Donald Pleasence

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Beachcomber, The (1954): Dir. Muriel Box
Feat. Glynis Johns, Robert Newton, Donald Sinden…; Entertaining and deeply silly romantic yarn with prim missionary Johns falling for slovenly Newton as they team up to fight a cholera outbreak on a…
Tale of Two Cities, A (1958): Dir. Ralph Thomas
Feat. Dirk Bogarde, Christopher Lee, Donald Pleasence…; An intrepid Dirk Bogarde negotiates the rough and tumble of the French Revolution, in this, the version most faithful to the Charles Dickens novel.…
Twilight Zone, The (Original TV Series) (1959-1964): Dir. Robert Parrish, Jack Smight, John Brahm
Feat. Agnes Moorehead, Ed Wynn, Jack Warden…; Iconic and influential cult TV series with self–contained episodes telling sci–fi tinged tales of the unexpected and mysterious,…
Mania (The Flesh and the Fiends) (1959): Dir. John Gilling
Feat. Peter Cushing, Donald Pleasence, George Rose…; An old–fashioned but sometimes ghoulishly nasty horror film in which an experimenting doctor in Edinburgh must harvest fresh corpses to…
Circus of Horrors (1960): Dir. Sidney Hayers
Feat. Anton Diffring, Donald Pleasence, Jane Hylton…; After horribly botching a face–job, plastic surgeon Anton Diffring hides out in a travelling circus with some of his 'beauties', who begin to…
Sons and Lovers (1960): Dir. Jack Cardiff
Feat. Dean Stockwell, Trevor Howard, Dame Wendy Hiller…; Richly photographed rendition of D.H. Lawrence's classic novel, in which the son of a coal–miner (Stockwell) struggles to find his path in the…
No Love for Johnnie (1961): Dir. Ralph Thomas
Feat. Peter Finch, Stanley Holloway, Donald Pleasence…; Peter Finch excels as a British MP whose desire for career advancement threatens his personal life.
Dr. Crippen (1962): Dir. Robert Lynn
Feat. Donald Pleasence, Coral Browne, Samantha Eggar; This well paced drama centered around Dr. Hawley Harvey Crippen's murder of his wife was originally billed as a horror, but is actually a rather…
Great Escape, The (1963): Dir. John Sturges
Feat. Steve McQueen, James Garner, Richard Attenborough…; McQueen heads a star–studded international cast in this superb drama based on a true account of an escape from a German POW camp by a group of…
Outer Limits, The (TV Series) (1963-1964): Dir. Byron Haskin, Laslo Benedek, Various.
Feat. Cliff Robertson, Martin Landau, Shirley Knight…; Seminal TV series that explored the universal themes of time, space and humankind. Twelve hour–long episodes contained on four volumes, with…
Caretaker, The (1963): Dir. Clive Donner
Feat. Donald Pleasence, Alan Bates, Robert Shaw; Praised film adaptation of Harold Pinter's breakthrough stageplay, in which two brothers invite a tramp into their London flat – an act of…
Greatest Story Ever Told, The (1965): Dir. George Stevens
Feat. Max von Sydow, Dorothy McGuire, Robert Loggia…; Not the greatest movie ever made, however one might get a kick out of spotting all the famous faces in this reverant, picturesque epic about the life…
Hallelujah Trail, The (1965): Dir. John Sturges
Feat. Burt Lancaster, Lee Remick, Donald Pleasence…; Unusual western adventure about a wagon train of whisky that becomes the target of the US cavalry, the Temperance League and local Indians. Overlong…
Cul-de-Sac (1966): Dir. Roman Polanski
Feat. Donald Pleasence; Polanski's influential, absurdist comedy concerns an eccentric couple taken captive by a pair of old gangsters in their Northumbrian castle. Stars…
Fantastic Voyage (1966): Dir. Richard Fleischer
Feat. Donald Pleasence, Raquel Welch, Stephen Boyd…; A team of 'experts' are miniaturized and injected into a high–ranking scientist as a last resort to repair his medical condition. An…
Delirious Fictions of William Klein, The (Who are You, Polly Maggoo?; Mr. Freedom; The Model Couple) (1966-1977): Feat. Anemone , Jacques Boudet, Eddie Constantine…; An American photographer in new wave Paris; Dir. Klein has been making challenging cinema for more than forty years. In his three obscure fiction…
You Only Live Twice (1967): Dir. Lewis Gilbert
Feat. Sean Connery, Donald Pleasence, Tetsuro Tamba; The fifth Bond film starring Sean Connery as the agent supreme. A space flight is hijacked by sinister crime organisation Spectre, bringing the world…
Night of the Generals, The (1967): Dir. Anatole Litvak
Feat. Peter O'Toole, Omar Sharif, Tom Courtenay…; WWII crime thriller concerning the prolonged investigation of the murder of a Polish prostitute and German agent that implicates three generals, and…
Will Penny (1968): Dir. Tom Gries
Feat. Charlton Heston, Joan Hackett, Donald Pleasence…; An impressive, unromanticised view of an aging cowpuncher – played by Charlton Heston in possibly his finest dramatic performance – as he…
THX-1138 (1970): Dir. George Lucas
Feat. Robert Duvall, Donald Pleasence, Don Pedro Colley; The man behind STAR WARS and, yep, THX digital sound, made his feature debut with this stark sci–fi chamber piece, most remembered for its…
Soldier Blue (1970): Dir. Ralph Nelson
Feat. Peter Strauss, Donald Pleasence, Candice Bergen; Perhaps the most violent and disreputable of the ‘revisionist’ Westerns (initiated by THE WILD BUNCH), this depiction of mutual barbarity between…
Kidnapped (1971): Dir. Delbert Mann
Feat. Michael Caine, Trevor Howard, Jack Hawkins…; A dashing Michael Caine heads this ambitious adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson’s tales of 18th century Scotland. Grand, if ultimately unrealised…
Wake In Fright (Outback) (1971): Dir. Ted Kotcheff
Feat. Gary Bond, Donald Pleasence, Chips Rafferty…; After many years in obscurity, this drama has been dusted off and deservingly reappraised as an Australian classic – a waking nightmare of…
Henry VIII and His Six Wives (1972): Dir. Waris Hussein
Feat. Keith Michell, Charlotte Rampling, Michael Gough…; Spin–off from the BBC series, accounts the antics of England's most notorious monarch reign.
Death Line (Raw Meat) (1972): Dir. Gary Sherman
Feat. Christopher Lee, Donald Pleasence, Norman Rossington; A cannibal zombie stalks the local stations of the London Underground picking off unlucky passengers for nourishment in this British 70's horror gem,…
Barry McKenzie Holds His Own (1974): Dir. Bruce Beresford
Feat. Barry Humphries, Barry Crocker, Clive James…; Lesser follow–up to ADVENTURES OF BARRY MCKENZIE, where Dame Edna is spirited off to Transylvania by vampiric kidnappers. Nephew Crocker and…
Black Windmill, The (1974): Dir. Don Siegel
Feat. Michael Caine, Delphine Seyrig, Donald Pleasence…; Michael Caine is in second–hand Harry Palmer–mode as a lone British espionage agent whose son is kidnapped and ransomed for diamonds by a…
Watch Out We're Mad! (Double Trouble) (1974): Dir. Marcello Fondato
Feat. Bud Spencer, Terence Hill, Donald Pleasence; 'Spaghetti' comedy duo Bud Spencer and Terrence Hill return in one of their most popular films without chaps and spurs. In this one, they star as…
From Beyond the Grave (1974): Dir. Kevin Connor
Feat. Peter Cushing, David Warner, Ian Bannen…; Enjoyable anthology film from Amicus adapted from four short stories linked through the classic device of an antique store and its mysterious owner…
Escape to Witch Mountain (1975): Dir. John Hough
Feat. Eddie Albert, Ray Milland, Donald Pleasence; One of Disney's best live–action telemovies, where two orphans with mysterious telekinetic powers flee the attentions of a shifty entrepeneur.…
Count of Monte Cristo, The (1975): Dir. David Greene
Feat. Richard Chamberlain, Trevor Howard, Tony Curtis…; This made for television retelling of Alexandre Dumas' timeless tale of epic revenge is a highly watchable, though dated effort, with Chamberlain…
Jesus of Nazareth (Mini Series) (1977): Dir. Franco Zeffirelli
Feat. Robert Powell, Laurence Olivier, Anne Bancroft…; Touched by the hand of Franco Zeffirelli and a who's–who of famous thesps, this is the most respectfully detailed and complete retelling of the…
All Quiet on the Western Front (1979): Dir. Delbert Mann
Feat. Ernest Borgnine, Richard Thomas, Donald Pleasence…; While the 1930's film of Erich Maria Remarque's exceptional anti–war novel is undoubtedly a masterpiece, this later version should not be…
Dracula (1979): Dir. John Badham
Feat. Frank Langella, Laurence Olivier, Donald Pleasence…; Elegant variation on the Bram Stoker classic tones down the horror elements and amps up the eroticism with Langella an exceptional Count.
Jaguar Lives! (1979): Dir. Ernest Pintoff
Feat. Joe Lewis, Christopher Lee, Donald Pleasence…; A Spanish–American actioner featuring "three Bond villains" and "one Bond beauty" in the cast but who, in true exploitation fashion, barely…
Race for the Yankee Zephyr (1981): Dir. David Hemmings
Feat. Ken Wahl, Lesley Ann Warren, Donald Pleasence…; Ken Wahl, Lesley Ann Warren, Donald Pleasance and George Peppard cavort on and over the South Island in search of a 'McGuffin'.
Escape from New York (1981): Dir. John Carpenter
Feat. Kurt Russell, Lee Van Cleef, Ernest Borgnine…; 1997 New York is a huge maximum–security prison where the President's plane just happens to crash! Futuristic actioner notable for its sardonic…
Halloween 2 (Halloween II) (1981): Dir. Rick Rosenthal
Feat. Jamie Lee Curtis, Donald Pleasence; Obligatory sequel to John Carpenter's horror landmark sees Michael Myers more invincible than ever, returning to terrorise the surprisingly durable…
Barchester Chronicles, The (TV Mini-series) (1982): Dir. David Giles
Feat. Alan Rickman, Donald Pleasence, Nigel Hawthorne…; Scandal inflames the once placid town of Barchester, in this typically astute BBC production of Anthony Trollope's novel. A young Alan Rickman holds…
Dario Argento's World of Horror (1985): Dir. Dario Argento
Feat. James Franciscus, Karl Malden, Jessica Harper…; A compendium of scenes and images from the work of Italian horror maestro Dario Argento, including an indepth interview with the maestro. Covering…
Prince of Darkness (1987): Dir. John Carpenter
Feat. Donald Pleasence; Carpenter dreck, where religious sect, led by Donald Pleasence, duels with the devil.
Ground Zero (1987): Dir. Bruce Myles, Michael Pattinson
Feat. Colin Friels, Jack Thompson, Donald Pleasence; Colin Friels reveals a high–level government cover–up involving radioactive contamination in this brisk Australian thriller. Based on…
Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers (1989): Dir. Dominique Othenin-Girard
Feat. Donald Pleasence, Danielle Harris, Beau Starr; Fifth film in the HALLOWEEN horror franchise picks where the previous installment left off with Michael Myers surviving the gunshots, and getting…
Advocate, The (Hour Of the Pig) (1993): Dir. Leslie Megahey
Feat. Colin Firth, Donald Pleasence, Nicol Williamson…; Polished, wry and most unusual medieval fact–based tale. Colin Firth plays a lawyer summonsed to act for the defence a pig (yes, an animal) for…
Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers (Halloween 6) (1995): Dir. Joe Chappelle
Feat. Donald Pleasence, Paul Rudd; Sixth film in the HALLOWEEN horror franchise picks up the story approximately six years after the events of the fifth film, convoluting a plot that…

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