Donald Pleasence
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Birth Name: Donald Henry Pleasence
Born: 5 October 1919 Died: 2 February 1995
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Height: 5' 6"
Relationship Status: Married
Partner: Linda Kentwood
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Balding, quietly-spoken, of slight build and possessed of piercing blue eyes -- often peering out from behind round, steel-rimmed glasses -- Donald Henry Pleasance had the necessary physical attributes which make a great screen villain. In the course of his lengthy career, he relished playing the obsessed, the paranoid and the purely evil. Even his Van Helsing-like psychiatrist Sam Loomis in the Halloween (1978) franchise seems only marginally more balanced than his prey. An actor of great intensity, Pleasance excelled on stage as Shakespearean villains. He was an unrelenting prosecutor in Jean Anouilh's "Poor Bitos" a
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1. Halloween (1978)
Rating: | 2293 Watched |
2. Escape from New York (1981)
Rating: | 1258 Watched |
3. The Great Escape (1963)
Rating: | 1036 Watched |
4. You Only Live Twice (1967)
Rating: | 759 Watched |
5. Halloween II (1981)
Rating: | 691 Watched |
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1. Saturday Night Live (1975)
Rating: | 1163 Watched |
3. The Outer Limits (1963)
Rating: | 166 Watched |
4. Columbo
Rating: | 176 Watched |
5. Hawaii Five-O (1968)
Rating: | 129 Watched |
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