John Shrapnel
Age: 77 | From: Birmingham, England, UK
Person Details
Birthday: 1942-04-27 11:22:14
Death: 2020-02-14 11:22:14
Aliases: John Morley Shrapnel
Gender: Male
Place of birth: Birmingham, England, UK
Homepage:
Movie Involvements: 60
TV Involvements: 22
Most Famous Work
Biography
Shrapnel was born in Birmingham, Warwickshire, the son of Mary Lillian Myfanwy (née Edwards) and journalist/author Norman Shrapnel.[1] As a stage actor, he was a member of Laurence Olivier's Royal National Theatre company and the Royal Shakespeare Company and most recently appeared as Sir Oliver Surface in The School for Scandal (directed by Deborah Warner) at the Barbican Centre in 2011. He has also appeared extensively in film and on television in roles in Elizabeth R, Z-Cars, Edward and Mrs. Simpson, 101 Dalmatians, Space: 1999, Inspector Morse, Coogan's Run, Notting Hill and Foyle's War. He presented an episode of the 1983 BBC television travel series Great Little Railways. He gave performances in three entries in the BBC Television Shakespeare plays and as Creon in the BBC's 1984 productions of the Three Theban plays of Sophocles. In America, he has starred in supporting roles as Senator Gaius in Gladiator, Nestor in Troy and Pompey in the second episode of Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire. He also played the Jail Warden in the 10th Kingdom, an epic fantasy miniseries. He has the rare achievement of appearing in two episodes of Midsomer Murders as two different characters, in Death in Chorus and Written in Blood. Shrapnel appeared in an episode of Jonathan Creek as Professor Lance Graumann in the episode The Omega Man. He appears in Chemical Wedding alongside Simon Callow, telling the tale of the resurrection of occultist Aleister Crowley. Shrapnel also has experience in the field of BBC radio drama through such characters as Colin Dexter's Inspector Morse and William Gibson's Neuromancer. He is the son-in-law of Deborah Kerr through his 1975 marriage to her younger daughter Francesca Ann Bartley. They have three sons, the actors Lex Shrapnel (b.1979), Tom Shrapnel (b.1981) and the writer Joe Shrapnel (b.1976). They live in Highbury, north London.
Most Famous Work
Midsomer Murders
(1997) Leo Clarke
Natural World
(1983) Narrator
Merlin
(2008) The Sarrum
Between the Lines
(1992) D.C.C. Dunning
Edward and Mrs Simpson
(1978) Major Alexander Hardinge
Space: 1999
(1975) Jack Tanner
Shakespeare: The Animated Tales
(1992) Claudius / The Ghost (voice)
Waking the Dead
(2000) John ChristieActing
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 2022 | N/A | |
| 2017 | Archbishop of Canterbury | |
| Narrator (Voice) | ||
| 2015 | Camilo | |
| Claudius/Ghost | ||
| 2014 | Creon | |
| Narrator | ||
| 2013 | Duncan, King of Scotland/Seyton, attendant to Macbeth/Old Man | |
| 2011 | Reverend Hugh Purslow | |
| 2009 | Théramène | |
| Father | ||
| 2008 | Cardinal Bukovak | |
| The Sarrum | ||
| General Grey | ||
| Lorenzo Sapelli | ||
| Crowley | ||
| 2007 | Himself (Narrator) | |
| Lord Howard | ||
| 2006 | Pompey | |
| Michael Kuhn | ||
| 2005 | Narrator (English Version) | |
| Archbishop | ||
| 2004 | Narrator | |
| Nestor | ||
| Narrator | ||
| Narrator | ||
| DAC John Felsham | ||
| Narrator | ||
| 2003 | Narrator | |
| Narrator | ||
| 2002 | Narrator (English Version) | |
| Paul | ||
| Admiral Bratyeev | ||
| Lex Vandenberg | ||
| Hannah | ||
| Sergent Mike McCaffrey | ||
| 2001 | Narrator | |
| Narrator | ||
| Moshe Cohen | ||
| 2000 | Narrator | |
| John Christie | ||
| Gaius | ||
| Governor of Prison | ||
| 1999 | Simon | |
| PR Chief | ||
| General Charette | ||
| Iwaszkiewicz | ||
| 1998 | Air Marshal Bentley | |
| 1997 | Narrator (English voice) | |
| N/A | ||
| Prof. Lance Graumann | ||
| Commander Alan MacIntyre | ||
| Leo Clarke | ||
| Max Jennings | ||
| 1996 | Skinner | |
| Cinca | ||
| 1995 | N/A | |
| Mr. Justice Griffin | ||
| Samuel Pepys | ||
| 1994 | General Globus | |
| Dr. Sam Malvern | ||
| 1992 | Claudius / The Ghost (voice) | |
| Deputy Assistant Commissioner Dunning | ||
| D.C.C. Dunning | ||
| Narrator | ||
| 1991 | Gerd Schulte-Hillen | |
| Dr Jacobs | ||
| 1990 | BKA Police Chief | |
| Claud Wareing | ||
| 1989 | N/A | |
| Psychiatrist | ||
| 1988 | Andre Zhdanov | |
| 1987 | General Flood | |
| Lionel | ||
| 1986 | Creon | |
| Creon | ||
| Creon | ||
| 1985 | Rev. Charles Tucker Eland | |
| George Sims | ||
| 1983 | Narrator | |
| 1982 | Earl of Kent | |
| Sir Percival Glyde | ||
| 1981 | Hector | |
| Alcibiades | ||
| 1980 | N/A | |
| 1979 | Matthias Erzberger | |
| 1978 | Major Alexander Hardinge | |
| Maj. Alexander Hardinge | ||
| 1977 | McKendrick | |
| 1976 | Leonard Brazil (voice) | |
| 1975 | Tipaldi | |
| Jack Tanner | ||
| 1972 | Father James | |
| 1971 | Petya | |
| Roger Anderson | ||
| Earl of Sussex | ||
| 1969 | Jamie | |
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
