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Known For
Acting
Birthday
October 5, 1919
Died
February 2, 1995
Place of Birth
Worksop, Nottinghamshire, England, UK
Also Known As
- Donald Pleasance
- Don Pleasence
- Donald Plesance
- Donald Henry Pleasence
- Дональд Генри Плезенс
- Дональд Плезенс
- دانلد پلزنس
Donald Pleasence
1.8 Popularity
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
0.0
Self - (archive footage)
Legacy of Screams: The Evolution of Horror Movies
2025
7.7
Self - Guest Host (archive footage)
Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music
2025
6.0
Dr. Sam Loomis (archive footage)
Driving Lessons
2012
8.0
Self / Dr. Samuel 'Sam' Loomis (archive footage)
Halloween: A Cut Above the Rest
2003
3.7
Professor Robinson
Fatal Frames
1996
5.2
Dr. Sam Loomis
Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers
1995
0.0
Cornelius Van Damm
Signs and Wonders
1995
🎬
3.5
The Sailor
Safe Haven
1995
6.5
Self (archive footage)
The World of Hammer
1994
1.5
Merlin
Guinevere
1994
Credits
Legacy of Screams: The Evolution of Horror Movies
as Self - (archive footage)
2025
0.0
Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music
as Self - Guest Host (archive footage)
2025
7.7
Driving Lessons
as Dr. Sam Loomis (archive footage)
2012
6.0
Halloween: A Cut Above the Rest
as Self / Dr. Samuel 'Sam' Loomis (archive footage)
2003
8.0
Fatal Frames
as Professor Robinson
1996
3.7
Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers
as Dr. Sam Loomis
1995
5.2
Signs and Wonders
as Cornelius Van Damm
1995
0.0
🎬
Safe Haven
as The Sailor
1995
3.5
The World of Hammer
as Self (archive footage)
1994
6.5
Guinevere
as Merlin
1994
1.5
Freeze: But is it Art?
as Sinister Dentist
1994
0.0
The Big Freeze
as Soup slurper
1993
6.2
The Hour of the Pig
as Pincheon
1993
6.1
The Thief and the Cobbler
as Phido the Vulture (voice)
1993
7.1
Femme Fatale
as Victor Harty
1993
0.0
Diên Biên Phu
as Howard Simpson
1992
6.4
Shadows and Fog
as Doctor
1991
6.7
Millions
as Ripa
1991
3.4
Women in Arms
as Dreyfuss
1991
3.5
The Vulture Is a Patient Bird
as The Art Collector
1991
3.9
Life of General De Gaulle
as Winston Churchill
1990
0.0
Miss Marple: A Caribbean Mystery
as Jason Rafiel
1989
6.3
Casablanca Express
as Colonel Bats
1989
3.0
Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers
as Dr. Sam Loomis
1989
5.3
River of Death
as Heinrich Spaatz
1989
4.9
Ten Little Indians
as Mr. Justice Lawrence Wargrave
1989
4.8
Buried Alive
as Dr. Schaeffer
1989
4.0
Paganini Horror
as Mr. Pickett
1989
4.3
The House of Usher
as Walter Usher
1989
4.7
American Rickshaw
as Rev. Mortom
1989
4.3
The Great Escape II: The Untold Story
as Dr. Absalon
1988
5.7
The Great Escape II: The Untold Story
as Dr. Absalon
1988
5.2
Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers
as Dr. Loomis
1988
6.2
Nosferatu in Venice
as Don Alvise
1988
5.8
Last Platoon
as Colonel B. Abrahams
1988
3.3
Metropolitan Animals
as Prof. Livingstone
1988
4.3
The Commander
as Henry Carlson
1988
5.5
Hanna's War
as Captain Thomas Rosza
1988
4.7
Phantom of Death
as Inspector Datti
1988
5.6
Prince of Darkness
as Priest
1987
6.8
Django Strikes Again
as Ben Gunn
1987
5.1
Ground Zero
as Prosper Gaffney
1987
6.3
Double Target
as Sen. Blaster
1987
4.2
Basements
as Mr. Kidd (segment "The Room")
1987
6.8
Scoop
as Lord Copper
1987
5.2
Specters
as Professor Lasky
1987
4.0
Warrior Queen
as Clodius Flaucus
1987
3.5
Gila and Rik
as Joe Gardenia
1987
0.0
Naso di cane
as Olindo Cuomo
1986
0.0
Cobra Mission
as Father Lenoir
1986
4.5
To Kill a Stranger
as Col. Kostik
1986
5.1
Deadheat
as Aldo Rossi
1986
4.8
Into the Darkness
as David Beckett
1986
1.8
Nothing Underneath
as Commissioner Danesi
1985
5.6
Black Arrow
as Sir Oliver Oates
1985
6.5
Reel Horror
as Axel MacGregor (archive footage)
1985
2.4
Treasure of the Amazon
as Klaus von Blantz
1985
4.3
The Ray Bradbury Theater
as George Hill
1985
6.8
The Corsican Brothers
as The Chancellor
1985
6.0
Phenomena
as Professor John McGregor
1985
6.8
The Ambassador
as Minister Eretz
1985
5.0
Screen Two
as Victor Harty
1985
6.8
Arch of Triumph
as Ivon Haake
1984
5.0
Terror in the Aisles
as Self - Host
1984
6.1
A Breed Apart
as J.P. Whittier
1984
5.6
Master of the Game
as Salomon Van der Merwe
1984
5.9
Where Is Parsifal?
as Mackintosh
1984
3.0
Frankenstein's Great Aunt Tillie
as Victor Frankenstein / Baron Frankenstein
1984
2.7
The Devonsville Terror
as Dr. Warley
1983
4.5
The Falklands Factor
as Dr. Samuel Johnson
1983
0.0
Warrior of the Lost World
as Prossor
1983
2.7
Witness for the Prosecution
as Mr. Myers
1982
6.3
Alone in the Dark
as Leo Bain
1982
5.8
The Barchester Chronicles
as Septimus Harding
1982
7.0
Computercide
as George Dettler
1982
6.0
Wogan
as Self
1982
4.5
Race for the Yankee Zephyr
as Gilbert Carson
1981
5.8
Halloween II
as Dr. Sam Loomis
1981
6.6
Escape from New York
as President of the United States
1981
7.1
The Monster Club
as Pickering, Chief of the B-Squad
1981
5.8
Blade on the Feather
as John Cavendish
1980
5.4
Pumaman
as Kobras
1980
2.8
The French Atlantic Affair
as Max Dechambre
1979
7.0
All Quiet on the Western Front
as Kantorek
1979
6.7
Better Late Than Never
as Colonel Riddle
1979
0.0
Jaguar Lives!
as General Villanova
1979
4.0
Dracula
as Dr. Jack Seward
1979
6.4
Good Luck, Miss Wyckoff
as Dr. Steiner
1979
5.3
L'Homme en colère
as Albert Rumpelmayer
1979
5.4
Gold of the Amazon Women
as Clarence Blasko
1979
3.2
Mrs. Columbo
1979
6.1
Dick Turpin
as Ignatius Slake
1979
7.5
Power Play
as Blair
1978
7.0
Halloween
as Loomis
1978
7.6
Centennial
as Sam Purchas
1978
7.7
Last In, First Out
as Rothko
1978
3.4
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
as B.D. Brockhurst
1978
4.3
Night Creature
as Axel MacGregor
1978
2.8
The Bastard
as Solomon Sholto
1978
5.8
Tomorrow Never Comes
as Dr. Todd
1978
5.4
Blood Relatives
as James Doniac
1978
5.6
The Dark Secret of Harvest Home
as Narrator (voice)
1978
7.6
The Defection of Simas Kudirka
as Capt. Vladimir Popov
1978
6.0
Telefon
as Nicolai Dalchimsky
1977
6.6
Oh, God!
as Doctor Harmon
1977
6.5
The Uncanny
as Valentine De'ath (segment "Hollywood 1936")
1977
5.9
Jesus of Nazareth
as Melchior
1977
7.8
The Eagle Has Landed
as Himmler
1976
6.6
Hindle Wakes
as Nat Jeffcote
1976
7.0
Laurence Olivier Presents
as Nat Jeffcote
1976
7.0
The Last Tycoon
as Boxley
1976
6.3
The Passover Plot
as Pontius Pilate
1976
3.8
Meriel the Ghost Girl
as George Livingston
1976
0.0
Goldenrod
as John Tyler Jones
1976
0.0
The Devil's Men
as Father Roche
1976
4.1
The Joke
as Bendel
1976
0.0
Trial by Combat
as Sir Giles Marley
1976
7.7
I Don't Want to Be Born
as Dr. Finch
1976
5.1
🎬
Peep Show
1975
6.0
The Count of Monte-Cristo
as Danglars
1975
6.8
Saturday Night Live
as Self - Host
1975
7.0
Hearts of the West
as A.J. Nietz
1975
5.6
Journey into Fear
as Kuvetli
1975
5.6
Escape to Witch Mountain
as Lucas Deranian
1975
6.4
Barry McKenzie Holds His Own
as Erich Count von Plasma
1974
5.2
House of the Damned
as Martin Zayas
1974
4.6
Occupations
as Christo Kabak
1974
0.0
The Cafeteria
as Aaron
1974
0.0
The Mutations
as Professor Nolter
1974
5.0
The Black Windmill
as Cedric Harper
1974
6.2
Watch Out, We're Mad
as Doctor
1974
7.4
Playhouse
as George Livingston
1974
7.0
Playhouse
as Bendel
1974
7.0
Playhouse
as Aaron
1974
7.0
From Beyond the Grave
as Jim Underwood
1974
6.5
Tales That Witness Madness
as Prof. R.C. Tremayne
1973
5.4
Malachi's Cove
as Malachi
1973
6.1
Orson Welles' Great Mysteries
as Cawser
1973
6.7
Lonely Water
as The Spirit (voice)
1973
5.0
The Rainbow Boys
as Ralph Logan
1973
7.0
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
as Fred Smudge
1973
5.9
The Pied Piper
as The Baron
1972
5.9
Wedding in White
as Jim Dougall, Sr.
1972
6.5
Death Line
as Inspector Calhoun
1972
5.8
Innocent Bystanders
as Loomis
1972
7.2
Henry VIII and His Six Wives
as Thomas Cromwell
1972
5.6
The Jerusalem File
as Major Samuels
1972
3.5
Kidnapped
as Ebenezer Balfour
1971
6.2
Skin Deep
as Gerry Muddiman
1971
0.0
The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes
as Carnacki
1971
7.4
Columbo
as Adrian Carsini
1971
8.1
Wake in Fright
as Doc Tydon
1971
7.3
The Fox Trot
as Tom
1971
0.0
THX 1138
as SEN
1971
6.4
Play for Today
as Samuel Johnson
1970
6.3
Play for Today
as Gerry Muddiman
1970
6.3
Soldier Blue
as Isaac Q. Cumber
1970
6.8
The Madwoman of Chaillot
as The Prospector
1969
7.1
Arthur? Arthur!
as Arthur Brownjohn / Sir Easonby 'E' Mellon
1969
2.3
Mr. Freedom
as Dr. Freedom
1969
5.1
🎬
Last to Go
1969
0.0
Hawaii Five-O
as Hans Vogler
1968
7.1
Sleep is Lovely
as Clive
1968
0.0
The News-Benders
as J.G.
1968
9.0
Creature of Comfort
as James Thorne
1968
0.0
Will Penny
as Preacher Quint
1967
6.6
The Diary of Anne Frank
as Albert Dussel
1967
6.0
Matchless
as Gregori Andreanu
1967
3.6
You Only Live Twice
as Ernst Stavro Blofeld
1967
6.6
🎬
Call Me Daddy
as Ben Hoffman
1967
0.0
NBC Experiment in Television
as (voice)
1967
0.0
The Night of the Generals
as General Kahlenberge
1967
6.8
Eye of the Devil
as Pere Dominic
1966
6.2
Fantastic Voyage
as Dr. Michaels
1966
6.7
Cul-de-sac
as George
1966
6.7
The Hallelujah Trail
as 'Oracle' Jones
1965
6.1
The Greatest Story Ever Told
as The Dark Hermit - Satan
1965
6.4
The Caretaker
as Mac Davies / Bernard Jenkins
1964
7.2
Espionage
1963
0.0
The Fugitive
as Max Pfeiffer
1963
7.2
The Outer Limits
as Harold J. Finley
1963
7.8
Dr. Crippen
as Dr. Hawley Harvey Crippen
1963
5.8
The Great Escape
as Blythe 'The Forger'
1963
7.9
The Inspector
as Wolters
1962
7.0
The Horsemasters
as Captain Pinski
1961
7.0
The Defenders
as Dr. Byron Saul
1961
5.9
What a Carve Up!
as Everett Sloane
1961
7.0
Spare the Rod
as Mr. Jenkins
1961
5.3
The Wind of Change
as Pop
1961
0.0
No Love for Johnnie
as Renfrew
1961
6.2
Alice Through the Looking Box
as Caterpillar
1960
0.0
The Cupboard
as Fred Watson
1960
0.0
A Story of David
as Nabal
1960
4.2
The Hands of Orlac
as Graham Coates
1960
3.9
Suspect
as Parsons, alias Bill Brown
1960
6.5
Danger Man
1960
7.3
🎬
Toff and Fingers
as Self/Host
1960
0.0
The Big Day
as Victor Partridge
1960
7.0
Sons and Lovers
as Mr. Pappleworth
1960
6.4
🎬
Armchair Mystery Theatre
as Host
1960
0.0
Hell Is a City
as Gus Hawkins
1960
6.5
Circus of Horrors
as Vanet
1960
5.8
The Battle of the Sexes
as Irwin Hoffman
1960
6.5
The Flesh and the Fiends
as William Hare
1960
6.5
The Shakedown
as Jessel Brown
1960
5.7
The Twilight Zone
as Ellis Fowler
1959
8.5
Killers of Kilimanjaro
as Captain
1959
6.0
Look Back in Anger
as Hurst
1959
6.6
Interpol Calling
as Karl Haussman
1959
6.7
🎬
The Traitor
as Grantley Caypor
1959
0.0
One Step Beyond
as Harvey Laurence
1959
5.6
The Two-Headed Spy
as Gen. Hardt
1958
6.2
🎬
The Greatest Man in the World
as US President
1958
0.0
The Adventures of William Tell
1958
6.3
The Man Inside
as Organ Grinder
1958
5.7
The Wind Cannot Read
as Doctor
1958
6.2
Heart of a Child
as Spiel
1958
6.5
A Tale of Two Cities
as Barsad
1958
6.7
Barnacle Bill
as Cashier
1957
6.4
Manuela
as Evans
1957
5.7
The Man in the Sky
as Crabtree
1957
7.4
Armchair Theatre
as President of the USA
1956
5.8
The Black Tent
as Ali
1956
6.0
Tony Awards
as Self - Nominee
1956
5.9
1984
as R. Parsons
1956
6.5
The Adventures of Robin Hood
as Prince John
1955
6.3
Value for Money
as Limpy
1955
6.6
🎬
Round the World in 80 Days
as Voices
1955
0.0
Nineteen Eighty-Four
as Syme
1954
7.3
The Wonderful World of Disney
as Captain Pinski
1954
7.8
Orders Are Orders
as Cpl. Martin (as Donald Plesance)
1954
6.4
The Beachcomber
as Tromp
1954
6.0
The Dybbuk
as Second batlon
1952
0.0
Hallmark Hall of Fame
as Kantorek
1951
8.6
Hallmark Hall of Fame
as Myers
1951
8.6
Hallmark Hall of Fame
as The Chancellor
1951
8.6
Sunday Night Theatre
as Syme
1950
3.5
Sunday Night Theatre
as Corporal
1950
3.5