Charles Dance Filmography: Movies and Television Credits

This Charles Dance filmography covers 63 movie titles and 31 television titles from the available cast credits. Multiple roles in the same title are grouped together. It is a selection of screen credits, rather than a complete record of every performance. Credits may include acting, voice work, uncredited roles and appearances as themselves.

Charles Dance movies by release year

The years below are film release years, not filming dates.

• For Your Eyes Only (1981) as Claus
• Plenty (1985) as Raymond Brock
• The Golden Child (1986) as Sardo Numspa
• Good Morning, Babylon (1987) as D.W. Griffith
• White Mischief (1987) as Josslyn Hay
• Pascali's Island (1988) as Anthony Bowles
• Goldeneye (1989) as Ian Fleming
• Alien³ (1992) as Clemens
• Last Action Hero (1993) as Benedict
• China Moon (1994) as Rupert Munro
• The Surgeon (1995) as Dr. Ed Mittlesbay
• Michael Collins (1996) as Soames
• Space Truckers (1996) as Nabel / Macanudo
• Undertow (1996) as Lyle Yates
• Hilary and Jackie (1998) as Derek du Pré
• Alien Evolution (2001) as Self / Clemens
• Dark Blue World (2001) as Wing Commander Bentley
• Gosford Park (2001) as Raymond Stockbridge
• Ali G Indahouse (2002) as Deputy Prime Minister David Carlton
• Swimming Pool (2003) as John Bosload
• Wreckage and Rage: Making 'Alien³' (2003) as Self (archive footage)
• Saint John Bosco Mission to Love (2004) as Marchese Clementi
• Scoop (2006) as Mr. Malcolm
• Starter for 10 (2006) as Michael Harbinson
• The Contractor (2007) as DCS Andrew Windsor
• Ironclad (2011) as Stephen Langton, Archbishop of Canterbury
• There Be Dragons (2011) as Solono
• Your Highness (2011) as King Tallious
• Midnight's Children (2012) as William Methwold
• St George's Day (2012) as Trenchard
• Underworld: Awakening (2012) as Thomas
• Justin and the Knights of Valour (2013) as Legantir (voice)
• Patrick (2013) as Doctor Roget
• Dracula Untold (2014) as Master Vampire
• Forbidden Empire (2014) as Lord Dudley
• The Imitation Game (2014) as Commander Denniston
• Admiral (2015) as King Charles II
• Child 44 (2015) as Major Grachev
• Game of Thrones The IMAX Experience (2015) as Tywin Lannister
• Victor Frankenstein (2015) as Frankenstein
• Woman in Gold (2015) as Sherman
• Despite the Falling Snow (2016) as Old Alexander Ivanov
• Ghostbusters (2016) as Harold Fillmore
• Me Before You (2016) as Stephen Traynor
• Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (2016) as Mr. Bennet
• Underworld: Blood Wars (2016) as Thomas
• Euphoria (2018) as Mr. Daren
• Happy New Year, Colin Burstead (2018) as Uncle Bertie
• Johnny English Strikes Again (2018) as Agent Seven
• Spitfire (2018) as Narrator (voice)
• Fanny Lye Deliver'd (2019) as John Lye
• Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019) as Alan Jonah
• Iron Mask (2019) as Lord Dudley
• Mank (2020) as William Randolph Hearst
• The Book Of Vision (2021) as Dr. Johan Anmuth
• The King's Man (2021) as Kitchener
• Against the Ice (2022) as Minister Neergaard
• The Hanging Sun (2022) as Jacob
• Rumours (2024) as Edison Wolcott
• The First Omen (2024) as Father Harris
• Frankenstein (2025) as Leopold Frankenstein
• Wildcat (2025) as Frasier Mahoney
• Ladies First (2026) as Fred Powell

Charles Dance television roles and appearances

Television titles are listed alphabetically. An appearance date is included only where verified for Charles Dance; a programme's premiere year does not establish when a performer appeared in it.

• Agatha Christie's Marple as Septimus Bligh
• And Then There Were None as Justice Lawrence Wargrave
• Bleak House as Mr. Tulkinghorn
• Childhood's End as Karellen
• Churchill at War as Self - Narrator (voice)
• Fingersmith as Mr. Chistopher Lilly
• Foyle's War as Guy Spencer
• Game of Thrones as Tywin Lannister
• Going Postal as Lord Vetinari
• Merlin as Aredian
• Natural World
• Neverland as Dr. Fludd
• Rabbit Hole as Dr. Ben Wilson
• Rise of Empires: Ottoman as Self - Narrator (voice)
• Savage Kingdom as Self - Narrator (voice)
• Secret State as John Hodder
• Strike Back as Conrad Knox
• Tales of the Unexpected as Robert Smythe
• Testament: The Story of Moses as Self - Narrator (voice)
• The Crown as Lord Mountbatten
• The Day of the Jackal as Timothy Winthrop
• The Jewel in the Crown as Guy Perron
• The Little Drummer Girl as Commander Picton
• The Phantom of the Opera as Erik/The Phantom
• The Professionals as Parker
• The Sandman as Roderick Burgess
• The Serpent Queen as Clement VII
• The Widow as Martin Benson
• To the Ends of the Earth as Sir Henry Somerset
• Who Do You Think You Are? as Self
• Would I Lie to You? as Self

Credit information: TMDB, with additional sources listed below where used. The titles shown here do not establish the beginning or end of Charles Dance's career, and omissions should not be treated as evidence that a credit does not exist.