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Donald Pleasence1919 - 1995

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Actor

Popularity

3.1

Famous

Biography

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.

Credits

Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music

2025

Documentary • Music • TV Movie

as Self (archive footage)

8.1(9)

1.5

Dracula Unearthed

2022

Documentary • Horror

as Dr. Jack Seward (archive footage)

7(1)

1.1

Driving Lessons

2012

Comedy • Horror

as Dr. Sam Loomis (archive footage)

6(1)

0.2

Halloween: The Inside Story

2010

Documentary

as Self (archive footage)

7.4(17)

0.4

Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy

2010

Documentary

as Self (archive footage)

7.8(160)

1.9

Halloween: A Cut Above the Rest

2003

Documentary • Horror

as Self / Dr. Samuel 'Sam' Loomis (archive footage)

8(1)

0.2

Best Ever Bond

2002

Action • Documentary

as Blofeld (archive footage) (uncredited)

5(4)

0.9

In and Out of Fashion

1998

Documentary

as Self (archive footage)

6(4)

0.1

Fatal Frames

1996

Horror • Mystery

as Professor Robinson

4.4(8)

0.5

Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers

1995

Horror • Thriller

as Dr. Sam Loomis

5.2(1,147)

1.9

Safe Haven

1995

Drama • Thriller

as The Sailor

3(1)

0.1

Guinevere

1994

Adventure • Fantasy • Romance

as Merlin

2(1)

0.4

Freeze: But is it Art?

1994

Documentary

as Sinister Dentist

0(0)

The Big Freeze

1993

Comedy • TV Movie

as Soup slurper

6.2(5)

0.7

The Hour of the Pig

1993

Crime • Drama • History • Mystery • Romance • Thriller

as Pincheon

6.3(37)

0.7

The Thief and the Cobbler

1993

Animation • Family • Fantasy • Romance

as Phido the Vulture (voice)

7.1(126)

1.2

Femme Fatale

1993

Comedy • Drama • TV Movie

as Victor Harty

0(0)

0.2

Diên Biên Phu

1992

Drama • War

as Howard Simpson

6.3(38)

0.7

Shadows and Fog

1991

Comedy • Crime • Mystery

as Doctor

6.7(373)

0.8

Millions

1991

Drama

as Ripa

3.8(10)

0.7

Women in Arms

1991

Crime

as Dreyfuss

3.5(1)

0.2

The Vulture Is a Patient Bird

1991

Action • Mystery • TV Movie

as The Art Collector

4.3(5)

0.1

Moi, général de Gaulle

1990

Drama • History

as Winston Churchill

0(0)

0.1

Miss Marple: A Caribbean Mystery

1989

Crime • Mystery • TV Movie

as Jason Rafiel

6.5(28)

0.6

Casablanca Express

1989

Action • Drama • War

as Colonel Bats

3.2(5)

0.3

Ten Little Indians

1989

Crime • Mystery • Thriller

as Mr. Justice Lawrence Wargrave

5(42)

0.8

Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers

1989

Horror • Thriller

as Dr. Sam Loomis

5.3(1,238)

2.5

River of Death

1989

Action • Adventure

as Heinrich Spaatz

4.8(36)

1.4

Buried Alive

1989

Horror • Thriller

as Dr. Schaeffer

4.1(16)

0.7

Paganini Horror

1989

Horror • Music

as Mr. Pickett

4.3(53)

0.6

The House of Usher

1989

Horror

as Walter Usher

4.7(9)

0.2

American Rickshaw

1989

Action • Horror • Thriller

as Rev. Mortom

4.7(18)

0.3

The Great Escape II: The Untold Story

1988

Drama • TV Movie • War

as Dr. Absalon

4.5(10)

0.5

Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers

1988

Horror • Thriller

as Dr. Loomis

6.2(1,951)

Nosferatu in Venice

1988

Horror

as Don Alvise

6.2(58)

0.7

Last Platoon

1988

Action • War

as Colonel B. Abrahams

3.3(3)

0.1

Metropolitan Animals

1988

Comedy

as Prof. Livingstone

4.3(3)

0.1

The Commander

1988

Action • War

as Henry Carlson

5.5(17)

0.5

Hanna's War

1988

Drama • War

as Captain Thomas Rosza

4.7(3)

0.5

Phantom of Death

1988

Horror

as Inspector Datti

5.6(29)

0.4

Prince of Darkness

1987

Horror

as Father Loomis

6.8(1,044)

1.8

Django Strikes Again

1987

Western

as Ben Gunn

5.1(37)

0.4

Ground Zero

1987

Action • Drama • Mystery • Thriller

as Prosper Gaffney

6.3(7)

0.9

Double Target

1987

Action • Adventure

as Sen. Blaster

4.7(10)

0.2

Basements

1987

Crime • Drama • Mystery • TV Movie

as Mr. Kidd (segment "The Room")

7.7(7)

0.3

Scoop

1987

Comedy • TV Movie

as Lord Copper

4.8(5)

0.4

Specters

1987

Horror

as Professor Lasky

4.4(18)

0.4

Warrior Queen

1987

Action • Adventure • History

as Clodius Flaucus

3.4(28)

1.8

Gila and Rik

1987

Drama • TV Movie

as Joe Gardenia

0(0)

0.1

Naso di cane

1986

Crime • Drama • Mystery

as Olindo Cuomo

0(0)

0.2

Cobra Mission

1986

Action • Adventure

as Father Lenoir

4.8(11)

0.6

To Kill a Stranger

1986

Crime • Thriller

as Col. Kostik

5.1(11)

0.2

Deadheat

1986

Action • Crime

as Aldo Rossi

4.8(2)

Into the Darkness

1986

Horror • Thriller

as David Beckett

2(3)

Nothing Underneath

1985

Crime • Horror • Thriller

as Commissioner Danesi

5.7(71)

0.5

Black Arrow

1985

Adventure • TV Movie

as Sir Oliver Oates

6.7(6)

0.4

Reel Horror

1985

Comedy • Fantasy • Horror

as Axel MacGregor (archive footage)

2.4(7)

0.3

Treasure of the Amazon

1985

Action • Adventure • Drama • Thriller • War

as Klaus von Blantz

4.5(30)

0.5

The Corsican Brothers

1985

Adventure • TV Movie

as The Chancellor

6(1)

0.2

Phenomena

1985

Horror • Thriller

as Professor John McGregor

6.8(834)

1.9

The Ambassador

1985

Drama • Thriller

as Minister Eretz

5(25)

0.4

Dario Argento's World of Horror

1985

Documentary

as Self (Archive)

6.9(11)

0.3

Arch of Triumph

1984

Drama • Romance • TV Movie

as Ivon Haake

5(10)

0.3

Terror in the Aisles

1984

Documentary • Horror

as Self - Host

6.2(40)

0.4

A Breed Apart

1984

Action • Romance

as J.P. Whittier

5.8(39)

1.6

Where Is Parsifal?

1984

Comedy

as Mackintosh

3.5(4)

0.2

Frankenstein's Great Aunt Tillie

1984

Comedy • Horror • Science Fiction

as Victor Frankenstein / Baron Frankenstein

2.9(10)

0.2

The Devonsville Terror

1983

Horror

as Dr. Warley

4.7(29)

0.4

The Falklands Factor

1983

Drama • History • TV Movie • War

as Dr. Samuel Johnson

0(0)

0.2

Warrior of the Lost World

1983

Action • Science Fiction

as Prossor

2.7(49)

1.7

Witness for the Prosecution

1982

Crime • Drama

as Mr. Myers

6.4(18)

0.5

Alone in the Dark

1982

Horror • Thriller

as Leo Bain

5.8(151)

0.5

Computercide

1982

Crime • Drama • Romance • Thriller

as George Dettler

6(1)

0.5

Race for the Yankee Zephyr

1981

Action • Adventure

as Gilbert Carson

5.8(30)

Halloween II

1981

Horror • Thriller

as Dr. Sam Loomis

6.6(2,097)

3.3

Escape from New York

1981

Action • Science Fiction

as President of the United States

7.1(3,267)

3.9

The Monster Club

1981

Comedy • Horror

as Pickering, Chief of the B-Squad

6(109)

0.5

Blade on the Feather

1980

Action • TV Movie • Thriller

as Professor John Cavendish

5.9(8)

0.1

Pumaman

1980

Action • Science Fiction

as Kobras

2.8(74)

0.6

All Quiet on the Western Front

1979

Drama • TV Movie • War

as Kantorek

6.7(206)

1.3

Better Late Than Never

1979

Comedy • Drama • TV Movie

as Colonel Riddle

0(0)

0.1

Jaguar Lives!

1979

Action • Comedy

as General Villanova

4.2(12)

0.5

Dracula

1979

Horror • Romance

as Dr. Jack Seward

6.4(259)

1.2

Good Luck, Miss Wyckoff

1979

Drama

as Dr. Steiner

5.4(14)

0.4

The Angry Man

1979

Crime • Drama

as Albert Rumpelmayer

5.5(17)

0.4

Gold of the Amazon Women

1979

Adventure • TV Movie

as Clarence Blasko

3.6(5)

0.2

Power Play

1978

Drama • Thriller

as Blair

7(11)

0.4

Halloween

1978

Horror • Thriller

as Loomis

7.6(5,766)

Last In, First Out

1978

Drama • Thriller

as Rothko

3.4(5)

0.2

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

1978

Adventure • Comedy • Family • Music

as B.D. Brockhurst

4.4(54)

Night Creature

1978

Adventure • Horror • Thriller

as Axel MacGregor

2.8(5)

0.4

The Bastard

1978

Drama • History • TV Movie • War

as Solomon Sholto

5(3)

Tomorrow Never Comes

1978

Action • Crime • Drama • Thriller

as Dr. Todd

5.8(9)

0.4

Blood Relatives

1978

Crime • Mystery • Thriller

as James Doniac

5.7(25)

0.5

The Defection of Simas Kudirka

1978

Drama • TV Movie

as Capt. Vladimir Popov

6(1)

0.3

Telefon

1977

Action • Crime • Thriller

as Nicolai Dalchimsky

6.6(120)

0.6

Oh, God!

1977

Comedy • Fantasy

as Doctor Harmon

6.5(125)

0.8

The Uncanny

1977

Horror

as Valentine De'ath (segment 3 "Hollywood 1936")

5.9(60)

0.6

The Eagle Has Landed

1976

Action • Adventure • Drama • Thriller • War

as Himmler

6.6(344)

1.6

Hindle Wakes

1976

Drama • TV Movie

as Nat Jeffcote

7(1)

0.3

The Last Tycoon

1976

Drama • Romance

as Boxley

6.4(147)

0.9

The Passover Plot

1976

Drama

as Pontius Pilate

3.8(5)

0.2

Meriel the Ghost Girl

1976

Mystery • TV Movie

as George Livingston

0(0)

0.1

Goldenrod

1976

Adventure • Drama

as John Tyler Jones

0(0)

0.2

The Devil's Men

1976

Horror

as Father Roche

4.1(37)

The Joke

1976

as Bendel

0(0)

0.4

Trial by Combat

1976

Action • Adventure • Comedy

as Sir Giles Marley

7.7(3)

0.3

I Don't Want to Be Born

1976

Horror • Thriller

as Dr. Finch

5(25)

0.3

The Count of Monte-Cristo

1975

Adventure • Drama • TV Movie

as Danglars

6.8(160)

2.5

Hearts of the West

1975

Comedy • Western

as A.J. Nietz

5.4(17)

0.5

Journey into Fear

1975

Thriller

as Kuvetli

5.6(10)

0.3

Escape to Witch Mountain

1975

Adventure • Family • Fantasy • Science Fiction

as Lucas Deranian

6.4(212)

1.1

Barry McKenzie Holds His Own

1974

Comedy

as Erich Count von Plasma

5.4(13)

0.2

House of the Damned

1974

Drama • Horror • Thriller

as Martin Zayas

5(7)

0.3

Occupations

1974

Drama • History

as Christo Kabak

0(0)

0.3

The Cafeteria

1974

Drama

as Aaron

0(0)

0.1

The Mutations

1974

Horror • Science Fiction

as Professor Nolter

4.9(38)

0.5

The Black Windmill

1974

Action • Crime • Thriller

as Cedric Harper

6.2(83)

0.6

Watch Out, We're Mad

1974

Action • Comedy

as Doctor

7.4(827)

1.5

From Beyond the Grave

1974

Fantasy • Horror

as Jim Underwood

6.5(139)

0.5

Tales That Witness Madness

1973

Comedy • Horror • Science Fiction

as Prof. R.C. Tremayne

5.6(49)

0.5

Malachi's Cove

1973

Drama

as Malachi

6.1(7)

0.2

Lonely Water

1973

Drama • Horror • Mystery • TV Movie

as The Spirit (voice)

5(3)

0.1

The Rainbow Boys

1973

Adventure • Comedy

as Ralph Logan

7(3)

0.1

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

1973

Horror • Science Fiction

as Fred Smudge

5.9(7)

0.2

The Pied Piper

1972

Drama • Fantasy

as The Baron

5.9(32)

0.5

Wedding in White

1972

Drama

as Jim Dougall, Sr.

6.5(9)

0.2

Death Line

1972

Horror

as Inspector Calhoun

5.8(119)

1.1

Innocent Bystanders

1972

Action • Thriller

as Loomis

7.2(4)

0.2

Henry VIII and His Six Wives

1972

Drama • History

as Thomas Cromwell

5.8(18)

0.4

The Jerusalem File

1972

Action • Drama • Thriller

as Major Samuels

5(1)

0.1

Kidnapped

1971

Adventure • History

as Ebenezer Balfour

6.2(32)

0.8

Skin Deep

1971

Drama • TV Movie

as Gerry Muddiman

0(0)

0.1

Wake in Fright

1971

Drama • Thriller

as Doc Tydon

7.3(300)

0.9

The Fox Trot

1971

Comedy • TV Movie

as Tom

0(0)

0.1

THX 1138

1971

Action • Drama • Science Fiction

as SEN

6.4(977)

1.3

Soldier Blue

1970

Drama • Western

as Isaac Q. Cumber

6.9(205)

2.4

The Madwoman of Chaillot

1969

Comedy • Drama

as The Prospector

7.1(11)

0.4

Arthur? Arthur!

1969

Comedy

as Arthur Brownjohn / Sir Easonby 'E' Mellon

3(2)

0.2

Mr. Freedom

1969

Comedy • Drama

as Dr. Freedom

5.2(30)

0.4

Last to Go

1969

0(0)

Sleep is Lovely

1968

as Clive

0(0)

0.1

The News-Benders

1968

TV Movie

as J.G.

0(0)

0.1

Creature of Comfort

1968

Horror

as James Thorne

0(0)

0.1

Will Penny

1967

Romance • Western

as Preacher Quint

6.6(102)

The Diary of Anne Frank

1967

Drama • TV Movie

as Albert Dussel

6(1)

0.3

Matchless

1967

Action • Comedy • Science Fiction • Thriller

as Gregori Andreanu

4.6(5)

0.5

You Only Live Twice

1967

Action • Adventure • Thriller

as Ernst Stavro Blofeld

6.6(2,255)

4.2

Call Me Daddy

1967

as Ben Hoffman

0(0)

0.1

The Night of the Generals

1967

Crime • Mystery • Thriller • War

as General Kahlenberge

6.8(162)

1.1

Eye of the Devil

1966

Horror • Mystery • Thriller

as Pere Dominic

6.1(56)

0.7

Fantastic Voyage

1966

Adventure • Science Fiction

as Dr. Michaels

6.7(456)

1.1

Cul-de-sac

1966

Comedy • Crime • Drama • Thriller

as George

6.8(282)

0.7

The Hallelujah Trail

1965

Comedy • Western

as 'Oracle' Jones

6(84)

0.8

The Greatest Story Ever Told

1965

Drama • History

as The Dark Hermit - Satan

6.4(202)

3.8

The Caretaker

1964

Drama

as Mac Davies / Bernard Jenkins

7.2(13)

0.3

Dr. Crippen

1963

Crime • Drama

as Dr. Hawley Harvey Crippen

6(17)

0.4

The Great Escape

1963

Adventure • Drama • War

as Blythe 'The Forger'

7.9(2,625)

6.6

The Inspector

1962

Drama • Romance

as Wolters

6.7(9)

0.2

The Horsemasters

1961

Adventure • TV Movie

as Captain Pinski

7(2)

0.2

What a Carve Up!

1961

Comedy • Horror • Mystery • Thriller

as Everett Sloane

7(18)

0.4

Spare the Rod

1961

Drama

as Mr. Jenkins

6(3)

0.2

The Wind of Change

1961

Drama

as Pop

0(0)

0.1

No Love for Johnnie

1961

Drama

as Renfrew

6.3(8)

0.2

Alice Through the Looking Box

1960

Comedy • Fantasy • TV Movie

as Caterpillar

0(0)

0.2

The Cupboard

1960

TV Movie

as Fred Watson

0(0)

0.1

The Hands of Orlac

1960

Crime • Horror • Thriller

as Graham Coates

4.3(7)

0.5

A Story of David

1960

Drama

as Nabal

4.2(4)

0.2

Suspect

1960

Thriller

as Parsons, alias Bill Brown

6.5(10)

0.3

Sons and Lovers

1960

Drama

as Mr. Pappleworth

6.6(36)

0.4

Toff and Fingers

1960

as Self/Host

0(0)

0.1

The Big Day

1960

Drama

as Victor Partridge

7(1)

0.1

Hell Is a City

1960

Crime • Thriller

as Gus Hawkins

6.8(29)

0.4

Circus of Horrors

1960

Crime • Horror

as Vanet

5.9(72)

2.6

The Battle of the Sexes

1960

Comedy

as Irwin Hoffman

6.7(28)

0.3

The Flesh and the Fiends

1960

Horror

as William Hare

6.6(53)

0.4

The Shakedown

1960

Crime • Drama

as Jessel Brown

5.7(6)

0.2

Killers of Kilimanjaro

1959

Adventure

as Captain

6(5)

0.4

Look Back in Anger

1959

Drama

as Hurst

6.7(72)

0.5

The Traitor

1959

TV Movie

as Grantley Caypor

0(0)

0.1

The Two-Headed Spy

1958

Thriller • War

as Gen. Hardt

6.2(17)

0.3

The Greatest Man in the World

1958

Drama • TV Movie

as US President

0(0)

0.2

The Man Inside

1958

Adventure • Crime • Thriller

as Organ Grinder

6.3(8)

0.3

The Wind Cannot Read

1958

Drama • Romance • War

as Doctor

6.2(11)

0.1

Heart of a Child

1958

Adventure • Drama

as Spiel

6.5(2)

0.2

A Tale of Two Cities

1958

Drama • History • Romance

as Barsad

6.7(18)

0.5

Barnacle Bill

1957

Comedy

as Cashier

6.4(21)

0.5

Manuela

1957

Drama

as Evans

5.7(6)

0.3

The Man in the Sky

1957

Drama

as Crabtree

7.1(8)

1.4

The Black Tent

1956

Action • Drama • Romance

as Ali

6(7)

0.5

1984

1956

Drama • Science Fiction

as R. Parsons

6.5(124)

1.6

Value for Money

1955

Comedy

as Limpy

6.6(7)

0.4

Round the World in 80 Days

1955

Animation

as Voices

0(0)

Nineteen Eighty-Four

1954

Drama • Science Fiction • TV Movie

as Syme

7.4(36)

0.5

Orders Are Orders

1954

Comedy

as Cpl. Martin (as Donald Plesance)

6.4(7)

0.2

The Beachcomber

1954

Comedy • Drama • Romance

as Tromp

6(7)

0.3

The Dybbuk

1952

as Second batlon

0(0)

0.1