Acting credits
105
Prolific
Very extensive acting filmography.
Actor
John Shrapnel
Acting
Career Snapshot
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TMDB popularity
2.4
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Movies: 69Series: 36
TMDB ID: 940
IMDb ID: nm0795344
Known for: Acting
Born: April 27, 1942
Died: February 14, 2020
Age: 77
Place of birth: Birmingham, England, UK
Gender: Male
Adult content flag: No
Career span: 1965 - 2022
Years active: 58
Average TMDB rating: 6.84
Wikidata: Q1375689
Also known as
John Morley Shrapnel
Biography
Shrapnel was born in Birmingham, Warwickshire, the son of Mary Lillian Myfanwy (née Edwards) and journalist/author Norman Shrapnel.[1] As a stage actor, he was a member of Laurence Olivier's Royal National Theatre company and the Royal Shakespeare Company and most recently appeared as Sir Oliver Surface in The School for Scandal (directed by Deborah Warner) at the Barbican Centre in 2011. He has also appeared extensively in film and on television in roles in Elizabeth R, Z-Cars, Edward and Mrs. Simpson, 101 Dalmatians, Space: 1999, Inspector Morse, Coogan's Run, Notting Hill and Foyle's War. He presented an episode of the 1983 BBC television travel series Great Little Railways. He gave performances in three entries in the BBC Television Shakespeare plays and as Creon in the BBC's 1984 productions of the Three Theban plays of Sophocles. In America, he has starred in supporting roles as Senator Gaius in Gladiator, Nestor in Troy and Pompey in the second episode of Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire. He also played the Jail Warden in the 10th Kingdom, an epic fantasy miniseries. He has the rare achievement of appearing in two episodes of Midsomer Murders as two different characters, in Death in Chorus and Written in Blood. Shrapnel appeared in an episode of Jonathan Creek as Professor Lance Graumann in the episode The Omega Man. He appears in Chemical Wedding alongside Simon Callow, telling the tale of the resurrection of occultist Aleister Crowley. Shrapnel also has experience in the field of BBC radio drama through such characters as Colin Dexter's Inspector Morse and William Gibson's Neuromancer. He is the son-in-law of Deborah Kerr through his 1975 marriage to her younger daughter Francesca Ann Bartley. They have three sons, the actors Lex Shrapnel (b.1979), Tom Shrapnel (b.1981) and the writer Joe Shrapnel (b.1976). They live in Highbury, north London.
Movies
Movies
Movie credits linked with John Shrapnel.
Hamlet Within
2022 Movie
6.3
King Charles III
as Archbishop of Canterbury
2017 Movie
7.0
Britain's Nuclear Bomb - The Inside Story
as Narrator (Voice)
2017 Movie
7.7
Branagh Theatre Live: The Winter's Tale
as Camilo
2015 Movie
8.2
Hamlet
as Claudius/Ghost
2015 Movie
Building Burma's Death Railway: Moving Half the Mountain
as Narrator
2014 Movie
7.0
National Theatre Live: Macbeth
as Duncan/Seyton/Old Man
2013 Movie
Run.
as St. Peter
2013 Movie
6.4
The Awakening
as Reverend Hugh Purslow
2011 Movie
7.8
National Theatre Live: Phèdre
as Théramène
2009 Movie
An Organization of Dreams
as Father
2009 Movie
7.0
The Duchess
as General Grey
2008 Movie
6.3
Mirrors
as Lorenzo Sapelli
2008 Movie
4.2
Chemical Wedding
as Crowley
2008 Movie
6.8
Hindenburg: Titanic of the Skies
as Himself (Narrator)
2007 Movie
6.7
Elizabeth: The Golden Age
as Lord Howard
2007 Movie
Once Upon a Time on the Westway
as Billy Palmer
2007 Movie
5.7
Alien Autopsy
as Michael Kuhn
2006 Movie
Wachau - Valley of Golden Magic
as Narrator (English Version)
2005 Movie
5.8
Shadow of the Sword
as Archbishop
2005 Movie
Seven Wonders of Ancient Greece
as Narrator
2004 Movie
7.2
Troy
as Nestor
2004 Movie
10.0
Seven Wonders of Ancient Egypt
as Narrator
2004 Movie
Seven Wonders of Ancient Rome
as Narrator
2004 Movie
Series
Series
Series credits linked with John Shrapnel.
9.0
The Lions Rule
as Narrator (voice) • 3 eps
2017 Series
7.2
Apparitions
as Cardinal Bukovak • 6 eps
2008 Series
7.8
Merlin
as The Sarrum • 1 eps
2008 Series
7.4
Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire
as Pompey • 1 eps
2006 Series
8.6
I Am Not an Animal
as Narrator (voice) • 6 eps
2004 Series
7.4
New Tricks
as DAC John Felsham • 1 eps
2004 Series
7.9
Foyle's War
as Raymond Brooks • 1 eps
2002 Series
7.2
The Inspector Lynley Mysteries
as Sergent Mike McCaffrey • 1 eps
2002 Series
7.2
Waking the Dead
as John Christie • 2 eps
2001 Series
7.6
The 10th Kingdom
as Governor of Prison • 5 eps
2000 Series
6.1
Invasion: Earth
as Air Marshal Bentley • 6 eps
1998 Series
Predators Killing for a Living
13 eps
1997 Series
7.5
Jonathan Creek
as Prof. Lance Graumann • 1 eps
1997 Series
Bodyguards
as Commander Alan MacIntyre • 7 eps
1997 Series
7.5
Midsomer Murders
as Max Jennings • 1 eps
1997 Series
7.0
Kavanagh Q.C.
as Mr. Justice Griffin • 1 eps
1995 Series
6.0
Wycliffe
as Dr. Sam Malvern • 1 eps
1994 Series
6.3
Shakespeare: The Animated Tales
as Claudius / The Ghost (voice) • 1 eps
1992 Series
5.2
Between the Lines
as Deputy Assistant Commissioner Dunning • 13 eps
1992 Series
6.2
G.B.H.
as Dr Jacobs • 3 eps
1991 Series
6.0
The Chief
as Dan Cheyney • 1 eps
1990 Series
The Modern World: Ten Great Writers
as Thomas Mann • 1 eps
1988 Series
Vanity Fair
as Lord Steyne • 5 eps
1987 Series
6.8
Screen Two
as Rev. Charles Tucker Eland • 1 eps
1985 Series