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Alan Armstrong, known professionally as Alun Armstrong, is an English 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".
Birth Name
Robert Alun Armstrong
Born
Wednesday, 17 July 1946
Actor Filmography
| Title | Character | Year |
|---|
| Tom Jones | Squire Western | 2023 |
| Sherwood | Gary Jackson | 2022 |
| Breeders | Jim | 2020 |
| Cordelia | Roger | 2019 |
| Year of the Rabbit | Chief Inspector Hugh Wisbech / Chief Inspector Wisbech | 2019 |
| Out of Innocence | Detective Callaghan | 2019 |
| Possum | Maurice | 2018 |
| Funny Cow | Lenny | 2018 |
| Prime Suspect: Tennison | Clifford Bentley | 2017 |
| Frontier | Lord Benton | 2016 |
Actor Filmography
| Title | Character | Year |
|---|
| Tom Jones | Squire Western | 2023 |
| Sherwood | Gary Jackson | 2022 |
| Breeders | Jim | 2020 |
| Cordelia | Roger | 2019 |
| Year of the Rabbit | Chief Inspector Hugh Wisbech / Chief Inspector Wisbech | 2019 |
| Out of Innocence | Detective Callaghan | 2019 |
| Possum | Maurice | 2018 |
| Funny Cow | Lenny | 2018 |
| Prime Suspect: Tennison | Clifford Bentley | 2017 |
| Frontier | Lord Benton | 2016 |
| Dark Angel | George Stott / George Stot | 2016 |
| Golden Years | Sid | 2016 |
| Penny Dreadful | Vincent Brand | 2014 |
| The Hollow Crown | Northumberland | 2012 |
| The Mystery of Edwin Drood | Hiram Grewgious | 2012 |
| The Space Shuttle: A Horizon Guide | Self - Narrator | 2011 |
| Les Misérables in Concert: The 25th Anniversary | Monsieur Thenardier - 1985 Cast | 2010 |
| Downton Abbey | Stowell | 2010 |
| A Passionate Woman | Donald / Donald (1980s) | 2010 |
| Garrow's Law | John Southouse / Southouse | 2009 |
| Little Dorrit | Flintwinch / Ephraim Flintwinch / Jeremiah Flintwinch | 2008 |
| The Dinner Party | Jim | 2007 |
| Eragon | Uncle Garrow | 2006 |
| The One Show | Self - Guest | 2006 |
| The Girls Who Came to Stay | Bob Jenkins | 2006 |
| Bleak House | Bucket | 2005 |
| Oliver Twist | Magistrate Fang | 2005 |
| When I'm Sixty-Four | Jim | 2004 |
| Van Helsing: The London Assignment | Cardinal Jinette / Cardinal Jinetta (voice) | 2004 |
| Van Helsing | Cardinal Jinette | 2004 |
| Millions | St Peter / Saint Peter | 2004 |
| Carrie's War | Mr. Samuel Evans | 2004 |
| Between the Sheets | Peter Delany | 2003 |
| New Tricks | Brian Lane | 2003 |
| It's All About Love | David | 2003 |
| Paradise Found | Camille Pissarro / Camille Pissaro | 2003 |
| Sparkhouse | Richard Bolton | 2002 |
| Extinct | Narrator | 2001 |
| Bedtime | Neil Henshaw | 2001 |
| Strictly Sinatra | Bill | 2001 |
| Score | George | 2001 |
| The Mummy Returns | Mr. Hafez | 2001 |
| Adrian Mole: The Cappuccino Years | George Mole | 2001 |
| Harrison's Flowers | Samuel Brubeck | 2001 |
| Proof of Life | Wyatt | 2000 |
| 7Up 2000 | Self - Narrator | 2000 |
| This Is Personal: The Hunt for the Yorkshire Ripper | Asst. Chief Const. George Oldfield | 2000 |
| Challenger: Go for Launch | Narrator | 2000 |
| David Copperfield | Dan Peggotty | 1999 |
| Oliver Twist | Mr. Fleming / Mr Fleming | 1999 |
| Sleepy Hollow | High Constable | 1999 |
| Onegin | Zaretsky | 1999 |
| G:MT Greenwich Mean Time | Uncle Henry | 1999 |
| With or Without You | Sammy | 1999 |
| Aristocrats | Henry Fox | 1999 |
| In the Red | D.C.I. Frank Jefferson / DCI Frank Jefferson | 1998 |
| Underworld | Teddy Middlemass | 1997 |
| The Saint | Inspector Teal | 1997 |
| Brazen Hussies | Jimmy Hardcastle | 1996 |
| Breaking the Code | Mick Ross | 1996 |
| Witness Against Hitler | Pastor Harold Poelchau | 1996 |
| Our Friends in the North | Austin Donohue | 1996 |
| The Haunting of Helen Walker | The Butler | 1995 |
| An Awfully Big Adventure | Uncle Vernon | 1995 |
| Braveheart | Mornay | 1995 |
| MacGyver: Trail to Doomsday | Capshaw / Chief Superintendent Capshaw | 1994 |
| Black Beauty | Reuben Smith | 1994 |
| Goggle Eyes | Gerald Faulkner / Gerald 'Goggle Eyes' Faulkner | 1993 |
| Shakespeare: The Animated Tales | Caliban | 1992 |
| The Life and Times of Henry Pratt | Uncle Teddy | 1992 |
| Blue Ice | Osgood | 1992 |
| Patriot Games | Owens | 1992 |
| Split Second | Thrasher | 1992 |
| Stanley and the Women | Rufus Hilton | 1991 |
| London Kills Me | John Stone | 1991 |
| Murder in Eden | Sgt. McGing | 1991 |
| American Friends | Dr. Weeks | 1991 |
| White Hunter Black Heart | Ralph Lockhart | 1990 |
| Screen One | Charlie Foster / Det Supt Frank Burroughs / Evans | 1989 |
| Tales from the Crypt | Inspector Herbert | 1989 |
| The Child Eater | Stefano | 1989 |
| That Summer of White Roses | Zemba | 1989 |
| This Is David Lander | Councillor Stennalling | 1988 |
| MuppeTelevision | Troll | 1987 |
| Married... with Children | Trevor | 1987 |
| The Storyteller | Troll | 1987 |
| Inspector Morse | Superintendent Holdsby | 1987 |
| Billy the Kid and the Green Baize Vampire | Maxwell Randall / Maxwell Randall, The Green Baize Vampire | 1985 |
| Bulman | DS Figg | 1985 |
| A.D. | Gamesmaster | 1985 |
| Number One | Blackpool Sergeant / Blackpool Police Sergeant | 1985 |
| Alas Smith & Jones | 1984 | |
| Krull | Torquil | 1983 |
| The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby | Wackford Squeers / Mr. Wagstaff | 1982 |
| The French Lieutenant's Woman | Grimes | 1981 |
| Get Lost! | Neville Keaton | 1981 |
| All Day on the Sands | Dad | 1979 |
| The Book Tower | Self - Presenter / Self | 1979 |
| Armchair Thriller | Trahearne | 1978 |
| Enemy at the Door | Louis Mendoza | 1978 |
| The Duellists | Lacourbe | 1977 |
| A Sharp Intake of Breath | Albert / Alec / Arthur Clegg / Barry / Brian / Frank Grant / Jack Dyson / Jackson / Les Buckley / Simon Wilson / Terry / Wilson | 1977 |
| A Bridge Too Far | Cpl. Davies | 1977 |
| The New Avengers | Private George Harris | 1976 |
| The Likely Lads | Tommy - Milkman / Tommy | 1976 |
| The Sweeney | Peter Jenner | 1975 |
| Father Brown | Joe | 1974 |
| Porridge | Spraggon | 1974 |
| The Stars Look Down | Joe Gowlan | 1974 |
| The Squirrels | Sweeney / Jim | 1974 |
| Second City Firsts | Ken | 1973 |
| Centre Play | Richard Clewes | 1973 |
| The Wild Little Bunch | Tommy | 1973 |
| Thriller | Mike | 1973 |
| Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads? | Scaife | 1973 |
| New Scotland Yard | Ray Davies | 1972 |
| Six Days of Justice | P.C. Williamson | 1972 |
| Justice | Bob Graham | 1971 |
| Get Carter | Keith | 1971 |
| Great Performances | Thénardier | 1971 |
| Play for Today | Mr Briggs / Michael Biddle / First docker | 1970 |
| BBC Play of the Month | Lightborne | 1965 |
| Public Eye | Vince Gregson | 1965 |
| Comedy Playhouse | Roger | 1961 |
| This Is Your Life | Self | 1955 |
