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