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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.
Another one of various ideas I've had several months ago of what could be done with DC's library of popular and beloved characters, following the critical and commercial success of Joker, to make for compelling films that could capture said characters' essence and nuance even without directly following any kind of source material. For this one, the basic idea is that this would be a purely psychological hard-R horror thriller, relying very heavily on tricks of the mind as well as the power of perception. This would be an origin story detailing Dr. Jonathan Crane's abuse at the hands of his great-grandmother Mary Keeny and bullies from school, his fascination with psychology (being mentored by Hugo Strange), and how he came to be called the Master of Fear.
