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Donald Pleasence

1919–1995 · British actor

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.

Donald Pleasence, in order

  1. 1954 Nineteen Eighty-Four (TV movie): acted · directed by Rudolph Cartier
  2. 1954 The Beachcomber: acted · directed by Muriel Box
  3. 1956 1984: acted · directed by Michael Anderson · audiences 70% · streaming on Plex, Fawesome
  4. 1956 The Black Tent: acted · directed by Brian Desmond Hurst
  5. 1958 A Tale of Two Cities: acted · directed by Ralph Thomas
  6. 1958 Heart of a Child: acted · directed by Clive Donner
  7. 1958 The Man Inside: acted · directed by John Gilling
  8. 1958 The Two-Headed Spy: acted · directed by André de Toth
  9. 1958 The Wind Cannot Read: acted · directed by Ralph Thomas
  10. 1959 Killers of Kilimanjaro: acted · directed by Richard Thorpe
  11. 1959 Look Back in Anger: acted · directed by Tony Richardson
  12. 1960 Circus of Horrors: acted · directed by Sidney Hayers
  13. 1960 Hell Is a City: acted · directed by Val Guest
  14. 1960 Sons and Lovers: acted · directed by Jack Cardiff
  15. 1960 The Big Day: acted · directed by Peter Graham Scott
  16. 1960 The Flesh and the Fiends: acted · directed by John Gilling
  17. 1960 The Hands of Orlac: acted · directed by Edmond T. Gréville
  18. 1961 A Story of David: acted · directed by Bob McNaught
  19. 1961 Disneyland (TV series): acted
  20. 1961 No Love for Johnnie: acted · directed by Ralph Thomas
  21. 1961 Spare the Rod: acted · directed by Leslie Norman
  22. 1961 The Wind of Change: acted · directed by Vernon Sewell
  23. 1961 What a Carve Up!: acted · directed by Pat Jackson
  24. 1962 Dr. Crippen: acted · directed by Robert Lynn
  25. 1962 The Inspector: acted · directed by Philip Dunne
  26. 1963 The Caretaker: acted · directed by Clive Donner
  27. 1963 The Great Escape: acted · directed by John Sturges · critics 94%, audiences 95% · streaming on fuboTV, MGM+, Philo
  28. 1963 The Outer Limits (TV series): acted · critics 93%, audiences 93% · streaming on Prime Video, Roku Channel, Plex
  29. 1965 The Greatest Story Ever Told: acted · directed by David Lean and George Stevens · critics 48%, audiences 64% · streaming on Philo, Roku Channel, Hoopla
  30. 1965 The Hallelujah Trail: acted · directed by John Sturges
  31. 1966 Cul-de-sac: acted · directed by Roman Polanski · critics 83%, audiences 78% · streaming on fuboTV, MGM+, Philo
  32. 1966 Eye of the Devil: acted · directed by J. Lee Thompson
  33. 1966 Fantastic Voyage: acted · directed by Richard Fleischer
  34. 1967 Matchless: acted · directed by Alberto Lattuada
  35. 1967 The Night of the Generals: acted · directed by Anatole Litvak
  36. 1967 You Only Live Twice: acted · directed by Lewis Gilbert
  37. 1968 The Other People: acted · directed by David Hart
  38. 1968 Will Penny: acted · directed by Tom Gries
  39. 1969 Arthur! Arthur!: acted · directed by Samuel Gallu
  40. 1969 Mr. Freedom: acted · directed by William Klein
  41. 1969 The Madwoman of Chaillot: acted · directed by Bryan Forbes and John Huston
  42. 1970 Soldier Blue: acted · directed by Ralph Nelson
  43. 1971 Kidnapped: acted · directed by Delbert Mann
  44. 1971 THX 1138: acted · directed by George Lucas · critics 72%, audiences 73%
  45. 1971 Wake in Fright: acted · directed by Ted Kotcheff
  46. 1972 Death Line: acted · directed by Gary Sherman
  47. 1972 Innocent Bystanders: acted · directed by Peter Collinson
  48. 1972 The Jerusalem File: acted · directed by John Flynn
  49. 1972 The Pied Piper: acted · directed by Jacques Demy
  50. 1972 The Six Wives of Henry VIII: acted · directed by Waris Hussein
  51. 1972 Wedding in White: acted · directed by William Fruet
  52. 1973 From Beyond the Grave: acted · directed by Kevin Connor
  53. 1973 Tales That Witness Madness: acted · directed by Freddie Francis
  54. 1973 The Rainbow Boys: acted · directed by Gerald Potterton
  55. 1974 Barry McKenzie Holds His Own: acted · directed by Bruce Beresford
  56. 1974 The Black Windmill: acted · directed by Don Siegel
  57. 1974 The Mutations: acted · directed by Jack Cardiff
  58. 1974 The Wolf and the Dove: acted · directed by Gonzalo Suárez
  59. 1974 Watch Out, We're Mad!: acted · directed by Marcello Fondato
  60. 1975 Escape to Witch Mountain: acted · directed by John Hough
  61. 1975 Hearts of the West: acted · directed by Howard Zieff
  62. 1975 I Don't Want to Be Born: acted · directed by Peter Sasdy
  63. 1975 Journey into Fear: acted · directed by Daniel Mann
  64. 1975 The Count of Monte Cristo: acted · directed by David Greene
  65. 1976 Land of the Minotaur: acted · directed by Kostas Karagiannis
  66. 1976 The Eagle Has Landed: acted · directed by John Sturges
  67. 1976 The Last Tycoon: acted · directed by Elia Kazan · critics 38%, audiences 40% · streaming on Kanopy, Hoopla
  68. 1976 The Passover Plot: acted · directed by Michael Campus
  69. 1976 Trial by Combat: acted · directed by Kevin Connor
  70. 1977 Jesus of Nazareth (TV series): acted · directed by Franco Zeffirelli · streaming on Peacock, Plex, Fawesome
  71. 1977 Oh, God!: acted · directed by Carl Reiner
  72. 1977 Telefon: acted · directed by Don Siegel · critics 41%, audiences 48%
  73. 1977 The Uncanny: acted · directed by Denis Héroux
  74. 1978 Blood Relatives: acted · directed by Claude Chabrol
  75. 1978 CIA contro KGB: acted · directed by Claude d'Anna
  76. 1978 Halloween: acted · directed by John Carpenter · critics 97%, audiences 89% · streaming on fuboTV, Philo, AMC+
  77. 1978 Out of the Darkness: acted · directed by Lee Madden
  78. 1978 Power Play: acted · directed by Martyn Burke
  79. 1978 Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band: acted · directed by Michael Schultz
  80. 1978 Tomorrow Never Comes: acted · directed by Peter Collinson
  81. 1979 All Quiet on the Western Front (TV movie): acted · directed by Delbert Mann · critics 100%, audiences 70% · streaming on Prime Video, fuboTV, Kanopy
  82. 1979 Dracula: acted · directed by John Badham
  83. 1979 Gold of the Amazon Women: acted · directed by Mark L. Lester
  84. 1979 Jaguar Lives!: acted · directed by Ernest Pintoff
  85. 1979 The Angry Man: acted · directed by Claude Pinoteau
  86. 1979 The French Atlantic Affair (TV series): acted · directed by Douglas Heyes
  87. 1980 The Pumaman: acted · directed by Alberto De Martino
  88. 1981 Escape from New York: acted · directed by John Carpenter · critics 70%, audiences 77% · streaming on Roku Channel, Kanopy, Plex
  89. 1981 Halloween II: acted · directed by Rick Rosenthal
  90. 1981 Race for the Yankee Zephyr: acted · directed by David Hemmings
  91. 1981 The Monster Club: acted · directed by Roy Ward Baker
  92. 1982 Alone in the Dark: acted · directed by Jack Sholder
  93. 1982 The Barchester Chronicles (TV series): acted · directed by David Giles
  94. 1982 Witness for the Prosecution (TV movie): acted · directed by Alan Gibson
  95. 1983 Where Is Parsifal?: acted · directed by Henri Helman · streaming on Roku Channel
  96. 1984 A Breed Apart: acted · directed by Philippe Mora
  97. 1984 Arch of Triumph (TV movie): acted · directed by Waris Hussein
  98. 1984 Frankenstein's Great Aunt Tillie: acted · directed by Myron J. Gold
  99. 1984 Terror in the Aisles: acted · directed by Andrew J. Kuehn · critics 63%, audiences 51%
  100. 1984 The Ambassador: acted · directed by J. Lee Thompson
  101. 1984 To Kill a Stranger: acted · directed by Juan López Moctezuma
  102. 1984 Warrior of the Lost World: acted · directed by David Worth and Fred Williamson
  103. 1985 Black Arrow (TV movie): acted · directed by John Hough
  104. 1985 Dario Argento's World of Horror: acted · directed by Michele Soavi
  105. 1985 Nothing Underneath: acted · directed by Carlo Vanzina
  106. 1985 Phenomena: acted · directed by Dario Argento
  107. 1985 Treasure of the Amazon: acted · directed by René Cardona Jr.
  108. 1986 Naso di cane (TV movie): acted · directed by Pasquale Squitieri
  109. 1986 Operation Nam: acted · directed by Fabrizio De Angelis
  110. 1987 Animali metropolitani: acted · directed by Steno
  111. 1987 Django 2: acted · directed by Nello Rossati
  112. 1987 Double Target: acted · directed by Bruno Mattei
  113. 1987 Ground Zero: acted · directed by Bruce Myles and Michael Pattinson
  114. 1987 Prince of Darkness: acted · directed by John Carpenter
  115. 1987 Scoop (TV movie): acted · directed by Gavin Millar
  116. 1987 Specters: acted · directed by Marcello Avallone
  117. 1988 Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers: acted · directed by Dwight H. Little
  118. 1988 Hanna's War: acted · directed by Menahem Golan
  119. 1988 Last Platoon: acted · directed by Ignazio Dolce
  120. 1988 Phantom of Death: acted · directed by Ruggero Deodato · audiences 18%
  121. 1988 The Commander: acted · directed by Antonio Margheriti
  122. 1988 Vampire in Venice: acted · directed by Augusto Caminito and Klaus Kinski
  123. 1989 American Tiger: acted · directed by Sergio Martino
  124. 1989 Casablanca Express: acted · directed by Sergio Martino
  125. 1989 Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers: acted · directed by Dominique Othenin-Girard
  126. 1989 Paganini Horror: acted · directed by Luigi Cozzi
  127. 1989 River of Death: acted · directed by Steve Carver
  128. 1989 Ten Little Indians: acted · directed by Alan Birkinshaw
  129. 1989 The House of Usher: acted · directed by Alan Birkinshaw
  130. 1990 Buried Alive: acted · directed by Gérard Kikoïne
  131. 1991 Millions: acted · directed by Carlo Vanzina
  132. 1991 Shadows and Fog: acted · directed by Woody Allen · critics 54%, audiences 55% · streaming on fuboTV, MGM+, Philo
  133. 1991 Women in Arms (TV movie): acted · directed by Sergio Corbucci
  134. 1992 Dien Bien Phu: acted · directed by Pierre Schoendoerffer
  135. 1993 The Hour of the Pig: acted · directed by Leslie Megahey
  136. 1994 Guinevere (TV movie): acted · directed by Jud Taylor
  137. 1995 Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers: acted · directed by Joe Chappelle
  138. 1996 Fatal Frames: acted · directed by Al Festa
  139. 2006 Going to Pieces: The Rise and Fall of the Slasher Film: acted · directed by Jeff McQueen