David Threlfall
Acting
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Acting Credits
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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.
Known For
Filmography
Unforgivable
2025
as Brian Mitchell
The Death of Bunny Munro
2025
as Bunny Snr
Bing & Friends: Birthday Celebration
2024
as Flop (voice)
Nightsleeper
2024
as Paul Peveril
Passenger
2024
as Jim Bracknell
The Completely Made-Up Adventures of Dick Turpin
2024
as Tom King
Dodger Special: Bad Egg
2023
as Sir Charles Rowan
Funny Woman
2023
as George Parker
Dodger Special: Train
2022
as Sir Charles Rowan
Art That Made Us
2022
as Self - Narrator (voice)
Wolfe
2021
as Howard
Beckett Double Bill (Krapp's Last Tape / The Old Tune)
2020
as Cream
Faith Healer
2020
as Teddy
Troy: Fall of a City
2018
as Priam
Urban Myths
2017
as Samuel Beckett
The Ark
2015
as Noah
Code of a Killer
2015
as DCS David Baker
Midwinter of the Spirit
2015
as Rev Huw Owens
Tommy Cooper: Not Like That, Like This
2014
as Tommy Cooper
Black Sea
2014
as Peters
What Remains
2013
as Len Harper
Evidently... John Cooper Clarke
2012
as Himself
Ripper Street
2012
as Abel Croker
Nowhere Boy
2009
as George Toogood Smith
The Millionaire and the Murder Mansion
2009
as Self - Narrator (voice)
Elizabeth: The Golden Age
2007
as Dr. John Dee
Hot Fuzz
2007
as Martin Blower
Alien Autopsy
2006
as Jeffrey
Housewife, 49
2006
as Will Last
Like Minds
2006
as John Colbie
Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire
2006
as Constantine the Great
The Queen's Sister
2005
as Prince Philip
Benefit to Mankind
2004
as Carl Swannee
Shameless
2004
as Frank Gallagher
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
2003
as Preserved Killick, Captain's Steward
Chunky Monkey
2003
as Donald Leek
Celebrity Mastermind
2003
Cutting It
2002
as Beauregard Smee
Spooks
2002
as Keith Moran
Conspiracy
2001
as Friedrich Wilhelm Kritzinger
In the Beginning
2000
as Aaron
A Dinner of Herbs
2000
as Older Hal
Mary, Mother of Jesus
1999
as Joseph of Nazareth
Sex, Chips & Rock n' Roll
1999
Sex, Chips & Rock n' Roll
1999
as Norman
Men of the World
1994
as Lenny Smart
Diana: Her True Story
1993
as Prince Charles
The Clothes in the Wardrobe
1993
as Syl
A Statement of Affairs
1993
as Alan
Patriot Games
1992
as Inspector Highland
A Murder of Quality
1991
as Stanley Rode
Titmuss Regained
1991
as Leslie Titmuss
The Russia House
1990
as Wicklow
He's Asking For Me
1990
as Andy
Nightingales
1990
as Bell
Have I Got News for You
1990
as Self
When the Whales Came
1989
as Jack Jenkins
Seeing in the Dark
1989
as Tony
Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story
1989
as Alex
A Casualty of War
1989
as Tom Rowse
Jumping The Queue
1989
as Hugh Warner
The Marksman
1987
as Weaver
Paradise Postponed
1986
as Leslie Titmus
Paradise Postponed
1986
as Leslie Titmuss
ScreenPlay
1986
as Tony
Screen Two
1985
as Andy
Screen Two
1985
as Syl
Dog Ends
1984
as Robert
King Lear
1983
as Edgar
Red Monarch
1983
as Vasily
The Gathering Seed
1983
as Joe Henshaw
Mike Leigh: Making Plays
1982
as Self
Rolling Home
1982
as Donald
The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby
1982
Objects of Affection
1982
as Donald
The Brylcreem Boys
1979
as George Hunn
The Kiss of Death
1977
as Trevor
Scum
1977
as Archer
Here I Stand...
1977
as Stapleton
I Want to Be Like You
1976
as Steve
Playhouse
1974
as George Hunn
Second City Firsts
1973
as Gaz
Play for Today
1970
as Robert