People
Donald Pleasence
- Name: Donald Pleasence
- Birthday: 1919-10-05
- Also known as: Donald Pleasance,Don Pleasence,Donald Plesance,Donald Henry Pleasence,Дональд Генри Плезенс,Дональд Плезенс,دانلد پلزنس
- Place of birth: Worksop, Nottinghamshire, England, UK
- Popularity: 1.5451
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.
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| Title | Release date |
|---|---|
| Legacy of Screams: The Evolution of Horror Movies as Self - (archive footage) | 2025-11-21 |
| Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music as Self (archive footage) | 2025-01-27 |
| Driving Lessons as Dr. Sam Loomis (archive footage) | 2012-09-30 |
| Halloween: A Cut Above the Rest as Self / Dr. Samuel 'Sam' Loomis (archive footage) | 2003-08-05 |
| Fatal Frames as Professor Robinson | 1996-02-15 |
| Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers as Dr. Sam Loomis | 1995-09-29 |
| Safe Haven as The Sailor | 1995-01-01 |
| Guinevere as Merlin | 1994-05-07 |
| Freeze: But is it Art? as Sinister Dentist | 1994-02-22 |
| The Big Freeze as Soup slurper | 1993-11-17 |
| The Hour of the Pig as Pincheon | 1993-09-25 |
| The Thief and the Cobbler as Phido the Vulture (voice) | 1993-09-23 |
| Femme Fatale as Victor Harty | 1993-02-07 |
| Diên Biên Phu as Howard Simpson | 1992-03-04 |
| Shadows and Fog as Doctor | 1991-12-05 |
| Millions as Ripa | 1991-02-01 |
| Women in Arms as Dreyfuss | 1991-01-09 |
| The Vulture Is a Patient Bird as The Art Collector | 1991-01-02 |
| Life of General De Gaulle as Winston Churchill | 1990-11-08 |
| Miss Marple: A Caribbean Mystery as Jason Rafiel | 1989-12-25 |
| Casablanca Express as Colonel Bats | 1989-12-22 |
| Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers as Dr. Sam Loomis | 1989-10-12 |
| River of Death as Heinrich Spaatz | 1989-09-29 |
| Ten Little Indians as Mr. Justice Lawrence Wargrave | 1989-09-27 |
| Buried Alive as Dr. Schaeffer | 1989-09-01 |
| Paganini Horror as Mr. Pickett | 1989-06-06 |
| The House of Usher as Walter Usher | 1989-04-13 |
| American Rickshaw as Rev. Mortom | 1989-01-24 |
| The Great Escape II: The Untold Story as Dr. Absalon | 1988-11-05 |
| Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers as Dr. Loomis | 1988-10-21 |
| Nosferatu in Venice as Don Alvise | 1988-09-10 |
| Last Platoon as Colonel B. Abrahams | 1988-08-21 |
| Metropolitan Animals as Prof. Livingstone | 1988-05-09 |
| The Commander as Henry Carlson | 1988-04-28 |
| Hanna's War as Captain Thomas Rosza | 1988-04-14 |
| Phantom of Death as Inspector Datti | 1988-03-11 |
| Prince of Darkness as Priest | 1987-10-23 |
| Django Strikes Again as Ben Gunn | 1987-10-22 |
| Ground Zero as Prosper Gaffney | 1987-10-01 |
| Double Target as Sen. Blaster | 1987-06-11 |
| Basements as Mr. Kidd (segment "The Room") | 1987-05-12 |
| Scoop as Lord Copper | 1987-04-26 |
| Specters as Professor Lasky | 1987-04-24 |
| Warrior Queen as Clodius Flaucus | 1987-01-26 |
| Gila and Rik as Joe Gardenia | 1987-01-01 |
| Cobra Mission as Father Lenoir | 1986-07-31 |
| To Kill a Stranger as Col. Kostik | 1986-02-06 |
| Deadheat as Aldo Rossi | 1986-01-01 |
| Into the Darkness as David Beckett | 1986-01-01 |
| Nothing Underneath as Commissioner Danesi | 1985-11-07 |
| Black Arrow as Sir Oliver Oates | 1985-10-09 |
| Reel Horror as Axel MacGregor (archive footage) | 1985-10-01 |
| Treasure of the Amazon as Klaus von Blantz | 1985-05-30 |
| The Corsican Brothers as The Chancellor | 1985-02-05 |
| Phenomena as Professor John McGregor | 1985-01-25 |
| The Ambassador as Minister Eretz | 1985-01-11 |
| Arch of Triumph as Ivon Haake | 1984-12-19 |
| Terror in the Aisles as Self - Host | 1984-10-26 |
| A Breed Apart as J.P. Whittier | 1984-06-01 |
| Frankenstein's Great Aunt Tillie as Victor Frankenstein / Baron Frankenstein | 1984-01-01 |
| Where Is Parsifal? as Mackintosh | 1984-01-01 |
| The Devonsville Terror as Dr. Warley | 1983-10-24 |
| The Falklands Factor as Dr. Samuel Johnson | 1983-04-26 |
| Warrior of the Lost World as Prossor | 1983-01-01 |
| Witness for the Prosecution as Mr. Myers | 1982-12-04 |
| Alone in the Dark as Leo Bain | 1982-11-12 |
| Computercide as George Dettler | 1982-08-01 |
| Race for the Yankee Zephyr as Gilbert Carson | 1981-11-28 |
| Halloween II as Dr. Sam Loomis | 1981-10-30 |
| Escape from New York as President of the United States | 1981-05-23 |
| The Monster Club as Pickering, Chief of the B-Squad | 1981-04-11 |
| Blade on the Feather as John Cavendish | 1980-10-19 |
| Pumaman as Kobras | 1980-02-14 |
| All Quiet on the Western Front as Kantorek | 1979-11-14 |
| Better Late Than Never as Colonel Riddle | 1979-10-17 |
| Jaguar Lives! as General Villanova | 1979-08-09 |
| Dracula as Dr. Jack Seward | 1979-07-20 |
| Good Luck, Miss Wyckoff as Dr. Steiner | 1979-04-13 |
| L'Homme en colère as Albert Rumpelmayer | 1979-03-14 |
| Gold of the Amazon Women as Clarence Blasko | 1979-03-06 |
| Power Play as Blair | 1978-11-01 |
| Halloween as Loomis | 1978-10-24 |
| Last In, First Out as Rothko | 1978-08-30 |
| Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band as B.D. Brockhurst | 1978-07-21 |
| Night Creature as Axel MacGregor | 1978-06-01 |
| Tomorrow Never Comes as Dr. Todd | 1978-03-02 |
| Blood Relatives as James Doniac | 1978-02-01 |
| The Defection of Simas Kudirka as Capt. Vladimir Popov | 1978-01-23 |
| Telefon as Nicolai Dalchimsky | 1977-12-16 |
| Oh, God! as Doctor Harmon | 1977-10-07 |
| The Uncanny as Valentine De'ath (segment "Hollywood 1936") | 1977-08-24 |
| The Eagle Has Landed as Himmler | 1976-12-24 |
| Hindle Wakes as Nat Jeffcote | 1976-12-19 |
| The Last Tycoon as Boxley | 1976-11-18 |
| The Passover Plot as Pontius Pilate | 1976-10-29 |
| Meriel the Ghost Girl as George Livingston | 1976-09-28 |
| Goldenrod as John Tyler Jones | 1976-09-22 |
| The Devil's Men as Father Roche | 1976-08-11 |
| The Joke as Bendel | 1976-05-26 |
| Trial by Combat as Sir Giles Marley | 1976-04-01 |
| I Don't Want to Be Born as Dr. Finch | 1976-02-01 |
| The Count of Monte-Cristo as Danglars | 1975-10-31 |
| Hearts of the West as A.J. Nietz | 1975-10-08 |
| Journey into Fear as Kuvetli | 1975-08-08 |
| Escape to Witch Mountain as Lucas Deranian | 1975-03-21 |
| Barry McKenzie Holds His Own as Erich Count von Plasma | 1974-12-12 |
| House of the Damned as Martin Zayas | 1974-09-08 |
| Occupations as Christo Kabak | 1974-09-01 |
| The Cafeteria as Aaron | 1974-08-13 |
| The Mutations as Professor Nolter | 1974-05-22 |
| The Black Windmill as Cedric Harper | 1974-05-17 |
| Watch Out, We're Mad as Doctor | 1974-03-29 |
| From Beyond the Grave as Jim Underwood | 1974-02-21 |
| Tales That Witness Madness as Prof. R.C. Tremayne | 1973-10-31 |
| Malachi's Cove as Malachi | 1973-10-01 |
| Lonely Water as The Spirit (voice) | 1973-07-04 |
| The Rainbow Boys as Ralph Logan | 1973-03-27 |
| Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde as Fred Smudge | 1973-03-07 |
| The Pied Piper as The Baron | 1972-12-27 |
| Wedding in White as Jim Dougall, Sr. | 1972-10-20 |
| Death Line as Inspector Calhoun | 1972-10-13 |
| Innocent Bystanders as Loomis | 1972-09-01 |
| Henry VIII and His Six Wives as Thomas Cromwell | 1972-07-13 |
| The Jerusalem File as Major Samuels | 1972-02-02 |
| Kidnapped as Ebenezer Balfour | 1971-12-22 |
| Skin Deep as Gerry Muddiman | 1971-11-25 |
| Wake in Fright as Doc Tydon | 1971-07-21 |
| The Fox Trot as Tom | 1971-04-29 |
| THX 1138 as SEN | 1971-03-11 |
| Soldier Blue as Isaac Q. Cumber | 1970-08-12 |
| The Madwoman of Chaillot as The Prospector | 1969-10-12 |
| Arthur? Arthur! as Arthur Brownjohn / Sir Easonby 'E' Mellon | 1969-10-01 |
| Mr. Freedom as Dr. Freedom | 1969-01-08 |
| Last to Go | 1969-01-01 |
| Sleep is Lovely as Clive | 1968-09-01 |
| The News-Benders as J.G. | 1968-01-10 |
| Creature of Comfort as James Thorne | 1968-01-01 |
| Will Penny as Preacher Quint | 1967-12-19 |
| The Diary of Anne Frank as Albert Dussel | 1967-11-26 |
| Matchless as Gregori Andreanu | 1967-08-13 |
| You Only Live Twice as Ernst Stavro Blofeld | 1967-06-13 |
| Call Me Daddy as Ben Hoffman | 1967-04-08 |
| The Night of the Generals as General Kahlenberge | 1967-01-29 |
| Eye of the Devil as Pere Dominic | 1966-11-18 |
| Fantastic Voyage as Dr. Michaels | 1966-08-24 |
| Cul-de-sac as George | 1966-06-17 |
| The Hallelujah Trail as 'Oracle' Jones | 1965-06-23 |
| The Greatest Story Ever Told as The Dark Hermit - Satan | 1965-04-09 |
| The Caretaker as Mac Davies / Bernard Jenkins | 1964-01-21 |
| Dr. Crippen as Dr. Hawley Harvey Crippen | 1963-08-07 |
| The Great Escape as Blythe 'The Forger' | 1963-07-03 |
| The Inspector as Wolters | 1962-05-24 |
| The Horsemasters as Captain Pinski | 1961-10-01 |
| What a Carve Up! as Everett Sloane | 1961-09-15 |
| Spare the Rod as Mr. Jenkins | 1961-05-23 |
| The Wind of Change as Pop | 1961-03-01 |
| No Love for Johnnie as Renfrew | 1961-02-14 |
| Alice Through the Looking Box as Caterpillar | 1960-12-25 |
| The Cupboard as Fred Watson | 1960-12-11 |
| A Story of David as Nabal | 1960-12-01 |
| The Hands of Orlac as Graham Coates | 1960-12-01 |
| Suspect as Parsons, alias Bill Brown | 1960-11-15 |
| Toff and Fingers as Self/Host | 1960-07-03 |
| The Big Day as Victor Partridge | 1960-07-01 |
| Sons and Lovers as Mr. Pappleworth | 1960-06-23 |
| Hell Is a City as Gus Hawkins | 1960-04-10 |
| Circus of Horrors as Vanet | 1960-04-01 |
| The Battle of the Sexes as Irwin Hoffman | 1960-02-25 |
| The Flesh and the Fiends as William Hare | 1960-02-02 |
| The Shakedown as Jessel Brown | 1960-01-01 |
| Killers of Kilimanjaro as Captain | 1959-10-01 |
| Look Back in Anger as Hurst | 1959-09-15 |
| The Traitor as Grantley Caypor | 1959-08-07 |
| The Two-Headed Spy as Gen. Hardt | 1958-11-17 |
| The Greatest Man in the World as US President | 1958-11-09 |
| The Man Inside as Organ Grinder | 1958-09-07 |
| The Wind Cannot Read as Doctor | 1958-06-10 |
| Heart of a Child as Spiel | 1958-04-30 |
| A Tale of Two Cities as Barsad | 1958-02-07 |
| Barnacle Bill as Cashier | 1957-12-17 |
| Manuela as Evans | 1957-07-18 |
| The Man in the Sky as Crabtree | 1957-01-24 |
| The Black Tent as Ali | 1956-04-09 |
| 1984 as R. Parsons | 1956-03-06 |
| Value for Money as Limpy | 1955-08-09 |
| The Moment of Truth as The Foreign Minister | 1955-03-06 |
| Round the World in 80 Days as Voices | 1955-01-01 |
| Nineteen Eighty-Four as Syme | 1954-12-16 |
| Orders Are Orders as Cpl. Martin (as Donald Plesance) | 1954-10-01 |
| The Beachcomber as Tromp | 1954-08-10 |
| The Dybbuk as Second batlon | 1952-10-21 |
