Alun Armstrong
Born in Annfield Plain, County Durham, England, UK — Jul 17 1946
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Alun Armstrong is a prolific English character 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." His numerous credits include six different Dickens adaptations and seven series as eccentric ex-detective Brian Lane in New Tricks.…
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Married... with Children
Trevor
Great Performances
Thénardier
Play for Today
1st Docker
BBC Play of the Month
Lightborne
New Tricks
Brian Lane
The Sweeney
Peter Jenner
Tales from the Crypt
Inspector Herbert
Inspector Morse
Superintendent Holdsby
Public Eye
Vince Gregson
BBC2 Play of the Week
Brodovich
Thriller
Mike
Van Helsing
Cardinal Jinette
Penny Dreadful
Vincent Brand
The New Avengers
Private George Harris
The Mummy Returns
Baltus Hafez
The Storyteller
Troll (voice)
Breeders
Jim
The Hollow Crown
Northumberland
Frontier
Lord Benton
Braveheart
Mornay
Justice
Bob Graham
Sleepy Hollow
High Constable
Centre Play
Richard Clewes
Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads?
Scaife
Little Dorrit
Ephraim Flintwinch
Garrow's Law
John Southouse
Enemy at the Door
Louis Mendoza
Messiah
DCI Charlie McIntyre
Sherwood
Gary Jackson
Porridge
Spraggon
Father Brown
Joe
Bleak House
Inspector Bucket
Shakespeare: The Animated Tales
Caliban (voice)
After the Flood
Alan Benson
Our Friends in the North
Austin Donohue
Eragon
Uncle Garrow
A Bridge Too Far
Cpl. Davies
Year of the Rabbit
Chief Inspector Hugh Wisbech
David Copperfield
Dan Peggotty
A.D.
Gamesmaster
Prime Suspect 1973
Clifford Bentley
Armchair Thriller
Trahearne
Oliver Twist
Mr. Fleming
Patriot Games
Owens
The Choral
Herbert Trickett
Days of Hope
Billy Shepherd
Bedtime
Neil Henshaw
The Saint
Inspector Teal
Proof of Life
Wyatt
In the Red
DCI Frank Jefferson
Krull
Torquil
Possum
Maurice
Between The Sheets
Peter Delany
The French Lieutenant's Woman
Grimes
The Duellists
Lieutenant Lacourbe
Oliver Twist
Magistrate Fang
Tom Jones
Squire Western
The Mystery of Edwin Drood
Hiram Grewgious
Van Helsing: The London Assignment
Cardinal Jinetta (voice)
A Sharp Intake of Breath
Split Second
Thrasher
Millions
Saint Peter
Dark Angel
George Stot
Black Beauty
Reuben Smith
Onegin
Zaretsky
Get Carter
Keith
Get Lost!
Neville Keaton
Underworld
Sparkhouse
Richard Bolton
The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby
Goggle Eyes
Gerald 'Goggle Eyes' Faulkner
A Passionate Woman
Donald (1980s)
Blue Ice
Osgood
Les Misérables: 25th Anniversary in Concert
Monsieur Thenardier (1985 Cast)
White Hunter, Black Heart
Ralph Lockhart
Murder in Eden
Sgt. McGing
Funny Cow
Lenny
Harrison's Flowers
Samuel Brubeck
An Awfully Big Adventure
Uncle Vernon
Adrian Mole: The Cappuccino Years
George Mole
MacGyver: Trail to Doomsday
Capshaw
Golden Years
Sid
Paradise Found
Camille Pissarro
The Stars Look Down
Joe Gowlan
This Is Personal: The Hunt for the Yorkshire Ripper
Asst. Chief Const. George Oldfield
Extinct
Himself - Narrator
Stanley and the Women
Rufus Hilton
London Kills Me
John Stone
American Friends
Dr. Weeks
Goodbye Cruel World
Roy Grade
Sticky Wickets
Evans
The 14
Tommy
Strictly Sinatra
Bill
It's All About Love
David
Number One
Blackpool Police Sergeant
Aristocrats
Lord Holland
The Widowmaker
Dad
Brazen Hussies
Jimmy Hardcastle
Filth: The Mary Whitehouse Story
Ernest Whitehouse
Fear of God
Trahearne
Breaking the Code
Mick Ross
Witness Against Hitler
Pastor Harold Poelchau
Score
George
G:MT Greenwich Mean Time
Uncle Henry
This Is Personal: The Hunt for the Yorkshire Ripper
Asst. Chief Const. George Oldfield
The Likely Lads
Tommy
Number 27
Murray Lester
Les Misérables: 10th Anniversary Concert at the Royal Albert Hall
Thenardier
The Eyes Have It
Mike
When I'm Sixty-Four
Jim
The House
Mr. Smeth
The Dinner Party
Jim
With or Without You
Sammy
A Night on the Tyne
Willy
The Tempest
Caliban
Measure for Measure
Provost
Nineteen96
Det. Supt. Frank Burroughs
The Sex Victims
George
Carrie's War
Mr. Samuel Evans
Liza
Mikhalevich
Risking It
Richard Clewes
Doggin' Around
Charlie Foster
Billy the Kid and the Green Baize Vampire
Maxwell Randall, The Green Baize Vampire
That Summer of White Roses
Zemba
Out of Innocence
Detective Callaghan
Our Day Out
Mr. Briggs
The Caucasian Chalk Circle
Singer
Breaking The Codes
Sorry About Last Night
Mickey
Looking After Number One
Dick
Inquisition
Martin
Easy Go
First docker
The Childeater
Stefano
Shooting the Chandelier
Brodovich
All Day on the Sands
Asunder
Self - Narrator (voice)
Only Make Believe
Michael Biddle
My Little Eye
Dad
The Storyteller: The True Bride
Troll (Voice)
Freedom of the Dig
Quinn
The Girls Who Came to Stay
Bob Jenkins
Mr Moon's Last Case
Narrator
The Nicky Nack
7 Up 2000
Himself - Narrator
The Chester Mystery Plays
Lightborne