Charles Dance
Acting
🎂 1946-10-10
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.
Cast credits(183)
Tywin Lannister
2011
Self
2007
1983
1970
Roderick Burgess
2022
Borghejm
1965
Lord Mountbatten
2016
Timothy Winthrop
2024
Minister
1986
Self
2002
Self
2004
Siegfried Sassoon
1974
Conrad Knox
2010
Paul Hatcher
1985
Mr. Moley (voice)
2021
Septimus Bligh
2004
Robert Smythe
1979
Self
1994
Commander Picton
2018
Guy Spencer
2002
Self
1978
Parker
1977
Aredian
2008
Self - Participant
2011
Self - Narrator (voice)
2020
Dr. Fludd
2011
Edward Stafford
2003
Self
2006
1997
Dr. Ben Wilson
2023
Clement VII
2022
Karellen
2015
Stephen Traynor
2016
Justice Lawrence Wargrave
2015
Lord Denton
2014
Guy Perron
1984
Lord Vetinari
2010
Sir Ian Hamilton
2015
Sir Henry Somerset
2005
Frederick Fairlie
2018
Mr. Chistopher Lilly
2005
Mr. Tulkinghorn
2005
Martin Benson
2019
Max Hastings
2022
Mr Webb
2020
The Phantom of the Opera
1990
Self - Narrator (voice)
2024
Commander Denniston
2014
1974
Jeremy Pitt
2018
Kitchener
2021
Self - Narrator (voice)
2016
Dr. Edmund Maltravers
2009
Old Michaelangelo
2024
Father Harris
2024
Alan Jonah
2019
1988
1977
Gerry Stamford
1987
Edward Hartford-Jones
1982
Harold Fillmore
2016
Prince Eddy
1975
Clemens
1992
Thomas
2016
Edmund Aird
2011
Benedict
1993
Claus
1981
Thomas
2012
Lord Dudley
2019
Master Vampire
2014
Agent Seven
2018
Mr. Bennet
2016
Sardo Numspa
1986
2000
Major Grachev
2015
Lord Dudley
2014
John Hodder
2012
King Charles II
2015
2010
Minister Neergaard
2022
John Bosload
2003
Deputy Prime Minister David Carlton
2002
Stephen Langton, Archbishop of Canterbury
2011
Raymond Stockbridge
2001
Maxim de Winter
1997
Edison Wolcott
2024
William Randolph Hearst
2020
2025
King Tallious
2011
Sherman
2015
Mr. Malcolm
2006
David Byfield
2007
Frankenstein
2015
DCS Andrew Windsor
2007
James Latimer
1985
Michael Harbinson
2006
Rupert Munro
1994
Roderic Chamberlain
2002
Nabel / Macanudo
1996
Mr. Daren
2018
Old Alexander Ivanov
2016
Soames
1996
Solono
2011
Trenchard
2012
Tywin Lannister
2015
Legantir (voice)
2013
Self (uncredited)
2002
Josslyn Hay
1987
Wing Commander Bentley
2001
Mr. James Moley (voice)
2019
Derek Du Pré
1998
Private Investigator
2007
Anthony Bowles
1988
Doctor Roget
2013
Jacob
2022
Narrator (voice)
2018
2010
Dr. Johan Anmuth
2021
Raymond Brock
1985
James Richards
1987
John Lye
2019
Narrator (voice)
2022
Ralph Nickleby
2001
Marchese Clementi
2004
Self
2007
Edward Forester
1988
William Methwold
2012
Tickford
Battar Master of Ceremonies
2006
Ian Fleming
1989
Self (archive footage)
2003
Cyril
1997
Siegfried Sassoon
1980
Professor Mandry
1993
Narrator
2024
The Visitor
2017
Narrator (voice)
2017
2011
Narrator (voice)
2005
Lyle Yates
1996
Self / Clemens
2001
Sir Henry Carlyle
2000
D.W. Griffith
1987
Borghejm
1982
Gerald Burton Jr
1998
Jack Wolfenden
2007
Uncle Bertie
2018
Paul Hatcher
1986
2015
Self
2018
Self
2024
John Truman
1984
Self
2013
Dr. Ed Mittlesbay
1995
2010
Noah Blum
2024
2001
Don
2013
The Traffic Warden
2010
Dr. Hastings
Frank
1999
Aleksandr Borinski
2010
Duncan
2015
2011
2022
Captain Richter
1997
James 'Dougie' Douglas
1999
Quinn
1994
Thomas Arlington
2012
Michael Hayden
1988
Robert Flaherty
1994
Colin
1980
2023
Self
2021
Rowan
2012
Jonathan Hoyle
2014
Surveyor
1992
Self - Narrator (voice)
2008
Narrator (voice)
2013
Ralph
2010
Self
2013
