Acting credits
180
Prolific
Very extensive acting filmography.
Actor
Charles Dance
Acting
Career Snapshot
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TMDB popularity
4.9
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Movies: 114Series: 67Crew credits: 1
TMDB ID: 4391
IMDb ID: nm0001097
Known for: Acting
Born: October 10, 1946
Age: 79
Place of birth: Redditch, Worcestershire, England, UK
Gender: Male
Adult content flag: No
Career span: 1965 - 2028
Years active: 64
Average TMDB rating: 6.63
Wikidata: Q309690
Also known as
Walter Charles Dance • Волтер Чарльз Денс
Other jobs
Screenplay (1)
Biography
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.
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Movies
Movies
Movie credits linked with Charles Dance.
Feb 17, 2028
The Batman: Part II
as Christopher Dent
2028 Movie
Ladies First
as Fred Powell
2026 Movie
The Big Fat Quiz of Telly
as Self - Guest
2026 Movie
Wildcat
as Frasier Mahoney
2025 Movie
Frankenstein
as Leopold Frankenstein
2025 Movie
Creditors
as Gustaf
2025 Movie
Samaná Sunrise
as Noah Blum
2024 Movie
Hammer: Heroes, Legends and Monsters
as Narrator
2024 Movie
Rumours
as Edison Wolcott
2024 Movie
The First Omen
as Father Harris
2024 Movie
Savage Waters
2023 Movie
Portrait of the Queen
2022 Movie
The Hanging Sun
as Jacob
2022 Movie
Lancaster
as Narrator (voice)
2022 Movie
Against the Ice
as Minister Neergaard
2022 Movie
The King's Man
as Kitchener
2021 Movie
The Book Of Vision
as Dr. Johan Anmuth
2021 Movie
The Magic of the Movies: Behind the Scenes of David Fincher's Mank
as Self
2021 Movie
Mank
as William Randolph Hearst
2020 Movie
Master Moley by Royal Invitation
as Mr. James Moley (voice)
2019 Movie
Fanny Lye Deliver'd
as John Lye
2019 Movie
Iron Mask
as Lord Dudley
2019 Movie
Godzilla: King of the Monsters
as Alan Jonah
2019 Movie
Happy New Year, Colin Burstead
as Uncle Bertie
2018 Movie
Series
Series
Series credits linked with Charles Dance.
Churchill at War
as Self - Narrator (voice) • 4 eps
2024 Series
Renaissance: The Blood and the Beauty
as Old Michaelangelo • 3 eps
2024 Series
The Day of the Jackal
as Timothy Winthrop • 6 eps
2024 Series
Testament: The Story of Moses
as Self - Narrator (voice) • 3 eps
2024 Series
Rabbit Hole
as Dr. Ben Wilson • 8 eps
2023 Series
This England
as Max Hastings • 1 eps
2022 Series
The Serpent Queen
as Clement VII • 1 eps
2022 Series
The Sandman
as Roderick Burgess • 1 eps
2022 Series
Moley
as Mr. Moley (voice) • 52 eps
2021 Series
The Singapore Grip
as Mr Webb • 1 eps
2020 Series
Rise of Empires: Ottoman
as Self - Narrator (voice) • 12 eps
2020 Series
The Widow
as Martin Benson • 8 eps
2019 Series
The Little Drummer Girl
as Commander Picton • 6 eps
2018 Series
Hang Ups
as Jeremy Pitt • 2 eps
2018 Series
The Woman in White
as Frederick Fairlie • 1 eps
2018 Series
Savage Kingdom
as Self - Narrator (voice) • 19 eps
2016 Series
The Crown
as Lord Mountbatten • 5 eps
2016 Series
And Then There Were None
as Justice Lawrence Wargrave • 3 eps
2015 Series
Childhood's End
as Karellen • 3 eps
2015 Series
Deadline Gallipoli
as Sir Ian Hamilton • 2 eps
2015 Series
The Great Fire
as Lord Denton • 4 eps
2014 Series
Was It Something I Said?
as Self - Narrator • 1 eps
2013 Series
Secret State
as John Hodder • 4 eps
2012 Series
Neverland
as Dr. Fludd • 2 eps
2011 Series