David Threlfall

ActorDirectorProducer Oct 12 (age 72) Burnage, Manchester, England, UK 1970–2025 (55 year career)

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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.

Known For

Film

Hot Fuzz

Martin Blower

Film

Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World

Preserved Killick, Captain's Steward

Film

Patriot Games

Inspector Highland

Film

Nowhere Boy

George Toogood Smith

Film

Elizabeth: The Golden Age

Dr. John Dee

Film

Black Sea

Peters

Film

Conspiracy

Friedrich Wilhelm Kritzinger

Film

Shameless

Frank Gallagher

Filmography

Acting (76)

Movies (44)

Unforgivable

2025

as Brian Mitchell

7.8

Bing & Friends: Birthday Celebration

2024

as Flop (voice)

Dodger Special: Bad Egg

2023

as Sir Charles Rowan

Dodger Special: Train

2022

as Sir Charles Rowan

Faith Healer

2020

as Teddy

Beckett Double Bill (Krapp's Last Tape / The Old Tune)

2020

as Cream

The Ark

as Noah

Black Sea

as Peters

Tommy Cooper: Not Like That, Like This

2014

as Tommy Cooper

6.9

Evidently... John Cooper Clarke

2012

as Himself

9.0

Nowhere Boy

2009

as George Toogood Smith

7.2

Hot Fuzz

2007

as Martin Blower

7.6

Elizabeth: The Golden Age

as Dr. John Dee

Like Minds

as John Colbie

Housewife, 49

as Will Last

Alien Autopsy

as Jeffrey

The Queen's Sister

as Prince Philip

Benefit to Mankind

as Carl Swannee

Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World

2003

as Preserved Killick, Captain's Steward

Chunky Monkey

as Donald Leek

Conspiracy

as Friedrich Wilhelm Kritzinger

7.3

Mary, Mother of Jesus

1999

as Joseph of Nazareth

4.0

Sex, Chips & Rock n' Roll

1999

A Statement of Affairs

1993

as Alan

The Clothes in the Wardrobe

1993

as Syl

5.6

Diana: Her True Story

1993

as Prince Charles

1.5

Patriot Games

1992

as Inspector Highland

A Murder of Quality

as Stanley Rode

The Russia House

as Wicklow

He's Asking For Me

as Andy

When the Whales Came

1989

as Jack Jenkins

6.3

Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story

1989

as Alex

5.7

A Casualty of War

1989

as Tom Rowse

Seeing in the Dark

1989

as Tony

Paradise Postponed

1986

as Leslie Titmus

7.0

Dog Ends

1984

as Robert

King Lear

as Edgar

Red Monarch

as Vasily

Mike Leigh: Making Plays

1982

as Self

8.0

Rolling Home

1982

as Donald

The Brylcreem Boys

1979

as George Hunn

Scum

as Archer

The Kiss of Death

as Trevor

I Want to Be Like You

1976

as Steve

Television (32)

The Death of Bunny Munro

2025

as Bunny Snr

5.5

The Completely Made-Up Adventures of Dick Turpin

as Tom King

Nightsleeper

as Paul Peveril

Passenger

as Jim Bracknell

Funny Woman

as George Parker

Art That Made Us

as Self - Narrator (voice)

Wolfe

as Howard

Troy: Fall of a City

as King Priam

Urban Myths

as Samuel Beckett

Code of a Killer

as DCS David Baker

Midwinter of the Spirit

as Rev Huw Owens

What Remains

as Len Harper

Ripper Street

as Abel Croker

Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire

2006

as Constantine the Great

Shameless

as Frank Gallagher

Spooks

as Keith Moran

Cutting It

as Beauregard Smee

In the Beginning

as Aaron

A Dinner of Herbs

as Older Hal

Sex, Chips & Rock n' Roll

as Norman

Men of the World

as Lenny Smart

Titmuss Regained

as Leslie Titmuss

Have I Got News for You

as Self

Nightingales

as Bell

The Marksman

as Weaver

Paradise Postponed

1986

as Leslie Titmuss

5.0

The Gathering Seed

1983

as Joe Henshaw

The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby

Objects of Affection

as Donald

Playhouse

as George Hunn

Play for Today

as Robert

Have I Got a Bit More News for You

as Self - Panellist

7.0

Crew (2)

Television (2)

Shameless

Director

Shameless

Executive Producer