Gender

Male

Birthday, Age

1946 October 10 (78 years old)

Place of Birth

Redditch, Worcestershire, England, UK

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 televis

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Full Filmography

Swimming Pool

as John Bosload

Movie • 2003-05-21

The Golden Child

as Sardo Numspa

Movie • 1986-12-12

The 50 Greatest Television Dramas

as Self

Movie • 2007-02-03

For Your Eyes Only

as Claus

Movie • 1981-06-24

Gosford Park

as Raymond Stockbridge

Movie • 2001-12-26

Twice Upon a Time

as Battar Master of Ceremonies

Movie • 2006-11-08

Alien³

as Clemens

Movie • 1992-05-22

China Moon

as Rupert Munro

Movie • 1994-03-04

Last Action Hero

as Benedict

Movie • 1993-06-18

Plenty

as Raymond Brock

Movie • 1985-09-20

Starter for 10

as Michael Harbinson

Movie • 2006-09-13

White Mischief

as Josslyn Hay

Movie • 1987-11-10

There Be Dragons

as Solono

Movie • 2011-03-25

Dark Blue World

as Wing Commander Bentley

Movie • 2001-05-17

Your Highness

as King Tallious

Movie • 2011-04-08

Ironclad

as Stephen Langton, Archbishop of Canterbury

Movie • 2011-03-03

Good Morning, Babylon

as D.W. Griffith

Movie • 1987-05-13

Hilary and Jackie

as Derek Du Pré

Movie • 1998-12-30

Underworld: Awakening

as Thomas

Movie • 2012-01-19

The Relics of Buddha

as Narrator (voice)

Movie • 2013-01-01

Wreckage and Rage: Making 'Alien³'

as Self (archive footage)

Movie • 2003-12-02

In the Presence of Mine Enemies

as Captain Richter

Movie • 1997-04-20

Don't Go Breaking My Heart

as Frank

Movie • 1999-02-12

Saint John Bosco Mission to Love

as Marchese Clementi

Movie • 2004-09-22

Goldeneye

as Ian Fleming

Movie • 1989-08-26

The Blood Oranges

as Cyril

Movie • 1997-09-07

St George's Day

as Trenchard

Movie • 2012-09-07

Justin and the Knights of Valour

as Legantir (voice)

Movie • 2013-08-09

Pascali's Island

as Anthony Bowles

Movie • 1988-07-22

The Surgeon

as Dr. Ed Mittlesbay

Movie • 1995-01-13

Master Moley by Royal Invitation

as Mr. James Moley (voice)

Movie • 2019-11-16

Alien Evolution

as Self / Clemens

Movie • 2001-10-12

Consenting Adults

as Jack Wolfenden

Movie • 2007-09-04

Shortcut to Paradise

as Quinn

Movie • 1994-08-14

Patrick

as Doctor Roget

Movie • 2013-10-15

Instruments of Darkness

as Duncan

Movie • 2015-11-10

The Hanging Sun

as Jacob

Movie • 2022-09-12

The Contractor

as DCS Andrew Windsor

Movie • 2007-07-10

Savage Waters

Movie • 2023-10-27

Murder Rooms: The Dark Beginnings of Sherlock Holmes

as Sir Henry Carlyle

Movie • 2000-01-05

Paris Connections

as Aleksandr Borinski

Movie • 2010-09-06

The Science of Doctor Who

as Self

Movie • 2013-11-14

The Imitation Game

as Commander Denniston

Movie • 2014-11-14

Space Truckers

as Nabel / Macanudo

Movie • 1996-10-04

Out of the Shadows

as Michael Hayden

Movie • 1988-09-02

The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby

as Ralph Nickleby

Movie • 2001-04-08

Ali G Indahouse

as Deputy Prime Minister David Carlton

Movie • 2002-03-21

Little Eyolf

as Borghejm

Movie • 1982-07-19

Jurij

Movie • 2001-08-06

Undertow

as Lyle Yates

Movie • 1996-03-26

Century

as Professor Mandry

Movie • 1993-12-31

Dracula Untold

as Master Vampire

Movie • 2014-10-01

Titanic: Birth of a Legend

as Narrator (voice)

Movie • 2005-05-05

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies

as Mr. Bennet

Movie • 2016-02-04

Admiral

as King Charles II

Movie • 2015-01-29

Woman in Gold

as Sherman

Movie • 2015-03-20

Lancaster

as Narrator (voice)

Movie • 2022-05-27

Rumours

as Edison Wolcott

Movie • 2024-07-01

Game of Thrones The IMAX Experience

as Tywin Lannister

Movie • 2015-01-29

A Patriot

as Dr. Hastings

Movie •

Frankenstein

Movie • 2025-09-04

Portrait of the Queen

Movie • 2022-11-22

Black and White

as Roderic Chamberlain

Movie • 2002-10-31

Child 44

as Major Grachev

Movie • 2015-03-15

Midnight's Children

as William Methwold

Movie • 2012-08-31

Me Before You

as Stephen Traynor

Movie • 2016-06-01

The McGuffin

as Paul Hatcher

Movie • 1986-01-12

The Magic of the Movies: Behind the Scenes of David Fincher's Mank

as Self

Movie • 2021-02-27

The First Omen

as Father Harris

Movie • 2024-04-03

Father's Day

as Don

Movie • 2013-06-12

Despite the Falling Snow

as Old Alexander Ivanov

Movie • 2016-01-29

The Mapmaker

as Rowan

Movie • 2012-09-21

Underworld: Blood Wars

as Thomas

Movie • 2016-11-24

Scoop

as Mr. Malcolm

Movie • 2006-07-27

Forbidden Empire

as Lord Dudley

Movie • 2014-01-30

Retrospective

as Jonathan Hoyle

Movie • 2014-07-14

Ghostbusters

as Harold Fillmore

Movie • 2016-07-14

Euphoria

as Mr. Daren

Movie • 2018-02-01

The Clerk's Tale

as Ralph

Movie • 2010-05-20

Michael Collins

as Soames

Movie • 1996-10-25

Dickens' Secret Lover

as Self - Narrator (voice)

Movie • 2008-06-16

Iron Mask

as Lord Dudley

Movie • 2019-08-16

Victor Frankenstein

as Frankenstein

Movie • 2015-11-10

Kabloonak

as Robert Flaherty

Movie • 1994-01-01

Amanece en Samaná

as Noah Blum

Movie • 2024-11-08

The Commuter

as The Traffic Warden

Movie • 2010-10-26

Dreams of Leaving

as Colin

Movie • 1980-01-17

Hidden City

as James Richards

Movie • 1987-06-24

Fanny Lye Deliver'd

as John Lye

Movie • 2019-10-10

Godzilla: King of the Monsters

as Alan Jonah

Movie • 2019-05-29

That Good Night

as The Visitor

Movie • 2017-06-20

Rosamunde Pilcher: Shades of Love-Family Secret

Movie • 2010-12-25

Rosamunde Pilcher: Shades of Love-A Healing Heart

Movie • 2010-12-25

Rosamunde Pilcher: Shades of Love-The Reunion

Movie • 2011-12-25

Rosamunde Pilcher: Shades of Love-The Scandal

Movie • 2011-12-25

First Born

as Edward Forester

Movie • 1988-10-30

The Book of Vision

as Dr. Johan Anmuth

Movie • 2021-07-08

Happy New Year, Colin Burstead

as Uncle Bertie

Movie • 2018-10-11

Rainy Day Women

as John Truman

Movie • 1984-04-10

Speeches That Shook the World

as Self

Movie • 2013-11-06

The Door

as Thomas Arlington

Movie • 2012-10-12

Spitfire

as Narrator (voice)

Movie • 2018-07-20

Johnny English Strikes Again

as Agent Seven

Movie • 2018-09-13

Wimbledon Official Film 2017

as Narrator (voice)

Movie • 2017-10-23

The King's Man

as Kitchener

Movie • 2021-12-22

Chrono-Perambulator

as James 'Dougie' Douglas

Movie • 1999-12-12

Mank

as William Randolph Hearst

Movie • 2020-11-13

La valle di pietra

as Surveyor

Movie • 1992-01-01

The Muppets Take The O2

as Self

Movie • 2018-07-13

What Rats Won't Do

as Gerald Burton Jr

Movie • 1998-07-01

The Making of 'Gosford Park'

as Self (uncredited)

Movie • 2002-06-18

The Liar

as Tickford

Movie •

Viy 3: Travel to India

Movie •

Against the Ice

as Minister Neergaard

Movie • 2022-02-10

Intervention

as Private Investigator

Movie • 2007-01-01

Fatal Spring

as Siegfried Sassoon

Movie • 1980-11-07

Hammer: Heroes, Legends and Monsters

as Narrator

Movie • 2024-10-31

Ladies First

Movie •

The Big Fat Quiz of Telly

as Self

Movie • 2024-08-23

Woman in Gold

Movie • 2015-11-18

Game of Thrones

as Tywin Lannister

Tv • 2011-04-17

The One Show

as Self

Tv • 2006-08-14

Tales of the Unexpected

as Robert Smythe

Tv • 1979-03-24

The Professionals

as Parker

Tv • 1977-12-30

Bleak House

as Mr. Tulkinghorn

Tv • 2005-10-27

Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased)

Tv • 2000-03-18

The Jewel in the Crown

as Guy Perron

Tv • 1984-01-09

Foyle's War

as Guy Spencer

Tv • 2002-10-27

Trinity

as Dr. Edmund Maltravers

Tv • 2009-09-20

Fallen Angel

as David Byfield

Tv • 2007-03-11

Going Postal

as Lord Vetinari

Tv • 2010-05-30

Raffles

Tv • 1977-02-25

Trial & Retribution

Tv • 1997-10-19

Play for Today

Tv • 1970-10-15

Fingersmith

as Mr. Chistopher Lilly

Tv • 2005-03-27

Rebecca

as Maxim de Winter

Tv • 1997-01-05

Natural World

Tv • 1983-10-30

Neverland

as Dr. Fludd

Tv • 2011-12-04

Father Brown

Tv • 1974-09-26

Drama Trails

Tv • 2010-08-01

Strike Back

as Conrad Knox

Tv • 2010-05-05

Secret State

as John Hodder

Tv • 2012-11-07

Would I Lie to You?

as Self

Tv • 2007-06-16

Who Do You Think You Are?

as Self

Tv • 2004-10-12

Childhood's End

as Karellen

Tv • 2015-12-14

The Phantom of the Opera

as The Phantom of the Opera

Tv • 1990-03-18

And Then There Were None

as Justice Lawrence Wargrave

Tv • 2015-12-26

Merlin

as Aredian

Tv • 2008-09-20

Edward the Seventh

as Prince Eddy

Tv • 1975-04-01

Deadline Gallipoli

as Sir Ian Hamilton

Tv • 2015-04-19

Moley

as Mr. Moley (voice)

Tv • 2021-10-06

Rosamunde Pilcher's Shades of Love

as Edmund Aird

Tv • 2011-04-24

An Audience with...

as Self

Tv • 1978-01-08

To the Ends of the Earth

as Sir Henry Somerset

Tv • 2005-07-06

The Flying Doctors

as Minister

Tv • 1986-05-15

The Crown

as Lord Mountbatten

Tv • 2016-11-04

Out on a Limb

as Gerry Stamford

Tv • 1987-01-18

Savage Kingdom

as Self - Narrator (voice)

Tv • 2016-11-25

Rabbit Hole

as Dr. Ben Wilson

Tv • 2023-03-26

The Great Fire

as Lord Denton

Tv • 2014-10-16

Room 101

as Self

Tv • 1994-07-04

The Woman in White

as Frederick Fairlie

Tv • 2018-04-22

The Widow

as Martin Benson

Tv • 2019-02-28

The Sandman

as Roderick Burgess

Tv • 2022-08-05

Celebrity Antiques Road Trip

as Self - Participant

Tv • 2011-10-24

Testament: The Story of Moses

as Self - Narrator (voice)

Tv • 2024-03-27

Henry VIII

as Edward Stafford

Tv • 2003-10-12

This England

as Max Hastings

Tv • 2022-09-28

Time for Murder

as James Latimer

Tv • 1985-11-09

The Serpent Queen

as Clement VII

Tv • 2022-09-11

Agatha Christie's Marple

as Septimus Bligh

Tv • 2004-12-12

Rise of Empires: Ottoman

as Self - Narrator (voice)

Tv • 2020-01-24

First Born

Tv • 1988-10-30

Screen Two

as Paul Hatcher

Tv • 1985-01-06

The Singapore Grip

as Mr Webb

Tv • 2020-09-13

The Little Drummer Girl

as Commander Picton

Tv • 2018-10-28

Hang Ups

as Jeremy Pitt

Tv • 2018-08-08

Renaissance: The Blood and the Beauty

as Old Michaelangelo

Tv • 2024-12-02

Top Gear

as Self

Tv • 2002-10-20

The Day of the Jackal

as Timothy Winthrop

Tv • 2024-11-07

Playhouse

as Siegfried Sassoon

Tv • 1974-03-13

BBC Play of the Month

as Borghejm

Tv • 1965-10-19

Jam and Jerusalem

as Self

Tv • 2006-11-24