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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 Tales of the Bat-Family Special Presentation: Sword of Azrael
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Things are going normal for Batman, after Tim has returned to his role as Robin when he discovers a burning bat symbol on the bridge to Gotham. Investigating this Bruce finds a man in medieval-esque armor and a flaming sword who calls himself Azrael. He tells him of a prophecy that soon Gotham will fall into ruin and the Batman will die and that he was meant to replace Batman as protector of Gotham. After this encounter Bruce begins to dig up everything he can find about this mysterious figure. He discovers that his name is Jean-Paul Valley and that he had been watching Batman for years, even meeting Dick Grayson in college. He finds out that Valley was raised as a member of the Order of Saint Dumas, and he tries to find everything he can about them Bruce then goes on a quest to get to the bottom of the order going all the way to Switzerland to find their place of origin and he battles with another armor-clad individual. Bruce eventually finds out that the order conditioned Jean-Paul to be a perfect warrior meant to cleanse the world of all sinners and protect the children of the lord. When Bruce gets back to Gotham Azrael signals for the bat again, now warning him to stop his search for information and the order is meant to remain secret from him. They have a battle but before Bruce can tell Jean-Paul the truth about what he had uncovered he has disappeared.
