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Donald Henry Pleasence OBE (/ ˈ p l ɛ z ə n s /; [2] 5 October 1919 – 2 February 1995) [3] was an English actor.
Donald Henry Pleasence was born on October 5, 1919 in Worksop, Nottinghamshire, England, to Alice (Armitage) and Thomas Stanley Pleasence. His family worked on the railway. His grandfather had been a signal man and both his brother and father were station masters.
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- Worksop, Nottinghamshire, England, UK
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- Saint-Paul-de-Vence, Alpes-Maritimes, France
Donald Pleasence in Jesus of Nazareth (1977)- Robert De Niro and Donald Pleasence in The Last Tycoon (1976)
- Richard Attenborough, Donald Pleasence, and James Garner in The Great Escape (1963)
- Donald Pleasence, Patrick O'Neal, and Ira von Fürstenberg in Matchless (1967)
- Woody Allen and Donald Pleasence in Shadows and Fog (1991)
This article explores the remarkable journey of British actor Donald Pleasence, who went from being a real-life prisoner of war (POW) to portraying one in th...
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Donald Pleasence, the balding, beady-eyed British character actor who created such memorable screen villains as Ernst Stavro Blofeld in You Only Live Twice, died Feb. 2 at his home in St. Paul de Vence in southern France. He was 75.
- The Caretaker (1963) Director: Clive Donner. Both Pleasence and co-star Alan Bates reprised the roles they’d played at the Arts Theatre for the first screen adaptation of Harold Pinter’s breakthrough play.
- The Great Escape (1963) Director: John Sturges. John Sturges’ PoW classic may have ossified over the years through its reputation as the ultimate dad-movie, easing fathers everywhere into their post-Christmas lunch snooze, but it remains a thrilling adventure yarn.
- Cul-de-sac (1966) Director: Roman Polanski. There are shades of Pinter again for Pleasence in this third feature (the second in English) from Roman Polanski.
- Fantastic Voyage (1966) Director: Richard Fleischer. “So far someone’s tried to sabotage this mission twice!” The mission? To shrink a submarine to the size of a microbe, and travel through the arterial vessels of a Soviet spy to zap the blood clot that’s rendered him comatose and unable to defect.
Donald Henry Pleasence, OBE, (5 October 1919 – 2 February 1995) was an English actor who gained more than 200 screen credits during a career which spanned over four decades.
Donald Henry Pleasence OBE (October 5, 1919 – February 2, 1995) was an English actor. Pleasence was born in Worksop, Nottinghamshire, England. He was raised in Lincolnshire, England. During his career, Pleasence was nominated for four Tony Awards. He won a BAFTA TV Award for Best Actor in 1959.
