Nineteen Eighty-Four is a British television adaptation of the 1949 novel of the same name by George Orwell, originally broadcast on BBC Television as part of BBC Sunday-Night Theatre on 12 December 1
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Donald Pleasence
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Donald Henry Pleasence was an English actor. He was known for his "bald head and intense, staring eyes," and played more than 250 stage, film, and television roles across a nearly 60-year career.
Nineteen Eighty-Four (British TV programme)
…complaints over its supposed subversive nature and its graphic depiction of totalitarianism. It starred Peter Cushing (as Winston Smith), Yvonne Mitchell, Donald Pleasence and André Morell. Described as television's first "watercooler moment" by The Telegraph, the adaptation was watched by seven million people in the UK…
Pleasence in 1973 by Allan Warren
Pleasence in the trailer for the film Eye of the Devil (1966).