Nicholas Farrell
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Nicholas Farrell (born Nicholas Charles Frost, in September 1955) is an English stage, film and television actor. His early screen career included the role of Aubrey Montague in the 1981 film Chariots of Fire. In 1983, he starred as Edmund Bertram in a television adaptation of the Jane Austen novel, Mansfield Park. In 1984, he appeared in Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes and The Jewel in the Crown. Since then, his film and television work has included several screen adaptations of Shakespeare's works, including Kenneth Branagh's 1996 Hamlet , in which he played Horatio, a role he had played previously with Branagh for the Royal Shakespeare Company. He has also appeared in film adaptations of Twelfth Night (1996), Othello (1995) and In the Bleak Midwinter (1995). He provided the voice of Hamlet for the animated television adaptation Shakespeare: The Animated Tales (1992). Other television appearances have included two Agatha Christie's Poirot movies, Sharpe's Regiment, To Play the King, Torchwood and Collision. He has also appeared in episodes of Lovejoy, Foyle's War, Absolute Power, Spooks, Midsomer Murders, Drop the Dead Donkey and Casualty. Farrell's theatre work includes performances of The Cherry Orchard, Camille, and The Crucible as well as Royal Shakespeare Company productions of The Merchant of Venice, Julius Caesar, and Hamlet. He is married to Scottish actress Stella Gonet. Description above from the Wikipedia article Nicholas Farrell, licensed under CC-BY-SA,full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known for
Credits
Pearl Harbor (2001)
as RAF Squadron Leader
Legend (2015)
as Dr Humphries
Mortdecai (2015)
as Auctioneer
The Coldest Game (2019)
as G. Moran
Munich - The Edge of War (2021)
as Sir Alexander Cadogan
Legionnaire (1998)
as Mackintosh
Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes (1984)
as Sir Hugh Belcher
Chariots of Fire (1981)
as Aubrey Montague
Robot Overlords (2015)
as Sentry Robot/Air Drone (voice)
The Iron Lady (2011)
as Airey Neave
Plunkett & Macleane (1999)
as MP's Secretary
Dream Horse (2021)
as Philip Hobbs
Past Life (2026)
as Elliot Reed
Testament of Youth (2015)
as Headmaster
Grace of Monaco (2014)
as Jean-Charles Rey
Hamlet (1996)
as Horatio
Bloody Sunday (2002)
as Brigadier Maclellan
Hurricane (2018)
as Air Chief Marshal Sir Hugh Dowding
Persuasion (2007)
as Mr. Musgrove
Finding Altamira (2016)
as Vilanova
Amazing Grace (2006)
as Henry Thornton
Widow Clicquot (2024)
as Jean-Remy Moet
Twelfth Night (1996)
as Antonio
Driving Lessons (2006)
as Robert
Charlotte Gray (2001)
as Mr. Jackson
Summer in February (2013)
as Mr. Carter-Wood
Lies We Tell (2018)
as Anthony Quest
Mindhorn (2016)
as Mayor
Sharpe's Regiment (1996)
as Lord Simon Fenner
Othello (1995)
as Montano
White Chamber (2018)
as Dr. Edgar Chrystler
In the Bleak Midwinter (1995)
as Tom Newman
Another Mother's Son (2017)
as De La Haye
The Third Wave (2003)
as Devlin
Sharpe: The Legend (1997)
as Fenner
The Treasure Seekers (1996)
as Bastable
Bait (2002)
as Alfred White
Nipplejesus (2015)
as Silver Fox
A Toast to Love (2024)
as Professor Dale Farringdon
Christmas in the Highlands (2019)
as Duke of Glenmorie
Berlin Tunnel 21 (1981)
as Georg Heptner
Jack the Ripper: The London Slasher (2016)
as Samuel Harris
Spying on Hitler’s Army: The Secret Recordings (2013)
as General von Thoma
Arthur's Dyke (2001)
as Geoffrey
The Trials of Oz (1991)
as Dr. Michael Schofield
The Minoans (2004)
as Readings (voice)
Late Bloomers (2011)
as Francis
The Vision Thing (1993)
as Batt Prender
Remainder (2015)
as Daubenay
Red Mercury (2005)
as Minister
Beautiful People (1999)
as Dr Mouldy
Portrait of Isa Mulvenny (1985)
as Bill Thompson
Reversals (2003)
as Edward Leitch
The Rocking Horse Winner (1982)
as Lawyer
A Breed of Heroes (1994)
as Lt. Col Ian Gowrie, MC
A Christmas Carol: A Ghost Story (2022)
as Ebenezer Scrooge
The Man Who Saw Too Much (2019)
as Yurka Galitzine (voice)
Fiona's Story (2008)
as Edward
A Silly Little Habit (1982)
as Simon
Hamlet (1992)
as Hamlet
By Common Consent (1975)
Actor
Creditors (2025)
as Adolf
Dead Lucky (1988)
as Martin Urban
Playing Away (1987)
as Derek
Tear Me Apart (2016)
as Old Man (voice)
Sex, Chips & Rock n' Roll (1999)
Actor
Nobody Here But Us Chickens (1989)
Actor
Prometheus Bound (2004)
as Prometheus (voice)
The Fools on the Hill (1986)
as David
Cosmos Within Us (2019)
as Aiken
Napoleon's Waterloo (2015)
as Narrator