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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 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. In the course of his lengthy career, he relished playing the obsessed, the paranoid and the purely evil. Even the Van Helsing ...
- October 5, 1919
- February 2, 1995
As a young man, Pleasence left a job asa railway booking clerk to pursue an acting career, and made his stage debutas Hareton Earnshaw in a 1939 production of Wuthering Heights. Spending thelatter part of World War II in a German prisoner-of-war camp after his planewas shot down over France, he returned to England and joined the Birmingham ...
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Oct 16, 2018 · “I met him, 15 years ago; I was told there was nothing left; no reason, no conscience, no understanding; and even the most rudimentary sense of life or death, of good or evil, right or wrong. I ...
- Meagan Navarro
While Donald Pleasence was never known to turn down many film parts, he did pass on the role of Britain's notorious murderer John Christie in Richard Fleischer's 1970 suspense drama 10 RILLINGTON PLACE. After having already played Dr. Crippen, Pleasence was afraid the role of Christie would further stereotype him as a film psychotic.
Feb 3, 1995 · Donald Pleasence, who seemed equally adept at playing craven cowards, querulous tramps and steely-eyed villains in a steady stream of film, television and theater roles that ranged over five ...
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 ...
