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