Alun Armstrong

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1946-07-17 (79 years old)

Place of Birth

Annfield Plain, County Durham, England, UK

Alun Armstrong

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 series as eccentric ex-detective Brian Lane in New Tricks. Armstrong is also an accomplished stage actor who spent nine years with the Royal Shakespe...

Acting

2003

Paradise Found

as Camille Pissarro

1997

The Saint

as Inspector Teal

1983

Krull

as Torquil

2001

The Mummy Returns

as Baltus Hafez

2006

Eragon

as Uncle Garrow

1999

Sleepy Hollow

as High Constable

1995

2004

Van Helsing: The London Assignment

as Cardinal Jinetta (voice)

2004

Van Helsing

as Cardinal Jinette

1992

Split Second

as Thrasher

1992

1994

Black Beauty

as Reuben Smith

1990

1999

1977

The Duellists

as Lieutenant Lacourbe

1996

Breaking the Code

as Mick Ross

2004

Carrie's War

as Mr. Samuel Evans

2008

1985

Number One

as Blackpool Police Sergeant

1996

Witness Against Hitler

as Pastor Harold Poelchau

1985

Billy the Kid and the Green Baize Vampire

as Maxwell Randall, The Green Baize Vampire

1977

Our Day Out

as Mr. Briggs

2006

1991

London Kills Me

as John Stone

1990

White Hunter, Black Heart

as Ralph Lockhart

2010

Les Misérables: 25th Anniversary in Concert

as Monsieur Thenardier (1985 Cast)

1980

Fear of God

as Trahearne

1973

The 14

as Tommy

1989

The Childeater

as Stefano

1992

Blue Ice

as Osgood

2000

This Is Personal: The Hunt for the Yorkshire Ripper

as Asst. Chief Const. George Oldfield

1995

Braveheart

as Mornay

1976

1990

1977

Risking It

as Richard Clewes

2016

1994

Doggin' Around

as Charlie Foster

1971

Get Carter

as Keith

1977

A Bridge Too Far

as Cpl. Davies

2000

Harrison's Flowers

as Samuel Brubeck

2016

Asunder

as Self - Narrator (voice)

2002

Inquisition

as Martin

1996

Brazen Hussies

as Jimmy Hardcastle

2018

Funny Cow

as Lenny

2005

Oliver Twist

as Magistrate Fang

2001

2004

Millions

as Saint Peter

2018

Possum

as Maurice

2001

Score

as George

2000

7 Up 2000

as Himself - Narrator

2000

1973

Only Make Believe

as Michael Biddle

1983

2019

Out of Innocence

as Detective Callaghan

1999

Aristocrats

as Lord Holland

1984

The House

as Mr. Smeth

1979

1977

1974

Easy Go

as First docker

1973

1999

Onegin

as Zaretsky

1989

Nineteen96

as Det. Supt. Frank Burroughs

1973

1991

American Friends

as Dr. Weeks

1978

1978

Liza

as Mikhalevich

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