Nicholas Farrell
Known For: Acting
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Nicholas Farrell (born Nicholas Charles Frost, in September 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
2026
- Past Life as Elliot Reed
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
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
- Dream Horse as Philip Hobbs
- Munich - The Edge of War as Sir Alexander Cadogan
2019
- The Coldest Game as G. Moran
- Christmas in the Highlands as Duke of Glenmorie
- The Man Who Saw Too Much as Yurka Galitzine (voice)
- Cosmos Within Us as Aiken
2018
- Hurricane as Air Chief Marshal Sir Hugh Dowding
- Lies We Tell as Anthony Quest
- White Chamber as Dr. Edgar Chrystler
2017
- Will as Sir Francis Walsingham
- Another Mother's Son as De La Haye
2016
- The Crown as Michael Shea
- Thirteen as Henry Stone
- Mindhorn as Mayor
- Finding Altamira as Vilanova
- Jack the Ripper: The London Slasher as Samuel Harris
- Tear Me Apart as Old Man (voice)
2015
- Legend as Dr Humphries
- Mortdecai as Auctioneer
- Testament of Youth as Headmaster
- Robot Overlords as Sentry Robot/Air Drone (voice)
- Remainder as Daubenay
- Nipplejesus as Silver Fox
- Napoleon's Waterloo as Narrator
2014
- Siblings as Charles
- 37 Days as Eyre Crowe
- Grace of Monaco as Jean-Charles Rey
2013
- Father Brown as Sir Raleigh Beresford
- Endeavour as Sir Alexander Lermontov
- The Village as Crispin Rose
- Jo
- 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
- Suburban Shootout as Raymond
- Driving Lessons as Robert
2005
- Jericho as Charles Hewitt
- Red Mercury as Minister
2004
- New Tricks as James Winslow
- The Minoans as Readings (voice)
- Prometheus Bound as Prometheus (voice)
2003
- The Third Wave as Devlin
- Reversals as Edward Leitch
2002
- Spooks as Richard Maynard
- Foyle's War as James Collier
- The Inspector Lynley Mysteries as Sam Oborne
- The Jury as Jeremy Crawford
- Sparkhouse as Paul Lawton
- Bloody Sunday as Brigadier Maclellan
- Bait as Alfred White
2001
- Waking the Dead as Douglas Malham
- Pearl Harbor as RAF Squadron Leader
- Bedtime as Ray
- Charlotte Gray as Mr. Jackson
- Arthur's Dyke as Geoffrey
2000
- Rebus as Davis Haigh
1999
- Sex, Chips & Rock n' Roll as Howard
- Plunkett & Macleane as MP's Secretary
- Beautiful People as Dr Mouldy
- Sex, Chips & Rock n' Roll
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
- Twelfth Night as Antonio
- The Treasure Seekers as Bastable
- Sharpe's Regiment as Lord Simon Fenner
1995
- Bramwell as Major Stuart Hyde
- The Choir as Leo Beckford
- Othello as Montano
- In the Bleak Midwinter as Tom Newman
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
- Lipstick on Your Collar as Major Church
- The Vision Thing as Batt Prender
1992
- Heartbeat as Traumatised Man / Buckley
- A Touch of Frost as Simon Slater
- Shakespeare: The Animated Tales as Hamlet (voice)
- Hamlet as Hamlet
1991
- The Trials of Oz as Dr. Michael Schofield
1990
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
- Hold the Dream as Sebastian Cross
- Playing Away as Derek
1986
- Casualty as Phil Byron
- Lovejoy as Douglas Holden
- The Fools on the Hill as David
1985
- Portrait of Isa Mulvenny as Bill Thompson
1984
- The Jewel in the Crown as Teddy Bingham
- Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes as Sir Hugh Belcher
1983
- Mansfield Park as Edmund Bertram
1982
- The Agatha Christie Hour as Edward Robinson
- The Rocking Horse Winner as Lawyer
- A Silly Little Habit as Simon
1981
- Chariots of Fire as Aubrey Montague
- Berlin Tunnel 21 as Georg Heptner
1978
- Matador as Jim Donaldson, Engelsk flyver
1975
1974
- Playhouse as Simon
1965
- BBC Play of the Month as Larion Surzhansky