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Donald Pleasence

Donald Pleasence

English actor (1919-1995)
October 5, 1919 (February 2, 1995)
Runtime: 88 min.
U.S. 1993. Adventures by Jud Taylor with Sheryl Lee, Noah Wyle, Donald Pleasence. The pacifist role of King Arthur's wife in the unification of England in the early Middle Ages.
G.-B. 1992. Dramatic comedy by Udayan Prasad with Sophia Diaz, Donald Pleasence, Simon Callow. The charms of a young Sicilian woman who goes to live in an English village cause a series of disastrous incidents.
Runtime: 100 min.
U.S. 1991. Adventures by Peter Seabourne, Lindsay Anderson, Bernard Knowles with Richard Greene, Donald Pleasence, Bernadette O'Farrell. In the Middle Ages, an outlaw fights against a tyrant who has betrayed the king of England.
Runtime: 92 min.
U.S. 1991. Adventures by Peter Seabourne, Terry Bishop, Bernard Knowles with Richard Greene, Donald Pleasence, Patricia Driscoll. In the Middle Ages, an outlaw fights against a despot who dreams of seizing the throne of England.
Fr. 1991. War drama by Pierre Schoendoerffer with Donald Pleasence, Patrick Catalifo, Ludmila Mikaël. In 1954, the French army fights a final battle in the valley of Di
Runtime: 125 min.

American Tiger

V.O.: American Riscio
It. 1989. Crime drama by Sergio Martino with Mitch Gaylord, Daniel Greene, Donald Pleasence. In Miami, a young rickshaw driver is chased by criminals who are looking for a thousand-year-old statuette.
Runtime: 93 min.
U.S. 1989. Adventures by Steve Carver with Michael Dudikoff, Robert Vaughn, Donald Pleasence. An adventurer serves as a guide to a group of mercenaries hunting a Nazi doctor who has taken refuge deep in the Amazon.
Runtime: 107 min.
U.S. 1989. Crime drama by Alan Birkinshaw with Donald Pleasence, Frank Stallone, Sarah Maur Thorp. Ten people gathered on an African safari are killed one after the other by a mysterious assassin.
U.S. 1989. Horror by Dominique Othenin-Girard with Donald Pleasence, Danielle Harris, Wendy Kaplan. A maniac thought to have been eliminated a year earlier has recovered from his wounds and seeks out a niece who has already escaped his murderous hands.
Runtime: 96 min.
G.-B. 1989. Crime drama by Christopher Petit with Joan Hickson, Donald Pleasence, Adrian Lukis. An elderly lady on vacation in the Caribbean investigates a murder with the help of a millionaire.
Runtime: 104 min.

Vampires in Venice

V.O.: Nosferatu a Venezia
It. 1988. Horror by Augusto Caminito with Klaus Kinski, Christopher Plummer, Donald Pleasence. In 1786, Nosferatu, the vampire man, wreaks havoc during the Venice Carnival.
Runtime: 97 min.
U.S. 1988. Horror by Alan Birkinshaw with Oliver Reed, Donald Pleasence, Romy Windsor. A degenerate aristocrat wants to force his nephew's fianc
U.S. 1988. Horror by Dwight H. Little with Ellie Cornell, Danielle Harris, Donald Pleasence. A murderous psychopath wreaks havoc after escaping from the ambulance that was transporting him.
Runtime: 88 min.

Phantom of Death

V.O.: Un Delitto poco comune
It. 1988. Horror by Ruggero Deodato with Michael York, Donald Pleasence, Edwige Fenech. A famous pianist afflicted by a rare disease that makes him age prematurely turns into a cruel murderer and decides to attack his mistress.
Runtime: 88 min.
U.S. 1987. Fantasy by John Carpenter with Donald Pleasence, Victor Wong, Lisa Blount. A priest calls on a professor to fight Satan, who turns out to be an alien entity temporarily kept in a state of sleep.
Runtime: 101 min.

Spectre

V.O.: Spettri
It. 1987. Horror by Marcello Avallone with John Pepper, Katrine Michelsen, Donald Pleasence. In Rome, workers constructing a subway tunnel uncover a vault inhabited by a monster.
Runtime: 90 min.
Aust. 1987. Drama by Michael Pattinson, Bruce Myles with Colin Friels, Jack Thompson, Donald Pleasence. A videographer tries to find a movie shot by his father that would prove the government's involvement in a nuclear scandal.
Runtime: 99 min.
It. 1985. War drama by Larry Ludman with Oliver Tobias, Christopher Connelly, Manfred Lehmann. Ten years after the war, four former Marines return to Vietnam to rescue American soldiers who are still being held captive.
Runtime: 90 min.
U.S. 1985. Sentimental drama by Waris Hussein with Anthony Hopkins, Lesley-Anne Down, Donald Pleasence. In Paris, before the war, a political refugee falls in love with a young woman whom he tries to save from despair.
Runtime: 93 min.
G.-B. 1984. Burlesque by Henri Helman with Tony Curtis, Cassandra Domenica, Donald Pleasence. A debt-ridden lord tries to keep his property by trying to sell a machine that projects slogans into the sky.
It. 1984. Horror by Dario Argento with Jennifer Connelly, Donald Pleasence, Daria Nicolodi. Knowing how to communicate with insects, a student at a private college comes to discover the lair of a murderer who preys on teenage girls.
Runtime: 110 min.

Django Strikes Again

V.O.: Django 2: Il Grande Ritorno
It. 1984. Western by Nello Rossati with Franco Nero, Donald Pleasence, William Berger. A skilled sharpshooter with a violent fights a slave trader who has kidnapped his daughter.
Runtime: 88 min.
U.S. 1984. Montage by Andrew J. Kuehn with Donald Pleasence, Nancy Allen. Sitting among the audience in a movie theater, two commentators offer reflections on the plots of suspense or horror films.
Runtime: 82 min.
It. 1983. Science-fiction by David Worth with Robert Ginty, Persis Khambatta, Donald Pleasence. In a future world ravaged by nuclear war, a warrior comes to the aid of a scientist and his daughter in their struggle against an odious dictator.
Runtime: 92 min.
U.S. 1983. Horror by Ulli Lommel with Suzanna Love, Robert Walker, Donald Pleasence. Disturbing events occur in a village where three witches were burned three hundred years ago.
Runtime: 82 min.
U.S. 1982. Horror by Jack Sholder with Jack Palance, Donald Pleasence, Martin Landau. A psychiatrist's home is besieged by four maniacs who escaped from the asylum during a power failure.
Runtime: 92 min.
Runtime: 92 min.
U.S. 1981. Science-fiction by John Carpenter with Kurt Russell, Lee Van Cleef, Donald Pleasence.
Runtime: 96 min.
Runtime: 95 min.

The Pumaman

V.O.: L'Uomo puma

L'Invincible Surhomme

V.O.: L'Uomo puma
Runtime: 97 min.
U.S. 1979. Adventures by Mark L. Lester with Bo Svenson, Anita Ekberg, Donald Pleasence.
Runtime: 100 min.

Jig-saw

V.O.: L'Homme en colère
Fr. 1979. Crime drama by Claude Pinoteau with Lino Ventura, Angie Dickinson, Laurent Malet.
Runtime: 105 min.
Can. 1978. Social drama by Martyn Burke with Peter O'Toole, David Hemmings, Donald Pleasence. An officer agrees to collaborate in the planning of a coup d'
Runtime: 102 min.
U.S. 1978. Horror by John Carpenter with Jamie Lee Curtis, Donald Pleasence, Nancy Loomis. An unbalanced child who killed his sister on Halloween night escapes from his mental institution fifteen years later and returns to his hometown to claim more victims.
Runtime: 89 min.
U.S. 1978. Drama by David Lowell Rich with Alan Arkin, Richard Jordan, Donald Pleasence. A Soviet sailor causes a diplomatic incident by jumping aboard an American ship.
Runtime: 100 min.
U.S. 1977. Science-fiction by Robert Michael Lewis with Joseph Cortese, Susan George, David Huddleston. In the 1990s, a detective and a young woman enter a place reserved for the elite which actually serves as a screen for a secret laboratory producing clones.
Runtime: 100 min.
U.S. 1977. Adventures by Lee Madden with Donald Pleasence, Nancy Kwan, Ross Hagen. A writer living in Asia is obsessed by the presence of a leopard near his property.
Runtime: 83 min.
U.S. 1977. Spy drama by Don Siegel with Charles Bronson, Lee Remick, Donald Pleasence. A Russian official tries to apply a sabotage operation developed under the Stalinist regime in the United States.
Runtime: 103 min.
U.S. 1976. Psychological drama by Elia Kazan with Robert De Niro, Ingrid Boulting, Robert Mitchum. A film producer's life is turned upside down by his attachment to a young stranger who resembles his deceased wife.
Runtime: 122 min.
G.-B. 1976. Adventures by David Greene with Richard Chamberlain, Tony Curtis, Trevor Howard. Imprisoned following a plot, a man escapes and returns for revenge.
Runtime: 103 min.
G.-B. 1976. Crime drama by Kevin Connor with David Birney, John Mills, Donald Pleasence.
Runtime: 90 min.
Runtime: 108 min.
G.-B. 1974. Spy drama by Don Siegel with Michael Caine, Donald Pleasence, John Vernon. The young son of a secret service officer is kidnapped by members of a terrorist organization.
Runtime: 106 min.
G.-B. 1973. Horror by Jack Cardiff with Donald Pleasence, Tom Baker, Brad Harris. A biology professor is pursuing dubious scientific experiments through which he intends to confer certain qualities of plants on the human body.
Runtime: 92 min.
Runtime: 90 min.
Can. 1973. Comedy by Gerald Potterton with Donald Pleasence, Kate Reid, Don Calfa. In the Canadian Northwest, an old prospector, a young American, and a woman go in search of a gold mine.
Runtime: 90 min.
U.S. 1973. Crime drama by Leo Penn with Peter Falk, Donald Pleasence, Julie Harris. A police officer suspects a winegrower of killing his brother who was threatening to sell the family property.
G.-B. 1972. Spy drama by Peter Collinson with Stanley Baker, Geraldine Chaplin, Donald Pleasence. A secret agent is assigned to find a scientist who has escaped from a Soviet labour camp.
Runtime: 111 min.
Can. 1972. Mores drama by William Fruet with Carol Kane, Donald Pleasence, Doris Petrie. A teenage girl who was raped by her brother's classmate and became pregnant is forced to marry her father's fifty-year-old friend.
Runtime: 106 min.
Runtime: 125 min.
U.S. 1971. Adventures by John Flynn with Bruce Davison, Daria Halprin, Nicol Williamson. An American who has come to study in Jerusalem befriends an Arab who has become the leader of a terrorist group.
Runtime: 96 min.
G.-B. 1971. Tale by Jacques Demy with Donald Pleasence, Michael Hordern, John Hurt. After saving a town from a rat invasion, a pied piper who didn
Runtime: 90 min.
U.S. 1970. Science-fiction by George Lucas with Robert Duvall, Donald Pleasence, Maggie McOmie. In a dehumanized future world, a technician tries to escape from a clinic where he is being held prisoner.
Runtime: 88 min.
Aust. 1970. Psychological drama by Ted Kotcheff with Gary Bond, Donald Pleasence, Chips Rafferty. A teacher's rough Christmas vacation in the Australian outback.
Runtime: 110 min.
G.-B. 1967. Crime drama by Anatole Litvak with Omar Sharif, Peter O'Toole, Tom Courtenay. A German officer suspects a general of a prostitute's murder.
Runtime: 148 min.
G.-B. 1967. Spy drama by Lewis Gilbert with Sean Connery, Donald Pleasence, Tetsuro Tamba. Agent 007 tracks down criminals in Japan who, using a satellite, intercept the rockets of the United States and the U.S.S.R. in order to provoke a world war.
Runtime: 117 min.
U.S. 1967. Western by Tom Gries with Charlton Heston, Joan Hackett, Donald Pleasence. A middle-aged cowboy struggles with a family of lurkers.
Runtime: 109 min.
It. 1967. Comedy by Alberto Lattuada with Patrick O'Neal, Ira Furstenberg, Donald Pleasence. Owner of a jewel allowing him to become invisible, a journalist is hired as a secret agent.
Runtime: 104 min.
G.-B. 1966. Satire by Roman Polanski with Donald Pleasence, Françoise Dorléac, Lionel Stander. A failed writer and his young wife are the unwitting guests of some gangsters in an isolated castle.
Runtime: 110 min.
U.S. 1965. Western by John Sturges with Burt Lancaster, Lee Remick, Jim Hutton. In Colorado, various opposing groups are fighting over a whiskey shipment.
Runtime: 162 min.
U.S. 1965. Biblical drama by George Stevens with Max von Sydow, Dorothy McGuire, Charlton Heston. The main stages of Jesus' life, from the circumstances of his birth to his resurrection, through his preaching and his passion.
Runtime: 195 min.
U.S. 1963. War drama by John Sturges with James Garner, Richard Attenborough, Steve McQueen (I). During World War II, the escape of 76 prisoners from a German camp.
Runtime: 169 min.
G.-B. 1963. Psychological drama by Clive Donner with Donald Pleasence, Robert Shaw, Alan Bates. A wanderer accepts the hospitality of a strange young man.
Runtime: 105 min.
G.-B. 1962. Crime drama by Robert Lynn with Donald Pleasence, Coral Browne, Samantha Eggar.
Runtime: 98 min.
Runtime: 92 min.
G.-B. 1960. Crime drama by John Lemont with Terence Morgan, Hazel Court, Donald Pleasence.
Runtime: 91 min.
G.-B. 1960. Horror by John Gilling with Peter Cushing, Donald Pleasence, June Laverick. In the nineteenth century, a professor of medicine buys corpses from grave robbers who will stop at nothing to get rich.
Runtime: 87 min.

The Hands of Orlac

V.O.: Les Mains d'Orlac
Fr. 1960. Horror by Edmond T. Gréville with Mel Ferrer, Lucile Saint-Simon, Christopher Lee. Following an accident, a pianist imagines that he has been grafted with the hands of a killer.
Runtime: 87 min.
G.-B. 1959. Adventures by Richard Thorpe with Robert Taylor, Anne Aubrey, Anthony Newley. An engineer, in charge of building a railroad in Africa, has to face many obstacles.
Runtime: 90 min.
G.-B. 1957. Drama by Charles Crichton with Jack Hawkins, Elizabeth Sellars, Walter Fitzgerald. A pilot manages to rescue a damaged aircraft during its test flight.
Runtime: 87 min.

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