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
Hot Fuzz
Martin Blower
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
Preserved Killick, Captain's Steward
Patriot Games
Inspector Highland
Nowhere Boy
George Toogood Smith
Elizabeth: The Golden Age
Dr. John Dee
Conspiracy
Friedrich Wilhelm Kritzinger
Black Sea
Peters
Shameless
Frank Gallagher
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Filmography
Acting (81)
Movies (44)
Unforgivable
2025as Brian Mitchell
Bing & Friends: Birthday Celebration
2024as Flop (voice)
Dodger Special: Bad Egg
2023as Sir Charles Rowan
Dodger Special: Train
2022as Sir Charles Rowan
Faith Healer
2020as Teddy
Beckett Double Bill (Krapp's Last Tape / The Old Tune)
2020as Cream
The Ark
2015as Noah
Black Sea
2014as Peters
Tommy Cooper: Not Like That, Like This
2014as Tommy Cooper
Evidently... John Cooper Clarke
2012as Himself
Nowhere Boy
2009as George Toogood Smith
Hot Fuzz
2007as Martin Blower
Elizabeth: The Golden Age
2007as Dr. John Dee
Alien Autopsy
2006as Jeffrey
Like Minds
2006as John Colbie
Housewife, 49
2006as Will Last
The Queen's Sister
2005as Prince Philip
Benefit to Mankind
2004as Carl Swannee
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
2003as Preserved Killick, Captain's Steward
Chunky Monkey
2003as Donald Leek
Conspiracy
2001as Friedrich Wilhelm Kritzinger
Mary, Mother of Jesus
1999as Joseph of Nazareth
Sex, Chips & Rock n' Roll
1999 A Statement of Affairs
1993as Alan
The Clothes in the Wardrobe
1993as Syl
Diana: Her True Story
1993as Prince Charles
Patriot Games
1992as Inspector Highland
A Murder of Quality
1991as Stanley Rode
The Russia House
1990as Wicklow
He's Asking For Me
1990as Andy
When the Whales Came
1989as Jack Jenkins
Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story
1989as Alex
A Casualty of War
1989as Tom Rowse
Seeing in the Dark
1989as Tony
Paradise Postponed
1986as Leslie Titmus
Dog Ends
1984as Robert
King Lear
1983as Edgar
Red Monarch
1983as Vasily
Mike Leigh: Making Plays
1982as Self
Rolling Home
1982as Donald
The Brylcreem Boys
1979as George Hunn
Scum
1977as Archer
The Kiss of Death
1977as Trevor
I Want to Be Like You
1976as Steve
Television (37)
The Death of Bunny Munro
2025as Bunny Snr
The Completely Made-Up Adventures of Dick Turpin
2024as Tom King
Passenger
2024as Jim Bracknell
Nightsleeper
2024as Paul Peveril
Funny Woman
2023as George Parker
Art That Made Us
2022as Self - Narrator (voice)
Wolfe
2021as Howard
Troy: Fall of a City
2018as King Priam
Urban Myths
2017as Samuel Beckett
Code of a Killer
2015as DCS David Baker
Midwinter of the Spirit
2015as Rev Huw Owens
What Remains
2013as Len Harper
Ripper Street
2012as Abel Croker
Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire
2006as Constantine the Great
Shameless
2004as Frank Gallagher
Spooks
2002as Keith Moran
Cutting It
2002as Beauregard Smee
In the Beginning
2000as Aaron
A Dinner of Herbs
2000as Older Hal
Sex, Chips & Rock n' Roll
1999as Norman
Men of the World
1994as Lenny Smart
Titmuss Regained
1991as Leslie Titmuss
Have I Got News for You
1990as Self
Nightingales
1990as Bell
Jumping The Queue
1989as Hugh Warner
The Marksman
1987as Weaver
ScreenPlay
1986as Tony
Paradise Postponed
1986as Leslie Titmuss
Screen Two
1985as Andy
The Gathering Seed
1983as Joe Henshaw
The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby
1982
Objects of Affection
1982as Donald
Here I Stand...
1977as Stapleton
Playhouse
1974as George Hunn
Second City Firsts
1973as Gaz
Play for Today
1970as Robert
Have I Got a Bit More News for You
as Self - Panellist
Crew (2)
Television (2)
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