Charles Dance

Born: 1946-10-10 in Redditch, Worcestershire, England, UK

Known For: Acting

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.

Filmography

2027

Untitled The Batman Sequel as Charles Dent

2026

Ladies First
The Big Fat Quiz of Telly as Self - Guest

2025

Frankenstein as Leopold Frankenstein
Wildcat as Frasier Mahoney
World of Westeros Ambient Video as Tywin Lannister
Creditors as Gustaf

2024

The Day of the Jackal as Timothy Winthrop
Testament: The Story of Moses as Self - Narrator (voice)
The First Omen as Father Harris
Churchill at War as Self - Narrator (voice)
Rumours as Edison Wolcott
Renaissance: The Blood and the Beauty as Old Michaelangelo
Samaná Sunrise as Noah Blum
Hammer: Heroes, Legends and Monsters as Narrator
The Big Fat Quiz of Telly as Self

2023

Rabbit Hole as Dr. Ben Wilson
Savage Waters

2022

The Sandman as Roderick Burgess
The Serpent Queen as Clement VII
The Hanging Sun as Jacob
Against the Ice as Minister Neergaard
This England as Max Hastings
Lancaster as Narrator (voice)
Portrait of the Queen

2021

The King's Man as Kitchener
Moley as Mr. Moley (voice)
The Book Of Vision as Dr. Johan Anmuth
The Magic of the Movies: Behind the Scenes of David Fincher's Mank as Self

2020

Rise of Empires: Ottoman as Self - Narrator (voice)
Mank as William Randolph Hearst
The Singapore Grip as Mr Webb

2019

Godzilla: King of the Monsters as Alan Jonah
Iron Mask as Lord Dudley
The Widow as Martin Benson
Master Moley by Royal Invitation as Mr. James Moley (voice)
Fanny Lye Deliver'd as John Lye

2018

The Little Drummer Girl as Commander Picton
Euphoria as Mr. Daren
Johnny English Strikes Again as Agent Seven
The Woman in White as Frederick Fairlie
Hang Ups as Jeremy Pitt
Happy New Year, Colin Burstead as Uncle Bertie
Spitfire as Narrator (voice)
The Muppets Take The O2 as Self

2017

That Good Night as The Visitor
Wimbledon Official Film 2017 as Narrator (voice)

2016

The Crown as Lord Mountbatten
Me Before You as Stephen Traynor
Underworld: Blood Wars as Thomas
Ghostbusters as Harold Fillmore
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies as Mr. Bennet
Savage Kingdom as Self - Narrator (voice)
Despite the Falling Snow as Old Alexander Ivanov

2015

Childhood's End as Karellen
And Then There Were None as Justice Lawrence Wargrave
Child 44 as Major Grachev
Victor Frankenstein as Frankenstein
Woman in Gold as Sherman
Deadline Gallipoli as Sir Ian Hamilton
Game of Thrones The IMAX Experience as Tywin Lannister
Admiral as King Charles II
Instruments of Darkness as Duncan

2014

The Imitation Game as Commander Denniston
Dracula Untold as Master Vampire
Forbidden Empire as Lord Dudley
The Great Fire as Lord Denton
Retrospective as Jonathan Hoyle

2013

Justin and the Knights of Valour as Legantir (voice)
Patrick as Doctor Roget
Father's Day as Don
Speeches That Shook the World as Self
The Relics of Buddha as Narrator (voice)
The Science of Doctor Who as Self

2012

Underworld: Awakening as Thomas
Secret State as John Hodder
St George's Day as Trenchard
Midnight's Children as William Methwold
The Mapmaker as Rowan
The Door as Thomas Arlington

2011

Game of Thrones as Tywin Lannister
Celebrity Antiques Road Trip as Self - Participant
Your Highness as King Tallious
Neverland as Dr. Fludd
Ironclad as Stephen Langton, Archbishop of Canterbury
Rosamunde Pilcher's Shades of Love as Edmund Aird
There Be Dragons as Solono

2010

Strike Back as Conrad Knox
Going Postal as Lord Vetinari
Drama Trails
Paris Connections as Aleksandr Borinski
The Commuter as The Traffic Warden
The Clerk's Tale as Ralph

2009

Trinity as Dr. Edmund Maltravers

2008

Merlin as Aredian
Dickens' Secret Lover as Self - Narrator (voice)

2007

Would I Lie to You? as Self
The Contractor as DCS Andrew Windsor
Fallen Angel as David Byfield
The 50 Greatest Television Dramas as Self
Intervention as Private Investigator
Consenting Adults as Jack Wolfenden

2006

The One Show as Self
Jam and Jerusalem as Self
Scoop as Mr. Malcolm
Starter for 10 as Michael Harbinson
Twice Upon a Time as Battar Master of Ceremonies

2005

Bleak House as Mr. Tulkinghorn
Fingersmith as Mr. Chistopher Lilly
To the Ends of the Earth as Sir Henry Somerset
Last Rights as Richard Wheeler
Titanic: Birth of a Legend as Narrator (voice)

2004

Agatha Christie's Marple as Septimus Bligh
Who Do You Think You Are? as Self
Ladies in Lavender ... (Screenplay)
Saint John Bosco Mission to Love as Marchese Clementi

2003

Swimming Pool as John Bosload
Henry VIII as Edward Stafford
Wreckage and Rage: Making 'Alien³' as Self (archive footage)

2002

Top Gear as Self
Foyle's War as Guy Spencer
Ali G Indahouse as Deputy Prime Minister David Carlton
Dan Dare: Pilot of the Future as Colonel Simon Lasker (voice)
The Making of Gosford Park as Self (uncredited)
Black and White as Roderic Chamberlain

2001

Gosford Park as Raymond Stockbridge
Dark Blue World as Wing Commander Bentley
Alien Evolution as Self / Clemens
The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby as Ralph Nickleby
Jurij

2000

Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased)
Murder Rooms: The Dark Beginnings of Sherlock Holmes as Sir Henry Carlyle

1999

Don't Go Breaking My Heart as Frank
Chrono-Perambulator as James 'Dougie' Douglas

1998

Hilary and Jackie as Derek du Pré
What Rats Won't Do as Gerald Burton Jr

1997

Rebecca as Maxim de Winter
The Blood Oranges as Cyril
In the Presence of Mine Enemies as Captain Richter

1996

Space Truckers as Nabel / Macanudo
Michael Collins as Soames
Undertow as Lyle Yates

1995

The Surgeon as Dr. Ed Mittlesbay

1994

Room 101 as Self
China Moon as Rupert Munro
Shortcut to Paradise as Quinn
Kabloonak as Robert Flaherty

1993

Last Action Hero as Benedict
Century as Professor Mandry

1992

Alien³ as Clemens
La valle di pietra as Surveyor

1990

The Phantom of the Opera as Erik/The Phantom

1989

Goldeneye as Ian Fleming

1988

First Born as Edward Forester
Pascali's Island as Anthony Bowles
First Born as Edward Forester
Out of the Shadows as Michael Hayden

1987

Out on a Limb as Gerry Stamford
White Mischief as Josslyn Hay
Hidden City as James Richards
Good Morning, Babylon as D.W. Griffith

1986

The Flying Doctors as Minister
The Golden Child as Sardo Numspa
The McGuffin as Paul Hatcher

1985

Screen Two as Paul Hatcher
Time for Murder as James Latimer
Plenty as Raymond Brock

1984

The Jewel in the Crown as Guy Perron
The Secret Servant as SAS Major Harry Maxim
Rainy Day Women as John Truman

1983

Natural World

1982

Little Eyolf as Borghejm

1981

For Your Eyes Only as Claus

1980

Fatal Spring as Siegfried Sassoon
Dreams of Leaving as Colin

1974

Playhouse as Siegfried Sassoon
Father Brown
The Inheritors as Simon Leadbetter

1970

Play for Today

1965

BBC Play of the Month as Borghejm