Known For
Acting
Born
Jul 17, 1946
Place of Birth
Annfield Plain, County Durham, England, UK
Credits
158 titles
Alun Armstrong
Biography
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. Armstrong is also an accomplished stage actor who spent nine years with the Royal Shakespeare Company. He originated the role of Thénardier in the London production of Les Misérables and he won an Olivier Award for playing the title role in Sweeney Todd.
Known For
Filmography
The Choral
Herbert Trickett
After the Flood
Alan Benson
Tom Jones
Squire Western
Remembers…
Self
Sherwood
Gary Jackson
The Nicky Nack
Breeders
Jim
Breaking The Codes
Year of the Rabbit
Chief Inspector Hugh Wisbech
Out of Innocence
Detective Callaghan
Possum
Maurice
Funny Cow
Lenny
Prime Suspect 1973
Clifford Bentley
Frontier
Lord Benton
Dark Angel
George Stot
Asunder
Self - Narrator (voice)
Golden Years
Sid
Penny Dreadful
Vincent Brand
The Hollow Crown
Northumberland
The Mystery of Edwin Drood
Hiram Grewgious
Les Misérables: 25th Anniversary in Concert
Monsieur Thenardier (1985 Cast)
A Passionate Woman
Donald (1980s)
Garrow's Law
John Southouse
Little Dorrit
Ephraim Flintwinch
Filth: The Mary Whitehouse Story
Ernest Whitehouse
The Dinner Party
Jim
Eragon
Uncle Garrow
The Girls Who Came to Stay
Bob Jenkins
Bleak House
Inspector Bucket
Oliver Twist
Magistrate Fang
Millions
Saint Peter
When I'm Sixty-Four
Jim
Van Helsing: The London Assignment
Cardinal Jinetta (voice)
Van Helsing
Cardinal Jinette
New Tricks
Brian Lane
Carrie's War
Mr. Samuel Evans
Between The Sheets
Peter Delany
It's All About Love
David
Paradise Found
Camille Pissarro
Inquisition
Martin
Sparkhouse
Richard Bolton
Extinct
Himself - Narrator
Bedtime
Neil Henshaw
Strictly Sinatra
Bill
Score
George
Messiah
DCI Charlie McIntyre
The Mummy Returns
Baltus Hafez
Adrian Mole: The Cappuccino Years
George Mole
Proof of Life
Wyatt
Harrison's Flowers
Samuel Brubeck