Acting credits
147
Prolific
Very extensive acting filmography.
Actor
Alun Armstrong
Acting
Career Snapshot
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Movies: 84Series: 63
TMDB ID: 2629
IMDb ID: nm0035605
Known for: Acting
Born: July 17, 1946
Age: 80
Place of birth: Annfield Plain, County Durham, England, UK
Gender: Male
Adult content flag: No
Career span: 1965 - 2025
Years active: 61
Average TMDB rating: 6.87
Wikidata: Q447933
Also known as
Alan Armstrong
Biography
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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Movies
Movie credits linked with Alun Armstrong.
The Choral
as Herbert Trickett
2025 Movie
The Nicky Nack
2021 Movie
Breaking The Codes
2020 Movie
Out of Innocence
as Detective Callaghan
2019 Movie
Possum
as Maurice
2018 Movie
Funny Cow
as Lenny
2018 Movie
Asunder
as Self - Narrator (voice)
2016 Movie
Golden Years
as Sid
2016 Movie
Les Misérables: 25th Anniversary in Concert
as Monsieur Thenardier (1985 Cast)
2010 Movie
Filth: The Mary Whitehouse Story
as Ernest Whitehouse
2008 Movie
The Dinner Party
as Jim
2007 Movie
Eragon
as Uncle Garrow
2006 Movie
Oliver Twist
as Magistrate Fang
2005 Movie
Millions
as Saint Peter
2005 Movie
When I'm Sixty-Four
as Jim
2004 Movie
Van Helsing: The London Assignment
as Cardinal Jinetta (voice)
2004 Movie
Van Helsing
as Cardinal Jinette
2004 Movie
Carrie's War
as Mr. Samuel Evans
2004 Movie
It's All About Love
as David
2003 Movie
Paradise Found
as Camille Pissarro
2003 Movie
Inquisition
as Martin
2002 Movie
Strictly Sinatra
as Bill
2001 Movie
The Mummy Returns
as Baltus Hafez
2001 Movie
Proof of Life
as Wyatt
2000 Movie
Series
Series
Series credits linked with Alun Armstrong.
After the Flood
as Alan Benson • 5 eps
2024 Series
Tom Jones
as Squire Western • 4 eps
2023 Series
Remembers…
as Self • 1 eps
2022 Series
Sherwood
as Gary Jackson • 1 eps
2022 Series
Breeders
as Jim • 27 eps
2020 Series
Year of the Rabbit
as Chief Inspector Hugh Wisbech • 6 eps
2019 Series
Prime Suspect 1973
as Clifford Bentley • 6 eps
2017 Series
Frontier
as Lord Benton • 18 eps
2016 Series
Dark Angel
as George Stot • 2 eps
2016 Series
Penny Dreadful
as Vincent Brand • 1 eps
2014 Series
The Hollow Crown
as Northumberland • 2 eps
2012 Series
The Mystery of Edwin Drood
as Hiram Grewgious • 2 eps
2012 Series
A Passionate Woman
as Donald (1980s) • 2 eps
2010 Series
Garrow's Law
as John Southouse • 12 eps
2009 Series
Little Dorrit
as Ephraim Flintwinch • 14 eps
2008 Series
Bleak House
as Inspector Bucket • 9 eps
2005 Series
New Tricks
as Brian Lane • 87 eps
2004 Series
Between The Sheets
as Peter Delany • 6 eps
2003 Series
Sparkhouse
as Richard Bolton • 3 eps
2002 Series
Bedtime
as Neil Henshaw • 9 eps
2001 Series
Messiah
as DCI Charlie McIntyre • 2 eps
2001 Series
Adrian Mole: The Cappuccino Years
as George Mole • 6 eps
2001 Series
This Is Personal: The Hunt for the Yorkshire Ripper
as Asst. Chief Const. George Oldfield • 3 eps
2000 Series
David Copperfield
as Dan Peggotty • 2 eps
1999 Series