An English actor named Walter Charles Dance OBE was born on October 10, 1946. He is well renowned for portraying villains and severe, authoritarian roles.
His most well-known film roles include those of Sardo Numspa in The Golden Child (1986), Dr. Jonathan Clemens in Alien 3 (1992), Benedict in Last Action Hero (1993), Lord Havelock Vetinari in Terry Pratchett’s Going Postal (2010), the Master Vampire in Dracula Untold (2014), Alastair Denniston in The Imitation Game (2014), Alan Jonah in Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019), and William Randolph He (2020).
Charles Dance parents: Meet Eleanor Dance, Walter Dance
On October 10, 1946, Walter Charles Dance was born in Redditch, Worcestershire. He was the younger son of cook Eleanor Marion (née Perks; 1911–1984) and electrical engineer Walter Dance (1874–1949), who was in his 70s at the time of his younger son’s birth and who served as a sergeant in the 2nd Regular Battalion of the Royal Fusiliers during the Second Boer War.
Dance had two older half-sisters, Norah (1898-1993) and Mary, from his father’s previous marriage (1903–1908). He has a senior brother named Michael as well (born in 1936).
