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Donald Henry Pleasence OBE (/ ˈ p l ɛ z ə n s /; 5 October 1919 – 2 February 1995) was an English actor. He began his career on stage in the West End before having a screen career, which included starring in a 1954 BBC adaptation of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, before playing numerous supporting and character roles in films including RAF Flight Lieutenant Colin Blythe in The ...
Donald Henry Pleasence was born on October 5, 1919 in Worksop, Nottinghamshire, England, to Alice (Armitage) and Thomas Stanley Pleasence. His family worked on the railway. His grandfather had been a signal man and both his brother and father were station masters. When Donald failed to get a scholarship at RADA, he joined the family occupation ...
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- Saint-Paul-de-Vence, Alpes-Maritimes, France
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 Caretaker," died yesterday at his home ...
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Donald Henry Pleasence [1] OBE (October 5, 1919 – February 2, 1995) was an English actor. Pleasence was born in Worksop, Nottinghamshire, England. [2] He was raised in Lincolnshire, England. [3] During his career, Pleasence was nominated for four Tony Awards. [4] He won a BAFTA TV Award for Best Actor in 1959.
YearMovieRoleNotes1952The DybbukSecond BatlonTV movie1952-1959BBC Sunday-Night TheatreCorporalTV series, episode Arrow to the Heart (I) ...1952-1959BBC Sunday-Night TheatreChamberlainEpisode Such Men are Dangerous (1954)1952-1959BBC Sunday-Night TheatreSymeEpisode Nineteen Eighty-Four (1954)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. Pleasence had been recovering from a heart operation just before Christmas, during which he had a valve replaced.
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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. 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 ...
