Donald Pleasence
Acting • Born 1919-10-05 – Died 1995-02-02
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.
Filmography
238 credits
Halloween
Movie • 1978
Loomis
Escape from New York
Movie • 1981
President of the United States
THX 1138
Movie • 1971
SEN
You Only Live Twice
Movie • 1967
Ernst Stavro Blofeld
Fantastic Voyage
Movie • 1966
Dr. Michaels
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Movie • 1973
Fred Smudge
Will Penny
Movie • 1967
Preacher Quint
Eye of the Devil
Movie • 1966
Pere Dominic
The Greatest Story Ever Told
Movie • 1965
The Dark Hermit - Satan
1984
Movie • 1956
R. Parsons
Death Line
Movie • 1972
Inspector Calhoun
The Count of Monte-Cristo
Movie • 1975
Danglars
All Quiet on the Western Front
Movie • 1979
Kantorek
A Tale of Two Cities
Movie • 1958
Barsad
Cul-de-sac
Movie • 1966
George
Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers
Movie • 1995
Dr. Sam Loomis
The Great Escape
Movie • 1963
Blythe 'The Forger'
Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers
Movie • 1988
Dr. Loomis
Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers
Movie • 1989
Dr. Sam Loomis
The Eagle Has Landed
Movie • 1976
Himmler
Halloween II
Movie • 1981
Dr. Sam Loomis
Witness for the Prosecution
Movie • 1982
Mr. Myers
Telefon
Movie • 1977
Nicolai Dalchimsky
Buried Alive
Movie • 1989
Dr. Schaeffer
Warrior Queen
Movie • 1987
Clodius Flaucus
Oh, God!
Movie • 1977
Doctor Harmon
The Hallelujah Trail
Movie • 1965
'Oracle' Jones
Watch Out, We're Mad
Movie • 1974
Doctor
The Mutations
Movie • 1974
Professor Nolter
Pumaman
Movie • 1980
Kobras
Last to Go
Movie • 1969
Kidnapped
Movie • 1971
Ebenezer Balfour
The Black Windmill
Movie • 1974
Cedric Harper
Prince of Darkness
Movie • 1987
Priest
Wake in Fright
Movie • 1971
Doc Tydon
Dracula
Movie • 1979
Dr. Jack Seward
Mr. Freedom
Movie • 1969
Dr. Freedom
The Thief and the Cobbler
Movie • 1993
Phido the Vulture (voice)
Circus of Horrors
Movie • 1960
Vanet
The Dybbuk
Movie • 1952
Second batlon
Nosferatu in Venice
Movie • 1988
Don Alvise
I Don't Want to Be Born
Movie • 1976
Dr. Finch
Fatal Frames
Movie • 1996
Professor Robinson
Hell Is a City
Movie • 1960
Gus Hawkins
Phenomena
Movie • 1985
Professor John McGregor
Phantom of Death
Movie • 1988
Inspector Datti
Soldier Blue
Movie • 1970
Isaac Q. Cumber
Tales That Witness Madness
Movie • 1973
Prof. R.C. Tremayne
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
Movie • 1978
B.D. Brockhurst
The Night of the Generals
Movie • 1967
General Kahlenberge
Escape to Witch Mountain
Movie • 1975
Lucas Deranian
The Battle of the Sexes
Movie • 1960
Irwin Hoffman
The Last Tycoon
Movie • 1976
Boxley
The Devil's Men
Movie • 1976
Father Roche
Nothing Underneath
Movie • 1985
Commissioner Danesi
River of Death
Movie • 1989
Heinrich Spaatz
The Monster Club
Movie • 1981
Pickering, Chief of the B-Squad
Terror in the Aisles
Movie • 1984
Self - Host
From Beyond the Grave
Movie • 1974
Jim Underwood
The Man in the Sky
Movie • 1957
Crabtree
The House of Usher
Movie • 1989
Walter Usher
The Wind Cannot Read
Movie • 1958
Doctor
Tomorrow Never Comes
Movie • 1978
Dr. Todd
Blood Relatives
Movie • 1978
James Doniac
Cobra Mission
Movie • 1986
Father Lenoir
The Shakedown
Movie • 1960
Jessel Brown
Look Back in Anger
Movie • 1959
Hurst
Shadows and Fog
Movie • 1991
Doctor
What a Carve Up!
Movie • 1961
Everett Sloane
The Hands of Orlac
Movie • 1960
Graham Coates
Warrior of the Lost World
Movie • 1983
Prossor
The Hour of the Pig
Movie • 1993
Pincheon
Henry VIII and His Six Wives
Movie • 1972
Thomas Cromwell
The Flesh and the Fiends
Movie • 1960
William Hare
The Traitor
Movie • 1959
Grantley Caypor
Sons and Lovers
Movie • 1960
Mr. Pappleworth
Hearts of the West
Movie • 1975
A.J. Nietz
Treasure of the Amazon
Movie • 1985
Klaus von Blantz
Diên Biên Phu
Movie • 1992
Howard Simpson
Casablanca Express
Movie • 1989
Colonel Bats
The Uncanny
Movie • 1977
Valentine De'ath (segment "Hollywood 1936")
The Wind of Change
Movie • 1961
Pop
Jaguar Lives!
Movie • 1979
General Villanova
Django Strikes Again
Movie • 1987
Ben Gunn
Race for the Yankee Zephyr
Movie • 1981
Gilbert Carson
Trial by Combat
Movie • 1976
Sir Giles Marley
Innocent Bystanders
Movie • 1972
Loomis
A Breed Apart
Movie • 1984
J.P. Whittier
Nineteen Eighty-Four
Movie • 1954
Syme
Orders Are Orders
Movie • 1954
Cpl. Martin (as Donald Plesance)
The Devonsville Terror
Movie • 1983
Dr. Warley
Night Creature
Movie • 1978
Axel MacGregor
Double Target
Movie • 1987
Sen. Blaster
The Caretaker
Movie • 1964
Mac Davies / Bernard Jenkins
Ten Little Indians
Movie • 1989
Mr. Justice Lawrence Wargrave
Dr. Crippen
Movie • 1963
Dr. Hawley Harvey Crippen
Ground Zero
Movie • 1987
Prosper Gaffney
Lonely Water
Movie • 1973
The Spirit (voice)
Arch of Triumph
Movie • 1984
Ivon Haake
Goldenrod
Movie • 1976
John Tyler Jones
The Passover Plot
Movie • 1976
Pontius Pilate
Power Play
Movie • 1978
Blair
Scoop
Movie • 1987
Lord Copper
Good Luck, Miss Wyckoff
Movie • 1979
Dr. Steiner
The Commander
Movie • 1988
Henry Carlson
Guinevere
Movie • 1994
Merlin
Halloween: A Cut Above the Rest
Movie • 2003
Self / Dr. Samuel 'Sam' Loomis (archive footage)
Gold of the Amazon Women
Movie • 1979
Clarence Blasko
The Madwoman of Chaillot
Movie • 1969
The Prospector
Matchless
Movie • 1967
Gregori Andreanu
Journey into Fear
Movie • 1975
Kuvetli
Where Is Parsifal?
Movie • 1984
Mackintosh
The Ambassador
Movie • 1985
Minister Eretz
The Inspector
Movie • 1962
Wolters
Life of General De Gaulle
Movie • 1990
Winston Churchill
No Love for Johnnie
Movie • 1961
Renfrew
The Pied Piper
Movie • 1972
The Baron
Reel Horror
Movie • 1985
Axel MacGregor (archive footage)
L'Homme en colère
Movie • 1979
Albert Rumpelmayer
Specters
Movie • 1987
Professor Lasky
American Rickshaw
Movie • 1989
Rev. Mortom
To Kill a Stranger
Movie • 1986
Col. Kostik
Meriel the Ghost Girl
Movie • 1976
George Livingston
Deadheat
Movie • 1986
Aldo Rossi
Spare the Rod
Movie • 1961
Mr. Jenkins
The Rainbow Boys
Movie • 1973
Ralph Logan
The Defection of Simas Kudirka
Movie • 1978
Capt. Vladimir Popov
Suspect
Movie • 1960
Parsons, alias Bill Brown
House of the Damned
Movie • 1974
Martin Zayas
The Vulture Is a Patient Bird
Movie • 1991
The Art Collector
Barry McKenzie Holds His Own
Movie • 1974
Erich Count von Plasma
The Jerusalem File
Movie • 1972
Major Samuels
The Big Freeze
Movie • 1993
Soup slurper
The Corsican Brothers
Movie • 1985
The Chancellor
Last In, First Out
Movie • 1978
Rothko
Creature of Comfort
Movie • 1968
James Thorne
Metropolitan Animals
Movie • 1988
Prof. Livingstone
The Greatest Man in the World
Movie • 1958
US President
Computercide
Movie • 1982
George Dettler
Basements
Movie • 1987
Mr. Kidd (segment "The Room")
The Great Escape II: The Untold Story
Movie • 1988
Dr. Absalon
Wedding in White
Movie • 1972
Jim Dougall, Sr.
Barnacle Bill
Movie • 1957
Cashier
Last Platoon
Movie • 1988
Colonel B. Abrahams
Frankenstein's Great Aunt Tillie
Movie • 1984
Victor Frankenstein / Baron Frankenstein
Freeze: But is it Art?
Movie • 1994
Sinister Dentist
Occupations
Movie • 1974
Christo Kabak
Women in Arms
Movie • 1991
Dreyfuss
Paganini Horror
Movie • 1989
Mr. Pickett
The Cupboard
Movie • 1960
Fred Watson
Femme Fatale
Movie • 1993
Victor Harty
Toff and Fingers
Movie • 1960
Self/Host
Call Me Daddy
Movie • 1967
Ben Hoffman
Manuela
Movie • 1957
Evans
Round the World in 80 Days
Movie • 1955
Voices
Hanna's War
Movie • 1988
Captain Thomas Rosza
Alice Through the Looking Box
Movie • 1960
Caterpillar
The Big Day
Movie • 1960
Victor Partridge
Killers of Kilimanjaro
Movie • 1959
Captain
Millions
Movie • 1991
Ripa
Blade on the Feather
Movie • 1980
John Cavendish
A Story of David
Movie • 1960
Nabal
Black Arrow
Movie • 1985
Sir Oliver Oates
The Horsemasters
Movie • 1961
Captain Pinski
The Black Tent
Movie • 1956
Ali
Hindle Wakes
Movie • 1976
Nat Jeffcote
The Diary of Anne Frank
Movie • 1967
Albert Dussel
Into the Darkness
Movie • 1986
David Beckett
The Beachcomber
Movie • 1954
Tromp
Skin Deep
Movie • 1971
Gerry Muddiman
The Fox Trot
Movie • 1971
Tom
Miss Marple: A Caribbean Mystery
Movie • 1989
Jason Rafiel
The Man Inside
Movie • 1958
Organ Grinder
Safe Haven
Movie • 1995
The Sailor
Arthur? Arthur!
Movie • 1969
Arthur Brownjohn / Sir Easonby 'E' Mellon
Better Late Than Never
Movie • 1979
Colonel Riddle
Gila and Rik
Movie • 1987
Joe Gardenia
Sleep is Lovely
Movie • 1968
Clive
Heart of a Child
Movie • 1958
Spiel
Malachi's Cove
Movie • 1973
Malachi
Alone in the Dark
Movie • 1982
Leo Bain
The News-Benders
Movie • 1968
J.G.
The Falklands Factor
Movie • 1983
Dr. Samuel Johnson
Value for Money
Movie • 1955
Limpy
The Two-Headed Spy
Movie • 1958
Gen. Hardt
The Cafeteria
Movie • 1974
Aaron
The Joke
Movie • 1976
Bendel
Driving Lessons
Movie • 2012
Dr. Sam Loomis (archive footage)
Legacy of Screams: The Evolution of Horror Movies
Movie • 2025
Self - (archive footage)
Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music
Movie • 2025
Self (archive footage)
The Moment of Truth
Movie • 1955
The Foreign Minister
Columbo
TV • 1971
Adrian Carsini
Mrs. Columbo
TV • 1979
Danger Man
TV • 1960
Hawaii Five-O
TV • 1968
Hans Vogler
Centennial
TV • 1978
Sam Purchas
The Ray Bradbury Theater
TV • 1985
George Hill
Hallmark Hall of Fame
TV • 1951
Kantorek
The Twilight Zone
TV • 1959
Ellis Fowler
Espionage
TV • 1963
The Fugitive
TV • 1963
Max Pfeiffer
Interpol Calling
TV • 1959
Karl Haussman
One Step Beyond
TV • 1959
Harvey Laurence
The Adventures of Robin Hood
TV • 1955
Prince John
The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes
TV • 1971
Carnacki
The Barchester Chronicles
TV • 1982
Septimus Harding
Orson Welles' Great Mysteries
TV • 1973
Cawser
Jesus of Nazareth
TV • 1977
Melchior
The Adventures of William Tell
TV • 1958
Peep Show
TV • 1975
The Outer Limits
TV • 1963
Harold J. Finley
The Defenders
TV • 1961
Dr. Byron Saul
Saturday Night Live
TV • 1975
Self - Host
Laurence Olivier Presents
TV • 1976
Nat Jeffcote
The French Atlantic Affair
TV • 1979
Max Dechambre
Signs and Wonders
TV • 1995
Cornelius Van Damm
Wogan
TV • 1982
Self
The Dark Secret of Harvest Home
TV • 1978
Narrator (voice)
Playhouse
TV • 1974
George Livingston
Hallmark Hall of Fame
TV • 1951
Myers
Hallmark Hall of Fame
TV • 1951
The Chancellor
Master of the Game
TV • 1984
Salomon Van der Merwe
Armchair Theatre
TV • 1956
President of the USA
The Great Escape II: The Untold Story
TV • 1988
Dr. Absalon
Play for Today
TV • 1970
Samuel Johnson
The Wonderful World of Disney
TV • 1954
Captain Pinski
NBC Experiment in Television
TV • 1967
(voice)
Play for Today
TV • 1970
Gerry Muddiman
Armchair Mystery Theatre
TV • 1960
Host
Sunday Night Theatre
TV • 1950
Syme
Sunday Night Theatre
TV • 1950
Corporal
Dick Turpin
TV • 1979
Ignatius Slake
Screen Two
TV • 1985
Victor Harty
Playhouse
TV • 1974
Bendel
Playhouse
TV • 1974
Aaron
The World of Hammer
TV • 1994
Self (archive footage)
Naso di cane
TV • 1986
Olindo Cuomo
The Bastard
TV • 1978
Solomon Sholto