David Threlfall

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
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
A Murder of Quality
A Murder of Quality
Mary, Mother of Jesus
Mary, Mother of Jesus
The Kiss of Death
The Kiss of Death
Tommy Cooper: Not Like That, Like This
Tommy Cooper: Not Like That, Like This
The Ark
The Ark

Filmography

2024 Bing & Friends: Birthday Celebration
as Flop (voice)
2024 Nightsleeper
as Paul Peveril
2024 Passenger
as Jim Bracknell
2024 The Completely Made-Up Adventures of Dick Turpin
as Tom King
2023 Dodger Special: Bad Egg
as Sir Charles Rowan
2023 Funny Woman
as George Parker
2022 Dodger Special: Train
as Sir Charles Rowan
2022 Art That Made Us
as Self - Narrator (voice)
2021 Wolfe
as Howard
2020 Faith Healer
as Teddy
2020 Beckett Double Bill (Krapp's Last Tape / The Old Tune)
as Cream
2018 Troy: Fall of a City
as King Priam
2017 Urban Myths
as Samuel Beckett
2015 Midwinter of the Spirit
as Rev Huw Owens
2015 Code of a Killer
as DCS David Baker
2015 The Ark
as Noah
2014 Black Sea
as Peters
2014 Tommy Cooper: Not Like That, Like This
as Tommy Cooper
2013 What Remains
as Len Harper
2012 Ripper Street
as Abel Croker