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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Charles Dance, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
116 movies · 71 shows
Ladies First
2026·6.0
The Big Fat Quiz of Telly
2026·0.0
Wildcat
2025·6.1
Frankenstein
2025·7.6
Creditors
2025·0.0
Samaná Sunrise
2024·5.7
Hammer: Heroes, Legends and Monsters
2024·8.2
The Big Fat Quiz of Telly
2024·0.0
Rumours
2024·4.9
The First Omen
2024·6.8
Savage Waters
2023·7.0
Portrait of the Queen
2022·6.0
The Hanging Sun
2022·5.6
Lancaster
2022·6.8
Against the Ice
2022·6.8
The King's Man
2021·6.7
The Book Of Vision
2021·6.0
The Magic of the Movies: Behind the Scenes of David Fincher's Mank
2021·0.0
Mank
2020·6.7
Master Moley by Royal Invitation
2019·5.8
Fanny Lye Deliver'd
2019·6.3
Iron Mask
2019·6.1
Godzilla: King of the Monsters
2019·6.7
Happy New Year, Colin Burstead
2018·6.4
Johnny English Strikes Again
2018·6.3
Spitfire
2018·7.2
The Muppets Take The O2
2018·8.3
Euphoria
2018·6.3
Wimbledon Official Film 2017
2017·5.5
That Good Night
2017·6.9
Underworld: Blood Wars
2016·5.9
Ghostbusters
2016·5.3
Me Before You
2016·7.9
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
2016·6.2
Despite the Falling Snow
2016·5.7
Instruments of Darkness
2015·8.0
Victor Frankenstein
2015·6.0
Woman in Gold
2015·7.3
Child 44
2015·6.3
Admiral
2015·6.5
Game of Thrones The IMAX Experience
2015·8.6
The Imitation Game
2014·8.0
Dracula Untold
2014·6.5
Retrospective
2014·0.0
Forbidden Empire
2014·5.9
The Science of Doctor Who
2013·7.3
Speeches That Shook the World
2013·0.0
Patrick
2013·4.9
Justin and the Knights of Valour
2013·5.9
Father's Day
2013·5.5
The Relics of Buddha
2013·0.0
The Door
2012·0.0
The Mapmaker
2012·6.5
St George's Day
2012·4.7
Midnight's Children
2012·5.5
Underworld: Awakening
2012·6.3
Your Highness
2011·5.3
There Be Dragons
2011·5.1
Ironclad
2011·6.2
The Commuter
2010·5.5
Paris Connections
2010·3.3
The Clerk's Tale
2010·0.0
Dickens' Secret Lover
2008·0.0
Consenting Adults
2007·5.0
The Contractor
2007·5.5
The 50 Greatest Television Dramas
2007·0.0
Intervention
2007·5.5
Twice Upon a Time
2006·5.9
Starter for 10
2006·6.4
Scoop
2006·6.6
Titanic: Birth of a Legend
2005·7.7
Saint John Bosco Mission to Love
2004·6.8
Wreckage and Rage: Making 'Alien³'
2003·7.8
Swimming Pool
2003·6.5
Black and White
2002·6.2
The Making of Gosford Park
2002·5.3
Ali G Indahouse
2002·6.1
Gosford Park
2001·6.8
Alien Evolution
2001·5.9
Jurij
2001·8.0
Dark Blue World
2001·6.9
The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby
2001·7.6
Justice in Wonderland
2000·0.0
Murder Rooms: The Dark Beginnings of Sherlock Holmes
2000·8.0
Chrono-Perambulator
1999·10.0
Don't Go Breaking My Heart
1999·5.2
Hilary and Jackie
1998·6.6
What Rats Won't Do
1998·5.0
The Blood Oranges
1997·3.9
In the Presence of Mine Enemies
1997·5.7
Michael Collins
1996·6.9
Space Truckers
1996·5.4
Undertow
1996·5.7
The Surgeon
1995·5.1
Shortcut to Paradise
1994·5.4
China Moon
1994·6.1
Kabloonak
1994·7.5
Century
1993·5.1
Last Action Hero
1993·6.5
Alien³
1992·6.4
La valle di pietra
1992·7.0
Goldeneye
1989·5.9
First Born
1988·7.0
Out of the Shadows
1988·6.5
Pascali's Island
1988·6.4
White Mischief
1987·6.1
Hidden City
1987·5.4
Good Morning, Babylon
1987·6.1
The Golden Child
1986·5.9
The McGuffin
1986·6.5
Plenty
1985·5.7
Rainy Day Women
1984·7.0
Little Eyolf
1982·7.0
For Your Eyes Only
1981·6.5
Fatal Spring
1980·0.0
Dreams of Leaving
1980·7.0