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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
October 10, 1946
Place of Birth
Redditch, Worcestershire, England, UK
Also Known As
- 찰스 댄스
- Чарльз Дэнс
- 查尔斯·丹斯
- Walter Charles Dance
- چارلز دنس
Charles Dance
2.2 Popularity
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 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
5.0
Old Michaelangelo
Renaissance: The Blood and the Beauty
2024
5.4
Noah Blum
Amanece en Samaná
2024
8.2
Timothy Winthrop
The Day of the Jackal
2024
8.5
Narrator
Hammer: Heroes, Legends and Monsters
2024
0.0
Self
The Big Fat Quiz of Telly
2024
4.9
Edison Wolcott
Rumours
2024
6.9
Father Harris
The First Omen
2024
7.4
Self - Narrator (voice)
Testament: The Story of Moses
2024
0.0
Savage Waters
2023
7.2
Dr. Ben Wilson
Rabbit Hole
2023
Credits
Renaissance: The Blood and the Beauty
as Old Michaelangelo
2024
5.0
Amanece en Samaná
as Noah Blum
2024
5.4
The Day of the Jackal
as Timothy Winthrop
2024
8.2
Hammer: Heroes, Legends and Monsters
as Narrator
2024
8.5
The Big Fat Quiz of Telly
as Self
2024
0.0
Rumours
as Edison Wolcott
2024
4.9
The First Omen
as Father Harris
2024
6.9
Testament: The Story of Moses
as Self - Narrator (voice)
2024
7.4
Savage Waters
2023
0.0
Rabbit Hole
as Dr. Ben Wilson
2023
7.2
Portrait of the Queen
2022
6.0
This England
as Max Hastings
2022
5.7
The Hanging Sun
as Jacob
2022
5.6
The Serpent Queen
as Clement VII
2022
7.5
The Sandman
as Roderick Burgess
2022
7.9
Lancaster
as Narrator (voice)
2022
6.7
Against the Ice
as Minister Neergaard
2022
6.8
The King's Man
as Kitchener
2021
6.7
Moley
as Mr. Moley (voice)
2021
6.0
The Book of Vision
as Dr. Johan Anmuth
2021
6.3
The Magic of the Movies: Behind the Scenes of David Fincher's Mank
as Self
2021
0.0
Mank
as William Randolph Hearst
2020
6.7
The Singapore Grip
as Mr Webb
2020
5.7
Rise of Empires: Ottoman
as Self - Narrator (voice)
2020
7.5
Master Moley by Royal Invitation
as Mr. James Moley (voice)
2019
5.8
Fanny Lye Deliver'd
as John Lye
2019
6.5
Iron Mask
as Lord Dudley
2019
6.1
Godzilla: King of the Monsters
as Alan Jonah
2019
6.7
The Widow
as Martin Benson
2019
6.9
The Little Drummer Girl
as Commander Picton
2018
7.0
Happy New Year, Colin Burstead
as Uncle Bertie
2018
6.4
Johnny English Strikes Again
as Agent Seven
2018
6.3
Hang Ups
as Jeremy Pitt
2018
6.4
Spitfire
as Narrator (voice)
2018
7.2
🎬
The Muppets Take The O2
as Self
2018
9.5
The Woman in White
as Frederick Fairlie
2018
6.0
Euphoria
as Mr. Daren
2018
6.3
Wimbledon Official Film 2017
as Narrator (voice)
2017
5.5
That Good Night
as The Visitor
2017
6.9
Savage Kingdom
as Self - Narrator (voice)
2016
7.8
Underworld: Blood Wars
as Thomas
2016
5.9
The Crown
as Lord Mountbatten
2016
8.2
Ghostbusters
as Harold Fillmore
2016
5.3
Me Before You
as Stephen Traynor
2016
7.9
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
as Mr. Bennet
2016
6.2
Despite the Falling Snow
as Old Alexander Ivanov
2016
5.7
And Then There Were None
as Justice Lawrence Wargrave
2015
7.5
Childhood's End
as Karellen
2015
7.0
Woman in Gold
2015
10.0
Victor Frankenstein
as Frankenstein
2015
5.9
Instruments of Darkness
as Duncan
2015
10.0
Deadline Gallipoli
as Sir Ian Hamilton
2015
6.2
Woman in Gold
as Sherman
2015
7.3
Child 44
as Major Grachev
2015
6.3
Game of Thrones The IMAX Experience
as Tywin Lannister
2015
8.6
Admiral
as King Charles II
2015
6.4
The Imitation Game
as Commander Denniston
2014
8.0
The Great Fire
as Lord Denton
2014
7.4
Dracula Untold
as Master Vampire
2014
6.4
Retrospective
as Jonathan Hoyle
2014
0.0
Forbidden Empire
as Lord Dudley
2014
5.9
The Science of Doctor Who
as Self
2013
7.3
Speeches That Shook the World
as Self
2013
0.0
Patrick
as Doctor Roget
2013
5.0
Justin and the Knights of Valour
as Legantir (voice)
2013
5.9
Father's Day
as Don
2013
5.0
The Relics of Buddha
as Narrator (voice)
2013
0.0
Secret State
as John Hodder
2012
7.0
The Door
as Thomas Arlington
2012
0.0
🎬
The Mapmaker
as Rowan
2012
6.5
St George's Day
as Trenchard
2012
4.8
Midnight's Children
as William Methwold
2012
5.5
Underworld: Awakening
as Thomas
2012
6.3
Rosamunde Pilcher: Shades of Love-The Scandal
2011
0.0
Rosamunde Pilcher: Shades of Love-The Reunion
2011
0.0
Neverland
as Dr. Fludd
2011
6.1
Celebrity Antiques Road Trip
as Self - Participant
2011
5.0
Rosamunde Pilcher's Shades of Love
as Edmund Aird
2011
3.0
Game of Thrones
as Tywin Lannister
2011
8.5
Your Highness
as King Tallious
2011
5.3
There Be Dragons
as Solono
2011
5.0
Ironclad
as Stephen Langton, Archbishop of Canterbury
2011
6.1
Rosamunde Pilcher: Shades of Love-Family Secret
2010
4.0
Rosamunde Pilcher: Shades of Love-A Healing Heart
2010
0.0
🎬
The Commuter
as The Traffic Warden
2010
5.5
🎬
Paris Connections
as Aleksandr Borinski
2010
3.3
🎬
Drama Trails
2010
0.0
Going Postal
as Lord Vetinari
2010
7.2
🎬
The Clerk's Tale
as Ralph
2010
0.0
Strike Back
as Conrad Knox
2010
7.4
Trinity
as Dr. Edmund Maltravers
2009
5.6
Merlin
as Aredian
2008
7.8
🎬
Dickens' Secret Lover
as Self - Narrator (voice)
2008
0.0
Consenting Adults
as Jack Wolfenden
2007
5.7
The Contractor
as DCS Andrew Windsor
2007
5.5
Would I Lie to You?
as Self
2007
7.7
Fallen Angel
as David Byfield
2007
4.5
The 50 Greatest Television Dramas
as Self
2007
0.0
Intervention
as Private Investigator
2007
1.0
Twice Upon a Time
as Battar Master of Ceremonies
2006
5.9
Starter for 10
as Michael Harbinson
2006
6.4
The One Show
as Self
2006
4.5
Scoop
as Mr. Malcolm
2006
6.6
Bleak House
as Mr. Tulkinghorn
2005
8.2
To the Ends of the Earth
as Sir Henry Somerset
2005
6.2
Titanic: Birth of a Legend
as Narrator (voice)
2005
7.6
Fingersmith
as Mr. Chistopher Lilly
2005
7.3
Agatha Christie's Marple
as Septimus Bligh
2004
7.7
Who Do You Think You Are?
as Self
2004
6.7
Saint John Bosco Mission to Love
as Marchese Clementi
2004
6.8
Wreckage and Rage: Making 'Alien³'
as Self (archive footage)
2003
7.8
Henry VIII
as Edward Stafford
2003
6.9
Swimming Pool
as John Bosload
2003
6.5
Black and White
as Roderic Chamberlain
2002
5.6
Foyle's War
as Guy Spencer
2002
7.9
Top Gear
as Self
2002
7.5
The Making of 'Gosford Park'
as Self (uncredited)
2002
5.0
Ali G Indahouse
as Deputy Prime Minister David Carlton
2002
6.1
Gosford Park
as Raymond Stockbridge
2001
6.8
Alien Evolution
as Self / Clemens
2001
5.9
Jurij
2001
0.0
Dark Blue World
as Wing Commander Bentley
2001
7.0
The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby
as Ralph Nickleby
2001
7.9
Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased)
2000
6.1
Murder Rooms: The Dark Beginnings of Sherlock Holmes
as Sir Henry Carlyle
2000
8.0
🎬
Chrono-Perambulator
as James 'Dougie' Douglas
1999
0.0
Don't Go Breaking My Heart
as Frank
1999
4.9
Hilary and Jackie
as Derek Du Pré
1998
6.6
What Rats Won't Do
as Gerald Burton Jr
1998
5.0
Trial & Retribution
1997
6.8
The Blood Oranges
as Cyril
1997
3.8
In the Presence of Mine Enemies
as Captain Richter
1997
4.8
Rebecca
as Maxim de Winter
1997
5.9
Michael Collins
as Soames
1996
6.9
Space Truckers
as Nabel / Macanudo
1996
5.4
Undertow
as Lyle Yates
1996
5.7
The Surgeon
as Dr. Ed Mittlesbay
1995
5.4
Shortcut to Paradise
as Quinn
1994
5.0
Room 101
as Self
1994
6.3
China Moon
as Rupert Munro
1994
6.1
Kabloonak
as Robert Flaherty
1994
6.7
Century
as Professor Mandry
1993
5.3
Last Action Hero
as Benedict
1993
6.5
Alien³
as Clemens
1992
6.4
La valle di pietra
as Surveyor
1992
6.0
The Phantom of the Opera
as The Phantom of the Opera
1990
7.2
Goldeneye
as Ian Fleming
1989
6.0
First Born
1988
6.0
First Born
as Edward Forester
1988
7.0
Out of the Shadows
as Michael Hayden
1988
6.0
Pascali's Island
as Anthony Bowles
1988
6.4
White Mischief
as Josslyn Hay
1987
6.0
Hidden City
as James Richards
1987
5.1
Good Morning, Babylon
as D.W. Griffith
1987
6.2
Out on a Limb
as Gerry Stamford
1987
5.3
The Golden Child
as Sardo Numspa
1986
5.9
The Flying Doctors
as Minister
1986
6.1
The McGuffin
as Paul Hatcher
1986
6.0
Time for Murder
as James Latimer
1985
4.0
Plenty
as Raymond Brock
1985
5.7
Screen Two
as Paul Hatcher
1985
6.8
Rainy Day Women
as John Truman
1984
0.0
The Jewel in the Crown
as Guy Perron
1984
6.7
Natural World
1983
7.1
Little Eyolf
as Borghejm
1982
6.0
Nancy Astor
as Edward Hartford-Jones
1982
7.5
For Your Eyes Only
as Claus
1981
6.5
Fatal Spring
as Siegfried Sassoon
1980
0.0
Dreams of Leaving
as Colin
1980
7.0
Tales of the Unexpected
as Robert Smythe
1979
6.7
An Audience with...
as Self
1978
5.3
The Professionals
as Parker
1977
7.4
Raffles
1977
8.0
Edward the Seventh
as Prince Eddy
1975
6.9
Father Brown
1974
6.6
Play for Today
1970
6.3
BBC Play of the Month
as Borghejm
1965
5.0
Frankenstein
N/A
0.0
The Liar
as Tickford
N/A
0.0
Viy 3: Travel to India
N/A
0.0
🎬
Ladies First
N/A
0.0
🎬
A Patriot
as Dr. Hastings
N/A
0.0