Donald Pleasence — Actor (70)
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The Flesh and the Fiends (1960) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
The Flesh and the Fiends
director: John Gilling actor: Peter Cushing / Donald Pleasence …
other title: Le jene di Edimburgo / Der Arzt und die Teufel …
Edinburgh surgeon Dr. Robert Knox requires cadavers for his research into the functioning of the human body; local ne'er-do-wells Burke and Hare find ways to provide him with fresh specimens...
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Will Penny (1967) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Will Penny
director: Tom Gries actor: Charlton Heston / Joan Hackett …
other title: Costretto ad uccidere / ...E o Bravo Ficou Só …
Will Penny, an aging cowpoke, takes a job on a ranch which requires him to ride the line of the property looking for trespassers or, worse, squatters. He finds that his cabin in the high mountains has been appropriated by a woman whose guide to Oregon has deserted her and her son. Too ashamed to kick mother and child out just as the bitter winter of the mountains sets in, he agrees to share the cabin until the spring thaw. But it isn't just the snow that slowly thaws; the lonely man and woman soon forget their mutual hostility and start developing a deep love for one another.
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Death Line (1972) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Death Line
director: Gary Sherman actor: Donald Pleasence / Norman Rossington …
other title: Non prendete quel metrò / Tunnel der lebenden Leichen …
When a government official disappears in the London tunnels, after several reports of missing people in the same location, Scotland Yard start to take the matter seriously, along with a couple who stumble into a victim by accident.
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House of the Damned (1974) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
La loba y la Paloma
director: Gonzalo Suárez actor: Carmen Sevilla / Donald Pleasence …
other title: La loba y la Paloma / The Wolf and the Dove …
A young woman just released from a mental institution returns home to her mansion and faces a new set of horrors.
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The Devil's Men (1976) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
The Devil's Men
director: Kostas Karagiannis actor: Donald Pleasence / Peter Cushing …
other title: La valle del minotauro / La Secte des morts-vivants …
A satanic cult led by Baron Corofax kidnaps three young people and Father Roche & Milo must save them from the hands of this evil.
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Nosferatu in Venice (1988) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Nosferatu a Venezia
director: Augusto Caminito actor: Klaus Kinski / Christopher Plummer …
other title: Nosferatu a Venezia / Nosferatu in Venedig …
Professor Paris Catalano visits Venice, to investigate the last known appearance of the famous vampire Nosferatu during the carnival of 1786.
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Lonely Water (1973) [Movie] TMDB WikiData IMDb
Lonely Water
director: Jeff Grant actor: Donald Pleasence / Terry Sue-Patt
Warning children not to play near 'dark and lonely' water, a horror film style look and voice-over is used in this film to highlight the dangers.
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Hell Is a City (1960) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Hell Is a City
director: Val Guest actor: Stanley Baker / John Crawford …
other title: L'assassino è alla porta / Hetzjagd …
Set in Manchester, heartland of England's industrial north, Don Starling escapes from jail becoming England's most wanted man. Ruthless villain Starling together with his cronies engineered a robbery that resulted in the violent death of a young girl. Detective Inspector Martineau has been assigned to hunt him down and bring him in. From seedy barrooms, through gambling dens the trail leads to an explosive climax high on the rooftops of the city.
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Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (1978) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
director: Michael Schultz actor: Peter Frampton / Barry Gibb …
A small town band makes it big, but loses track of their roots, as they get caught up into the big-time machinations of the music biz. Now, they must thwart a plot to destroy their home town. Built around the music of The Beatles, this musical uses some big name groups like Peter Frampton and Aerosmith.
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The Pied Piper (1972) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
The Pied Piper
director: Jacques Demy actor: Donovan / Diana Dors …
other title: Il pifferaio di Hamelin / O Tocador de Flauta …
Greed, corruption, ignorance, and disease. Midsummer, 1349: the Black Death reaches northern Germany. Minstrels go to Hamelin for the Mayor's daughter's wedding to the Baron's son. He wants her dowry to pay his army while his father taxes the people to build a cathedral he thinks will save his soul. A local apothecary who's a Jew seeks a treatment for the plague; the priests charge him with witchcraft. One of the minstrels, who has soothed the Mayor's daughter with his music, promises to rid the town of rats for the fee. The Mayor agrees, then renigs. In the morning, the plague, the Jew's trial, and the Piper's revenge come at once.
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River of Death (1989) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
River of Death
director: Steve Carver actor: Michael Dudikoff / Robert Vaughn …
other title: Il fiume della morte / Dødens flod …
An adventurer (Hamilton) decides to go in search of the Lost City in the Amazon jungle. A motley crew of other people decide to join him for the wealth of the city, for reasons of their own. But to their horror they find out that they have bitten off more than they can chew, what with a Nazi doctor still using the place for his human experiments.
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The Devonsville Terror (1983) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
The Devonsville Terror
director: Ulli Lommel actor: Suzanna Love / Robert Walker Jr. …
other title: Totentanz der Hexen / Terror en Devonsville …
Dr. Worley investigates a 300-year-old witch's curse in the New England town of Devonsville. Three liberated, assertive women move into town, which angers the bigoted, male-dominated town fathers. One of the women is a reincarnation of the witch, who proceeds to exact revenge on them.
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1984 (1956) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB Douban NeoDB
1984
director: Michael Anderson actor: Edmond O'Brien / Jan Sterling …
other title: Nel 2000 non sorge il sole
In a totalitarian future society, a man whose daily work is rewriting history tries to rebel by falling in love.
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Telefon (1977) [Movie] TMDB WikiData IMDb
Telefon
director: Don Siegel actor: Charles Bronson / Lee Remick …
other title: Telefonen / Un espion de trop …
Nicolai Dalchimski, a mad KGB agent steals a notebook full of names of "sleeping" undercover KGB agents sent to the U.S. in the 1950's. These agents got their assignments under hypnosis, so they can't remember their missions until they're told a line of a Robert Frost poem. Dalchimski flees to the U.S. and starts phoning these agents who perform sabotage acts against military targets.
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Specters (1987) [Movie]
Spettri
director: Marcello Avallone actor: John R. Pepper / Trine Michelsen …
other title: Spettri / Specters - Mächte des Bösen …
A mysterious tomb is unearthed in the catacombs under Rome, the contents of which contain evidence of an ageless evil that may once have preyed on man.