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	Donald Pleasance
		Donald Pleasance was born on October 5, 1919 in Worksop, Nottinghamshire, England, UK as he started acting on stage in 1939 and became one of the busiest actors in the entertainment field ever since.
		Pleasance co-starred as a demented assistant named William Hare to a surgeon played by Peter Cushing requiring cadavers for his research into the functioning of the human body and Pleasance's character is his assistant who find ways to provide him with fresh specimens.
		Donald Pleasance died on February 2, 1995 in Saint-Paul-de-Vence, Alpes-Maritimes, France due to a complications from heart valve replacement surgery from his illness.
	racksandrazors.com /donald.html (1097 words)

	Donald Pleasence - MovieActors.com
		Donald Pleasence was born on October 5th, 1919 in the town of Worksop, Nottinghamshire, England, UK, the son of a stationmaster.
		While Donald spent the rest of the war in a German POW Camp, he formed an acting group with the other POW's, and put on plays to help pass the time and unpleasantness of being in captivity in the Nazi's hands.
		Donald Pleasence was a talented, memorable character actor who excelled in a variety of genres, specializing in strange roles, such as Flight Lt. Colin 'The Forger' Blythe in THE GREAT ESCAPE, or menacing characters, portraying various types of villains, characters the audience loved to hate.
	www.movieactors.com /actors/donaldpleasence.htm (271 words)

	Donald Pleasence
		Donald Pleasence was born in 1919 in Workshop, Northhamshire, England.
		He enlisted in th Royal Air Force during World War II but was shot down and spent a year in a German POW camp.
		When Donald Pleasence was discovered by the young budding director, John Carpenter, an instant friendship was formed, which led to films such as "Halloween", "Escape from New York", and "Prince of Darkness".
	members.tripod.com /~Trek_Tiga/donaldpleasence.html (398 words)

	"Alcoa Presents: One Step Beyond" The Confession (1961) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Pleasance is alone in his chambers when a woman comes in at the end of the day.
		It is deserted except for the voices of the past - the ghost of the judge, the jury, the defendant and his counsel, and Pleasance as prosecutor.
		But Pleasance was very good, first with Corri testing her out as a potential phony, and then realizing she has blown his case and reputation sky high.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0507811 (992 words)

	Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers
		Pleasance was never a "star", but he was one of those really gifted character actors who you could always depend on to liven up a schlocky film production with his mere presence.
		Pleasance clearly understands that he’s not making high art here, and that a campy performance will be just as good as a restrained one, so he goes all out.
		Pleasance liked living the good life (he was living in Europe at the time of his death), so he kept taking these and other exploitation film roles in order to make money.
	members.fortunecity.com /culturedose/review_10002122.html (2030 words)

	John Carpenter: Bios: Donald Pleasence
		British character actor DONALD PLEASENCE is a master of the villainous or offbeat roles and is known for giving the most demanding parts the attention and verve needed to make them memorable and to establish himself as one of the most sought after performers on both sides of the Atlantic.
		Donald Pleasence is also an important contributor to American and British television.
		Donald Pleasence is married to young Israeli folksinger, Miera Shore.
	www.theofficialjohncarpenter.com /pages/bios/dpleas.html (375 words)

	Amazon.ca: The Outer Limits: Video: Paul Stanley,Charles F. Haas,Vic Perrin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Donald Pleasance is top-notch as the mild-mannered little nobody who inadvertently creates a monstrously destructive force, while trying to help the space program develop telekinetic motive force.
		Donald Pleasance's low-key approach works well with a character, dubbed by his nagging wife as a "simple little nobody", who wants to become someone greater than the mundane person he really is.
		Harold Finley (Donald Pleasence) may be timid but he's still a jerk!In the opening scene,he subconsiously kills two road workers because he refuses to wait for them to get out of his way.
	www.amazon.ca /Outer-Limits-Paul-Stanley/dp/6301971396 (1272 words)

	Crow T. Robot's Movie Review
		Enter Donald Pleasance, who is apparently pretty hard kill as it is hastily explained that Dr. Loomis (Pleasance) survived the fiery explosion at the end of H2 with just a few burns and a limp (burns cause limps?).
		My guess is that Pleasance who looks none too good throughout this film must have died before he could finish the final scene, so the producer's just did the best they could with what they had...which wasn't much.
		With the voice of Donald Pleasance speaking from beyond the grave we learn that Laurie Strode did apparently die in an auto accident but this seems to be the only plotline saved from the string of films that followed H2.
	members.tripod.com /DrClayForrester/DBNS/Oct25/crow2.htm (3133 words)

	james bond multimedia \| Donald Pleasance (Ernst Stavro Blofeld) images
		Ernst Stavro Blofeld played by Donald Pleasance is the main villain of You Only Live Twice.
		After killing Mr Osato by demonstrating the price of failure, he is thwarted in his assassination of Bond by a Chinese throwing star from Tiger Tanaka.
		With a baldhead, large scar running down the side of this face and played subtly but with menace, Donald Pleasance is a truly classic James Bond villain.
	www.jamesbondmm.co.uk /bond-villains/donald-pleasance.php (305 words)

	the agony booth : THE PUMAMAN Review
		The same Donald Pleasence who played Blofield in You Only Live Twice, thus setting the stage for a career of playing evil maniacs with calm dispositions.
		Pleasance, undaunted, goes on to establish how evil he is by saying that he likes "to strike first." If you ask me, he should have gone on strike instead of taking this role.
		Pleasance walks over to a spot where, for "dramatic" effect, the light only hits him across the eyes.
	www.agonybooth.com /pumaman (2294 words)

	Review: Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers
		The stabilizing influence here is Donald Pleasance, who leant his considerable screen presence to five of the first six Halloween movies (the exception being installment #3), making his name synonymous with the series.
		One can debate whether Pleasance was slumming by appearing in the films, but the sequels provided him with a steady diet of work and, by the end (he died shortly after completing work on Halloween 6), he admitted feeling a sense of commitment towards the fans.
		Regardless of Pleasance's reasons for appearing in the Halloween sequels, the character of Dr. Sam Loomis, even as beaten and broken as he is in the later installments, represents a rock of solidity.
	www.reelviews.net /movies/h/halloween4.html (1397 words)

	Donald PLEASANCE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Donald Pleasence started acting on the London stage in 1939.
		He served in the RAF, was shot down and held in a POW camp.
		His balding, bland face and memorable voice made him the most popular actor on British TV He specialised in strange or menacing characters from Ernst Blofeld in You Only Live Twice (1967) to Dr. Loomis in the Halloween series.
	www.marine-family.org /hollywood/pleasance.htm (63 words)

	Amazon.ca: Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers (Widescreen): DVD: Dwight H. Little,Robert Conder,Ellie ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Donald Pleasance returns as Dr. Loomis, scarred and crippled from his last encounter with Myers and seething with a fanatical zeal to stop the freak from repeating his previous rampage.
		Pleasance is the best thing about the film as an aging hero seemingly on the verge of madness who drags a bum leg in his manic rush to save little orphan Jamie (Danielle Harris), the 10-year-old waif terrorized by her homicidal uncle.
		Donald Pleasance returns as the ever-so-cautious Dr. Loomis who makes it his mission to stop the otherworldly abomination known as Michael Myers.
	www.amazon.ca /Halloween-Return-Michael-Myers-Widescreen/dp/B00005OKQF (2314 words)

	Arrow In The Head's movie review of Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Meyers: Donald Pleasence/Dr. Sam Loomis, ...
		Donald Pleasence (Loomis) seems very unhappy to be there, his performance feels like a throwaway one, but I don't blame himat least he knew he was in a piece of crap.
		Danielle Harris (Jamie) is solid in this one, yes the fact that she doesn’t speak for half the film is testing but she does it good and manages to really pull off 2 very emotional scenes.
		Donald Pleasence quote about Halloween 5: "I do think the story is a bit stupid, and there’s a lot more blood.
	www.joblo.com /arrow/reviews.php?id=405 (892 words)

	Amazon.com: Terror in the Aisles / Movie: Video: Donald Pleasence,Nancy Allen,Fred Asparagus,Lainie Cooke,Joel S. ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Plot Synopsis: Donald Pleasance and Nancy Allen share narration duties on this anthology that looks at all of the gory sequences from major films, such as the shower scene from "Psycho" and the midnight swim from "Jaws".
		Donald Pleasance and Nancy Allen take us through some of the most memorable scenes of horror films (from BandW's up until 1983), while explaining the subtle geniuses behind them.
		Pleasance are enough to begin the tour-de-force gallery of some of the most exalted pieces of 20th Century cinematic horror in "Terror In The Aisles".
	www.amazon.com /Terror-Aisles-Movie-Donald-Pleasence/dp/6300183726 (1130 words)

	DONALD PLEASENCE'S BIOGRAPHY
		Donald Pleasence was born to Thomas Stanley and Alice (Armitage) Pleasence on October 5, 1919 in Worksop, Nottinghamshire, England.
		For the remainder of his career, Donald Pleasence spent the majority of his career in motion pictures and on television.
		While continuing to star in such Hollywood A-budget pictures as The Black Windmill (1974), Hearts of the West (1975), and The Last Tycoon (1976), the seventies marked the period in which the name Donald Pleasence would be greatly associated with the realm of horror.
	www.geocities.com /pleasence/BIO-DP.HTML (1736 words)

	Donald Pleasance Height - Pleasance's
		Donald Pleasance's height is 5 ft 6 in (168 cm)
		I caught a few scenes...there is not much between them...actually, falk's posture always is a bit dodgy on that show, so it's hard to say...when they're standing at the door after the first longish meeting pleasance looks taller but then dodgy posture of falk means I don't rule 5ft 6 out...
		Images are © to their respective owners and are used in researching and to illustrate and comment upon perceived differences in celebrity heights.
	www.celebheights.com /s/Donald-Pleasance-3069.html (582 words)

	Halloween
		Donald Pleasance, Jamie Lee Curtis, P.J. Soles, Nancy Loomis, Nick Castle.
		Donald Pleasance is properly grave, panicked, and resolute.
		He lends a certain amount of credibility to the movie that most other slasher films lack (in large part because slasher movies have, in the main, a cast of teen-agers, or, rather, mid-twentysomething actors playing teenagers).
	www.tranquility.net /~benedict/Halloween.html (1644 words)

	AstroneF Magazine - Dossier Horror Kings - Donald Pleasance
		Donald Pleasance a marqué ma jeunesse pour une seule scène, alors que je n’avais aucune idée qui il était.
		Donald Pleasance a vu le jour le 5 octobre 1919 à; Worksop, Nottinghamshire, Angleterre, le plus jeune de deux fils d’un travailleur de chemin de fer.
		Le 2 février 1995, Donald Pleasance s’éteint à son domicile de St-Paul de Vence, en France, suite à une opération cardiaque.
	afm.infinit.net /dossiers/kings/pleasance.htm (1539 words)

	The Great Escape
		Gathered together in one supposedly inescapable POW camp are the escape artist creme de la creme of Allied POWs, who promptly plot the biggest mass escape of prisoners of the war.
		The name of the film says it all, and this is the gripping story of how they built a tunnel that resulted in the escape of 76 POWs into the night, and the eventual capture and execution of the bulk of them.
		Donald Pleasance, most unusually playing an Allied soldier this time, is superb as the terribly British forgery expert, Charles Bronson suitably rugged as the Polish tunnel king.
	www.michaeldvd.com.au /Reviews/GreatEscape.asp (1294 words)

	Barnes & Noble.com - DVD, Movie, Video: Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers, Donald Pleasence, DVD, ...
		Living with members of the Strode family, Tommy comes to suspect that one of them, little Danny Strode (Devin Gardner), is cursed with the same malevolent power that drove Michael to murder several members of his family.
		When Michael arrives in Haddonfield to find and destroy Jamie's baby, Tommy joins forces with Dr. Sam Loomis (Donald Pleasence), Michael's ex-psychiatrist and a life-long crusader against his sinister former patient, to find the connection between Michael and the Man in Black and end the curse once and for all.
		of course, donald pleasance (may he rest in peace) gives a solid performance as loomis, and paul rudd (tommy doyle) also gave a good performance.
	video.barnesandnoble.com /search/product.asp?ean=717951010636&pwb=1 (892 words)

	Halloween H20 Movie Mistake : Spelling
		In the end of "Halloween H20", there is a message that says the film is dedicated to Donald Pleasence (Dr. Loomis, who died of cancer right after fimlming for "Halloween 6" was finished).
		They spell his name "Pleasance" instead of the correct spelling, which is "Pleasence".
		Donald Pleasence's dedication was on the credits of "Halloween 6: The Curse Of Michael Myers".
	www.slipups.com /items/659.html (209 words)

	Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers (1988)
		It's good to see Donald Pleasance back in this one, although the lesser said about how his character managed to survive the explosion at the end of Halloween II, the better.
		Pleasance is one of the series' strong points - it's just a shame he had to star in such trash as Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers.
		As always there is a lot of human fodder for Myers to dispatch in various ways and most of these characters are only minor characters anyway so they're not given a great amount of dialogue before their eventual termination from the script.
	www.popcornpictures.co.uk /hfilms/halloween4.shtml (413 words)

	10,000 Bullets » Blood Relatives
		Set in Canada and boasting the wonderful Donald Sutherland as the understanding sleuth who looks through the underbelly of society before finding his truth in a dysfunctional respectable family, Blood Relatives is one of a number of films that Chabrol has made with incest as a theme.
		Here Pleasance pops up as a lying pervert having to incriminate his 12 year old lover to have an alibi for the murder.
		Pleasance’s young lover is disturbingly pre-possessed and the of adult age children are clearly unable to manage their affairs.
	10kbullets.com /reviews/blood-relatives (807 words)

	eBay - donald pleasance, VHS, DVD, HD DVD Blu-ray items on eBay.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
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		Donald Pleasance Man in the Glass Booth Playbill 1968
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	the agony booth : THE PUMAMAN Review
		Soon, Donald Pleasance himself walks in, and lucky us, this time he's wearing a metallic honeycomb-pattern Nehru jacket.
		He finally comes upon a cellar window—an indoor cellar window—and eavesdrops on Donald Pleasance and his goons meeting with Daddy Dobson and the Three Sirs.
		They discuss an "agreement" that would put the entire country under the control of Donald Pleasance, and here we finally learn his character's name is "Kobras".
	www.agonybooth.com /pumaman/?Page=4 (2037 words)

	Horror (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		He escapes, steals a mask, kills a trucker and takes his clothes and proceeds to stalk poor Laurie Strode and her friends before finally going on a killing spree that night.
		Donald Pleasance does his thing as only he can.
		Dick Warlock does a good job, though is left in the dust of Nick Castle's performance as The Shape.
	maxpages.com /campmassacre/Halloween_I_and_II - !http://maxpages.com/campmassacre/Halloween_I_and_II (563 words)

	Cul-De-Sac - Roman Polanski, Francoise Dorleac, Donald Pleasence, Lionel Stand - 1966
		Cul-De-Sac - Roman Polanski, Francoise Dorleac, Donald Pleasence, Lionel Stand - 1966
		Immediately after the box—office success of his macabre masterpiece Repulsion, Roman Polanski returned to a theme he had explored in his early classic Knife in the Water — the destruction of a fragile relationship by a maligned outsider.
		Donald Pleasence and Francoise Dorleac play a mismatched couple — he effeminate and petulant, she sensual and enigmatic — who share a bizarre sexual relationship, living in a remote castle.
	www.learmedia.ca /product_info.php/products_id/920 (1503 words)

	Arrow In The Head's movie review of Phenomena: Jennifer Connelly/Jennifer, Donald Pleasance/John, Daria Nikolodi/Mrs ...
		On top of most of her classmates acting like bitches, there’s also a serial killer roaming about and he loves beheading schoolgirls (everybody has to have a hobby).
		With the help of a wheelchair-bound entomologist (Pleasance) and her insect friends (forgot to mention, she has a psychic link with bugs), Jennifer goes on the hunt for the loony tune.
		Donald Pleasance (John) always brings a touch of class to the movies in which he acts and he does it again here.
	joblo.com /arrow/reviews.php?id=582 (1217 words)

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