<Tr> <Th> Children </Th> <Td> </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Parent (s) </Th> <Td> Walter Dance Eleanor Marion Perks </Td> </Tr> <P> Walter Charles Dance, OBE (born 10 October 1946) is an English actor, screenwriter, and film director . </P> <P> Dance typically plays assertive bureaucrats or villains . Some of his most high - profile roles are Tywin Lannister in HBO's Game of Thrones, Guy Perron in The Jewel in the Crown (1984), Sardo Numspa in The Golden Child (1986), Jonathan Clemens in Alien 3 (1992), Benedict in Last Action Hero (1993), the Master Vampire in Dracula Untold (2014), Lord Havelock Vetinari in Terry Pratchett's Going Postal (2010) and Alastair Denniston in The Imitation Game (2014). </P>

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