Charles Dance
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.
187 acting credits · 1 directing credit
Acting · 187
Game of Thrones
2011
Ladies First
2026
The Crown
2016
Top Gear
2002
Play for Today
1970
The One Show
2006
The Day of the Jackal
2024
Merlin
2008
Agatha Christie's Marple
2004
The Sandman
2022
Tales of the Unexpected
1979
The Professionals
1977
The Flying Doctors
1986
BBC Play of the Month
1965
Natural World
1983
Playhouse
1974
Foyle's War
2002
Frankenstein
2025
Strike Back
2010
Screen Two
1985
Would I Lie to You?
2007
Celebrity Antiques Road Trip
2011
An Audience with...
1978
Wildcat
2025
Me Before You
2016
Who Do You Think You Are?
2004
The Imitation Game
2014
Godzilla: King of the Monsters
2019
The Serpent Queen
2022
Room 101
1994
The King's Man
2021
Rabbit Hole
2023
Rise of Empires: Ottoman
2020
The Little Drummer Girl
2018
And Then There Were None
2015
Childhood's End
2015
Underworld: Blood Wars
2016
Alien³
1992
Ghostbusters
2016
Iron Mask
2019
The First Omen
2024
Dracula Untold
2014
Johnny English Strikes Again
2018
Underworld: Awakening
2012
For Your Eyes Only
1981
Last Action Hero
1993
Bleak House
2005
Testament: The Story of Moses
2024
Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased)
2000
Moley
2021
Euphoria
2018
Gosford Park
2001
Father Brown
1974
The Jewel in the Crown
1984
Jam and Jerusalem
2006
The Widow
2019
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
2016
The Woman in White
2018
Henry VIII
2003
Churchill at War
2024
Neverland
2011
Child 44
2015
Raffles
1977
The Golden Child
1986
Fingersmith
2005
Going Postal
2010
Mank
2020
To the Ends of the Earth
2005
Ali G Indahouse
2002
Untitled The Batman Sequel
2027
The Singapore Grip
2020
Woman in Gold
2015
Savage Kingdom
2016
The Great Fire
2014
Game of Thrones The IMAX Experience
2015
Victor Frankenstein
2015
Scoop
2006
Time for Murder
1985
Hang Ups
2018
Secret State
2012
Your Highness
2011
This England
2022
Swimming Pool
2003
Out on a Limb
1987
Forbidden Empire
2014
Ironclad
2011
Rebecca
1997
Deadline Gallipoli
2015
Against the Ice
2022
Rumours
2024
Fallen Angel
2007
The Phantom of the Opera
1990
China Moon
1994
White Mischief
1987
Starter for 10
2006
Michael Collins
1996
Trinity
2009
First Born
1988
Drama Trails
2010
The Contractor
2007
Space Truckers
1996
Rosamunde Pilcher's Shades of Love
2011
Justin and the Knights of Valour
2013
The Making of Gosford Park
2002
The 50 Greatest Television Dramas
2007
The Magic of the Movies: Behind the Scenes of David Fincher's Mank
2021
Hilary and Jackie
1998
Dan Dare: Pilot of the Future
2002
There Be Dragons
2011
Patrick
2013
Plenty
1985
The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby
2001
Renaissance: The Blood and the Beauty
2024
Dark Blue World
2001
Admiral
2015
Happy New Year, Colin Burstead
2018
The Inheritors
1974
Last Rights
2005
Viy 3: Travel to India
—
The Secret Servant
1984
Was It Something I Said?
2013
Twice Upon a Time
2006
Murder Rooms: The Dark Beginnings of Sherlock Holmes
2000
Despite the Falling Snow
2016
Alien Evolution
2001
The Hanging Sun
2022
Saint John Bosco Mission to Love
2004
Master Moley by Royal Invitation
2019
Fanny Lye Deliver'd
2019
Pascali's Island
1988
Midnight's Children
2012
Wreckage and Rage: Making 'Alien³'
2003
Instruments of Darkness
2015
St George's Day
2012
Intervention
2007
The Book Of Vision
2021
Lancaster
2022
Hammer: Heroes, Legends and Monsters
2024
That Good Night
2017
World of Westeros Ambient Video
2025
The Blood Oranges
1997
Don't Go Breaking My Heart
1999
In the Presence of Mine Enemies
1997
Hidden City
1987
Consenting Adults
2007
The Commuter
2010
What Rats Won't Do
1998
Black and White
2002
The Muppets Take The O2
2018
Samaná Sunrise
2024
Good Morning, Babylon
1987
Century
1993
The Surgeon
1995
Goldeneye
1989
The Door
2012
Jurij
2001
The McGuffin
1986
The Liar
—
Undertow
1996
La valle di pietra
1992
Spitfire
2018
Kabloonak
1994
The Big Fat Quiz of Telly
2024
Rainy Day Women
1984
The Big Fat Quiz of Telly
2026
Speeches That Shook the World
2013
Retrospective
2014
Fatal Spring
1980
Paris Connections
2010
Shortcut to Paradise
1994
A Patriot
—
Creditors
2025
The Mapmaker
2012
The Science of Doctor Who
2013
Wimbledon Official Film 2017
2017
Dreams of Leaving
1980
Titanic: Birth of a Legend
2005
First Born
1988
Little Eyolf
1982
Father's Day
2013
Out of the Shadows
1988
The Clerk's Tale
2010
Chrono-Perambulator
1999
Portrait of the Queen
2022
The Relics of Buddha
2013
Dickens' Secret Lover
2008
Savage Waters
2023
