Pip Torrens

Actor Jun 2 (age 65) Bromley, Kent, England, UK 1971–2026 (55 year career)

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Biography

Philip D'Oyly "Pip" Torrens (born 2 June 1960) is an English actor. Torrens portrayed courtier Tommy Lascelles in the Netflix drama The Crown, aristocrat Lord Massen in the HBO series The Nevers, Herr Klaus Starr in Preacher, and held leading roles in Poldark and Versailles. His film appearances include The Danish Girl, The Iron Lady, War Horse and Star Wars: The Force Awakens. He has played The Curator in Supermassive Games' Dark Pictures Anthology series of horror video games since 2019, appe…

Known For

Film

Pride & Prejudice

Netherfield Butler

Film

Star Wars: The Force Awakens

Colonel Kaplan

Film

The Danish Girl

Dr. Hexler

Film

Darkest Hour

BBC Producer

Film

War Horse

Maj. Tompkins

Film

The Remains of the Day

Doctor Richard Carlisle

Film

Preacher

Herr Starr

Film

Anna Karenina

Prince Shcherbatsky

Filmography

Acting (174)

Movies (82)

Digger

2026 Upcoming

Sep 30

Savage House

2026

as Mr. Black

Wife & Dog

2026 Upcoming

Oct 23

Vindicta

2026

as Adnon Svoboda

10.0

De Gaulle: The Sovereign Edge (Film 2)

2026 Upcoming

as Montgomery

Jul 3

Joy

as Roger Short

The Aftermath

as General Brook

Down a Dark Hall

as Professor Farley

Darkest Hour

as BBC Producer

Kids in Love

as Graham

Star Wars: The Force Awakens

as Colonel Kaplan

The Danish Girl

as Dr. Hexler

Gemma Bovery

as Rankin

Marked

as Steve Brash

Walter

as Commander Angus Thomas

Effie Gray

2014

as Royal Academy / Times Journalist

5.9

Salting the Battlefield

as Jack Calderon

Drone Strike

as Commandant Ellis

The Guest

as Frank

The Lady Vanishes

2013

as Reverend Kenneth Barnes

6.4

Anna Karenina

2012

as Prince Shcherbatsky

Bel Ami

as Paul the Butler

Gambit

as Desk Clerk

The Scapegoat

as George

The Fall of Singapore: The Great Betrayal

2012

as MI5 Officer

War Horse

as Maj. Tompkins

My Week with Marilyn

as Sir Kenneth Clark

The Iron Lady

as Ian Gilmour

Love's Kitchen

as Health & Safety Official

Dorian Gray

as Victor

U Be Dead

as Mr. Higginson

St Trinian's 2: The Legend of Fritton's Gold

as Heathcoat Parker

Easy Virtue

as Lord Hurst

Miss Austen Regrets

as Edward Austen-Knight

6.1

Flood

2007

as Army Liaison Officer Richardson

5.3

The Mark of Cain

2007

as Colonel Hampton

5.2

The Bad Mother's Handbook

2007

as Doctor Gale

7.0

Consenting Adults

2007

as Frances Graham Harrison

5.0

Pinochet in Suburbia

2006

as Michael Caplan

6.0

The Chatterley Affair

2006

as Mr. Mervyn Griffith-Jones

5.3

Pride & Prejudice

2005

as Netherfield Butler

8.0

Valiant

2005

as Lofty (voice)

5.6

Ian Fleming: Bondmaker

2005

as Noel Coward

Class of '76

as Supt Flood

A View from a Hill

as Squire Richards

The Government Inspector

2005

as John Scarlett

8.0

Towpaths of Glory

2005

as Captain Boyden

When I'm Sixty-Four

2004

as Headmaster

5.0

The Medici: Godfathers of the Renaissance

2004

as Cosimo de'Medici

7.2

Gifted

2003

as Richard Neilson

The Many Lives of Albert Walker

2002

as Sam

Sunday

as Inquiry Lawyer

Dead Gorgeous

as Rex Ballard

The Project

as MoD Official

Lorna Doone

as Colonel Kirke

To End All Wars

as Lt. Foxworth

Revelation

as Professor Claxton

The Whistle-Blower

as Philip Amis

All the Queen's Men

as British Major

Longitude

as Capt. Lindsay

The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: My First Adventure

2000

as Howard Carter (archive footage)

Trust

as Jenkins

Rogue Trader

as Simon Jones

Tomorrow Never Dies

as HMS Bedford Captain

6.4

Incognito

1997

as White (Defense)

5.8

The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Treasure of the Peacock's Eye

1995

as Howard Carter

5.6

The Remains of the Day

1993

as Doctor Richard Carlisle

Patriot Games

as First Aide

Monkey Boy

as Windeler

Absolute Hell

as Nigel Childs

Eminent Domain

as Anton

The Object of Beauty

as Art Evaluator

Mountains of the Moon

1990

as Lt. Hesketh

6.5

How to Get Ahead in Advertising

1989

as Jonathan

6.2

Arms and the Man

1989

as Captain Bluntschli

9.5

Voice of the Heart

1989

as Kim Cunningham

8.5

Bearskin: An Urban Fairytale

1989

as Gold Cufflinks

7.5

A Handful of Dust

1988

as Jock Grant-Menzies

Little Dorrit

as Henry Gowan

Lady Jane

as Thomas

Oxford Blues

as Ian

Rokeby Venus

Television (92)

The Hack

as Stuart Kuttner

Down Cemetery Road

as Dr. Isaac Wright

Renegade Nell

as Lord Blancheford

Mr Bates vs The Post Office

2024

as Mr Justice Fraser

8.0

Extraordinary

2023

as Mr. Greenham (voice)

7.3

Sherwood

2022

as Commissioner Charles Dawes

7.0

The Nevers

2021

as Lord Gilbert Massen

Industry

as Kevin Rawle

Des

as Ivan Lawrence QC

Roadkill

as Joe Lapidus

Succession

as Peter Munion

Patrick Melrose

as Nicolas Pratt

The Crown

as Tommy Lascelles

Preacher

as Herr Starr

War and Peace

as Prince Bagration

Poldark

as Cary Warleggan

Poldark

as Cary Warleggan

Versailles

as Cassel

The Saboteurs

as Wilson

The BBC at War

Grantchester

as Sir Edward Kendall

Fleming

as Esmond Rothermere

Father Brown

as Geoffrey Bennett

Yes, Prime Minister

as Jeremy Burnham

Up the Women

The Hollow Crown

as Mowbray

One Night

as Mr. Lerner

Death in Paradise

as Guide

Black Mirror

as Philip Crane

Spy

as Crispin

Silk

as HHJ Makin

The Promise

as Major John Arbuthnot

Law & Order: UK

as Philip Nevins

Collision

Secret Diary of a Call Girl

2007

as Edward

6.8

Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire

as Olympius

The Chase

The Path to 9/11

as Paul Kessler

Dresden

as Saundby

Missing: All Secrets Have a Price

Doctor Who

as Rocastle

The Rotters' Club

as English Master

A Ghost Story for Christmas

2005

as Squire Richards

Broken News

2005

as Sam French - Bullet Points Presenter

7.3

Class of '76

2005

as Supt Flood

10.0

Agatha Christie's Marple

as Noël Coward

Hustle

as Heinz Zimmermann

Green Wing

as Neurosurgeon

No Angels

The Commander

Charles II: The Power and The Passion

as Charles Hart

Red Cap

Spooks

as Charles Lee

Wire in the Blood

Believe Nothing

as Le Fanu

Shackleton

as James McIlroy

tlc

as Mr Copperfield

Waking the Dead

as Dennis Holland

Messiah

as DCI Walmsely

The Infinite Worlds of H.G. Wells

as Mark Pattison

Rebus

as Andrew Hammill

Longitude

as Captain Lindsay

Lorna Doone

as Colonel Kirke

Black Cab

as James

Pure Wickedness

as Dr. Phil Gold

Big Bad World

Midsomer Murders

as Fergal Jenner

Trial & Retribution

Bodyguards

as Robert Ferguson

Crime Traveller

Silent Witness

Hamish Macbeth

as Peter Peterson

Kavanagh Q.C.

as Miles Petersham

A Dark Adapted Eye

as Chad

Peak Practice

as Harry Kenyon

To Play the King

as Andrew Harding

Heartbeat

as James Moncrieff

The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles

as Howard Carter

Maigret

The Brittas Empire

as John Rawlinson

Murder Most Horrid

as News Presenter

Chimera

as Windeler

Jeeves and Wooster

as Bingo

Agatha Christie's Poirot

as Major Rich

Tales from the Crypt

as Gordon

The Ruth Rendell Mysteries

as Michael Quin

The Lenny Henry Show

Lovejoy

as Christian Shotley

Minder

as Muldier

Van der Valk

as Michael De Groot

A Ghost Story for Christmas

1971

as Squire Richards

7.4

Mercenary: An Extraction Series