John Shrapnel
Acting
Born 1942-04-27
Died 2020-02-14
Birmingham, England, UK
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Shrapnel was born in Birmingham, Warwickshire, the son of Mary Lillian Myfanwy (née Edwards) and journalist/author Norman Shrapnel.[1] As a stage actor, he was a member of Laurence Olivier's Royal National Theatre company and the Royal Shakespeare Company and most recently appeared as Sir Oliver Surface in The School for Scandal (directed by Deborah Warner) at the Barbican Centre in 2011. He has also appeared extensively in film and on television in roles in Elizabeth R, Z-Cars, Edward and Mrs. Simpson, 101 Dalmatians, Space: 1999, Inspector Morse, Coogan's Run, Notting Hill and Foyle's War. He presented an episode of the 1983 BBC television travel series Great Little Railways. He gave performances in three entries in the BBC Television Shakespeare plays and as Creon in the BBC's 1984 productions of the Three Theban plays of Sophocles. In America, he has starred in supporting roles as Senator Gaius in Gladiator, Nestor in Troy and Pompey in the second episode of Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire. He also played the Jail Warden in the 10th Kingdom, an epic fantasy miniseries. He has the rare achievement of appearing in two episodes of Midsomer Murders as two different characters, in Death in Chorus and Written in Blood. Shrapnel appeared in an episode of Jonathan Creek as Professor Lance Graumann in the episode The Omega Man. He appears in Chemical Wedding alongside Simon Callow, telling the tale of the resurrection of occultist Aleister Crowley. Shrapnel also has experience in the field of BBC radio drama through such characters as Colin Dexter's Inspector Morse and William Gibson's Neuromancer. He is the son-in-law of Deborah Kerr through his 1975 marriage to her younger daughter Francesca Ann Bartley. They have three sons, the actors Lex Shrapnel (b.1979), Tom Shrapnel (b.1981) and the writer Joe Shrapnel (b.1976). They live in Highbury, north London.
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Filmography
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Acting
58 credits
Midsomer Murders
Troy
Gladiator
Foyle's War
BBC Play of the Month
Merlin
Screen Two
Omnibus
New Tricks
Space: 1999
Waking the Dead
Natural World
The Inspector Lynley Mysteries
Notting Hill
Wycliffe
ITV Playhouse
101 Dalmatians
BBC2 Play of the Week
Between the Lines
Justice
Jonathan Creek
The Chief
Kavanagh Q.C.
The Duchess
Coogan's Run
Elizabeth: The Golden Age
Mirrors
The 10th Kingdom
Shakespeare: The Animated Tales
K-19: The Widowmaker
Private Schulz
Elizabeth R
The Awakening
Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire
G.B.H.
Schönbrunn - Well of Beauty
The Modern World: Ten Great Writers
Mr. Palfrey of Westminster
Fatherland
Vanity Fair
I Am Not an Animal
Edward and Mrs Simpson
The Body
Alien Autopsy
Nicholas and Alexandra
Armchair Thriller
Blackeyes
Plays for Britain
Apparitions
Invasion: Earth
Screenplay
Two Deaths
Selling Hitler
For the Greater Good
How to Get Ahead in Advertising
True Tilda
Run.
Poppyland
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