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David Threlfall is an English stage, film and television actor and director. He is best known for playing Frank Gallagher in Channel 4's series Shameless. He has also directed several episodes of the show. In April 2014, he portrayed comedian Tommy Cooper in a television film entitled Tommy Cooper: Not Like That, Like This. In 2014, he starred alongside Jude Law in the thriller Black Sea.
Born
Monday, 12 October 1953
Actor Filmography
Title | Character | Year |
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Passenger | Jim Bracknell | 2024 |
Funny Woman | George Parker | 2023 |
Dodger | Sir Charles Rowan | 2022 |
Wolfe | Howard | 2021 |
Victoria Wood: The Secret List | Daddy (Will Last) | 2020 |
Shoplifters: At War with the Law | Self - Narrator | 2020 |
Isolation Stories: Behind the Scenes | Self | 2020 |
Isolation Stories | Brian | 2020 |
Skint Britain: Friends Without Benefits | Self - Narrator | 2019 |
Troy: Fall of a City | Priam / King Priam | 2018 |
Actor Filmography
Title | Character | Year |
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Passenger | Jim Bracknell | 2024 |
Funny Woman | George Parker | 2023 |
Dodger | Sir Charles Rowan | 2022 |
Wolfe | Howard | 2021 |
Victoria Wood: The Secret List | Daddy (Will Last) | 2020 |
Shoplifters: At War with the Law | Self - Narrator | 2020 |
Isolation Stories: Behind the Scenes | Self | 2020 |
Isolation Stories | Brian | 2020 |
Skint Britain: Friends Without Benefits | Self - Narrator | 2019 |
Troy: Fall of a City | Priam / King Priam | 2018 |
Our Friend Victoria | Daddy (Will Last) | 2017 |
Urban Myths | Samuel Beckett | 2017 |
Let's Do It: A Tribute to Victoria Wood | Self / Daddy (Will Last) | 2016 |
Midwinter of the Spirit | Rev Huw Owens / Huw Owen | 2015 |
Code of a Killer | DCS David Baker | 2015 |
The Ark | Noah | 2015 |
Black Sea | Peters | 2014 |
Tommy Cooper: Not Like That, Like This | Tommy Cooper | 2014 |
What Remains | Len Harper | 2013 |
You Saw Them Here First | Self | 2013 |
Ripper Street | Abel Croker | 2012 |
Evidently... John Cooper Clarke | Self - Actor / Himself | 2012 |
Nowhere Boy | Uncle George / George Toogood Smith | 2009 |
Elizabeth: The Golden Age | Dr. John Dee | 2007 |
The Whistleblowers | Professor Lewington | 2007 |
Hot Fuzz | Martin Blower | 2007 |
Heavy Water: A Film for Chernobyl | Self | 2007 |
Housewife, 49 | Will Last / Daddy (Will Last) | 2006 |
Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire | Constantine the Great | 2006 |
Like Minds | John Colbie | 2006 |
Alien Autopsy | Jeffrey | 2006 |
The Queen's Sister | Prince Philip | 2005 |
Afterlife | Ian Garland | 2005 |
The Paul O'Grady Show | Himself | 2004 |
Shameless | Frank Gallagher / Frank | 2004 |
Celebrity Mastermind | Self | 2003 |
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World | Preserved Killick, Captain's Steward / Preserved Killick | 2003 |
Chunky Monkey | Donald Leek | 2003 |
The Last Detective | Carl Swannee | 2003 |
MI-5 | Keith Moran | 2002 |
Cutting It | Beauregard Smee | 2002 |
Conspiracy | Dr. Wilhelm Kritzinger | 2001 |
A Dinner of Herbs | Hal Royce (older) | 2000 |
In the Beginning | Aaron | 2000 |
A History of Britain | Various | 2000 |
1000 AD | (voice) | 1999 |
Mary, Mother of Jesus | Joseph of Nazareth | 1999 |
Sex, Chips & Rock n' Roll | Norman | 1999 |
CI5: The New Professionals | Radovan Pradic | 1998 |
Thief Takers | Frank McGrath | 1995 |
The Knock | Bobby Connery | 1994 |
Men of the World | Lenny Smart | 1994 |
Fighting for Gemma | Martyn Day | 1993 |
A Statement of Affairs | Alan | 1993 |
Diana: Her True Story | Prince Charles | 1993 |
Patriot Games | Inspector Highland | 1992 |
A Murder of Quality | Stanley Rode | 1991 |
Scum | Archer | 1977 |
The Russia House | Wicklow | 1990 |
Have I Got News for You | Self | 1990 |
Nightingales | Bell | 1990 |
Frederick Forsyth Presents | Tom Rowse | 1989 |
Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story | Alex | 1989 |
When the Whales Came | Jack Jenkins | 1989 |
Screen Two | Syl / Andy | 1985 |
Red Monarch | Vasily | 1983 |
King Lear | Edgar | 1983 |
The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby | Smike | 1982 |
The South Bank Show | Will Last / Self | 1978 |
Here I Stand... | Stapleton | 1977 |
Arena | Self | 1975 |
BBC2 Playhouse | George Hunn | 1974 |
Second City Firsts | Gaz | 1973 |
Mastermind | Self / Himself | 1972 |
Play for Today | Trevor / Robert | 1970 |
Director Filmography
Title | Year |
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Shameless | 2004 |
Producer Filmography
Title | Year |
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Shameless | 2004 |
Year | Type | Category | Won |
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1983 | Emmy | Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited Series or a Special | Nominated |