Donald Pleasence

Donald Pleasence

British actor
Donald Henry Pleasence OBE was an English actor. He began his career on stage in the West End before transitioning into a screen career, where he played numerous supporting and character roles including RAF Flight Lieutenant Colin Blythe in The Great Escape, the villain Ernst Stavro Blofeld in the James Bond film You Only Live Twice, SEN 5241 in THX 1138, and the deranged Clarence "Doc" Tydon in Wake in Fright .Wikipedia
BornOctober 5, 1919
HometownWorksop, England
Height5'6" (1.68m)
SpouseLinda J. Kentwood (m 1988 - 1995) , Meira Shore (m 1970 - 1988) , Josephine Crombie (m 1959 - 1970) , Miriam Raymond (m 1941 - 1958)
ChildrenAngela Pleasence
ParentsAlice Armitage , Thomas Stanley Pleasence
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Videos

Halloween trailer 1978

Halloween is a 1978 American independent slasher film directed and scored by John Carpenter, co-written with producer Debra Hill, and starring Jamie Lee Curtis (in her film debut) and Donald Pleasence, with P. J. Soles and Nancy Kyes in supporting roles. The plot centers on a mental patient, Michael Myers, who was committed to a sanitarium for murdering his babysitting teenage sister on Halloween night when he was six years old. Fifteen years later, he escapes and returns to his hometown, where he stalks a female babysitter and her friends while under pursuit by his psychiatrist.Compass International Pictures
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MOVIES & TV SHOWS

Ten Little Indians
Ten Little Indians
PG
1h 40min
1976
Phantom of Death
Phantom of Death
R
1h 35min
1976
Warrior Queen
Warrior Queen
R
1h 9min
1975
Warrior of the Lost World
Warrior of the Lost World
R
1h 26min
1976
The Devonsville Terror
The Devonsville Terror
R
1h 22min
1976
Jaguar Lives!
Jaguar Lives!
PG
1h 30min
1976
Dirty Knight's Work
Dirty Knight's Work
PG
1h 28min
1976
Watch Out, We're Mad
Watch Out, We're Mad
G
1h 43min
1975
Malachi's Cove
Malachi's Cove
1h 30min
1973
The Wind of Change
The Wind of Change
1h 4min
1961
Circus of Horrors
Circus of Horrors
1h 29min
1960
The Shakedown
The Shakedown
1h 32min
1961
Heart of a Child
Heart of a Child
1h 16min
1958
American Tiger
American Tiger
R
1h 33min
1989
Animali metropolitani
Animali metropolitani
1h 30min
1987
Scoop
Scoop
1h 45min
1987
Arch of Triumph
Arch of Triumph
1h 40min
1985
Dario Argento's World of Horror
Dario Argento's World of Horror
1h 16min
1985
Frankenstein's Great Aunt Tillie
Frankenstein's Great Aunt Tillie
1h 39min
1984
Night Creature
Night Creature
PG
1h 23min
1978
I Don't Want to Be Born
I Don't Want to Be Born
R
1h 35min
1975
The Mutations
The Mutations
R
1h 31min
1974