David Threlfall
Acting
Born: 1953-10-12 · Burnage, Manchester, England, UK
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.
🎬 Movies (20)
Unforgivable
2025
Brian Mitchell
Bing & Friends: Birthday Celebration
2024
Flop (voice)
Dodger Special: Bad Egg
2023
Sir Charles Rowan
Dodger Special: Train
2022
Sir Charles Rowan
Faith Healer
2020
Teddy
Beckett Double Bill (Krapp's Last Tape / The Old Tune)
2020
Cream
The Ark
2015
Noah
Black Sea
2014
Peters
Tommy Cooper: Not Like That, Like This
2014
Tommy Cooper
Evidently... John Cooper Clarke
2012
Himself
Nowhere Boy
2009
George Toogood Smith
Elizabeth: The Golden Age
2007
Dr. John Dee
Hot Fuzz
2007
Martin Blower
Housewife, 49
2006
Will Last
Like Minds
2006
John Colbie
Alien Autopsy
2006
Jeffrey
The Queen's Sister
2005
Prince Philip
Benefit to Mankind
2004
Carl Swannee
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
2003
Preserved Killick, Captain's Steward
Chunky Monkey
2003
Donald Leek
📺 TV Shows (20)
The Death of Bunny Munro
2025
Bunny Snr
Nightsleeper
2024
Paul Peveril
Passenger
2024
Jim Bracknell
The Completely Made-Up Adventures of Dick Turpin
2024
Tom King
Funny Woman
2023
George Parker
Art That Made Us
2022
Self - Narrator (voice)
Wolfe
2021
Howard
Troy: Fall of a City
2018
King Priam
Urban Myths
2017
Samuel Beckett
Midwinter of the Spirit
2015
Rev Huw Owens
Code of a Killer
2015
DCS David Baker
What Remains
2013
Len Harper
Ripper Street
2012
Abel Croker
Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire
2006
Constantine the Great
Shameless
2004
Frank Gallagher
Spooks
2002
Keith Moran
Cutting It
2002
Beauregard Smee
A Dinner of Herbs
2000
Older Hal
In the Beginning
2000
Aaron
Sex, Chips & Rock n' Roll
1999
Norman