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