David Threlfall
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1953-10-12 (71 years old)
Place of Birth
Burnage, Manchester, England, UK
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
Acting
(2025)
Unforgivable
as Brian Mitchell
(2024)
Bing & Friends: Birthday Celebration
as Flop (voice)
(2023)
Dodger Special: Bad Egg
as Sir Charles Rowan
(2022)
Dodger Special: Train
as Sir Charles Rowan
(2020)
(2020)
Faith Healer
as Teddy
(2015)
The Ark
as Noah
(2014)
Black Sea
as Peters
(2014)
Tommy Cooper: Not Like That, Like This
as Tommy Cooper
(2012)
Evidently... John Cooper Clarke
as Himself
(2009)
Nowhere Boy
as George Toogood Smith
(2007)
Hot Fuzz
as Martin Blower
(2007)
Elizabeth: The Golden Age
as Dr. John Dee
(2006)
Alien Autopsy
as Jeffrey
(2006)
Like Minds
as John Colbie
(2006)
Housewife, 49
as Will Last
(2005)
The Queen's Sister
as Prince Philip
(2004)
Benefit to Mankind
as Carl Swannee
(2003)
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
as Preserved Killick, Captain's Steward
(2003)
Chunky Monkey
as Donald Leek
(2001)
Conspiracy
as Friedrich Wilhelm Kritzinger
(1999)
Mary, Mother of Jesus
as Joseph of Nazareth
(1999)
(1993)
(1993)
Diana: Her True Story
as Prince Charles
(1993)
A Statement of Affairs
as Alan
(1992)
Patriot Games
as Inspector Highland
(1991)
A Murder of Quality
as Stanley Rode
(1990)
He's Asking For Me
as Andy
(1990)
The Russia House
as Wicklow
(1989)
(1989)
When the Whales Came
as Jack Jenkins
(1989)
Seeing in the Dark
as Tony
(1989)
A Casualty of War
as Tom Rowse
(1986)
Paradise Postponed
as Leslie Titmus
(1984)
Dog Ends
as Robert
(1983)
King Lear
as Edgar
(1983)
Red Monarch
as Vasily
(1982)
Rolling Home
as Donald
(1982)
Mike Leigh: Making Plays
as Self
(1979)
The Brylcreem Boys
as George Hunn
(1977)
Scum
as Archer
(1977)
The Kiss of Death
as Trevor
(1976)
I Want to Be Like You
as Steve