Alun Armstrong
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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
Credits
Sleepy Hollow (1999)
as High Constable
Braveheart (1995)
as Mornay
Van Helsing (2004)
as Cardinal Jinette
The Mummy Returns (2001)
as Baltus Hafez
Krull (1983)
as Torquil
The Saint (1997)
as Inspector Teal
Patriot Games (1992)
as Owens
A Bridge Too Far (1977)
as Cpl. Davies
Eragon (2006)
as Uncle Garrow
The Choral (2025)
as Herbert Trickett
Proof of Life (2000)
as Wyatt
Funny Cow (2018)
as Lenny
Split Second (1992)
as Thrasher
The French Lieutenant's Woman (1981)
as Grimes
Harrison's Flowers (2000)
as Samuel Brubeck
Black Beauty (1994)
as Reuben Smith
Blue Ice (1992)
as Osgood
Brazen Hussies (1996)
as Jimmy Hardcastle
Oliver Twist (2005)
as Magistrate Fang
The Duellists (1977)
as Lieutenant Lacourbe
White Hunter, Black Heart (1990)
as Ralph Lockhart
The Chester Mystery Plays (1976)
as Lightborne
Get Carter (1971)
as Keith
Possum (2018)
as Maurice
Paradise Found (2003)
as Camille Pissarro
Van Helsing: The London Assignment (2004)
as Cardinal Jinetta (voice)
A Ticket Too Far (—)
as Dad
Millions (2005)
as Saint Peter
Les Misérables: 25th Anniversary in Concert (2010)
as Monsieur Thenardier (1985 Cast)
Score (2001)
as George
Asunder (2016)
as Self - Narrator (voice)
MacGyver: Trail to Doomsday (1994)
as Capshaw
The Storyteller: The True Bride (1988)
as Troll (Voice)
The Childeater (1989)
as Stefano
Onegin (1999)
as Zaretsky
7 Up 2000 (2000)
as Himself - Narrator
Risking It (1977)
as Richard Clewes
The Dinner Party (2007)
as Jim
It's All About Love (2003)
as David
Only Make Believe (1973)
as Michael Biddle
An Awfully Big Adventure (1995)
as Uncle Vernon
Les Misérables: 10th Anniversary Concert at the Royal Albert Hall (1995)
as Monsieur Thénardier
When I'm Sixty-Four (2004)
as Jim
The Destruction of Troy and the Adventures of Odysseus (1998)
Actor
Filth: The Mary Whitehouse Story (2008)
as Ernest Whitehouse
Billy the Kid and the Green Baize Vampire (1985)
as Maxwell Randall, The Green Baize Vampire
G:MT Greenwich Mean Time (1999)
as Uncle Henry
The Caucasian Chalk Circle (1985)
as Singer
Golden Years (2016)
as Sid
Aristocrats (1999)
as Lord Holland
Strictly Sinatra (2001)
as Bill
All Day on the Sands (1979)
Actor
The Likely Lads (1976)
as Tommy
Measure for Measure (1979)
as Provost
This Is Personal: The Hunt for the Yorkshire Ripper (2000)
as Asst. Chief Const. George Oldfield
Freedom of the Dig (1978)
as Quinn
The Tempest (1993)
as Caliban
London Kills Me (1991)
as John Stone
That Summer of White Roses (1989)
as Zemba
With or Without You (1999)
as Sammy
Sorry About Last Night (1995)
as Mickey
American Friends (1991)
as Dr. Weeks
Number One (1985)
as Blackpool Police Sergeant
The Widowmaker (1990)
as Dad
The Sex Victims (1973)
as George
Our Day Out (1977)
as Mr. Briggs
The Girls Who Came to Stay (2006)
as Bob Jenkins
Witness Against Hitler (1996)
as Pastor Harold Poelchau
The 14 (1973)
as Tommy
Inquisition (2002)
as Martin
The House (1984)
as Mr. Smeth
A Night on the Tyne (1989)
as Willy
Breaking the Code (1996)
as Mick Ross
Number 27 (1988)
as Murray Lester
Easy Go (1974)
as First docker
Carrie's War (2004)
as Mr. Samuel Evans
The Eyes Have It (1973)
as Mike
My Little Eye (—)
as Dad
Looking After Number One (1990)
as Dick
Breaking The Codes (2020)
Actor
Out of Innocence (2019)
as Detective Callaghan
Mr Moon's Last Case (1983)
as Narrator
Shooting the Chandelier (1977)
as Brodovich
Nineteen96 (1989)
as Det. Supt. Frank Burroughs
Fear of God (1980)
as Trahearne
Liza (1978)
as Mikhalevich
Doggin' Around (1994)
as Charlie Foster
The Nicky Nack (2021)
Actor
Sticky Wickets (1990)
as Evans