David Threlfall
Highest Rated: 100% Conspiracy (2001)
Lowest Rated: 35% Elizabeth: The Golden Age (2007)
Birthday: Oct 12, 1953
Birthplace: Burnage, Manchester, England, UK
While attending high school in England, David Threlfall was encouraged by two separate teachers to try his hand at stage acting. After graduation he quickly enrolled at the Manchester Metropolitan School of Theatre, and thus a passion was born. Some of the plays Threlfall appeared in during this time include the dramas "The Sons of Light" and "A&R," both produced by the prestigious Royal Shakespeare Company in London. By the late 1970s, however, Threlfall began appearing in television dramas such as "Here I Stand" and "BBC2 Playhouse," as well as the 1982 mini-series "The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby." Throughout the 1980s, Threlfall appeared almost exclusively in British TV shows and made-for-TV movies, including the drama "Objects of Affection," the comedy "Lenny Henry Tonite," and the 1983 television adaptation of Shakespeare's "King Lear," in which he starred alongside the legendary Laurence Olivier. He received rave reviews for his role as Prince Charles in the 1993 made-for-TV movie "Diana: Her True Story," and followed that up by playing another historical role, this time as Charles' father, Prince Phillip, in 2005's "The Queen's Sister." In 2004, he landed his most notable role as Frank Gallagher, the patriarch of a dysfunctional family in a fictional working-class neighborhood of Manchester, England, on the British comedic drama "Shameless."
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David Threlfall
Filmography
Movies
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No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Noah's Ark | Noah (Character) | - | 2015 |
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Noah's Ark | Unknown (Character) | - | 2015 |
81% |
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Black Sea | Peters (Character) | $1.2M | 2014 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Tommy Cooper: Not Like That, Like This | Tommy Cooper (Character) | - | 2014 |
80% |
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Nowhere Boy | George Smith (Character) | $1.4M | 2009 |
35% |
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Elizabeth: The Golden Age | Dr. John Dee (Character) | $16.3M | 2007 |
75% |
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Alien Autopsy | Geoffrey (Character) | - | 2006 |
No Score Yet |
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Housewife 49 | Unknown (Character) | - | 2006 |
38% |
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Like Minds | John Colby (Character) | - | 2006 |
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The Queen's Sister | Prince Philip - Duke of Edinburgh (Character) | - | 2005 |
85% |
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Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World | Killick (Character) | $93.9M | 2003 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Chunky Monkey | Donald Leek (Character) | - | 2001 |
100% |
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Conspiracy | Supervising Butler (Character) | - | 2001 |
No Score Yet |
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Chunky Monkey | Unknown (Character) | - | 2001 |
No Score Yet |
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A History of Britain | Unknown (Character) | - | 2001 |
No Score Yet |
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Mary, Mother of Jesus | Joseph of Nazareth (Character) | - | 1999 |
73% |
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The Summer House | Syl (Character) | $2.1M | 1993 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Diana: Her True Story | Unknown (Character) | - | 1993 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Fighting for Gemma | Martyn Day (Character) | - | 1993 |
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A Murder of Quality | Stanley Rode (Character) | - | 1991 |
70% |
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The Russia House | Wicklow (Character) | $22.6M | 1990 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | A Casualty of War | Tom Rowse (Character) | - | 1990 |
60% |
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When the Whales Came | Jack Jenkins (Character) | $37.0K | 1989 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Jumping the Queue | Hugh Warner (Character) | - | 1988 |
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King Lear | Edgar (Character) | - | 1983 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Red Monarch | Vasily (Character) | - | 1983 |
TV
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50% | 67% | Passenger | Jim Bracknell (Character) | 2024 |
73% | 79% | Funny Woman | George Parker (Character) | 2022 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Art That Made Us | Narrator | 2022 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Dodger | Chief of Police, Sir Charles Rowan (Character) | 2022 |
67% | No Score Yet | Isolation Stories | Granddad (Character) | 2020 |
68% | 22% | Troy: Fall of a City | Priam (Character) | 2018 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Urban Myths | Samuel Beckett (Character) | 2017 |
94% | 91% | Ripper Street | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2016 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | What Remains | Len Harper (Character) | 2013 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Shameless |
Frank Gallagher (Character), Director, Executive Producer |
2004-2013 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Spooks | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2005 |