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Donald Pleasence

Donald Henry Pleasence OBE was an English actor who gained more than 200 screen credits during a career which spanned over four decades. Often typecast as villainous and/or psychopathic characters, Pleasence is arguably best-known for his work in two of cinema's most successful franchises - James Bond and Halloween. Description above from the Wikipedia article Donald Pleasence, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known For: Acting

Born: Worksop, Nottinghamshire, England, UK, 1919-10-05

Died: 1995-02-02

Film

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1952	The Dybbuk	Second batlon	0
2	1954	The Beachcomber	Tromp	60
3	1954	Orders Are Orders	Cpl. Martin (as Donald Plesance)	64
4	1954	Nineteen Eighty-Four	Syme	74
5	1955	Round the World in 80 Days	Voices	0
6	1955	Value for Money	Limpy	66
7	1956	1984	R. Parsons	65
8	1956	The Black Tent	Ali	60
9	1957	The Man in the Sky	Crabtree	71
10	1957	Manuela	Evans	57
11	1957	Barnacle Bill	Cashier	64
12	1958	A Tale of Two Cities	Barsad	67
13	1958	Heart of a Child	Spiel	65
14	1958	The Wind Cannot Read	Doctor	62
15	1958	The Man Inside	Organ Grinder	57
16	1958	The Greatest Man in the World	US President	0
17	1958	The Two-Headed Spy	Gen. Hardt	62
18	1959	The Traitor	Grantley Caypor	0
19	1959	Look Back in Anger	Hurst	67
20	1959	Killers of Kilimanjaro	Captain	60
21	1960	The Shakedown	Jessel Brown	57
22	1960	The Flesh and the Fiends	William Hare	66
23	1960	The Battle of the Sexes	Irwin Hoffman	67
24	1960	Circus of Horrors	Vanet	59
25	1960	Hell Is a City	Gus Hawkins	66
26	1960	The Big Day	Victor Partridge	70
27	1960	Toff and Fingers	Self/Host	0
28	1960	Sons and Lovers	Mr. Pappleworth	66
29	1960	Suspect	Parsons, alias Bill Brown	65
30	1960	The Hands of Orlac	Graham Coates	43
31	1960	A Story of David	Nabal	42
32	1960	The Cupboard	Fred Watson	0
33	1960	Alice Through the Looking Box	Caterpillar	0
34	1961	No Love for Johnnie	Renfrew	62
35	1961	The Wind of Change	Pop	0
36	1961	Spare the Rod	Mr. Jenkins	60
37	1961	What a Carve Up!	Everett Sloane	70
38	1961	The Horsemasters	Captain Pinski	70
39	1962	The Inspector	Wolters	67
40	1963	The Great Escape	Blythe 'The Forger'	79
41	1963	Dr. Crippen	Dr. Hawley Harvey Crippen	60
42	1964	The Caretaker	Mac Davies / Bernard Jenkins	72
43	1965	The Greatest Story Ever Told	The Dark Hermit - Satan	64
44	1965	The Hallelujah Trail	'Oracle' Jones	60
45	1966	Cul-de-sac	George	67
46	1966	Fantastic Voyage	Dr. Michaels	67
47	1966	Eye of the Devil	Pere Dominic	62
48	1967	The Night of the Generals	General Kahlenberge	68
49	1967	Call Me Daddy	Ben Hoffman	0
50	1967	You Only Live Twice	Ernst Stavro Blofeld	66
51	1967	Matchless	Gregori Andreanu	40
52	1967	The Diary of Anne Frank	Albert Dussel	60
53	1967	Will Penny	Preacher Quint	66
54	1968	Creature of Comfort	James Thorne	0
55	1968	The News-Benders	J.G.	0
56	1968	Sleep is Lovely	Clive	0
57	1969	Last to Go		0
58	1969	Mr. Freedom	Dr. Freedom	52
59	1969	Arthur? Arthur!	Arthur Brownjohn / Sir Easonby 'E' Mellon	30
60	1969	The Madwoman of Chaillot	The Prospector	71
61	1970	Soldier Blue	Isaac Q. Cumber	68
62	1971	THX 1138	SEN	64
63	1971	The Fox Trot	Tom	0
64	1971	Wake in Fright	Doc Tydon	73
65	1971	Skin Deep	Gerry Muddiman	0
66	1971	Kidnapped	Ebenezer Balfour	62
67	1972	The Jerusalem File	Major Samuels	35
68	1972	Henry VIII and His Six Wives	Thomas Cromwell	58
69	1972	Innocent Bystanders	Loomis	72
70	1972	Death Line	Inspector Calhoun	58
71	1972	Wedding in White	Jim Dougall, Sr.	65
72	1972	The Pied Piper	The Baron	59
73	1973	Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde	Fred Smudge	59
74	1973	The Rainbow Boys	Ralph Logan	70
75	1973	Lonely Water	The Spirit (voice)	50
76	1973	Malachi's Cove	Malachi	61
77	1973	Tales That Witness Madness	Prof. R.C. Tremayne	55
78	1974	From Beyond the Grave	Jim Underwood	65
79	1974	Watch Out, We're Mad	Doctor	74
80	1974	The Black Windmill	Cedric Harper	62
81	1974	The Mutations	Professor Nolter	49
82	1974	The Cafeteria	Aaron	0
83	1974	Occupations	Christo Kabak	0
84	1974	House of the Damned	Martin Zayas	50
85	1974	Barry McKenzie Holds His Own	Erich Count von Plasma	54
86	1975	Escape to Witch Mountain	Lucas Deranian	64
87	1975	Journey into Fear	Kuvetli	56
88	1975	Hearts of the West	A.J. Nietz	54
89	1975	The Count of Monte-Cristo	Danglars	68
90	1976	I Don't Want to Be Born	Dr. Finch	52
91	1976	Trial by Combat	Sir Giles Marley	77
92	1976	The Joke	Bendel	0
93	1976	The Devil's Men	Father Roche	41
94	1976	Goldenrod	John Tyler Jones	0
95	1976	Meriel the Ghost Girl	George Livingston	0
96	1976	The Passover Plot	Pontius Pilate	38
97	1976	The Last Tycoon	Boxley	63
98	1976	Hindle Wakes	Nat Jeffcote	70
99	1976	The Eagle Has Landed	Himmler	66
100	1977	The Uncanny	Valentine De'ath (segment 3 "Hollywood 1936")	59
101	1977	Oh, God!	Doctor Harmon	65
102	1977	Telefon	Nicolai Dalchimsky	66
103	1978	The Defection of Simas Kudirka	Capt. Vladimir Popov	60
104	1978	Blood Relatives	James Doniac	57
105	1978	Tomorrow Never Comes	Dr. Todd	58
106	1978	The Bastard	Solomon Sholto	50
107	1978	Night Creature	Axel MacGregor	28
108	1978	Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band	B.D. Brockhurst	43
109	1978	Last In, First Out	Rothko	34
110	1978	Halloween	Loomis	76
111	1978	Power Play	Blair	70
112	1979	Gold of the Amazon Women	Clarence Blasko	36
113	1979	The Angry Man	Albert Rumpelmayer	55
114	1979	Good Luck, Miss Wyckoff	Dr. Steiner	54
115	1979	Dracula	Dr. Jack Seward	64
116	1979	Jaguar Lives!	General Villanova	40
117	1979	Better Late Than Never	Colonel Riddle	0
118	1979	All Quiet on the Western Front	Kantorek	67
119	1980	Pumaman	Kobras	28
120	1980	Blade on the Feather	Professor John Cavendish	59
121	1981	The Monster Club	Pickering, Chief of the B-Squad	59
122	1981	Escape from New York	President of the United States	71
123	1981	Halloween II	Dr. Sam Loomis	66
124	1981	Race for the Yankee Zephyr	Gilbert Carson	58
125	1982	Computercide	George Dettler	60
126	1982	Alone in the Dark	Leo Bain	58
127	1982	Witness for the Prosecution	Mr. Myers	64
128	1983	Warrior of the Lost World	Prossor	27
129	1983	The Falklands Factor	Dr. Samuel Johnson	0
130	1983	The Devonsville Terror	Dr. Warley	46
131	1984	Where Is Parsifal?	Mackintosh	35
132	1984	Frankenstein's Great Aunt Tillie	Victor Frankenstein / Baron Frankenstein	27
133	1984	A Breed Apart	J.P. Whittier	57
134	1984	Terror in the Aisles	Self - Host	61
135	1984	Arch of Triumph	Ivon Haake	50
136	1985	Dario Argento's World of Horror	Self (Archive)	69
137	1985	The Ambassador	Minister Eretz	50
138	1985	Phenomena	Professor John McGregor	68
139	1985	The Corsican Brothers	The Chancellor	60
140	1985	Treasure of the Amazon	Klaus von Blantz	45
141	1985	Reel Horror	Axel MacGregor (archive footage)	24
142	1985	Black Arrow	Sir Oliver Oates	60
143	1985	Nothing Underneath	Commissioner Danesi	56
144	1986	Deadheat	Aldo Rossi	48
145	1986	Into the Darkness	David Beckett	20
146	1986	To Kill a Stranger	Col. Kostik	51
147	1986	Cobra Mission	Father Lenoir	48
148	1986	Naso di cane	Olindo Cuomo	0
149	1987	Gila and Rik	Joe Gardenia	0
150	1987	Warrior Queen	Clodius Flaucus	36
151	1987	Specters	Professor Lasky	44
152	1987	Scoop	Lord Copper	48
153	1987	Basements	Mr. Kidd (segment "The Room")	77
154	1987	Double Target	Sen. Blaster	44
155	1987	Ground Zero	Prosper Gaffney	63
156	1987	Django Strikes Again	Ben Gunn	51
157	1987	Prince of Darkness	Father Loomis	68
158	1988	Phantom of Death	Inspector Datti	55
159	1988	Hanna's War	Captain Thomas Rosza	47
160	1988	The Commander	Henry Carlson	55
161	1988	Metropolitan Animals	Prof. Livingstone	43
162	1988	Last Platoon	Colonel B. Abrahams	33
163	1988	Nosferatu in Venice	Don Alvise	61
164	1988	Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers	Dr. Loomis	62
165	1988	The Great Escape II: The Untold Story	Dr. Absalon	47
166	1989	American Rickshaw	Rev. Mortom	45
167	1989	The House of Usher	Walter Usher	47
168	1989	Paganini Horror	Mr. Pickett	42
169	1989	Buried Alive	Dr. Schaeffer	41
170	1989	River of Death	Heinrich Spaatz	49
171	1989	Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers	Dr. Sam Loomis	53
172	1989	Ten Little Indians	Mr. Justice Lawrence Wargrave	50
173	1989	Casablanca Express	Colonel Bats	32
174	1989	Miss Marple: A Caribbean Mystery	Jason Rafiel	65
175	1990	Moi, général de Gaulle	Winston Churchill	0
176	1991	The Vulture Is a Patient Bird	The Art Collector	43
177	1991	Women in Arms	Dreyfuss	35
178	1991	Millions	Ripa	35
179	1991	Shadows and Fog	Doctor	67
180	1992	Diên Biên Phu	Howard Simpson	63
181	1993	Femme Fatale	Victor Harty	0
182	1993	The Thief and the Cobbler	Phido the Vulture (voice)	71
183	1993	The Hour of the Pig	Pincheon	62
184	1993	The Big Freeze	Soup slurper	62
185	1994	Freeze: But is it Art?	Sinister Dentist	0
186	1994	Guinevere	Merlin	15
187	1995	Safe Haven	The Sailor	30
188	1995	Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers	Dr. Sam Loomis	52
189	1996	Fatal Frames	Professor Robinson	40
190	1998	In and Out of Fashion	Self (archive footage)	60
191	2002	Best Ever Bond	Blofeld (archive footage) (uncredited)	50
192	2003	Halloween: A Cut Above the Rest	Self / Dr. Samuel 'Sam' Loomis (archive footage)	80
193	2010	Halloween: The Inside Story	Self (archive footage)	74
194	2012	Driving Lessons	Dr. Sam Loomis (archive footage)	60
195	2022	Dracula Unearthed	Dr. Jack Seward (archive footage)	70
196	2025	Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music	Self (archive footage)	79

Television

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1950	Sunday Night Theatre	Syme	35
2	1950	Sunday Night Theatre	Corporal	35
3	1951	Hallmark Hall of Fame	Kantorek	86
4	1951	Hallmark Hall of Fame	Myers	86
5	1951	Hallmark Hall of Fame	The Chancellor	86
6	1954	The Wonderful World of Disney	Captain Pinski	78
7	1955	The Adventures of Robin Hood	Prince John	61
8	1956	Tony Awards	Self - Nominee	51
9	1956	Armchair Theatre	President of the USA	58
10	1958	The Adventures of William Tell		63
11	1959	One Step Beyond	Harvey Laurence	56
12	1959	Interpol Calling	Karl Haussman	67
13	1959	The Twilight Zone	Ellis Fowler	85
14	1960	Armchair Mystery Theatre	Host	0
15	1960	Danger Man		72
16	1961	The Defenders	Dr. Byron Saul	62
17	1963	The Outer Limits	Harold J. Finley	78
18	1963	The Fugitive	Max Pfeiffer	72
19	1963	Espionage		0
20	1967	NBC Experiment in Television	(voice)	0
21	1968	Hawaii Five-O	Hans Vogler	71
22	1970	Play for Today	Samuel Johnson	63
23	1970	Play for Today	Gerry Muddiman	63
24	1971	Columbo	Adrian Carsini	81
25	1971	The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes	Carnacki	73
26	1973	Orson Welles' Great Mysteries	Cawser	67
27	1974	Playhouse	George Livingston	70
28	1974	Playhouse	Bendel	70
29	1974	Playhouse	Aaron	70
30	1975	Saturday Night Live	Self - Host	70
31	1975	Peep Show		60
32	1976	Laurence Olivier Presents	Nat Jeffcote	70
33	1977	Jesus of Nazareth	Melchior	78
34	1978	The Dark Secret of Harvest Home	Narrator (voice)	76
35	1978	Centennial	Sam Purchas	76
36	1979	Dick Turpin	Ignatius Slake	73
37	1979	Mrs. Columbo		61
38	1979	The French Atlantic Affair	Max Dechambre	70
39	1982	Wogan	Self	45
40	1982	The Barchester Chronicles	Septimus Harding	70
41	1984	Master of the Game	Salomon Van der Merwe	59
42	1985	Screen Two	Victor Harty	68
43	1985	The Ray Bradbury Theater	George Hill	69
44	1988	The Great Escape II: The Untold Story	Dr. Absalon	55
45	1995	Signs and Wonders	Cornelius Van Damm	0