Cast
Donald Pleasence
Acting
Cast
Donald Pleasence
Known for
Acting
Born
1919-10-05
From
Worksop, Nottinghamshire, England, UK
Died
1995-02-02
Also known as Donald Pleasance, Don Pleasence, Donald Plesance
Biography
Donald Henry Pleasence OBE (October 5, 1919 β 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.
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7.6
MOVIE1978
Halloween
as Loomis
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3.7
MOVIE1987
Warrior Queen
as Clodius Flaucus
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6.7
MOVIE1967
Will Penny
as Preacher Quint
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6.6
MOVIE1967
You Only Live Twice
as Ernst Stavro Blofeld
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7.9
MOVIE1963
The Great Escape
as Blythe 'The Forger'
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7.1
MOVIE1981
Escape from New York
as President of the United States
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6.6
MOVIE1981
Halloween II
as Sam Loomis
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7.5
MOVIE1974
Watch Out, We're Mad
as Doctor
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6.2
MOVIE1988
Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers
as Dr. Loomis
β
5.2
MOVIE1995
Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers
as Dr. Loomis
β
5.3
MOVIE1989
Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers
as Dr. Sam Loomis
β
6.9
MOVIE1975
The Count of Monte-Cristo
as Danglars
β
6.6
MOVIE1976
The Eagle Has Landed
as Himmler
β
6.8
MOVIE1967
The Night of the Generals
as General Kahlenberge
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6.8
MOVIE1985
Phenomena
as Professor John McGregor
β
6.7
MOVIE1979
All Quiet on the Western Front
as Kantorek
β
6.4
MOVIE1965
The Greatest Story Ever Told
as The Dark Hermit - Satan
β
9.0
MOVIE1976
Goldenrod
as John Tyler Jones
β
6.4
MOVIE1971
THX 1138
as SEN
β
6.4
MOVIE1975
Escape to Witch Mountain
as Lucas Deranian
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6.5
MOVIE1992
Dien Bien Phu
as Howard Simpson
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6.7
MOVIE1966
Fantastic Voyage
as Dr. Michaels
β
3.3
MOVIE1994
Guinevere
as Merlin
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6.3
MOVIE1957
Manuela
as Evans
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7.0
MOVIE1961
The Horsemasters
as Captain Pinski
β
6.8
MOVIE1970
Soldier Blue
as Isaac Q. Cumber
β
6.8
MOVIE1987
Prince of Darkness
as Priest
β
5.8
MOVIE1988
Nosferatu in Venice
as Don Alvise
β
7.1
MOVIE1993
The Thief and the Cobbler
as Phido the Vulture (voice)
β
6.3
MOVIE1976
The Last Tycoon
as Boxley
β
6.6
MOVIE1977
Telefon
as Nicolai Dalchimsky
β
6.4
MOVIE1979
Dracula
as Dr. Jack Seward
β
6.1
MOVIE1966
Eye of the Devil
as Pere Dominic
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4.3
MOVIE1989
Buried Alive
as Dr. Schaeffer
β
6.7
MOVIE1966
Cul-de-sac
as George
β
6.8
MOVIE1991
Women in Arms
as Dreyfuss
β
6.7
MOVIE1991
Shadows and Fog
as Doctor
β
5.1
MOVIE1987
Django Strikes Again
as Ben Gunn
β
7.8
MOVIE1972
Innocent Bystanders
as Loomis
β
5.8
MOVIE1972
Death Line
as Inspector Calhoun
β
6.5
MOVIE1956
1984
as R. Parsons
β
5.6
MOVIE1979
L'Homme en colère
as Albert Rumpelmayer
β
5.5
MOVIE1979
Good Luck, Miss Wyckoff
as Dr. Steiner
β
5.8
MOVIE1980
Blade on the Feather
as John Cavendish
β
7.3
MOVIE1971
Wake in Fright
as Doc Tydon
β
4.9
MOVIE1989
Ten Little Indians
as Mr. Justice Lawrence Wargrave
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2.9
MOVIE1983
Warrior of the Lost World
as Prossor
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6.6
MOVIE1960
The Battle of the Sexes
as Irwin Hoffman
β
5.6
MOVIE1975
Hearts of the West
as A.J. Nietz
β
6.1
MOVIE1965
The Hallelujah Trail
as 'Oracle' Jones
β
8.0
MOVIE1993
Femme Fatale
as Victor Harty
β
6.0
MOVIE1972
The Pied Piper
as The Baron
β
7.8
MOVIE2025
Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music
as Self (archive footage)
β
5.9
MOVIE1982
Alone in the Dark
as Leo Bain
MOVIE1976
The Joke
as Bendel
β
6.2
MOVIE1993
The Hour of the Pig
as Pincheon
β
8.5
MOVIE1976
Hindle Wakes
as Nat Jeffcote
β
6.6
MOVIE1960
The Flesh and the Fiends
as William Hare
β
6.7
MOVIE1959
Look Back in Anger
as Hurst
β
5.8
MOVIE1981
The Monster Club
as Pickering, Chief of the B-Squad
β
7.4
MOVIE1964
The Caretaker
as Mac Davies / Bernard Jenkins
MOVIETBA
New Line: Independent Legacies
as Self (archive footage)
β
5.8
MOVIE1984
A Breed Apart
as J.P. Whittier
β
6.3
MOVIE1974
The Black Windmill
as Cedric Harper
β
5.9
MOVIE1981
Race for the Yankee Zephyr
as Gilbert Carson
β
6.3
MOVIE1958
The Two-Headed Spy
as Gen. Hardt
β
4.5
MOVIE1985
Treasure of the Amazon
as Klaus von Blantz
β
5.7
MOVIE1973
Lonely Water
as The Spirit (voice)
β
6.2
MOVIE1984
Terror in the Aisles
as Self - Host
β
6.7
MOVIE1993
The Big Freeze
as Soup slurper
β
6.4
MOVIE1977
Oh, God!
as Doctor Harmon
β
4.8
MOVIE1989
The House of Usher
as Walter Usher
β
4.3
MOVIE1978
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
as B.D. Brockhurst
β
7.3
MOVIE1969
The Madwoman of Chaillot
as The Prospector
β
4.4
MOVIE1960
The Hands of Orlac
as Graham Coates
β
6.6
MOVIE1989
Miss Marple: A Caribbean Mystery
as Jason Rafiel
β
5.3
MOVIE1991
The Vulture Is a Patient Bird
as Armon Shalik
β
5.7
MOVIE1985
Nothing Underneath
as Commissioner Danesi
MOVIE1974
Occupations
as Christo Kabak
β
2.9
MOVIE1980
Pumaman
as Kobras
β
6.8
MOVIE1987
Ground Zero
as Prosper Gaffney
β
6.5
MOVIE1982
Witness for the Prosecution
as Mr. Myers
β
6.3
MOVIE1971
Kidnapped
as Ebenezer Balfour
β
6.8
MOVIE1958
A Tale of Two Cities
as Barsad
β
3.2
MOVIE1986
Into the Darkness
as David Beckett
β
5.8
MOVIE1960
Circus of Horrors
as Vanet
β
7.3
MOVIE1954
Nineteen Eighty-Four
as Syme
MOVIE1967
Call Me Daddy
as Ben Hoffman
β
5.2
MOVIE1984
Arch of Triumph
as Ivon Haake
MOVIE1987
Gila and Rik
as Joe Gardenia
β
5.2
MOVIE1988
Hanna's War
as Captain Thomas Rosza
β
6.8
MOVIE1987
Basements
as Mr. Kidd (segment "The Room")
β
5.3
MOVIE1986
To Kill a Stranger
as Col. Kostik
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6.6
MOVIE1957
Barnacle Bill
as Cashier
β
5.7
MOVIE1978
Blood Relatives
as James Doniac
β
5.2
MOVIE1985
The Ambassador
as Minister Eretz
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5.8
MOVIE1972
Henry VIII and His Six Wives
as Thomas Cromwell
β
4.2
MOVIE1979
Jaguar Lives!
as General Villanova
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7.0
MOVIE1961
What a Carve Up!
as Everett Sloane
β
9.0
MOVIE1979
Better Late Than Never
as Colonel Riddle
β
5.6
MOVIE1988
Phantom of Death
as Inspector Datti
β
5.5
MOVIE1988
The Great Escape II: The Untold Story
as Dr. Absalon
β
9.0
MOVIE1990
Life of General De Gaulle
as Winston Churchill
β
6.5
MOVIE1974
From Beyond the Grave
as Jim Underwood
β
5.5
MOVIE1988
Metropolitan Animals
as Prof. Livingstone
β
4.1
MOVIE1996
Fatal Frames
as Professor Robinson
β
4.6
MOVIE1987
Double Target
as Sen. Blaster
MOVIE1994
Freeze: But is it Art?
as Sinister Dentist
β
4.9
MOVIE1974
The Mutations
as Professor Nolter
β
5.7
MOVIE1987
Scoop
as Lord Copper
β
5.7
MOVIE1978
Tomorrow Never Comes
as Dr. Todd
β
7.8
MOVIE1976
Trial by Combat
as Sir Giles Marley
β
6.4
MOVIE1958
The Wind Cannot Read
as Doctor
β
7.5
MOVIE1957
The Man in the Sky
as Crabtree
β
5.1
MOVIE1976
I Don't Want to Be Born
as Dr. Finch
β
4.7
MOVIE1983
The Devonsville Terror
as Dr. Warley
β
4.4
MOVIE1989
Paganini Horror
as Mr. Pickett
β
6.2
MOVIE1986
Deadheat
as Aldo Rossi
β
7.0
MOVIE1955
The Moment of Truth
as The Foreign Minister
β
5.5
MOVIE1973
Tales That Witness Madness
as Prof. R.C. Tremayne
β
6.0
MOVIE1975
Journey into Fear
as Kuvetli
β
6.3
MOVIE1973
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
as Fred Smudge
β
4.9
MOVIE1986
Cobra Mission
as Father Lenoir
β
4.7
MOVIE1989
American Rickshaw
as Rev. Mortom
β
5.9
MOVIE1977
The Uncanny
as Valentine De'ath (segment "Hollywood 1936")
β
6.6
MOVIE1960
Hell Is a City
as Gus Hawkins
β
5.6
MOVIE1988
The Commander
as Henry Carlson
β
6.3
MOVIE1959
Killers of Kilimanjaro
as Captain
β
7.2
MOVIE1978
Power Play
as Blair
β
3.7
MOVIE1979
Gold of the Amazon Women
as Clarence Blasko
β
3.8
MOVIE1989
Casablanca Express
as Colonel Bats
β
6.6
MOVIE1973
Malachi's Cove
as Malachi
β
4.1
MOVIE1976
The Devil's Men
as Father Roche
β
6.8
MOVIE1972
Wedding in White
as Jim Dougall, Sr.
β
6.7
MOVIE1961
No Love for Johnnie
as Renfrew
β
6.0
MOVIE1960
The Shakedown
as Jessel Brown
β
6.5
MOVIE1960
Sons and Lovers
as Mr. Pappleworth
MOVIE1952
The Dybbuk
as Second batlon
β
6.4
MOVIE1956
The Black Tent
as Ali
β
6.1
MOVIE1958
The Man Inside
as Organ Grinder
β
6.9
MOVIE1960
Suspect
as Parsons, alias Bill Brown
β
8.0
MOVIE1976
Meriel the Ghost Girl
as George Livingston
β
7.0
MOVIE1983
The Falklands Factor
as Dr. Samuel Johnson
β
3.9
MOVIE1984
Where Is Parsifal?
as Mackintosh
β
10.0
MOVIE1961
The Wind of Change
as Pop
β
6.5
MOVIE1985
The Corsican Brothers
as The Chancellor
β
5.0
MOVIE1989
River of Death
as Heinrich Spaatz
β
6.0
MOVIE1963
Dr. Crippen
as Dr. Hawley Harvey Crippen
β
6.0
MOVIE1978
The Defection of Simas Kudirka
as Capt. Vladimir Popov
β
6.7
MOVIE1958
Heart of a Child
as Spiel
β
6.6
MOVIE1954
Orders Are Orders
as Cpl. Martin (as Donald Plesance)
β
7.1
MOVIE1962
The Inspector
as Wolters
β
9.0
MOVIE1968
Sleep is Lovely
as Clive
β
4.7
MOVIE1976
The Passover Plot
as Pontius Pilate
β
5.4
MOVIE1974
Barry McKenzie Holds His Own
as Erich Count von Plasma
β
3.0
MOVIE1984
Frankenstein's Great Aunt Tillie
as Victor Frankenstein / Baron Frankenstein
β
6.9
MOVIE1985
Black Arrow
as Sir Oliver Oates
β
6.0
MOVIE2012
Driving Lessons
as Dr. Sam Loomis (archive footage)
β
3.8
MOVIE1969
Arthur? Arthur!
as Arthur Brownjohn / Sir Easonby 'E' Mellon
MOVIE1960
Alice Through the Looking Box
as Caterpillar
β
4.3
MOVIE1967
Matchless
as Gregori Andreanu
β
10.0
MOVIE1958
The Greatest Man in the World
as US President
β
3.8
MOVIE1978
Night Creature
as Axel MacGregor
β
8.0
MOVIE1967
The Diary of Anne Frank
as Albert Dussel
β
7.0
MOVIE1982
Computercide
as George Dettler
β
5.4
MOVIE1960
A Story of David
as Nabal
β
6.2
MOVIE1954
The Beachcomber
as Tromp
β
9.0
MOVIE1971
The Fox Trot
as Tom
β
4.5
MOVIE1978
Last In, First Out
as Rothko
MOVIE1974
The Cafeteria
as Aaron
β
6.9
MOVIE1955
Value for Money
as Limpy
β
5.2
MOVIE1969
Mr. Freedom
as Dr. Freedom
β
10.0
MOVIE1960
The Cupboard
as Fred Watson
β
3.3
MOVIE1985
Reel Horror
as Axel MacGregor (archive footage)
β
7.5
MOVIE1960
The Big Day
as Victor Partridge
β
5.3
MOVIE1995
Safe Haven
as The Sailor
β
6.7
MOVIE2003
Halloween: A Cut Above the Rest
as Self / Dr. Samuel 'Sam' Loomis (archive footage)
β
6.2
MOVIE1961
Spare the Rod
as Mr. Jenkins
β
5.1
MOVIE1974
House of the Damned
as Martin Zayas
β
4.2
MOVIE1987
Specters
as Professor Lasky
β
10.0
MOVIE1968
Creature of Comfort
as James Thorne
β
4.0
MOVIE1972
The Jerusalem File
as Major Samuels
β
3.8
MOVIE1991
Millions
as Ripa
β
7.0
MOVIE1973
The Rainbow Boys
as Ralph Logan
MOVIE1960
Toff and Fingers
as Self/Host
MOVIE1955
Round the World in 80 Days
as Voices
β
9.5
MOVIE1968
The News-Benders
as J.G.
β
4.6
MOVIE1988
Last Platoon
as Colonel B. Abrahams
MOVIE2026
The Dr. Loomis Tapes
as Dr. Loomis
β
6.0
MOVIE1969
Last to Go
β
7.0
MOVIE1971
Skin Deep
as Gerry Muddiman
MOVIE1959
The Traitor
as Grantley Caypor