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Charles Dance is a British actor known for his work in film, television, and theater. He is notable for roles in major productions and has established himself as a respected performer in the entertainment industry.
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- Born
- 1794
- Died
- 1863
- Works
- 74
Top works
- Kill or cure
- Who speaks first?
- Puss in boots
- Olympic devils, or Orpheus and Eurydice
- The victor vanquished
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Acting · Redditch, Worcestershire, England, UK
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…
Known for
- Untitled The Batman Sequel — Charles Dent2027
- Ladies First — Fred Powell2026
- The Big Fat Quiz of Telly — Self - Guest2026
- Frankenstein — Leopold Frankenstein2025
- Creditors — Gustaf2025
- Wildcat — Frasier Mahoney2025
- World of Westeros Ambient Video — Tywin Lannister2025
- Rumours — Edison Wolcott2024
- The First Omen — Father Harris2024
- Samaná Sunrise — Noah Blum2024
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- 296
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- 519
Charles Dance, OBE (born Walter Charles Dance; 10 October 1946, Redditch, Worcestershire) is an English actor, screenwriter and director. Dance was a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company during the mid- to late-1970s and was in many of their productions in London and Stratford upon Avon. Later he returned to the RSC to take the title role in Coriolanus at Stratford upon Avon and Newcastle in 1989, and at the Barbican Theatre in 1990. He received rave reviews and a Critics' Circle Best Acto
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5 total works indexed
- SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python
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- Human-level control through deep reinforcement learning
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- Array programming with NumPy
· 2020 · cited 22,193x
- Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2
· 2019 · cited 20,056x
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Quotes
- “I've never been one for late nights, which is why I have always preferred making films to theatre. A play takes over your life: you start to feel sick at lunchtime and by mid-afternoon you're wishing for a bomb scare so the whole thing will be called off. Of course, if the evening goes well and you get the applause then it's wonderful. We're a strange bunch, we actors.”
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- Native language
- British English
- Image
- Charles Dance 2012 (cropped).jpg
- Number of children
- 3
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- Charles Dance
- date of birth
- 1946-10-10
- start of work period
- 1974-00-00
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- Charles Dance
- ethnic group
- English people
- birth name
- Walter Charles Dance
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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 acted in a string of critically acclaimed period films such as 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.