
Age: 79
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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

General Ladmus
for General Ladmus in Jedi Reborn: A Star Wars Story
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Set only a couple days after the destruction of the second Death Star, as well as the deaths of the Emperor and Darth Vader, this show follows a former Jedi padawan named Jayran Turmor. After Order 66, he fled to a planet near the edge of the Empire's reach and hid their for many years. Working as a junk trader, he quietly lives under the Imperial rule of the planet; until rumors begin to arise of the Emperor's death. He soon meets a Stormtrooper named Alytia Numun, a young lady who pretended to be her father's son to join the Empire to protect her ailing father from being drafted. Now seeing the shades of gray in the Empire, and that not every Stormtrooper is evil, he gains a new motivation to fight, rising against the Imperials to free his planet.