David Threlfall
Known for: Acting
Born: October 12, 1953
Place of birth: 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 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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Filmography
45 movies · 38 TV shows, newest first
5.7
The Death of Bunny Munro
2025
7.8
Unforgivable
2025
NR
Bing & Friends: Birthday Celebration
2024
6.8
Nightsleeper
2024
5.8
Passenger
2024
6.4
The Completely Made-Up Adventures of Dick Turpin
2024
NR
Dodger Special: Bad Egg
2023
6.9
Funny Woman
2023
NR
Dodger Special: Train
2022
5.5
Art That Made Us
2022
5.6
Wolfe
2021
NR
Faith Healer
2020
NR
Beckett Double Bill (Krapp's Last Tape / The Old Tune)
2020
5.8
Troy: Fall of a City
2018
7.4
Urban Myths
2017
6.6
Midwinter of the Spirit
2015
7.2
Code of a Killer
2015
5.7
The Ark
2015
6.3
Black Sea
2014
6.9
Tommy Cooper: Not Like That, Like This
2014
7.3
What Remains
2013
7.4
Ripper Street
2012
9.0
Evidently... John Cooper Clarke
2012
7.2
Nowhere Boy
2009
NR
The Millionaire and the Murder Mansion
2009
6.7
Elizabeth: The Golden Age
2007
7.6
Hot Fuzz
2007
6.0
Housewife, 49
2006
7.6
Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire
2006
6.4
Like Minds
2006
5.7
Alien Autopsy
2006
5.7
The Queen's Sister
2005
NR
Benefit to Mankind
2004
7.5
Shameless
2004
6.0
Celebrity Mastermind
2003
7.2
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
2003
4.5
Chunky Monkey
2003
7.7
Spooks
2002
7.0
Cutting It
2002
7.3
Conspiracy
2001
6.4
A Dinner of Herbs
2000
6.1
In the Beginning
2000
4.1
Mary, Mother of Jesus
1999NR
Sex, Chips & Rock n' Roll
1999
7.0
Sex, Chips & Rock n' Roll
1999
7.7
Men of the World
1994
6.0
The Clothes in the Wardrobe
1993
3.0
Diana: Her True Story
199310.0
A Statement of Affairs
1993
6.7
Patriot Games
1992
5.7
A Murder of Quality
1991
8.0
Titmuss Regained
1991
6.1
The Russia House
1990
7.2
Have I Got News for You
1990
7.0
Nightingales
1990NR
He's Asking For Me
1990
NR
A Casualty of War
1989
NR
Seeing in the Dark
19893.3
Jumping The Queue
1989
5.9
Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story
1989
6.4
When the Whales Came
1989
10.0
The Marksman
1987
6.0
Paradise Postponed
1986
6.0
ScreenPlay
19867.0
Paradise Postponed
1986
7.1
Screen Two
1985
NR
Dog Ends
1984
10.0
The Gathering Seed
1983
5.4
Red Monarch
1983
6.7
King Lear
1983
NR
Rolling Home
1982
8.0
Objects of Affection
1982
7.7
The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby
1982
8.0
Mike Leigh: Making Plays
1982
NR
The Brylcreem Boys
1979
7.3
Scum
1977NR
Here I Stand...
1977
6.5
The Kiss of Death
1977
NR
I Want to Be Like You
1976
7.0
Playhouse
1974NR
Second City Firsts
1973
6.6
Play for Today
1970
7.2
Have I Got a Bit More News for You
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