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Film. Donald Pleasence in the trailer for the film Eye of the Devil (1966). Pleasence made his big-screen debut with The Beachcomber (1954). [11] Some notable early roles include Parsons in 1984 (1956), and minor roles opposite Alec Guinness in Barnacle Bill (1957) and Dirk Bogarde in The Wind Cannot Read (1958).
The Man Inside. An English bookkeeper (Nigel Patrick) who works for a jeweler steals a priceless jewel, and kills a man in the process. He flees to the continent, where he embarks on the life of his dreams; spending lavishly and pursuing women (including Anita Ekberg).
Donald Pleasence. Actor: Halloween II. Balding, quietly spoken, of slight build and possessed of piercing blue eyes -- often peering out from behind round, steel-rimmed glasses -- Donald Pleasence had the essential physical attributes which make a great screen villain.
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- 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)
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- Halloween. Donald Pleasence, Jamie Lee Curtis, Nancy Kyes. 63 votes. In the iconic horror film Halloween, directed by John Carpenter, the tranquil town of Haddonfield, Illinois is thrown into a state of terror.
- The Great Escape. Steve McQueen, James Garner, Richard Attenborough. 52 votes. In the riveting drama The Great Escape, a group of Allied prisoners, led by Virgil Hilts (Steve McQueen), are confined in an ostensibly escape-proof German POW camp during World War II.
- Will Penny. Charlton Heston, Joan Hackett, Donald Pleasence. 21 votes. When aging loner Will Penny (Charlton Heston) is hired to ride the lines around a vast ranch, he stumbles upon Catherine Allen (Joan Hackett) and her son, who are secretly living in an abandoned cabin.
- You Only Live Twice. Sean Connery, Akiko Wakabayashi, Donald Pleasence. 37 votes. During the Cold War, American and Russian spacecrafts go missing, leaving each superpower believing the other is to blame.
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- 'Halloween' (1978) A landmark horror film that helped show how big budgets weren't necessary to deliver big scares, the first Halloween is an untouchable classic.
- 'The Great Escape' (1963) The Great Escape is one of the best movies of the 1960s, telling a large-scale and consistently exciting story about breaking out of a German prisoner-of-war camp during World War II.
- 'You Only Live Twice' (1967) Though You Only Live Twice isn't thought of as one of the best Sean Connery James Bond movies, it is still an iconic one, and the character of Ernst Stavro Blofeld is a big reason for that.
- 'Fantastic Voyage' (1966) There's no shortage of movies out there about people shrinking down dramatically, but few are quite as iconic as Fantastic Voyage.
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Feb 2, 1995 · Prince of Darkness. Escape from New York. THX 1138. Acting. Writing. 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.
