It's a question of keeping one's eyes and ears open and watching how other people play the game. They're watching me too, to see what my attitude is like.

Career


RSC
Dance was a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company during the mid- to late-1970s and was in many of their productions in London and Stratford-upon-Avon. Dance made one of his earliest big screen appearances in the 1981 James Bond film For Your Eyes Only as evil henchman Claus and in 1989 he played Bond creator Ian Fleming in Anglia Television's dramatised biography Goldeneye (the name of Fleming's estate in Jamaica and a title later used for a James Bond film). In 2008 filmed a role in Trinity for ITV2.

Jonathan Clemens the doctor who becomes Ellen Ripley's confidante in Alien 3 (1992) several villain roles like Sardo Numspa in The Golden Child (1986) and Benedict in Last Action Hero (1993) and Lord Tywin Lannister in HBO's Game of Thrones. Dance typically plays assertive bureaucrats or villains. Dance was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) on 17 June 2006.