David Threlfall

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David Threlfall

Acting 72 October 12, 1953

Burnage, Manchester, England, UK

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 i…

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Hot Fuzz

Hot Fuzz

7.6 2007 Movie
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World

Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World

7.2 2003 Movie
Patriot Games

Patriot Games

6.7 1992 Movie
Elizabeth: The Golden Age

Elizabeth: The Golden Age

6.7 2007 Movie
Black Sea

Black Sea

6.3 2014 Movie
Have I Got a Bit More News for You

Have I Got a Bit More News for You

7.2 TV Show
Nowhere Boy

Nowhere Boy

7.2 2009 Movie
Have I Got News for You

Have I Got News for You

7.1 1990 TV Show
Shameless

Shameless

7.5 2004 TV Show
Play for Today

Play for Today

6.6 1970 TV Show
Conspiracy

Conspiracy

7.3 2001 Movie
Spooks

Spooks

7.7 2002 TV Show

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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.

Filmography

Movies and shows, newest first

  1. 2025
    The Death of Bunny Munro

    TV show Bunny Snr

  2. 2025
    Unforgivable

    Movie Brian Mitchell

  3. 2024
    Bing & Friends: Birthday Celebration

    Movie Flop (voice)

  4. 2024
    Nightsleeper

    TV show Paul Peveril

  5. 2024
    Passenger

    TV show Jim Bracknell

  6. 2024
    The Completely Made-Up Adventures of Dick Turpin

    TV show Tom King

  7. 2023
    Dodger Special: Bad Egg

    Movie Sir Charles Rowan

  8. 2023
    Funny Woman

    TV show George Parker

  9. 2022
    Dodger Special: Train

    Movie Sir Charles Rowan

  10. 2022
    Art That Made Us

    TV show Self - Narrator (voice)

  11. 2021
    Wolfe

    TV show Howard

  12. 2020
    Faith Healer

    Movie Teddy

  13. 2020
    Beckett Double Bill (Krapp's Last Tape / The Old Tune)

    Movie Cream

  14. 2018
    Troy: Fall of a City

    TV show Priam

  15. 2017
    Urban Myths

    TV show Samuel Beckett

  16. 2015
    Midwinter of the Spirit

    TV show Rev Huw Owens

More credits
  1. 2015
    Code of a Killer

    TV show DCS David Baker

  2. 2015
    The Ark

    Movie Noah

  3. 2014
    Black Sea

    Movie Peters

  4. 2014
    Tommy Cooper: Not Like That, Like This

    Movie Tommy Cooper

  5. 2013
    What Remains

    TV show Len Harper

  6. 2012
    Ripper Street

    TV show Abel Croker

  7. 2012
    Evidently... John Cooper Clarke

    Movie Himself

  8. 2009
    Nowhere Boy

    Movie George Toogood Smith

  9. 2009
    The Millionaire and the Murder Mansion

    Movie Self - Narrator (voice)

  10. 2007
    Elizabeth: The Golden Age

    Movie Dr. John Dee

  11. 2007
    Hot Fuzz

    Movie Martin Blower

  12. 2006
    Housewife, 49

    Movie Will Last

  13. 2006
    Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire

    TV show Constantine the Great

  14. 2006
    Like Minds

    Movie John Colbie

  15. 2006
    Alien Autopsy

    Movie Jeffrey

  16. 2005
    The Queen's Sister

    Movie Prince Philip

  17. 2004
    Benefit to Mankind

    Movie Carl Swannee

  18. 2004
    Shameless

    TV show Frank Gallagher

  19. 2003
    Celebrity Mastermind

    TV show

  20. 2003
    Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World

    Movie Preserved Killick, Captain's Steward

  21. 2003
    Chunky Monkey

    Movie Donald Leek

  22. 2002
    Spooks

    TV show Keith Moran

  23. 2002
    Cutting It

    TV show Beauregard Smee

  24. 2001
    Conspiracy

    Movie Friedrich Wilhelm Kritzinger