Alun Armstrong

Alun Armstrong

Acting
Born 1946-07-17 Annfield Plain, County Durham, England, UK 8 credit(s) Popularity 0.8
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, psycho...
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Biography

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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.

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After the Flood poster
After the Flood
as Alan Benson
2024-01-10
Tom Jones poster
Tom Jones
as Squire Western
2023-04-30
Remembers… poster
Remembers…
as Self
2022-06-29
Sherwood poster
Sherwood
as Gary Jackson
2022-06-13
Breeders poster
Breeders
as Jim
2020-03-02
Year of the Rabbit poster
Year of the Rabbit
as Chief Inspector Hugh Wisbech
2019-06-10
Prime Suspect 1973 poster
Prime Suspect 1973
as Clifford Bentley
2017-03-02
Frontier poster
Frontier
as Lord Benton
2016-11-06

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