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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, Nottingh