Walter Charles Dance, OBE, is an English actor. He played Tywin Lannister in HBO’s Game of Thrones. He also played Guy Perron in The Jewel in the Crown. Most recently, he portrayed Lord Mountbatten in the third and fourth seasons of The Crown.
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Walter Charles Dance, OBE, is an English actor. He played Tywin Lannister in HBO’s Game of Thrones. He also played Guy Perron in The Jewel in the Crown. Most recently, he portrayed Lord Mountbatten in the third and fourth seasons of The Crown. Dance was wooed for the role by the producers while filming for Belfast’s Your Highness. He is of partial Belgian ancestry, descended from a family whose roots lay in Spa. His immigrant ancestor Charles François Futvoye had been a pioneer in the art of Japanning during the early half of the 19th century. He turned down the opportunity to screen test for the James Bond role, in 1989 he played Bond creator Ian Fleming in Anglia Television’s dramatised biography directed by Don Boyd, Goldeneye.
He made his screen debut in 1974, in the ITV series Father Brown as Commandant Neil O’Brien in \”The Secret Garden\”. He has also starred in many other British television dramas such as Edward the Seventh, Murder Rooms, Randall and Hopkirk, Rebecca, The Phantom of the Opera, Fingersmith and Bleak House. Dance made a guest appearance on the BBC drama series Merlin as the Witchfinderian, as a vainglorious version of himself.
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