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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
Sir Danvers Carew, MP
for Sir Danvers Carew, MP in Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
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In the choking yellow fog of 1880s London, Gabriel Utterson (John Simm), a lawyer who suppresses his own desires behind a mask of professional austerity, becomes obsessed with a mystery that defies the law. It begins with a "by-street" door and a story from his cousin Enfield (James McAvoy) about a "damned Juggernaut" named Edward Hyde (Andrew Scott), a man who radiates a sense of unexpressed deformity. The mystery turns personal when Utterson discovers Hyde is the sole beneficiary of his oldest friend, the brilliant Dr. Henry Jekyll (Andrew Scott). As Utterson investigates, the film transitions from a Victorian detective noir into a visceral Gothic horror. He watches as Jekyll - once a "smooth-faced" pillar of society - withers into a reclusive shadow, haunted by a "chemical" addiction that is actually a spiritual rot. The tension snaps on an October night when Sir Danvers Carew (Charles Dance) is brutally beaten to death. Witnessed by a terrified Maid (Jenna Ortega), the murder launches a clinical manhunt led by Inspector Newcomen (Elijah Wood). As the evidence mounts, Jekyll’s world collapses. His rationalist peer, Dr. Lanyon (Oscar Isaac), is shocked into a literal death after witnessing Hyde drink an elixir and "melt" back into the features of Henry Jekyll. In the claustrophobic climax, Utterson and the loyal butler Poole (Graham McTavish) take an axe to the laboratory door. They find not a man, but a "half-thing" grotesque in Jekyll’s oversized clothes. Through recovered letters, the truth is revealed: Jekyll’s attempt to cage his "evil urges" only gave them a name and a body. As the serum's salt ran impure, the masks merged. "The Shadow of the Door" is a sensory assault on the duality of man - a film where the greatest horror isn't the monster in the alley, but the one staring back from the lawyer's own mirror.
