FrameThrower · Actors · Charles Dance
Charles Dance
11 films · 830 frames · top-billed in 3 · 1992–2025
Born 10 October 1946 · Redditch, Worcestershire, England, UK
Walter Charles Dance OBE is an English actor. He is known for playing intimidating, authoritarian characters and villains. Dance 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 OBE by Queen Elizabeth II in 2006.
He made his feature film debut in the James Bond film For Your Eyes Only (1981). He has since appeared in a string of critically acclaimed period films, including Michael Collins (1996), Gosford Park (2001), The Imitation Game (2014), Mank (2020), and The King's Man (2021).…
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 11 films · 830 frames · top-billed in 3 · 1992–2025
- Officer of the Order of the British Empire
- Time Machine Award2013
How their films are shot
Measured across 830 frames from the 11 films we hold. This is the look of the work Charles takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 11 films we hold, 49% of their frames are night, 42% low key — the look of the work Charles takes.
Time of day
Lighting
Shot size
Camera angle
Mood
Films in the library
Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.
Creditors
2025 · Gustaf
Swimming Pool
2003 · John Bosload
Alien 3
1992 · Clemens
The First Omen
2024 · Father Harris
Godzilla: King of the Monsters
2019 · Alan Jonah
Happy New Year, Colin Burstead
2018 · Uncle Bertie
Me Before You
2016 · Stephen Traynor
Ghostbusters
2016 · Harold Fillmore
Game of Thrones
2015 · Tywin Lannister
The Imitation Game
2014 · Commander Denniston
Frankenstein
· Leopold Frankenstein
Often with
Shared films in this library, not a full filmography.
A reference database for filmmakers
FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 830 frames from Charles Dance's 11 films, and 5,000+ films besides, indexed frame by frame and readable by AI. Search it in plain language, from a reference image, or by colour; call it from an API, an MCP server or an SDK. It's the reference layer for making the next movie.