Charles Dance
Acting
Born: October 10, 1946 (age 79) · Redditch, Worcestershire, England, UK
Highest Rated
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
Game of Thrones
2011
The Imitation Game
2014
Me Before You
2016
Ghostbusters
2016
Godzilla: King of the Monsters
2019
Dracula Untold
2014
Alien³
1992
The King's Man
2021
Underworld: Awakening
2012
Underworld: Blood Wars
2016
Frankenstein
2025
Last Action Hero
1993
Photos (10)
Movies (101)
Frankenstein
Leopold Frankenstein
The Imitation Game
Commander Denniston
Me Before You
Stephen Traynor
Godzilla: King of the Monsters
Alan Jonah
The King's Man
Kitchener
Ghostbusters
Harold Fillmore
Wildcat
Frasier Mahoney
Johnny English Strikes Again
Agent Seven
Underworld: Blood Wars
Thomas
The First Omen
Father Harris
Alien³
Clemens
Ladies First
Fred Powell
Child 44
Major Grachev
Last Action Hero
Benedict
Dracula Untold
Master Vampire
Iron Mask
Lord Dudley
For Your Eyes Only
Claus
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
Mr. Bennet
Underworld: Awakening
Thomas
Ali G Indahouse
Deputy Prime Minister David Carlton
Victor Frankenstein
Frankenstein
Mank
William Randolph Hearst
Gosford Park
Raymond Stockbridge
Swimming Pool
John Bosload
Woman in Gold
Sherman
The Contractor
DCS Andrew Windsor
The Golden Child
Sardo Numspa
Your Highness
King Tallious
Forbidden Empire
Lord Dudley
Ironclad
Stephen Langton, Archbishop of Canterbury
China Moon
Rupert Munro
Scoop
Mr. Malcolm
Space Truckers
Nabel / Macanudo
Michael Collins
Soames
Rumours
Edison Wolcott
Justin and the Knights of Valour
Legantir (voice)
Against the Ice
Minister Neergaard
Euphoria
Mr. Daren
Despite the Falling Snow
Old Alexander Ivanov
Starter for 10
Michael Harbinson
White Mischief
Josslyn Hay
Hilary and Jackie
Derek du Pré
Patrick
Doctor Roget
Admiral
King Charles II
The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby
Ralph Nickleby
Game of Thrones The IMAX Experience
Tywin Lannister
There Be Dragons
Solono
Fanny Lye Deliver'd
John Lye
Pascali's Island
Anthony Bowles
Master Moley by Royal Invitation
Mr. James Moley (voice)
Spitfire
Narrator (voice)
The Blood Oranges
Cyril
Dark Blue World
Wing Commander Bentley
Plenty
Raymond Brock
Happy New Year, Colin Burstead
Uncle Bertie
Hammer: Heroes, Legends and Monsters
Narrator
Midnight's Children
William Methwold
St George's Day
Trenchard
Good Morning, Babylon
D.W. Griffith
The Surgeon
Dr. Ed Mittlesbay
First Born
Edward Forester
Black and White
Roderic Chamberlain
Goldeneye
Ian Fleming
Saint John Bosco Mission to Love
Marchese Clementi
What Rats Won't Do
Gerald Burton Jr
The Hanging Sun
Jacob
Twice Upon a Time
Battar Master of Ceremonies
Instruments of Darkness
Duncan
The Book Of Vision
Dr. Johan Anmuth
Intervention
Private Investigator
Father's Day
Don
Century
Professor Mandry
Undertow
Lyle Yates
Retrospective
Jonathan Hoyle
Murder Rooms: The Dark Beginnings of Sherlock Holmes
Sir Henry Carlyle
Lancaster
Narrator (voice)
Paris Connections
Aleksandr Borinski
Consenting Adults
Jack Wolfenden
Samaná Sunrise
Noah Blum
Hidden City
James Richards
Don't Go Breaking My Heart
Frank
The McGuffin
Paul Hatcher
Titanic: Birth of a Legend
Narrator (voice)
Out of the Shadows
Michael Hayden
The Door
Thomas Arlington
Dreams of Leaving
Colin
Little Eyolf
Borghejm
In the Presence of Mine Enemies
Captain Richter
Rainy Day Women
John Truman
La valle di pietra
Surveyor
That Good Night
The Visitor
Savage Waters
2023
Portrait of the Queen
2022
Jurij
2001
Fatal Spring
Siegfried Sassoon
Creditors
Gustaf
Kabloonak
Robert Flaherty
Wimbledon Official Film 2017
Narrator (voice)
Shortcut to Paradise
Quinn
The Relics of Buddha
Narrator (voice)
Going Postal 2in1
Lord Vetinari
TV Shows (54)
Game of Thrones
Tywin Lannister · 35 eps
Play for Today
1 eps
The Sandman
Roderick Burgess · 1 eps
The Crown
Lord Mountbatten · 5 eps
Foyle's War
Guy Spencer · 1 eps
Merlin
Aredian · 1 eps
The Day of the Jackal
Timothy Winthrop · 6 eps
BBC Play of the Month
Borghejm · 1 eps
Agatha Christie's Marple
Septimus Bligh · 1 eps
Natural World
1 eps
Screen Two
Paul Hatcher · 1 eps
Screen Two
Professor Mandry · 1 eps
The Professionals
Parker · 1 eps
Strike Back
Conrad Knox · 10 eps
Tales of the Unexpected
Robert Smythe · 1 eps
The Flying Doctors
Minister · 1 eps
Playhouse
Siegfried Sassoon · 1 eps
Rabbit Hole
Dr. Ben Wilson · 8 eps
The Serpent Queen
Clement VII · 1 eps
And Then There Were None
Justice Lawrence Wargrave · 3 eps
The Little Drummer Girl
Commander Picton · 6 eps
Secret State
John Hodder · 4 eps
This England
Max Hastings · 1 eps
Childhood's End
Karellen · 3 eps
The Widow
Martin Benson · 8 eps
Bleak House
Mr. Tulkinghorn · 15 eps
Moley
Mr. Moley (voice) · 52 eps
Rosamunde Pilcher's Shades of Love
Edmund Aird · 4 eps
Going Postal
Lord Vetinari · 2 eps
Trinity
Dr. Edmund Maltravers · 8 eps
The Jewel in the Crown
Guy Perron · 5 eps
Deadline Gallipoli
Sir Ian Hamilton · 2 eps
Neverland
Dr. Fludd · 2 eps
Father Brown
Commandant Neil O'Brien · 1 eps
Fingersmith
Mr. Chistopher Lilly · 3 eps
The Singapore Grip
Mr Webb · 1 eps
Hang Ups
Jeremy Pitt · 2 eps
To the Ends of the Earth
Sir Henry Somerset · 3 eps
Dan Dare: Pilot of the Future
Colonel Simon Lasker (voice) · 2 eps
Henry VIII
Edward Stafford · 2 eps
Rebecca
Maxim de Winter · 2 eps
Last Rights
Richard Wheeler · 3 eps
The Phantom of the Opera
Erik/The Phantom · 2 eps
Raffles
1 eps
The Great Fire
Lord Denton · 4 eps
Time for Murder
James Latimer · 1 eps
First Born
Edward Forester · 3 eps
The Woman in White
Frederick Fairlie · 1 eps
Out on a Limb
Gerry Stamford · 2 eps
Saint John Bosco Mission to Love
Marchese Clementi · 2 eps
Fallen Angel
David Byfield · 3 eps
The Secret Servant
SAS Major Harry Maxim · 3 eps
Renaissance: The Blood and the Beauty
Old Michaelangelo · 3 eps
The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby
Ralph Nickleby · 2 eps
Self / Appearances (22)
Top Gear
Self · 1 eps
The One Show
Self · 1 eps
Would I Lie to You?
Self · 1 eps
Celebrity Antiques Road Trip
Self - Participant · 1 eps
An Audience with...
Self · 1 eps
Who Do You Think You Are?
Self · 1 eps
Room 101
Self · 1 eps
Rise of Empires: Ottoman
Self - Narrator (voice) · 12 eps
Testament: The Story of Moses
Self - Narrator (voice) · 3 eps
Jam and Jerusalem
Self · 2 eps
Savage Kingdom
Self - Narrator (voice) · 19 eps
Churchill at War
Self - Narrator (voice) · 4 eps
Was It Something I Said?
Self - Narrator · 1 eps
The Magic of the Movies: Behind the Scenes of David Fincher's Mank
Self
The Big Fat Quiz of Telly
Self - Guest
Wreckage and Rage: Making 'Alien³'
Self (archive footage)
The 50 Greatest Television Dramas
Self
Alien Evolution
Self / Clemens
Speeches That Shook the World
Self
The Big Fat Quiz of Telly
Self
The Making of Gosford Park
Self (uncredited)
The Science of Doctor Who
Self
