“there would not be peace in the Middle East until the Balfour Declaration is unpicked... France and England need to announce:”
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Charles Dance
Walter Charles Dance is an English actor. He is known for playing intimidating, authoritarian characters and villains. Dance started his career on stage with the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) before appearing in film and television. For his services to drama he was appointed an OBE by Queen Elizabeth II in 2006.
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Born 10 October 1946 · Q309690
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Dance starred as Michelangelo in the BBC docu-drama Renaissance: The Blood and the Beauty
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2020· 1 entry
Dance portrayed William Randolph Hearst in David Fincher's Mank, co-starring alongside Gary Oldman and Amanda Seyfried
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2019· 1 entry
Played an antagonist in Godzilla: King of the Monsters and appeared as Lord Mountbatten in series 3 of The Crown in the same year
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2016· 1 entry
Dance discovered that his mother had Belgian ancestry, which traced back to the city of Spa
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2013· 1 entry
Awarded Time Machine Award (2013).
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2009· 1 entry
Directed his own adaptation of Alice Thomas Ellis's The Inn at the Edge of the World
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1989· 1 entry
Played Bond creator Ian Fleming in Anglia Television's dramatised biography directed by Don Boyd, Goldeneye (the name of Fleming's estate in Jamaica and a title later used for a James Bond film)
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1974· 1 entry
In the ITV series Father Brown as Commandant Neil O'Brien in "The Secret Garden"
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1970· 1 entry
And they had a son named Oliver (born 1974) and a daughter named Rebecca (born 1980) before divorcing in 2004
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1946· 1 entry
Born 1946-10-10.
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