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Alun Armstrong

Born 1946 · Annfield Plain, County Durham, England, UK · Active 1965–2025

Alun Armstrong, born in County Durham, England, is known for his vibrant character portrayals, often leaning into the eccentric and psychotic. He made his film mark in Krull (1983), where his colorful performance adds depth to the film's fantastical narrative. With a career that began in the early 1970s, Armstrong has traversed various genres, from Shakespearean drama to cult cinema, embodying roles that challenge and entertain. His experience with the Royal Shakespeare Company further enriches his contributions to the world of film.

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Krull

1983 ★ 6.1

as Torquil

A prince and a fellowship of companions set out to rescue his bride from a fortress of alien invaders who have arrived on their home planet.

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Filmography

159 credits

2020s 8 credits

2025

The Choral as Herbert Trickett

Movie ★ 6.2

2024

After the Flood as Alan Benson

TV ★ 7.0

2023

Tom Jones as Squire Western

TV ★ 6.0

2022

Sherwood as Gary Jackson

TV ★ 6.9

2022

Remembers… as Self

2021

The Nicky Nack

Movie

2020

Breaking The Codes

Movie

2020

Breeders as Jim

TV ★ 6.9

2010s 14 credits

2019

Out of Innocence as Detective Callaghan

Movie ★ 6.6

2019

Year of the Rabbit as Chief Inspector Hugh Wisbech

TV ★ 7.0

2018

Funny Cow as Lenny

Movie ★ 6.3

2018

Possum as Maurice

Movie ★ 6.1

2017

Prime Suspect 1973 as Clifford Bentley

TV ★ 7.3

2016

Golden Years as Sid

Movie ★ 6.3

2016

Asunder as Self - Narrator (voice)

Movie

2016

Frontier as Lord Benton

TV ★ 6.8

2016

Dark Angel as George Stot

TV ★ 6.2

2014

Penny Dreadful as Vincent Brand

TV ★ 7.8

2012

The Hollow Crown as Northumberland

TV ★ 7.5

2012

The Mystery of Edwin Drood as Hiram Grewgious

TV ★ 5.9

2010

Les Misérables: 25th Anniversary in Concert as Monsieur Thenardier (1985 Cast)

Movie ★ 8.3

2010

A Passionate Woman as Donald (1980s)

TV ★ 5.9

2000s 31 credits

2009

Garrow's Law as John Southouse

TV ★ 7.4

2008

Filth: The Mary Whitehouse Story as Ernest Whitehouse

Movie ★ 6.3

2008

Little Dorrit as Ephraim Flintwinch

TV ★ 7.8

2007

The Dinner Party as Jim

Movie ★ 6.0

2006

Eragon as Uncle Garrow

Movie ★ 5.1

2006

The Girls Who Came to Stay as Bob Jenkins

Movie ★ 8.0

2005

Oliver Twist as Magistrate Fang

Movie ★ 6.8

2005

Millions as Saint Peter

Movie ★ 6.4

2005

Bleak House as Inspector Bucket

TV ★ 8.1

2004

Van Helsing: The London Assignment as Cardinal Jinetta (voice)

Movie ★ 6.2

2004

Van Helsing as Cardinal Jinette

Movie ★ 6.4

2004

Carrie's War as Mr. Samuel Evans

Movie ★ 7.7

2004

When I'm Sixty-Four as Jim

Movie ★ 5.0

2004

New Tricks as Brian Lane

TV ★ 7.3

2003

Paradise Found as Camille Pissarro

Movie ★ 6.5

2003

It's All About Love as David

Movie ★ 5.5

2003

Between The Sheets as Peter Delany

TV ★ 5.2

2002

Inquisition as Martin

Movie ★ 7.0

2002

Sparkhouse as Richard Bolton

TV ★ 7.8

2001

The Mummy Returns as Baltus Hafez

Movie ★ 6.4

2001

Strictly Sinatra as Bill

Movie ★ 5.0

2001

Score as George

Movie ★ 7.0

2001

Bedtime as Neil Henshaw

TV ★ 4.3

2001

Adrian Mole: The Cappuccino Years as George Mole

TV ★ 6.0

2001

Messiah as DCI Charlie McIntyre

TV ★ 7.3

2001

Extinct as Himself - Narrator

TV ★ 8.0

2000

This Is Personal: The Hunt for the Yorkshire Ripper as Asst. Chief Const. George Oldfield

Movie ★ 7.0

2000

Harrison's Flowers as Samuel Brubeck

Movie ★ 6.5

2000

7 Up 2000 as Himself - Narrator

Movie ★ 8.0

2000

Proof of Life as Wyatt

Movie ★ 6.1

2000

This Is Personal: The Hunt for the Yorkshire Ripper as Asst. Chief Const. George Oldfield

TV ★ 7.4

1990s 36 credits

1999

Sleepy Hollow as High Constable

Movie ★ 7.2

1999

G:MT Greenwich Mean Time as Uncle Henry

Movie ★ 5.6

1999

With or Without You as Sammy

Movie ★ 5.3

1999

Aristocrats as Lord Holland

Movie ★ 6.0

1999

Onegin as Zaretsky

Movie ★ 6.1

1999

Oliver Twist as Mr. Fleming

TV ★ 6.3

1999

David Copperfield as Dan Peggotty

TV ★ 7.1

1998

In the Red as DCI Frank Jefferson

TV ★ 6.1

1997

The Saint as Inspector Teal

Movie ★ 6.1

1997

Underworld

TV ★ 7.0

1996

Breaking the Code as Mick Ross

Movie ★ 5.5

1996

Witness Against Hitler as Pastor Harold Poelchau

Movie ★ 8.0

1996

Brazen Hussies as Jimmy Hardcastle

Movie ★ 3.8

1996

Our Friends in the North as Austin Donohue

TV ★ 7.6

1995

An Awfully Big Adventure as Uncle Vernon

Movie ★ 6.6

1995

Les Misérables: 10th Anniversary Concert at the Royal Albert Hall as Monsieur Thénardier

Movie ★ 8.8

1995

Braveheart as Mornay

Movie ★ 7.9

1995

Sorry About Last Night as Mickey

Movie ★ 8.0

1994

MacGyver: Trail to Doomsday as Capshaw

Movie ★ 6.0

1994

Black Beauty as Reuben Smith

Movie ★ 6.7

1994

Doggin' Around as Charlie Foster

Movie ★ 6.5

1993

The Tempest as Caliban

Movie ★ 5.0

1993

Goggle Eyes as Gerald 'Goggle Eyes' Faulkner

TV ★ 8.0

1992

Split Second as Thrasher

Movie ★ 5.9

1992

Patriot Games as Owens

Movie ★ 6.7

1992

Blue Ice as Osgood

Movie ★ 5.3

1992

Shakespeare: The Animated Tales as Caliban (voice)

TV ★ 6.4

1992

Goodbye Cruel World as Roy Grade

TV ★ 7.5

1991

London Kills Me as John Stone

Movie ★ 5.9

1991

American Friends as Dr. Weeks

Movie ★ 6.4

1991

Murder in Eden as Sgt McGing

TV ★ 7.0

1991

Stanley and the Women as Rufus Hilton

TV ★ 6.5

1990

Sticky Wickets as Evans

Movie

1990

White Hunter, Black Heart as Ralph Lockhart

Movie ★ 6.4

1990

Looking After Number One as Dick

Movie

1990

The Widowmaker as Dad

Movie ★ 10.0

1980s 26 credits

1989

The Childeater as Stefano

Movie ★ 7.7

1989

A Night on the Tyne as Willy

Movie ★ 9.0

1989

That Summer of White Roses as Zemba

Movie ★ 6.0

1989

Nineteen96 as Det. Supt. Frank Burroughs

Movie

1989

Tales from the Crypt as Inspector Herbert

TV ★ 8.0

1989

The Jim Henson Hour as The Troll (archive audio)

TV ★ 8.9

1989

Screen One as Det Supt Frank Burroughs

TV ★ 7.2

1989

Screen One as Evans

TV ★ 7.2

1989

Screen One as Charlie Foster

TV ★ 7.2

1988

Number 27 as Murray Lester

Movie ★ 9.0

1988

The Storyteller: The True Bride as Troll (Voice)

Movie

1988

The Storyteller as Troll (voice)

TV ★ 8.2

1987

Inspector Morse as Superintendent Holdsby

TV ★ 7.9

1987

Married... with Children as Trevor

TV ★ 7.7

1986

ScreenPlay as Willy

TV ★ 6.0

1985

Number One as Blackpool Police Sergeant

Movie ★ 6.7

1985

Billy the Kid and the Green Baize Vampire as Maxwell Randall, The Green Baize Vampire

Movie ★ 6.1

1985

The Caucasian Chalk Circle as Singer

Movie

1985

A.D. as Gamesmaster

TV ★ 5.4

1984

The House as Mr. Smeth

Movie ★ 5.7

1983

Krull● as Torquil

Movie ★ 6.1

1983

Mr Moon's Last Case as Narrator

Movie

1982

The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby

TV ★ 7.7

1981

The French Lieutenant's Woman as Grimes

Movie ★ 6.5

1981

Get Lost! as Neville Keaton

TV ★ 7.0

1980

Fear of God as Trahearne

Movie ★ 10.0

1970s 41 credits

1979

All Day on the Sands

Movie ★ 7.0

1979

Measure for Measure as Provost

Movie ★ 5.9

1978

Freedom of the Dig as Quinn

Movie

1978

Liza as Mikhalevich

Movie

1978

Enemy at the Door as Louis Mendoza

TV ★ 8.2

1978

Armchair Thriller as Trahearne

TV ★ 4.2

1977

The Duellists as Lieutenant Lacourbe

Movie ★ 7.2

1977

Our Day Out as Mr. Briggs

Movie ★ 7.8

1977

Risking It as Richard Clewes

Movie

1977

A Bridge Too Far as Cpl. Davies

Movie ★ 7.2

1977

Shooting the Chandelier as Brodovich

Movie

1977

A Sharp Intake of Breath

TV ★ 7.0

1977

BBC2 Play of the Week as Brodovich

TV ★ 7.0

1977

BBC2 Play of the Week as Mikhalevich

TV ★ 7.0

1977

Romance as Weaver

1976

The Likely Lads as Tommy

Movie ★ 6.3

1976

The Chester Mystery Plays as Lightborne

Movie

1976

The New Avengers as Private George Harris

TV ★ 7.1

1975

The Sweeney as Peter Jenner

TV ★ 8.0

1975

The Stars Look Down as Joe Gowlan

TV ★ 8.0

1975

Days of Hope as Billy Shepherd

TV ★ 7.0

1974

Easy Go as First docker

Movie

1974

Porridge as Spraggon

TV ★ 8.1

1974

Father Brown as Joe

TV ★ 6.8

1973

The 14 as Tommy

Movie ★ 5.9

1973

Only Make Believe as Michael Biddle

Movie ★ 10.0

1973

The Sex Victims as George

Movie ★ 5.0

1973

The Eyes Have It as Mike

Movie ★ 7.5

1973

Thriller as Mike

TV ★ 6.9

1973

Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads? as Scaife

TV ★ 7.7

1973

Centre Play as Richard Clewes

TV ★ 7.0

1973

Armchair 30 as Glazier

1973

Second City Firsts as Ken

1972

Villains as Terence 'Tel' Bolden

TV ★ 7.5

1972

New Scotland Yard as Ray Davies

TV ★ 6.3

1972

Six Days of Justice as P.C. Williamson

TV ★ 10.0

1971

Get Carter as Keith

Movie ★ 7.0

1971

Justice as Bob Graham

TV ★ 7.3

1971

Great Performances as Thénardier

TV ★ 6.1

1970

Play for Today as 1st Docker

TV ★ 6.6

1970

Play for Today as Mr Briggs

TV ★ 6.6

1960s 2 credits

1965

BBC Play of the Month as Lightborne

TV ★ 5.3

1965

Public Eye as Vince Gregson

TV ★ 8.2

s 1 credit

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My Little Eye as Dad

Movie ★ 9.0