David Threlfall

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1953-10-12 (72 years old)

Place of Birth

Burnage, Manchester, England, UK

David Threlfall

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.

Acting

2003

Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World

as Preserved Killick, Captain's Steward

2006

Alien Autopsy

as Jeffrey

1992

Patriot Games

as Inspector Highland

1991

A Murder of Quality

as Stanley Rode

1999

Mary, Mother of Jesus

as Joseph of Nazareth

1977

2022

Dodger Special: Train

as Sir Charles Rowan

2023

Dodger Special: Bad Egg

as Sir Charles Rowan

2015

The Ark

as Noah

2007

1979

The Brylcreem Boys

as George Hunn

1989

When the Whales Came

as Jack Jenkins

1977

Scum

as Archer

2014

Black Sea

as Peters

2003

Chunky Monkey

as Donald Leek

1990

2006

Housewife, 49

as Will Last

2001

Conspiracy

as Friedrich Wilhelm Kritzinger

1983

King Lear

as Edgar

2007

Hot Fuzz

as Martin Blower

2005

The Queen's Sister

as Prince Philip

2006

Like Minds

as John Colbie

2009

Nowhere Boy

as George Toogood Smith

1983

Red Monarch

as Vasily

1993

Diana: Her True Story

as Prince Charles

1989

A Casualty of War

as Tom Rowse

1984

Dog Ends

as Robert

2020

Faith Healer

as Teddy

1986

Paradise Postponed

as Leslie Titmus

1982

Rolling Home

as Donald

2004

Benefit to Mankind

as Carl Swannee

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