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Personal Info

Gender

Male

Birthday

1953-10-12 (71 years old)

Place of Birth

Burnage, Manchester, England, UK

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.

Known For

Acting

2024

Nightsleeper as Paul Peveril
Passenger as Jim Bracknell

2023

Dodger Special: Bad Egg as Sir Charles Rowan
Funny Woman as George Parker

2022

Dodger Special: Train as Sir Charles Rowan
Art That Made Us as Self - Narrator (voice)

2021

Wolfe as Howard

2020

Faith Healer as Teddy

2018

Troy: Fall of a City as King Priam

2017

Urban Myths as Samuel Beckett

2015

The Ark as Noah
Code of a Killer as DCS David Baker
Midwinter of the Spirit as Rev Huw Owens

2014

Black Sea as Peters

2013

What Remains as Len Harper

2012

Ripper Street as Abel Croker

2009

Nowhere Boy as George Toogood Smith

2007

Hot Fuzz as Martin Blower

2006

Alien Autopsy as Jeffrey
Housewife, 49 as Will Last
Like Minds as John Colbie

2005

The Queen's Sister as Prince Philip

2004

Shameless as Frank Gallagher

2003

Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World as Preserved Killick, Captain's Steward
Chunky Monkey as Donald Leek

2002

Cutting It as Beauregard Smee
Spooks as Keith Moran

2001

Conspiracy as Friedrich Wilhelm Kritzinger

2000

A Dinner of Herbs as Hal Royce (older)

1999

Mary, Mother of Jesus as Joseph of Nazareth

1994

Men of the World as Lenny Smart

1993

Diana: Her True Story as Prince Charles

1992

Patriot Games as Inspector Highland

1991

A Murder of Quality as Stanley Rode
Titmuss Regained as Leslie Titmuss

1990

The Russia House as Wicklow
Nightingales as Bell

1989

When the Whales Came as Jack Jenkins
A Casualty of War as Tom Rowse

1987

The Marksman as Weaver

1986

Paradise Postponed as Leslie Titmus
Paradise Postponed as Leslie Titmuss

1984

Dog Ends as Robert

1983

King Lear as Edgar
Red Monarch as Vasily
The Gathering Seed as Joe Henshaw

1982

Rolling Home as Donald

1979

The Brylcreem Boys as George Hunn

1977

Scum as Archer

1976

1970

Play for Today as Robert

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Production

2004

Shameless as Executive Producer