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John Shrapnel
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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. He presented an episode of the 1983 BBC television travel series Great Little Railways. He gave perf…
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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. He presented an episode of the 1983 BBC television travel series Great Little Railways. He gave performances in three entries in the BBC Television Shakespeare plays and as Creon in the BBC's 1984 productions of the Three Theban plays of Sophocles. In America, he has starred in supporting roles as Senator Gaius in Gladiator, Nestor in Troy and Pompey in the second episode of Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire. He also played the Jail Warden in the 10th Kingdom, an epic fantasy miniseries. He has the rare achievement of appearing in two episodes of Midsomer Murders as two different characters, in Death in Chorus and Written in Blood. Shrapnel appeared in an episode of Jonathan Creek as Professor Lance Graumann in the episode The Omega Man. He appears in Chemical Wedding alongside Simon Callow, telling the tale of the resurrection of occultist Aleister Crowley. Shrapnel also has experience in the field of BBC radio drama through such characters as Colin Dexter's Inspector Morse and William Gibson's Neuromancer. He is the son-in-law of Deborah Kerr through his 1975 marriage to her younger daughter Francesca Ann Bartley. They have three sons, the actors Lex Shrapnel (b.1979), Tom Shrapnel (b.1981) and the writer Joe Shrapnel (b.1976). They live in Highbury, north London.
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BODY OF WORK
John Shrapnel's Filmography
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Hamlet Within
King Charles III
as Archbishop of Canterbury
Britain's Nuclear Bomb - The Inside Story
as Narrator (Voice)
No Poster
The Return of the Flying Scotsman
as Narrator - (Voice)
Branagh Theatre Live: The Winter's Tale
as Camilo
Hamlet
as Claudius/Ghost
No Poster
OXI, an Act of Resistance
as Creon
Building Burma's Death Railway: Moving Half the Mountain
as Narrator
National Theatre Live: Macbeth
as Duncan/Seyton/Old Man
Run.
as St. Peter
The Awakening
as Reverend Hugh Purslow
National Theatre Live: Phèdre
as Théramène
An Organization of Dreams
as Father
The Duchess
as General Grey
Mirrors
as Lorenzo Sapelli
Chemical Wedding
as Crowley
Hindenburg: Titanic of the Skies
as Himself (Narrator)
Elizabeth: The Golden Age
as Lord Howard
Once Upon a Time on the Westway
as Billy Palmer
Alien Autopsy
as Michael Kuhn
Shadow of the Sword
as Archbishop
Seven Wonders of Ancient Greece
as Narrator
Troy
as Nestor
Seven Wonders of Ancient Egypt
as Narrator
Seven Wonders of Ancient Rome
as Narrator
The Race for Everest
as Narrator
No Poster
Wild Women of Viramba
as Narrator
Whistle
as Paul
K-19: The Widowmaker
as Admiral Bratyeev
Claim
as Lex Vandenberg
Alone
as Hannah
The Gentleman Thief
as Monty Sinclair
Animals of the Ocean Desert
as Narrator
Mountain Men: The Ghosts of K2
as Narrator
The Body
as Moshe Cohen
The Misfit and the Matterhorn
as Narrator
Horizon: Supermassive Black Holes
as Narrator
Gladiator
as Gaius
Lost on Everest: The Search for Mallory and Irvine
as Self - Narrator
Mary, Mother of Jesus
as Simon
Notting Hill
as PR Chief
Hornblower: The Frogs and the Lobsters
as General Charette
The Strange Case of Delfina Potocka
as Iwaszkiewicz
No Poster
Solo Shuttle
as Cain
Lion Queen
as Narrator (voice)
101 Dalmatians
as Skinner
Two Deaths
as Cinca
King Arthur: His Life and Legends
England, My England
as Samuel Pepys
Fatherland
as General Globus
Selling Hitler
as Gerd Schulte-Hillen
Hamlet
as Claudius
No Poster
SS-3: The Assassination of Reinhard Heydrich
as Narrator
The Tragedy of Flight 103: The Inside Story
as BKA Police Chief
How to Get Ahead in Advertising
as Psychiatrist
Testimony
as Andre Zhdanov
Partition
as General Flood
Personal Services
as Lionel
Theban Plays: Antigone
as Creon
Theban Plays: Oedipus at Colonus
as Creon
Theban Plays: Oedipus the King
as Creon
The Burston Rebellion
as Rev. Charles Tucker Eland
No Poster
Poppyland
as George Sims
King Lear
as Earl of Kent
Troilus & Cressida
as Hector
Timon of Athens
as Alcibiades
No Poster
The Tom Machine
No Poster
The Victim
as Vincent Craig
Gossip from the Forest
as Matthias Erzberger
Edward & Mrs. Simpson
as Maj. Alexander Hardinge
Flayed
as Robert
No Poster
The Three Hostages
as Gaudian
Professional Foul
as McKendrick
No Poster
Hitting Town
as Leonard Brazil (voice)
Hennessy
as Tipaldi
King Lear
as Duke of Cornwall
Pope Joan
as Father James
Nicholas and Alexandra
as Petya
No Poster
It's Called the Sugar Plum
as Wally Zuckerman
No Poster
The Ha-Ha
as Jamie