1919 - 1995
Donald Henry Pleasence (; 5 October 1919 – 2 February 1995) was an English actor. He began his career on stage in the West End before transitioning into a screen career, where he played numerous supporting and character roles including RAF Flight Lieutenant Colin Blythe in The Great Escape (1963), the villain Ernst Stavro Blofeld in the James Bond film You Only Live Twice (1967), SEN 5241 in THX 1138 (1971), and the deranged Clarence "Doc" Tydon in Wake in Fright (1971). Pleasence starred as psychiatrist Dr Samuel Loomis in Halloween (1978) and four of its sequels, a role for which he was nominated for a Saturn Award for Best Actor. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Donald Pleasence has received more than 3,227,443 page views. His biography is available in 71 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 68 in 2019). Donald Pleasence is the 318th most popular actor (down from 264th in 2019), the 464th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 395th in 2019) and the 48th most popular British Actor.
Donald Pleasence is most famous for his role as Dr. Loomis in the 1978 horror film Halloween.
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Among actors, Donald Pleasence ranks 318 out of 10,030. Before him are Telly Savalas, Douglas Fairbanks, Ellen Burstyn, Deborah Kerr, Anna Karina, and Laura Antonelli. After him are William Shatner, Mickey Rooney, F. Murray Abraham, Alan Arkin, Sam Neill, and Frances Farmer.
1922 - 1994
HPI: 73.56
Rank: 312
1883 - 1939
HPI: 73.54
Rank: 313
1932 - Present
HPI: 73.46
Rank: 314
1921 - 2007
HPI: 73.40
Rank: 315
1940 - 2019
HPI: 73.40
Rank: 316
1941 - 2015
HPI: 73.32
Rank: 317
1919 - 1995
HPI: 73.29
Rank: 318
1931 - Present
HPI: 73.28
Rank: 319
1920 - 2014
HPI: 73.28
Rank: 320
1939 - Present
HPI: 73.28
Rank: 321
1934 - Present
HPI: 73.25
Rank: 322
1947 - Present
HPI: 73.24
Rank: 323
1913 - 1970
HPI: 73.24
Rank: 324
Among people born in 1919, Donald Pleasence ranks 15. Before him are Nat King Cole, Zhao Ziyang, Giulio Andreotti, Margot Fonteyn, Georgios Papadopoulos, and Kim Jong-suk. After him are Fausto Coppi, Boris Shcherbina, Hans-Joachim Marseille, Choi Kyu-hah, Gerhard Barkhorn, and Leon Festinger. Among people deceased in 1995, Donald Pleasence ranks 18. Before him are Dean Martin, Eugene Wigner, Alec Douglas-Home, Adolf Butenandt, Edward Bernays, and Louis Malle. After him are Patricia Highsmith, Hannes Alfvén, Jonas Salk, Teresa Teng, Ginger Rogers, and Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar.
1919 - 1965
HPI: 74.55
Rank: 9
1919 - 2005
HPI: 74.50
Rank: 10
1919 - 2013
HPI: 74.39
Rank: 11
1919 - 1991
HPI: 73.85
Rank: 12
1919 - 1999
HPI: 73.57
Rank: 13
1919 - 1949
HPI: 73.41
Rank: 14
1919 - 1995
HPI: 73.29
Rank: 15
1919 - 1960
HPI: 73.19
Rank: 16
1919 - 1990
HPI: 73.13
Rank: 17
1919 - 1942
HPI: 73.12
Rank: 18
1919 - 2006
HPI: 72.75
Rank: 19
1919 - 1983
HPI: 72.74
Rank: 20
1919 - 1989
HPI: 72.40
Rank: 21
1917 - 1995
HPI: 75.12
Rank: 12
1902 - 1995
HPI: 74.92
Rank: 13
1903 - 1995
HPI: 74.65
Rank: 14
1903 - 1995
HPI: 73.91
Rank: 15
1891 - 1995
HPI: 73.50
Rank: 16
1932 - 1995
HPI: 73.35
Rank: 17
1919 - 1995
HPI: 73.29
Rank: 18
1921 - 1995
HPI: 73.15
Rank: 19
1908 - 1995
HPI: 72.90
Rank: 20
1914 - 1995
HPI: 72.81
Rank: 21
1953 - 1995
HPI: 72.58
Rank: 22
1911 - 1995
HPI: 72.46
Rank: 23
1910 - 1995
HPI: 72.45
Rank: 24
Among people born in United Kingdom, Donald Pleasence ranks 464 out of 6,924. Before him are Thomas Bayes (1702), Mike Oldfield (1953), John le Carré (1931), Graham Hill (1929), John Smith (1580), and Morrissey (1959). After him are John Hicks (1904), Christian de Duve (1917), Sam Neill (1947), William Ewart Gladstone (1809), Richard Arkwright (1732), and Thomas Cromwell (1485).
1702 - 1761
HPI: 73.36
Rank: 458
1953 - Present
HPI: 73.35
Rank: 459
1931 - 2020
HPI: 73.35
Rank: 460
1929 - 1975
HPI: 73.33
Rank: 461
1580 - 1631
HPI: 73.30
Rank: 462
1959 - Present
HPI: 73.30
Rank: 463
1919 - 1995
HPI: 73.29
Rank: 464
1904 - 1989
HPI: 73.29
Rank: 465
1917 - 2013
HPI: 73.26
Rank: 466
1947 - Present
HPI: 73.24
Rank: 467
1809 - 1898
HPI: 73.24
Rank: 468
1732 - 1792
HPI: 73.18
Rank: 469
1485 - 1540
HPI: 73.18
Rank: 470
Among actors born in United Kingdom, Donald Pleasence ranks 48. Before him are Hugh Grant (1960), Albert Finney (1936), Ralph Fiennes (1962), Colin Firth (1960), Olivia Newton-John (1948), and Deborah Kerr (1921). After him are Sam Neill (1947), Emma Thompson (1959), Wentworth Miller (1972), John Cleese (1939), Daniel Craig (1968), and Kate Winslet (1975).
1960 - Present
HPI: 73.90
Rank: 42
1936 - 2019
HPI: 73.89
Rank: 43
1962 - Present
HPI: 73.87
Rank: 44
1960 - Present
HPI: 73.75
Rank: 45
1948 - Present
HPI: 73.66
Rank: 46
1921 - 2007
HPI: 73.40
Rank: 47
1919 - 1995
HPI: 73.29
Rank: 48
1947 - Present
HPI: 73.24
Rank: 49
1959 - Present
HPI: 73.15
Rank: 50
1972 - Present
HPI: 73.15
Rank: 51
1939 - Present
HPI: 73.15
Rank: 52
1968 - Present
HPI: 72.69
Rank: 53
1975 - Present
HPI: 72.54
Rank: 54