David Threlfall
Department: Acting
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
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
2003
Alien Autopsy
2006
Patriot Games
1992
A Murder of Quality
1991
Mary, Mother of Jesus
1999
The Kiss of Death
1977
Tommy Cooper: Not Like That, Like This
2014
Dodger Special: Train
2022
Dodger Special: Bad Egg
2023
The Ark
2015
Elizabeth: The Golden Age
2007
The Brylcreem Boys
1979
When the Whales Came
1989
Scum
1977
Seeing in the Dark
1989
Black Sea
2014
Chunky Monkey
2003
The Russia House
1990
He's Asking For Me
1990
Housewife, 49
2006
Conspiracy
2001
King Lear
1983
Sex, Chips & Rock n' Roll
1999
Hot Fuzz
2007
Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story
1989
Mike Leigh: Making Plays
1982
The Queen's Sister
2005
Like Minds
2006
Nowhere Boy
2009
Red Monarch
1983
Diana: Her True Story
1993
A Casualty of War
1989
Dog Ends
1984
Evidently... John Cooper Clarke
2012
The Clothes in the Wardrobe
1993
A Statement of Affairs
1993
Beckett Double Bill (Krapp's Last Tape / The Old Tune)
2020
Faith Healer
2020
Paradise Postponed
1986
I Want to Be Like You
1976
Bing & Friends: Birthday Celebration
2024
Unforgivable
2025
Rolling Home
1982
Benefit to Mankind
2004
Men of the World
1994
Shameless
2004
Sex, Chips & Rock n' Roll
1999
Nightingales
1990
The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby
1982
Paradise Postponed
1986
Cutting It
2002
The Marksman
1987
Nightsleeper
2024
Wolfe
2021
What Remains
2013
Code of a Killer
2015
Midwinter of the Spirit
2015
Funny Woman
2023
Troy: Fall of a City
2018
Ripper Street
2012
Art That Made Us
2022
Urban Myths
2017
In the Beginning
2000
Passenger
2024
The Gathering Seed
1983
Spooks
2002
Have I Got a Bit More News for You
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The Completely Made-Up Adventures of Dick Turpin
2024
Play for Today
1970
Objects of Affection
1982
Titmuss Regained
1991
Have I Got News for You
1990
The Death of Bunny Munro
2025
Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire
2006
Playhouse
1974
A Dinner of Herbs
2000