Who Do You Think You Are?: Charles Dance
Director
Executive Producer: Colette Flight
Commissioner: Fatima Sularia
Series Producer: Sarah Feltes
Actor Charles Dance has made his name playing upper-crust gents, a far cry from his own background. Here he unearths the long-hidden truth about his father who died when he was four.
Dance is, as he put it in tonight’s fascinating Who Do You Thing You Are?, not posh at all. His origins are fairly humble and he is anything but stern and snooty. In fact, tonight we saw a lovely, sensitive man making some stunning and intriguing discoveries about his family.
“The programme-makers play the sources like a well-tuned ensemble, to moving effect. I don’t know why it’s so overwhelming, says Dance. But it is.”
“A military historian took one look at the only picture Dance had of Walter – standing tall, in uniform – and knew immediately, by the lack of breast pockets and the fanciness of his belt, that it was taken in 1900. These are the WDYTYA moments I live for. The knowledge contained in some human brains, the dedication and love it takes to acquire it always blows my own tiny mind.”