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Walter Charles Dance OBE (born 10 October 1946) is an English actor, screenwriter, and director. He typically plays strict, authoritarian characters or villains. He is best known for his roles as Tywin Lannister in Game of Thrones, Kitchener in The King's Man, Martin Benson in Amazon Prime's The Widow, Lord Mountbatten in Netflix's The Crown (for which he was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series), Thomas in Underworld: Awakening and Underworld: Blood Wars, Harold Fillmore in Ghostbusters (2016), Mr. Bennet in Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, Frankenstein in Victor Frankenstein, Master Vampire in Dracula Untold, Conrad Knox in the Cinemax series Strike Back, Raymond Stockbridge in Gosford Park, one-eyed hitman Benedict in Last Action Hero, Clemens in Alien³, Sardo Numpsa in The Golden Child, and Guy Perron in The Jewel in the Crown. He started his career on stage with the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) before appearing in film and television. For his services to drama, he was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) by Queen Elizabeth II in 2006. He made his directorial film debut with the drama film Ladies in Lavender (2004), which he also wrote and executive produced.
Charles Dance
Alfred Pennyworth
for Alfred Pennyworth in Batman: The Caped Crusader.
Suggested by mr95
Instead of looking like an episode of the wire, Gotham is a retro-flavored urban wonderland filled with towering art deco skyscrapers, majestic hindenburg-like airships, and swinging jazz clubs packed with flappers. it's a dangerous place, but also the sort of colorful city where it actually seems halfway plausible that a nocturnal crime fighter in a bat costume might be a beloved celebrity. in this version, Bruce Wayne is still a bit of a brooding loner with questionable social skills, but his serious demeanor is regularly played for laughs, and his loyal butler Alfred Pennyworth occasionally acknowledges that his employer's "hobby" is a slight eccentricity at best, and a full-on sign of madness at worst; Bruce and Alfred have a dynamic that should instantly remind book-lovers of Don Quixote and Sancho Panza, with Bruce even tinkering with suits of armor in Wayne Manor and occasionally fencing with Alfred in his downtime.
