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 period films, including Michael Collins (1996), Gosford Park (2001), The Imitation Game (2014), Mank (2020), and The King's Man (2021). He has also appeared in the films The Golden Child (1986), Alien 3 (1992), Last Action Hero (1993), Dracula Untold (2014), and Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019). He made his directorial film debut with the drama film Ladies in Lavender (2004), which he also wrote and executive-produced.
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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Acting
TV
Game of Thrones
as Tywin Lannister
2011
Movie
The Imitation Game
as Commander Denniston
2014
Movie
Me Before You
as Stephen Traynor
2016
Movie
Ghostbusters
as Harold Fillmore
2016
Movie
Godzilla: King of the Monsters
as Alan Jonah
2019
Movie
Dracula Untold
as Master Vampire
2014
Movie
Alien³
as Clemens
1992
Movie
The King's Man
as Kitchener
2021
Movie
Underworld: Awakening
as Thomas
2012
Movie
Underworld: Blood Wars
as Thomas
2016
Movie
Frankenstein
as Leopold Frankenstein
2025
Movie
Last Action Hero
as Benedict
1993
Movie
Johnny English Strikes Again
as Agent Seven
2018
TV
The Sandman
as Roderick Burgess
2022
TV
The Crown
as Lord Mountbatten
2016
Movie
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
as Mr. Bennet
2016
Movie
Victor Frankenstein
as Frankenstein
2015
Movie
For Your Eyes Only
as Claus
1981
Movie
Child 44
as Major Grachev
2015
Movie
Mank
as William Randolph Hearst
2020
Movie
Scoop
as Mr. Malcolm
2006
Movie
Ali G Indahouse
as Deputy Prime Minister David Carlton
2002
Movie
Woman in Gold
as Sherman
2015
Movie
Your Highness
as King Tallious
2011
