Acting credits
71
Prolific
Very extensive acting filmography.
Actor
David Threlfall
Acting
Career Snapshot
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Movies: 39Series: 32Crew credits: 1
TMDB ID: 59081
IMDb ID: nm0861915
Known for: Acting
Born: October 12, 1953
Age: 72
Place of birth: Burnage, Manchester, England, UK
Gender: Male
Adult content flag: No
Career span: 1970 - 2025
Years active: 56
Average TMDB rating: 6.78
Wikidata: Q5240418
Also known as
دیوید ترلفال
Other jobs
Executive Producer (1)
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.
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Movies
Movies
Movie credits linked with David Threlfall.
7.8
Unforgivable
as Brian Mitchell
2025 Movie
Bing & Friends: Birthday Celebration
as Flop (voice)
2024 Movie
Dodger Special: Bad Egg
as Sir Charles Rowan
2023 Movie
Dodger Special: Train
as Sir Charles Rowan
2022 Movie
Faith Healer
as Teddy
2020 Movie
Beckett Double Bill (Krapp's Last Tape / The Old Tune)
as Cream
2020 Movie
5.7
The Ark
as Noah
2015 Movie
6.3
Black Sea
as Peters
2014 Movie
6.9
Tommy Cooper: Not Like That, Like This
as Tommy Cooper
2014 Movie
9.0
Evidently... John Cooper Clarke
as Himself
2012 Movie
7.2
Nowhere Boy
as George Toogood Smith
2009 Movie
6.7
Elizabeth: The Golden Age
as Dr. John Dee
2007 Movie
7.6
Hot Fuzz
as Martin Blower
2007 Movie
6.0
Housewife, 49
as Will Last
2006 Movie
6.3
Like Minds
as John Colbie
2006 Movie
5.7
Alien Autopsy
as Jeffrey
2006 Movie
5.3
The Queen's Sister
as Prince Philip
2005 Movie
Benefit to Mankind
as Carl Swannee
2004 Movie
7.2
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
as Preserved Killick, Captain's Steward
2003 Movie
7.3
Conspiracy
as Friedrich Wilhelm Kritzinger
2001 Movie
4.0
Mary, Mother of Jesus
as Joseph of Nazareth
1999 Movie
5.6
The Clothes in the Wardrobe
as Syl
1993 Movie
1.5
Diana: Her True Story
as Prince Charles
1993 Movie
6.7
Patriot Games
as Inspector Highland
1992 Movie
Series
Series
Series credits linked with David Threlfall.
5.9
The Death of Bunny Munro
as Bunny Snr • 6 eps
2025 Series
6.7
Nightsleeper
as Paul Peveril • 6 eps
2024 Series
5.7
Passenger
as Jim Bracknell • 6 eps
2024 Series
6.5
The Completely Made-Up Adventures of Dick Turpin
as Tom King • 1 eps
2024 Series
6.9
Funny Woman
as George Parker • 10 eps
2023 Series
5.5
Art That Made Us
as Self - Narrator (voice) • 8 eps
2022 Series
6.0
Wolfe
as Howard • 1 eps
2021 Series
5.8
Troy: Fall of a City
as King Priam • 8 eps
2018 Series
7.4
Urban Myths
as Samuel Beckett • 1 eps
2017 Series
6.6
Midwinter of the Spirit
as Rev Huw Owens • 3 eps
2015 Series
7.3
Code of a Killer
as DCS David Baker • 2 eps
2015 Series
7.3
What Remains
as Len Harper • 4 eps
2013 Series
7.4
Ripper Street
as Abel Croker • 6 eps
2012 Series
7.4
Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire
as Constantine the Great • 1 eps
2006 Series
7.6
Shameless
as Frank Gallagher • 138 eps
2004 Series
7.7
Spooks
as Keith Moran • 1 eps
2002 Series
6.7
Cutting It
as Beauregard Smee • 1 eps
2002 Series
6.0
A Dinner of Herbs
as Older Hal • 2 eps
2000 Series
6.0
In the Beginning
as Aaron • 2 eps
2000 Series
6.5
Sex, Chips & Rock n' Roll
as Norman • 6 eps
1999 Series
7.0
Men of the World
as Lenny Smart • 12 eps
1994 Series
Titmuss Regained
as Leslie Titmuss • 3 eps
1991 Series
7.1
Have I Got News for You
as Self • 1 eps
1990 Series
6.4
Nightingales
as Bell • 13 eps
1990 Series