Charles Dance

Personal Info

Known For Actor

Gender Male

Birthday 1946-10-10 (77 years old)

Place of Birth Redditch, Worcestershire, England, UK

Also Known As 찰스 댄스, Чарльз Дэнс, 查尔斯·丹斯, Walter Charles Dance

Charles Dance

Biography

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

Actor

A Patriot

as Dr. Hastings

Rabbit Hole

as Dr. Ben Wilson

The Liar

as Tickford

2024
Rumours

as Edison Wolcott

2024
The First Omen

as Father Harris

2024
The Day of the Jackal

as Timothy Winthrop

2024
Testament: The Story of Moses

as Self - Narrator (voice)

2023
Rabbit Hole

as Dr. Ben Wilson

2022
2022
Lancaster

as Narrator (voice)

2022
Against the Ice

as Minister Neergaard

2022
This England

as Max Hastings

2022
The Serpent Queen

as Clement VII

2022
The Sandman

as Roderick Burgess

2021
The King's Man

as Kitchener

2021
The Book of Vision

as Dr. Johan Anmuth

2021
Moley

as Mr. Moley (voice)

2020
Mank

as William Randolph Hearst

2020
Master Moley By Royal Invitation

as Mr. James Moley (voice)

2020
2020
Rise of Empires: Ottoman

as Self - Narrator (voice)

2019
2019
Iron Mask

as Lord Dudley

2019
The Widow

as Martin Benson

2018
2018
2018
Spitfire

as Narrator (voice)

2018
Euphoria

as Mr. Daren

2018
The Little Drummer Girl

as Commander Picton

2018
Hang Ups

as Jeremy Pitt

2018
The Woman in White

as Frederick Fairlie

2017
Wimbledon Official Film 2017

as Narrator (voice)

2017
That Good Night

as The Visitor

2016
Ghostbusters

as Harold Fillmore

2016
Me Before You

as Stephen Traynor

2016
Despite the Falling Snow

as Old Alexander Ivanov

2016
Savage Kingdom

as Self - Narrator (voice)

2016
The Crown

as Lord Mountbatten

2015
Victor Frankenstein

as Frankenstein

2015
Woman in Gold

as Sherman

2015
Child 44

as Major Grachev

2015
Admiral

as King Charles II

2015
And Then There Were None

as Justice Lawrence Wargrave

2015
Childhood's End

as Karellen

2015
Deadline Gallipoli

as Sir Ian Hamilton

2014
The Imitation Game

as Commander Denniston

2014
Dracula Untold

as Master Vampire

2014
Retrospective

as Jonathan Hoyle

2014
Forbidden Empire

as Lord Dudley

2014
The Great Fire

as Lord Denton

2013
Patrick

as Doctor Roget

2013
2013
2013
The Relics of Buddha

as Narrator (voice)

2012
The Door

as Thomas Arlington

2012
The Mapmaker

as Rowan

2012
St George's Day

as Trenchard

2012
Midnight's Children

as William Methwold

2012
2012
Secret State

as John Hodder

2011
Your Highness

as King Tallious

2011
2011
Ironclad

as Stephen Langton, Archbishop of Canterbury

2011
Neverland

as Dr. Fludd

2011
Celebrity Antiques Road Trip

as Self - Participant

2011
Game of Thrones

as Tywin Lannister

2010
The Commuter

as The Traffic Warden

2010
Paris Connections

as Aleksandr Borinski

2010
2010
Going Postal

as Lord Vetinari

2010
Strike Back

as Conrad Knox

2009
Trinity

as Dr. Edmund Maltravers

2008
Dickens' Secret Lover

as Self - Narrator (voice)

2008
Merlin

as Aredian

2007
Consenting Adults

as Jack Wolfenden

2007
The Contractor

as DCS Andrew Windsor

2007
Intervention

as Private Investigator

2007
Fallen Angel

as David Byfield

2006
Twice Upon a Time

as Battar Master of Ceremonies

2006
Starter for 10

as Michael Harbinson

2006
Scoop

as Mr. Malcolm

2006
The One Show

as Self

2005
Titanic: Birth of a Legend

as Narrator (voice)

2005
Bleak House

as Mr. Tulkinghorn

2005
To the Ends of the Earth

as Sir Henry Somerset

2005
Fingersmith

as Mr. Chistopher Lilly

2004
2004
Big Fat Quiz

as Self - Guest

2004
Agatha Christie's Marple

as Septimus Bligh

2003
Wreckage and Rage: Making 'Alien³'

as Self (archive footage)

2003
Swimming Pool

as John Bosload

2003
Henry VIII

as Edward Stafford, duque de Buckingham

2002
Black and White

as Roderic Chamberlain

2002
The Making of 'Gosford Park'

as Self (uncredited)

2002
Ali G Indahouse

as Deputy Prime Minister David Carlton

2001
Gosford Park

as Raymond Stockbridge

2001
Alien Evolution

as Self / Clemens

2001
2001
Dark Blue World

as Wing Commander Bentley

1999
Chrono-Perambulator

as James 'Dougie' Douglas

1998
Hilary and Jackie

as Derek Du Pré

1998
What Rats Won't Do

as Gerald Burton Jr

1997
1997
1997
Rebecca

as Maxim de Winter

1996
Michael Collins

as Soames

1996
Space Truckers

as Nabel / Macanudo

1996
Undertow

as Lyle Yates

1995
The Surgeon

as Dr. Ed Mittlesbay

1994
China Moon

as Rupert Munro

1994
Kabloonak

as Robert Flaherty

1994
Room 101

as Self

1993
Century

as Professor Mandry

1993
Last Action Hero

as Benedict

1992
Alien³

as Clemens

1992
La valle di pietra

as Surveyor

1990
The Phantom of the Opera

as The Phantom of the Opera

1989
Goldeneye

as Ian Fleming

1988
First Born

as Edward Forester

1988
Out of the Shadows

as Michael Hayden

1988
Pascali's Island

as Anthony Bowles

1987
White Mischief

as Josslyn Hay

1987
Hidden City

as James Richards

1987
Good Morning, Babylon

as D.W. Griffith

1987
Out on a Limb

as Gerry Stamford

1986
The Golden Child

as Sardo Numspa

1986
The McGuffin

as Paul Hatcher

1986
The Flying Doctors

as Minister

1985
Plenty

as Raymond Brock

1985
Time for Murder

as James Latimer

1985
Screen Two

as Paul Hatcher

1984
Rainy Day Women

as John Truman

1984
1982
Little Eyolf

as Borghejm

1982
Nancy Astor

as Edward Hartford-Jones

1981
1980
1979
Tales of the Unexpected

as Robert Smythe

1977
1975
Edward the Seventh

as Prince Eddy

1965

Director

2004
Ladies in Lavender

as Director

Writer

2004
Ladies in Lavender

as Screenplay

Producer

2004
Ladies in Lavender

as Executive Producer