Actor
Charles Dance
Biography

Walter Charles Dance OBE (born October 10, 1946 in Redditch, Worcestershire) is an English actor, screenwriter, and director. He typically plays strict, authoritarian characters or villains. He is best known for his roles as Tywin Lannister in Game of Thrones, Kitchener in The King's Man, Martin Benson in Amazon Prime's The Widow, Lord Mountbatten in Netflix's The Crown (for which he was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series), Thomas in Underworld: Aw ...

Known For
Acting
2024 -- Amanece en Samaná |
2024 -- Hammer: Heroes, Legends and Monsters | Narrator
2024 -- Rumours | Edison Wolcott
2024 -- The Big Fat Quiz of Telly | Self
2024 -- The First Omen | Father Harris
2023 -- Savage Waters |
2022 -- Portrait of the Queen |
2022 -- The Hanging Sun | Jacob
2022 -- Lancaster | Narrator (voice)
2022 -- Against the Ice | Minister Neergaard
2021 -- The King's Man | Kitchener
2021 -- The Book of Vision | Dr. Johan Anmuth
2021 -- The Magic of the Movies: Behind the Scenes of David Fincher's Mank | Self
2020 -- Mank | William Randolph Hearst
2019 -- Master Moley by Royal Invitation | Mr. James Moley (voice)
2019 -- Fanny Lye Deliver'd | John Lye
2019 -- Iron Mask | Lord Dudley
2019 -- Godzilla: King of the Monsters | Alan Jonah
2018 -- Happy New Year, Colin Burstead | Uncle Bertie
2018 -- Johnny English Strikes Again | Agent Seven
2018 -- Spitfire | Narrator (voice)
2018 -- The Muppets Take The O2 | Self
2018 -- Euphoria | Mr. Daren
2017 -- Wimbledon Official Film 2017 | Narrator (voice)
2017 -- That Good Night | The Visitor
2016 -- Underworld: Blood Wars | Thomas
2016 -- Ghostbusters | Harold Fillmore
2016 -- Me Before You | Stephen Traynor
2016 -- Pride and Prejudice and Zombies | Mr. Bennet
2016 -- Despite the Falling Snow | Old Alexander Ivanov
2015 -- Victor Frankenstein | Frankenstein
2015 -- Instruments of Darkness | Duncan
2015 -- Woman in Gold | Sherman
2015 -- Child 44 | Major Grachev
2015 -- Game of Thrones The IMAX Experience | Tywin Lannister
2015 -- Admiral | King Charles II
2014 -- The Imitation Game | Commander Denniston
2014 -- Dracula Untold | Master Vampire
2014 -- Retrospective | Jonathan Hoyle
2014 -- Forbidden Empire | Lord Dudley
2013 -- The Science of Doctor Who | Self
2013 -- Speeches That Shook the World | Self
2013 -- Patrick | Doctor Roget
2013 -- Justin and the Knights of Valour | Legantir (voice)
2013 -- Father's Day | Don
2013 -- The Relics of Buddha | Narrator (voice)
2012 -- The Door | Thomas Arlington
2012 -- The Mapmaker | Rowan
2012 -- St George's Day | Trenchard
2012 -- Midnight's Children | William Methwold
2012 -- Underworld: Awakening | Thomas
2011 -- Rosamunde Pilcher: Shades of Love-The Scandal |
2011 -- Rosamunde Pilcher: Shades of Love-The Reunion |
2011 -- Your Highness | King Tallious
2011 -- There Be Dragons | Solono
2011 -- Ironclad | Stephen Langton, Archbishop of Canterbury
2010 -- Rosamunde Pilcher: Shades of Love-A Healing Heart |
2010 -- Rosamunde Pilcher: Shades of Love-Family Secret |
2010 -- The Commuter | The Traffic Warden
2010 -- Paris Connections | Aleksandr Borinski
2010 -- The Clerk's Tale | Ralph
2008 -- Dickens' Secret Lover | Self - Narrator (voice)
2007 -- Consenting Adults | Jack Wolfenden
2007 -- The Contractor | DCS Andrew Windsor
2007 -- The 50 Greatest Television Dramas | Self
2007 -- Intervention | Private Investigator
2006 -- Twice Upon a Time | Battar Master of Ceremonies
2006 -- Starter for 10 | Michael Harbinson
2006 -- Scoop | Mr. Malcolm
2005 -- Titanic: Birth of a Legend | Narrator (voice)
2004 -- Saint John Bosco Mission to Love | Marchese Clementi
2003 -- Wreckage and Rage: Making 'Alien³' | Self (archive footage)
2003 -- Swimming Pool | John Bosload
2002 -- Black and White | Roderic Chamberlain
2002 -- The Making of 'Gosford Park' | Self (uncredited)
2002 -- Ali G Indahouse | Deputy Prime Minister David Carlton
2001 -- Gosford Park | Raymond Stockbridge
2001 -- Alien Evolution | Self / Clemens
2001 -- Jurij |
2001 -- Dark Blue World | Wing Commander Bentley
2001 -- The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby | Ralph Nickleby
2000 -- Murder Rooms: The Dark Beginnings of Sherlock Holmes | Sir Henry Carlyle
1999 -- Chrono-Perambulator | James 'Dougie' Douglas
1999 -- Don't Go Breaking My Heart | Frank
1998 -- Hilary and Jackie | Derek Du Pré
1998 -- What Rats Won't Do | Gerald Burton Jr
1997 -- The Blood Oranges | Cyril
1997 -- In the Presence of Mine Enemies | Captain Richter
1996 -- Michael Collins | Soames
1996 -- Space Truckers | Nabel / Macanudo
1996 -- Undertow | Lyle Yates
1995 -- The Surgeon | Dr. Ed Mittlesbay
1994 -- Shortcut to Paradise | Quinn
1994 -- China Moon | Rupert Munro
1994 -- Kabloonak | Robert Flaherty
1993 -- Century | Professor Mandry
1993 -- Last Action Hero | Benedict
1992 -- Alien³ | Clemens
1992 -- La valle di pietra | Surveyor
1989 -- Goldeneye | Ian Fleming
1988 -- First Born | Edward Forester
1988 -- Out of the Shadows | Michael Hayden
1988 -- Pascali's Island | Anthony Bowles
1987 -- White Mischief | Josslyn Hay
1987 -- Hidden City | James Richards
1987 -- Good Morning, Babylon | D.W. Griffith
1986 -- The Golden Child | Sardo Numspa
1986 -- The McGuffin | Paul Hatcher
1985 -- Plenty | Raymond Brock
1984 -- Rainy Day Women | John Truman
1982 -- Little Eyolf | Borghejm
1981 -- For Your Eyes Only | Claus
1980 -- Fatal Spring | Siegfried Sassoon
1980 -- Dreams of Leaving | Colin
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