David Threlfall
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- 12 October 1953 · Burnage, Manchester, England, UK
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
Acting 46
- 20261000 AD as Narrator
- 2025Unforgivable as Brian Mitchell
- 2024Bing & Friends: Birthday Celebration as Flop (voice)
- 2023Dodger Special: Bad Egg as Sir Charles Rowan
- 2022Dodger Special: Train as Sir Charles Rowan
- 2020Faith Healer as Teddy
- 2020Beckett Double Bill (Krapp's Last Tape / The Old Tune) as Cream
- 2015The Ark as Noah
- 2014Black Sea as Peters
- 2014Tommy Cooper: Not Like That, Like This as Tommy Cooper
- 2012Evidently... John Cooper Clarke as Himself
- 2009Nowhere Boy as George Toogood Smith
- 2009The Millionaire and the Murder Mansion as Self - Narrator (voice)
- 2007Elizabeth: The Golden Age as Dr. John Dee
- 2007Hot Fuzz as Martin Blower
- 2006Housewife, 49 as Will Last
- 2006Like Minds as John Colbie
- 2006Alien Autopsy as Jeffrey
- 2005The Queen's Sister as Prince Philip
- 2004Benefit to Mankind as Carl Swannee
- 2003Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World as Preserved Killick, Captain's Steward
- 2003Chunky Monkey as Donald Leek
- 2001Conspiracy as Friedrich Wilhelm Kritzinger
- 1999Mary, Mother of Jesus as Joseph of Nazareth
- 1999Sex, Chips & Rock n' Roll
- 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
- 1990The Russia House as Wicklow
- 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
- 1986Paradise Postponed as Leslie Titmus
- 1984Dog Ends as Robert
- 1983Red Monarch as Vasily
- 1983King Lear as Edgar
- 1982Rolling Home as Donald
- 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