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Walter Charles Dance is an English actor, screenwriter, and film director who was born on the 10th of October, 1946 in Worcestershire, England. Dance was a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company during the mid-to-late 1970s and was in many of their productions in London and Stratford-upon-Avon. Later he returned to the RSC to take the title role in Coriolanus at Stratford-upon-Avon and Newcastle in 1989, and at the Barbican Theatre in 1990. He received rave reviews and a Critics' Circle Best Actor award for his performance as C. S. Lewis in William Nicholson's Shadowlands, in the 2007 stage revival.

Dance made his screen debut in 1974, in the ITV series Father Brown as Commandant Neil O'Brien in "The Secret Garden". Dance then made one of his earliest big-screen appearances in the 1981 James Bond film For Your Eyes Only as evil henchman Claus. Though he turned down the opportunity to screen test for the James Bond role, in 1989 he played Bond creator Ian Fleming in Anglia Television's dramatised biography directed by Don Boyd, Goldeneye. He has also starred in many other British television dramas such as Edward the Seventh, Murder Rooms, Randall and Hopkirk, Rebecca, The Phantom of the Opera, Fingersmith and Bleak House, for which he received an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie.

Dance's debut film as a writer and director was Ladies in Lavender (2004), which starred Judi Dench and Maggie Smith. In 2009, he directed his own adaptation of Alice Thomas Ellis's The Inn at the Edge of the World.

Dance made a guest appearance on the BBC drama series Merlin as the Witchfinder Aredian and as a vainglorious version of himself in the third series of Jam & Jerusalem. He played Lord Vetinari in the 2010 Sky adaptation of Terry Pratchett's Going Postal, and as the Russian oligarch Aleksandr Borinski in Paris Connections. He is most well-known for playing the role of Tywin Lannister in HBO's Game of Thrones, based on the A Song of Ice and Fire novels by George R. R. Martin. Dance was wooed for the role by the producers while filming Your Highness in Belfast. Dance also played Conrad Knox on the British television series Strike Back: Vengeance as the primary villain in the series. In 2019, he played an antagonist in Godzilla: King of the Monsters and appeared as Lord Mountbatten in series 3 of The Crown later in the same year.

FILMOGRAPHY

2022 The Sandman (TV Series)
Roderick Burgess (11 episodes)

2022 Against the Ice
Neergaard

2021 The King's Man
Kitchener

2020 Mank
William Randolph Hearst

2020 The Book of Vision
Dr. Johan Anmuth

 2020 The Singapore Grip (TV Series)
Mr. Webb (1 episode)

2019-2020 The Crown (TV Series)
Lord Mountbatten (5 episodes)

 2019 The Delivered
John Lye

 2019 Iron Mask
Lord Dudley

 2019 Godzilla: King of the Monsters
Alan Jonah

 2019 The Widow (TV Series)
Martin Benson (7 episodes)

 2018 The Little Drummer Girl (TV Series)
Commander Picton (2 episodes)

 2018 Happy New Year, Colin Burstead
Bertie

 2018 Johnny English Strikes Again
Agent Seven

 2018 Hang Ups (TV Series)
Jeremy Pitt (4 episodes)

 2018 The Woman in White (TV Mini-Series)
Mr. Fairlie

 2017 Euphoria
Mr. Daren

 2017 That Good Night
The Visitor

 2016 Underworld: Blood Wars
Thomas

 2016 Ghostbusters
Harold Filmore

 2016 Me Before You
Stephen Traynor

 2016 Despite the Falling Snow
Old Alexander

 2016 Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
Mr. Bennet

 2015 And Then There Were None (TV Mini-Series)
Judge Lawrence Wargrave

 2015 Childhood's End (TV Mini-Series)
Karellen

 2015 Victor Frankenstein
Frankenstein

 2015 Deadline Gallipoli (TV Mini-Series)
Sir Ian Hamilton

 2015 Child 44
Major Grachev

 2011-2015 Game of Thrones (TV Series)
Tywin Lannister (27 episodes)

 2015 Woman in Gold
Sherman

 2015 Admiral
Charles II

 2014 Instruments of Darkness
Duncan

 2014 The Great Fire (TV Mini-Series)
Lord Denton

 2014 Dracula Untold
Master Vampire

 2014 The Imitation Game
Commander Denniston

 2014 Forbidden Kingdom
V roli lorda Dadli

 2013 Justin and the Knights of Valour
Legantir (voice)

 2013 Patrick: Evil Awakens
Doctor Roget

 2012 Secret State (TV Mini-Series)
John Hodder

 2012 Strike Back (TV Series)
Conrad Knox (10 episodes)

 2012 St George's Day
Trenchard

 2012 Midnight's Children
William Methwold

 2012 Underworld Awakening
Thomas

 2010-2011 Rosamunde Pilcher's Shades of Love (TV Series)
Edmund Aird (4 episodes)

 2011 Neverland (TV Mini-Series)
Doctor Richard Fludd

 2011 Your Highness
King Tallious

 2011 There Be Dragons
Monsignor Solano

 2011 Ironclad
Archbishop Langton

 2010 Paris Connections
Aleksandr Borinski

 2010 Going Postal (TV Mini-Series)
Lord Vetinari (2 episodes)

 2009 Trinity (TV Series)
Dr. Edmund Maltravers (8 episodes)

 2009 Merlin (TV Series)
Aredian (1 episode)

 2007 Consenting Adults (TV Movie)
Jack Wolfenden

 2007 Intervention
Private Investigator

 2007 Fallen Angel (TV Mini-Series)
David (3 episodes)

 2006 Twice Upon a Time
Le maître de cérémonie du Battar

 2006 Starter for 10
Michael Harbinson

 2006 Scoop
Mr. Malcolm

 2006 Marple (TV Series)
Septimus Bligh (1 episode)

 2005 Bleak House (TV Mini-Series)
Mr. Tulkinghorn

 2005 To the Ends of the Earth (TV Mini-Series)
Sir Henry Somerset

 2005 Fingersmith (TV Mini-Series)
Mr. Christopher Lilly-

 2005 Last Rights (TV Mini-Series)
Wheeler

 2004 Don Bosco (TV Movie)
Marchese Clementi

 2003 City and Crimes
Cox William

 2003 Labyrinth
Charles Lushington

 2003 Looking for Victoria (TV Movie)
Charles Greville

 2003 Henry VIII (TV Movie)
Duke of Buckingham

 2003 Trial & Retribution (TV Series)
Greg Harwood (2 episodes)

 2003 Swimming Pool
John Bosload

 2002 Foyle's War (TV Series)
Guy Spencer (1 episode)

 2002 Dan Dare: Pilot of the Future (TV Series)
Col. Simon Lasker (voice - 1 episode)

 2002 Black and White
Roderic Chamberlain

 2002 Ali G Indahouse: The Movie
David Carlton

 2001 Jurij
Padre di Jurij

 2001 Gosford Park
Raymond Stockbridge

 2001 Dark Blue World
Wing Commander Bentley

 2001 The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby (TV Movie)
Ralph Nickleby

 2000 Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased) (TV Series)
Kenneth Crisby (1 episode)

 2000 Justice in Wonderland (TV Movie)
Neil Hamilton

 2000 Murder Rooms: Mysteries of the Real Sherlock Holmes (TV Mini-Series)
Sir Henry Carlyle

 1999 Don't Go Breaking My Heart
Frank

 1998 Hilary and Jackie
Derek Du Pré

 1998 What Rats Won't Do
Gerald

 1997 The Blood Oranges
Cyril

 1997 In the Presence of Mine Enemies (TV Movie)
Captain Richter

 1997 Rebecca (TV Mini-Series)
Maxim de Winter

 1996 Space Truckers
Nabel / Macanudo

 1996 Michael Collins
Soames

 1996 Undertow (TV Movie)
Lyle Yates

 1994 The Surgeon
Dr. Ed Mittlesbay

 1994 Desvío al paraíso
Quinn

 1994 Kabloonak
Robert Flaherty

 1994 China Moon
Rupert Munro

 1993 Century
Professor Mandry

 1993 Last Action Hero
Benedict

 1992 La valle di pietra
L'agrimensore

 1992 Alien³
Clemens

 1990 The Phantom of the Opera (TV Mini-Series)
The Phantom (Erik)

 1989 Mission: Impossible (TV Series)
Prime Minister (1 episode)

 1989 Goldeneye (TV Movie)
Ian Fleming

 1988 First Born (TV Mini-Series)
Edward Forester

 1988 Out of the Shadows (TV Movie)
Michael Hayden

 1988 Pascali's Island
Anthony Bowles

 1987 White Mischief
Josslyn Hay

 1987 Hidden City
James Richards

 1987 Good Morning Babylon
D.W. Griffith

 1987 Out on a Limb (TV Mini-Series)
Gerry Stamford (2 episodes)

 1986 The Golden Child
Sardo Numspa

 1985 Plenty
Raymond Brock

 1984 The Secret Servant (TV Series)
Harry Maxim (3 episodes)

 1984 The Jewel in the Crown (TV Mini-Series)
Guy Perron

 1983 The Last Day (TV Movie)
Alan

 1983 The Professionals (TV Series)
Parker (1 episode)

 1982 Frost in May (TV Mini-Series)
Reynaud Callaghan

 1982 Nancy Astor (TV Mini-Series)
Edward Hartford-Jones

 1981 For Your Eyes Only
Claus

 1975 Edward the King (TV Mini-Series)
Prince Eddy (2 episodes)