Movies starring Donald Pleasence

Biography: Donald Pleasence started acting on the London stage in 1939. He served in the RAF, was shot down and held in a POW camp. His balding, bland face and memorable voice made him the most popular actor on British TV He specialised in strange or menacing characters from Ernst Blofeld in "You Only Live Twice (1967)" to Dr. Loomis in the Halloween series.

Dracula (1979)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Horror | Romance
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Gary Oldman | Winona Ryder | Anthony Hopkins | Keanu Reeves | Richard E. Grant | Cary Elwes | Bill Campbell | Sadie Frost | Tom Waits | Monica Bellucci | Michaela Bercu | Florina Kendrick | Jay Robinson | I.M. Hobson | Laurie Franks
Directors: Francis Ford Coppola
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When a schooner is wrecked off Whitby the only survivor is Count Dracula who has arrived with large amounts of Transylvanian soil to take up residence in Carfax Abbey. He takes the life or Lucy, who is engaged to Dr. Seward, who runs the local asylum. Lucy’s friend Mina, and her fiancé Jonathan Harker, a solicitor, also make contact with Dracula. But almost immediately, Lucy dies from loss of blood, and just possibly this may not be a coincidence. The group calls on the aid of Prefessor Van Helsing, noted supernatural expert, and together they pursue the vampire.

Halloween (2007)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Horror
Countries: USA
Actors: Donald Pleasence | Jamie Lee Curtis | P.J. Soles | Charles Cyphers | Kyle Richards | Brian Andrews | John Michael Graham | Nancy Kyes | Arthur Malet | Mickey Yablans | Brent Le Page | Adam Hollander | Robert Phalen | Tony Moran
Directors: John Carpenter
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After being committed for 15 years, Michael Myers, now a 21-year-old man and still very dangerous, escapes from the mental institution (where he was committed as a 6 year old) and immediately returns to Haddonfield, where he wants to find his baby sister. Anyone who crosses his path is in mortal danger.

007 You Only Live Twice (1967)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: UK
Actors: Sean Connery | Akiko Wakabayashi | Mie Hama | Tetsuro Tamba | Teru Shimada | Karin Dor | Donald Pleasence | Bernard Lee | Lois Maxwell | Desmond Llewelyn | Charles Gray | Tsai Chin | Peter Fanene Maivia | Burt Kwouk | Michael Chow
Directors: Lewis Gilbert
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When an American space capsule is swallowed up by what they believe to be a Russian spaceship, World War 3 nearly breaks out. The British Government, however, suspect that other powers are at work as the space craft went down near Japan. S.P.E.C.T.R.E. is the force behind the theft, as James Bond discovers, but its motives are far from clear, and he must first find out where the captured space capsule is held before America and Russia initiate another world war.

Fantastic Voyage (1966)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Stephen Boyd | Raquel Welch | Edmond O'Brien | Donald Pleasence | Arthur O'Connell | William Redfield | Arthur Kennedy | Jean Del Val | Barry Coe | Ken Scott | Shelby Grant | James Brolin | Brendan Fitzgerald
Directors: Richard Fleischer
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Scientist Jan Benes, who knows the secret to keeping soldiers shrunken for an indefinite period, escapes from behind the Iron Curtain with the help of CIA agent Grant. While being transferred, their motorcade is attacked. Benes strikes his head, causing a blood clot to form in his brain. Grant is ordered to accompany a group of scientists as they are miniaturized. The crew has one hour to get in Benes’s brain, remove the clot and get out.