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Charles Dance is a British television and film actor, screenwriter, and director. Born Walter Charles Dance in Redditch, Worcestershire, England, in 1946, he began his professional work period in 1974. He is a citizen of the United Kingdom and resides in Kentish Town. Dance has received the award of Officer of the Order of the British Empire.
He is an English speaker and has worked in the genre of Shakespearean comedy. Dance is the unmarried partner of Sophia Myles and has three children. He was educated at De Montfort University.
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Person · Open Library
- 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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Film & TV
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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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 296
- Total plays
- 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
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python
· 2020 · cited 36,569x
- The Pittsburgh sleep quality index: A new instrument for psychiatric practice and research
· 1989 · cited 29,226x
- Human-level control through deep reinforcement learning
· 2015 · cited 23,802x
- Array programming with NumPy
· 2020 · cited 23,501x
- Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2
· 2019 · cited 20,908x
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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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Encyclopedic overview
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.
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