Stanley Townsend
Stanley Townsend (born August 1961) is an Irish actor. Townsend was born and brought up in Dublin. After attending Wesley College, Dublin, he studied mathematics and civil engineering at Trinity College. While there he joined the Dublin University Players, the college's Amateur Dramatic Society. He later co-founded co-operative theatre company Rough Magic with writer/director Declan Hughes and theatre director Lynne Parker, performing in numerous productions including The Country Wife, Nightshade, and Sexual Perversity in Chicago. He subsequently went on to perform in several productions at The Gate and The Abbey Theatres in Dublin. In London, he has worked with such directors as Sam Mendes in The Plough and the Stars, Richard Eyre in Guys and Dolls and Rufus Norris in Under the Blue Sky. Theatre appearances at the Royal Court include The Alice Trilogy directed by Ian Rickson and Shining City directed by Conor McPherson, for which he won an Irish Theatre Award and was nominated for the Evening Standard Theatre Award for Best Actor in 2004.
Townsend's television work began on a number of shows for RTÉ in Dublin. Since moving to London, television appearances have included Spooks, The Commander, Hustle, Waking the Dead, and Omagh Bombing.
ilm credits include Mike Newell's Into the West, Jim Sheridan's In the Name of the Father with Daniel Day-Lewis, The Van by Stephen Frears, Peter Greenaway's The Tulse Luper Suitcases, The Libertine with Johnny Depp, Paul Morrison's Wondrous Oblivion with Delroy Lindo, John Boorman's The Tiger's Tale and Michael Radford's Flawless. He currently lives in London.
Known for
Andor
Commandant Jayhold Beehaz
Sherlock
Angelo
Call the Midwife
Father Joe
Foyle's War
Jose De Perez
Hustle
Johnny Keyes
KAOS
President Minos
Ripper Street
Aiden Galvin
The Regime
Emil Bartos
The Spy
General Ad-Din
Spooks
Roy Woodring
The Hollow Crown
Warwick
Wire in the Blood
Waking the Dead
DI Bailey
Peak Practice
Keith Johnson
Heartbeat
Igor Saukas
Titanic: Blood and Steel
Rex Riley
Cars 2
Victor Hugo / Vladimir Trunkov / Ivan the Tow Truck (voice)
Becoming Elizabeth
Anthony Denny
Fleming
Colonel William Donovan
Zen
Moscati
Blackshore
Bill McGuire
Toast of London
Resistance
Senator Daniel Shea
Fresh Meat
John Frobisher
Jonathan Creek
Det. Inspector Barrison
Murder City
The Ambassador
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Constable
Ballykissangel
Micky Keeler
Flawless
Henry
What a Girl Wants
Bride's Father
The Commander
Galavant
King of Valencia
In the Name of the Father
Hooker's Driver
Holy Water
Inspector Brian Hogan
The Physician
Bar Kappara
The Voices
Sheriff Weinbacher
Florence Foster Jenkins
Phineas Stark
The Libertine
Keown
The Current War
Franklin Pope
Happy-Go-Lucky
Tramp
The Nativity Story
Zechariah
Jake's Progress
Consultant
Quirke
Inspector Hackett
The Song of Names
Gilbert
One Chance
Luciano Pavarotti
Isolation
Garda Hourigan
Inside I'm Dancing
Interview Panelist
National Theatre Live: All About Eve
Addison Dewett
Agatha and the Curse of Ishtar
Sir Constance
Killing Bono
Danny Machin
The Snapper
Anaesthetist
Taffin
Les
The Teacher
Simon Cohen
Burton and Taylor
Milton Katselas
Monsieur N.
Dr. O'Meara
The Van
Des, Health Inspector
Dot.Kill
Capt. Tommy Byrnes
Kinked
The Miracle
Washington, Destry Rides Again
Standby
Paul
One Night Only
Harry Conway
Whistleblower
Michael Neary
Thin Lizzy: Outlawed - The Real Phil Lynott
Narrator
National Theatre Live: King Lear
The Earl of Kent
National Theatre Live: Retrograde
Mr Parks
A Girl From Mogadishu
Joe Costello
Wondrous Oblivion
Victor
Hilde
David O. Selznick
Station Jim
Matapan
Omagh
Sam Pollock
Rat
Newsreader
Saddam's Tribe
Saddam
Byron
Turkish Governor
Fallen
Mara
My Friend Joe
Mr. Doyle
Mystics
Mickey Mac
National Theatre Live: Phèdre
Theseus
Psychomanteum
Narrator
Phil Lynott: The Long Goodbye
Narrator
The Pizza Miracle
Gianni
Ink
Lovely Louise
Bill
Beyond Reason
John Horan
Another Turn of the Screw
Henry James
Altmann's Tongue
Narrator