John Shrapnel
Personal Info
Know For
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1942-04-27 (78 years old)
Deathday
2020-02-14
Place of Birth
Birmingham, England, UK
Also known As
John Morley Shrapnel
John Shrapnel
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. Simpson, 101 Dalmatians, Space: 1999, Inspector Morse, Coogan's Run, Notting Hill and Foyle's War. He presented an episode of the 1983 BBC television...
Acting
2000
as Gaius
1999
as PR Chief
2004
as Nestor
2002
as Admiral Bratyeev
2006
as Michael Kuhn
2001
as Moshe Cohen
2022
2002
as Hannah
1989
as Psychiatrist
2008
as Crowley
1999
as General Charette
2002
as Lex Vandenberg
1997
as Narrator (English voice)
2005
as Narrator (English Version)
2002
as Narrator (English Version)
2003
as Narrator
1976
as Leonard Brazil (voice)
2011
as Reverend Hugh Purslow
2014
as Creon
2009
as Father
1969
as Jamie
2013
as Duncan, King of Scotland/Seyton, attendant to Macbeth/Old Man
2001
as Narrator
1987
as General Flood
1993
as Gerd Schulte-Hillen
1987
as Lionel
2005
as Archbishop
2017
as Narrator (Voice)
1980
1977
as McKendrick
1990
as BKA Police Chief
2015
as Claudius/Ghost
2016
as Narrator - (Voice)
1994
as General Globus
1979
as Matthias Erzberger
1981
as Alcibiades
2004
as Narrator
1977
as Gaudian
2007
as Lord Howard
1975
as Tipaldi
1995
as Samuel Pepys
2015
2000
as Narrator
2007
as Himself (Narrator)
2017
as Archbishop of Canterbury
1981
as Hector
1996
as Cinca
1988
as Andre Zhdanov
2008
as General Grey
1996
as Skinner
1986
as Creon
1986
as Creon
1986
as Creon
2008
as Lorenzo Sapelli
1971
as Petya
1982
as Earl of Kent
2002
as Paul
1985
as George Sims
1978
as Maj. Alexander Hardinge
2004
as Narrator
2004
as Narrator
1972
as Father James
2009
as Théramène
1999
as Simon
2001
as Narrator
2003
as Narrator
1985
as Rev. Charles Tucker Eland
1999
as Iwaszkiewicz
2014
1992
as Narrator
1978
as Robert
2001
as Monty Sinclair
1975
as Duke of Cornwall
2013
as St. Peter
-
as Claudius
1980
as Vincent Craig
1969
as Wally Zuckerman
1992
as Claudius/Ghost
2007
as Billy Palmer
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