Donald Pleasence

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.

Actor

1952

[ ] The Dybbuk (Second batlon)

1954

[ ] Nineteen Eighty-Four (Syme)
[ ] Orders Are Orders (Cpl. Martin (as Donald Plesance))
[ ] The Beachcomber (Tromp)

1955

[ ] Round the World in 80 Days (Voices)
[ ] Value for Money (Limpy)

1956

[ ] 1984 (R. Parsons)
[ ] The Black Tent (Ali)

1957

[ ] The Man in the Sky (Crabtree)
[ ] Barnacle Bill (Cashier)
[ ] Manuela (Evans)

1958

[ ] A Tale of Two Cities (Barsad)
[ ] The Wind Cannot Read (Doctor)
[ ] The Greatest Man in the World (US President)
[ ] The Man Inside (Organ Grinder)
[ ] Heart of a Child (Spiel)
[ ] The Two-Headed Spy (Gen. Hardt)

1959

[ ] Look Back in Anger (Hurst)
[ ] The Traitor (Grantley Caypor)
[ ] Killers of Kilimanjaro (Captain)

1960

[ ] Circus of Horrors (Vanet)
[ ] Hell Is a City (Gus Hawkins)
[ ] The Battle of the Sexes (Irwin Hoffman)
[ ] The Shakedown (Jessel Brown)
[ ] The Hands of Orlac (Graham Coates)
[ ] The Flesh and the Fiends (William Hare)
[ ] Sons and Lovers (Mr. Pappleworth)
[ ] Suspect (Parsons, alias Bill Brown)
[ ] The Cupboard (Fred Watson)
[ ] Toff and Fingers (Self/Host)
[ ] Alice Through the Looking Box (Caterpillar)
[ ] The Big Day (Victor Partridge)
[ ] A Story of David (Nabal)

1961

[ ] What a Carve Up! (Everett Sloane)
[ ] The Wind of Change (Pop)
[ ] No Love for Johnnie (Renfrew)
[ ] Spare the Rod (Mr. Jenkins)
[ ] The Horsemasters (Captain Pinski)

1962

[ ] The Inspector (Wolters)

1963

[ 6/10 ] The Great Escape (Blythe 'The Forger')
[ ] Dr. Crippen (Dr. Hawley Harvey Crippen)

1964

[ ] The Caretaker (Mac Davies / Bernard Jenkins)

1965

[ ] The Greatest Story Ever Told (The Dark Hermit - Satan)
[ ] The Hallelujah Trail ('Oracle' Jones)

1966

[ ] Fantastic Voyage (Dr. Michaels)
[ ] Eye of the Devil (Pere Dominic)
[ ] Cul-de-sac (George)

1967

[ ] You Only Live Twice (Ernst Stavro Blofeld)
[ ] Will Penny (Preacher Quint)
[ ] The Night of the Generals (General Kahlenberge)
[ ] Matchless (Gregori Andreanu)
[ ] Call Me Daddy (Ben Hoffman)
[ ] The Diary of Anne Frank (Albert Dussel)

1968

[ ] Creature of Comfort (James Thorne)
[ ] Sleep is Lovely (Clive)
[ ] The News-Benders (J.G.)

1969

[ ] Last to Go (????)
[ ] Mr. Freedom (Dr. Freedom)
[ ] The Madwoman of Chaillot (The Prospector)
[ ] Arthur? Arthur! (Arthur Brownjohn / Sir Easonby 'E' Mellon)

1970

[ W ] Soldier Blue (Isaac Q. Cumber)

1971

[ 6/10 ] THX 1138 (SEN)
[ ] Kidnapped (Ebenezer Balfour)
[ 8/10 ] Wake in Fright (Doc Tydon)
[ ] Skin Deep (Gerry Muddiman)
[ ] The Fox Trot (Tom)

1972

[ ] Death Line (Inspector Calhoun)
[ ] Henry VIII and His Six Wives (Thomas Cromwell)
[ ] Innocent Bystanders (Loomis)
[ ] The Pied Piper (The Baron)
[ ] The Jerusalem File (Major Samuels)
[ ] Wedding in White (Jim Dougall, Sr.)

1973

[ ] Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Fred Smudge)
[ ] Tales That Witness Madness (Prof. R.C. Tremayne)
[ ] Lonely Water (The Spirit (voice))
[ ] The Rainbow Boys (Ralph Logan)
[ ] Malachi's Cove (Malachi)

1974

[ ] Watch Out, We're Mad (Doctor)
[ ] The Mutations (Professor Nolter)
[ ] The Black Windmill (Cedric Harper)
[ ] From Beyond the Grave (Jim Underwood)
[ ] House of the Damned (Martin Zayas)
[ ] Barry McKenzie Holds His Own (Erich Count von Plasma)
[ ] Occupations (Christo Kabak)
[ ] The Cafeteria (Aaron)

1975

[ ] The Count of Monte-Cristo (Danglars)
[ ] Escape to Witch Mountain (Lucas Deranian)
[ ] Hearts of the West (A.J. Nietz)
[ ] Journey into Fear (Kuvetli)

1976

[ ] The Eagle Has Landed (Himmler)
[ ] I Don't Want to Be Born (Dr. Finch)
[ ] The Last Tycoon (Boxley)
[ ] The Devil's Men (Father Roche)
[ ] Trial by Combat (Sir Giles Marley)
[ ] Goldenrod (John Tyler Jones)
[ ] The Passover Plot (Pontius Pilate)
[ ] Meriel the Ghost Girl (George Livingston)
[ ] Hindle Wakes (Nat Jeffcote)
[ ] The Joke (Bendel)

1977

[ ] Telefon (Nicolai Dalchimsky)
[ ] Oh, God! (Doctor Harmon)
[ ] The Uncanny (Valentine De'ath (segment "Hollywood 1936"))

1978

[ 5/10 ] Halloween (Loomis)
[ ] Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (B.D. Brockhurst)
[ ] Tomorrow Never Comes (Dr. Todd)
[ ] Blood Relatives (James Doniac)
[ ] Night Creature (Axel MacGregor)
[ ] Power Play (Blair)
[ ] The Defection of Simas Kudirka (Capt. Vladimir Popov)
[ ] Last In, First Out (Rothko)
[ ] The Bastard (Solomon Sholto)

1979

[ ] All Quiet on the Western Front (Kantorek)
[ ] Dracula (Dr. Jack Seward)
[ ] Jaguar Lives! (General Villanova)
[ ] Good Luck, Miss Wyckoff (Dr. Steiner)
[ ] Gold of the Amazon Women (Clarence Blasko)
[ ] L'Homme en colère (Albert Rumpelmayer)
[ ] Better Late Than Never (Colonel Riddle)

1980

[ ] Pumaman (Kobras)
[ ] Blade on the Feather (John Cavendish)

1981

[ 6/10 ] Escape from New York (President of the United States)
[ 4/10 ] Halloween II (Dr. Sam Loomis)
[ ] The Monster Club (Pickering, Chief of the B-Squad)
[ ] Race for the Yankee Zephyr (Gilbert Carson)

1982

[ ] Witness for the Prosecution (Mr. Myers)
[ ] Computercide (George Dettler)
[ ] Alone in the Dark (Leo Bain)

1983

[ ] Warrior of the Lost World (Prossor)
[ ] The Devonsville Terror (Dr. Warley)
[ ] The Falklands Factor (Dr. Samuel Johnson)

1984

[ ] Terror in the Aisles (Self - Host)
[ ] A Breed Apart (J.P. Whittier)
[ ] Arch of Triumph (Ivon Haake)
[ ] Where Is Parsifal? (Mackintosh)
[ ] Frankenstein's Great Aunt Tillie (Victor Frankenstein / Baron Frankenstein)

1985

[ 6/10 ] Phenomena (Professor John McGregor)
[ ] Nothing Underneath (Commissioner Danesi)
[ ] Treasure of the Amazon (Klaus von Blantz)
[ ] The Ambassador (Minister Eretz)
[ ] Reel Horror (Axel MacGregor (archive footage))
[ ] The Corsican Brothers (The Chancellor)
[ ] Black Arrow (Sir Oliver Oates)

1986

[ ] Cobra Mission (Father Lenoir)
[ ] To Kill a Stranger (Col. Kostik)
[ ] Deadheat (Aldo Rossi)
[ ] Into the Darkness (David Beckett)
[ ] Naso di cane (Olindo Cuomo)

1987

[ ] Warrior Queen (Clodius Flaucus)
[ 5/10 ] Prince of Darkness (Priest)
[ ] Django Strikes Again (Ben Gunn)
[ ] Double Target (Sen. Blaster)
[ ] Ground Zero (Prosper Gaffney)
[ ] Scoop (Lord Copper)
[ ] Specters (Professor Lasky)
[ ] Basements (Mr. Kidd (segment "The Room"))
[ ] Gila and Rik (Joe Gardenia)

1988

[ ] Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers (Dr. Loomis)
[ ] Nosferatu in Venice (Don Alvise)
[ ] Phantom of Death (Inspector Datti)
[ ] The Commander (Henry Carlson)
[ ] Metropolitan Animals (Prof. Livingstone)
[ ] The Great Escape II: The Untold Story (Dr. Absalon)
[ ] Last Platoon (Colonel B. Abrahams)
[ ] Hanna's War (Captain Thomas Rosza)

1989

[ 4/10 ] Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers (Dr. Sam Loomis)
[ ] Buried Alive (Dr. Schaeffer)
[ ] River of Death (Heinrich Spaatz)
[ ] The House of Usher (Walter Usher)
[ ] Casablanca Express (Colonel Bats)
[ ] Ten Little Indians (Mr. Justice Lawrence Wargrave)
[ ] American Rickshaw (Rev. Mortom)
[ ] Paganini Horror (Mr. Pickett)
[ ] Miss Marple: A Caribbean Mystery (Jason Rafiel)

1990

[ ] Life of General De Gaulle (Winston Churchill)

1991

[ ] Shadows and Fog (Doctor)
[ ] The Vulture Is a Patient Bird (The Art Collector)
[ ] Women in Arms (Dreyfuss)
[ ] Millions (Ripa)

1992

[ ] Diên Biên Phu (Howard Simpson)

1993

[ ] The Thief and the Cobbler (Phido the Vulture (voice))
[ ] The Hour of the Pig (Pincheon)
[ ] The Big Freeze (Soup slurper)
[ ] Femme Fatale (Victor Harty)

1994

[ ] Guinevere (Merlin)
[ ] Freeze: But is it Art? (Sinister Dentist)

1995

[ 4/10 ] Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers (Dr. Sam Loomis)
[ ] Safe Haven (The Sailor)

1996

[ ] Fatal Frames (Professor Robinson)

2003

[ ] Halloween: A Cut Above the Rest (Self / Dr. Samuel 'Sam' Loomis (archive footage))

2012

[ ] Driving Lessons (Dr. Sam Loomis (archive footage))

2025

[ ] Legacy of Screams: The Evolution of Horror Movies (Self - (archive footage))
[ ] Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music (Self (archive footage))

Writing

1958

[ ] The Telltale Heart (Writer)