Donald Pleasence
185 movies · 46 TV shows
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Oct 5, 1919
- Died
- Feb 2, 1995 (age 75)
- Place of birth
- Worksop, Nottinghamshire, England, UK
- Also known as
- Donald Pleasance · Don Pleasence · Donald Plesance · Donald Henry Pleasence
Biography
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.
Profiles IMDb
Known for
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★ 7.6 Halloween
1978 · Film
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★ 7.0 Escape from New York
1981 · Film
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★ 7.9 The Great Escape
1963 · Film
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★ 6.6 You Only Live Twice
1967 · Film
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★ 6.6 Halloween II
1981 · Film
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★ 6.2 Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers
1988 · Film
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★ 5.3 Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers
1989 · Film
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★ 5.1 Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers
1995 · Film
Donald Pleasence: movies and TV shows
Acting (230)
- 2026 The Dr. Loomis Tapes
as Dr. Loomis
- 2013 Halloween 6: Producer's Cut
as Dr. Sam Loomis
- 1996 Fatal Frames
as Professor Robinson
- 1995 Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers
as Dr. Loomis
- 1995
- 1995 Safe Haven
as The Sailor
- 1994 Guinevere
as Merlin
- 1994 Freeze: But is it Art?
as Sinister Dentist
- 1993 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
- 1992 Dien Bien Phu
as Howard Simpson
- 1991 Shadows and Fog
as Doctor
- 1991 Millions
as Ripa
- 1991
- 1991
- 1990 Life of General De Gaulle
as Winston Churchill
- 1989 Miss Marple: A Caribbean Mystery
as Jason Rafiel
- 1989 Casablanca Express
as Colonel Bats
- 1989 Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers
as Dr. Sam Loomis
- 1989 River of Death
as Heinrich Spaatz
- 1989 Ten Little Indians
as Mr. Justice Lawrence Wargrave
- 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
- 1988
- 1988 The Great Escape II: The Untold Story
as Dr. Absalon
- 1988 Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers
as Dr. Loomis
- 1988 Nosferatu in Venice
as Don Alvise
- 1988 Last Platoon
as Colonel B. Abrahams
- 1988 Metropolitan Animals
as Prof. Livingstone
- 1988 The Commander
as Henry Carlson
- 1988 Hanna's War
as Captain Thomas Rosza
- 1988 Phantom of Death
as Inspector Datti
- 1987 Prince of Darkness
as Priest
- 1987 Django Strikes Again
as Ben Gunn
- 1987 Ground Zero
as Prosper Gaffney
- 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
- 1986
- 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
- 1985 Nothing Underneath
as Commissioner Danesi
- 1985 Black Arrow
as Sir Oliver Oates
- 1985 Reel Horror
as Axel MacGregor (archive footage)
- 1985 Treasure of the Amazon
as Klaus von Blantz
- 1985
- 1985 The Corsican Brothers
as The Chancellor
- 1985 Phenomena
as Professor John McGregor
- 1985 The Ambassador
as Minister Eretz
- 1985
- 1984 Arch of Triumph
as Ivon Haake
- 1984 A Breed Apart
as J.P. Whittier
- 1984
- 1984 Where Is Parsifal?
as Mackintosh
- 1984 Frankenstein's Great Aunt Tillie
as Victor Frankenstein / Baron Frankenstein
- 1983 The Devonsville Terror
as Dr. Warley
- 1983 The Falklands Factor
as Dr. Samuel Johnson
- 1983 Warrior of the Lost World
as Prossor
- 1982 Witness for the Prosecution
as Mr. Myers
- 1982 Alone in the Dark
as Leo Bain
- 1982
- 1982 Computercide
as George Dettler
- 1981 Race for the Yankee Zephyr
as Gilbert Carson
- 1981 Halloween II
as Dr Samuel Loomis
- 1981 Escape from New York
as President of the United States
- 1981 The Monster Club
as Pickering, Chief of the B-Squad
- 1980 Blade on the Feather
as John Cavendish
- 1980 Pumaman
as Kobras
- 1979
- 1979 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 L'Homme en colère
as Albert Rumpelmayer
- 1979 Gold of the Amazon Women
as Clarence Blasko
- 1979
- 1979
- 1978 Power Play
as Blair
- 1978 Halloween
as Loomis
- 1978
- 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
- 1978 Tomorrow Never Comes
as Dr. Todd
- 1978 Blood Relatives
as James Doniac
- 1978 The Defection of Simas Kudirka
as Capt. Vladimir Popov
- 1978
- 1977 Telefon
as Nicolai Dalchimsky
- 1977 Oh, God!
as Doctor Harmon
- 1977 The Uncanny
as Valentine De'ath (segment "Hollywood 1936")
- 1977
- 1976 The Eagle Has Landed
as Himmler
- 1976 Hindle Wakes
as Nat Jeffcote
- 1976
- 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 The Joke
as Bendel
- 1976 Trial by Combat
as Sir Giles Marley
- 1976 I Don't Want to Be Born
as Dr. Finch
- 1975
- 1975 The Count of Monte-Cristo
as Danglars
- 1975 Hearts of the West
as A.J. Nietz
- 1975
- 1975 Journey into Fear
as Kuvetli
- 1975 Escape to Witch Mountain
as Lucas Deranian
- 1974 Barry McKenzie Holds His Own
as Erich Count von Plasma
- 1974 House of the Damned
as Martin Zayas
- 1974 Occupations
as Christo Kabak
- 1974 The Cafeteria
as Aaron
- 1974 The Mutations
as Professor Nolter
- 1974 The Black Windmill
as Cedric Harper
- 1974 Watch Out, We're Mad
as Doctor
- 1974
- 1974 From Beyond the Grave
as Jim Underwood
- 1973 Tales That Witness Madness
as Prof. R.C. Tremayne
- 1973 Malachi's Cove
as Malachi
- 1973
- 1973 The Rainbow Boys
as Ralph Logan
- 1973 Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
as Fred Smudge
- 1972 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 The Jerusalem File
as Major Samuels
- 1971 Kidnapped
as Ebenezer Balfour
- 1971 Skin Deep
as Gerry Muddiman
- 1971
- 1971
- 1971 Wake in Fright
as Doc Tydon
- 1971 The Fox Trot
as Tom
- 1971 THX 1138
as SEN
- 1970
- 1970 Soldier Blue
as Isaac Q. Cumber
- 1970
- 1969 The Madwoman of Chaillot
as The Prospector
- 1969 Arthur? Arthur!
as Arthur Brownjohn / Sir Easonby 'E' Mellon
- 1969
- 1969 Mr. Freedom
as Dr. Freedom
- 1969
- 1968 Sleep is Lovely
as Clive
- 1968 The News-Benders
as J.G.
- 1968 Creature of Comfort
as James Thorne
- 1967 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
- 1967 The Night of the Generals
as General Kahlenberge
- 1966 Eye of the Devil
as Pere Dominic
- 1966 Fantastic Voyage
as Dr. Michaels
- 1966 Cul-de-sac
as George
- 1965
- 1965 The Hallelujah Trail
as 'Oracle' Jones
- 1965 The Greatest Story Ever Told
as The Dark Hermit - Satan
- 1964
- 1964 The Caretaker
as Mac Davies / Bernard Jenkins
- 1963
- 1963
- 1963
- 1963 Dr. Crippen
as Dr. Hawley Harvey Crippen
- 1963 The Great Escape
as Blythe 'The Forger'
- 1962 The Inspector
as Wolters
- 1961 The Horsemasters
as Captain Pinski
- 1961
- 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
- 1960 Alice Through the Looking Box
as Caterpillar
- 1960 The Cupboard
as Fred Watson
- 1960 The Hands of Orlac
as Graham Coates
- 1960 A Story of David
as Nabal
- 1960 Suspect
as Parsons, alias Bill Brown
- 1960
- 1960
- 1960 The Big Day
as Victor Partridge
- 1960 Sons and Lovers
as Mr. Pappleworth
- 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
- 1959
+ 30 more credits
Behind the camera (1)
- 1958 The Telltale Heart
Writer
Talk shows and appearances (12)
- Upcoming
- 2025
- 2025
- 2003
- 1997
- 1994 The World of Hammer
1 episode
- 1984
- 1982 Wogan
1 episode
- 1975 Saturday Night Live
1 episode
- 1960
- 1960 Armchair Mystery Theatre
34 episodes
- 1956 Tony Awards
1 episode