Stanley Townsend
Stanley Townsend (born August 1961) is an Irish actor. Townsend was born and brought up in Dublin. After attending Wesley College, Dublin, he studied mathematics and civil engineering at Trinity College. While there he joined the Dublin University Players, the college's Amateur Dramatic Society. He later co-founded co-operative theatre company Rough Magic with writer/director Declan Hughes and theatre director Lynne Parker, performing in numerous productions including The Country Wife, Nightshade, and Sexual Perversity in Chicago. He subsequently went on to perform in several productions at The Gate and The Abbey Theatres in Dublin. In London, he has worked with such directors as Sam Mendes in The Plough and the Stars, Richard Eyre in Guys and Dolls and Rufus Norris in Under the Blue Sky. Theatre appearances at the Royal Court include The Alice Trilogy directed by Ian Rickson and Shining City directed by Conor McPherson, for which he won an Irish Theatre Award and was nominated for the Evening Standard Theatre Award for Best Actor in 2004. Townsend's television work began on a number of shows for RTÉ in Dublin. Since moving to London, television appearances have included Spooks, The Commander, Hustle, Waking the Dead, and Omagh Bombing. ilm credits include Mike Newell's Into the West, Jim Sheridan's In the Name of the Father with Daniel Day-Lewis, The Van by Stephen Frears, Peter Greenaway's The Tulse Luper Suitcases, The Libertine with Johnny Depp, Paul Morrison's Wondrous Oblivion with Delroy Lindo, John Boorman's The Tiger's Tale and Michael Radford's Flawless. He currently lives in London.
Happy-Go-Lucky
(Tramp)
The Nativity Story
(Zechariah)
The Libertine
(Keown)
Wondrous Oblivion
(Victor)
Dot.Kill
(Capt. Tommy Byrnes)
Isolation
(Garda Hourigan)
Flawless
(Henry)
Altmann's Tongue
(Narrator)
National Theatre Live: Phèdre
(Theseus)
Holy Water
(Inspector Brian Hogan)
Monsieur N.
(Dr. O'Meara)
Killing Bono
(Danny Machin)
My Friend Joe
(Mr. Doyle)
Mystics
(Mickey Mac)
The Pizza Miracle
(Gianni)
The Miracle
(Washington, Destry Rides Again)
Burton and Taylor
(Milton Katselas)
Phil Lynott: The Long Goodbye
(Narrator)
Psychomanteum
(Narrator)
Lovely Louise
(Bill)
The Teacher
(Simon Cohen)
Taffin
(Les)
Standby
(Paul)
The Voices
(Sheriff Weinbacher)
Cars 2
(Victor Hugo / Vladimir Trunkov / Ivan the Tow Truck (voice))
Rat
(Newsreader)
Beyond Reason
(John Horan)
In the Name of the Father
(Hooker's Driver)
The Physician
(Bar Kappara)
Fallen
(Mara)
Hilde
(David O. Selznick)
Byron
(Turkish Governor)
Florence Foster Jenkins
(Phineas Stark)
Station Jim
(Matapan)
What a Girl Wants
(Bride's Father)
Omagh
(Sam Pollock)
National Theatre Live: King Lear
(The Earl of Kent)
National Theatre Live: All About Eve
(Addison Dewett)
The Van
(Des, Health Inspector)
The Snapper
(Anaesthetist)
Inside I'm Dancing
(Interview Panelist)
The Current War
(Franklin Pope)
One Chance
(Luciano Pavarotti)
A Girl from Mogadishu
(Joe Costello)
The Song of Names
(Gilbert)
Agatha and the Curse of Ishtar
(Sir Constance)
Ink
Saddam's Tribe
(Saddam)
Another Turn of the Screw
(Henry James)
Kinked
Once Upon A Time In A Cinema
(Harry Conway)
Thin Lizzy: Outlawed - The Real Phil Lynott
(Narrator)
National Theatre Live: Retrograde
(Mr Parks)
The Uprising
Titanic: Blood and Steel
(Rex Riley)
Heartbeat
(Igor Saukas)
Spooks
(Roy Woodring)
Sherlock
(Angelo)
Hallmark Hall of Fame
(Constable)
The Commander
Zen
(Moscati)
Quirke
(Inspector Hackett)
Galavant
(King of Valencia)
Murder City
Ballykissangel
(Micky Keeler)
Fresh Meat
(John Frobisher)
Toast of London
Hustle
(Johnny Keyes)
Peak Practice
(Keith Johnson)
The Ambassador
Jonathan Creek
(Det. Inspector Barrison)
Waking the Dead
(DI Bailey)
Wire in the Blood
Becoming Elizabeth
(Anthony Denny)
Ripper Street
(Aiden Galvin)
Fleming
(Colonel William Donovan)
Jake's Progress
(Consultant)
Call the Midwife
(Father Joe)
Whistleblower
(Michael Neary)
Blackshore
(Bill McGuire)
The Regime
(Emil Bartos)
Resistance
(Senator Daniel Shea)
Andor
(Commandant Jayhold Beehaz)
The Hollow Crown
(Warwick)
The Spy
(General Ad-Din)
KAOS
(President Minos)
Foyle's War
(Jose De Perez)
24
(Anatol Stolnavich)
New Worlds
(Colonel Blood)