David Threlfall
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.
Filmography 82
Movies (44)
Unforgivable2025Brian Mitchell
Bing & Friends: Birthday Celebration2024Flop (voice)
Dodger Special: Bad Egg2023Sir Charles Rowan
Dodger Special: Train2022Sir Charles Rowan
Faith Healer2020Teddy
Beckett Double Bill (Krapp's Last Tape / The Old Tune)2020Cream
The Ark2015Noah
Black Sea2014Peters
Tommy Cooper: Not Like That, Like This2014Tommy Cooper
Evidently... John Cooper Clarke2012Himself
Nowhere Boy2009George Toogood Smith
Elizabeth: The Golden Age2007Dr. John Dee
Hot Fuzz2007Martin Blower
Housewife, 492006Will Last
Like Minds2006John Colbie
Alien Autopsy2006Jeffrey
The Queen's Sister2005Prince Philip
Benefit to Mankind2004Carl Swannee
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World2003Preserved Killick, Captain's Steward
Chunky Monkey2003Donald Leek
Conspiracy2001Friedrich Wilhelm Kritzinger
Mary, Mother of Jesus1999Joseph of Nazareth- Sex, Chips & Rock n' Roll1999
The Clothes in the Wardrobe1993Syl
Diana: Her True Story1993Prince Charles- A Statement of Affairs1993Alan
Patriot Games1992Inspector Highland
A Murder of Quality1991Stanley Rode
The Russia House1990Wicklow- He's Asking For Me1990Andy
Shows (38)
The Death of Bunny Munro2025Bunny Snr
Nightsleeper2024Paul Peveril
Passenger2024Jim Bracknell
The Completely Made-Up Adventures of Dick Turpin2024Tom King
Funny Woman2023George Parker
Art That Made Us2022Self - Narrator (voice)
Wolfe2021Howard
Troy: Fall of a City2018King Priam
Urban Myths2017Samuel Beckett
Midwinter of the Spirit2015Rev Huw Owens
Code of a Killer2015DCS David Baker
What Remains2013Len Harper
Ripper Street2012Abel Croker
Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire2006Constantine the Great
Shameless2004Frank Gallagher
Celebrity Mastermind2003
Spooks2002Keith Moran
Cutting It2002Beauregard Smee
A Dinner of Herbs2000Older Hal
In the Beginning2000Aaron
Sex, Chips & Rock n' Roll1999Norman
Men of the World1994Lenny Smart
Titmuss Regained1991Leslie Titmuss
Have I Got News for You1990Self
Nightingales1990Bell- Jumping The Queue1989Hugh Warner
The Marksman1987Weaver
Paradise Postponed1986Leslie Titmuss
ScreenPlay1986Tony
Screen Two1985Andy