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Donald Pleasence
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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.
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Halloween
As Loomis
Wake in Fright
Appears in a KinoChain journey
Fantastic Voyage
Appears in a KinoChain journey
You Only Live Twice
As Ernst Stavro Blofeld
Escape from New York
As President of the United States
Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers
As Dr. Loomis
Halloween II
As Dr Samuel Loomis
The Great Escape
As Blythe 'The Forger'
Chains
KinoChain journeys
Public chains that pass through their films — or name them as a bridge.
The Wicker Shadows of Folk Horror
From a wartime farce to sunlit cults and lighthouse madness, a journey through rural dread and the rituals that bind us.
8 films
The Bush Doesn't Care If You Understand It
Crocodile Dundee sold the Outback as a punchline. The films that follow take the same landscape and let it bite back.
8 films
What Lies Beneath the Surface of the World
From Tom Cruise's relentless deep-earth driller to Martian relics under the London Underground, this is a descent through cinema's fascination with what waits b...
10 films
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Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers
1995 · Dr. Loomis
The Thief and the Cobbler
1993 · Phido the Vulture (voice)
Shadows and Fog
1991 · Doctor
Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers
1989 · Dr. Sam Loomis
Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers
1988 · Dr. Loomis
Hanna's War
1988 · Captain Thomas Rosza
Prince of Darkness
1987 · Priest
Halloween II
1981 · Dr Samuel Loomis
Escape from New York
1981 · President of the United States
All Quiet on the Western Front
1979 · Kantorek
Halloween
1978 · Loomis
The Eagle Has Landed
1976 · Himmler
Goldenrod
1976 · John Tyler Jones
Watch Out, We're Mad
1974 · Doctor
Wake in Fright
1971 · Doc Tydon
You Only Live Twice
1967 · Ernst Stavro Blofeld
Fantastic Voyage
1966 · Dr. Michaels
The Greatest Story Ever Told
1965 · The Dark Hermit - Satan
The Great Escape
1963 · Blythe 'The Forger'