David Threlfall
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.
Known For
Play for Today
Spooks
Have I Got News for You
Shameless
Screen Two
Screen Two
Have I Got a Bit More News for You
Playhouse
All Movies (44)
- Unforgivable2025 · as Brian Mitchell
- Bing & Friends: Birthday Celebration2024 · as Flop (voice)
- Dodger Special: Bad Egg2023 · as Sir Charles Rowan
- Dodger Special: Train2022 · as Sir Charles Rowan
- Faith Healer2020 · as Teddy
- Beckett Double Bill (Krapp's Last Tape / The Old Tune)2020 · as Cream
- The Ark2015 · as Noah
- Black Sea2014 · as Peters
- Tommy Cooper: Not Like That, Like This2014 · as Tommy Cooper
- Evidently... John Cooper Clarke2012 · as Himself
- Nowhere Boy2009 · as George Toogood Smith
- Elizabeth: The Golden Age2007 · as Dr. John Dee
- Hot Fuzz2007 · as Martin Blower
- Housewife, 492006 · as Will Last
- Like Minds2006 · as John Colbie
- Alien Autopsy2006 · as Jeffrey
- The Queen's Sister2005 · as Prince Philip
- Benefit to Mankind2004 · as Carl Swannee
- Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World2003 · as Preserved Killick, Captain's Steward
- Chunky Monkey2003 · as Donald Leek
- Conspiracy2001 · as Friedrich Wilhelm Kritzinger
- Mary, Mother of Jesus1999 · as Joseph of Nazareth
- Sex, Chips & Rock n' Roll1999
- The Clothes in the Wardrobe1993 · as Syl
- Diana: Her True Story1993 · as Prince Charles
- A Statement of Affairs1993 · as Alan
- Patriot Games1992 · as Inspector Highland
- A Murder of Quality1991 · as Stanley Rode
- The Russia House1990 · as Wicklow
- He's Asking For Me1990 · as Andy
- A Casualty of War1989 · as Tom Rowse
- Seeing in the Dark1989 · as Tony
- Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story1989 · as Alex
- When the Whales Came1989 · as Jack Jenkins
- Paradise Postponed1986 · as Leslie Titmus
- Dog Ends1984 · as Robert
- Red Monarch1983 · as Vasily
- King Lear1983 · as Edgar
- Rolling Home1982 · as Donald
- Mike Leigh: Making Plays1982 · as Self
- The Brylcreem Boys1979 · as George Hunn
- Scum1977 · as Archer
- The Kiss of Death1977 · as Trevor
- I Want to Be Like You1976 · as Steve
All TV Shows (38)
- The Death of Bunny Munro2025 · as Bunny Snr
- Nightsleeper2024 · as Paul Peveril
- Passenger2024 · as Jim Bracknell
- The Completely Made-Up Adventures of Dick Turpin2024 · as Tom King
- Funny Woman2023 · as George Parker
- Art That Made Us2022 · as Self - Narrator (voice)
- Wolfe2021 · as Howard
- Troy: Fall of a City2018 · as King Priam
- Urban Myths2017 · as Samuel Beckett
- Midwinter of the Spirit2015 · as Rev Huw Owens
- Code of a Killer2015 · as DCS David Baker
- What Remains2013 · as Len Harper
- Ripper Street2012 · as Abel Croker
- Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire2006 · as Constantine the Great
- Shameless2004 · as Frank Gallagher
- Celebrity Mastermind2003
- Spooks2002 · as Keith Moran
- Cutting It2002 · as Beauregard Smee
- A Dinner of Herbs2000 · as Older Hal
- In the Beginning2000 · as Aaron
- Sex, Chips & Rock n' Roll1999 · as Norman
- Men of the World1994 · as Lenny Smart
- Titmuss Regained1991 · as Leslie Titmuss
- Have I Got News for You1990 · as Self
- Nightingales1990 · as Bell
- Jumping The Queue1989 · as Hugh Warner
- The Marksman1987 · as Weaver
- Paradise Postponed1986 · as Leslie Titmuss
- ScreenPlay1986 · as Tony
- Screen Two1985 · as Andy
- Screen Two1985 · as Syl
- The Gathering Seed1983 · as Joe Henshaw
- Objects of Affection1982 · as Donald
- The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby1982
- Playhouse1974 · as George Hunn
- Second City Firsts1973 · as Gaz
- Play for Today1970 · as Robert
- Have I Got a Bit More News for You— · as Self - Panellist