Acting
Donald Pleasence
Born 1919-10-05
Worksop, Nottinghamshire, England, UK
Department: Acting
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.
Known For
Prominent works featuring Donald Pleasence
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Halloween
1978
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Escape from New York
1981
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The Great Escape
1963
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You Only Live Twice
1967
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Halloween II
1981
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Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers
1988
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Columbo
1971
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Saturday Night Live
1975
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The Twilight Zone
1959
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Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers
1989
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Filmography & Credits
Complete career catalog (256 titles)
| Poster | Title | Character / Role | Type | Year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | The Dr. Loomis Tapes | Dr. Loomis | Movie | 2026 |
 | Breakdown: 1975 | Self (archive footage- Escape to Witch Mountain) | Movie | 2025 |
 | Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music | Self (archive footage) | Movie | 2025 |
 | HALLOWEEN 6: PRODUCER'S CUT | Samuel Loomis | Movie | 2014 |
 | Driving Lessons | Dr. Sam Loomis (archive footage) | Movie | 2012 |
 | Halloween: A Cut Above the Rest | Self / Dr. Samuel 'Sam' Loomis (archive footage) | Movie | 2003 |
 | Fatal Frames | Professor Robinson | Movie | 1996 |
 | Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers | Dr. Loomis | Movie | 1995 |
 | Signs and Wonders | Cornelius Van Damm | TV Series | 1995 |
| Safe Haven | The Sailor | Movie | 1995 | |
 | The World of Hammer | Self (archive footage) | TV Series | 1994 |
 | Guinevere | Merlin | Movie | 1994 |
 | Freeze: But is it Art? | Sinister Dentist | Movie | 1994 |
 | The Big Freeze | Soup slurper | Movie | 1993 |
 | The Hour of the Pig | Pincheon | Movie | 1993 |
 | The Thief and the Cobbler | Phido the Vulture (voice) | Movie | 1993 |
 | Femme Fatale | Victor Harty | Movie | 1993 |
 | Dien Bien Phu | Howard Simpson | Movie | 1992 |
 | Shadows and Fog | Doctor | Movie | 1991 |
 | Millions | Ripa | Movie | 1991 |
 | Women in Arms | Dreyfuss | Movie | 1991 |
 | The Vulture Is a Patient Bird | Armon Shalik | Movie | 1991 |
 | Life of General De Gaulle | Winston Churchill | Movie | 1990 |
 | Miss Marple: A Caribbean Mystery | Jason Rafiel | Movie | 1989 |
 | Casablanca Express | Colonel Bats | Movie | 1989 |
 | Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers | Dr. Sam Loomis | Movie | 1989 |
 | River of Death | Heinrich Spaatz | Movie | 1989 |
 | Ten Little Indians | Mr. Justice Lawrence Wargrave | Movie | 1989 |
 | Buried Alive | Dr. Schaeffer | Movie | 1989 |
 | Paganini Horror | Mr. Pickett | Movie | 1989 |
 | The House of Usher | Walter Usher | Movie | 1989 |
 | American Rickshaw | Rev. Mortom | Movie | 1989 |
 | The Great Escape II: The Untold Story | Dr. Absalon | TV Series | 1988 |
 | The Great Escape II: The Untold Story | Dr. Absalon | Movie | 1988 |
 | Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers | Dr. Loomis | Movie | 1988 |
 | Nosferatu in Venice | Don Alvise | Movie | 1988 |
 | Last Platoon | Colonel B. Abrahams | Movie | 1988 |
 | Metropolitan Animals | Prof. Livingstone | Movie | 1988 |
 | The Commander | Henry Carlson | Movie | 1988 |
 | Hanna's War | Captain Thomas Rosza | Movie | 1988 |
 | Phantom of Death | Inspector Datti | Movie | 1988 |
 | Prince of Darkness | Priest | Movie | 1987 |
 | Django Strikes Again | Ben Gunn | Movie | 1987 |
 | Ground Zero | Prosper Gaffney | Movie | 1987 |
 | Double Target | Sen. Blaster | Movie | 1987 |
 | Basements | Mr. Kidd (segment "The Room") | Movie | 1987 |
 | Scoop | Lord Copper | Movie | 1987 |
 | Specters | Professor Lasky | Movie | 1987 |
 | Warrior Queen | Clodius Flaucus | Movie | 1987 |
 | Gila and Rik | Joe Gardenia | Movie | 1987 |
| Naso di cane | Olindo Cuomo | TV Series | 1986 | |
 | Cobra Mission | Father Lenoir | Movie | 1986 |
 | To Kill a Stranger | Col. Kostik | Movie | 1986 |
 | Deadheat | Aldo Rossi | Movie | 1986 |
 | Into the Darkness | David Beckett | Movie | 1986 |
 | Nothing Underneath | Commissioner Danesi | Movie | 1985 |
 | Black Arrow | Sir Oliver Oates | Movie | 1985 |
 | Reel Horror | Axel MacGregor (archive footage) | Movie | 1985 |
 | Treasure of the Amazon | Klaus von Blantz | Movie | 1985 |
 | The Ray Bradbury Theater | George Hill | TV Series | 1985 |
 | The Corsican Brothers | The Chancellor | Movie | 1985 |
 | Phenomena | Professor John McGregor | Movie | 1985 |
 | The Ambassador | Minister Eretz | Movie | 1985 |
 | Screen Two | Victor Harty | TV Series | 1985 |
| Screen Two | Pincheon | TV Series | 1985 |
 | Arch of Triumph | Ivon Haake | Movie | 1984 |
 | Terror in the Aisles | Self - Host | Movie | 1984 |
 | A Breed Apart | J.P. Whittier | Movie | 1984 |
 | Master of the Game | Salomon Van der Merwe | TV Series | 1984 |
 | Where Is Parsifal? | Mackintosh | Movie | 1984 |
 | Frankenstein's Great Aunt Tillie | Victor Frankenstein / Baron Frankenstein | Movie | 1984 |
 | The Devonsville Terror | Dr. Warley | Movie | 1983 |
 | The Falklands Factor | Dr. Samuel Johnson | Movie | 1983 |
 | Warrior of the Lost World | Prossor | Movie | 1983 |
 | Witness for the Prosecution | Mr. Myers | Movie | 1982 |
 | Alone in the Dark | Leo Bain | Movie | 1982 |
 | The Barchester Chronicles | Septimus Harding | TV Series | 1982 |
 | Computercide | George Dettler | Movie | 1982 |
 | Wogan | Self | TV Series | 1982 |
 | Race for the Yankee Zephyr | Gilbert Carson | Movie | 1981 |
 | Halloween II | Sam Loomis | Movie | 1981 |
 | Escape from New York | President of the United States | Movie | 1981 |
 | The Monster Club | Pickering, Chief of the B-Squad | Movie | 1981 |
 | Blade on the Feather | John Cavendish | Movie | 1980 |
 | Pumaman | Kobras | Movie | 1980 |
 | The French Atlantic Affair | Max Dechambre | TV Series | 1979 |
 | All Quiet on the Western Front | Kantorek | Movie | 1979 |
 | Better Late Than Never | Colonel Riddle | Movie | 1979 |
 | Jaguar Lives! | General Villanova | Movie | 1979 |
 | Dracula | Dr. Jack Seward | Movie | 1979 |
 | Good Luck, Miss Wyckoff | Dr. Steiner | Movie | 1979 |
 | L'Homme en colère | Albert Rumpelmayer | Movie | 1979 |
 | Gold of the Amazon Women | Clarence Blasko | Movie | 1979 |
 | Mrs. Columbo | Self / Appearance | TV Series | 1979 |
 | Dick Turpin | Ignatius Slake | TV Series | 1979 |
 | Power Play | Blair | Movie | 1978 |
 | Halloween | Loomis | Movie | 1978 |
 | Centennial | Sam Purchas | TV Series | 1978 |
 | Last In, First Out | Rothko | Movie | 1978 |
 | Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band | B.D. Brockhurst | Movie | 1978 |
 | Night Creature | Axel MacGregor | Movie | 1978 |
 | The Bastard | Solomon Sholto | TV Series | 1978 |
 | Tomorrow Never Comes | Dr. Todd | Movie | 1978 |
 | Blood Relatives | James Doniac | Movie | 1978 |
 | The Defection of Simas Kudirka | Capt. Vladimir Popov | Movie | 1978 |
 | The Dark Secret of Harvest Home | Narrator (voice) | TV Series | 1978 |
 | Telefon | Nicolai Dalchimsky | Movie | 1977 |
 | Oh, God! | Doctor Harmon | Movie | 1977 |
 | The Uncanny | Valentine De'ath (segment "Hollywood 1936") | Movie | 1977 |
 | Jesus of Nazareth | Melchior | TV Series | 1977 |
 | The Eagle Has Landed | Himmler | Movie | 1976 |
 | Hindle Wakes | Nat Jeffcote | Movie | 1976 |
 | Laurence Olivier Presents | Nat Jeffcote | TV Series | 1976 |
 | The Last Tycoon | Boxley | Movie | 1976 |
 | The Passover Plot | Pontius Pilate | Movie | 1976 |
 | Meriel the Ghost Girl | George Livingston | Movie | 1976 |
 | Goldenrod | John Tyler Jones | Movie | 1976 |
 | The Devil's Men | Father Roche | Movie | 1976 |
 | The Joke | Bendel | Movie | 1976 |
 | Trial by Combat | Sir Giles Marley | Movie | 1976 |
 | I Don't Want to Be Born | Dr. Finch | Movie | 1976 |
| Peep Show | Self / Appearance | TV Series | 1975 | |
 | The Count of Monte-Cristo | Danglars | Movie | 1975 |
 | Saturday Night Live | Self - Host | TV Series | 1975 |
 | Hearts of the West | A.J. Nietz | Movie | 1975 |
 | Shades of Greene | Puckler | TV Series | 1975 |
 | Journey into Fear | Kuvetli | Movie | 1975 |
 | Escape to Witch Mountain | Lucas Deranian | Movie | 1975 |
 | Barry McKenzie Holds His Own | Erich Count von Plasma | Movie | 1974 |
 | House of the Damned | Martin Zayas | Movie | 1974 |
 | Occupations | Christo Kabak | Movie | 1974 |
 | The Cafeteria | Aaron | Movie | 1974 |
 | The Mutations | Professor Nolter | Movie | 1974 |
 | The Black Windmill | Cedric Harper | Movie | 1974 |
 | Watch Out, We're Mad | Doctor | Movie | 1974 |
 | Playhouse | George Livingston | TV Series | 1974 |
| Playhouse | Bendel | TV Series | 1974 |
| Playhouse | Aaron | TV Series | 1974 |
 | From Beyond the Grave | Jim Underwood | Movie | 1974 |
 | Tales That Witness Madness | Prof. R.C. Tremayne | Movie | 1973 |
 | Malachi's Cove | Malachi | Movie | 1973 |
 | Orson Welles' Great Mysteries | Cawser | TV Series | 1973 |
 | The Rainbow Boys | Ralph Logan | Movie | 1973 |
 | Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde | Fred Smudge | Movie | 1973 |
 | The Pied Piper | The Baron | Movie | 1972 |
 | Wedding in White | Jim Dougall, Sr. | Movie | 1972 |
 | Death Line | Inspector Calhoun | Movie | 1972 |
 | Innocent Bystanders | Loomis | Movie | 1972 |
 | Henry VIII and His Six Wives | Thomas Cromwell | Movie | 1972 |
| The Man Outside | Victor Cobb | TV Series | 1972 | |
 | The Jerusalem File | Major Samuels | Movie | 1972 |
 | Kidnapped | Ebenezer Balfour | Movie | 1971 |
 | Skin Deep | Gerry Muddiman | Movie | 1971 |
 | The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes | Carnacki | TV Series | 1971 |
 | Columbo | Adrian Carsini | TV Series | 1971 |
 | Wake in Fright | Doc Tydon | Movie | 1971 |
 | The Fox Trot | Tom | Movie | 1971 |
 | THX 1138 | SEN | Movie | 1971 |
 | Play for Today | Samuel Johnson | TV Series | 1970 |
| Play for Today | Gerry Muddiman | TV Series | 1970 |
 | Soldier Blue | Isaac Q. Cumber | Movie | 1970 |
| Confession | Sergeant Hurby | TV Series | 1970 | |
 | The Madwoman of Chaillot | The Prospector | Movie | 1969 |
 | Arthur? Arthur! | Arthur Brownjohn / Sir Easonby 'E' Mellon | Movie | 1969 |
 | Hawaii Five-O | Hans Vogler | TV Series | 1969 |
 | Mr. Freedom | Dr. Freedom | Movie | 1969 |
 | Last to Go | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1969 |
 | Sleep is Lovely | Clive | Movie | 1968 |
 | The News-Benders | J.G. | Movie | 1968 |
 | Creature of Comfort | James Thorne | Movie | 1968 |
 | Will Penny | Preacher Quint | Movie | 1967 |
 | The Diary of Anne Frank | Albert Dussel | Movie | 1967 |
 | Matchless | Gregori Andreanu | Movie | 1967 |
 | You Only Live Twice | Ernst Stavro Blofeld | Movie | 1967 |
| Call Me Daddy | Ben Hoffman | Movie | 1967 | |
 | NBC Experiment in Television | (voice) | TV Series | 1967 |
 | The Night of the Generals | General Kahlenberge | Movie | 1967 |
 | Eye of the Devil | Pere Dominic | Movie | 1966 |
 | Fantastic Voyage | Dr. Michaels | Movie | 1966 |
 | Cul-de-sac | George | Movie | 1966 |
 | Thirty-Minute Theatre | Richard Pratt | TV Series | 1965 |
| Thirty-Minute Theatre | J.G. | TV Series | 1965 |
 | The Hallelujah Trail | 'Oracle' Jones | Movie | 1965 |
 | The Greatest Story Ever Told | The Dark Hermit - Satan | Movie | 1965 |
 | The Wednesday Play | The Head Waiter | TV Series | 1964 |
 | The Caretaker | Mac Davies / Bernard Jenkins | Movie | 1964 |
 | Espionage | Escalon | TV Series | 1963 |
 | The Fugitive | Max Pfeiffer | TV Series | 1963 |
 | The Outer Limits | Harold J. Finley | TV Series | 1963 |
 | Dr. Crippen | Dr. Hawley Harvey Crippen | Movie | 1963 |
 | The Great Escape | Blythe 'The Forger' | Movie | 1963 |
 | The Inspector | Wolters | Movie | 1962 |
 | The Horsemasters | Captain Pinski | Movie | 1961 |
 | The Defenders | Dr. Byron Saul | TV Series | 1961 |
 | What a Carve Up! | Everett Sloane | Movie | 1961 |
 | Spare the Rod | Mr. Jenkins | Movie | 1961 |
 | The Wind of Change | Pop | Movie | 1961 |
 | No Love for Johnnie | Renfrew | Movie | 1961 |
 | Alice Through the Looking Box | Caterpillar | Movie | 1960 |
 | The Cupboard | Fred Watson | Movie | 1960 |
 | The Hands of Orlac | Graham Coates | Movie | 1960 |
 | A Story of David | Nabal | Movie | 1960 |
 | Suspect | Parsons, alias Bill Brown | Movie | 1960 |
| Sunday-Night Play | Admiral Vespery | TV Series | 1960 | |
 | Danger Man | Nikolides | TV Series | 1960 |
| Danger Man | Captain Aldrich | TV Series | 1960 |
| Toff and Fingers | Self/Host | Movie | 1960 | |
 | The Big Day | Victor Partridge | Movie | 1960 |
 | Sons and Lovers | Mr. Pappleworth | Movie | 1960 |
| Armchair Mystery Theatre | Host | TV Series | 1960 | |
 | Hell Is a City | Gus Hawkins | Movie | 1960 |
 | Circus of Horrors | Vanet | Movie | 1960 |
 | The Battle of the Sexes | Irwin Hoffman | Movie | 1960 |
 | The Flesh and the Fiends | William Hare | Movie | 1960 |
 | The Shakedown | Jessel Brown | Movie | 1960 |
 | The Twilight Zone | Ellis Fowler | TV Series | 1959 |
 | Killers of Kilimanjaro | Captain | Movie | 1959 |
 | Look Back in Anger | Hurst | Movie | 1959 |
 | Interpol Calling | Karl Haussman | TV Series | 1959 |
| The Traitor | Grantley Caypor | Movie | 1959 | |
 | One Step Beyond | Harvey Laurence | TV Series | 1959 |
 | The Two-Headed Spy | Gen. Hardt | Movie | 1958 |
| The Greatest Man in the World | US President | Movie | 1958 | |
 | The Adventures of William Tell | Self / Appearance | TV Series | 1958 |
 | The Man Inside | Organ Grinder | Movie | 1958 |
 | The Wind Cannot Read | Doctor | Movie | 1958 |
 | Heart of a Child | Spiel | Movie | 1958 |
| The Telltale Heart | Writer | Movie | 1958 | |
 | A Tale of Two Cities | Barsad | Movie | 1958 |
 | Barnacle Bill | Cashier | Movie | 1957 |
 | Manuela | Evans | Movie | 1957 |
 | The Man in the Sky | Crabtree | Movie | 1957 |
 | Armchair Theatre | President of the USA | TV Series | 1956 |
| Armchair Theatre | Self / Appearance | TV Series | 1956 |
| Armchair Theatre | Fred Watson | TV Series | 1956 |
| Armchair Theatre | Ben Hoffman | TV Series | 1956 |
 | The Black Tent | Ali | Movie | 1956 |
 | Tony Awards | Self - Nominee | TV Series | 1956 |
 | 1984 | R. Parsons | Movie | 1956 |
 | ITV Play of the Week | Supt. Smith | TV Series | 1955 |
 | The Adventures of Robin Hood | Prince John | TV Series | 1955 |
 | Value for Money | Limpy | Movie | 1955 |
 | The Moment of Truth | The Foreign Minister | Movie | 1955 |
| Round the World in 80 Days | Voices | Movie | 1955 | |
 | Nineteen Eighty-Four | Syme | Movie | 1954 |
 | The Wonderful World of Disney | Captain Pinski | TV Series | 1954 |
| The Wonderful World of Disney | Lucas Deranian | TV Series | 1954 |
 | Orders Are Orders | Cpl. Martin (as Donald Plesance) | Movie | 1954 |
 | The Beachcomber | Tromp | Movie | 1954 |
 | The Dybbuk | Second batlon | Movie | 1952 |
 | Hallmark Hall of Fame | Kantorek | TV Series | 1951 |
| Hallmark Hall of Fame | Myers | TV Series | 1951 |
| Hallmark Hall of Fame | The Chancellor | TV Series | 1951 |
 | Sunday Night Theatre | Syme | TV Series | 1950 |
| Sunday Night Theatre | Corporal | TV Series | 1950 |
| New Line: Independent Legacies | Self (archive footage) | Movie | — |