Pleasence gives an absolutely fearless performance as a drunken and depraved fallen intellectual in Wake in Fright.
I've been chasing grace/ But grace ain't easy to find

Wake in Fright is a superb performance.
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The Guest (based on Harold Pinter's The Caretaker). Also starring Robert Shaw and Alan Bates.

The Guest (film version of Harold Pinter's The Caretaker)
Cul-de-Sac
The Great Escape

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YOU ONLY LIVE TWICE
THE GREAT ESCAPE

I found his portrayal of Heinrich Himmler in
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to be perhaps the most chilling Himmler portrayal ever. Like a pleasant (no pun intended) little administrator, but absolutely cold-blooded at the core.

"The Great Scape"
He was one of the greatest supporting actors of all time, it is incredible how people miss and remember him.

Ooh, good choice. He scared the crap out of me in "Wake in Fright" too. I also particularly like his performance as the police inspector in the great little 70s Brit horror movie "Death Line" - otherwise known as "Raw Meat" to the Americans out there. Pleasence added a touch of class to everything he did - which is just as well, given some of the terrible trash he appeared in.
"Nobody {|$ with the Jesus"

Surprised and shocked the hell out of me when I saw him in WAKE IN FRIGHT.
DR. CRIPPEN is nice too.

Yep, I have seen him in two movies, Escape from New York and the Columbo TV-movie but he really left an impression in Columbo.

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His best performance is in The Flesh and the Fiends.

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HE will always be Dr. Sam Loomis.
RIP Donald Pleasence

I believe everyone has named my favorite performances:Twilight Zone, Great Escape, You Only Live Twice, All the Halloween movies.
What a wonderful actor he was!

I couldn't agree more with you Jessica.
I'd have to add The Great Escape in 3rd place, which made me weep as a child.

1. Cul-De-Sac
2. The Guest (from the Harold Pinter play The Caretaker)

Donald Pleasence is so versatile; one of my all-time favorite actors.
I thought he was excellent as Colin in The Great Escape, and his role in the Twilight Zone episode "Changing of the Guard" was very touching.
He was terrific as a villian/antagonist. I thought he was great in Fantastic Voyage, and in Part Three of Centennial.
Fantastic actor, very much missed.

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I loved all his work, he was a great actor and will be missed.
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I'm very fond of an episode of The Outer Limits he did, and I'm sorry that I don't remember the name, but he played a mild-mannered scientist who discovers that he has telekenitic powers. Great stuff.
And one of my favorites, though probably not many others, is his performance in Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. I would pay just for those few seconds of "I Want You" that he sings.

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