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