Donald Pleasence

1919-10-05

•Worksop, Nottinghamshire, England, UK

1995-02-02

Biography

Donald Henry Pleasence OBE 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Donald Pleasence, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known For Movies

7.6

Halloween

1978-10-24

Fifteen years after murdering his sister on Halloween Night 1963, Michael Myers escapes from a menta...

7.1

Escape from New York

1981-05-23

In a world ravaged by crime, the entire island of Manhattan has been converted into a walled prison ...

6.4

THX 1138

1971-03-11

People in the future live in a totalitarian society. A technician named THX 1138 lives a mundane lif...

6.6

You Only Live Twice

1967-06-13

A mysterious spacecraft captures Russian and American space capsules and brings the two superpowers ...

6.7

Fantastic Voyage

1966-08-24

In order to save an assassinated scientist, a submarine and its crew are shrunk to microscopic size ...

5.9

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

1973-03-07

Musical version of the story in which Dr. Henry Jekyll experiments with scientific means of revealin...

6.6

Will Penny

1967-12-19

Will Penny, an aging cowpoke, takes a job on a ranch which requires him to ride the line of the prop...

6.2

Eye of the Devil

1966-11-18

A French nobleman deserts his wife because of an ancient family secret.

Known For TV Shows

8.1

Columbo

1971-09-15

Columbo is a friendly, verbose, disheveled-looking police detective who is consistently underestimat...

6.1

Mrs. Columbo

1979-02-26

Mrs. Kate Columbo, wife of the famous lieutenant, solves crimes as a reporter, while raising her lit...

7.2

Danger Man

1960-09-11

Danger Man is a British television series which was broadcast between 1960 and 1962, and again betwe...

7.1

Hawaii Five-O

1968-09-20

Hawaii Five-O is an American police procedural drama series produced by CBS Productions and Leonard ...

7.7

Centennial

1978-10-01

The economic and cultural growth of town of Centennial, Colorado, through the intertwining lives of ...

6.9

The Ray Bradbury Theater

1985-05-21

A Canadian-produced fantastic anthology series scripted by famed science-fiction author Ray Bradbury...

8.6

Hallmark Hall of Fame

1951-12-24

Hallmark Hall of Fame is an anthology program on American television, sponsored by Hallmark Cards, a...

8.4

The Twilight Zone

1959-10-02

A series of unrelated stories containing drama, psychological thriller, fantasy, science fiction, su...

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