Nicholas Farrell

Born: 1955-01-01 in Essex, England, UK

Known For: Acting

Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Nicholas Farrell (born Nicholas Frost, in 1955) is an English stage, film and television actor. His early screen career included the role of Aubrey Montague in the 1981 film Chariots of Fire. In 1983, he starred as Edmund Bertram in a television adaptation of the Jane Austen novel, Mansfield Park. In 1984, he appeared in Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes and The Jewel in the Crown. Since then, his film and television work has included several screen adaptations of Shakespeare's works, including Kenneth Branagh's 1996 Hamlet , in which he played Horatio, a role he had played previously with Branagh for the Royal Shakespeare Company. He has also appeared in film adaptations of Twelfth Night (1996), Othello (1995) and In the Bleak Midwinter (1995). He provided the voice of Hamlet for the animated television adaptation Shakespeare: The Animated Tales (1992). Other television appearances have included two Agatha Christie's Poirot movies, Sharpe's Regiment, To Play the King, Torchwood and Collision. He has also appeared in episodes of Lovejoy, Foyle's War, Absolute Power, Spooks, Midsomer Murders, Drop the Dead Donkey and Casualty. Farrell's theatre work includes performances of The Cherry Orchard, Camille, and The Crucible as well as Royal Shakespeare Company productions of The Merchant of Venice, Julius Caesar, and Hamlet. He is married to Scottish actress Stella Gonet. Description above from the Wikipedia article Nicholas Farrell, licensed under CC-BY-SA,full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Filmography

2025

The Count of Monte Cristo as Morrel
Creditors as Adolf

2024

Fool Me Once as Neville Lockwood
Widow Clicquot as Jean-Remy Moet
A Toast to Love as Professor Dale Farringdon

2023

Bodies as Chief Inspector Paxman
The Gold as Jim Clark

2022

Signora Volpe as Michael Priest / Henry Fox
Everything I Know About Love as Graham
A Christmas Carol: A Ghost Story as Ebenezer Scrooge

2021

The Nevers as Prince Albrecht
Munich – The Edge of War as Sir Alexander Cadogan
Dream Horse as Philip Hobbs

2019

The Coldest Game as G. Moran
Christmas in the Highlands as Duke of Glenmorie
Cosmos Within Us as Aiken
The Man Who Saw Too Much as Yurka Galitzine (voice)

2018

White Chamber as Dr. Edgar Chrystler
Hurricane as Air Chief Marshal Sir Hugh Dowding
Lies We Tell as Anthony Quest

2017

Another Mother's Son as De La Haye

2016

The Crown as Michael Shea
Mindhorn as Mayor
Finding Altamira as Vilanova
Thirteen as Henry Stone
Jack the Ripper: The London Slasher as Samuel Harris
Tear Me Apart as Old Man (voice)

2015

Legend as Dr Humphries
Mortdecai as Auctioneer
Remainder as Daubenay
Testament of Youth as Headmaster
Nipplejesus as Silver Fox
Robot Overlords as Sentry Robot/Air Drone (voice)
Napoleon's Waterloo as Narrator

2014

Grace of Monaco as Jean-Charles Rey
37 Days as Eyre Crowe
Siblings

2013

Endeavour as Sir Alexander Lermontov
Father Brown as Sir Raleigh Beresford
Jo
The Village
Summer in February as Mr. Carter-Wood
Spying on Hitler’s Army: The Secret Recordings as General von Thoma

2012

Call the Midwife as Charles Newgarden
Secret State as General Munnery

2011

Death in Paradise as Nicholas Dunham
The Iron Lady as Airey Neave
Late Bloomers as Francis

2010

Going Postal as Mr. Pump

2009

The Diary of Anne Frank as Albert Dussel

2008

Casualty 1900s as Sydney Holland
Fiona's Story as Edward

2007

Lewis as Charles Milner
Persuasion as Mr. Musgrove
Talk to Me as Harry

2006

Torchwood as Brian Green
Amazing Grace as Henry Thornton
Driving Lessons as Robert
Suburban Shootout as Raymond

2005

Jericho as Charles Hewitt
Red Mercury as Minister

2004

New Tricks as James Winslow
Prometheus Bound as Prometheus (voice)
The Minoans as Readings (voice)

2003

Reversals as Edward Leitch
The Third Wave as Devlin

2002

Foyle's War as James Collier
Spooks as Richard Maynard
The Inspector Lynley Mysteries as Sam Oborne
Bloody Sunday as Brigadier Maclellan
Bait as Alfred White
The Jury as Jeremy Crawford
Sparkhouse as Paul Lawton

2001

Waking the Dead as Douglas Malham
Pearl Harbor as RAF Squadron Leader
Charlotte Gray as Mr. Jackson
Arthur's Dyke as Geoffrey
Bedtime as Ray

2000

Rebus as Davis Haigh

1999

1998

Legionnaire as Mackintosh

1997

Midsomer Murders as Isaac Starling
Sharpe: The Legend as Fenner

1996

Silent Witness as Professor Adrian Cowley
Hamlet as Horatio
The Treasure Seekers as Bastable
Twelfth Night as Antonio
Sharpe's Regiment as Lord Fenner

1995

Othello as Montano
Bramwell as Major Stuart Hyde
In the Bleak Midwinter as Tom Newman
The Choir as Leo Beckford

1994

The Riff Raff Element as Boyd Tundish
A Breed of Heroes as Lt. Col Ian Gowrie, MC

1993

To Play the King as David Mycroft
The Vision Thing as Batt Prender
Lipstick on Your Collar as Major Church

1992

Heartbeat as Traumatised Man / Buckley
A Touch of Frost as Simon Slater
Hamlet as Hamlet
Shakespeare: The Animated Tales as Hamlet (voice)

1991

The Trials of Oz as Dr. Michael Schofield

1990

Drop the Dead Donkey

1989

Agatha Christie's Poirot as Donald Fraser
The Ginger Tree as Father Anthony
Nobody Here But Us Chickens

1988

Dead Lucky as Martin Urban

1987

Playing Away as Derek

1986

Casualty as Phil Byron
Lovejoy as Douglas Holden
Hold the Dream as Sebastian Cross
The Fools on the Hill as David

1985

Portrait of Isa Mulvenny as Bill Thompson

1984

Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes as Sir Hugh Belcher
The Jewel in the Crown as Teddy Bingham

1983

Mansfield Park as Edmund Bertram

1982

The Agatha Christie Hour as Edward Robinson
A Silly Little Habit as Simon
The Rocking Horse Winner as Lawyer

1981

Chariots of Fire as Aubrey Montague
Berlin Tunnel 21 as Georg Heptner

1978

Matador as Jim Donaldson, Engelsk flyver

1975

By Common Consent

1974

Playhouse as Simon

1965

BBC Play of the Month as Larion Surzhansky