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Alun Armstrong
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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.
Armstrong is also an accomplished stage actor who spent nine years with the Royal Shakespeare Company. He originated the role of Thénardier …
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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. 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.
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BODY OF WORK
Alun Armstrong's Filmography
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The Choral
as Herbert Trickett
The Nicky Nack
Breaking The Codes
Out of Innocence
as Detective Callaghan
Possum
as Maurice
Funny Cow
as Lenny
Asunder
as Self - Narrator (voice)
Golden Years
as Sid
Les Misérables: 25th Anniversary in Concert
as Monsieur Thenardier (1985 Cast)
Filth: The Mary Whitehouse Story
as Ernest Whitehouse
The Dinner Party
as Jim
Eragon
as Uncle Garrow
No Poster
The Girls Who Came to Stay
as Bob Jenkins
Oliver Twist
as Magistrate Fang
Millions
as Saint Peter
When I'm Sixty-Four
as Jim
Van Helsing: The London Assignment
as Cardinal Jinetta (voice)
Van Helsing
as Cardinal Jinette
Carrie's War
as Mr. Samuel Evans
It's All About Love
as David
Paradise Found
as Camille Pissarro
Inquisition
as Martin
Strictly Sinatra
as Bill
No Poster
Score
as George
The Mummy Returns
as Baltus Hafez
Proof of Life
as Wyatt
Harrison's Flowers
as Samuel Brubeck
7 Up 2000
as Himself - Narrator
This Is Personal: The Hunt for the Yorkshire Ripper
as Asst. Chief Const. George Oldfield
Onegin
as Zaretsky
Sleepy Hollow
as High Constable
G:MT Greenwich Mean Time
as Uncle Henry
With or Without You
as Sammy
Aristocrats
as Lord Holland
The Destruction of Troy and the Adventures of Odysseus
The Saint
as Inspector Teal
Brazen Hussies
as Jimmy Hardcastle
Breaking the Code
as Mick Ross
Witness Against Hitler
as Pastor Harold Poelchau
Sorry About Last Night
as Mickey
Les Misérables: 10th Anniversary Concert at the Royal Albert Hall
as Monsieur Thénardier
Braveheart
as Mornay
An Awfully Big Adventure
as Uncle Vernon
MacGyver: Trail to Doomsday
as Capshaw
Doggin' Around
as Charlie Foster
Black Beauty
as Reuben Smith
The Tempest
as Caliban
Blue Ice
as Osgood
Patriot Games
as Owens
Split Second
as Thrasher
London Kills Me
as John Stone
American Friends
as Dr. Weeks
The Widowmaker
as Dad
Sticky Wickets
as Evans
White Hunter, Black Heart
as Ralph Lockhart
Looking After Number One
as Dick
Nineteen96
as Det. Supt. Frank Burroughs
A Night on the Tyne
as Willy
The Childeater
as Stefano
That Summer of White Roses
as Zemba
Number 27
as Murray Lester
The Storyteller: The True Bride
as Troll (Voice)
Billy the Kid and the Green Baize Vampire
as Maxwell Randall, The Green Baize Vampire
Number One
as Blackpool Police Sergeant
The Caucasian Chalk Circle
as Singer
The House
as Mr. Smeth
Krull
as Torquil
Mr Moon's Last Case
as Narrator
The French Lieutenant's Woman
as Grimes
No Poster
Fear of God
as Trahearne
All Day on the Sands
Measure for Measure
as Provost
Freedom of the Dig
as Quinn
Liza
as Mikhalevich
Our Day Out
as Mr. Briggs
Shooting the Chandelier
as Brodovich
The Duellists
as Lieutenant Lacourbe
Risking It
as Richard Clewes
A Bridge Too Far
as Cpl. Davies
The Chester Mystery Plays
as Lightborne
The Likely Lads
as Tommy
Easy Go
as First docker
The 14
as Tommy
The Eyes Have It
as Mike
The Sex Victims
as George
Only Make Believe
as Michael Biddle
Get Carter
as Keith
No Poster
My Little Eye
as Dad
A Ticket Too Far
as Dad