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Donald Pleasence
Donald Henry Pleasence was an English actor. He was known for his "bald head and intense, staring eyes," and played more than 250 stage, film, and television roles across a nearly 60-year career.
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entertainment · English actor (1919–1995) · actor · screenwriter · television actor · also Donald Pleasence, Donald Henry Pleasence, Pleasence
Born 5 October 1919 · Died 2 February 1995 · Q314914
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1995· 1 entry
Died 1995-02-02.
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1994· 1 entry
Awarded Officer of the Order of the British Empire (1994).
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1988· 2 entries
Pleasence and Michael Nader portrayed villains in The Great Escape II: The Untold Story, which costar Christopher Reeve explained as not being a remake of the 1963 original film and being based on Paul Brickhill's non-fi
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Pleasence played a priest in the Italian horror film Vampire in Venice, (a
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1986· 2 entries
Playing "a minor part as a priest" who services Vietnam soldiers
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Pleasence joined Ronald Lacey and Polly Jo Pleasence for the television thriller Into the Darkness
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1984· 1 entry
(1956), and minor roles opposite Alec Guinness in Barnacle Bill (1957), and Dirk Bogarde in The Wind Cannot Read (1958)
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1978· 1 entry
Played a scout, Sam Purchas in an adaptation of James A
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1973· 1 entry
Pleasence played a murdering wine specialist in an episode of Columbo entitled "Any Old Port in a Storm"
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1971· 1 entry
Pleasence delivered a tour de force performance in the role of an alcoholic Australian doctor in Ted Kotcheff's nightmarish outback drama Wake in Fright
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1966· 1 entry
Also guest starred in an episode entitled "With Strings Attached" of The Fugitive
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1963· 1 entry
Appeared in an episode titled "The Man with the Power" of The Outer Limits
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1960· 1 entry
Pleasence gained excellent notices as the tramp in Harold Pinter's The Caretaker at the Arts Theatre, a role he would again play in a 1990 revival
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1959· 1 entry
Was awarded Best Actor by the Society of Film and Television Arts Television Awards for his work the previous year
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1955· 2 entries
Said that 'joining the RAF was almost like being posted home'
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“joining the RAF was almost like being posted home”
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1919· 1 entry
Born 1919-10-05.
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