Alun Armstrong

Actor Jul 17 (age 79) Annfield Plain, County Durham, England, UK 1965–2025 (60 year career)

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Biography

Alun Armstrong is a prolific English character actor. Armstrong grew up in County Durham in North East England. He first became interested in acting through Shakespeare productions at his grammar school. Since his career began in the early 1970s, he has played, in his words, "the full spectrum of characters from the grotesque to musicals... I always play very colourful characters, often a bit crazy, despotic, psychotic." His numerous credits include six different Dickens adaptations and seven …

Known For

Film

Braveheart

Mornay

Film

Sleepy Hollow

High Constable

Film

The Mummy Returns

Baltus Hafez

Film

Van Helsing

Cardinal Jinette

Film

Patriot Games

Owens

Film

A Bridge Too Far

Cpl. Davies

Film

Oliver Twist

Magistrate Fang

Film

The Duellists

Lieutenant Lacourbe

Filmography

Acting (148)

Movies (87)

The Choral

as Herbert Trickett

The Nicky Nack

Breaking The Codes

Out of Innocence

as Detective Callaghan

Funny Cow

as Lenny

Possum

as Maurice

Asunder

as Self - Narrator (voice)

Golden Years

2016

as Sid

6.3

Les Misérables: 25th Anniversary in Concert

2010

as Monsieur Thenardier (1985 Cast)

8.2

Filth: The Mary Whitehouse Story

as Ernest Whitehouse

The Dinner Party

as Jim

Eragon

as Uncle Garrow

The Girls Who Came to Stay

as Bob Jenkins

Millions

as Saint Peter

Oliver Twist

as Magistrate Fang

Van Helsing

as Cardinal Jinette

Van Helsing: The London Assignment

2004

as Cardinal Jinetta (voice)

Carrie's War

as Mr. Samuel Evans

When I'm Sixty-Four

as Jim

It's All About Love

as David

Paradise Found

as Camille Pissarro

Inquisition

as Martin

The Mummy Returns

as Baltus Hafez

Strictly Sinatra

as Bill

Score

as George

Proof of Life

as Wyatt

Harrison's Flowers

as Samuel Brubeck

7 Up 2000

as Himself - Narrator

This Is Personal: The Hunt for the Yorkshire Ripper

2000

as Asst. Chief Const. George Oldfield

7.0

Sleepy Hollow

1999

as High Constable

7.2

G:MT Greenwich Mean Time

as Uncle Henry

Onegin

as Zaretsky

With or Without You

as Sammy

Aristocrats

as Lord Holland

The Saint

as Inspector Teal

Brazen Hussies

as Jimmy Hardcastle

Breaking the Code

as Mick Ross

Witness Against Hitler

1996

as Pastor Harold Poelchau

6.0

Braveheart

1995

as Mornay

7.9

An Awfully Big Adventure

1995

as Uncle Vernon

6.5

Les Misérables: 10th Anniversary Concert at the Royal Albert Hall

1995

as Thenardier

8.7

Sorry About Last Night

as Mickey

Black Beauty

as Reuben Smith

MacGyver: Trail to Doomsday

as Capshaw

Doggin' Around

as Charlie Foster

The Tempest

as Caliban

Patriot Games

as Owens

Split Second

as Thrasher

Blue Ice

as Osgood

American Friends

as Dr. Weeks

London Kills Me

as John Stone

The Widowmaker

as Dad

Looking After Number One

1990

as Dick

Sticky Wickets

1990

as Evans

White Hunter, Black Heart

as Ralph Lockhart

The Childeater

as Stefano

That Summer of White Roses

1989

as Zemba

5.3

Nineteen96

1989

as Det. Supt. Frank Burroughs

A Night on the Tyne

1989

as Willy

Number 27

1988

as Murray Lester

The Storyteller: The True Bride

1988

as Troll (Voice)

The Caucasian Chalk Circle

1985

as Singer

Billy the Kid and the Green Baize Vampire

1985

as Maxwell Randall, The Green Baize Vampire

5.9

Number One

1985

as Blackpool Police Sergeant

The House

as Mr. Smeth

Krull

as Torquil

Mr Moon's Last Case

as Narrator

The French Lieutenant's Woman

1981

as Grimes

6.4

Fear of God

1980

as Trahearne

Measure for Measure

as Provost

All Day on the Sands

Freedom of the Dig

as Quinn

Liza

1978

as Mikhalevich

A Bridge Too Far

1977

as Cpl. Davies

7.2

The Duellists

1977

as Lieutenant Lacourbe

Our Day Out

as Mr. Briggs

Risking It

as Richard Clewes

Shooting the Chandelier

1977

as Brodovich

The Likely Lads

1976

as Tommy

6.1

The Chester Mystery Plays

1976

as Lightborne

Easy Go

1974

as First docker

The Eyes Have It

as Mike

The 14

as Tommy

The Sex Victims

as George

Only Make Believe

as Michael Biddle

Get Carter

1971

as Keith

7.0

My Little Eye

as Dad

Television (61)

After the Flood

as Alan Benson

Tom Jones

as Squire Western

Sherwood

as Gary Jackson

Remembers…

as Self

Breeders

2020

as Jim

6.9

Year of the Rabbit

2019

as Chief Inspector Hugh Wisbech

Prime Suspect 1973

as Clifford Bentley

Frontier

as Lord Benton

Dark Angel

as George Stot

Penny Dreadful

as Vincent Brand

The Hollow Crown

as Northumberland

The Mystery of Edwin Drood

as Hiram Grewgious

Downton Abbey

as Stowell

A Passionate Woman

as Donald (1980s)

Garrow's Law

as John Southouse

Little Dorrit

as Ephraim Flintwinch

Bleak House

as Inspector Bucket

New Tricks

as Brian Lane

New Tricks

as Brian Lane

Between The Sheets

as Peter Delany

Sparkhouse

as Richard Bolton

Messiah

as DCI Charlie McIntyre

7.2

Bedtime

2001

as Neil Henshaw

2.0

Adrian Mole: The Cappuccino Years

2001

as George Mole

4.5

Extinct

2001

as Himself - Narrator

8.0

This Is Personal: The Hunt for the Yorkshire Ripper

2000

as Asst. Chief Const. George Oldfield

David Copperfield

as Dan Peggotty

Oliver Twist

as Mr. Fleming

In the Red

as DCI Frank Jefferson

5.5

Underworld

1997

7.0

Our Friends in the North

1996

as Austin Donohue

7.4

Goggle Eyes

1993

as Gerald 'Goggle Eyes' Faulkner

Shakespeare: The Animated Tales

as Caliban (voice)

Murder in Eden

as Sgt. McGing

Stanley and the Women

as Rufus Hilton

Tales from the Crypt

as Inspector Herbert

The Storyteller

as Troll (voice)

Married... with Children

1987

as Trevor

7.7

Inspector Morse

1987

as Superintendent Holdsby

7.9

MacGyver

1985

as Chief Superintendent Capshaw

7.7

A.D.

1985

as Gamesmaster

5.1

The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby

Get Lost!

as Neville Keaton

Enemy at the Door

as Louis Mendoza

Armchair Thriller

as Trahearne

BBC2 Play of the Week

1977

as Brodovich

7.0

A Sharp Intake of Breath

1977

7.0

The New Avengers

1976

as Private George Harris

The Sweeney

as Peter Jenner

Days of Hope

as Billy Shepherd

The Stars Look Down

as Joe Gowlan

Porridge

as Spraggon

Father Brown

as Joe

Thriller

as Mike

Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads?

as Scaife

Centre Play

as Richard Clewes

Great Performances

as Thénardier

Justice

as Bob Graham

Play for Today

as 1st Docker

BBC Play of the Month

as Lightborne

Public Eye

as Vince Gregson