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.
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Movies (28)
Unforgivable
as Brian Mitchell
2025
Bing & Friends: Birthday Celebration
as Flop (voice)
2024
Dodger Special: Bad Egg
as Sir Charles Rowan
2023
Dodger Special: Train
as Sir Charles Rowan
2022
Faith Healer
as Teddy
2020
Beckett Double Bill (Krapp's Last Tape / The Old Tune)
as Cream
2020
The Ark
as Noah
2015
Black Sea
as Peters
2014
Tommy Cooper: Not Like That, Like This
as Tommy Cooper
2014
Evidently... John Cooper Clarke
as Himself
2012
Nowhere Boy
as George Toogood Smith
2009
Elizabeth: The Golden Age
as Dr. John Dee
2007
Hot Fuzz
as Martin Blower
2007
Housewife, 49
as Will Last
2006
Like Minds
as John Colbie
2006
Alien Autopsy
as Jeffrey
2006
The Queen's Sister
as Prince Philip
2005
Benefit to Mankind
as Carl Swannee
2004
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
as Preserved Killick, Captain's Steward
2003
Chunky Monkey
as Donald Leek
2003
Conspiracy
as Friedrich Wilhelm Kritzinger
2001
Mary, Mother of Jesus
as Joseph of Nazareth
1999
Sex, Chips & Rock n' Roll
1999
The Clothes in the Wardrobe
as Syl
1993
Diana: Her True Story
as Prince Charles
1993
A Statement of Affairs
as Alan
1993
Patriot Games
as Inspector Highland
1992
A Murder of Quality
as Stanley Rode
1991
TV Shows (22)
The Death of Bunny Munro
as Bunny Snr
2025
Nightsleeper
as Paul Peveril
2024
Passenger
as Jim Bracknell
2024
The Completely Made-Up Adventures of Dick Turpin
as Tom King
2024
Funny Woman
as George Parker
2023
Art That Made Us
as Self - Narrator (voice)
2022
Wolfe
as Howard
2021
Troy: Fall of a City
as King Priam
2018
Urban Myths
as Samuel Beckett
2017
Midwinter of the Spirit
as Rev Huw Owens
2015
Code of a Killer
as DCS David Baker
2015
What Remains
as Len Harper
2013
Ripper Street
as Abel Croker
2012
Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire
as Constantine the Great
2006
Shameless
as Frank Gallagher
2004
Spooks
as Keith Moran
2002
Cutting It
as Beauregard Smee
2002
A Dinner of Herbs
as Older Hal
2000
In the Beginning
as Aaron
2000
Sex, Chips & Rock n' Roll
as Norman
1999
Men of the World
as Lenny Smart
1994
Titmuss Regained
as Leslie Titmuss
1991