Alun Armstrong
Alun Armstrong is a prolific English character actor. Armstrong grew up in County Durham in North East England. He first became interested in acting through Shakespeare productions at his grammar school. Since his career began in the early 1970s, he has played, in his words, "the full spectrum of characters from the grotesque to musicals... I always play very colourful characters, often a bit crazy, despotic, psychotic." His numerous credits include six different Dickens adaptations and seven series as eccentric ex-detective Brian Lane in New Tricks. Armstrong is also an accomplished stage actor who spent nine years with the Royal Shakespeare Company. He originated the role of Thénardier in the London production of Les Misérables and he won an Olivier Award for playing the title role in Sweeney Todd.
Paradise Found
(Camille Pissarro)
The Saint
(Inspector Teal)
Krull
(Torquil)
The Mummy Returns
(Baltus Hafez)
Eragon
(Uncle Garrow)
Sleepy Hollow
(High Constable)
An Awfully Big Adventure
(Uncle Vernon)
The Nicky Nack
Van Helsing: The London Assignment
(Cardinal Jinetta (voice))
Van Helsing
(Cardinal Jinette)
It's All About Love
(David)
Split Second
(Thrasher)
Patriot Games
(Owens)
MacGyver: Trail to Doomsday
(Capshaw)
Black Beauty
(Reuben Smith)
Les Misérables: 10th Anniversary Concert at the Royal Albert Hall
(Thenardier)
Sticky Wickets
(Evans)
G:MT Greenwich Mean Time
(Uncle Henry)
The Duellists
(Lieutenant Lacourbe)
Breaking the Code
(Mick Ross)
Carrie's War
(Mr. Samuel Evans)
Filth: The Mary Whitehouse Story
(Ernest Whitehouse)
Number One
(Blackpool Police Sergeant)
Witness Against Hitler
(Pastor Harold Poelchau)
Billy the Kid and the Green Baize Vampire
(Maxwell Randall, The Green Baize Vampire)
Our Day Out
(Mr. Briggs)
When I'm Sixty-Four
(Jim)
The Girls Who Came to Stay
(Bob Jenkins)
London Kills Me
(John Stone)
White Hunter, Black Heart
(Ralph Lockhart)
Les Misérables: 25th Anniversary in Concert
(Monsieur Thenardier (1985 Cast))
Fear of God
(Trahearne)
Looking After Number One
(Dick)
The 14
(Tommy)
The Childeater
(Stefano)
With or Without You
(Sammy)
Blue Ice
(Osgood)
This Is Personal: The Hunt for the Yorkshire Ripper
(Asst. Chief Const. George Oldfield)
Braveheart
(Mornay)
A Night on the Tyne
(Willy)
All Day on the Sands
The Likely Lads
(Tommy)
The Dinner Party
(Jim)
The Widowmaker
(Dad)
Risking It
(Richard Clewes)
Sorry About Last Night
(Mickey)
The Choral
Golden Years
(Sid)
Doggin' Around
(Charlie Foster)
Get Carter
(Keith)
A Bridge Too Far
(Cpl. Davies)
Harrison's Flowers
(Samuel Brubeck)
That Summer of White Roses
Asunder
(Self - Narrator (voice))
Inquisition
(Martin)
Brazen Hussies
(Jimmy Hardcastle)
Funny Cow
(Lenny)
Oliver Twist
(Magistrate Fang)
Strictly Sinatra
(Bill)
Millions
(Saint Peter)
Possum
(Maurice)
Score
(George)
7 Up 2000
(Himself - Narrator)
Proof of Life
(Wyatt)
Only Make Believe
(Michael Biddle)
Mr Moon's Last Case
(Narrator)
Out of Innocence
(Detective Callaghan)
Aristocrats
(Lord Holland)
The House
(Mr. Smeth)
Measure for Measure
(Provost)
The French Lieutenant's Woman
(Grimes)
Shooting the Chandelier
(Brodovich)
Easy Go
(First docker)
The Sex Victims
(George)
Onegin
(Zaretsky)
Nineteen96
(Det. Supt. Frank Burroughs)
The Eyes Have It
(Mike)
The Caucasian Chalk Circle
(Singer)
American Friends
(Dr. Weeks)
Freedom of the Dig
(Quinn)
Liza
(Mikhalevich)
Breaking The Codes
The Sweeney
(Peter Jenner)
Thriller
(Mike)
Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads?
(Scaife)
Tales from the Crypt
(Inspector Herbert)
Bleak House
(Inspector Bucket)
Inspector Morse
(Superintendent Holdsby)
The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby
A Sharp Intake of Breath
Between The Sheets
(Peter Delany)
Sparkhouse
(Richard Bolton)
The Storyteller
The New Avengers
Our Friends in the North
(Austin Donohue)
Little Dorrit
(Ephraim Flintwinch)
Play for Today
(1st Docker)
New Tricks
(Brian Lane)
Bedtime
(Neil Henshaw)
Get Lost!
(Neville Keaton)
Underworld
BBC Play of the Month
(Lightborne)
Porridge
(Spraggon)
BBC Television Shakespeare
Adrian Mole: The Cappuccino Years
(George Mole)
A Passionate Woman
(Donald (1980s))
Garrow's Law
(John Southouse)
Murder in Eden
(Sgt. McGing)
Father Brown
Penny Dreadful
(Vincent Brand)
This Is Personal: The Hunt for the Yorkshire Ripper
(Asst. Chief Const. George Oldfield)
Tom Jones
(Squire Western)
Frontier
(Lord Benton)
Messiah
(DCI Charlie McIntyre)
In the Red
(DCI Frank Jefferson)
Downton Abbey
(Stowell)
Dark Angel
(George Stot)
Married... with Children
(Trevor)
Enemy at the Door
(Louis Mendoza)
Prime Suspect 1973
(Clifford Bentley)
The Stars Look Down
(Joe Gowlan)
Justice
(Bob Graham)
A.D.
(Gamesmaster)
Oliver Twist
(Mr. Fleming)
Stanley and the Women
(Rufus Hilton)
Goggle Eyes
(Gerald 'Goggle Eyes' Faulkner)
David Copperfield
(Dan Peggotty)
Days of Hope
(Billy Shepherd)
Sherwood
(Gary Jackson)
MacGyver
(Chief Superintendent Capshaw)
Breeders
(Jim)
Extinct
(Himself - Narrator)
The Hollow Crown
(Northumberland)
Year of the Rabbit
(Chief Inspector Hugh Wisbech)
Public Eye
(Vince Gregson)
Shakespeare: The Animated Tales
(Caliban (voice))
Play for Today
(Mr Briggs)
The Mystery of Edwin Drood
(Hiram Grewgious)