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.
Born: 17 July 1946
Played In
The Choral
Herbert Trickett
After the Flood
Alan Benson
Tom Jones
Squire Western
Remembers…
Self
Sherwood
Gary Jackson
The Nicky Nack
Breeders
Jim
Breaking The Codes
Year of the Rabbit
Chief Inspector Hugh Wisbech
Out of Innocence
Detective Callaghan
Possum
Maurice
Funny Cow
Lenny
Prime Suspect 1973
Clifford Bentley
Frontier
Lord Benton
Dark Angel
George Stot
Asunder
Self - Narrator (voice)
Golden Years
Sid
Penny Dreadful
Vincent Brand
The Hollow Crown
Northumberland
The Mystery of Edwin Drood
Hiram Grewgious
Les Misérables: 25th Anniversary in Concert
Monsieur Thenardier (1985 Cast)
A Passionate Woman
Donald (1980s)
Garrow's Law
John Southouse
Little Dorrit
Ephraim Flintwinch
Filth: The Mary Whitehouse Story
Ernest Whitehouse
The Dinner Party
Jim
Eragon
Uncle Garrow
The Girls Who Came to Stay
Bob Jenkins
Bleak House
Inspector Bucket
Oliver Twist
Magistrate Fang
Millions
Saint Peter
When I'm Sixty-Four
Jim
Van Helsing: The London Assignment
Cardinal Jinetta (voice)
Van Helsing
Cardinal Jinette
Carrie's War
Mr. Samuel Evans
New Tricks
Brian Lane
Between The Sheets
Peter Delany
It's All About Love
David
Paradise Found
Camille Pissarro
Inquisition
Martin
Sparkhouse
Richard Bolton
Extinct
Himself - Narrator
Bedtime
Neil Henshaw
Strictly Sinatra
Bill
Score
George
Messiah
DCI Charlie McIntyre
The Mummy Returns
Baltus Hafez
Adrian Mole: The Cappuccino Years
George Mole
Proof of Life
Wyatt
Harrison's Flowers
Samuel Brubeck
7 Up 2000
Himself - Narrator
This Is Personal: The Hunt for the Yorkshire Ripper
Asst. Chief Const. George Oldfield
This Is Personal: The Hunt for the Yorkshire Ripper
Asst. Chief Const. George Oldfield
David Copperfield
Dan Peggotty
Onegin
Zaretsky
Oliver Twist
Mr. Fleming
Sleepy Hollow
High Constable
G:MT Greenwich Mean Time
Uncle Henry
With or Without You
Sammy
Aristocrats
Lord Holland
In the Red
DCI Frank Jefferson
Underworld
The Saint
Inspector Teal
Brazen Hussies
Jimmy Hardcastle
Breaking the Code
Mick Ross
Witness Against Hitler
Pastor Harold Poelchau
Our Friends in the North
Austin Donohue
Sorry About Last Night
Mickey
Les Misérables: 10th Anniversary Concert at the Royal Albert Hall
Monsieur Thénardier
Braveheart
Mornay
An Awfully Big Adventure
Uncle Vernon
MacGyver: Trail to Doomsday
Capshaw
Doggin' Around
Charlie Foster
Black Beauty
Reuben Smith
Goggle Eyes
Gerald 'Goggle Eyes' Faulkner
The Tempest
Caliban
Shakespeare: The Animated Tales
Caliban (voice)
Blue Ice
Osgood
Patriot Games
Owens
Split Second
Thrasher
Goodbye Cruel World
Roy Grade
London Kills Me
John Stone
Stanley and the Women
Rufus Hilton
Murder in Eden
Sgt McGing
American Friends
Dr. Weeks
The Widowmaker
Dad
Sticky Wickets
Evans
White Hunter, Black Heart
Ralph Lockhart
Looking After Number One
Dick
Nineteen96
Det. Supt. Frank Burroughs
Screen One
Det Supt Frank Burroughs
Screen One
Evans
Screen One
Charlie Foster
A Night on the Tyne
Willy
Tales from the Crypt
Inspector Herbert
The Jim Henson Hour
The Troll (archive audio)
The Childeater
Stefano
That Summer of White Roses
Zemba
Number 27
Murray Lester
The Storyteller: The True Bride
Troll (Voice)
The Storyteller
Troll (voice)
Married... with Children
Trevor
Inspector Morse
Superintendent Holdsby
ScreenPlay
Willy
Billy the Kid and the Green Baize Vampire
Maxwell Randall, The Green Baize Vampire
A.D.
Gamesmaster
Number One
Blackpool Police Sergeant
The Caucasian Chalk Circle
Singer
The House
Mr. Smeth
Krull
Torquil
Mr Moon's Last Case
Narrator
The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby
The French Lieutenant's Woman
Grimes
Get Lost!
Neville Keaton
Fear of God
Trahearne
All Day on the Sands
Measure for Measure
Provost
The BBC Television Shakespeare
Provost
Freedom of the Dig
Quinn
Liza
Mikhalevich
Armchair Thriller
Trahearne
Enemy at the Door
Louis Mendoza
Our Day Out
Mr. Briggs
Shooting the Chandelier
Brodovich
BBC2 Play of the Week
Brodovich
BBC2 Play of the Week
Mikhalevich
The Duellists
Lieutenant Lacourbe
A Sharp Intake of Breath
Risking It
Richard Clewes
A Bridge Too Far
Cpl. Davies
Romance
Weaver
The New Avengers
Private George Harris
The Chester Mystery Plays
Lightborne
The Likely Lads
Tommy
Days of Hope
Billy Shepherd
The Stars Look Down
Joe Gowlan
The Sweeney
Peter Jenner
Father Brown
Joe
Porridge
Spraggon
Easy Go
First docker
Second City Firsts
Ken
Centre Play
Richard Clewes
The 14
Tommy
The Eyes Have It
Mike
Thriller
Mike
Armchair 30
Glazier
The Sex Victims
George
Only Make Believe
Michael Biddle
Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads?
Scaife
Villains
Terence 'Tel' Bolden
New Scotland Yard
Ray Davies
Six Days of Justice
P.C. Williamson
Justice
Bob Graham
Get Carter
Keith
Great Performances
Thénardier
Play for Today
1st Docker
Play for Today
Mr Briggs
BBC Play of the Month
Lightborne
Public Eye
Vince Gregson
My Little Eye
Dad