David Threlfall
Burnage, Manchester, England, UK

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.

Top 10 collaborators

Roles

Match
Bing & Friends: Birthday Celebration (2024)
Flop (voice)
Dodger Special: Bad Egg (2023)
Sir Charles Rowan
Dodger Special: Train (2022)
Sir Charles Rowan
Faith Healer (2020)
Teddy
Beckett Double Bill (Krapp's Last Tape / The Old Tune) (2020)
Cream
The Ark (2015)
Noah
Black Sea (2014)
Peters
Tommy Cooper: Not Like That, Like This (2014)
Tommy Cooper
Nowhere Boy (2009)
George Toogood Smith
Elizabeth: The Golden Age (2007)
Dr. John Dee
Hot Fuzz (2007)
Martin Blower
Housewife, 49 (2006)
Will Last
Like Minds (2006)
John Colbie
Alien Autopsy (2006)
Jeffrey
The Queen's Sister (2005)
Prince Philip
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003)
Preserved Killick, Captain's Steward
Chunky Monkey (2003)
Donald Leek
Conspiracy (2001)
Kritzinger
Mary, Mother of Jesus (1999)
Joseph of Nazareth
Sex, Chips & Rock n' Roll (1999)
The Summer House (1993)
Syl
Diana: Her True Story (1993)
Prince Charles
A Statement of Affairs (1993)
Alan
Patriot Games (1992)
Inspector Highland
A Murder of Quality (1991)
Stanley Rode
The Russia House (1990)
Wicklow
He's Asking For Me (1990)
Andy
A Casualty of War (1989)
Tom Rowse
Seeing in the Dark (1989)
Tony
Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story (1989)
Alex
When the Whales Came (1989)
Jack Jenkins
Paradise Postponed (1986)
Leslie Titmus
Dog Ends (1984)
Robert
Red Monarch (1983)
Vasily
King Lear (1983)
Edgar
Rolling Home (1982)
Donald
The Brylcreem Boys (1979)
George Hunn
Scum (1977)
Archer
The Kiss of Death (1977)
Trevor
I Want to Be Like You (1976)
Steve

Crew

No crew credits...