A Brief Profile of Donald Pleasence
Early life Donald (Henry) Pleasence was born on 5 October 1919 in Worksop, Nottinghamshire. He was the son of Alice and Thomas Stanley Pleasence, a railway station master. His brother, Ralph, five years older, was his only sibling. Pleasence was brought up as a strict Methodist in the small village of Grimoldby, Lincolnshire. He received…