Alun Armstrong
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.
Known for
Married... with Children
Trevor
BBC Play of the Month
Lightborne
Play for Today
1st Docker
Play for Today
Mr Briggs
The BBC Television Shakespeare
Provost
Tales from the Crypt
Inspector Herbert
Shakespeare: The Animated Tales
Caliban (voice)
Justice
Bob Graham
Public Eye
Vince Gregson
The Sweeney
Peter Jenner
Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads?
Scaife
Penny Dreadful
Vincent Brand
Frontier
Lord Benton
Inspector Morse
Superintendent Holdsby
Breeders
Jim
Thriller
Mike
The Storyteller
Troll (voice)
The Mystery of Edwin Drood
Hiram Grewgious
Prime Suspect 1973
Clifford Bentley
A.D.
Gamesmaster
The Hollow Crown
Northumberland
New Tricks
Brian Lane
Enemy at the Door
Louis Mendoza
The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby
Bleak House
Inspector Bucket
Sherwood
Gary Jackson
Tom Jones
Squire Western
Porridge
Spraggon
David Copperfield
Dan Peggotty
Our Friends in the North
Austin Donohue
Year of the Rabbit
Chief Inspector Hugh Wisbech
In the Red
DCI Frank Jefferson
A Passionate Woman
Donald (1980s)
Braveheart
Mornay
Underworld
The Mummy Returns
Baltus Hafez
Goggle Eyes
Gerald 'Goggle Eyes' Faulkner
Oliver Twist
Mr. Fleming
A Sharp Intake of Breath
Get Lost!
Neville Keaton
Little Dorrit
Ephraim Flintwinch
Van Helsing
Cardinal Jinette
Between The Sheets
Peter Delany
This Is Personal: The Hunt for the Yorkshire Ripper
Asst. Chief Const. George Oldfield
Days of Hope
Billy Shepherd
Father Brown
Joe
Adrian Mole: The Cappuccino Years
George Mole
The New Avengers
Sleepy Hollow
High Constable
Dark Angel
George Stot
Extinct
Himself - Narrator
Armchair Thriller
Trahearne
Murder in Eden
Sgt. McGing
Messiah
DCI Charlie McIntyre
Bedtime
Neil Henshaw
Eragon
Uncle Garrow
Garrow's Law
John Southouse
A Bridge Too Far
Cpl. Davies
Stanley and the Women
Rufus Hilton
The Saint
Inspector Teal
Patriot Games
Owens
Krull
Torquil
The Duellists
Lieutenant Lacourbe
Possum
Maurice
Proof of Life
Wyatt
Oliver Twist
Magistrate Fang
Black Beauty
Reuben Smith
The French Lieutenant's Woman
Grimes
Split Second
Thrasher
Van Helsing: The London Assignment
Cardinal Jinetta (voice)
Get Carter
Keith
Sparkhouse
Richard Bolton
White Hunter, Black Heart
Ralph Lockhart
Millions
Saint Peter
The Stars Look Down
Joe Gowlan
Onegin
Zaretsky
Les Misérables: 25th Anniversary in Concert
Monsieur Thenardier (1985 Cast)
Harrison's Flowers
Samuel Brubeck
Nineteen96
Det. Supt. Frank Burroughs
An Awfully Big Adventure
Uncle Vernon
It's All About Love
David
Paradise Found
Camille Pissarro
MacGyver: Trail to Doomsday
Capshaw
Golden Years
Sid
Blue Ice
Osgood
The Choral
Breaking the Code
Mick Ross
Brazen Hussies
Jimmy Hardcastle
Aristocrats
Lord Holland
Measure for Measure
Provost
Les Misérables: 10th Anniversary Concert at the Royal Albert Hall
Thenardier
London Kills Me
John Stone
Doggin' Around
Charlie Foster
With or Without You
Sammy
G:MT Greenwich Mean Time
Uncle Henry
Only Make Believe
Michael Biddle
Funny Cow
Lenny
Number One
Blackpool Police Sergeant
When I'm Sixty-Four
Jim
The 14
Tommy
Carrie's War
Mr. Samuel Evans
Billy the Kid and the Green Baize Vampire
Maxwell Randall, The Green Baize Vampire
Strictly Sinatra
Bill
The Caucasian Chalk Circle
Singer
Our Day Out
Mr. Briggs
The Likely Lads
Tommy
American Friends
Dr. Weeks
That Summer of White Roses
Zemba
Filth: The Mary Whitehouse Story
Ernest Whitehouse
Score
George
The House
Mr. Smeth
Inquisition
Martin
The Dinner Party
Jim
All Day on the Sands
Sticky Wickets
Evans
Asunder
Self - Narrator (voice)
Sorry About Last Night
Mickey
A Night on the Tyne
Willy
This Is Personal: The Hunt for the Yorkshire Ripper
Asst. Chief Const. George Oldfield
Freedom of the Dig
Quinn
The Girls Who Came to Stay
Bob Jenkins
Breaking The Codes
Witness Against Hitler
Pastor Harold Poelchau
The Childeater
Stefano
Risking It
Richard Clewes
Out of Innocence
Detective Callaghan
The Eyes Have It
Mike
Mr Moon's Last Case
Narrator
Easy Go
First docker
The Nicky Nack
7 Up 2000
Himself - Narrator
Liza
Mikhalevich
The Widowmaker
Dad
Shooting the Chandelier
Brodovich
The Sex Victims
George
Fear of God
Trahearne
Looking After Number One
Dick