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
Great Performances
Thénardier
Married... with Children
Trevor
Play for Today
1st Docker
Play for Today
Mr Briggs
BBC Play of the Month
Lightborne
New Tricks
Brian Lane
Public Eye
Vince Gregson
Tales from the Crypt
Inspector Herbert
Inspector Morse
Superintendent Holdsby
Justice
Bob Graham
Frontier
Lord Benton
The Sweeney
Peter Jenner
Van Helsing
Cardinal Jinette
Braveheart
Mornay
Penny Dreadful
Vincent Brand
Porridge
Spraggon
Thriller
Mike
The Mummy Returns
Baltus Hafez
The Storyteller
Troll (voice)
The New Avengers
Private George Harris
The Hollow Crown
Northumberland
Sleepy Hollow
High Constable
Breeders
Jim
BBC2 Play of the Week
Brodovich
BBC2 Play of the Week
Mikhalevich
Bleak House
Inspector Bucket
Sherwood
Gary Jackson
Enemy at the Door
Louis Mendoza
David Copperfield
Dan Peggotty
Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads?
Scaife
A Bridge Too Far
Cpl. Davies
Shakespeare: The Animated Tales
Caliban (voice)
Krull
Torquil
Tom Jones
Squire Western
Shooting the Chandelier
Brodovich
Patriot Games
Owens
Black Beauty
Reuben Smith
Breaking the Code
Mick Ross
Eragon
Uncle Garrow
Messiah
DCI Charlie McIntyre
Our Friends in the North
Austin Donohue
Garrow's Law
John Southouse
Father Brown
Joe
Little Dorrit
Ephraim Flintwinch
Witness Against Hitler
Pastor Harold Poelchau
Funny Cow
Lenny
Proof of Life
Wyatt
Billy the Kid and the Green Baize Vampire
Maxwell Randall, The Green Baize Vampire
Year of the Rabbit
Chief Inspector Hugh Wisbech
Armchair Thriller
Trahearne
After the Flood
Alan Benson
That Summer of White Roses
Zemba
Easy Go
First docker
Centre Play
Richard Clewes
The Choral
Herbert Trickett
Les Misérables: 25th Anniversary in Concert
Monsieur Thenardier (1985 Cast)
Oliver Twist
Magistrate Fang
A.D.
Gamesmaster
The Saint
Inspector Teal
Dark Angel
George Stot
Days of Hope
Billy Shepherd
Prime Suspect 1973
Clifford Bentley
Millions
Saint Peter
The House
Mr. Smeth
Nineteen96
Det. Supt. Frank Burroughs
The Duellists
Lieutenant Lacourbe
MacGyver: Trail to Doomsday
Capshaw
This Is Personal: The Hunt for the Yorkshire Ripper
Asst. Chief Const. George Oldfield
Possum
Maurice
Oliver Twist
Mr. Fleming
Murder in Eden
Sgt. McGing
Split Second
Thrasher
White Hunter, Black Heart
Ralph Lockhart
Get Carter
Keith
Score
George
A Sharp Intake of Breath
Blue Ice
Osgood
The Mystery of Edwin Drood
Hiram Grewgious
Bedtime
Neil Henshaw
Out of Innocence
Detective Callaghan
Sparkhouse
Richard Bolton
In the Red
DCI Frank Jefferson
Aristocrats
Lord Holland
The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby
Between The Sheets
Peter Delany
Van Helsing: The London Assignment
Cardinal Jinetta (voice)
Underworld
Adrian Mole: The Cappuccino Years
George Mole
Goggle Eyes
Gerald 'Goggle Eyes' Faulkner
Extinct
Himself - Narrator
The French Lieutenant's Woman
Grimes
Golden Years
Sid
Onegin
Zaretsky
A Passionate Woman
Donald (1980s)
It's All About Love
David
Filth: The Mary Whitehouse Story
Ernest Whitehouse
The Widowmaker
Dad
An Awfully Big Adventure
Uncle Vernon
The Stars Look Down
Joe Gowlan
Get Lost!
Neville Keaton
The Tempest
Caliban
All Day on the Sands
Doggin' Around
Charlie Foster
Stanley and the Women
Rufus Hilton
Strictly Sinatra
Bill
Harrison's Flowers
Samuel Brubeck
The 14
Tommy
London Kills Me
John Stone
Carrie's War
Mr. Samuel Evans
Les Misérables: 10th Anniversary Concert at the Royal Albert Hall
Thenardier
The Sex Victims
George
This Is Personal: The Hunt for the Yorkshire Ripper
Asst. Chief Const. George Oldfield
Brazen Hussies
Jimmy Hardcastle
The Likely Lads
Tommy
American Friends
Dr. Weeks
G:MT Greenwich Mean Time
Uncle Henry
Our Day Out
Mr. Briggs
Sticky Wickets
Evans
Paradise Found
Camille Pissarro
Measure for Measure
Provost
Liza
Mikhalevich
Number One
Blackpool Police Sergeant
With or Without You
Sammy
Inquisition
Martin
Asunder
Self - Narrator (voice)
The Caucasian Chalk Circle
Singer
A Night on the Tyne
Willy
The Girls Who Came to Stay
Bob Jenkins
Sorry About Last Night
Mickey
Looking After Number One
Dick
The Childeater
Stefano
The Dinner Party
Jim
Fear of God
Trahearne
The Eyes Have It
Mike
Goodbye Cruel World
Roy Grade
When I'm Sixty-Four
Jim
My Little Eye
Dad
Risking It
Richard Clewes
Breaking The Codes
Mr Moon's Last Case
Narrator
Only Make Believe
Michael Biddle
Number 27
Murray Lester
Freedom of the Dig
Quinn
The Nicky Nack
The Storyteller: The True Bride
Troll (Voice)
The Chester Mystery Plays
Lightborne
7 Up 2000
Himself - Narrator
Remembers…
Self