Charles Dance

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: 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 Dracula Untold, Conrad Knox in the Cinemax series Strike Back, Raymond Stockbridge in Gosford Park, one-eyed hitman Benedict in Last Action Hero, Clemens in Alien³, Sardo Numpsa in The Golden Child, and Guy Perron in The Jewel in the Crown. He 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 Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) by Queen Elizabeth II in 2006. He made his directorial film debut with the drama film Ladies in Lavender (2004), which he also wrote and executive produced.

Known For: Acting

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

Died: null

Film

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1981	For Your Eyes Only	Claus	65
2	1982	Little Eyolf	Borghejm	60
3	1985	Plenty	Raymond Brock	57
4	1986	The Golden Child	Sardo Numspa	59
5	1987	Good Morning, Babylon	D.W. Griffith	62
6	1987	White Mischief	Josslyn Hay	60
7	1988	Pascali's Island	Anthony Bowles	64
8	1988	Out of the Shadows	Michael Hayden	60
9	1989	Goldeneye	Ian Fleming	60
10	1992	Alien³	Clemens	64
11	1993	Last Action Hero	Benedict	65
12	1993	Century	Professor Mandry	54
13	1994	China Moon	Rupert Munro	61
14	1994	Shortcut to Paradise	Quinn	50
15	1995	The Surgeon	Dr. Ed Mittlesbay	54
16	1996	Undertow	Lyle Yates	57
17	1996	Space Truckers	Nabel / Macanudo	54
18	1997	In the Presence of Mine Enemies	Captain Richter	48
19	1997	The Blood Oranges	Cyril	44
20	1998	Hilary and Jackie	Derek Du Pré	67
21	1999	Don't Go Breaking My Heart	Frank	49
22	2000	Murder Rooms: The Dark Beginnings of Sherlock Holmes	Sir Henry Carlyle	80
23	2001	The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby	Ralph Nickleby	79
24	2001	Dark Blue World	Wing Commander Bentley	70
25	2001	Jurij		0
26	2001	Alien Evolution	Self / Clemens	59
27	2001	Gosford Park	Raymond Stockbridge	68
28	2002	Ali G Indahouse	Deputy Prime Minister David Carlton	61
29	2003	Swimming Pool	John Bosload	65
30	2003	Wreckage and Rage: Making 'Alien³'	Self (archive footage)	78
31	2004	Saint John Bosco Mission to Love	Marchese Clementi	68
32	2005	Titanic: Birth of a Legend	Narrator (voice)	76
33	2006	Starter for 10	Michael Harbinson	64
34	2006	Twice Upon a Time	Battar Master of Ceremonies	59
35	2007	The 50 Greatest Television Dramas	Self	0
36	2007	The Contractor	DCS Andrew Windsor	55
37	2007	Consenting Adults	Jack Wolfenden	57
38	2010	Paris Connections	Aleksandr Borinski	33
39	2011	Ironclad	Stephen Langton, Archbishop of Canterbury	62
40	2011	There Be Dragons	Solono	50
41	2011	Your Highness	King Tallious	53
42	2012	Underworld: Awakening	Thomas	63
43	2012	St George's Day	Trenchard	49
44	2013	The Relics of Buddha	Narrator (voice)	0
45	2013	Justin and the Knights of Valour	Legantir (voice)	59
46	2013	Patrick	Doctor Roget	49
47	2013	The Science of Doctor Who	Self	73
48	2014	Dracula Untold	Master Vampire	64
49	2014	The Imitation Game	Commander Denniston	80
50	2015	Admiral	King Charles II	64
51	2015	Game of Thrones The IMAX Experience	Tywin Lannister	86
52	2015	Woman in Gold	Sherman	73
53	2015	Instruments of Darkness	Duncan	100
54	2016	Pride and Prejudice and Zombies	Mr. Bennet	62
55	2019	Master Moley by Royal Invitation	Mr. James Moley (voice)	58
56	2022	Lancaster	Narrator (voice)	67
57	2022	The Hanging Sun	Jacob	56
58	2023	Savage Waters		0
59	2024	Rumours	Edison Wolcott	50
60		A Patriot	Dr. Hastings	0
61		Frankenstein		0
62	1980	Dreams of Leaving	Colin	70
63	1980	Fatal Spring	Siegfried Sassoon	0
64	1984	Rainy Day Women	John Truman	0
65	1986	The McGuffin	Paul Hatcher	60
66	1987	Hidden City	James Richards	51
67	1988	First Born	Edward Forester	70
68	1992	La valle di pietra	Surveyor	60
69	1994	Kabloonak	Robert Flaherty	67
70	1996	Michael Collins	Soames	69
71	1998	What Rats Won't Do	Gerald Burton Jr	53
72	1999	Chrono-Perambulator	James 'Dougie' Douglas	0
73	2002	The Making of 'Gosford Park'	Self (uncredited)	50
74	2002	Black and White	Roderic Chamberlain	60
75	2006	Scoop	Mr. Malcolm	66
76	2007	Intervention	Private Investigator	0
77	2008	Dickens' Secret Lover	Self - Narrator (voice)	0
78	2010	The Clerk's Tale	Ralph	0
79	2010	The Commuter	The Traffic Warden	55
80	2010	Rosamunde Pilcher: Shades of Love-Family Secret		40
81	2010	Rosamunde Pilcher: Shades of Love-A Healing Heart		0
82	2011	Rosamunde Pilcher: Shades of Love-The Reunion		0
83	2011	Rosamunde Pilcher: Shades of Love-The Scandal		0
84	2012	Midnight's Children	William Methwold	55
85	2012	The Mapmaker	Rowan	65
86	2012	The Door	Thomas Arlington	0
87	2013	Father's Day	Don	50
88	2013	Speeches That Shook the World	Self	0
89	2014	Forbidden Empire	Lord Dudley	59
90	2014	Retrospective	Jonathan Hoyle	0
91	2015	Child 44	Major Grachev	63
92	2015	Victor Frankenstein	Frankenstein	60
93	2016	Despite the Falling Snow	Old Alexander Ivanov	58
94	2016	Me Before You	Stephen Traynor	79
95	2016	Ghostbusters	Harold Fillmore	53
96	2016	Underworld: Blood Wars	Thomas	59
97	2017	That Good Night	The Visitor	69
98	2017	Wimbledon Official Film 2017	Narrator (voice)	55
99	2018	Euphoria	Mr. Daren	63
100	2018	The Muppets Take The O2	Self	95
101	2018	Spitfire	Narrator (voice)	72
102	2018	Johnny English Strikes Again	Agent Seven	63
103	2018	Happy New Year, Colin Burstead	Uncle Bertie	63
104	2019	Godzilla: King of the Monsters	Alan Jonah	67
105	2019	Iron Mask	Lord Dudley	61
106	2019	Fanny Lye Deliver'd	John Lye	64
107	2020	Mank	William Randolph Hearst	67
108	2021	The Magic of the Movies: Behind the Scenes of David Fincher's Mank	Self	0
109	2021	The Book of Vision	Dr. Johan Anmuth	63
110	2021	The King's Man	Kitchener	68
111	2022	Against the Ice	Minister Neergaard	68
112	2022	Portrait of the Queen		60
113	2024	The First Omen	Father Harris	69
114	2024	Hammer: Heroes, Legends and Monsters	Narrator	0
115	2024	Amanece en Samaná		55
116		The Liar	Tickford	0
117		Viy 3: Travel to India		0
118		Ladies First		0
119	2024	The Big Fat Quiz of Telly	Self	0

Television

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1965	BBC Play of the Month	Borghejm	50
2	1970	Play for Today		61
3	1974	Father Brown		66
4	1975	Edward the Seventh	Prince Eddy	69
5	1977	Raffles		80
6	1977	The Professionals	Parker	74
7	1978	An Audience with...	Self	53
8	1979	Tales of the Unexpected	Robert Smythe	67
9	1982	Nancy Astor	Edward Hartford-Jones	50
10	1983	Natural World		71
11	1984	The Jewel in the Crown	Guy Perron	67
12	1985	Screen Two	Paul Hatcher	68
13	1985	Time for Murder	James Latimer	40
14	1986	The Flying Doctors	Minister	61
15	1987	Out on a Limb	Gerry Stamford	53
16	1988	First Born		60
17	1990	The Phantom of the Opera	The Phantom of the Opera	72
18	1994	Room 101	Self	63
19	1997	Rebecca	Maxim de Winter	59
20	1997	Trial & Retribution		65
21	2000	Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased)		61
22	2001	Murder Rooms: Mysteries of the Real Sherlock Holmes	Sir Henry Carlyle	78
23	2002	Top Gear	Self	75
24	2002	Foyle's War		78
25	2003	Henry VIII	Edward Stafford	65
26	2004	Who Do You Think You Are?	Self	67
27	2004	Agatha Christie's Marple	Septimus Bligh	76
28	2004	Big Fat Quiz	Self - Guest	77
29	2005	Fingersmith	Mr. Chistopher Lilly	73
30	2005	To the Ends of the Earth	Sir Henry Somerset	61
31	2005	Bleak House	Mr. Tulkinghorn	82
32	2006	The One Show	Self	46
33	2007	Fallen Angel	David Byfield	45
34	2007	Would I Lie to You?	Self	77
35	2008	Merlin	Aredian	78
36	2009	Trinity	Dr. Edmund Maltravers	62
37	2010	Strike Back	Conrad Knox	74
38	2010	Going Postal	Lord Vetinari	72
39	2010	Drama Trails		0
40	2011	Game of Thrones	Tywin Lannister	85
41	2011	Rosamunde Pilcher's Shades of Love	Edmund Aird	30
42	2011	Celebrity Antiques Road Trip	Self - Participant	50
43	2011	Neverland	Dr. Fludd	61
44	2012	Secret State	John Hodder	70
45	2014	The Great Fire	Lord Denton	74
46	2015	Deadline Gallipoli	Sir Ian Hamilton	62
47	2015	Childhood's End	Karellen	70
48	2015	And Then There Were None	Justice Lawrence Wargrave	75
49	2016	The Crown	Lord Mountbatten	82
50	2016	Savage Kingdom	Self - Narrator (voice)	77
51	2018	The Woman in White	Frederick Fairlie	60
52	2018	Hang Ups	Jeremy Pitt	64
53	2018	The Little Drummer Girl	Commander Picton	71
54	2019	The Widow	Martin Benson	69
55	2020	Rise of Empires: Ottoman	Self - Narrator (voice)	74
56	2020	The Singapore Grip	Mr Webb	57
57	2021	Moley	Mr. Moley (voice)	60
58	2022	The Sandman	Roderick Burgess	80
59	2022	The Serpent Queen	Clement VII	75
60	2022	This England	Max Hastings	57
61	2023	Rabbit Hole	Dr. Ben Wilson	72
62	2024	Testament: The Story of Moses	Self - Narrator (voice)	75
63	2024	The Day of the Jackal	Timothy Winthrop	83
64	2024	Renaissance: The Blood and the Beauty	Old Michaelangelo	40