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Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:About Шаблон:Use dmy dates Шаблон:Infobox person Walter Charles Dance Шаблон:Post-nominals (born 10 October 1946) is an English actor. He is known for playing strict, 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 Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) by Queen Elizabeth II in 2006.

He made his feature film debut in the James Bond film For Your Eyes Only (1981). He 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.

On television, Dance played Guy Perron in The Jewel in the Crown (1984), Mr Tulkinghorn in Bleak House (2005), Tywin Lannister in Game of Thrones (2011–2015), and Lord Mountbatten in the third and fourth seasons of The Crown (2019–2020). For his role in The Crown, he was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series.

Early life

Walter Charles Dance was born in Redditch, Worcestershire, on 10 October 1946, the younger son of Eleanor Marion (Шаблон:Nee Perks; 1911–1984), a cook, and Walter Dance (1874–1949), an electrical engineer who served as a sergeant in the 2nd Regular Battalion of the Royal Fusiliers during the Second Boer War (having previously served in the 2nd Volunteer Battalion) and who was in his 70s when his younger son was born. By his father's previous marriage, Dance had two older half-sisters, Norah (1898–1993) and Mary (1903–1908). He also has an elder brother, Michael (born 1936).

During filming of an episode for the genealogical series Who Do You Think You Are? in 2016, Dance also discovered that his mother had Belgian ancestry, which traced back to the city of Spa. His immigrant ancestor Charles François Futvoye (1777–1847) had been a pioneer in the art of Japanning during the early half of the 19th century. Growing up in Plymouth, Dance attended the now-defunct Widey Technical School for Boys (then known as Widey High School) in Crownhill. He later attended Arts University Plymouth and De Montfort University (then known as the Leicester College of Arts), where he studied graphic design and photography.

Career

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Shadowlands at the Wyndham's.

Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC)

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 Actor award for his performance as C. S. Lewis in William Nicholson's Shadowlands, in the 2007 stage revival.

Television and film

Dance made his screen debut in 1974, in the ITV series Father Brown as Commandant Neil O'Brien in "The Secret Garden". Other small parts followed, including a 1983 cameo as a South African assassin in The Professionals, but his big break came the following year when he played Guy Perron in The Jewel in the Crown (Granada Television, Christopher Morahan 1984), an adaptation of Paul Scott's novels that also made stars of Geraldine James and Art Malik. Dance made one of his earliest big-screen appearances in the 1981 James Bond film For Your Eyes Only as evil henchman Claus. Though he turned down the opportunity to screen test for the James Bond role, in 1989 he played Bond creator Ian Fleming in Anglia Television's dramatised biography directed by Don Boyd, Goldeneye (the name of Fleming's estate in Jamaica and a title later used for a James Bond film).

He has also starred in many other British television dramas such as Edward the Seventh (as Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence and Avondale, Edward VII's oldest son, and heir to the throne), Murder Rooms, Randall and Hopkirk, Rebecca, The Phantom of the Opera, Fingersmith and Bleak House (for which he received an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie). He was name-checked in the British comedy series Absolutely Fabulous, as being slated to play the title character in The Life of Jesus Christ 2, which was filming in Morocco at the same time as the main characters of the series were there for a photo shoot. He also played Guy Spencer, the pro-Hitler propagandist, in the second instalment of Foyle's War, and had an ongoing role as Dr. Maltravers in the ITV drama Trinity.

Dance made a guest appearance on the BBC drama series Merlin as the Witchfinder Aredian, and as a vainglorious version of himself in the third series of Jam & Jerusalem. He played Lord Vetinari in the 2010 Sky adaptation of Terry Pratchett's Going Postal, and as the Russian oligarch Aleksandr Borinski in Paris Connections. He played the role of Tywin Lannister in HBO's Game of Thrones, based on the A Song of Ice and Fire novels by George R. R. Martin. Dance was wooed for the role by the producers while filming Your Highness in Belfast. Dance also played Conrad Knox on the British television series Strike Back: Vengeance as the primary villain in the series.

On 30 June 2013, Dance appeared with other celebrities in an episode of the BBC's Top Gear as a "Star in a Reasonably Priced Car" for the debut of the Vauxhall Astra. In summer 2018, Dance narrated a documentary entitled Spitfire, which featured the legendary Supermarine Spitfire and recounted the efforts of the RAF pilots who flew them during the Second World War.

In 2019, he played an antagonist in Godzilla: King of the Monsters and appeared as Lord Mountbatten in series 3 of The Crown in the same year.

In 2020, Dance portrayed William Randolph Hearst in David Fincher's Mank, co-starring alongside Gary Oldman and Amanda Seyfried.

In January 2021, Dance was cast in the Netflix adaptation of The Sandman.

Screenwriting and directing

Dance's debut film as a screenwriter and director was Ladies in Lavender (2004), which starred Judi Dench and Maggie Smith. In 2009, he directed his own adaptation of Alice Thomas Ellis's The Inn at the Edge of the World.

Personal life

Dance lives in North London. He married Joanna Haythorn in 1970, and they had a son named Oliver (born 1974) and a daughter named Rebecca (born 1980) before divorcing in 2004. He later dated Eleanor Boorman from 2008 to 2012, and they had a daughter named Rose (born 2012).

Political views

Dance has described his political views as "very left-of-centre" and "a bit left of centre-left". He supported the UK remaining in the European Union in the run-up to the 2016 EU referendum, and expressed his wish for the country to be closer to Europe to avoid "being a little satellite of America". In a 2020 interview with the Financial Times, he felt NHS workers were not being offered a decent enough pay rise and called Boris Johnson a "bumbling buffoon".

In light of the 2023 Israel–Hamas war, Dance was one of over two thousand to sign an Artists for Palestine letter calling for a ceasefire and accusing western governments of "not only tolerating war crimes but aiding and abetting them." Dance contributed to a video published by the Palestine Festival of Literature in support of South Africa's legal motion accusing Israel of genocide at the International Court of Justice (ICJ).

Honours

Dance was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) on 17 June 2006.

Acting credits

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1981	For Your Eyes Only	Claus
1985	Plenty	Raymond Brock
1986	The Golden Child	Sardo Numspa
1987	White Mischief	Josslyn Hay
	Good Morning, Babylon	Paolo and Vittorio Taviani
	Hidden City	James Richards
1988	Pascali's Island	Anthony Bowles
1992	Alien 3	Clemens
	Kalkstein	Surveyor
1993	Last Action Hero	Mr. Benedict
	Century	Professor Mandry
1994	China Moon	Rupert Munro
	Kabloonak	Robert J. Flaherty	Paris Film Festival Award for Best Actor
	Shortcut to Paradise	Quinn
1995	The Surgeon	Dr. Ed Mittlesbay
1996	Space Truckers	Nabel / Macanudo
	Michael Collins	Soames
1997	The Blood Oranges	Cyril
1998	What Rats Won't Do	Gerald
	Hilary and Jackie	Derek Du Pré
1999	Don't Go Breaking My Heart	Frank
2001	Gosford Park	Raymond Stockbridge
	Jurij	Padre di Jurij
	Dark Blue World	Wing Commander Bentley
2002	Black and White	Roderic Chamberlain
	Ali G Indahouse	David Carlton
2003	Swimming Pool	John Bosload
2003	Labyrinth	Charles Lushington
	City and Crimes	Cox William
	Ladies in Lavender		Director, writer and executive producer only
2006	Dolls	Narrator	Voice; short film
	Scoop	Mr. Malcolm
	Twice Upon a Time	Master of Ceremonies
	Starter for 10	Michael Harbinson
2007	The Contractor	DCS Andrew Windsor	Direct-to-DVD
	Intervention	Private Investigator
2010	Paris Connections	Aleksandr Borinski
	The Commuter	Traffic Warden	Short film
2011	Ironclad	Archbishop Langton
	Your Highness	King Tallious
	There Be Dragons	Monsignor Solano
2012	Midnight's Children	William Methwold
	Underworld: Awakening	Thomas
	St George's Day	Trenchard
2013	Patrick	Doctor Roget
	Justin and the Knights of Valour	Legantir	Voice
2014	Viy	Lord Dudley	Credited by his name in Шаблон:Lang-ru
	Dracula Untold	Master Vampire
	The Imitation Game	Commander Alastair Denniston
2015	Victor Frankenstein	Baron Frankenstein
	Michiel de Ruyter	Charles II
	Woman in Gold	Sherman
	Child 44	Major Grachev
2016	Pride and Prejudice and Zombies	Mr. Bennet
2016	Me Before You	Stephen Traynor
	Ghostbusters	Harold Filmore
	Despite the Falling Snow	Old Alexander
	Underworld: Blood Wars	Thomas
2017	Euphoria	Mr. Daren
	That Good Night	The Visitor
2018	Johnny English Strikes Again	Agent Seven	Cameo
	Happy New Year, Colin Burstead	Bertie
2019	Godzilla: King of the Monsters	Alan Jonah
	Viy 2: Journey to China	Lord Dudley
	Fanny Lye Deliver'd	John Lye
2020	The Book of Vision	Johan Anmuth
	Mank	William Randolph Hearst
2021	The King's Man	Lord Kitchener
2022	Against the Ice	Neergaard
	Lancaster	Narrator
	The Hanging Sun	Jacob
TBA	Шаблон:Pending film	Tickford	Post-production
	Шаблон:Pending film	TBA	Post-production
	Шаблон:Pending film		Filming

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1974	Father Brown	Commandant Neil O'Brien	Episode: "The Secret Garden"
	The Inheritors	Simon Leadbetter	Episode: "Fathers and Sons"
1975	Edward the Seventh	Prince Eddy	2 episodes
1977	Raffles	Teddy Garland	Episode: "Mr. Justice Raffles"
1980, 1984	Play for Today	Colin / Captain John Truman	2 episodes
1982	Nancy Astor	Edward Hartford-Jones	Episode: "Guest for the Weekend"
1983	The Professionals	Parker	Episode: "The Ojuka Situation"
	The Last Day	Alan	Television
1984	The Jewel in the Crown	Guy Perron	5 episodes
	The Secret Servant	Harry Maxim	Mini-series
1985	Time for Murder	James Latimer	Episode: "This Lightning Always Strikes Twice"
1987	Out on a Limb	Gerry Stamford	2 episodes
	Tales of the Unexpected	Robert Smythe	Episode: "Skeleton in the Cupboard"
1988	First Born	Edward Forester	3 episodes
	Out of the Shadows	Michael Hayden	Television film
1989	Goldeneye: The Secret Life of Ian Fleming	Ian Fleming	2 episodes
	Mission: Impossible	Prime Minister	Episode: "Command Performance"
1990	The Phantom of the Opera	Erik/The Phantom	2 episodes
1996	Undertow	Lyle Yates	Television film
1997	Rebecca	Maxim de Winter	2 episodes
	In the Presence of Mine Enemies	Captain Richter	Television film
1999	Chrono-Perambulator	James "Dougie" Douglas	Television short
2000	The Real Spartacus	Narrator
	Mysteries of the Real Sherlock Holmes	Sir Henry Carlyle	Episode: "The Dark Beginnings of Sherlock Holmes"
	A History of Britain	Winston Churchill (voice)	Episode: "The Two Winstons"
	Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased)	Kenneth Crisby	Episode: "Drop Dead"
2001	The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby	Ralph Nickleby	Television film
2002	Foyle's War	Guy Spencer	Episode: "The White Feather"
	Dan Dare: Pilot of the Future	Col. Simon Lasker (voice)	Episode: "Pilot of the Future"
2003	Henry VIII	Duke of Buckingham	Television film
	Trial & Retribution	Greg Harwood	Television film
	Looking for Victoria	Charles Greville	Television film
2004	When Hitler Invaded Britain	Narrator	Documentary
	Saint John Bosco: Mission to Love	Marquis Clementi	Television film
2005	Fingersmith	Mr. Lilly	2 episodes
	Bleak House	Mr. Tulkinghorn	12 episodes
	To the Ends of the Earth	Sir Henry Somerset	Episode: "Close Quarters"
	Last Rights	Richard Wheeler	3 episodes
	Titanic: Birth of a Legend	Narrator	Documentary
2006	Marple: By the Pricking of My Thumbs	Septimus Bligh	Episode: "By the Pricking of My Thumbs"
2007	Fallen Angel	David Byfield	3 episodes
	Consenting Adults	John Wolfenden	Television film
2009	Merlin	Aredian	Episode: "The Witchfinder"
	Trinity	Dr. Edmund Maltravers	8 episodes
2010	Going Postal	Havelock Vetinari	2 episodes
2010–2011	Rosamunde Pilcher's Shades of Love	Edmund Aird	4 episodes
2011–2015	Game of Thrones	Шаблон:Sort	27 episodes
2011	Neverland	Dr. Richard Fludd	Episode: "Part 1"
2012	Secret State	John Hodder	4 episodes
	Strike Back: Vengeance	Conrad Knox	10 episodes
2013	Bones of the Buddha	Narrator	Documentary
2014	The Great Fire	Lord Denton	4 episodes
2015	Childhood's End	Karellen	3 episodes
	Deadline Gallipoli	General Ian Hamilton	2 episodes
	And Then There Were None	Justice Lawrence Wargrave	3 episodes
2018	The Woman in White	Mr. Fredrick Fairlie	4 episodes
	Hang Ups	Jeremy Pitt	4 episodes
	The Little Drummer Girl	Commander Picton	2 episodes
2019	The Widow	Martin Benson	7 episodes
2019–2020	The Crown	Louis, Earl Mountbatten of Burma	Main role (Seasons 3–4) 5 episodes
2020	The Singapore Grip	Mr. Webb	Episode: "Singapore for Beginners"
2020–2022	Rise of Empires: Ottoman	Narrator	12 episodes
2022	The Sandman	Roderick Burgess	Episode: "Sleep of the Just"
	The Serpent Queen	Pope Clement VII	2 episodes
	This England	Max Hastings	Episode #1.1
2023	Rabbit Hole	Ben Wilson	8 episodes
TBA	Washington Black	James Wilde

Video games

Year	Title	Voice role	Notes	Шаблон:Abbr
2015	The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	Emperor Emhyr var Emreis	English Dub
2018	Call of Duty: Black Ops 4	Godfrey The Butler	"Dead of the Night" Zombies Map

Audiobooks

Year	Title	Author	Voice role	Шаблон:Abbr
1985	The Fourth Protocol	Frederick Forsyth	Narrator

Podcasts

Year	Title	Voice role	Notes	Шаблон:Abbr
2020	Hindsight	Narrator	An Al Jazeera Podcast

Stage

• Toad of Toad Hall as Badger (1971)
• The Beggar's Opera as Wat Dreary (Chichester Festival Theatre, 1972)
• The Taming of the Shrew as Philip (Chichester, 1972)
• Three Sisters as Soliony (Greenwich Theatre, 1973)
• Hans Kohlhaus as Meissen (Greenwich, 1973)
• Born Yesterday as Hotel Manager (Greenwich, 1973)
• Saint Joan as Baudricourt (Oxford Festival, 1974)
• The Sleeping Beauty as Prince (1974)
• Travesties as Henry Carr (Leeds Playhouse, 1977)
• Hamlet as Fortinbras / Reynaldo / Player (RSC The Other Place 1975; The Roundhouse, 1976)
• Perkin Warbeck as Hialas / Astley / Spanish Ambassador (RSC The Other Place, 1975)
• Richard III as Catesby / Murderer (RSC The Other Place, 1975)
• Henry V as Henry V (RSC Glasgow and New York, 1975)
• Henry IV, Part One and Henry IV, Part Two as Prince John of Lancaster (RSC Stratford, 1975; Aldwych Theatre, 1976)
• As You Like It as Oliver (RSC Stratford, 1977; Aldwych, 1978)
• Henry V as Scroop / Williams (RSC Stratford, 1977)
• Henry VI, Part 2 as Buckingham (RSC Stratford, 1977; Aldwych, 1978)
• The Jail Diary of Albie Sachs as Whistling Guard / Freeman (RSC Donmar Warehouse, 1978; The Other Place, 1979)
• Coriolanus as Volscian Lieutenant (RSC Stratford, 1977)
• Coriolanus as Tullus Aufidius (Aldwych, 1978 and 1979)
• The Women Pirates as Blackie / Vosquin (RSC Aldwych, 1978)
• The Changeling as Tomazo (RSC Aldwych, 1978)
• Irma la Douce as Nestor (Shaftesbury Theatre, 1979)
• The Heiress as Morris Townsend (1980)
• Turning Over as Frank (Bush Theatre, 1983)
• Coriolanus as Coriolanus (RSC Stratford and Newcastle upon Tyne, 1989; Barbican Theatre, 1990)
• Three Sisters as Vershinin (Birmingham Rep, 1998)
• Good as John Halder (Donmar Warehouse, 1999)
• Long Day's Journey into Night as James Tyrone (Lyric Theatre, 2000)
• The Play What I Wrote as a guest star (Wyndham's Theatre, 2001Шаблон:Ndash2002)
• Celebration as Richard (Gate Theatre, Dublin; Albery Theatre, 2005)
• The Exonerated (Riverside Studios, Hammersmith, London, 2006)
• Eh Joe as Joe (Parade Theatre, Sydney, 2006)
• Shadowlands as C. S. Lewis (Wyndham's Theatre, 2007 and Novello Theatre 2007Шаблон:Ndash2008)

Awards and nominations

Organizations	Year	Category	Work	Result	Ref.
BAFTA TV Awards	1985	Best Actor	The Jewel in the Crown	Шаблон:Nom
Critics' Choice Movie Awards	2002	Best Acting Ensemble	Gosford Park	Шаблон:Won
Primetime Emmy Awards	2006	Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series or Movie	Bleak House	Шаблон:Nom
	2018	Outstanding Narrator	Savage Kingdom	Шаблон:Nom
	2019			Шаблон:Nom
	2021	Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series	The Crown	Шаблон:Nom
Screen Actors Guild Awards	2002	Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture	Gosford Park	Шаблон:Won
	2014	Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series	Game of Thrones	Шаблон:Nom
	2015			Шаблон:Nom
		Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture	The Imitation Game	Шаблон:Nom
	2020	Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series	The Crown	Шаблон:Won

Further reading

• Who's Who in the Theatre, 16th/17th editions, edited by Ian Herbert, Pitman/Gale 1977/1981
• Theatre Record and Theatre Record Indexes
• Halliwell's Who's Who in the Movies Fourth edition by John Walker, HarperCollins 2006 Шаблон:ISBN
• Charles Dance's own CVs in various theatre programmes

External links

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• Шаблон:IMDb name
• Шаблон:Screenonline name