Donald Pleasence
Donald Pleasence
Donald Henry Pleasence, OBE was an English film, television, and stage actor. His most notable film roles include psychiatrist Dr. Sam Loomis in most of the Halloween series, the villain Ernst Stavro Blofeld in the James Bond film You Only Live Twice, RAF Flight Lieutenant Colin Blythe in The Great Escape and George in Cul-de-sac...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth5 October 1919
carpenter john liked name needed script
John Carpenter liked my work, and he needed some kind of name for the picture. The script was good, and I immediately liked John, so I did it.
appears classic gone notes nut playing taken
I've taken some notes as I've gone through the years of playing this character. On the surface, Loomis appears to have been the classic nut case.
simple
I don't know what I'm going to be doing after this film, but I'll be doing something before long. I just like to work, it's as simple as that.
gotten horror news point
It's gotten to the point where it's big news when I don't do a horror film.
bloodless halloween quality suspense violent
Ultimately, Halloween II was a little too violent for my tastes. It didn't have the intelligent quality and bloodless suspense of the original.
character hands years
It's hard to play a continuing character like Loomis for nearly 11 years and simply wash your hands of him. It seems a pity.
believe actors turns
I am not one of those actors who believes he has to live the part he is playing. I can turn it on and off.
sister guilt firsts
Loomis has always felt himself responsible for the fact that he did not stop Michael when he first murdered his sister, and so he's got that guilt to live with.
halloween lying bullets
At the end of the first Halloween, when I shot 6 bullets into Michael Myers, John Carpenter said, Let's get a shot of you looking out of the window and seeing no one lying there.
halloween ideas vision
John Carpenter created the idea of Halloween, so his vision remains the most focused and intelligently directed of the series. The directors that have followed have kept the original intent of the concept.
halloween stupid thinking
I do think the story in Halloween 5 is a bit stupid, and there's a lot more blood. They're obviously going to take the Halloween series in a different direction.
real halloween insane
John and I had a few meetings about what direction the sequel should take. I made some real insane suggestions. True to what you'd expect, he ignored them all and just picked up Halloween II where the original left off.
halloween firsts made
The first Halloween was very well made. The second one was also well made, though I didn't like it as well as the first one. The third one had nothing to do with the series at all and perhaps shouldn't have been made at all.
halloween choices salary
I was offered a choice of a flat salary up front or a percentage of the film's future earnings. I took the up front money. Nobody could have figured what Halloween would ultimately become.