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.
Known For
| Birth Location | Worksop, Nottinghamshire, England, UK |
|---|---|
| Born | 1919-10-05 |
| Died | 1995-02-02 |
Movies
Dracula Unearthed
as Dr. Jack Seward (Archive Footage)
2022
Halloween: The Inside Story
as Self (archive footage)
2010
Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy
as Self (archive footage)
2010
Halloween: A Cut Above the Rest
as Self / Dr. Samuel 'Sam' Loomis (archive footage)
2003
Best Ever Bond
as Blofeld (archive footage) (uncredited)
2002
In and Out of Fashion
as Self (archive footage)
1998
Fatal Frames
as Professor Robinson
1996
Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers
as Dr. Sam Loomis
1995
Safe Haven
as The Sailor
1995
Guinevere
as Merlin
1994
Freeze: But is it Art?
as Sinister Dentist
1994
The Big Freeze
as Soup slurper
1993
The Hour of the Pig
as Pincheon
1993
The Thief and the Cobbler
as Phido the Vulture (voice)
1993
Femme Fatale
as Victor Harty
1993
Diên Biên Phu
as Howard Simpson
1992
Shadows and Fog
as Doctor
1991
Millions
as Ripa
1991
Women in Arms
as Dreyfuss
1991
The Vulture Is a Patient Bird
as The Art Collector
1991
Miss Marple: A Caribbean Mystery
as Jason Rafiel
1989
Casablanca Express
as Colonel Bats
1989
Ten Little Indians
as Mr. Justice Lawrence Wargrave
1989
Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers
as Dr. Sam Loomis
1989
River of Death
as Heinrich Spaatz
1989
Buried Alive
as Dr. Schaeffer
1989
Paganini Horror
as Mr. Pickett
1989
The House of Usher
as Walter Usher
1989
American Rickshaw
as Rev. Mortom
1989
The Great Escape II: The Untold Story
as Dr. Absalon
1988
Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers
as Dr. Sam Loomis
1988
Nosferatu in Venice
as Don Alvise
1988
Last Platoon
as Colonel B. Abrahams
1988
The Commander
as Henry Carlson
1988
Hanna's War
as Captain Thomas Rosza
1988
Phantom of Death
as Inspector Datti
1988
Prince of Darkness
as Vater Loomis
1987
Django Strikes Again
as Ben Gunn
1987
Ground Zero
as Prosper Gaffney
1987
Animali metropolitani
as Prof. Livingstone
1987
Double Target
as Sen. Blaster
1987
Basements
as Mr. Kidd (segment "The Room")
1987
Scoop
as Lord Copper
1987
Specters
as Professor Lasky
1987
Warrior Queen
as Clodius Flaucus
1987
Gila and Rik
as Joe Gardenia
1987
Naso di cane
as Olindo Cuomo
1986
Cobra Mission
as Father Lenoir
1986
To Kill a Stranger
as Col. Kostik
1986
Deadheat
as Aldo Rossi
1986
Into the Darkness
as David Beckett
1986
Nothing Underneath
as Commissioner Danesi
1985
Black Arrow
as Sir Oliver Oates
1985
Treasure of the Amazon
as Klaus von Blantz
1985
Arch of Triumph
as Ivon Haake
1985
The Corsican Brothers
as The Chancellor
1985
Phenomena
as Professor John McGregor
1985
The Ambassador
as Minister Eretz
1985
Dario Argento's World of Horror
as Himself (Archive)
1985
Reel Horror
as Axel MacGregor (archive footage)
1985
Terror in the Aisles
as Self - Host
1984
A Breed Apart
as J.P. Whittier
1984
Frankenstein's Great Aunt Tillie
as Victor Frankenstein / Baron Frankenstein
1984
Where Is Parsifal?
as Mackintosh
1984
The Devonsville Terror
as Dr. Warley
1983
The Falklands Factor
as Dr. Samuel Johnson
1983
Warrior of the Lost World
as Prossor
1983
Witness for the Prosecution
as Mr. Myers
1982
Alone in the Dark
as Leo Bain
1982
Computercide
as George Dettler
1982
Race for the Yankee Zephyr
as Gilbert Carson
1981
Halloween II
as Dr. Sam Loomis
1981
Escape from New York
as President of the United States
1981
The Monster Club
as Pickering, Chief of the B-Squad
1981
Blade on the Feather
as Professor John Cavendish
1980
Pumaman
as Kobras
1980
All Quiet on the Western Front
as Kantorek
1979
Better Late Than Never
as Colonel Riddle
1979
Jaguar Lives!
as General Villanova
1979
Dracula
as Dr. Jack Seward
1979
Good Luck, Miss Wyckoff
as Dr. Steiner
1979
The Angry Man
as Albert Rumpelmayer
1979
Gold of the Amazon Women
as Clarence Blasko
1979
Power Play
as Blair
1978
Halloween
as Dr. Sam Loomis
1978
Last In, First Out
as Rothko
1978
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
as B.D. Brockhurst
1978
Night Creature
as Axel MacGregor
1978
The Bastard
as Solomon Sholto
1978
Tomorrow Never Comes
as Dr. Todd
1978
Blood Relatives
as James Doniac
1978
The Defection of Simas Kudirka
as Capt. Vladimir Popov
1978
Telefon
as Nicolai Dalchimsky
1977
Oh, God!
as Doctor Harmon
1977
The Uncanny
as Valentine De'ath (segment 3 "Hollywood 1936")
1977
The Eagle Has Landed
as Himmler
1976
Hindle Wakes
as Nat Jeffcote
1976
The Last Tycoon
as Boxley
1976
The Passover Plot
as Pontius Pilate
1976
Meriel the Ghost Girl
as George Livingston
1976
Goldenrod
as John Tyler Jones
1976
The Devil's Men
as Father Roche
1976
Trial by Combat
as Sir Giles Marley
1976
I Don't Want to Be Born
as Dr. Finch
1976
The Count of Monte-Cristo
as Danglars
1975
Hearts of the West
as A.J. Nietz
1975
Journey into Fear
as Kuvetli
1975
Escape to Witch Mountain
as Lucas Deranian
1975
Barry McKenzie Holds His Own
as Erich Count von Plasma
1974
House of the Damned
as Martin Zayas
1974
The Mutations
as Professor Nolter
1974
The Black Windmill
as Cedric Harper
1974
Watch Out, We're Mad
as Doctor
1974
From Beyond the Grave
as Jim Underwood
1974
Occupations
as Christo Kabak
1974
Tales That Witness Madness
as Prof. R.C. Tremayne
1973
Malachi's Cove
as Malachi
1973
Lonely Water
as The Spirit (voice)
1973
The Rainbow Boys
as Ralph Logan
1973
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
as Fred Smudge
1973
The Pied Piper
as The Baron
1972
Wedding in White
as Jim Dougall, Sr.
1972
Death Line
as Inspector Calhoun
1972
Innocent Bystanders
as Loomis
1972
Henry VIII and His Six Wives
as Thomas Cromwell
1972
1972
Kidnapped
as Ebenezer Balfour
1971
Skin Deep
as Gerry Muddiman
1971
Wake in Fright
as Doc Tydon
1971
The Fox Trot
as Tom
1971
THX 1138
as SEN
1971
Soldier Blue
as Isaac Q. Cumber
1970
The Madwoman of Chaillot
as The Prospector
1969
Arthur? Arthur!
as Arthur Brownjohn / Sir Easonby 'E' Mellon
1969
Mr. Freedom
as Dr. Freedom
1969
1969
Sleep is Lovely
as Clive
1968
The News-Benders
as J.G.
1968
Creature of Comfort
as James Thorne
1968
Will Penny
as Preacher Quint
1967
The Diary of Anne Frank
as Albert Dussel
1967
Matchless
as Gregori Andreanu
1967
You Only Live Twice
as Ernst Stavro Blofeld
1967
Call Me Daddy
as Ben Hoffman
1967
The Night of the Generals
as General Kahlenberge
1967
Eye of the Devil
as Pere Dominic
1966
Fantastic Voyage
as Dr. Michaels
1966
Cul-de-sac
as George
1966
The Hallelujah Trail
as 'Oracle' Jones
1965
The Greatest Story Ever Told
as The Dark Hermit - Satan
1965
The Caretaker
as Mac Davies / Bernard Jenkins
1964
Dr. Crippen
as Dr. Hawley Harvey Crippen
1963
The Great Escape
as Blythe 'The Forger'
1963
The Inspector
as Wolters
1962
The Horsemasters
as Captain Pinski
1961
What a Carve Up!
as Everett Sloane
1961
Spare the Rod
as Mr. Jenkins
1961
The Wind of Change
as Pop
1961
No Love for Johnnie
as Renfrew
1961
Alice Through the Looking Box
as Caterpillar
1960
The Cupboard
as Fred Watson
1960
A Story of David
as Nabal
1960
The Hands of Orlac
as Graham Coates
1960
Suspect
as Parsons, alias Bill Brown
1960
Sons and Lovers
as Mr. Pappleworth
1960
Toff and Fingers
as Self/Host
1960
The Big Day
as Victor Partridge
1960
Hell Is a City
as Gus Hawkins
1960
Circus of Horrors
as Vanet
1960
The Battle of the Sexes
as Irwin Hoffman
1960
The Flesh and the Fiends
as William Hare
1960
The Shakedown
as Jessel Brown
1960
Killers of Kilimanjaro
as Captain
1959
Look Back in Anger
as Hurst
1959
The Traitor
as Grantley Caypor
1959
The Two-Headed Spy
as Gen. Hardt
1958
The Greatest Man in the World
as US President
1958
The Man Inside
as Organ Grinder
1958
The Wind Cannot Read
as Doctor
1958
Heart of a Child
as Spiel
1958
A Tale of Two Cities
as Barsad
1958
Barnacle Bill
as Cashier
1957
Manuela
as Evans
1957
The Man in the Sky
as Crabtree
1957
The Black Tent
as Ali
1956
1984
as R. Parsons
1956
Value for Money
as Limpy
1955
Nineteen Eighty-Four
as Syme
1954
Orders Are Orders
as Cpl. Martin (as Donald Plesance)
1954
The Beachcomber
as Tromp
1954
The Dybbuk
as Second batlon
1952
Movies
The Telltale Heart
Writer
1958
