Donald Pleasence
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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.
Known for
Credits
Halloween (1978)
as Loomis
Warrior Queen (1987)
as Clodius Flaucus
Will Penny (1967)
as Preacher Quint
You Only Live Twice (1967)
as Ernst Stavro Blofeld
The Great Escape (1963)
as Blythe 'The Forger'
Escape from New York (1981)
as President of the United States
Halloween II (1981)
as Sam Loomis
Watch Out, We're Mad (1974)
as Doctor
Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers (1988)
as Dr. Loomis
Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers (1995)
as Dr. Loomis
Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers (1989)
as Dr. Sam Loomis
The Count of Monte-Cristo (1975)
as Danglars
The Eagle Has Landed (1976)
as Himmler
The Night of the Generals (1967)
as General Kahlenberge
Phenomena (1985)
as Professor John McGregor
All Quiet on the Western Front (1979)
as Kantorek
The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965)
as The Dark Hermit - Satan
Goldenrod (1976)
as John Tyler Jones
THX 1138 (1971)
as SEN
Escape to Witch Mountain (1975)
as Lucas Deranian
Dien Bien Phu (1992)
as Howard Simpson
Fantastic Voyage (1966)
as Dr. Michaels
Guinevere (1994)
as Merlin
Manuela (1957)
as Evans
The Horsemasters (1961)
as Captain Pinski
Soldier Blue (1970)
as Isaac Q. Cumber
Prince of Darkness (1987)
as Priest
Nosferatu in Venice (1988)
as Don Alvise
The Thief and the Cobbler (1993)
as Phido the Vulture (voice)
The Last Tycoon (1976)
as Boxley
Telefon (1977)
as Nicolai Dalchimsky
Dracula (1979)
as Dr. Jack Seward
Eye of the Devil (1966)
as Pere Dominic
Buried Alive (1989)
as Dr. Schaeffer
Cul-de-sac (1966)
as George
Women in Arms (1991)
as Dreyfuss
Shadows and Fog (1991)
as Doctor
Django Strikes Again (1987)
as Ben Gunn
Innocent Bystanders (1972)
as Loomis
Death Line (1972)
as Inspector Calhoun
1984 (1956)
as R. Parsons
L'Homme en colère (1979)
as Albert Rumpelmayer
Good Luck, Miss Wyckoff (1979)
as Dr. Steiner
Blade on the Feather (1980)
as John Cavendish
Wake in Fright (1971)
as Doc Tydon
Ten Little Indians (1989)
as Mr. Justice Lawrence Wargrave
Warrior of the Lost World (1983)
as Prossor
The Battle of the Sexes (1960)
as Irwin Hoffman
Hearts of the West (1975)
as A.J. Nietz
The Hallelujah Trail (1965)
as 'Oracle' Jones
Femme Fatale (1993)
as Victor Harty
The Pied Piper (1972)
as The Baron
Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music (2025)
as Self (archive footage)
Alone in the Dark (1982)
as Leo Bain
The Joke (1976)
as Bendel
The Hour of the Pig (1993)
as Pincheon
Hindle Wakes (1976)
as Nat Jeffcote
The Flesh and the Fiends (1960)
as William Hare
Look Back in Anger (1959)
as Hurst
The Monster Club (1981)
as Pickering, Chief of the B-Squad
The Caretaker (1964)
as Mac Davies / Bernard Jenkins
New Line: Independent Legacies (—)
as Self (archive footage)
A Breed Apart (1984)
as J.P. Whittier
The Black Windmill (1974)
as Cedric Harper
Race for the Yankee Zephyr (1981)
as Gilbert Carson
The Two-Headed Spy (1958)
as Gen. Hardt
Treasure of the Amazon (1985)
as Klaus von Blantz
Lonely Water (1973)
as The Spirit (voice)
Terror in the Aisles (1984)
as Self - Host
The Big Freeze (1993)
as Soup slurper
Oh, God! (1977)
as Doctor Harmon
The House of Usher (1989)
as Walter Usher
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (1978)
as B.D. Brockhurst
The Madwoman of Chaillot (1969)
as The Prospector
The Hands of Orlac (1960)
as Graham Coates
Miss Marple: A Caribbean Mystery (1989)
as Jason Rafiel
The Vulture Is a Patient Bird (1991)
as Armon Shalik
Nothing Underneath (1985)
as Commissioner Danesi
Occupations (1974)
as Christo Kabak
Pumaman (1980)
as Kobras
Ground Zero (1987)
as Prosper Gaffney
Witness for the Prosecution (1982)
as Mr. Myers
Kidnapped (1971)
as Ebenezer Balfour
A Tale of Two Cities (1958)
as Barsad
Into the Darkness (1986)
as David Beckett
Circus of Horrors (1960)
as Vanet
Nineteen Eighty-Four (1954)
as Syme
Call Me Daddy (1967)
as Ben Hoffman
Arch of Triumph (1984)
as Ivon Haake
Gila and Rik (1987)
as Joe Gardenia
Hanna's War (1988)
as Captain Thomas Rosza
Basements (1987)
as Mr. Kidd (segment "The Room")
To Kill a Stranger (1986)
as Col. Kostik
Barnacle Bill (1957)
as Cashier
Blood Relatives (1978)
as James Doniac
The Ambassador (1985)
as Minister Eretz
Henry VIII and His Six Wives (1972)
as Thomas Cromwell
Jaguar Lives! (1979)
as General Villanova
What a Carve Up! (1961)
as Everett Sloane
Better Late Than Never (1979)
as Colonel Riddle
Phantom of Death (1988)
as Inspector Datti
The Great Escape II: The Untold Story (1988)
as Dr. Absalon
Life of General De Gaulle (1990)
as Winston Churchill
From Beyond the Grave (1974)
as Jim Underwood
Metropolitan Animals (1988)
as Prof. Livingstone
Fatal Frames (1996)
as Professor Robinson
Double Target (1987)
as Sen. Blaster
Freeze: But is it Art? (1994)
as Sinister Dentist
The Mutations (1974)
as Professor Nolter
Scoop (1987)
as Lord Copper
Tomorrow Never Comes (1978)
as Dr. Todd
Trial by Combat (1976)
as Sir Giles Marley
The Wind Cannot Read (1958)
as Doctor
The Man in the Sky (1957)
as Crabtree
I Don't Want to Be Born (1976)
as Dr. Finch
The Devonsville Terror (1983)
as Dr. Warley
Paganini Horror (1989)
as Mr. Pickett
Deadheat (1986)
as Aldo Rossi
The Moment of Truth (1955)
as The Foreign Minister
Tales That Witness Madness (1973)
as Prof. R.C. Tremayne
Journey into Fear (1975)
as Kuvetli
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1973)
as Fred Smudge
Cobra Mission (1986)
as Father Lenoir
American Rickshaw (1989)
as Rev. Mortom
The Uncanny (1977)
as Valentine De'ath (segment "Hollywood 1936")
Hell Is a City (1960)
as Gus Hawkins
The Commander (1988)
as Henry Carlson
Killers of Kilimanjaro (1959)
as Captain
Power Play (1978)
as Blair
Gold of the Amazon Women (1979)
as Clarence Blasko
Casablanca Express (1989)
as Colonel Bats
Malachi's Cove (1973)
as Malachi
The Devil's Men (1976)
as Father Roche
Wedding in White (1972)
as Jim Dougall, Sr.
No Love for Johnnie (1961)
as Renfrew
The Shakedown (1960)
as Jessel Brown
Sons and Lovers (1960)
as Mr. Pappleworth
The Dybbuk (1952)
as Second batlon
The Black Tent (1956)
as Ali
The Man Inside (1958)
as Organ Grinder
Suspect (1960)
as Parsons, alias Bill Brown
Meriel the Ghost Girl (1976)
as George Livingston
The Falklands Factor (1983)
as Dr. Samuel Johnson
Where Is Parsifal? (1984)
as Mackintosh
The Wind of Change (1961)
as Pop
The Corsican Brothers (1985)
as The Chancellor
River of Death (1989)
as Heinrich Spaatz
Dr. Crippen (1963)
as Dr. Hawley Harvey Crippen
The Defection of Simas Kudirka (1978)
as Capt. Vladimir Popov
Heart of a Child (1958)
as Spiel
Orders Are Orders (1954)
as Cpl. Martin (as Donald Plesance)
The Inspector (1962)
as Wolters
Sleep is Lovely (1968)
as Clive
The Passover Plot (1976)
as Pontius Pilate
Barry McKenzie Holds His Own (1974)
as Erich Count von Plasma
Frankenstein's Great Aunt Tillie (1984)
as Victor Frankenstein / Baron Frankenstein
Black Arrow (1985)
as Sir Oliver Oates
Driving Lessons (2012)
as Dr. Sam Loomis (archive footage)
Arthur? Arthur! (1969)
as Arthur Brownjohn / Sir Easonby 'E' Mellon
Alice Through the Looking Box (1960)
as Caterpillar
Matchless (1967)
as Gregori Andreanu
The Greatest Man in the World (1958)
as US President
Night Creature (1978)
as Axel MacGregor
The Diary of Anne Frank (1967)
as Albert Dussel
Computercide (1982)
as George Dettler
A Story of David (1960)
as Nabal
The Beachcomber (1954)
as Tromp
The Fox Trot (1971)
as Tom
Last In, First Out (1978)
as Rothko
The Cafeteria (1974)
as Aaron
Value for Money (1955)
as Limpy
Mr. Freedom (1969)
as Dr. Freedom
The Cupboard (1960)
as Fred Watson
Reel Horror (1985)
as Axel MacGregor (archive footage)
The Big Day (1960)
as Victor Partridge
Safe Haven (1995)
as The Sailor
Halloween: A Cut Above the Rest (2003)
as Self / Dr. Samuel 'Sam' Loomis (archive footage)
Spare the Rod (1961)
as Mr. Jenkins
House of the Damned (1974)
as Martin Zayas
Specters (1987)
as Professor Lasky
Creature of Comfort (1968)
as James Thorne
The Jerusalem File (1972)
as Major Samuels
Millions (1991)
as Ripa
The Rainbow Boys (1973)
as Ralph Logan
Toff and Fingers (1960)
as Self/Host
Round the World in 80 Days (1955)
as Voices
The News-Benders (1968)
as J.G.
Last Platoon (1988)
as Colonel B. Abrahams
The Dr. Loomis Tapes (2026)
as Dr. Loomis
Last to Go (1969)
Actor
Skin Deep (1971)
as Gerry Muddiman
The Traitor (1959)
as Grantley Caypor