David Threlfall
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.
Acted in
Bing & Friends: Birthday Celebration
2024
as Flop (voice)
Nightsleeper
2024
as Paul Peveril
Passenger
2024
as Jim Bracknell
The Completely Made-Up Adventures of Dick Turpin
2024
as Tom King
Dodger Special: Bad Egg
2023
as Sir Charles Rowan
Funny Woman
2023
as George Parker
Dodger Special: Train
2022
as Sir Charles Rowan
Art That Made Us
2022
as Self - Narrator (voice)
Wolfe
2021
as Howard
Faith Healer
2020
as Teddy
Beckett Double Bill (Krapp's Last Tape / The Old Tune)
2020
as Cream
Troy: Fall of a City
2018
as King Priam
Urban Myths
2017
as Samuel Beckett
Midwinter of the Spirit
2015
as Rev Huw Owens
Code of a Killer
2015
as DCS David Baker
The Ark
2015
as Noah
Black Sea
2014
as Peters
Tommy Cooper: Not Like That, Like This
2014
as Tommy Cooper
What Remains
2013
as Len Harper
Ripper Street
2012
as Abel Croker
Evidently... John Cooper Clarke
2012
as Himself
Nowhere Boy
2009
as George Toogood Smith
Elizabeth: The Golden Age
2007
as Dr. John Dee
Hot Fuzz
2007
as Martin Blower
Housewife, 49
2006
as Will Last
Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire
2006
as Constantine the Great
Like Minds
2006
as John Colbie
Alien Autopsy
2006
as Jeffrey
The Queen's Sister
2005
as Prince Philip
Shameless
2004
Shameless
2004
as Frank Gallagher
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
2003
as Preserved Killick, Captain's Steward
Chunky Monkey
2003
as Donald Leek
Spooks
2002
as Keith Moran
Cutting It
2002
as Beauregard Smee
Conspiracy
2001
as Kritzinger
A Dinner of Herbs
2000
as Hal Royce (older)
In the Beginning
2000
as Aaron
Mary, Mother of Jesus
1999
as Joseph of Nazareth
Sex, Chips & Rock n' Roll
1999
Sex, Chips & Rock n' Roll
1999
as Norman
Men of the World
1994
as Lenny Smart
The Summer House
1993
as Syl
Diana: Her True Story
1993
as Prince Charles
A Statement of Affairs
1993
as Alan
Patriot Games
1992
as Inspector Highland
A Murder of Quality
1991
as Stanley Rode
Titmuss Regained
1991
as Leslie Titmuss
The Russia House
1990
as Wicklow
Nightingales
1990
as Bell
He's Asking For Me
1990
as Andy
A Casualty of War
1989
as Tom Rowse
Seeing in the Dark
1989
as Tony
Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story
1989
as Alex
When the Whales Came
1989
as Jack Jenkins
The Marksman
1987
as Weaver
Paradise Postponed
1986
as Leslie Titmuss
Paradise Postponed
1986
as Leslie Titmus
Dog Ends
1984
as Robert
The Gathering Seed
1983
as Joe Henshaw
Red Monarch
1983
as Vasily
King Lear
1983
as Edgar
Rolling Home
1982
as Donald
Objects of Affection
1982
as Donald
The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby
1982
Mike Leigh: Making Plays
1982
as Self
The Brylcreem Boys
1979
as George Hunn
Scum
1977
as Archer
The Kiss of Death
1977
as Trevor
I Want to Be Like You
1976
as Steve
Play for Today
1970
as Robert
