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Donald Henry Pleasence, OBE was an English actor. His most notable film roles include psychiatrist Dr. Sam Loomis in Halloween and four of its sequels, the villain Ernst Stavro Blofeld in the James Bond film You Only Live Twice , RAF Flight Lieutenant Colin Blythe in The Great Escape , SEN 5241 in THX 1138 , Clarence "Doc" Tydon in Wake in Fright , and the President of the United States in Escape from New York .

✵ 5. October 1919 – 2. February 1995
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“I treat all film roles one way: very seriously," exclaims Pleasence. "I never play anything tongue-in-cheek, though at times it might appear that way. I'm a professional actor who has no particular approach to acting. I get the part, I read the script. If I decide to do it, I learn the lines. People expecting a longwinded explanation on my approach will be disappointed. I have no theory about acting. There is no method, there is no way. I just do it.”

Donald Pleasence

INTERVIEW BY MARC SHAPIRO https://www.pleasence.com/articles/MADMAN.HTML (February 1989)

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