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 Iron Lady (2011)
as Airey Neave
Chariots of Fire (1981)
as Aubrey Montague
Hamlet (1996)
as Horatio
Dream Horse (2021)
as Philip Hobbs
Legionnaire (1998)
as Mackintosh
Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes (1984)
as Sir Hugh Belcher
Amazing Grace (2006)
as Henry Thornton
Hurricane (2018)
as Air Chief Marshal Sir Hugh Dowding
Testament of Youth (2015)
as Headmaster
Bloody Sunday (2002)
as Brigadier Maclellan
Charlotte Gray (2001)
as Mr. Jackson
Robot Overlords (2015)
as Sentry Robot/Air Drone (voice)
Twelfth Night (1996)
as Antonio
The Coldest Game (2019)
as G. Moran
Persuasion (2007)
as Mr. Musgrove
Munich - The Edge of War (2021)
as Sir Alexander Cadogan
Plunkett & Macleane (1999)
as MP's Secretary
Finding Altamira (2016)
as Vilanova
Widow Clicquot (2024)
as Jean-Remy Moet
Mindhorn (2016)
as Mayor
Grace of Monaco (2014)
as Jean-Charles Rey
Othello (1995)
as Montano
Another Mother's Son (2017)
as De La Haye
Driving Lessons (2006)
as Robert
Late Bloomers (2011)
as Francis
Lies We Tell (2018)
as Anthony Quest
Summer in February (2013)
as Mr. Carter-Wood
Past Life (2026)
as Elliot Reed
Red Mercury (2005)
as Minister
In the Bleak Midwinter (1995)
as Tom Newman
White Chamber (2018)
as Dr. Edgar Chrystler
Sharpe: The Legend (1997)
as Fenner
Jack the Ripper: The London Slasher (2016)
as Samuel Harris
The Treasure Seekers (1996)
as Bastable
The Third Wave (2003)
as Devlin
Playing Away (1987)
as Derek
Remainder (2015)
as Daubenay
Sharpe's Regiment (1996)
as Lord Simon Fenner
The Trials of Oz (1991)
as Dr. Michael Schofield
Arthur's Dyke (2001)
as Geoffrey
Christmas in the Highlands (2019)
as Duke of Glenmorie
Fiona's Story (2008)
as Edward
Nipplejesus (2015)
as Silver Fox
Beautiful People (1999)
as Dr Mouldy
Bait (2002)
as Alfred White
Berlin Tunnel 21 (1981)
as Georg Heptner
Dead Lucky (1988)
as Martin Urban
The Man Who Saw Too Much (2019)
as Yurka Galitzine (voice)
A Breed of Heroes (1994)
as Lt. Col Ian Gowrie, MC
The Minoans (2004)
as Readings (voice)
A Toast to Love (2024)
as Professor Dale Farringdon
Reversals (2003)
as Edward Leitch
Nobody Here But Us Chickens (1989)
Actor
Portrait of Isa Mulvenny (1985)
as Bill Thompson
A Christmas Carol: A Ghost Story (2022)
as Ebenezer Scrooge
Sex, Chips & Rock n' Roll (1999)
Actor
Creditors (2025)
as Adolf
Spying on Hitler’s Army: The Secret Recordings (2013)
as General von Thoma
By Common Consent (1975)
Actor
A Silly Little Habit (1982)
as Simon
The Fools on the Hill (1986)
as David
Hamlet (1992)
as Hamlet
The Rocking Horse Winner (1982)
as Lawyer
The Vision Thing (1993)
as Batt Prender
Tear Me Apart (2016)
as Old Man (voice)
Prometheus Bound (2004)
as Prometheus (voice)
Cosmos Within Us (2019)
as Aiken
Napoleon's Waterloo (2015)
as Narrator