Birthday
1946/10/10 (78 years old)
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
Redditch, Worcestershire, England, UK
Also know as
찰스 댄스, Чарльз Дэнс, 查尔斯·丹斯, Walter Charles Dance
Walter Charles Dance OBE (born October 10, 1946 in Redditch, Worcestershire) 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: Aw...Read more
(2003) Swimming Pool
as John Bosload
(1986) The Golden Child
as Sardo Numspa
(2007) The 50 Greatest Television Dramas
as Self
(1981) For Your Eyes Only
as Claus
(2001) Gosford Park
as Raymond Stockbridge
(2006) Twice Upon a Time
as Battar Master of Ceremonies
(1992) Alien³
as Clemens
(1994) China Moon
as Rupert Munro
(1993) Last Action Hero
as Benedict
(1985) Plenty
as Raymond Brock
(2006) Starter for 10
as Michael Harbinson
(1987) White Mischief
as Josslyn Hay
(2011) There Be Dragons
as Solono
(2001) Dark Blue World
as Wing Commander Bentley
(2011) Your Highness
as King Tallious
(2011) Ironclad
as Stephen Langton, Archbishop of Canterbury
(1987) Good Morning, Babylon
as D.W. Griffith
(1998) Hilary and Jackie
as Derek Du Pré
(2012) Underworld: Awakening
as Thomas
(2013) The Relics of Buddha
as Narrator (voice)
(2003) Wreckage and Rage: Making 'Alien³'
as Self (archive footage)
(1997) In the Presence of Mine Enemies
as Captain Richter
(1999) Don't Go Breaking My Heart
as Frank
(2004) Saint John Bosco Mission to Love
as Marchese Clementi
(1989) Goldeneye
as Ian Fleming
(1997) The Blood Oranges
as Cyril
(2012) St George's Day
as Trenchard
(2013) Justin and the Knights of Valour
as Legantir (voice)
(1988) Pascali's Island
as Anthony Bowles
(1995) The Surgeon
as Dr. Ed Mittlesbay
(2019) Master Moley by Royal Invitation
as Mr. James Moley (voice)
(2001) Alien Evolution
as Self / Clemens
(2007) Consenting Adults
as Jack Wolfenden
(1994) Shortcut to Paradise
as Quinn
(2013) Patrick
as Doctor Roget
(2015) Instruments of Darkness
as Duncan
(2022) The Hanging Sun
as Jacob
(2007) The Contractor
as DCS Andrew Windsor
(2023) Savage Waters
as ---
(2000) The Dark Beginnings of Sherlock Holmes
as Sir Henry Carlyle
(2010) Paris Connections
as Aleksandr Borinski
(2013) The Science of Doctor Who
as Self
(2014) The Imitation Game
as Commander Denniston
(1996) Space Truckers
as Nabel / Macanudo
(1988) Out of the Shadows
as Michael Hayden
(2001) The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby
as Ralph Nickleby
(2002) Ali G Indahouse
as Deputy Prime Minister David Carlton
(1982) Little Eyolf
as Borghejm
(2001) Jurij
as ---
(1996) Undertow
as Lyle Yates
(1993) Century
as Professor Mandry
(2014) Dracula Untold
as Master Vampire
(2005) Titanic: Birth of a Legend
as Narrator (voice)
(2016) Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
as Mr. Bennet
(2015) Admiral
as King Charles II
(2015) Woman in Gold
as Sherman
(2022) Lancaster
as Narrator (voice)
(2024) Rumours
as Edison Wolcott
(2015) Game of Thrones The IMAX Experience
as Tywin Lannister
A Patriot
as Dr. Hastings
Frankenstein
as ---
(2022) Portrait of the Queen
as ---
(2002) Black and White
as Roderic Chamberlain
(2015) Child 44
as Major Grachev
(2012) Midnight's Children
as William Methwold
(2016) Me Before You
as Stephen Traynor
(1986) The McGuffin
as Paul Hatcher
(2021) The Magic of the Movies: Behind the Scenes of David Fincher's Mank
as Self
(2024) The First Omen
as Father Harris
(2013) Father's Day
as Don
(2016) Despite the Falling Snow
as Old Alexander Ivanov
(2012) The Mapmaker
as Rowan
(2016) Underworld: Blood Wars
as Thomas
(2006) Scoop
as Mr. Malcolm
(2014) Forbidden Empire
as Lord Dudley
(2014) Retrospective
as Jonathan Hoyle
(2016) Ghostbusters
as Harold Fillmore
(2018) Euphoria
as Mr. Daren
(2010) The Clerk's Tale
as Ralph
(1996) Michael Collins
as Soames
(2008) Dickens' Secret Lover
as Self - Narrator (voice)
(2019) Iron Mask
as Lord Dudley
(2015) Victor Frankenstein
as Frankenstein
(1994) Kabloonak
as Robert Flaherty
(2024) Amanece en Samaná
as ---
(2010) The Commuter
as The Traffic Warden
(1980) Dreams of Leaving
as Colin
(1987) Hidden City
as James Richards
(2019) Fanny Lye Deliver'd
as John Lye
(2019) Godzilla: King of the Monsters
as Alan Jonah
(2017) That Good Night
as The Visitor
(2010) Rosamunde Pilcher: Shades of Love-Family Secret
as ---
(2010) Rosamunde Pilcher: Shades of Love-A Healing Heart
as ---
(2011) Rosamunde Pilcher: Shades of Love-The Reunion
as ---
(2011) Rosamunde Pilcher: Shades of Love-The Scandal
as ---
(1988) First Born
as Edward Forester
(2021) The Book of Vision
as Dr. Johan Anmuth
(2018) Happy New Year, Colin Burstead
as Uncle Bertie
(1984) Rainy Day Women
as John Truman
(2013) Speeches That Shook the World
as Self
(2012) The Door
as Thomas Arlington
(2018) Spitfire
as Narrator (voice)
(2018) Johnny English Strikes Again
as Agent Seven
(2017) Wimbledon Official Film 2017
as Narrator (voice)
(2021) The King's Man
as Kitchener
(1999) Chrono-Perambulator
as James 'Dougie' Douglas
(2020) Mank
as William Randolph Hearst
(1992) La valle di pietra
as Surveyor
(2018) The Muppets Take The O2
as Self
(1998) What Rats Won't Do
as Gerald Burton Jr
(2002) The Making of 'Gosford Park'
as Self (uncredited)
The Liar
as Tickford
Viy 3: Travel to India
as ---
(2022) Against the Ice
as Minister Neergaard
(2007) Intervention
as Private Investigator
(1980) Fatal Spring
as Siegfried Sassoon
(2024) Hammer: Heroes, Legends and Monsters
as Narrator
Ladies First
as ---
(2024) The Big Fat Quiz of Telly
as Self
(2011) Game of Thrones
as Tywin Lannister
(2006) The One Show
as Self
(1979) Tales of the Unexpected
as Robert Smythe
(1977) The Professionals
as Parker
(2005) Bleak House
as Mr. Tulkinghorn
(2000) Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased)
as ---
(1984) The Jewel in the Crown
as Guy Perron
(2002) Foyle's War
as ---
(2009) Trinity
as Dr. Edmund Maltravers
(2007) Fallen Angel
as David Byfield
(2001) Murder Rooms: Mysteries of the Real Sherlock Holmes
as Sir Henry Carlyle
(2010) Going Postal
as Lord Vetinari
(1977) Raffles
as ---
(1997) Trial & Retribution
as ---
(1970) Play for Today
as ---
(2005) Fingersmith
as Mr. Chistopher Lilly
(1997) Rebecca
as Maxim de Winter
(1983) Natural World
as ---
(2011) Neverland
as Dr. Fludd
(1974) Father Brown
as ---
(2010) Drama Trails
as ---
(2010) Strike Back
as Conrad Knox
(2012) Secret State
as John Hodder
(2007) Would I Lie to You?
as Self
(1965) BBC Play of the Month
as Borghejm
(2004) Big Fat Quiz
as Self - Guest
(2004) Who Do You Think You Are?
as Self
(2015) Childhood's End
as Karellen
(1990) The Phantom of the Opera
as The Phantom of the Opera
(2015) And Then There Were None
as Justice Lawrence Wargrave
(2008) Merlin
as Aredian
(1975) Edward the Seventh
as Prince Eddy
(2015) Deadline Gallipoli
as Sir Ian Hamilton
(2021) Moley
as Mr. Moley (voice)
(2011) Rosamunde Pilcher's Shades of Love
as Edmund Aird
(1978) An Audience with...
as Self
(2005) To the Ends of the Earth
as Sir Henry Somerset
(1986) The Flying Doctors
as Minister
(2016) The Crown
as Lord Mountbatten
(1987) Out on a Limb
as Gerry Stamford
(2016) Savage Kingdom
as Self - Narrator (voice)
(2023) Rabbit Hole
as Dr. Ben Wilson
(2014) The Great Fire
as Lord Denton
(1982) Nancy Astor
as Edward Hartford-Jones
(1994) Room 101
as Self
(2018) The Woman in White
as Frederick Fairlie
(2019) The Widow
as Martin Benson
(2022) The Sandman
as Roderick Burgess
(2011) Celebrity Antiques Road Trip
as Self - Participant
(2024) Testament: The Story of Moses
as Self - Narrator (voice)
(2003) Henry VIII
as Edward Stafford
(2022) This England
as Max Hastings
(1985) Time for Murder
as James Latimer
(2022) The Serpent Queen
as Clement VII
(2004) Agatha Christie's Marple
as Septimus Bligh
(2020) Rise of Empires: Ottoman
as Self - Narrator (voice)
(1988) First Born
as ---
(1985) Screen Two
as Paul Hatcher
(2020) The Singapore Grip
as Mr Webb
(2018) The Little Drummer Girl
as Commander Picton
(2018) Hang Ups
as Jeremy Pitt
(2024) Renaissance: The Blood and the Beauty
as Old Michaelangelo
(2002) Top Gear
as Self
(2024) The Day of the Jackal
as Timothy Winthrop