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Donald Pleasence

Donald Pleasence (October 5, 1919 - February 2, 1995) was a British actor. He was born in Worksop, England. His acting career began in a 1939 production of Wuthering Heights, but was soon interrupted by his service in the Royal Air Force and a year in a German prisoner-of-war camp. He returned to acting after the war, and critics began to call him the "Man with the Hypnotic Eye". Perhaps because of this, and his bald head and quiet-but-intense voice, he specialised in insane and evil characters.

His many movie roles included

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