David Threlfall
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- October 12, 1953
- Birthplace
- 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.
Filmography
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as Narrator
Unforgivable 2025
as Brian Mitchell
Bing & Friends: Birthday Celebration 2024
as Flop (voice)
Dodger Special: Bad Egg 2023
as Sir Charles Rowan
Dodger Special: Train 2022
as Sir Charles Rowan
Faith Healer 2020
as Teddy
Beckett Double Bill (Krapp's Last Tape / The Old Tune) 2020
as Cream
The Ark 2015
as Noah
Black Sea 2014
as Peters
Tommy Cooper: Not Like That, Like This 2014
as Tommy Cooper
Evidently... John Cooper Clarke 2012
as Self
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
Housewife, 49 2006
as Will Last
Like Minds 2006
as John Colbie
Alien Autopsy 2006
as Jeffrey
The Queen's Sister 2005
as Prince Philip
Benefit to Mankind 2004
as Carl Swannee
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World 2003
as Preserved Killick, Captain's Steward
Chunky Monkey 2003
as Donald Leek
Conspiracy 2001
as Friedrich Wilhelm Kritzinger
Mary, Mother of Jesus 1999
as Joseph of Nazareth
- Sex, Chips & Rock n' Roll
Sex, Chips & Rock n' Roll 1999
Actor
The Clothes in the Wardrobe 1993
as Syl
Diana: Her True Story 1993
as Prince Charles
- A Statement of Affairs
A Statement of Affairs 1993
as Alan
Patriot Games 1992
as Inspector Highland
A Murder of Quality 1991
as Stanley Rode
The Russia House 1990
as Wicklow
- He's Asking For Me
He's Asking For Me 1990
as Andy
A Casualty of War 1989
as Tom Rowse
Seeing in the Dark 1989
as Tony
Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story 1989
as Alex
When the Whales Came 1989
as Jack Jenkins
- Paradise Postponed
Paradise Postponed 1986
as Leslie Titmus
Dog Ends 1984
as Robert
Red Monarch 1983
as Vasily
King Lear 1983
as Edgar
Rolling Home 1982
as Donald
Mike Leigh: Making Plays 1982
as Self
The Brylcreem Boys 1979
as George Hunn
Scum 1977
as Archer
The Kiss of Death 1977
as Trevor
I Want to Be Like You 1976
as Steve
Credits from TMDB.