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Donald Pleasence
Dead 30 years ago on 02/02/2025
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Donald Pleasence

English actor


Dead at 75 years
Birthday
Sunday
He is born 104 years, 5 months and 24 days ago
Death date
Thursday

He is dead since 29 years, 1 month and 27 days

Cause of death: heart failure

Birthplace
Worksop, England
Nationality: english Angleterre
Categorie
Actors
Birth sign: Libra
Chinese birth sign: Goat

Donald Henry Pleasence (; 5 October 1919 – 2 February 1995) was an English actor. He began his career on stage in the West End before having a screen career, which included starring in a 1954 BBC adaptation of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, before playing numerous supporting and character roles in films including RAF Flight Lieutenant Colin Blythe in The Great Escape (1963), the villain Ernst Stavro Blofeld in the James Bond film You Only Live Twice (1967), SEN 5241 in THX 1138 (1971), and the deranged Clarence "Doc" Tydon in Wake in Fright (1971).

Pleasence starred as psychiatrist Dr. Samuel Loomis in Halloween (1978) and four of its sequels, a role for which he was nominated for a Saturn Award for Best Actor. The series' popularity and critical success led to a resurgent career for Pleasence, who appeared in numerous American and European-produced horror and thriller films. He collaborated with Halloween director John Carpenter twice more, as the President of the United States in Escape from New York (1981) and as the Priest in Prince of Darkness (1987).

Source : Wikipedia