David Threlfall
October 12, 1953 (71 years old) in Burnage, Manchester, England, UK
Born in Burnage, Manchester in 1953, David Threlfall is a celebrated actor of stage, film and television. In the latter, he is perhaps best known as the feckless Frank Gallagher in Channel 4's Shameless. In 1994 whilst working on a production of The Count of Monte Cristo at the Royal Exchange, Manchester, Threlfall met Bosnian actress Brana Bajic and the pair subsequently married a year later.
Known For
Credits
- 2024 · Nightsleeper as Paul Peveril
- 2024 · Passenger as Jim Bracknell
- 2024 · The Completely Made-Up Adventures of Dick Turpin as Tom King
- 2023 · Funny Woman as George Parker
- 2021 · Wolfe as Howard
- 2018 · Troy: Fall of a City as King Priam
- 2017 · Urban Myths as Samuel Beckett
- 2015 · Code of a Killer as DCS David Baker
- 2015 · The Ark as Noah
- 2014 · Black Sea as Peters
- 2014 · Tommy Cooper: Not Like That, Like This as Tommy Cooper
- 2013 · What Remains as Len Harper
- 2012 · Ripper Street as Abel Croker
- 2009 · Nowhere Boy as George Toogood Smith
- 2007 · Elizabeth: The Golden Age as Dr. John Dee
- 2007 · Hot Fuzz as Martin Blower
- 2006 · Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire as Constantine the Great
- 2006 · Like Minds as John Colbie
- 2006 · Alien Autopsy as Jeffrey
- 2004 · Shameless as
- 2004 · Shameless as Frank Gallagher
- 2003 · Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World as Preserved Killick, Captain's Steward
- 2002 · Spooks as Keith Moran
- 2002 · Cutting It as Beauregard Smee
- 2001 · Conspiracy as Kritzinger
- 2000 · A Dinner of Herbs as Hal Royce (older)
- 2000 · In the Beginning as Aaron
- 1999 · Sex, Chips & Rock n' Roll as Norman
- 1994 · Men of the World as Lenny Smart
- 1993 · Diana: Her True Story as Prince Charles
- 1992 · Patriot Games as Inspector Highland
- 1990 · The Russia House as Wicklow
- 1990 · Have I Got News for You as Self
- 1989 · When the Whales Came as Jack Jenkins
- 1982 · Objects of Affection as Donald
- 1970 · Play for Today as Robert
- Future · Have I Got a Bit More News for You as Self - Panellist
- 2024 · Bing & Friends: Birthday Celebration as Flop (voice)
- 2023 · Dodger Special: Bad Egg as Sir Charles Rowan
- 2022 · Dodger Special: Train as Sir Charles Rowan
- 2022 · Art That Made Us as Self - Narrator (voice)
- 2020 · Faith Healer as Teddy
- 2020 · Beckett Double Bill (Krapp's Last Tape / The Old Tune) as Cream
- 2015 · Midwinter of the Spirit as Rev Huw Owens
- 2012 · Evidently... John Cooper Clarke as Himself
- 2006 · Housewife, 49 as Will Last
- 2005 · The Queen's Sister as Prince Philip
- 2003 · Chunky Monkey as Donald Leek
- 1999 · Mary, Mother of Jesus as Joseph of Nazareth
- 1999 · Sex, Chips & Rock n' Roll as
- 1993 · The Summer House as Syl
- 1993 · A Statement of Affairs as Alan
- 1991 · A Murder of Quality as Stanley Rode
- 1991 · Titmuss Regained as Leslie Titmuss
- 1990 · Nightingales as Bell
- 1990 · He's Asking For Me as Andy
- 1989 · A Casualty of War as Tom Rowse
- 1989 · Seeing in the Dark as Tony
- 1989 · Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story as Alex
- 1987 · The Marksman as Weaver
- 1986 · Paradise Postponed as Leslie Titmuss
- 1986 · Paradise Postponed as Leslie Titmus
- 1984 · Dog Ends as Robert
- 1983 · The Gathering Seed as Joe Henshaw
- 1983 · Red Monarch as Vasily
- 1983 · King Lear as Edgar
- 1982 · Rolling Home as Donald
- 1982 · The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby as
- 1982 · Mike Leigh: Making Plays as Self
- 1979 · The Brylcreem Boys as George Hunn
- 1977 · Scum as Archer
- 1977 · The Kiss of Death as Trevor
- Future · Untitled Jimmy McGovern Drama as
- 1976 · I Want to Be Like You as Steve