Birthday:
Oct 05, 1919
Place of Birth: Worksop, Nottinghamshire, England, UK
Place of Birth: Worksop, Nottinghamshire, England, UK
Donald Pleasence
Donald Henry Pleasence, OBE, (5 October 1919 – 2 February 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Donald Pleasence, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
| Movie | Cast | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Halloween | Loomis | 1978 |
| Escape from New York | President of the United States | 1981 |
| THX 1138 | SEN | 1971 |
| You Only Live Twice | Ernst Stavro Blofeld | 1967 |
| Fantastic Voyage | Dr. Michaels | 1966 |
| Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde | Fred Smudge | 1973 |
| Will Penny | Preacher Quint | 1967 |
| Eye of the Devil | Pere Dominic | 1966 |
| The Greatest Story Ever Told | The Dark Hermit - Satan | 1965 |
| 1984 | R. Parsons | 1956 |
| Death Line | Inspector Calhoun | 1972 |
| The Count of Monte-Cristo | Danglars | 1975 |
| All Quiet on the Western Front | Kantorek | 1979 |
| A Tale of Two Cities | Barsad | 1958 |
| Cul-de-sac | George | 1966 |
| Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers | Dr. Sam Loomis | 1995 |
| The Great Escape | Blythe 'The Forger' | 1963 |
| Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers | Dr. Loomis | 1988 |
| Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers | Dr. Sam Loomis | 1989 |
| The Eagle Has Landed | Himmler | 1976 |
| Halloween II | Dr. Sam Loomis | 1981 |
| Witness for the Prosecution | Mr. Myers | 1982 |
| Telefon | Nicolai Dalchimsky | 1977 |
| Buried Alive | Dr. Schaeffer | 1989 |
| Warrior Queen | Clodius Flaucus | 1987 |
| Oh, God! | Doctor Harmon | 1977 |
| The Hallelujah Trail | 'Oracle' Jones | 1965 |
| Watch Out, We're Mad | Doctor | 1974 |
| The Mutations | Professor Nolter | 1974 |
| Pumaman | Kobras | 1980 |
| Last to Go | 1969 | |
| Kidnapped | Ebenezer Balfour | 1971 |
| The Black Windmill | Cedric Harper | 1974 |
| Prince of Darkness | Father Loomis | 1987 |
| Wake in Fright | Doc Tydon | 1971 |
| Dracula | Dr. Jack Seward | 1979 |
| Mr. Freedom | Dr. Freedom | 1969 |
| The Thief and the Cobbler | Phido the Vulture (voice) | 1993 |
| Circus of Horrors | Vanet | 1960 |
| The Dybbuk | Second batlon | 1952 |
| Nosferatu in Venice | Don Alvise | 1988 |
| I Don't Want to Be Born | Dr. Finch | 1976 |
| Fatal Frames | Professor Robinson | 1996 |
| Hell Is a City | Gus Hawkins | 1960 |
| Phenomena | Professor John McGregor | 1985 |
| Phantom of Death | Inspector Datti | 1988 |
| Soldier Blue | Isaac Q. Cumber | 1970 |
| Tales That Witness Madness | Prof. R.C. Tremayne | 1973 |
| Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band | B.D. Brockhurst | 1978 |
| The Night of the Generals | General Kahlenberge | 1967 |
| Escape to Witch Mountain | Lucas Deranian | 1975 |
| The Battle of the Sexes | Irwin Hoffman | 1960 |
| The Last Tycoon | Boxley | 1976 |
| The Devil's Men | Father Roche | 1976 |
| Nothing Underneath | Commissioner Danesi | 1985 |
| River of Death | Heinrich Spaatz | 1989 |
| The Monster Club | Pickering, Chief of the B-Squad | 1981 |
| Terror in the Aisles | Self - Host | 1984 |
| From Beyond the Grave | Jim Underwood | 1974 |
| The Man in the Sky | Crabtree | 1957 |
| The House of Usher | Walter Usher | 1989 |
| The Wind Cannot Read | Doctor | 1958 |
| Tomorrow Never Comes | Dr. Todd | 1978 |
| Blood Relatives | James Doniac | 1978 |
| Cobra Mission | Father Lenoir | 1986 |
| The Shakedown | Jessel Brown | 1960 |
| Look Back in Anger | Hurst | 1959 |
| Shadows and Fog | Doctor | 1991 |
| What a Carve Up! | Everett Sloane | 1961 |
| The Hands of Orlac | Graham Coates | 1960 |
| Warrior of the Lost World | Prossor | 1983 |
| The Hour of the Pig | Pincheon | 1993 |
| Henry VIII and His Six Wives | Thomas Cromwell | 1972 |
| The Flesh and the Fiends | William Hare | 1960 |
| The Traitor | Grantley Caypor | 1959 |
| Sons and Lovers | Mr. Pappleworth | 1960 |
| Hearts of the West | A.J. Nietz | 1975 |
| Treasure of the Amazon | Klaus von Blantz | 1985 |
| Diên Biên Phu | Howard Simpson | 1992 |
| Casablanca Express | Colonel Bats | 1989 |
| The Uncanny | Valentine De'ath (segment 3 "Hollywood 1936") | 1977 |
| The Wind of Change | Pop | 1961 |
| Jaguar Lives! | General Villanova | 1979 |
| Django Strikes Again | Ben Gunn | 1987 |
| Race for the Yankee Zephyr | Gilbert Carson | 1981 |
| Trial by Combat | Sir Giles Marley | 1976 |
| Innocent Bystanders | Loomis | 1972 |
| A Breed Apart | J.P. Whittier | 1984 |
| Nineteen Eighty-Four | Syme | 1954 |
| Orders Are Orders | Cpl. Martin (as Donald Plesance) | 1954 |
| The Devonsville Terror | Dr. Warley | 1983 |
| Night Creature | Axel MacGregor | 1978 |
| Double Target | Sen. Blaster | 1987 |
| The Caretaker | Mac Davies / Bernard Jenkins | 1964 |
| Ten Little Indians | Mr. Justice Lawrence Wargrave | 1989 |
| Dr. Crippen | Dr. Hawley Harvey Crippen | 1963 |
| Ground Zero | Prosper Gaffney | 1987 |
| Lonely Water | The Spirit (voice) | 1973 |
| Arch of Triumph | Ivon Haake | 1984 |
| Goldenrod | John Tyler Jones | 1976 |
| The Passover Plot | Pontius Pilate | 1976 |
| Power Play | Blair | 1978 |
| Scoop | Lord Copper | 1987 |
| Good Luck, Miss Wyckoff | Dr. Steiner | 1979 |
| The Commander | Henry Carlson | 1988 |
| Guinevere | Merlin | 1994 |
| Halloween: A Cut Above the Rest | Self / Dr. Samuel 'Sam' Loomis (archive footage) | 2003 |
| Gold of the Amazon Women | Clarence Blasko | 1979 |
| The Madwoman of Chaillot | The Prospector | 1969 |
| Matchless | Gregori Andreanu | 1967 |
| Journey into Fear | Kuvetli | 1975 |
| Where Is Parsifal? | Mackintosh | 1984 |
| The Ambassador | Minister Eretz | 1985 |
| The Inspector | Wolters | 1962 |
| Moi, général de Gaulle | Winston Churchill | 1990 |
| No Love for Johnnie | Renfrew | 1961 |
| The Pied Piper | The Baron | 1972 |
| Reel Horror | Axel MacGregor (archive footage) | 1985 |
| The Angry Man | Albert Rumpelmayer | 1979 |
| Specters | Professor Lasky | 1987 |
| American Rickshaw | Rev. Mortom | 1989 |
| To Kill a Stranger | Col. Kostik | 1986 |
| Meriel the Ghost Girl | George Livingston | 1976 |
| Deadheat | Aldo Rossi | 1986 |
| Spare the Rod | Mr. Jenkins | 1961 |
| The Rainbow Boys | Ralph Logan | 1973 |
| The Defection of Simas Kudirka | Capt. Vladimir Popov | 1978 |
| Suspect | Parsons, alias Bill Brown | 1960 |
| House of the Damned | Martin Zayas | 1974 |
| The Vulture Is a Patient Bird | The Art Collector | 1991 |
| Barry McKenzie Holds His Own | Erich Count von Plasma | 1974 |
| The Jerusalem File | 1972 | |
| The Big Freeze | Soup slurper | 1993 |
| The Corsican Brothers | The Chancellor | 1985 |
| Last In, First Out | Rothko | 1978 |
| Creature of Comfort | James Thorne | 1968 |
| Animali metropolitani | Prof. Livingstone | 1988 |
| The Greatest Man in the World | US President | 1958 |
| Computercide | George Dettler | 1982 |
| Basements | Mr. Kidd (segment "The Room") | 1987 |
| Dracula Unearthed | Dr. Jack Seward (archive footage) | 2022 |
| The Great Escape II: The Untold Story | Dr. Absalon | 1988 |
| Wedding in White | Jim Dougall, Sr. | 1972 |
| The Bastard | Solomon Sholto | 1978 |
| Barnacle Bill | Cashier | 1957 |
| Last Platoon | Colonel B. Abrahams | 1988 |
| Frankenstein's Great Aunt Tillie | Victor Frankenstein / Baron Frankenstein | 1984 |
| Freeze: But is it Art? | Sinister Dentist | 1994 |
| Occupations | Christo Kabak | 1974 |
| Women in Arms | Dreyfuss | 1991 |
| Paganini Horror | Mr. Pickett | 1989 |
| The Cupboard | Fred Watson | 1960 |
| In and Out of Fashion | Self (archive footage) | 1998 |
| Femme Fatale | Victor Harty | 1993 |
| Best Ever Bond | Blofeld (archive footage) (uncredited) | 2002 |
| Toff and Fingers | Self/Host | 1960 |
| Call Me Daddy | Ben Hoffman | 1967 |
| Manuela | Evans | 1957 |
| Round the World in 80 Days | Voices | 1955 |
| Hanna's War | Captain Thomas Rosza | 1988 |
| Alice Through the Looking Box | Caterpillar | 1960 |
| The Big Day | Victor Partridge | 1960 |
| Killers of Kilimanjaro | Captain | 1959 |
| Millions | Ripa | 1991 |
| Dario Argento's World of Horror | Self (Archive) | 1985 |
| Blade on the Feather | Professor John Cavendish | 1980 |
| A Story of David | Nabal | 1960 |
| Black Arrow | Sir Oliver Oates | 1985 |
| The Horsemasters | Captain Pinski | 1961 |
| The Black Tent | Ali | 1956 |
| Hindle Wakes | Nat Jeffcote | 1976 |
| The Diary of Anne Frank | Albert Dussel | 1967 |
| Into the Darkness | David Beckett | 1986 |
| The Beachcomber | Tromp | 1954 |
| Skin Deep | Gerry Muddiman | 1971 |
| The Fox Trot | Tom | 1971 |
| Miss Marple: A Caribbean Mystery | Jason Rafiel | 1989 |
| The Man Inside | Organ Grinder | 1958 |
| Safe Haven | The Sailor | 1995 |
| Arthur? Arthur! | Arthur Brownjohn / Sir Easonby 'E' Mellon | 1969 |
| Better Late Than Never | Colonel Riddle | 1979 |
| Gila and Rik | Joe Gardenia | 1987 |
| Sleep is Lovely | Clive | 1968 |
| Heart of a Child | Spiel | 1958 |
| Malachi's Cove | Malachi | 1973 |
| Naso di cane | Olindo Cuomo | 1986 |
| Alone in the Dark | Leo Bain | 1982 |
| The News-Benders | J.G. | 1968 |
| The Falklands Factor | Dr. Samuel Johnson | 1983 |
| Halloween: The Inside Story | Self (archive footage) | 2010 |
| Value for Money | Limpy | 1955 |
| The Two-Headed Spy | Gen. Hardt | 1958 |
| Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy | Self (archive footage) | 2010 |
| The Cafeteria | Aaron | 1974 |
| The Joke | Bendel | 1976 |
| Jesus Of Nazareth | Melchior | 1977 | Series | Cast | Year |
| Columbo | Adrian Carsini | 1971 |
| Mrs. Columbo | 1979 | |
| Danger Man | 1960 | |
| Hawaii Five-O | Hans Vogler | 1968 |
| Centennial | Sam Purchas | 1978 |
| The Ray Bradbury Theater | George Hill | 1985 |
| Hallmark Hall of Fame | Kantorek | 1951 |
| The Twilight Zone | Ellis Fowler | 1959 |
| Espionage | 1963 | |
| The Fugitive | Max Pfeiffer | 1963 |
| Interpol Calling | Karl Haussman | 1959 |
| One Step Beyond | Harvey Laurence | 1959 |
| The Adventures of Robin Hood | Prince John | 1955 |
| The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes | Carnacki | 1971 |
| The Barchester Chronicles | Septimus Harding | 1982 |
| Orson Welles' Great Mysteries | Cawser | 1973 |
| The Adventures of William Tell | 1958 | |
| Jesus of Nazareth | Melchior | 1977 |
| Peep Show | 1975 | |
| The Outer Limits | Harold J. Finley | 1963 |
| The Defenders | Dr. Byron Saul | 1961 |
| Playhouse | 1974 | |
| Saturday Night Live | Self - Host | 1975 |
| Laurence Olivier Presents | Nat Jeffcote | 1976 |
| Tony Awards | Self - Nominee | 1956 |
| Dick Turpin | 1979 | |
| The French Atlantic Affair | Max Dechambre | 1979 |
| Signs and Wonders | Cornelius Van Damm | 1995 |
| Wogan | Self | 1982 |
| The Dark Secret of Harvest Home | Narrator (voice) | 1978 |
| Playhouse | George Livingston | 1974 |
| Hallmark Hall of Fame | Myers | 1951 |
| Hallmark Hall of Fame | The Chancellor | 1951 |
| Master of the Game | Salomon Van der Merwe | 1984 |
| Armchair Theatre | President of the USA | 1956 |
| The Great Escape II: The Untold Story | Dr. Absalon | 1988 |
| Miss Marple | Jason Rafiel | 1984 |
| Play for Today | Samuel Johnson | 1970 |
| The Wonderful World of Disney | Captain Pinski | 1954 |
| NBC Experiment in Television | (voice) | 1967 |
| Play for Today | Gerry Muddiman | 1970 |
| Armchair Mystery Theatre | Host | 1960 |
| Sunday Night Theatre | Syme | 1950 |
