Person Details

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Aliases: دیوید ترلفال

Gender: Male

Place of birth: Burnage, Manchester, England, UK

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Movie Involvements: 34

TV Involvements: 22


Most Famous Work

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.

Most Famous Work

Play for Today
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6

Play for Today

(1970) Robert
Playhouse
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7

Playhouse

(1974) George Hunn
Ripper Street
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7

Ripper Street

(2012) Abel Croker
Spooks
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8

Spooks

(2002) Keith Moran
Troy: Fall of a City
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6

Troy: Fall of a City

(2018) King Priam
Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire
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7

Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire

(2006) Constantine the Great
A Dinner of Herbs
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6

A Dinner of Herbs

(2000) Hal Royce (older)
Nightsleeper
Average
7

Nightsleeper

(2024) Paul Peveril

Acting

Year Character Movie/Tv
2025 Brian Mitchell
2024 Flop (voice)
Paul Peveril
Jim Bracknell
Tom King
2023 Sir Charles Rowan
George Parker
2022 Sir Charles Rowan
Self - Narrator (voice)
2021 Howard
2020 Teddy
Cream
2018 King Priam
2017 Samuel Beckett
2015 Rev Huw Owens
DCS David Baker
Noah
2014 Peters
Tommy Cooper
2013 Len Harper
2012 Abel Croker
Himself
2009 George Toogood Smith
2007 Dr. John Dee
Martin Blower
2006 Will Last
Constantine the Great
John Colbie
Jeffrey
2005 Prince Philip
2004 Carl Swannee
N/A
Frank Gallagher
2003 Preserved Killick, Captain's Steward
Donald Leek
2002 Keith Moran
Beauregard Smee
2001 Friedrich Wilhelm Kritzinger
2000 Hal Royce (older)
Aaron
1999 Joseph of Nazareth
Norman
N/A
1994 Lenny Smart
1993 Syl
Prince Charles
Alan
1992 Inspector Highland
1991 Stanley Rode
Leslie Titmuss
1990 Wicklow
Self
Bell
Andy
1989 Tom Rowse
Tony
Alex
Jack Jenkins
1987 Weaver
1986 Leslie Titmuss
Leslie Titmus
1984 Robert
1983 Joe Henshaw
Vasily
Edgar
1982 Donald
Donald
N/A
Self
1979 George Hunn
1977 Archer
Trevor
1976 Steve
1974 George Hunn
1970 Robert
Self - Panellist
Bunny Snr
Year Character Movie/Tv

Production

Year Role Movie/Tv
2004 Executive Producer
Year Role Movie/Tv

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