Highest rated as cast or director
The Great Escape
1963
Halloween
1978
Centennial
1978 · 1 Season
Wake in Fright
1971
Will Penny
1967
Biography
Donald Henry Pleasence OBE (October 5, 1919 – February 2, 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.
Acted in 219
2020s
- 2026
The Dr. Loomis Tapes
Dr. Loomis
- 2025
1990s
- 1996
- 1995
Signs and Wonders
Cornelius Van Damm · 4 episodes
- 1994
Freeze: But is it Art?
Sinister Dentist
- 1993
The Big Freeze
Soup slurper
The Hour of the Pig
Pincheon
Femme Fatale
Victor Harty
- 1992
Dien Bien Phu
Howard Simpson
- 1991
Millions
Ripa
Donne armate
Dreyfuss · 2 episodes
The vulture can wait
Armon Shalik · 2 episodes
- 1990
Life of General De Gaulle
Winston Churchill
1980s
- 1989
Casablanca Express
Colonel Bats
The House of Usher
Walter Usher
American Rickshaw
Rev. Mortom
- 1988
The Great Escape II: The Untold Story
Dr. Absalon · 2 episodes
Last Platoon
Colonel B. Abrahams
Metropolitan Animals
Prof. Livingstone
The Commander
Henry Carlson
Phantom of Death
Inspector Datti
- 1987
Django Strikes Again
Ben Gunn
Ground Zero
Prosper Gaffney
Specters
Professor Lasky
Gila and Rik
Joe Gardenia
- 1986
Naso di cane
Olindo Cuomo · 3 episodes
Cobra Mission
Father Lenoir
To Kill a Stranger
Col. Kostik
Deadheat
Aldo Rossi
Into the Darkness
David Beckett
- 1985
Black Arrow
Sir Oliver Oates
Reel Horror
Axel MacGregor (archive footage)
The Corsican Brothers
The Chancellor
- 1984
Master of the Game
Salomon Van der Merwe · 9 episodes
Where Is Parsifal?
Mackintosh
Frankenstein's Great Aunt Tillie
Victor Frankenstein / Baron Frankenstein
- 1983
The Devonsville Terror
Dr. Warley
The Falklands Factor
Dr. Samuel Johnson
- 1982
Alone in the Dark
Leo Bain
The Barchester Chronicles
Septimus Harding · 7 episodes
Computercide
George Dettler
- 1981
- 1980
Blade on the Feather
John Cavendish
1970s
- 1979
The French Atlantic Affair
Max Dechambre · 3 episodes
Better Late Than Never
Colonel Riddle
Jaguar Lives!
General Villanova
Jig-Saw
Albert Rumpelmayer
Gold of the Amazon Women
Clarence Blasko
Mrs. Columbo
TV
- 1978
Last In, First Out
Rothko
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
B.D. Brockhurst
Night Creature
Axel MacGregor
The Bastard
Solomon Sholto · 1 episode
Tomorrow Never Comes
Dr. Todd
Blood Relatives
James Doniac
The Defection of Simas Kudirka
Capt. Vladimir Popov
- 1977
Telefon
Nicolai Dalchimsky
The Uncanny
Valentine De'ath (segment "Hollywood 1936")
- 1976
Hindle Wakes
Nat Jeffcote
Laurence Olivier Presents
Nat Jeffcote · 1 episode
The Last Tycoon
Boxley
Meriel the Ghost Girl
George Livingston
- 1975
Hearts of the West
A.J. Nietz
Shades of Greene
Puckler · 1 episode
Journey into Fear
Kuvetli
- 1974
Barry McKenzie Holds His Own
Erich Count von Plasma
House of the Damned
Martin Zayas
Occupations
Christo Kabak
The Cafeteria
Aaron
The Mutations
Professor Nolter
The Black Windmill
Cedric Harper
- 1973
Tales That Witness Madness
Prof. R.C. Tremayne
The Rainbow Boys
Ralph Logan
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Fred Smudge
- 1972
The Pied Piper
The Baron
Wedding in White
Jim Dougall, Sr.
The Jerusalem File
Major Samuels
- 1971
Kidnapped
Ebenezer Balfour
Skin Deep
Gerry Muddiman
The Fox Trot
Tom
- 1970
1960s
- 1969
The Madwoman of Chaillot
The Prospector
Arthur? Arthur!
Arthur Brownjohn / Sir Easonby 'E' Mellon
Mr. Freedom
Dr. Freedom
Last to Go
Movie
- 1968
Sleep is Lovely
Clive
The News-Benders
J.G.
Creature of Comfort
James Thorne
- 1967
Matchless
Gregori Andreanu
- 1966
Eye of the Devil
Pere Dominic
- 1965
- 1964
The Caretaker
Mac Davies / Bernard Jenkins
- 1963
Dr. Crippen
Dr. Hawley Harvey Crippen
- 1962
The Inspector
Wolters
- 1961
The Horsemasters
Captain Pinski
What a Carve Up!
Everett Sloane
Spare the Rod
Mr. Jenkins
The Wind of Change
Pop
No Love for Johnnie
Renfrew
- 1960
Alice Through the Looking Box
Caterpillar
The Cupboard
Fred Watson
Suspect
Parsons, alias Bill Brown
The Big Day
Victor Partridge
Sons and Lovers
Mr. Pappleworth
Hell Is a City
Gus Hawkins
The Shakedown
Jessel Brown
1950s
- 1959
Killers of Kilimanjaro
Captain
- 1958
The Two-Headed Spy
Gen. Hardt
The Man Inside
Organ Grinder
The Wind Cannot Read
Doctor
Heart of a Child
Spiel
A Tale of Two Cities
Barsad
- 1957
Barnacle Bill
Cashier
Manuela
Evans
The Man in the Sky
Crabtree
- 1956
Armchair Theatre
President of the USA, Fred Watson, Ben Hoffman · 1 episode
The Black Tent
Ali
- 1955
Value for Money
Limpy
The Moment of Truth
The Foreign Minister
- 1954
Nineteen Eighty-Four
Syme
Orders Are Orders
Cpl. Martin (as Donald Plesance)
The Beachcomber
Tromp
- 1952
The Dybbuk
Second batlon
- 1950
Appearances9
2000s
- 2003
Halloween: A Cut Above the Rest
Self / Dr. Samuel 'Sam' Loomis (archive footage)
1990s
- 1997
The Making of Fatal Frames
self
- 1994
1980s
- 1984
Terror in the Aisles
Self - Host
- 1982
1970s
- 1978
The Dark Secret of Harvest Home
Narrator (voice) · 2 episodes
- 1975
