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David Threlfall

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

Born: Burnage, Manchester, England, UK, 1953-10-12

Died: null

Film

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1976	I Want to Be Like You	Steve	0
2	1977	The Kiss of Death	Trevor	63
3	1977	Scum	Archer	74
4	1979	The Brylcreem Boys	George Hunn	0
5	1982	Mike Leigh: Making Plays	Self	80
6	1982	Rolling Home	Donald	0
7	1983	King Lear	Edgar	65
8	1983	Red Monarch	Vasily	50
9	1984	Dog Ends	Robert	0
10	1986	Paradise Postponed	Leslie Titmus	70
11	1989	When the Whales Came	Jack Jenkins	64
12	1989	Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story	Alex	66
13	1989	Seeing in the Dark	Tony	0
14	1989	A Casualty of War	Tom Rowse	0
15	1990	He's Asking For Me	Andy	0
16	1990	The Russia House	Wicklow	61
17	1991	A Murder of Quality	Stanley Rode	55
18	1992	Patriot Games	Inspector Highland	67
19	1993	A Statement of Affairs	Alan	0
20	1993	Diana: Her True Story	Prince Charles	17
21	1993	The Summer House	Syl	54
22	1999	Sex, Chips & Rock n' Roll		0
23	1999	Mary, Mother of Jesus	Joseph of Nazareth	42
24	2001	Conspiracy	Friedrich Wilhelm Kritzinger	73
25	2003	Chunky Monkey	Donald Leek	20
26	2003	Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World	Preserved Killick, Captain's Steward	72
27	2004	Benefit to Mankind	Carl Swannee	0
28	2005	The Queen's Sister	Prince Philip	55
29	2006	Alien Autopsy	Jeffrey	56
30	2006	Like Minds	John Colbie	63
31	2006	Housewife, 49	Will Last	63
32	2007	Hot Fuzz	Martin Blower	76
33	2007	Elizabeth: The Golden Age	Dr. John Dee	67
34	2009	Nowhere Boy	George Toogood Smith	72
35	2012	Evidently... John Cooper Clarke	Himself	90
36	2014	Tommy Cooper: Not Like That, Like This	Tommy Cooper	69
37	2014	Black Sea	Peters	63
38	2015	The Ark	Noah	57
39	2020	Beckett Double Bill (Krapp's Last Tape / The Old Tune)	Cream	0
40	2020	Faith Healer	Teddy	0
41	2022	Dodger Special: Train	Sir Charles Rowan	0
42	2023	Dodger Special: Bad Egg	Sir Charles Rowan	0
43	2024	Bing & Friends: Birthday Celebration	Flop (voice)	0
44		Untitled Jimmy McGovern Drama		0

Television

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1970	Play for Today	Robert	63
2	1974	Playhouse	George Hunn	70
3	1982	The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby		70
4	1982	Objects of Affection	Donald	70
5	1983	The Gathering Seed	Joe Henshaw	0
6	1986	Paradise Postponed	Leslie Titmuss	50
7	1987	The Marksman	Weaver	0
8	1990	Nightingales	Bell	64
9	1990	Have I Got News for You	Self	71
10	1991	Titmuss Regained	Leslie Titmuss	0
11	1994	Men of the World	Lenny Smart	50
12	1999	Sex, Chips & Rock n' Roll	Norman	65
13	2000	In the Beginning	Aaron	60
14	2000	A Dinner of Herbs	Hal Royce (older)	60
15	2002	Cutting It	Beauregard Smee	67
16	2002	Spooks	Keith Moran	77
17	2004	Shameless		75
18	2004	Shameless	Frank Gallagher	75
19	2006	Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire	Constantine the Great	73
20	2012	Ripper Street	Abel Croker	74
21	2013	What Remains	Len Harper	73
22	2015	Code of a Killer	DCS David Baker	73
23	2015	Midwinter of the Spirit	Rev Huw Owens	65
24	2017	Urban Myths	Samuel Beckett	74
25	2018	Troy: Fall of a City	King Priam	59
26	2021	Wolfe	Howard	60
27	2022	Art That Made Us	Self - Narrator (voice)	55
28	2023	Funny Woman	George Parker	69
29	2024	The Completely Made-Up Adventures of Dick Turpin	Tom King	65
30	2024	Passenger	Jim Bracknell	65
31	2024	Nightsleeper	Paul Peveril	67
32		Have I Got a Bit More News for You	Self - Panellist	70
33		The Death of Bunny Munro	Bunny Snr	0