Oct 12, 1953 - Burnage, Manchester, England, UK
Born in Burnage, Manchester in 1953, David Threlfall is a celebrated actor of stage, film and television. In the latter, he is perhaps best known as the feckless Frank Gallagher in Channel 4's Shameless. In 1994 whilst working on a production of The Count of Monte Cristo at the Royal Exchange, Manchester, Threlfall met Bosnian actress Brana Bajic and the pair subsequently married a year later.
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| Movie | 2003 | Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World | Preserved Killick, Captain's Steward | |
| Movie | 2006 | Alien Autopsy | Jeffrey | |
| Movie | 1992 | Patriot Games | Inspector Highland | |
| Movie | 1991 | A Murder of Quality | Stanley Rode | |
| Movie | 1999 | Mary, Mother of Jesus | Joseph of Nazareth | |
| Movie | 1977 | The Kiss of Death | Trevor | |
| Movie | 2014 | Tommy Cooper: Not Like That, Like This | Tommy Cooper | |
| Movie | 2022 | Dodger Special: Train | Sir Charles Rowan | |
| Movie | 2023 | Dodger Special: Bad Egg | Sir Charles Rowan | |
| Movie | 2015 | The Ark | Noah | |
| Movie | 2007 | Elizabeth: The Golden Age | Dr. John Dee | |
| Movie | 1979 | The Brylcreem Boys | George Hunn | |
| Movie | 1989 | When the Whales Came | Jack Jenkins | |
| Movie | 1977 | Scum | Archer | |
| Movie | 1989 | Seeing in the Dark | Tony | |
| Movie | 2014 | Black Sea | Peters | |
| Movie | 2003 | Chunky Monkey | Donald Leek | |
| Movie | 1990 | The Russia House | Wicklow | |
| Movie | 1990 | He's Asking For Me | Andy | |
| Movie | 2006 | Housewife, 49 | Will Last | |
| Movie | 2001 | Conspiracy | Friedrich Wilhelm Kritzinger | |
| Movie | 1983 | King Lear | Edgar | |
| Movie | 1999 | Sex, Chips & Rock n' Roll | ||
| Movie | 2007 | Hot Fuzz | Martin Blower | |
| Movie | 1989 | Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story | Alex | |
| Movie | 1982 | Mike Leigh: Making Plays | Self | |
| Movie | 2005 | The Queen's Sister | Prince Philip | |
| Movie | 2006 | Like Minds | John Colbie | |
| Movie | 2009 | Nowhere Boy | George Toogood Smith | |
| Movie | 1983 | Red Monarch | Vasily | |
| Movie | 1993 | Diana: Her True Story | Prince Charles | |
| Movie | 1989 | A Casualty of War | Tom Rowse | |
| Movie | 1984 | Dog Ends | Robert | |
| Movie | 2012 | Evidently... John Cooper Clarke | Himself | |
| Movie | 1993 | The Clothes in the Wardrobe | Syl | |
| Movie | 1993 | A Statement of Affairs | Alan | |
| Movie | 2020 | Beckett Double Bill (Krapp's Last Tape / The Old Tune) | Cream | |
| Movie | 2020 | Faith Healer | Teddy | |
| Movie | 1986 | Paradise Postponed | Leslie Titmus | |
| Movie | 1976 | I Want to Be Like You | Steve | |
| Movie | 2024 | Bing & Friends: Birthday Celebration | Flop (voice) | |
| Movie | 2025 | Unforgivable | Brian Mitchell | |
| Movie | 1982 | Rolling Home | Donald | |
| Movie | 2004 | Benefit to Mankind | Carl Swannee | |
| TV Show | 1994 | Men of the World | Lenny Smart | 12 |
| TV Show | 2004 | Shameless | 6 | |
| TV Show | 2004 | Shameless | Frank Gallagher | 105 |
| TV Show | 1999 | Sex, Chips & Rock n' Roll | Norman | 6 |
| TV Show | 1990 | Nightingales | Bell | 13 |
| TV Show | 1982 | The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby | 10 | |
| TV Show | 1986 | Paradise Postponed | Leslie Titmuss | 14 |
| TV Show | 2002 | Cutting It | Beauregard Smee | 1 |
| TV Show | 1987 | The Marksman | Weaver | 3 |
| TV Show | 2024 | Nightsleeper | Paul Peveril | 6 |
| TV Show | 2021 | Wolfe | Howard | 1 |
| TV Show | 2013 | What Remains | Len Harper | 4 |
| TV Show | 2015 | Code of a Killer | DCS David Baker | 2 |
| TV Show | 2015 | Midwinter of the Spirit | Rev Huw Owens | 3 |
| TV Show | 2023 | Funny Woman | George Parker | 10 |
| TV Show | 2018 | Troy: Fall of a City | King Priam | 8 |
| TV Show | 2012 | Ripper Street | Abel Croker | 6 |
| TV Show | 2022 | Art That Made Us | Self - Narrator (voice) | 8 |
| TV Show | 2017 | Urban Myths | Samuel Beckett | 1 |
| TV Show | 2000 | A Dinner of Herbs | Hal Royce (older) | 6 |
| TV Show | 2000 | In the Beginning | Aaron | 2 |
| TV Show | 2024 | Passenger | Jim Bracknell | 6 |
| TV Show | 1983 | The Gathering Seed | Joe Henshaw | 6 |
| TV Show | 2002 | Spooks | Keith Moran | 1 |
| TV Show | N/A | Have I Got a Bit More News for You | Self - Panellist | 1 |
| TV Show | 2024 | The Completely Made-Up Adventures of Dick Turpin | Tom King | 1 |
| TV Show | 1970 | Play for Today | Robert | 1 |
| TV Show | 1982 | Objects of Affection | Donald | 1 |
| TV Show | 1991 | Titmuss Regained | Leslie Titmuss | 3 |
| TV Show | 1990 | Have I Got News for You | Self | 1 |
| TV Show | N/A | The Death of Bunny Munro | Bunny Snr | 1 |
| TV Show | 2006 | Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire | Constantine the Great | 1 |
| TV Show | 1974 | Playhouse | George Hunn | 1 |
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| TV Show | 2004 | Shameless | Executive Producer | Production |
