David Morrissey
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Biography
David Mark Morrissey (born 21 June 1964) is an English actor and director. Morrissey grew up in the Kensington and Knotty Ash areas of Liverpool. He learned to act at the Everyman Youth Theatre, alongside Ian Hart, Mark and Stephen McGann, and Cathy Tyson. At the age of 18, he and Hart were cast in the television series One Summer (1983), which won them recognition throughout the country. After making One Summer, Morrissey attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art before acting with the Royal S...
Known For
Filmography
The Oresteia
2026
as Christopher Middleton
Gone
2026
as Michael Polly
Tip Toe
2026
as Clive Goss
The Woman in Cabin 10
2025
as Thomas Heatherley
Manhunt
2025
as Narrator
Prime Target
2025
as Professor Robert Mallinder
Slingshot
2024
as Sam Napier
The Walking Dead: The Return
2024
as The Governor (archive footage)
Six Inches of Soil
2024
as Narrator (animated sequence)
Daddy Issues
2024
as Malcolm
Rob Beckett's Smart TV
2024
as Self - Guest
Turkey: Empire of Erdogan
2023
as Narrator
Gods of Tennis
2023
as Narrator
The Long Shadow
2023
as DCS George Oldfield
The Long Shadow
2023
as ACC George Oldfield
Britain's Notorious Prisons
2023
as Narrator
Dampyr
2022
as Gorka
Sherwood
2022
as DCS Ian St Clair
Ellie & Natasia
2022
as Dentist
The Colour Room
2021
as Fred Ridgeway
A Separate Peace
2020
as John Brown
Jürgen Klopp: Germany's Greatest Export
2020
as Self - Narrator (voice)
Klopp: The Inside Story
2020
as Narrator
Between the Covers
2020
as Self
The Singapore Grip
2020
as Walter Blackett
Two Tribes
2019
as Self
Good Omens
2019
as Captain Vincent
National Theatre Live: Julius Caesar
2018
as Mark Antony
The Great Celebrity Bake Off for Stand Up To Cancer
2018
as Self - Guest
Britannia
2018
as General Aulus Plautius
The City and the City
2018
as Tyador Borlú
Lion Country: Night and Day
2017
as Narrator (voice)
National Theatre Live: Hangmen
2016
as Harry
The Ones Below
2016
as Jon
The Not So Secret Life of the Manic Depressive: 10 Years On
2016
as Narrator (voice)
Secrets of Mexico's Drug War
2015
as Narrator
Ronaldo
2015
as (voice)
Rock 'n' Roll America
2015
as Narrator
Extant
2014
as Tobias Shepherd
The 7.39
2014
as Carl Matthews
The Driver
2014
as Vince McKee
The Missing
2014
as Sam Webster
Inside No. 9
2014
as Martin
Doctor Who Explained
2013
as Self
Welcome to the Punch
2013
as Thomas Geiger
The Walking Dead: A Decade of Dead
2013
as Self
Too Far Gone
2013
as Philip Blake (The Govenor)
Earthbound
2012
as Bill Norman
True Love
2012
as Adrian
The Hollow Crown
2012
as Earl of Northumberland
Blitz
2011
as Dunlop
Around The World In 60 Mins
2011
as Self - Narrator (voice)
Gee Gee
2011
as Michael
Macbeth
2011
as Macbeth
London's Burning
2011
as Borough Commander
The Field of Blood
2011
as Murray Devlin
South Riding
2011
as Robert Carne
Centurion
2010
as Bothos
Thorne: Scaredycat
2010
as DI Tom Thorne
Mrs Mandela
2010
as Theunis Swanepoel
Cooked
2010
as (voice)
The Walking Dead
2010
as Philip Blake
Thorne
2010
as Tom Thorne
Nowhere Boy
2009
as Bobby Dykins
U Be Dead
2009
as Dr. Jan Falkowski
Is Anybody There?
2009
as Steve
Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1974
2009
as Maurice Jobson
Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1983
2009
as Maurice Jobson
Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1980
2009
as Maurice Jobson
Doctor Who Greatest Moments
2009
as Self
Red Riding
2009
as DS Maurice Jobson
The Other Boleyn Girl
2008
as Thomas Howard - Duke of Norfolk
Doctor Who: The Next Doctor
2008
as Jackson Lake
Sense and Sensibility
2008
as Colonel Brandon
Meet The Immigrants
2008
The Reaping
2007
as Doug
Taking Liberties
2007
as Narration
The Water Horse
2007
as Captain Thomas Hamilton
Five Days
2007
as DI Mal Craig
Meadowlands
2007
as Danny Brogan
Would I Lie to You?
2007
as Self - Panellist
Basic Instinct 2
2006
as Michael Glass
Viva Blackpool
2006
as Ripley Holden
The One Show
2006
as Self
Derailed
2005
as Sam Griffin
Stoned
2005
as Tom Keylock
The Year London Blew Up
2005
as Narrator (voice)
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
2005
as Self
Zero Hour - Terror in Tokyo
2004
as Self-Narrator(voice)
Disaster at Chernobyl
2004
as Self - Narrator (voice)
Zero Hour: Massacre at Columbine High
2004
as Narrator
Blackpool
2004
as Ripley Holden
This World
2004
Zero Hour
2004
as Narrator (Voice)
The Deal
2003
as Gordon Brown
Trust Me - I'm a Politician
2003
as Self
This Little Life
2003
as Richie MacGregor
State of Play
2003
as Stephen Collins
9mm: Guns and Gangs
2003
as Narrator
Out of Control
2002
as Mike
Murder
2002
as Dave Dewston
Captain Corelli's Mandolin
2001
as Captain Günther Weber
Friday Night with Jonathan Ross
2001
as Self - Guest
Linda Green
2001
as Pete
The Suicide Club
2000
as Henry Joyce
Born Romantic
2000
as Fergus
Some Voices
2000
as Pete
Fanny & Elvis
1999
as Rob
Pure Wickedness
1999
as Frank Healy
Hilary and Jackie
1998
as Kiffer Finzi
The Commissioner
1998
as Murray Lomax
Big Cat
1998
as Leo
Our Mutual Friend
1998
as Bradley Headstone
Holding On
1997
as Shaun
The One That Got Away
1996
as Andy "Mac" McNab
Into the Fire
1996
as Michael Ride
Soccer AM
1995
as Self
Devil's Advocate
1995
as Matthew Salt
Out of the Blue
1995
as DS Jim 'Lew' Lewyn
Being Human
1994
as Cyprion's Man
Finney
1994
as Stephen Finney
The Knock
1994
as Gerry Birch
Black and Blue
1992
as DC Norman Mills
Waterland
1992
as Dick Crick
Between the Lines
1992
Framed
1992
as DC Lawrence 'Larry' Jackson
Robin Hood
1991
as Little John
Clubland
1991
as DC Judd
The Storyteller: Greek Myths - Theseus & the Minotaur
1991
as Theseus
The Storyteller: Greek Myths
1991
as Theseus
Available Light
1990
as Marcus
The Widowmaker
1990
as Rob
Agatha Christie's Poirot
1989
as John Arbuthnot
Screen One
1989
as DC Norman Mills
Drowning by Numbers
1988
as Bellamy
Out of Town
1988
as The Traveller
Cause Célèbre
1987
as George Bowman
ScreenPlay
1986
as Marcus
ScreenPlay
1986
as Judd
One Summer
1983
as Billy Rizley