Charles Dance
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 perio
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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Born
Oct 10, 1946
Redditch, Worcestershire, England, UK
Known For
Acting
Movies
125 acting
3 crew
Popularity
4.1
Known For
The Imitation Game
2014
as Commander Denniston
Frankenstein
2025
as Leopold Frankenstein
Alien³
1992
as Clemens
Me Before You
2016
as Stephen Traynor
Godzilla: King of the Monsters
2019
as Alan Jonah
The King's Man
2021
as Kitchener
Ghostbusters
2016
as Harold Fillmore
Underworld: Blood Wars
2016
as Thomas
Swimming Pool
2003
as John Bosload
For Your Eyes Only
1981
as Claus
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