Charles Dance

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1946-10-10 (79 years old)

Place of Birth

Redditch, Worcestershire, England, UK

Charles Dance

Biography

Walter Charles Dance OBE (born 10 October 1946) 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: Awakening and Underworld: Blood Wars, Harold Fillmore in Ghostbusters (2016), Mr. Bennet in Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, Frankenstein in Victor Frankenstein, Master Vampire in D...

Acting

2003

Swimming Pool

as John Bosload

1986

The Golden Child

as Sardo Numspa

1981

2001

Gosford Park

as Raymond Stockbridge

2006

Twice Upon a Time

as Battar Master of Ceremonies

1992

Alien³

as Clemens

1994

China Moon

as Rupert Munro

1993

Last Action Hero

as Benedict

1985

Plenty

as Raymond Brock

2006

Starter for 10

as Michael Harbinson

1987

White Mischief

as Josslyn Hay

2011

2001

Dark Blue World

as Wing Commander Bentley

2011

Your Highness

as King Tallious

2011

Ironclad

as Stephen Langton, Archbishop of Canterbury

1987

Good Morning, Babylon

as D.W. Griffith

1998

Hilary and Jackie

as Derek Du Pré

2013

The Relics of Buddha

as Narrator (voice)

2003

Wreckage and Rage: Making 'Alien³'

as Self (archive footage)

1997

2004

1989

Goldeneye

as Ian Fleming

1997

2012

St George's Day

as Trenchard

2013

1988

Pascali's Island

as Anthony Bowles

1995

The Surgeon

as Dr. Ed Mittlesbay

2019

Master Moley by Royal Invitation

as Mr. James Moley (voice)

2001

Alien Evolution

as Self / Clemens

2007

Consenting Adults

as Jack Wolfenden

2013

Patrick

as Doctor Roget

2022

2007

The Contractor

as DCS Andrew Windsor

2010

Paris Connections

as Aleksandr Borinski

2014

The Imitation Game

as Commander Denniston

1996

Space Truckers

as Nabel / Macanudo

1988

Out of the Shadows

as Michael Hayden

2002

Ali G Indahouse

as Deputy Prime Minister David Carlton

1982

Little Eyolf

as Borghejm

2001

1996

Undertow

as Lyle Yates

1993

Century

as Professor Mandry

2014

Dracula Untold

as Master Vampire

2005

Titanic: Birth of a Legend

as Narrator (voice)

2015

Admiral

as King Charles II

2015

Woman in Gold

as Sherman

2022

Lancaster

as Narrator (voice)

2024

Rumours

as Edison Wolcott

-

A Patriot

as Dr. Hastings

2002

Black and White

as Roderic Chamberlain

2015

Child 44

as Major Grachev

2012

Midnight's Children

as William Methwold

2016

Me Before You

as Stephen Traynor

1986

The McGuffin

as Paul Hatcher

2024

The First Omen

as Father Harris

2013

2016

Despite the Falling Snow

as Old Alexander Ivanov

2012

The Mapmaker

as Rowan

2006

Scoop

as Mr. Malcolm

2014

Forbidden Empire

as Lord Dudley

2014

Retrospective

as Jonathan Hoyle

2016

Ghostbusters

as Harold Fillmore

2018

Euphoria

as Mr. Daren

2010

1996

2008

Dickens' Secret Lover

as Self - Narrator (voice)

2019

Iron Mask

as Lord Dudley

2015

Victor Frankenstein

as Frankenstein

1994

Kabloonak

as Robert Flaherty

2024

Amanece en Samaná

as Noah Blum

2010

The Commuter

as The Traffic Warden

1980

1987

Hidden City

as James Richards

2019

2017

That Good Night

as The Visitor

1988

First Born

as Edward Forester

2021

The Book of Vision

as Dr. Johan Anmuth

1984

Rainy Day Women

as John Truman

2012

The Door

as Thomas Arlington

2018

Spitfire

as Narrator (voice)

2017

Wimbledon Official Film 2017

as Narrator (voice)

2021

The King's Man

as Kitchener

1999

Chrono-Perambulator

as James 'Dougie' Douglas

2020

Mank

as William Randolph Hearst

1992

1998

What Rats Won't Do

as Gerald Burton Jr

2002

The Making of 'Gosford Park'

as Self (uncredited)

-

The Liar

as Tickford

2022

Against the Ice

as Minister Neergaard

2007

Intervention

as Private Investigator

1980

Fatal Spring

as Siegfried Sassoon

Production

2004

2004

Ladies in Lavender

as Screenplay

2004

Ladies in Lavender

as Executive Producer

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