Donald Pleasence
Actor
Born October 5, 1919 in Worksop, Nottinghamshire, England, UK
Donald Henry Pleasence OBE (October 5, 1919 – February 2, 1995) was an English actor who gained more than 200 screen credits during a career which spanned over four decades. Often typecast as villainous and/or psychopathic characters, Pleasence is arguably best-known for his work in two of cinema's most successful franchises - James Bond and Halloween.
Filmography
The Dr. Loomis Tapes
Dr. Loomis
Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music
Self (archive footage)
Driving Lessons
Dr. Sam Loomis (archive footage)
Halloween: A Cut Above the Rest
Self / Dr. Samuel 'Sam' Loomis (archive footage)
Fatal Frames
Professor Robinson
Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers
Dr. Loomis
Signs and Wonders
Cornelius Van Damm
The World of Hammer
Self (archive footage)
Guinevere
Merlin
Freeze: But is it Art?
Sinister Dentist
The Big Freeze
Soup slurper
The Hour of the Pig
Pincheon
The Thief and the Cobbler
Phido the Vulture (voice)
Femme Fatale
Victor Harty
Dien Bien Phu
Howard Simpson
Shadows and Fog
Doctor
Millions
Ripa
Women in Arms
Dreyfuss
The Vulture Is a Patient Bird
Armon Shalik
Life of General De Gaulle
Winston Churchill
Miss Marple: A Caribbean Mystery
Jason Rafiel
Casablanca Express
Colonel Bats
Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers
Dr. Sam Loomis
River of Death
Heinrich Spaatz
Ten Little Indians
Mr. Justice Lawrence Wargrave
Buried Alive
Dr. Schaeffer
Paganini Horror
Mr. Pickett
The House of Usher
Walter Usher
American Rickshaw
Rev. Mortom
The Great Escape II: The Untold Story
Dr. Absalon
The Great Escape II: The Untold Story
Dr. Absalon
Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers
Dr. Loomis
Nosferatu in Venice
Don Alvise
Last Platoon
Colonel B. Abrahams
Metropolitan Animals
Prof. Livingstone
The Commander
Henry Carlson
Hanna's War
Captain Thomas Rosza
Phantom of Death
Inspector Datti
Prince of Darkness
Priest
Django Strikes Again
Ben Gunn
Ground Zero
Prosper Gaffney
Double Target
Sen. Blaster
Basements
Mr. Kidd (segment "The Room")
Scoop
Lord Copper
Specters
Professor Lasky
Warrior Queen
Clodius Flaucus
Gila and Rik
Joe Gardenia
Cobra Mission
Father Lenoir
To Kill a Stranger
Col. Kostik
Deadheat
Aldo Rossi
Into the Darkness
David Beckett
Nothing Underneath
Commissioner Danesi
Black Arrow
Sir Oliver Oates
Reel Horror
Axel MacGregor (archive footage)
Treasure of the Amazon
Klaus von Blantz
The Ray Bradbury Theater
George Hill
The Corsican Brothers
The Chancellor
Phenomena
Professor John McGregor
The Ambassador
Minister Eretz
Screen Two
Victor Harty
Arch of Triumph
Ivon Haake
Terror in the Aisles
Self - Host
A Breed Apart
J.P. Whittier
Master of the Game
Salomon Van der Merwe
Where Is Parsifal?
Mackintosh
Frankenstein's Great Aunt Tillie
Victor Frankenstein / Baron Frankenstein
The Devonsville Terror
Dr. Warley
The Falklands Factor
Dr. Samuel Johnson
Warrior of the Lost World
Prossor
Witness for the Prosecution
Mr. Myers
Alone in the Dark
Leo Bain
The Barchester Chronicles
Septimus Harding
Computercide
George Dettler
Wogan
Self
Race for the Yankee Zephyr
Gilbert Carson
Halloween II
Sam Loomis
Escape from New York
President of the United States
The Monster Club
Pickering, Chief of the B-Squad
Blade on the Feather
John Cavendish
Pumaman
Kobras
The French Atlantic Affair
Max Dechambre
All Quiet on the Western Front
Kantorek
Better Late Than Never
Colonel Riddle
Jaguar Lives!
General Villanova
Dracula
Dr. Jack Seward
Good Luck, Miss Wyckoff
Dr. Steiner
L'Homme en colère
Albert Rumpelmayer
Gold of the Amazon Women
Clarence Blasko
Mrs. Columbo
Dick Turpin
Ignatius Slake
Power Play
Blair
Halloween
Loomis
Centennial
Sam Purchas
Last In, First Out
Rothko
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
B.D. Brockhurst
Night Creature
Axel MacGregor
The Bastard
Solomon Sholto
Tomorrow Never Comes
Dr. Todd
Blood Relatives
James Doniac
The Defection of Simas Kudirka
Capt. Vladimir Popov
The Dark Secret of Harvest Home
Narrator (voice)
Telefon
Nicolai Dalchimsky
Oh, God!
Doctor Harmon
The Uncanny
Valentine De'ath (segment "Hollywood 1936")
Jesus of Nazareth
Melchior
The Eagle Has Landed
Himmler
Hindle Wakes
Nat Jeffcote
Laurence Olivier Presents
Nat Jeffcote
The Last Tycoon
Boxley
The Passover Plot
Pontius Pilate
Meriel the Ghost Girl
George Livingston
Goldenrod
John Tyler Jones
The Devil's Men
Father Roche
The Joke
Bendel
Trial by Combat
Sir Giles Marley
I Don't Want to Be Born
Dr. Finch
The Count of Monte-Cristo
Danglars
Saturday Night Live
Self - Host
Hearts of the West
A.J. Nietz
Shades of Greene
Puckler
Journey into Fear
Kuvetli
Escape to Witch Mountain
Lucas Deranian
Barry McKenzie Holds His Own
Erich Count von Plasma
House of the Damned
Martin Zayas
Occupations
Christo Kabak
The Cafeteria
Aaron
The Mutations
Professor Nolter
The Black Windmill
Cedric Harper
Watch Out, We're Mad
Doctor
Playhouse
George Livingston
From Beyond the Grave
Jim Underwood
Tales That Witness Madness
Prof. R.C. Tremayne
Malachi's Cove
Malachi
Orson Welles' Great Mysteries
Cawser
Lonely Water
The Spirit (voice)
The Rainbow Boys
Ralph Logan
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Fred Smudge
The Pied Piper
The Baron
Wedding in White
Jim Dougall, Sr.
Death Line
Inspector Calhoun
Innocent Bystanders
Loomis
Henry VIII and His Six Wives
Thomas Cromwell
The Jerusalem File
Major Samuels
Kidnapped
Ebenezer Balfour
Skin Deep
Gerry Muddiman
The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes
Carnacki
Columbo
Adrian Carsini
Wake in Fright
Doc Tydon
The Fox Trot
Tom
THX 1138
SEN
Play for Today
Samuel Johnson
Soldier Blue
Isaac Q. Cumber
The Madwoman of Chaillot
The Prospector
Arthur? Arthur!
Arthur Brownjohn / Sir Easonby 'E' Mellon
Mr. Freedom
Dr. Freedom
Last to Go
Hawaii Five-O
Hans Vogler
Sleep is Lovely
Clive
The News-Benders
J.G.
Creature of Comfort
James Thorne
Will Penny
Preacher Quint
The Diary of Anne Frank
Albert Dussel
Matchless
Gregori Andreanu
You Only Live Twice
Ernst Stavro Blofeld
NBC Experiment in Television
(voice)
The Night of the Generals
General Kahlenberge
Eye of the Devil
Pere Dominic
Fantastic Voyage
Dr. Michaels
Cul-de-sac
George
Thirty-Minute Theatre
Richard Pratt
The Hallelujah Trail
'Oracle' Jones
The Greatest Story Ever Told
The Dark Hermit - Satan
The Wednesday Play
The Head Waiter
The Caretaker
Mac Davies / Bernard Jenkins
Espionage
Escalon
The Fugitive
Max Pfeiffer
The Outer Limits
Harold J. Finley
Dr. Crippen
Dr. Hawley Harvey Crippen
The Great Escape
Blythe 'The Forger'
The Inspector
Wolters
The Horsemasters
Captain Pinski
The Defenders
Dr. Byron Saul
What a Carve Up!
Everett Sloane
Spare the Rod
Mr. Jenkins
The Wind of Change
Pop
No Love for Johnnie
Renfrew
Alice Through the Looking Box
Caterpillar
The Cupboard
Fred Watson
The Hands of Orlac
Graham Coates
A Story of David
Nabal
Suspect
Parsons, alias Bill Brown
Danger Man
Nikolides
The Big Day
Victor Partridge
Sons and Lovers
Mr. Pappleworth
Hell Is a City
Gus Hawkins
Circus of Horrors
Vanet
The Battle of the Sexes
Irwin Hoffman
The Flesh and the Fiends
William Hare
The Shakedown
Jessel Brown
The Twilight Zone
Ellis Fowler
Killers of Kilimanjaro
Captain
Look Back in Anger
Hurst
Interpol Calling
Karl Haussman
One Step Beyond
Harvey Laurence
The Two-Headed Spy
Gen. Hardt
The Adventures of William Tell
The Man Inside
Organ Grinder
The Wind Cannot Read
Doctor
Heart of a Child
Spiel
A Tale of Two Cities
Barsad
Barnacle Bill
Cashier
Manuela
Evans
The Man in the Sky
Crabtree
Armchair Theatre
President of the USA
The Black Tent
Ali
Tony Awards
Self - Nominee
1984
R. Parsons
ITV Play of the Week
Supt. Smith
The Adventures of Robin Hood
Prince John
Value for Money
Limpy
The Moment of Truth
The Foreign Minister
Nineteen Eighty-Four
Syme
The Wonderful World of Disney
Captain Pinski
Orders Are Orders
Cpl. Martin (as Donald Plesance)
The Beachcomber
Tromp
The Dybbuk
Second batlon
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Kantorek
Sunday Night Theatre
Syme