Charles Dance

ActorDirectorProducerWriter Oct 10 (age 79) Redditch, Worcestershire, England, UK 1965–2026 (61 year career)

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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…

Known For

Film

Game of Thrones

Tywin Lannister

Film

The Imitation Game

Commander Denniston

Film

Me Before You

Stephen Traynor

Film

Frankenstein

Leopold Frankenstein

Film

Godzilla: King of the Monsters

Alan Jonah

Film

The King's Man

Kitchener

Film

Dracula Untold

Master Vampire

Film

Alien³

Clemens

Filmography

Acting (190)

Movies (121)

The Big Fat Quiz of Telly

2026

as Self - Guest

Wildcat

2025

as Frasier Mahoney

6.2

Frankenstein

2025

as Leopold Frankenstein

7.7

Creditors

2025

as Gustaf

The First Omen

as Father Harris

Rumours

as Edison Wolcott

Hammer: Heroes, Legends and Monsters

2024

as Narrator

8.0

The Big Fat Quiz of Telly

2024

as Self

Samaná Sunrise

as Noah Blum

Savage Waters

Against the Ice

as Minister Neergaard

The Hanging Sun

as Jacob

Lancaster

as Narrator (voice)

Portrait of the Queen

The King's Man

as Kitchener

The Book Of Vision

as Dr. Johan Anmuth

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

2021

as Self

Mank

2020

as William Randolph Hearst

6.7

Godzilla: King of the Monsters

as Alan Jonah

Iron Mask

as Lord Dudley

Fanny Lye Deliver'd

as John Lye

Master Moley by Royal Invitation

2019

as Mr. James Moley (voice)

5.8

Johnny English Strikes Again

as Agent Seven

Euphoria

as Mr. Daren

Spitfire

as Narrator (voice)

The Muppets Take The O2

2018

as Self

9.5

Happy New Year, Colin Burstead

2018

as Uncle Bertie

6.4

Wimbledon Official Film 2017

as Narrator (voice)

That Good Night

as The Visitor

Me Before You

as Stephen Traynor

Ghostbusters

as Harold Fillmore

Underworld: Blood Wars

2016

as Thomas

5.9

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies

2016

as Mr. Bennet

6.2

Despite the Falling Snow

2016

as Old Alexander Ivanov

Child 44

as Major Grachev

Victor Frankenstein

as Frankenstein

Woman in Gold

as Sherman

Game of Thrones The IMAX Experience

as Tywin Lannister

Admiral

as King Charles II

Instruments of Darkness

2015

as Duncan

10.0

The Imitation Game

2014

as Commander Denniston

Dracula Untold

as Master Vampire

Forbidden Empire

as Lord Dudley

Retrospective

as Jonathan Hoyle

Patrick

2013

as Doctor Roget

5.0

The Science of Doctor Who

2013

as Self

7.3

Speeches That Shook the World

2013

as Self

Justin and the Knights of Valour

as Legantir (voice)

Father's Day

as Don

The Relics of Buddha

as Narrator (voice)

Underworld: Awakening

as Thomas

The Mapmaker

as Rowan

The Door

as Thomas Arlington

St George's Day

as Trenchard

Midnight's Children

as William Methwold

Ironclad

as Stephen Langton, Archbishop of Canterbury

Your Highness

as King Tallious

There Be Dragons

as Solono

Rosamunde Pilcher: Shades of Love-The Scandal

2011

Rosamunde Pilcher: Shades of Love-Family Secret

2010

4.0

Paris Connections

2010

as Aleksandr Borinski

3.3

Rosamunde Pilcher: Shades of Love-A Healing Heart

2010

The Commuter

2010

as The Traffic Warden

5.5

The Clerk's Tale

2010

as Ralph

Dickens' Secret Lover

2008

as Self - Narrator (voice)

The Contractor

2007

as DCS Andrew Windsor

5.6

The 50 Greatest Television Dramas

2007

as Self

Intervention

2007

as Private Investigator

Consenting Adults

as Jack Wolfenden

Scoop

as Mr. Malcolm

Starter for 10

as Michael Harbinson

Twice Upon a Time

as Battar Master of Ceremonies

5.9

Titanic: Birth of a Legend

2005

as Narrator (voice)

7.6

Saint John Bosco Mission to Love

as Marchese Clementi

Swimming Pool

as John Bosload

Wreckage and Rage: Making 'Alien³'

2003

as Self (archive footage)

7.8

Ali G Indahouse

2002

as Deputy Prime Minister David Carlton

6.0

Black and White

2002

as Roderic Chamberlain

5.9

The Making of Gosford Park

2002

as Self (uncredited)

5.0

Gosford Park

2001

as Raymond Stockbridge

Alien Evolution

as Self / Clemens

Dark Blue World

as Wing Commander Bentley

6.8

The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby

2001

as Ralph Nickleby

7.8

Jurij

2001

Murder Rooms: The Dark Beginnings of Sherlock Holmes

2000

as Sir Henry Carlyle

8.0

Chrono-Perambulator

1999

as James 'Dougie' Douglas

Don't Go Breaking My Heart

as Frank

Hilary and Jackie

as Derek Du Pré

What Rats Won't Do

as Gerald Burton Jr

In the Presence of Mine Enemies

as Captain Richter

The Blood Oranges

as Cyril

Space Truckers

as Nabel / Macanudo

Undertow

as Lyle Yates

Michael Collins

as Soames

The Surgeon

as Dr. Ed Mittlesbay

China Moon

as Rupert Munro

Kabloonak

as Robert Flaherty

Shortcut to Paradise

as Quinn

Last Action Hero

as Benedict

Century

as Professor Mandry

Alien³

as Clemens

La valle di pietra

as Surveyor

Goldeneye

as Ian Fleming

Out of the Shadows

as Michael Hayden

First Born

as Edward Forester

Pascali's Island

as Anthony Bowles

White Mischief

as Josslyn Hay

Hidden City

as James Richards

Good Morning, Babylon

as D.W. Griffith

The Golden Child

as Sardo Numspa

The McGuffin

as Paul Hatcher

Plenty

as Raymond Brock

Rainy Day Women

as John Truman

Little Eyolf

as Borghejm

For Your Eyes Only

as Claus

Fatal Spring

as Siegfried Sassoon

Dreams of Leaving

1980

as Colin

7.0

The Liar

as Tickford

A Patriot

as Dr. Hastings

Viy 3: Travel to India

Ladies First

Television (69)

The Day of the Jackal

2024

as Timothy Winthrop

8.2

Testament: The Story of Moses

2024

as Self - Narrator (voice)

7.2

Renaissance: The Blood and the Beauty

as Old Michaelangelo

Rabbit Hole

as Dr. Ben Wilson

The Sandman

as Roderick Burgess

The Serpent Queen

as Clement VII

This England

as Max Hastings

Moley

as Mr. Moley (voice)

Rise of Empires: Ottoman

2020

as Self - Narrator (voice)

The Singapore Grip

as Mr Webb

The Widow

as Martin Benson

The Little Drummer Girl

as Commander Picton

Hang Ups

as Jeremy Pitt

The Woman in White

as Frederick Fairlie

The Crown

as Lord Mountbatten

Savage Kingdom

as Self - Narrator (voice)

7.8

And Then There Were None

2015

as Justice Lawrence Wargrave

Childhood's End

as Karellen

Deadline Gallipoli

as Sir Ian Hamilton

The Great Fire

as Lord Denton

Secret State

as John Hodder

Game of Thrones

as Tywin Lannister

Game of Thrones

as Tywin Lannister

Celebrity Antiques Road Trip

2011

as Self - Participant

5.0

Neverland

2011

as Dr. Fludd

6.1

Rosamunde Pilcher's Shades of Love

as Edmund Aird

Strike Back

as Conrad Knox

Going Postal

as Lord Vetinari

Drama Trails

Trinity

as Dr. Edmund Maltravers

Merlin

as Aredian

Would I Lie to You?

as Self

Fallen Angel

as David Byfield

The One Show

as Self

Jam and Jerusalem

as Self

Bleak House

as Mr. Tulkinghorn

Fingersmith

as Mr. Chistopher Lilly

7.2

To the Ends of the Earth

2005

as Sir Henry Somerset

6.0

Last Rights

2005

as Richard Wheeler

7.0

Agatha Christie's Marple

2004

as Septimus Bligh

7.8

Who Do You Think You Are?

as Self

Big Fat Quiz

as Self - Guest

Henry VIII

as Edward Stafford

Top Gear

as Self

Foyle's War

as Guy Spencer

Dan Dare: Pilot of the Future

2002

as Colonel Simon Lasker (voice)

Murder Rooms: The Dark Beginnings of Sherlock Holmes

2001

as Sir Henry Carlyle

8.0

Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased)

Trial & Retribution

Rebecca

as Maxim de Winter

Room 101

as Self

The Phantom of the Opera

1990

as The Phantom of the Opera

First Born

Out on a Limb

as Gerry Stamford

The Flying Doctors

as Minister

Screen Two

as Paul Hatcher

Time for Murder

as James Latimer

The Jewel in the Crown

1984

as Guy Perron

6.4

The Secret Servant

1984

as SAS Major Harry Maxim

Natural World

1983

7.4

Tales of the Unexpected

as Robert Smythe

An Audience with...

as Self

The Professionals

as Parker

Raffles

Playhouse

as Siegfried Sassoon

Father Brown

The Inheritors

as Simon Leadbetter

Play for Today

1970

6.3

BBC Play of the Month

1965

as Borghejm

5.0

Crew (3)

Movies (3)

Ladies in Lavender

Director

Ladies in Lavender

Executive Producer

Ladies in Lavender

Screenplay