Donald Pleasence

The great Peter Cushing leads this 1960 horror as Edinburgh surgeon Dr. Robert Knox, who requires cadavers for his research into the functioning of the human body. Local ne'er-do-wells Burke and Hare find ways to provide him with fresh specimens.

A wounded criminal and his dying partner take refuge at an old beachfront fortress in this crazy Roman Polanski thriller.

Clive Donner directs Alan Bates, Donald Pleasence and Robert Shaw in this screen adaptation of the Harold Pinter play. Naive and lonely Aston rescues the homeless and manipulative Davies, inviting him to stay at his rundown family home.

Kurt Russell is Snake Plissken, the eye-patched badass and ex-con forced to rescue the president from the maximum security prison known as Manhattan Island, in John Carpenter's action sci-fi classic set in the apocalyptic future of 1997.

Scientific curiosity and demonic possession collide in John Carpenter's 1987 horror, the second film in his Apocalypse Trilogy (following the The Thing and followed by In the Mouth of Madness).

Six years ago, Michael Myers terrorised the town of Haddonfield, Illinois. He and his niece, Jamie Lloyd, have disappeared. Jamie was kidnapped by a bunch of evil druids who protect Michael Myers.

World War II adventure classic with a killer ensemble cast . Steve McQueen, James Garner, Richard Attenborough, James Donald, Charles Bronson, Donald Pleasence and James Coburn star in this true story of a group of allied soldiers who plan a daring, mass escape from their Nazi POW camp – a fortress deemed 'escape proof'. 

TV movie adaptation of the 1929 WWI novel and the Oscar-winning movie from 1930.

John Carpenter's seminal independent slasher horror, featuring Jamie Lee Curtis in her film debut. Having stabbed his sister to death as a six-year-old, Mike Myers escapes from a psychiatric hospital 15 years later and returns home to Haddonfield, Illinois...

The legend of that creepy masked-man, Michael Myers, comes to life once again in this fourth installment of the successful horror franchise. 

Presumed dead after a shoot-out with the Haddonfield police, Michael Myers is secretly nursed back to health -- and returns a year later to kill again and once more targets his young niece, Jamie.

Jamie Lee Curtis returns to this 1981 sequel of the horror classic as Laurie Strode, survivor of Michael Myers' murderous rampage.

A pre-Labyrinth Jennifer Connelly stars in this Dario Argento horror, playing a girl who can communicate with insects, an ability which could help in solving a series of murders at her Swiss boarding school.

A contingent of elite German paratroopers disguised as a Polish unit attempt to kidnap Winston Churchill during World War II.

George Lucas gave the world advance notice of his formidable talent with his classic debut feature Thx-1138, adapted from his award winning short film with encouragement from Francis Ford Coppola.