Donald pleasence net worth
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Today mostly remembered for his roles as James Bond-villain Blofeld in You Only Live Twice (1967, Lewis Gilbert) and as Doctor Sam Loomis in the Halloween-series, Donald Pleasence was actually nothing short of a great actor, and on stage he played in many an acknowledged classic with many of the greatest actors of his time, in particular Laurence Olivier, who was his acting idol. Yet on film and television he was most often reduced doing character roles in formulaic genre movies that did no justice to his talent (with of course a few notable exceptions). Still, his filmography spans more than 200 credits on both the big and the small screen, and Pleansence would always turn in an impressive performance in one way or another (even though he would on occasion just ham it up), and at times he would even save a movie by his sheer presence.
Early Life, Early Career
Donald Pleasence was born the younger of two brothers in 1919 in Worksop, Nottinghamshire, England, but his family later moved to the industrial town of Scunthorpe, North Lincolnshir
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Donald Pleasence was born to Thomas Stanley and Alice (Armitage) Pleasence on October 5, 1919 in Worksop, Nottinghamshire, England. The younger of two sons of a railway stationmaster, Pleasence quit school a year before graduation to pursue his childhood dream of becoming an actor. He soon found himself accepted into the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, but was unable to attend, because he failed to win a scholarship that would cover both tuition and living expenses. After spending a year and a half as a railway station manager at Swinton in Yorkshire, Pleasence was able to worm his way into the position of assistant stage manager at the Playhouse on Jersey, one of the Channel Islands.
He made his stage debut as Hareton Earnshaw in Wuthering Heights at the Playhouse in May of 1939. Pleasence found success almost immediately and worked steadily throughout the next few years -- a period which saw his first London stage appearance, Curio in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night at the Arts Theatre Club in June 1942. Wh
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Donald Pleasence
Donald Henry Pleasence[1]OBE (October 5, 1919 – February 2, 1995) was an English actor. Pleasence was born in Worksop, Nottinghamshire, England.[2] He was raised in Lincolnshire, England.[3] During his career, Pleasence was nominated for four Tony Awards.[4] He won a BAFTA TV Award for Best Actor in 1959. [4][5] In his whole career, Pleasence appeared in over 200 movies.[6]
He made his first movie The Dybbuk in 1952.[6] It was a television movie. He acted in several movies, such as You Only Live Twice, where he played James Bond villain Ernst Stavro Blofeld, and The Great Escape.[4] Pleasence is known for his role as Dr. Samuel Loomis in John Carpenter's Halloween.[4] Since then, he appeared in five out of the six movies of the Halloween movie series.[6] Pleasence did not appear in Halloween III: Season of the Witch because it was a different story from the last two movies.[4]
Pleasence died at the age of 75 in Saint-Paul
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