Alun Armstrong
Acting
Born: 1946-07-17 · Annfield Plain, County Durham, England, UK
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
🎬 Movies (20)
The Choral
2025
Herbert Trickett
The Nicky Nack
2021
Breaking The Codes
2020
Out of Innocence
2019
Detective Callaghan
Possum
2018
Maurice
Funny Cow
2018
Lenny
Asunder
2016
Self - Narrator (voice)
Golden Years
2016
Sid
Les Misérables: 25th Anniversary in Concert
2010
Monsieur Thenardier (1985 Cast)
Filth: The Mary Whitehouse Story
2008
Ernest Whitehouse
The Dinner Party
2007
Jim
Eragon
2006
Uncle Garrow
The Girls Who Came to Stay
2006
Bob Jenkins
Oliver Twist
2005
Magistrate Fang
Millions
2005
Saint Peter
When I'm Sixty-Four
2004
Jim
Van Helsing: The London Assignment
2004
Cardinal Jinetta (voice)
Van Helsing
2004
Cardinal Jinette
Carrie's War
2004
Mr. Samuel Evans
It's All About Love
2003
David
📺 TV Shows (20)
After the Flood
2024
Alan Benson
Tom Jones
2023
Squire Western
Remembers…
2022
Self
Sherwood
2022
Gary Jackson
Breeders
2020
Jim
Year of the Rabbit
2019
Chief Inspector Hugh Wisbech
Prime Suspect 1973
2017
Clifford Bentley
Frontier
2016
Lord Benton
Dark Angel
2016
George Stot
Penny Dreadful
2014
Vincent Brand
The Hollow Crown
2012
Northumberland
The Mystery of Edwin Drood
2012
Hiram Grewgious
A Passionate Woman
2010
Donald (1980s)
Garrow's Law
2009
John Southouse
Little Dorrit
2008
Ephraim Flintwinch
Bleak House
2005
Inspector Bucket
New Tricks
2004
Brian Lane
Between The Sheets
2003
Peter Delany
Sparkhouse
2002
Richard Bolton
Extinct
2001
Himself - Narrator