Donald Pleasence

Donald Henry Pleasence was an English actor. He began his career on stage in the West End before having a screen career, which included starring in a 1954 BBC adaptation of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, before playing numerous supporting and character roles in films 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).

5 October 1919

Born on the same birth day (5 October): Angelo Buono Jr. • Fredrik Olausson • J. J. Yeley • Michèle Pierre-Louis • Peadar Toner Mac Fhionnlaoich • Tim Ream • Václav Havel

Born in the same month (October 1919): Ashraf Pahlavi • Beate Uhse-Rotermund • Bob Boyd (baseball) • Doris Miller • Douglas Albert Munro • Frank Bourgholtzer • Gilles Beaudoin • Henriette Avram • Jack McGrath (racing driver) • Jim Wallwork • John W. Duarte • Kathleen Winsor • Kiichi Miyazawa • Kim Ki-young • Pierre Trudeau • Raoul Rémy • Zhao Ziyang