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  1. Pleasence was nominated four times for the Tony Award for best performance by a leading actor in a Broadway play: in 1962 for Harold Pinter 's The Caretaker, in 1965 for Jean Anouilh 's Poor Bitos, in 1969 for Robert Shaw 's The Man in the Glass Booth, and in 1972 for Simon Gray 's Wise Child.

  2. Donald Pleasence. Actor: Halloween II. Balding, quietly spoken, of slight build and possessed of piercing blue eyes -- often peering out from behind round, steel-rimmed glasses -- Donald Pleasence had the essential physical attributes which make a great screen villain.

  3. Feb 3, 1995 · Donald Pleasence, the intense, virtuosic actor who was acclaimed in London and on Broadway for his performance in the title role of Harold Pinter's play "The...

  4. Dec 3, 2023 · This article explores the remarkable journey of British actor Donald Pleasence, who went from being a real-life prisoner of war (POW) to portraying one in the iconic film 'The Great Escape'...

  5. Feb 2, 1995 · 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.

  6. Donald Pleasence, the balding, beady-eyed British character actor who created such memorable screen villains as Ernst Stavro Blofeld in You Only Live Twice, died Feb. 2 at his home in St. Paul de Vence in southern France. He was 75.

  7. Oct 4, 2019 · Donald Pleasence: 10 essential performances. From The Great Escape to Halloween... 100 years after he was born, we pick just 10 of the 200+ films featuring the irreplaceable character actor Donald Pleasence.

  8. Feb 2, 1995 · Donald Pleasence, who breathed life into a series of odd and sinister characters ranging from the hero of the ``Halloween'' slasher movies to the tramp in Harold Pinter's ``The Caretaker,'' died Thursday. He was 75.

  9. Oct 29, 2021 · Pleasence plays Doc Tydon, a drunken vagrant in an inescapable outback town who leads a schoolteacher (Gary Bond) into a downward spiral of searing,...

  10. Donald Pleasence, the intense, virtuosic actor who was acclaimed for his performance in the title role of Harold Pinter's play The Caretaker, died yesterday at his home in St. Paul de Vence in the south of France. He was 75 and also had a house in London.

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