David Threlfall
Profile info
Known forActing
GenderMale
Birthday12 October 1953 (72 years old)
Place of birthBurnage, Manchester, England, UK
Known credits83
Biography
Born in Burnage, Manchester in 1953, David Threlfall is a celebrated actor of stage, film and television. In the latter, he is perhaps best known as the feckless Frank Gallagher in Channel 4's Shameless. In 1994 whilst working on a production of The Count of Monte Cristo at the Royal Exchange, Manchester, Threlfall met Bosnian actress Brana Bajic and the pair subsequently married a year later.
The Death of Bunny Munro
2025 · Bunny Snr
Unforgivable
2025 · Brian Mitchell
Bing & Friends: Birthday Celebration
2024 · Flop (voice)
Nightsleeper
2024 · Paul Peveril
Passenger
2024 · Jim Bracknell
The Completely Made-Up Adventures of Dick Turpin
2024 · Tom King
Dodger Special: Bad Egg
2023 · Sir Charles Rowan
Funny Woman
2023 · George Parker
Dodger Special: Train
2022 · Sir Charles Rowan
Art That Made Us
2022 · Self - Narrator (voice)
Wolfe
2021 · Howard
Faith Healer
2020 · Teddy
Beckett Double Bill (Krapp's Last Tape / The Old Tune)
2020 · Cream
Troy: Fall of a City
2018 · Priam
Urban Myths
2017 · Samuel Beckett
Midwinter of the Spirit
2015 · Rev Huw Owens
Code of a Killer
2015 · DCS David Baker
The Ark
2015 · Noah
Black Sea
2014 · Peters
Tommy Cooper: Not Like That, Like This
2014 · Tommy Cooper
What Remains
2013 · Len Harper
Ripper Street
2012 · Abel Croker
Evidently... John Cooper Clarke
2012 · Himself
Nowhere Boy
2009 · George Toogood Smith
The Millionaire and the Murder Mansion
2009 · Self - Narrator (voice)
Elizabeth: The Golden Age
2007 · Dr. John Dee
Hot Fuzz
2007 · Martin Blower
Housewife, 49
2006 · Will Last
Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire
2006 · Constantine the Great
Like Minds
2006 · John Colbie
Alien Autopsy
2006 · Jeffrey
The Queen's Sister
2005 · Prince Philip
Benefit to Mankind
2004 · Carl Swannee
Shameless
2004 · Frank Gallagher
Shameless
2004 · Executive Producer
Shameless
2004 · Director
Celebrity Mastermind
2003
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
2003 · Preserved Killick, Captain's Steward
Chunky Monkey
2003 · Donald Leek
Spooks
2002 · Keith Moran
Cutting It
2002 · Beauregard Smee
Conspiracy
2001 · Friedrich Wilhelm Kritzinger
A Dinner of Herbs
2000 · Older Hal
In the Beginning
2000 · Aaron
Mary, Mother of Jesus
1999 · Joseph of Nazareth
Sex, Chips & Rock n' Roll
1999
Sex, Chips & Rock n' Roll
1999 · Norman
Men of the World
1994 · Lenny Smart
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