John Shrapnel
Acting
Born: 1942-04-27 · Birmingham, England, UK
Died: 2020-02-14
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.
🎬 Movies (20)
Hamlet Within
2022
King Charles III
2017
Archbishop of Canterbury
Britain's Nuclear Bomb - The Inside Story
2017
Narrator (Voice)
The Return of the Flying Scotsman
2016
Narrator - (Voice)
Branagh Theatre Live: The Winter's Tale
2015
Camilo
Hamlet
2015
Claudius/Ghost
OXI, an Act of Resistance
2014
Creon
Building Burma's Death Railway: Moving Half the Mountain
2014
Narrator
National Theatre Live: Macbeth
2013
Duncan/Seyton/Old Man
Run.
2013
St. Peter
The Awakening
2011
Reverend Hugh Purslow
National Theatre Live: Phèdre
2009
Théramène
An Organization of Dreams
2009
Father
The Duchess
2008
General Grey
Mirrors
2008
Lorenzo Sapelli
Chemical Wedding
2008
Crowley
Hindenburg: Titanic of the Skies
2007
Himself (Narrator)
Elizabeth: The Golden Age
2007
Lord Howard
Once Upon a Time on the Westway
2007
Billy Palmer
Alien Autopsy
2006
Michael Kuhn
📺 TV Shows (20)
The Lions Rule
2017
Narrator (voice)
Apparitions
2008
Cardinal Bukovak
Merlin
2008
The Sarrum
Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire
2006
Pompey
I Am Not an Animal
2004
Narrator (voice)
New Tricks
2004
DAC John Felsham
Foyle's War
2002
Raymond Brooks
The Inspector Lynley Mysteries
2002
Sergent Mike McCaffrey
Waking the Dead
2001
John Christie
The 10th Kingdom
2000
Governor of Prison
Invasion: Earth
1998
Air Marshal Bentley
Predators Killing for a Living
1997
Jonathan Creek
1997
Prof. Lance Graumann
Bodyguards
1997
Commander Alan MacIntyre
Midsomer Murders
1997
Max Jennings
Midsomer Murders
1997
Leo Clarke
True Tilda
1997
Reverand Glasson
Coogan's Run
1995
Douglas Crown
Kavanagh Q.C.
1995
Mr. Justice Griffin
Wycliffe
1994
Dr. Sam Malvern