewel in the Crown
1984 · Series
Natural World
1983 · Series
Little Eyolf
1982 · Movie
For Your Eyes Only
1981 · Movie
Fatal Spring
1980 · Movie
Dreams of Leaving
1980 · Movie
Tales of the Unexpected
1979 · Series
An Audience with...
1978 · Series
The Professionals
1977 · Series
Raffles
1977 · Series
Father Brown
1974 · Series
The Inheritors
1974 · Series
Playhouse
1974 · Series
Film '72
1971 · Series
Play for Today
1970 · Series
BBC Play of the Month
1965 · Series
Viy 3: Travel to India
Movie
The Liar
Movie
A Patriot
Movie