High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Donald Henry Pleasence, OBE (5 October 1919 - 2 February 1995) was a British film, television, and stage actor. His most notable film roles include villain Ernst Stavro Blofeld in the James Bond film You Only Live Twice, RAF Flight Lieut. Colin Blythe in The Great Escape, and psychiatrist Dr. Sam Loomis in the Halloween series.