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David Threlfall
b. 1953 (age 73)
Burnage, Manchester, England
Actor
Director
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
Filmography
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★ 7.5
Unforgivable
2025 Actor
Brian Mitchell
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★ 5.8
Passenger
2024 Actor
Jim Bracknell
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★ 7.4
Funny Woman
2022 Actor
George Parker
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★ 5.9
Car Pound Cops: Give Me My Car Back!
2021 Self
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★ 7.7
Old Vic: In Camera - Faith Healer
2020 Actor
Teddy
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★ 5.2
Shoplifters: At War with the Law
2020 Self
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★ 7.6
Skint Britain: Friends Without Benefits
2019 Self
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★ 7.2
Urban Myths
2017 Actor
Samuel Beckett
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★ 8.6
Let's Do It: A Tribute to Victoria Wood
2016 Self
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★ 7.6
Code of a Killer
2015 Actor
DCS David Baker
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★ 6.2
Midwinter of the Spirit
2015 Actor
Huw Owen
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★ 4.8
The Ark
2015 Actor
Noah
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★ 6.4
Black Sea
2014 Actor
Peters
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★ 5.9
Bing
2014 Actor
Flop
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★ 7.3
Tommy Cooper: Not Like That, Like This
2014 Actor
Tommy Cooper
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★ 7.4
What Remains
2013 Actor
Len Harper
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50 Years of Rock Excess: Amps, Whips & Rebel Riffs
2013 Self
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Abduction
2010 Cinematographer
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★ 7.1
Nowhere Boy
2009 Actor
Uncle George
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★ 6.4
The Whistleblowers
2007 Actor
Professor Lewington
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★ 6.3
Heavy Water: A Film for Chernobyl
2007 Self
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The Whistleblowers: Behind the Scenes
2007 Self
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★ 6.3
Murderous Intent
2006 Actor
John Colbie
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★ 7.9
Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire
2006 Actor
Constantine the Great
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★ 7.3
The Battle for Rome
2006 Actor
Constantine
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★ 7.7
Housewife, 49
2005 Actor
Daddy (Will Last)
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★ 8.0
Shameless
2004 Actor
Director
Frank Gallagher
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★ 6.2
Chunky Monkey
2001 Actor
Donald Leek
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★ 8.5
Blind Men
2001 Actor
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★ 8.3
A History of Britain
2000 Actor
Various
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★ 5.5
Mary, Mother of Jesus
1999 Actor
Joseph of Nazareth
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★ 8.4
Sex, Chips & Rock n' Roll
1999 Actor
Norman
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★ 8.0
1000 AD
1999 Actor
Narrator
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★ 5.1
The Black Dog
1999 Actor
Harvey
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★ 5.3
CI5: The New Professionals
1998 Actor
Radovan Pradic
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★ 8.0
Men of the World
1994 Actor
Lenny Smart
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★ 4.8
Diana: Her True Story
1993 Actor
Prince Charles
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A Statement of Affairs
1993 Actor
Alan
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★ 7.6
Scum
1991 Actor
Archer
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★ 6.4
A Murder of Quality
1991 Actor
Stanley Rode
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★ 7.0
Titmuss Regained
1991 Actor
Leslie Titmuss
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★ 6.1
The Russia House
1990 Actor
Wicklow
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★ 8.1
Nightingales
1990 Actor
Bell
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The Lake
1990 Actor
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★ 6.1
When the Whales Came
1989 Actor
Jack Jenkins
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★ 6.1
Frederick Forsyth Presents
1989 Actor
Tom Rowse
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★ 7.9
Jumping the Queue
1989 Actor
Hugh Warner
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★ 6.5
The Marksman
1987 Actor
Weaver
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★ 7.9
Paradise Postponed
1986 Actor
Leslie Titmuss
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★ 6.0
Lenny Henry Tonite
1986 Actor
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The Daughter-in-Law
1985 Actor
Luther
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★ 6.1
Red Monarch
1983 Actor
Vasily
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★ 7.5
The Gathering Seed
1983 Actor
Joe Henshaw (aged 23)
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★ 9.1
The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby
1982 Actor
Smike