John Shrapnel

Actor Apr 27 (died age 77) Birmingham, England, UK 1965–2022 (57 year career)

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Biography

Shrapnel was born in Birmingham, Warwickshire, the son of Mary Lillian Myfanwy (née Edwards) and journalist/author Norman Shrapnel.[1] As a stage actor, he was a member of Laurence Olivier's Royal National Theatre company and the Royal Shakespeare Company and most recently appeared as Sir Oliver Surface in The School for Scandal (directed by Deborah Warner) at the Barbican Centre in 2011. He has also appeared extensively in film and on television in roles in Elizabeth R, Z-Cars, Edward and Mrs.…

Known For

Film

Gladiator

Gaius

Film

Troy

Nestor

Film

Notting Hill

PR Chief

Film

I Am Not an Animal

Narrator (voice)

Film

The Duchess

General Grey

Film

101 Dalmatians

Skinner

Film

Elizabeth: The Golden Age

Lord Howard

Film

Mirrors

Lorenzo Sapelli

Filmography

Acting (124)

Movies (80)

Hamlet Within

2022

Britain's Nuclear Bomb - The Inside Story

2017

as Narrator (Voice)

7.0

King Charles III

2017

as Archbishop of Canterbury

6.3

The Return of the Flying Scotsman

2016

as Narrator - (Voice)

Hamlet

2015

as Claudius/Ghost

8.2

Branagh Theatre Live: The Winter's Tale

2015

as Camilo

7.7

OXI, an Act of Resistance

2014

as Creon

Building Burma's Death Railway: Moving Half the Mountain

2014

as Narrator

Run.

2013

as St. Peter

National Theatre Live: Macbeth

2013

as Duncan/Seyton/Old Man

7.0

The Awakening

2011

as Reverend Hugh Purslow

6.4

National Theatre Live: Phèdre

2009

as Théramène

7.8

An Organization of Dreams

2009

as Father

The Duchess

as General Grey

Mirrors

as Lorenzo Sapelli

Chemical Wedding

as Crowley

Hindenburg: Titanic of the Skies

2007

as Himself (Narrator)

6.8

Elizabeth: The Golden Age

2007

as Lord Howard

6.7

Once Upon a Time on the Westway

2007

as Billy Palmer

Alien Autopsy

as Michael Kuhn

Shadow of the Sword

as Archbishop

Wachau - Valley of Golden Magic

2005

as Narrator (English Version)

Troy

2004

as Nestor

7.2

Seven Wonders of Ancient Rome

2004

as Narrator

Seven Wonders of Ancient Greece

2004

as Narrator

Seven Wonders of Ancient Egypt

2004

as Narrator

10.0

Wild Women of Viramba

2003

as Narrator

The Race for Everest

2003

as Narrator

K-19: The Widowmaker

as Admiral Bratyeev

Alone

as Hannah

Whistle

as Paul

Claim

as Lex Vandenberg

Schönbrunn - Well of Beauty

2002

as Narrator (English Version)

Animals of the Ocean Desert

2001

as Narrator

The Gentleman Thief

2001

as Monty Sinclair

Mountain Men: The Ghosts of K2

as Narrator

The Body

as Moshe Cohen

Gladiator

as Gaius

Supermassive Black Holes

as Narrator

Notting Hill

as PR Chief

The Strange Case of Delfina Potocka

1999

as Iwaszkiewicz

Mary, Mother of Jesus

1999

as Simon

4.0

Hornblower: The Frogs and the Lobsters

as General Charette

Lion Queen

as Narrator (voice)

St. Stephen's: The Living Cathedral

1997

as Narrator (English voice)

101 Dalmatians

as Skinner

Two Deaths

as Cinca

King Arthur: His Life and Legends

England, My England

as Samuel Pepys

Fatherland

as General Globus

Selling Hitler

as Gerd Schulte-Hillen

7.0

SS-3: The Assassination of Reinhard Heydrich

1992

as Narrator

4.0

Hamlet

1992

as Claudius

The Tragedy of Flight 103: The Inside Story

1990

as BKA Police Chief

6.5

How to Get Ahead in Advertising

as Psychiatrist

Testimony

as Andre Zhdanov

Partition

as General Flood

Personal Services

as Lionel

Theban Plays: Oedipus at Colonus

1986

as Creon

Theban Plays: Oedipus the King

1986

as Creon

2.0

Theban Plays: Antigone

1986

as Creon

Poppyland

1985

as George Sims

The Burston Rebellion

1985

as Rev. Charles Tucker Eland

King Lear

as Earl of Kent

Timon of Athens

as Alcibiades

Troilus & Cressida

as Hector

The Tom Machine

The Victim

as Vincent Craig

Gossip from the Forest

1979

as Matthias Erzberger

Flayed

1978

as Robert

Edward & Mrs. Simpson

1978

as Maj. Alexander Hardinge

Professional Foul

as McKendrick

The Three Hostages

as Gaudian

Hitting Town

1976

as Leonard Brazil (voice)

Hennessy

1975

as Tipaldi

4.7

King Lear

1975

as Duke of Cornwall

Pope Joan

1972

as Father James

5.9

Nicholas and Alexandra

1971

as Petya

6.9

The Ha-Ha

1969

as Jamie

It's Called the Sugar Plum

1969

as Wally Zuckerman

Television (44)

The Lions Rule

as Narrator (voice)

Merlin

as The Sarrum

Apparitions

as Cardinal Bukovak

Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire

as Pompey

New Tricks

as DAC John Felsham

I Am Not an Animal

as Narrator (voice)

Foyle's War

as Raymond Brooks

The Inspector Lynley Mysteries

2002

as Sergent Mike McCaffrey

Waking the Dead

as John Christie

The 10th Kingdom

as Governor of Prison

7.6

Invasion: Earth

1998

as Air Marshal Bentley

Midsomer Murders

as Max Jennings

Jonathan Creek

as Prof. Lance Graumann

7.5

Predators Killing for a Living

1997

True Tilda

1997

as Reverand Glasson

Bodyguards

1997

as Commander Alan MacIntyre

Kavanagh Q.C.

1995

as Mr. Justice Griffin

Wycliffe

as Dr. Sam Malvern

Between the Lines

as Deputy Assistant Commissioner Dunning

5.2

Between the Lines

1992

as D.C.C. Dunning

5.2

Shakespeare: The Animated Tales

1992

as Claudius / The Ghost (voice)

G.B.H.

as Dr Jacobs

For the Greater Good

as Norman May-Boys MP

The Chief

as Dan Cheyney

Centrepoint

as Claud Wareing

About Face

Blackeyes

as Detective Blake

The Modern World: Ten Great Writers

1988

as Thomas Mann

Inspector Morse

1987

as Dr. Julian Storrs

7.9

Vanity Fair

1987

as Lord Steyne

Screen Two

1985

as Rev. Charles Tucker Eland

6.8

Mr. Palfrey of Westminster

as Adrian Vyner

Natural World

as Narrator

The Woman in White

as Sir Percival Glyde

7.7

Private Schulz

1981

as German Newsreel Commentator (voice, uncredited)

4.8

Armchair Thriller

1978

as Vincent Craig

4.2

Edward and Mrs Simpson

1978

as Major Alexander Hardinge

6.2

BBC2 Play of the Week

as McKendrick

Space: 1999

as Jack Tanner

Good Girl

as Christopher Wimple

Justice

as Roger Anderson

Elizabeth R

as Earl of Sussex

Omnibus

as Zborowski

BBC Play of the Month

1965

as Duke of Cornwall

5.0