Personal Info
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Alun Armstrong
Acting
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 …
Known For
Filmography
Movies
The Choral
as Herbert Trickett
The Nicky Nack
Breaking The Codes
Out of Innocence
as Detective Callaghan
Possum
as Maurice
Funny Cow
as Lenny
Golden Years
as Sid
Asunder
as Self - Narrator (voice)
Les Misérables: 25th Anniversary in Concert
as Monsieur Thenardier (1985 Cast)
Filth: The Mary Whitehouse Story
as Ernest Whitehouse
TV Shows
After the Flood
as Alan Benson · 6 ep.
Tom Jones
as Squire Western · 4 ep.
Remembers…
as Self · 1 ep.
Sherwood
as Gary Jackson · 1 ep.
Breeders
as Jim · 27 ep.
Year of the Rabbit
as Chief Inspector Hugh Wisbech · 6 ep.
Prime Suspect 1973
as Clifford Bentley · 6 ep.
Frontier
as Lord Benton · 18 ep.
Dark Angel
as George Stot · 2 ep.
Penny Dreadful
as Vincent Brand · 1 ep.
