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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.
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.
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- 'Halloween' (1978) A landmark horror film that helped show how big budgets weren't necessary to deliver big scares, the first Halloween is an untouchable classic.
- 'The Great Escape' (1963) The Great Escape is one of the best movies of the 1960s, telling a large-scale and consistently exciting story about breaking out of a German prisoner-of-war camp during World War II.
- 'You Only Live Twice' (1967) Though You Only Live Twice isn't thought of as one of the best Sean Connery James Bond movies, it is still an iconic one, and the character of Ernst Stavro Blofeld is a big reason for that.
- 'Fantastic Voyage' (1966) There's no shortage of movies out there about people shrinking down dramatically, but few are quite as iconic as Fantastic Voyage.
Donald Pleasence was an actor's actor with a wide range of roles over a half century career on the screen. I've picked the top ten movies of his career from ...
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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...
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'...
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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.