John Shrapnel
Profile info
Known forActing
GenderMale
Birthday27 April 1942
Died14 February 2020 (age 77)
Place of birthBirmingham, England, UK
Known credits132
Biography
Shrapnel was born in Birmingham, Warwickshire, the son of Mary Lillian Myfanwy (née Edwards) and journalist/author Norman Shrapnel.[1] As a stage actor, he was a member of Laurence Olivier's Royal National Theatre company and the Royal Shakespeare Company and most recently appeared as Sir Oliver Surface in The School for Scandal (directed by Deborah Warner) at the Barbican Centre in 2011. He has also appeared extensively in film and on television in roles in Elizabeth R, Z-Cars, Edward and Mrs. Simpson, 101 Dalmatians, Space: 1999, Inspector Morse, Coogan's Run, Notting Hill and Foyle's War. …
Hamlet Within
2022
The Lions Rule
2017 · Narrator (voice)
King Charles III
2017 · Archbishop of Canterbury
Britain's Nuclear Bomb - The Inside Story
2017 · Narrator (Voice)
The Return of the Flying Scotsman
2016 · Narrator - (Voice)
Branagh Theatre Live: The Winter's Tale
2015 · Camilo
Hamlet
2015 · Claudius/Ghost
OXI, an Act of Resistance
2014 · Creon
Building Burma's Death Railway: Moving Half the Mountain
2014 · Narrator
National Theatre Live: Macbeth
2013 · Duncan/Seyton/Old Man
Run.
2013 · St. Peter
The Awakening
2011 · Reverend Hugh Purslow
National Theatre Live: Phèdre
2009 · Théramène
An Organization of Dreams
2009 · Father
Apparitions
2008 · Cardinal Bukovak
Merlin
2008 · The Sarrum
The Duchess
2008 · General Grey
Mirrors
2008 · Lorenzo Sapelli
Chemical Wedding
2008 · Crowley
Hindenburg: Titanic of the Skies
2007 · Himself (Narrator)
Elizabeth: The Golden Age
2007 · Lord Howard
Once Upon a Time on the Westway
2007 · Billy Palmer
Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire
2006 · Pompey
Alien Autopsy
2006 · Michael Kuhn
Wachau - Valley of Golden Magic
2005 · Narrator (English Version)
Shadow of the Sword
2005 · Archbishop
Seven Wonders of Ancient Greece
2004 · Narrator
Troy
2004 · Nestor
I Am Not an Animal
2004 · Narrator (voice)
Seven Wonders of Ancient Egypt
2004 · Narrator
Seven Wonders of Ancient Rome
2004 · Narrator
New Tricks
2004 · DAC John Felsham
The Race for Everest
2003 · Narrator
Wild Women of Viramba
2003 · Narrator
Schönbrunn - Well of Beauty
2002 · Narrator (English Version)
Foyle's War
2002 · Raymond Brooks
Whistle
2002 · Paul
K-19: The Widowmaker
2002 · Admiral Bratyeev
Claim
2002 · Lex Vandenberg
Alone
2002 · Hannah
The Inspector Lynley Mysteries
2002 · Sergent Mike McCaffrey
The Gentleman Thief
2001 · Monty Sinclair
Animals of the Ocean Desert
2001 · Narrator
Waking the Dead
2001 · John Christie
Mountain Men: The Ghosts of K2
2001 · Narrator
The Body
2001 · Moshe Cohen
The Misfit and the Matterhorn
2001 · Narrator
Horizon: Supermassive Black Holes
2000 · Narrator
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