Alun Armstrong
Acting
Born 1946-07-17
Annfield Plain, County Durham, England, UK
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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.
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Married... with Children
Play for Today
Great Performances
BBC Play of the Month
The Mummy Returns
New Tricks
Tales from the Crypt
Braveheart
Inspector Morse
Penny Dreadful
Van Helsing
Sleepy Hollow
Remembers…
The Sweeney
BBC2 Play of the Week
The Hollow Crown
The New Avengers
Patriot Games
Justice
Frontier
Breeders
Public Eye
Thriller
The Jim Henson Hour
The Storyteller
ScreenPlay
A Bridge Too Far
New Scotland Yard
Sherwood
The Saint
Krull
Centre Play
The Choral
Screen One
Eragon
Second City Firsts
Shakespeare: The Animated Tales
Bleak House
The BBC Television Shakespeare
Father Brown
David Copperfield
A.D.
Oliver Twist
Our Friends in the North
Enemy at the Door
Oliver Twist
Little Dorrit
Proof of Life
Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads?
Garrow's Law
Black Beauty
Split Second
Messiah
Get Carter
Year of the Rabbit
Porridge
Prime Suspect 1973
The French Lieutenant's Woman
Van Helsing: The London Assignment
The Duellists
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