Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Known Credits

183

Gender

Male

Birthday

1946-10-10 (78 years old)

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

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.

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Acting

—		A Patriot as Dr. Hastings
—		Frankenstein
—		The Liar as Tickford
—		Viy 3: Travel to India
—		Ladies First

2024		Renaissance: The Blood and the Beauty as Old Michaelangelo
2024		Amanece en Samaná as Noah Blum
2024		The Day of the Jackal as Timothy Winthrop
2024		Hammer: Heroes, Legends and Monsters as Narrator
2024		The Big Fat Quiz of Telly as Self
2024		Rumours as Edison Wolcott
2024		The First Omen as Father Harris
2024		Testament: The Story of Moses as Self - Narrator (voice)

2023		Savage Waters
2023		Rabbit Hole as Dr. Ben Wilson

2022		Portrait of the Queen
2022		This England as Max Hastings
2022		The Hanging Sun as Jacob
2022		The Serpent Queen as Clement VII
2022		The Sandman as Roderick Burgess
2022		Lancaster as Narrator (voice)
2022		Against the Ice as Minister Neergaard

2021		The King's Man as Kitchener
2021		Moley as Mr. Moley (voice)
2021		The Book of Vision as Dr. Johan Anmuth
2021		The Magic of the Movies: Behind the Scenes of David Fincher's Mank as Self

2020		Mank as William Randolph Hearst
2020		The Singapore Grip as Mr Webb
2020		Rise of Empires: Ottoman as Self - Narrator (voice)

2019		Master Moley by Royal Invitation as Mr. James Moley (voice)
2019		Fanny Lye Deliver'd as John Lye
2019		Iron Mask as Lord Dudley
2019		Godzilla: King of the Monsters as Alan Jonah
2019		The Widow as Martin Benson

2018		The Little Drummer Girl as Commander Picton
2018		Happy New Year, Colin Burstead as Uncle Bertie
2018		Johnny English Strikes Again as Agent Seven
2018		Hang Ups as Jeremy Pitt
2018		Spitfire as Narrator (voice)
2018		The Muppets Take The O2 as Self
2018		The Woman in White as Frederick Fairlie
2018		Euphoria as Mr. Daren

2017		Wimbledon Official Film 2017 as Narrator (voice)
2017		That Good Night as The Visitor

2016		Savage Kingdom as Self - Narrator (voice)
2016		Underworld: Blood Wars as Thomas
2016		The Crown as Lord Mountbatten
2016		Ghostbusters as Harold Fillmore
2016		Me Before You as Stephen Traynor
2016		Pride and Prejudice and Zombies as Mr. Bennet
2016		Despite the Falling Snow as Old Alexander Ivanov

2015		And Then There Were None as Justice Lawrence Wargrave
2015		Childhood's End as Karellen
2015		Victor Frankenstein as Frankenstein
2015		Instruments of Darkness as Duncan
2015		Deadline Gallipoli as Sir Ian Hamilton
2015		Woman in Gold as Sherman
2015		Child 44 as Major Grachev
2015		Admiral as King Charles II
2015		Game of Thrones The IMAX Experience as Tywin Lannister

2014		The Imitation Game as Commander Denniston
2014		The Great Fire as Lord Denton
2014		Dracula Untold as Master Vampire
2014		Retrospective as Jonathan Hoyle
2014		Forbidden Empire as Lord Dudley

2013		The Science of Doctor Who as Self
2013		Speeches That Shook the World as Self
2013		Patrick as Doctor Roget
2013		Justin and the Knights of Valour as Legantir (voice)
2013		Father's Day as Don
2013		The Relics of Buddha as Narrator (voice)

2012		Secret State as John Hodder
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		Underworld: Awakening as Thomas

2011		Rosamunde Pilcher: Shades of Love-The Reunion
2011		Rosamunde Pilcher: Shades of Love-The Scandal
2011		Neverland as Dr. Fludd
2011		Celebrity Antiques Road Trip as Self - Participant
2011		Rosamunde Pilcher's Shades of Love as Edmund Aird
2011		Game of Thrones as Tywin Lannister
2011		Your Highness as King Tallious
2011		There Be Dragons as Solono
2011		Ironclad as Stephen Langton, Archbishop of Canterbury

2010		Rosamunde Pilcher: Shades of Love-Family Secret
2010		Rosamunde Pilcher: Shades of Love-A Healing Heart
2010		The Commuter as The Traffic Warden
2010		Paris Connections as Aleksandr Borinski
2010		Drama Trails
2010		Going Postal as Lord Vetinari
2010		The Clerk's Tale as Ralph
2010		Strike Back as Conrad Knox

2009

Trinity as Dr. Edmund Maltravers

2008		Merlin as Aredian
2008		Dickens' Secret Lover as Self - Narrator (voice)

2007		Consenting Adults as Jack Wolfenden
2007		The Contractor as DCS Andrew Windsor
2007		Would I Lie to You? as Self
2007		Fallen Angel as David Byfield
2007		The 50 Greatest Television Dramas as Self
2007		Intervention as Private Investigator

2006		Twice Upon a Time as Battar Master of Ceremonies
2006		Starter for 10 as Michael Harbinson
2006		The One Show as Self
2006		Scoop as Mr. Malcolm

2005		Bleak House as Mr. Tulkinghorn
2005		To the Ends of the Earth as Sir Henry Somerset
2005		Titanic: Birth of a Legend as Narrator (voice)
2005		Fingersmith as Mr. Chistopher Lilly

2004		Big Fat Quiz as Self - Guest
2004		Agatha Christie's Marple as Septimus Bligh
2004		Who Do You Think You Are? as Self
2004		Saint John Bosco Mission to Love as Marchese Clementi

2003		Wreckage and Rage: Making 'Alien³' as Self (archive footage)
2003		Henry VIII as Edward Stafford
2003		Swimming Pool as John Bosload

2002		Black and White as Roderic Chamberlain
2002		Foyle's War
2002		Top Gear as Self
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		Murder Rooms: Mysteries of the Real Sherlock Holmes as Sir Henry Carlyle
2001		Jurij
2001		Dark Blue World as Wing Commander Bentley
2001		The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby as Ralph Nickleby

2000		Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased)
2000		Murder Rooms: The Dark Beginnings of Sherlock Holmes as Sir Henry Carlyle

1999		Chrono-Perambulator as James 'Dougie' Douglas
1999		Don't Go Breaking My Heart as Frank

1998		Hilary and Jackie as Derek Du Pré
1998		What Rats Won't Do as Gerald Burton Jr

1997		Trial & Retribution
1997		The Blood Oranges as Cyril
1997		In the Presence of Mine Enemies as Captain Richter
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		Shortcut to Paradise as Quinn
1994		Room 101 as Self
1994		China Moon as Rupert Munro
1994		Kabloonak as Robert Flaherty

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
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 Flying Doctors as Minister
1986		The McGuffin as Paul Hatcher

1985		Time for Murder as James Latimer
1985		Plenty as Raymond Brock
1985		Screen Two as Paul Hatcher

1984		Rainy Day Women as John Truman
1984		The Jewel in the Crown as Guy Perron

1983

Natural World

1982		Little Eyolf as Borghejm
1982		Nancy Astor as Edward Hartford-Jones

1981

For Your Eyes Only as Claus

1980		Fatal Spring as Siegfried Sassoon
1980		Dreams of Leaving as Colin

1979

Tales of the Unexpected as Robert Smythe

1978

An Audience with... as Self

1977		The Professionals as Parker
1977		Raffles

1975

Edward the Seventh as Prince Eddy

1974

Father Brown

1970

Play for Today

1965

BBC Play of the Month as Borghejm

Directing

2004

Ladies in Lavender as Director

Production

2004

Ladies in Lavender as Executive Producer

Writing

2004

Ladies in Lavender as Screenplay