Alun Armstrong
Alun Armstrong is a prolific English character actor.
Armstrong grew up in County Durham in North East England. He first became interested in acting through Shakespeare productions at his grammar school. Since his career began in the early 1970s, he has played, in his words, "the full spectrum of characters from the grotesque to musicals... I always play very colourful characters, often a bit crazy, despotic, psychotic."
His numerous credits include six different Dickens adaptations and seven series as eccentric ex-detective Brian Lane in New Tricks.
Armstrong is also an accomplished stage actor who spent nine years with the Royal Shakespeare Company. He originated the role of Thénardier in the London production of Les Misérables and he won an Olivier Award for playing the title role in Sweeney Todd.
Movies
The Choral
Herbert Trickett
The Nicky Nack
Breaking The Codes
Out of Innocence
Detective Callaghan
Possum
Maurice
Funny Cow
Lenny
Golden Years
Sid
Les Misérables: 25th Anniversary in Concert
Monsieur Thenardier (1985 Cast)
Filth: The Mary Whitehouse Story
Ernest Whitehouse
The Dinner Party
Jim
Eragon
Uncle Garrow
The Girls Who Came to Stay
Bob Jenkins
Oliver Twist
Magistrate Fang
When I'm Sixty-Four
Jim
Van Helsing: The London Assignment
Cardinal Jinetta (voice)
Van Helsing
Cardinal Jinette
Millions
Saint Peter
Carrie's War
Mr. Samuel Evans
It's All About Love
David
Paradise Found
Camille Pissarro
Inquisition
Martin
Strictly Sinatra
Bill
Score
George
The Mummy Returns
Baltus Hafez
Proof of Life
Wyatt
Harrison's Flowers
Samuel Brubeck
This Is Personal: The Hunt for the Yorkshire Ripper
Asst. Chief Const. George Oldfield
Onegin
Zaretsky
Sleepy Hollow
High Constable
G:MT Greenwich Mean Time
Uncle Henry
With or Without You
Sammy
Aristocrats
Lord Holland
The Saint
Inspector Teal
Brazen Hussies
Jimmy Hardcastle
Breaking the Code
Mick Ross
Witness Against Hitler
Pastor Harold Poelchau
Sorry About Last Night
Mickey
Les Misérables: 10th Anniversary Concert at the Royal Albert Hall
Thenardier
Braveheart
Mornay
An Awfully Big Adventure
Uncle Vernon
MacGyver: Trail to Doomsday
Capshaw
Doggin' Around
Charlie Foster
Black Beauty
Reuben Smith
The Tempest
Caliban
Blue Ice
Osgood
Patriot Games
Owens
Split Second
Thrasher
London Kills Me
John Stone
American Friends
Dr. Weeks
The Widowmaker
Dad
Sticky Wickets
Evans
White Hunter, Black Heart
Ralph Lockhart
Looking After Number One
Dick
Nineteen96
Det. Supt. Frank Burroughs
A Night on the Tyne
Willy
The Childeater
Stefano
That Summer of White Roses
Zemba
Number 27
Murray Lester
Billy the Kid and the Green Baize Vampire
Maxwell Randall, The Green Baize Vampire
Number One
Blackpool Police Sergeant
The Caucasian Chalk Circle
Singer
The House
Mr. Smeth
Krull
Torquil
Mr Moon's Last Case
Narrator
The French Lieutenant's Woman
Grimes
Fear of God
Trahearne
All Day on the Sands
Measure for Measure
Provost
Freedom of the Dig
Quinn
Liza
Mikhalevich
Our Day Out
Mr. Briggs
Shooting the Chandelier
Brodovich
The Duellists
Lieutenant Lacourbe
Risking It
Richard Clewes
A Bridge Too Far
Cpl. Davies
The Likely Lads
Tommy
Easy Go
First docker
The 14
Tommy
The Eyes Have It
Mike
The Sex Victims
George
Only Make Believe
Michael Biddle
Get Carter
Keith
TV Series
Tom Jones
Squire Western
4 Episodes
Sherwood
Gary Jackson
1 Episode
Breeders
Jim
27 Episodes
Year of the Rabbit
Chief Inspector Hugh Wisbech
6 Episodes
Prime Suspect 1973
Clifford Bentley
6 Episodes
Frontier
Lord Benton
18 Episodes
Dark Angel
George Stot
2 Episodes
Penny Dreadful
Vincent Brand
1 Episode
The Hollow Crown
Northumberland
2 Episodes
The Mystery of Edwin Drood
Hiram Grewgious
2 Episodes
A Passionate Woman
Donald (1980s)
2 Episodes
Garrow's Law
John Southouse
12 Episodes
Little Dorrit
Ephraim Flintwinch
14 Episodes
Bleak House
Inspector Bucket
9 Episodes
New Tricks
Brian Lane
87 Episodes
Between The Sheets
Peter Delany
6 Episodes
Sparkhouse
Richard Bolton
3 Episodes
Bedtime
Neil Henshaw
9 Episodes
Messiah
DCI Charlie McIntyre
2 Episodes
Adrian Mole: The Cappuccino Years
George Mole
6 Episodes
This Is Personal: The Hunt for the Yorkshire Ripper
Asst. Chief Const. George Oldfield
3 Episodes
David Copperfield
Dan Peggotty
2 Episodes
Oliver Twist
Mr. Fleming
4 Episodes
In the Red
DCI Frank Jefferson
3 Episodes
Underworld
6 Episodes
Our Friends in the North
Austin Donohue
9 Episodes
Goggle Eyes
Gerald 'Goggle Eyes' Faulkner
4 Episodes
Shakespeare: The Animated Tales
Caliban (voice)
1 Episode
Stanley and the Women
Rufus Hilton
4 Episodes
Murder in Eden
Sgt. McGing
3 Episodes
Tales from the Crypt
Inspector Herbert
1 Episode
The Storyteller
Troll (voice)
1 Episode
Married... with Children
Trevor
3 Episodes
Inspector Morse
Superintendent Holdsby
1 Episode
A.D.
Gamesmaster
1 Episode
The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby
10 Episodes
Get Lost!
Neville Keaton
4 Episodes
Armchair Thriller
Trahearne
1 Episode
Enemy at the Door
Louis Mendoza
1 Episode
BBC2 Play of the Week
Brodovich
1 Episode
A Sharp Intake of Breath
12 Episodes
The New Avengers
Private George Harris
1 Episode
Days of Hope
Billy Shepherd
4 Episodes
The Stars Look Down
Joe Gowlan
13 Episodes
The Sweeney
Peter Jenner
1 Episode
Father Brown
Joe
1 Episode
Porridge
Spraggon
1 Episode
Thriller
Mike
1 Episode
Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads?
Scaife
1 Episode
Justice
Bob Graham
1 Episode
Great Performances
Thénardier
1 Episode
Play for Today
1st Docker
1 Episode
BBC Play of the Month
Lightborne
1 Episode
Public Eye
Vince Gregson
1 Episode