David Threlfall
Born: 1953-10-12 in Burnage, Manchester, England, UK
Known For: Acting
Biography
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.
Filmography
2025
- The Death of Bunny Munro as Bunny Snr
- Unforgivable as Brian Mitchell
2024
- The Completely Made-Up Adventures of Dick Turpin as Tom King
- Nightsleeper as Paul Peveril
- Passenger as Jim Bracknell
- Bing & Friends: Birthday Celebration as Flop (voice)
2023
- Funny Woman as George Parker
- Dodger Special: Bad Egg as Sir Charles Rowan
2022
- Dodger Special: Train as Sir Charles Rowan
- Art That Made Us as Self - Narrator (voice)
2021
- Wolfe as Howard
2020
- Beckett Double Bill (Krapp's Last Tape / The Old Tune) as Cream
- Faith Healer as Teddy
2018
- Troy: Fall of a City as King Priam
2017
- Urban Myths as Samuel Beckett
2015
- The Ark as Noah
- Code of a Killer as DCS David Baker
- Midwinter of the Spirit as Rev Huw Owens
2014
- Black Sea as Peters
- Tommy Cooper: Not Like That, Like This as Tommy Cooper
2013
- What Remains as Len Harper
2012
- Ripper Street as Abel Croker
- Evidently... John Cooper Clarke as Himself
2009
- Nowhere Boy as George Toogood Smith
2007
- Hot Fuzz as Martin Blower
- Elizabeth: The Golden Age as Dr. John Dee
2006
- Alien Autopsy as Jeffrey
- Like Minds as John Colbie
- Housewife, 49 as Will Last
- Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire as Constantine the Great
2005
- The Queen's Sister as Prince Philip
2004
- Shameless as Frank Gallagher
- Benefit to Mankind as Carl Swannee
2003
- Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World as Preserved Killick, Captain's Steward
- Chunky Monkey as Donald Leek
2002
- Spooks as Keith Moran
- Cutting It as Beauregard Smee
2001
- Conspiracy as Friedrich Wilhelm Kritzinger
2000
- In the Beginning as Aaron
- A Dinner of Herbs as Older Hal
1999
- Sex, Chips & Rock n' Roll as Norman
- Mary, Mother of Jesus as Joseph of Nazareth
- Sex, Chips & Rock n' Roll
1994
- Men of the World as Lenny Smart
1993
- The Clothes in the Wardrobe as Syl
- A Statement of Affairs as Alan
- Diana: Her True Story as Prince Charles
1992
- Patriot Games as Inspector Highland
1991
- A Murder of Quality as Stanley Rode
- Titmuss Regained as Leslie Titmuss
1990
- Have I Got News for You as Self
- The Russia House as Wicklow
- He's Asking For Me as Andy
- Nightingales as Bell
1989
- Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story as Alex
- When the Whales Came as Jack Jenkins
- Seeing in the Dark as Tony
- A Casualty of War as Tom Rowse
1987
- The Marksman as Weaver
1986
- Paradise Postponed as Leslie Titmus
- Paradise Postponed as Leslie Titmuss
1984
- Dog Ends as Robert
1983
- King Lear as Edgar
- Red Monarch as Vasily
- The Gathering Seed as Joe Henshaw
1982
- Rolling Home as Donald
- Mike Leigh: Making Plays as Self
- The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby
- Objects of Affection as Donald
1979
- The Brylcreem Boys as George Hunn
1977
- Scum as Archer
- The Kiss of Death as Trevor
1976
- I Want to Be Like You as Steve
1974
- Playhouse as George Hunn
1970
- Play for Today as Robert