Donald Pleasence

Donald Henry Pleasence, OBE, (5 October 1919 – 2 February 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Donald Pleasence, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Known For

Saturday Night Live

1975 • as Self - Host

Wogan

1982 • as Self

Columbo

1971 • as Adrian Carsini

The Twilight Zone

1959 • as Ellis Fowler

Hawaii Five-O

1968 • as Hans Vogler

Play for Today

1970 • as Samuel Johnson

Filmography

2025

Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music

as Self (archive footage)

Movie - Released: 1/27/2025

2022

Dracula Unearthed

as Dr. Jack Seward (archive footage)

Movie - Released: 10/31/2022

2012

Driving Lessons

as Dr. Sam Loomis (archive footage)

Movie - Released: 9/30/2012

2010

Halloween: The Inside Story

as Self (archive footage)

Movie - Released: 10/25/2010

Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy

as Self (archive footage)

Movie - Released: 5/4/2010

2003

Halloween: A Cut Above the Rest

as Self / Dr. Samuel 'Sam' Loomis (archive footage)

Movie - Released: 8/5/2003

2002

Movie

Best Ever Bond

as Blofeld (archive footage) (uncredited)

Movie - Released: 11/22/2002

1998

In and Out of Fashion

as Self (archive footage)

Movie - Released: 3/3/1998

1996

Fatal Frames

as Professor Robinson

Movie - Released: 2/15/1996

1995

Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers

as Dr. Sam Loomis

Movie - Released: 9/29/1995

Movie

Safe Haven

as The Sailor

Movie - Released: 1/1/1995

Signs and Wonders

as Cornelius Van Damm

TV - Released: 1/16/1995

1994

Guinevere

as Merlin

Movie - Released: 5/7/1994

Freeze: But is it Art?

as Sinister Dentist

Movie - Released: 2/22/1994

1993

The Thief and the Cobbler

as Phido the Vulture (voice)

Movie - Released: 9/23/1993

The Hour of the Pig

as Pincheon

Movie - Released: 9/25/1993

The Big Freeze

as Soup slurper

Movie - Released: 11/17/1993

Femme Fatale

as Victor Harty

Movie - Released: 2/7/1993

1992

Diên Biên Phu

as Howard Simpson

Movie - Released: 3/4/1992

1991

Shadows and Fog

as Doctor

Movie - Released: 12/5/1991

The Vulture Is a Patient Bird

as The Art Collector

Movie - Released: 1/2/1991

Women in Arms

as Dreyfuss

Movie - Released: 1/9/1991

Millions

as Ripa

Movie - Released: 2/1/1991

1990

Moi, général de Gaulle

as Winston Churchill

Movie - Released: 11/8/1990

1989

Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers

as Dr. Sam Loomis

Movie - Released: 10/12/1989

Buried Alive

as Dr. Schaeffer

Movie - Released: 9/1/1989

River of Death

as Heinrich Spaatz

Movie - Released: 9/29/1989

The House of Usher

as Walter Usher

Movie - Released: 4/13/1989

Casablanca Express

as Colonel Bats

Movie - Released: 12/22/1989

Ten Little Indians

as Mr. Justice Lawrence Wargrave

Movie - Released: 11/29/1989

American Rickshaw

as Rev. Mortom

Movie - Released: 1/24/1989

Paganini Horror

as Mr. Pickett

Movie - Released: 6/6/1989

Miss Marple: A Caribbean Mystery

as Jason Rafiel

Movie - Released: 12/25/1989

1988

Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers

as Dr. Loomis

Movie - Released: 10/21/1988

Nosferatu in Venice

as Don Alvise

Movie - Released: 9/10/1988

Phantom of Death

as Inspector Datti

Movie - Released: 3/11/1988

The Commander

as Henry Carlson

Movie - Released: 4/28/1988

Animali metropolitani

as Prof. Livingstone

Movie - Released: 5/9/1988

The Great Escape II: The Untold Story

as Dr. Absalon

Movie - Released: 11/5/1988

Last Platoon

as Colonel B. Abrahams

Movie - Released: 8/21/1988

Hanna's War

as Captain Thomas Rosza

Movie - Released: 4/14/1988

The Great Escape II: The Untold Story

as Dr. Absalon

TV - Released: 11/6/1988

1987

Warrior Queen

as Clodius Flaucus

Movie - Released: 1/26/1987

Prince of Darkness

as Father Loomis

Movie - Released: 10/23/1987

Django Strikes Again

as Ben Gunn

Movie - Released: 10/22/1987

Double Target

as Sen. Blaster

Movie - Released: 6/11/1987

Ground Zero

as Prosper Gaffney

Movie - Released: 10/1/1987

Scoop

as Lord Copper

Movie - Released: 4/26/1987

Specters

as Professor Lasky

Movie - Released: 4/24/1987

Basements

as Mr. Kidd (segment "The Room")

Movie - Released: 5/12/1987

Movie

Gila and Rik

as Joe Gardenia

Movie - Released: 1/1/1987

1986

Cobra Mission

as Father Lenoir

Movie - Released: 7/31/1986

To Kill a Stranger

as Col. Kostik

Movie - Released: 2/6/1986

Deadheat

as Aldo Rossi

Movie - Released: 1/1/1986

Into the Darkness

as David Beckett

Movie - Released: 1/1/1986

Naso di cane

as Olindo Cuomo

Movie - Released: 12/11/1986

1985

Phenomena

as Professor John McGregor

Movie - Released: 1/25/1985

Nothing Underneath

as Commissioner Danesi

Movie - Released: 11/7/1985

Treasure of the Amazon

as Klaus von Blantz

Movie - Released: 5/30/1985

The Ambassador

as Minister Eretz

Movie - Released: 1/11/1985

Reel Horror

as Axel MacGregor (archive footage)

Movie - Released: 10/1/1985

The Corsican Brothers

as The Chancellor

Movie - Released: 2/5/1985

Dario Argento's World of Horror

as Self (Archive)

Movie - Released: 1/1/1985

Black Arrow

as Sir Oliver Oates

Movie - Released: 10/9/1985

The Ray Bradbury Theater

as George Hill

TV - Released: 5/21/1985

1984

Terror in the Aisles

as Self - Host

Movie - Released: 10/26/1984

A Breed Apart

as J.P. Whittier

Movie - Released: 6/1/1984

Arch of Triumph

as Ivon Haake

Movie - Released: 12/19/1984

Where Is Parsifal?

as Mackintosh

Movie - Released: 1/1/1984

Frankenstein's Great Aunt Tillie

as Victor Frankenstein / Baron Frankenstein

Movie - Released: 1/1/1984

Master of the Game

as Salomon Van der Merwe

TV - Released: 2/19/1984

Miss Marple

as Jason Rafiel

TV - Released: 12/26/1984

1983

Warrior of the Lost World

as Prossor

Movie - Released: 1/1/1983

The Devonsville Terror

as Dr. Warley

Movie - Released: 10/24/1983

The Falklands Factor

as Dr. Samuel Johnson

Movie - Released: 4/26/1983

1982

Witness for the Prosecution

as Mr. Myers

Movie - Released: 12/4/1982

Computercide

as George Dettler

Movie - Released: 8/1/1982

Alone in the Dark

as Leo Bain

Movie - Released: 11/12/1982

The Barchester Chronicles

as Septimus Harding

TV - Released: 11/10/1982

Wogan

as Self

TV - Released: 5/4/1982

1981

Escape from New York

as President of the United States

Movie - Released: 5/23/1981

Halloween II

as Dr. Sam Loomis

Movie - Released: 10/30/1981

The Monster Club

as Pickering, Chief of the B-Squad

Movie - Released: 4/11/1981

Race for the Yankee Zephyr

as Gilbert Carson

Movie - Released: 11/28/1981

1980

Pumaman

as Kobras

Movie - Released: 2/14/1980

Blade on the Feather

as Professor John Cavendish

Movie - Released: 10/19/1980

1979

All Quiet on the Western Front

as Kantorek

Movie - Released: 11/14/1979

Dracula

as Dr. Jack Seward

Movie - Released: 7/20/1979

Jaguar Lives!

as General Villanova

Movie - Released: 8/9/1979

Good Luck, Miss Wyckoff

as Dr. Steiner

Movie - Released: 4/13/1979

Gold of the Amazon Women

as Clarence Blasko

Movie - Released: 3/6/1979

The Angry Man

as Albert Rumpelmayer

Movie - Released: 3/14/1979

Better Late Than Never

as Colonel Riddle

Movie - Released: 10/17/1979

Mrs. Columbo

TV - Released: 2/26/1979

Dick Turpin

TV - Released: 1/6/1979

The French Atlantic Affair

as Max Dechambre

TV - Released: 11/15/1979

1978

Halloween

as Loomis

Movie - Released: 10/24/1978

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

as B.D. Brockhurst

Movie - Released: 7/24/1978

Tomorrow Never Comes

as Dr. Todd

Movie - Released: 3/2/1978

Blood Relatives

as James Doniac

Movie - Released: 2/1/1978

Night Creature

as Axel MacGregor

Movie - Released: 6/1/1978

Power Play

as Blair

Movie - Released: 11/1/1978

The Defection of Simas Kudirka

as Capt. Vladimir Popov

Movie - Released: 1/23/1978

Last In, First Out

as Rothko

Movie - Released: 8/30/1978

The Bastard

as Solomon Sholto

Movie - Released: 5/22/1978

Centennial

as Sam Purchas

TV - Released: 10/1/1978

The Dark Secret of Harvest Home

as Narrator (voice)

TV - Released: 1/23/1978

1977

Telefon

as Nicolai Dalchimsky

Movie - Released: 12/16/1977

Oh, God!

as Doctor Harmon

Movie - Released: 10/7/1977

The Uncanny

as Valentine De'ath (segment 3 "Hollywood 1936")

Movie - Released: 8/24/1977

Jesus of Nazareth

as Melchior

TV - Released: 3/27/1977

1976

The Eagle Has Landed

as Himmler

Movie - Released: 12/24/1976

I Don't Want to Be Born

as Dr. Finch

Movie - Released: 2/1/1976

The Last Tycoon

as Boxley

Movie - Released: 11/18/1976

The Devil's Men

as Father Roche

Movie - Released: 8/11/1976

Trial by Combat

as Sir Giles Marley

Movie - Released: 4/1/1976

Goldenrod

as John Tyler Jones

Movie - Released: 9/22/1976

The Passover Plot

as Pontius Pilate

Movie - Released: 10/29/1976

Meriel the Ghost Girl

as George Livingston

Movie - Released: 9/28/1976

Hindle Wakes

as Nat Jeffcote

Movie - Released: 12/19/1976

The Joke

as Bendel

Movie - Released: 5/26/1976

Laurence Olivier Presents

as Nat Jeffcote

TV - Released: 12/5/1976

1975

The Count of Monte-Cristo

as Danglars

Movie - Released: 10/31/1975

Escape to Witch Mountain

as Lucas Deranian

Movie - Released: 3/21/1975

Hearts of the West

as A.J. Nietz

Movie - Released: 10/8/1975

Journey into Fear

as Kuvetli

Movie - Released: 8/8/1975

Peep Show

TV - Released: 11/20/1975

Saturday Night Live

as Self - Host

TV - Released: 10/11/1975

1974

Watch Out, We're Mad

as Doctor

Movie - Released: 3/29/1974

The Mutations

as Professor Nolter

Movie - Released: 5/22/1974

The Black Windmill

as Cedric Harper

Movie - Released: 5/17/1974

From Beyond the Grave

as Jim Underwood

Movie - Released: 2/21/1974

House of the Damned

as Martin Zayas

Movie - Released: 9/8/1974

Barry McKenzie Holds His Own

as Erich Count von Plasma

Movie - Released: 12/12/1974

Occupations

as Christo Kabak

Movie - Released: 9/1/1974

The Cafeteria

as Aaron

Movie - Released: 8/13/1974

Playhouse

TV - Released: 3/13/1974

Playhouse

as George Livingston

TV - Released: 3/13/1974

1973

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

as Fred Smudge

Movie - Released: 3/7/1973

Tales That Witness Madness

as Prof. R.C. Tremayne

Movie - Released: 10/31/1973

Lonely Water

as The Spirit (voice)

Movie - Released: 7/4/1973

The Rainbow Boys

as Ralph Logan

Movie - Released: 3/27/1973

Malachi's Cove

as Malachi

Movie - Released: 10/1/1973

Orson Welles' Great Mysteries

as Cawser

TV - Released: 9/1/1973

1972

Death Line

as Inspector Calhoun

Movie - Released: 10/13/1972

Henry VIII and His Six Wives

as Thomas Cromwell

Movie - Released: 7/13/1972

Innocent Bystanders

as Loomis

Movie - Released: 9/1/1972

The Pied Piper

as The Baron

Movie - Released: 12/27/1972

The Jerusalem File

as Major Samuels

Movie - Released: 2/2/1972

Wedding in White

as Jim Dougall, Sr.

Movie - Released: 10/20/1972

1971

THX 1138

as SEN

Movie - Released: 3/11/1971

Kidnapped

as Ebenezer Balfour

Movie - Released: 12/22/1971

Wake in Fright

as Doc Tydon

Movie - Released: 7/21/1971

Skin Deep

as Gerry Muddiman

Movie - Released: 11/25/1971

The Fox Trot

as Tom

Movie - Released: 4/29/1971

Columbo

as Adrian Carsini

TV - Released: 9/15/1971

The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes

as Carnacki

TV - Released: 9/20/1971

1970

Soldier Blue

as Isaac Q. Cumber

Movie - Released: 8/12/1970

Play for Today

as Samuel Johnson

TV - Released: 10/15/1970

Play for Today

as Gerry Muddiman

TV - Released: 10/15/1970

1969

Movie

Last to Go

Movie - Released: 1/1/1969

Mr. Freedom

as Dr. Freedom

Movie - Released: 1/8/1969

The Madwoman of Chaillot

as The Prospector

Movie - Released: 10/12/1969

Arthur? Arthur!

as Arthur Brownjohn / Sir Easonby 'E' Mellon

Movie - Released: 10/1/1969

1968

Movie

Creature of Comfort

as James Thorne

Movie - Released: 1/1/1968

Sleep is Lovely

as Clive

Movie - Released: 9/1/1968

The News-Benders

as J.G.

Movie - Released: 1/10/1968

Hawaii Five-O

as Hans Vogler

TV - Released: 9/20/1968

1967

You Only Live Twice

as Ernst Stavro Blofeld

Movie - Released: 6/13/1967

Will Penny

as Preacher Quint

Movie - Released: 12/19/1967

The Night of the Generals

as General Kahlenberge

Movie - Released: 1/29/1967

Matchless

as Gregori Andreanu

Movie - Released: 8/13/1967

Movie

Call Me Daddy

as Ben Hoffman

Movie - Released: 4/8/1967

The Diary of Anne Frank

as Albert Dussel

Movie - Released: 11/26/1967

NBC Experiment in Television

as (voice)

TV - Released: 2/19/1967

1966

Fantastic Voyage

as Dr. Michaels

Movie - Released: 8/24/1966

Eye of the Devil

as Pere Dominic

Movie - Released: 11/18/1966

Cul-de-sac

as George

Movie - Released: 6/17/1966

1965

The Greatest Story Ever Told

as The Dark Hermit - Satan

Movie - Released: 4/9/1965

The Hallelujah Trail

as 'Oracle' Jones

Movie - Released: 6/23/1965

1964

The Caretaker

as Mac Davies / Bernard Jenkins

Movie - Released: 1/21/1964

1963

The Great Escape

as Blythe 'The Forger'

Movie - Released: 7/3/1963

Dr. Crippen

as Dr. Hawley Harvey Crippen

Movie - Released: 8/7/1963

Espionage

TV - Released: 10/2/1963

The Fugitive

as Max Pfeiffer

TV - Released: 9/17/1963

The Outer Limits

as Harold J. Finley

TV - Released: 9/16/1963

1962

The Inspector

as Wolters

Movie - Released: 5/24/1962

1961

What a Carve Up!

as Everett Sloane

Movie - Released: 9/15/1961

The Wind of Change

as Pop

Movie - Released: 3/1/1961

No Love for Johnnie

as Renfrew

Movie - Released: 2/14/1961

Spare the Rod

as Mr. Jenkins

Movie - Released: 5/23/1961

The Horsemasters

as Captain Pinski

Movie - Released: 10/1/1961

The Defenders

as Dr. Byron Saul

TV - Released: 9/16/1961

1960

Circus of Horrors

as Vanet

Movie - Released: 4/1/1960

Hell Is a City

as Gus Hawkins

Movie - Released: 4/10/1960

The Battle of the Sexes

as Irwin Hoffman

Movie - Released: 2/25/1960

The Shakedown

as Jessel Brown

Movie - Released: 1/1/1960

The Hands of Orlac

as Graham Coates

Movie - Released: 12/1/1960

The Flesh and the Fiends

as William Hare

Movie - Released: 2/2/1960

Sons and Lovers

as Mr. Pappleworth

Movie - Released: 8/29/1960

Suspect

as Parsons, alias Bill Brown

Movie - Released: 11/15/1960

The Cupboard

as Fred Watson

Movie - Released: 12/11/1960

Movie

Toff and Fingers

as Self/Host

Movie - Released: 7/3/1960

Alice Through the Looking Box

as Caterpillar

Movie - Released: 12/25/1960

The Big Day

as Victor Partridge

Movie - Released: 7/1/1960

A Story of David

as Nabal

Movie - Released: 12/1/1960

Danger Man

TV - Released: 9/11/1960

Armchair Mystery Theatre

as Host

TV - Released: 6/5/1960

1959

Look Back in Anger

as Hurst

Movie - Released: 9/15/1959

Movie

The Traitor

as Grantley Caypor

Movie - Released: 8/7/1959

Killers of Kilimanjaro

as Captain

Movie - Released: 10/1/1959

The Twilight Zone

as Ellis Fowler

TV - Released: 10/2/1959

Interpol Calling

as Karl Haussman

TV - Released: 9/13/1959

One Step Beyond

as Harvey Laurence

TV - Released: 1/20/1959

1958

A Tale of Two Cities

as Barsad

Movie - Released: 2/7/1958

The Wind Cannot Read

as Doctor

Movie - Released: 6/10/1958

Movie

The Greatest Man in the World

as US President

Movie - Released: 11/9/1958

The Man Inside

as Organ Grinder

Movie - Released: 9/7/1958

Heart of a Child

as Spiel

Movie - Released: 4/30/1958

The Two-Headed Spy

as Gen. Hardt

Movie - Released: 11/17/1958

The Adventures of William Tell

TV - Released: 9/15/1958

1957

The Man in the Sky

as Crabtree

Movie - Released: 1/24/1957

Barnacle Bill

as Cashier

Movie - Released: 12/17/1957

Manuela

as Evans

Movie - Released: 7/18/1957

1956

1984

as R. Parsons

Movie - Released: 3/6/1956

The Black Tent

as Ali

Movie - Released: 4/9/1956

Tony Awards

as Self - Nominee

TV - Released: 4/1/1956

Armchair Theatre

as President of the USA

TV - Released: 7/8/1956

1955

Movie

Round the World in 80 Days

as Voices

Movie - Released: 1/1/1955

Value for Money

as Limpy

Movie - Released: 8/9/1955

The Adventures of Robin Hood

as Prince John

TV - Released: 9/26/1955

1954

Nineteen Eighty-Four

as Syme

Movie - Released: 12/16/1954

Orders Are Orders

as Cpl. Martin (as Donald Plesance)

Movie - Released: 10/1/1954

The Beachcomber

as Tromp

Movie - Released: 8/10/1954

The Wonderful World of Disney

as Captain Pinski

TV - Released: 10/27/1954

1952

The Dybbuk

as Second batlon

Movie - Released: 10/21/1952

1951

Hallmark Hall of Fame

as Kantorek

TV - Released: 12/24/1951

Hallmark Hall of Fame

as Myers

TV - Released: 12/24/1951

Hallmark Hall of Fame

as The Chancellor

TV - Released: 12/24/1951

1950

Sunday Night Theatre

as Syme

TV - Released: 1/1/1950

Sunday Night Theatre

as Corporal

TV - Released: 1/1/1950