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Philip Dean Torrens is an English actor. He is known for his role as Tommy Lascelles in the Netflix drama The Crown, and for leading roles in Poldark and Versailles. His film appearances include The Danish Girl, The Iron Lady, War Horse and Star Wars: The Force Awakens. In 2017, he joined the main cast of AMC's Preacher, portraying the antagonist Herr Starr.
Born
Thursday, 02 June 1960
Actor Filmography
| Title | Character | Year |
|---|
| Renegade Nell | Lord Blancheford | 2024 |
| Mr Bates vs. The Post Office | Mr Justice Fraser / Mr. Justice Fraser | 2024 |
| Extraordinary | Mr. Greenham | 2023 |
| Sherwood | Commissioner Charles Dawes | 2022 |
| The Nevers | Lord Massen | 2021 |
| Roadkill | Joe Lapidus | 2020 |
| Des | Ivan Lawrence QC | 2020 |
| The Aftermath | General Brook | 2019 |
| Death and Nightingales | Maurice Fairbrother | 2018 |
| Down a Dark Hall | Professor Farley | 2018 |
Actor Filmography
| Title | Character | Year |
|---|
| Renegade Nell | Lord Blancheford | 2024 |
| Mr Bates vs. The Post Office | Mr Justice Fraser / Mr. Justice Fraser | 2024 |
| Extraordinary | Mr. Greenham | 2023 |
| Sherwood | Commissioner Charles Dawes | 2022 |
| The Nevers | Lord Massen | 2021 |
| Roadkill | Joe Lapidus | 2020 |
| Des | Ivan Lawrence QC | 2020 |
| The Aftermath | General Brook | 2019 |
| Death and Nightingales | Maurice Fairbrother | 2018 |
| Down a Dark Hall | Professor Farley | 2018 |
| Patrick Melrose | Nicolas Pratt | 2018 |
| Succession | Peter Munion | 2018 |
| Deep State | William Kingsley | 2018 |
| Darkest Hour | BBC Producer | 2017 |
| The Crown | Tommy Lascelles | 2016 |
| Letters from Baghdad | Dick Doughty-Wylie | 2016 |
| Kids in Love | Graham | 2016 |
| Talking Preacher | Self - Guest | 2016 |
| Preacher | Herr Starr | 2016 |
| War & Peace | Prince Bagration | 2016 |
| Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens | Colonel Kaplan | 2015 |
| Versailles | Cassel | 2015 |
| The BBC at War | Actor | 2015 |
| Hetty Feather | Reverend Cranbourne | 2015 |
| Poldark | Cary Warleggan | 2015 |
| The Heavy Water War: Stopping Hitler's Atomic Bomb | Wilson | 2015 |
| The Danish Girl | Dr. Hexler / Dr. Jens Hexler | 2015 |
| Effie Gray | Times Journalist / Royal Academy | 2014 |
| Grantchester | Sir Edward Kendall | 2014 |
| Gemma Bovery | Rankin | 2014 |
| Salting the Battlefield | Jock Calderon / Jack Calderon | 2014 |
| Fleming | Esmond Rothermere | 2014 |
| Breathless | Eric Smallwood | 2013 |
| Up the Women | Lawrence | 2013 |
| The Lady Vanishes | Reverend Kenneth Barnes | 2013 |
| Yes, Prime Minister | Jeremy Burnham | 2013 |
| Father Brown | Geoffrey Bennett | 2013 |
| Drone Strike | Wing Commander Ellis / Commandant Ellis | 2013 |
| Switch | Lord Piermont | 2012 |
| The Scapegoat | George | 2012 |
| Anna Karenina | Prince Shcherbatsky | 2012 |
| The Hollow Crown | Mowbray | 2012 |
| The Fall of Singapore: The Great Betrayal | MI5 Officer | 2012 |
| Gambit | Desk Clerk | 2012 |
| One Night | Mr. Lerner | 2012 |
| Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries | 2012 | |
| Bel Ami | Paul the Butler | 2012 |
| The Iron Lady | Ian Gilmour | 2011 |
| War Horse | Maj. Tompkins | 2011 |
| Black Mirror | Philip Crane | 2011 |
| My Week with Marilyn | Sir Kenneth Clark | 2011 |
| Death in Paradise | Guide | 2011 |
| Spy | Crispin | 2011 |
| Love's Kitchen | Health & Safety Official | 2011 |
| Silk | HHJ Maikin / Makin LJ / HHJ Makin | 2011 |
| The Burma Conspiracy | Invité Plateau CNBC | 2011 |
| The Promise | Major John Arbuthnot | 2011 |
| St Trinian's 2: The Legend of Fritton's Gold | Heathcoat Parker | 2009 |
| Collision | Deputy Commissioner Fraser | 2009 |
| U Be Dead | Mr. Higginson / Peter Higginson | 2009 |
| Dorian Gray | Victor | 2009 |
| Breaking the Mould | Radio Announcer | 2009 |
| Law & Order: UK | Philip Nevins | 2009 |
| Whitechapel | Travis Underwood | 2009 |
| Easy Virtue | Lord Hurst | 2008 |
| Secret Diary of a Call Girl | Edward | 2007 |
| Consenting Adults | Frances Graham Harrison | 2007 |
| Outnumbered | Armitage | 2007 |
| Flood | Army Liaison Officer Richardson / Army Liaison Officer | 2007 |
| Miss Austen Regrets | Edward Austen Knight / Edward Austen-Knight | 2007 |
| The Mark of Cain | Colonel Hampton | 2007 |
| Inspector George Gently | Brigadier Phillips | 2007 |
| The Bad Mother's Handbook | Doctor Gale | 2007 |
| Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire | Olympius | 2006 |
| The Path to 9/11 | Paul Kessler | 2006 |
| The Chase | Hubert Bryce-Jones | 2006 |
| Pinochet's Last Stand | Michael Caplan | 2006 |
| The Chatterley Affair | Mr. Mervyn Griffith-Jones | 2006 |
| Dresden | Saundby | 2006 |
| Inspector Lewis | Malcolm Croft | 2006 |
| Missing | Derek Mailer | 2006 |
| A View from a Hill | Squire Richards | 2005 |
| Broken News | Sam French - Bullet Points Presenter | 2005 |
| Class of '76 | Supt Flood | 2005 |
| Pride & Prejudice | Netherfield Butler | 2005 |
| Ian Fleming: Bondmaker | Noel Coward | 2005 |
| Rome | Cimber | 2005 |
| Valiant | Lofty / Lofty (voice) | 2005 |
| Doctor Who | Rocastle | 2005 |
| The Government Inspector | John Scarlett | 2005 |
| The Rotters' Club | English Master | 2005 |
| The Commander: Blackdog | DCS Les Branton | 2005 |
| The Commander: Virus | DCS Les Branton | 2005 |
| Marple | Noël Coward | 2004 |
| Green Wing | Neurosurgeon | 2004 |
| Messiah: The Promise | DCI Warmseley / DCI Walmsely | 2004 |
| When I'm Sixty-Four | Headmaster | 2004 |
| No Angels | Dr. Templar | 2004 |
| Hustle | Heinz Zimmermann | 2004 |
| Medici: Godfathers of the Renaissance | Cosimo de' Medici | 2004 |
| The Last King | Charles Hart | 2003 |
| Gifted | Richard Neilson | 2003 |
| Seven Wonders of the Industrial World | Dr. John Snow | 2003 |
| Rosemary & Thyme | Donald Westward | 2003 |
| Second Nature | Frank | 2003 |
| My Dad's the Prime Minister | Publisher | 2003 |
| The Last Detective | Captain Boyden | 2003 |
| Red Cap | Maj. Tim Garvey | 2003 |
| tlc | Mr. Copperfield | 2002 |
| Dead Gorgeous | Rex Ballard | 2002 |
| Believe Nothing | Le Fanu | 2002 |
| Wire in the Blood | DI Brennan / Harrison | 2002 |
| MI-5 | Charles Lee | 2002 |
| Ted and Alice | Dr. Handford | 2002 |
| Aka Albert Walker | Sam | 2002 |
| Sunday | Inquiry Lawyer | 2002 |
| Shackleton | James McIlroy | 2002 |
| All the Queen's Men | British Major | 2001 |
| The Mystic Masseur | Governor | 2001 |
| To End All Wars | Lt. Foxworth | 2001 |
| The Infinite Worlds of H.G. Wells | Mark Pattison | 2001 |
| The Whistle-Blower | Philip Amis | 2001 |
| Revelation | Professor Claxton | 2001 |
| Office Gossip | Mark Spenser | 2001 |
| Lorna Doone | Colonel Kirke | 2000 |
| Waking the Dead | Dennis Holland | 2000 |
| The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: My First Adventure | Howard Carter (archive footage) / Howard Carter | 2000 |
| Rebus | Andrew Hammill | 2000 |
| At Home with the Braithwaites | Mr. Brondby | 2000 |
| Longitude | Capt. Lindsay / Captain Lindsay | 2000 |
| Pure Wickedness | Dr. Phil Gold | 1999 |
| Rogue Trader | Simon Jones | 1999 |
| Big Bad World | Hugh | 1999 |
| Tomorrow Never Dies | Captain - HMS Bedford | 1997 |
| Incognito | White (Defense) | 1997 |
| Trial & Retribution | DCS Richard Lawson | 1997 |
| Where the Heart Is | Peter Viner - Cardiologist | 1997 |
| Midsomer Murders | Fergal Jenner / Group Captain Jeremy Ford | 1997 |
| Crime Traveller | Carter | 1997 |
| Bodyguards | Robert Ferguson | 1996 |
| Silent Witness | Richard Tate | 1996 |
| Hamish Macbeth | Peter Peterson | 1995 |
| The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Treasure of the Peacock's Eye | Howard Carter | 1995 |
| Kavanagh QC | Miles Petersham | 1995 |
| A Dark Adapted Eye | 1994 | |
| To Play the King | Andrew Harding | 1993 |
| The Remains of the Day | Doctor Carlisle / Doctor Richard Carlisle | 1993 |
| Peak Practice | Harry Kenyon | 1993 |
| Patriot Games | First Aide | 1992 |
| Heartbeat | James Moncrieff | 1992 |
| The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles | Howard Carter | 1992 |
| Maigret | Chief Commissioner | 1992 |
| Murder Most Horrid | News Presenter | 1991 |
| Performance | Nigel Childs | 1991 |
| Chimera | Windeler | 1991 |
| Soldier Soldier | Maj Lawrence Brownham | 1991 |
| The Object of Beauty | Art Evaluator | 1991 |
| Eminent Domain | Anton | 1991 |
| The Brittas Empire | John Rawlinson | 1991 |
| Medics | Jonathan Witley | 1990 |
| Jeeves and Wooster | Bingo | 1990 |
| Mountains of the Moon | Lt. Hesketh | 1990 |
| Bearskin: An Urban Fairytale | Gold Cufflinks / Gold-Cufflinks | 1989 |
| The Nightmare Years | Major Radford | 1989 |
| Tales from the Crypt | Gordon | 1989 |
| How to Get Ahead in Advertising | Jonathan | 1989 |
| Voice of the Heart | Kim Cunningham | 1989 |
| Poirot | Major Rich / Jeremy Cloade | 1989 |
| A Handful of Dust | Jock / Jock Grant-Menzies | 1988 |
| Little Dorrit | Henry Gowan | 1987 |
| The Lenny Henry Show | PC Monkhouse | 1987 |
| Ruth Rendell Mysteries | Michael Quin | 1987 |
| Casualty | Tom Price | 1986 |
| Lady Jane | Thomas | 1986 |
| Lovejoy | Christian Shotley | 1986 |
| Hold the Back Page | Geoff Butcher | 1985 |
| Oxford Blues | Ian | 1984 |
| The Brief | Matthew Ryan / DI Spencer / DI Rocastle / Valentin Turovich / Mr. Denby | 1984 |
| Minder | Muldier | 1979 |
| Van der Valk | Michael de Groot | 1972 |
