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David Threlfall

David Threlfall

Birthday: 1953-10-12 | Place of Birth: 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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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

2022
Art That Made Us

as    Self - Narrator (voice)

2018
Troy: Fall of a City

as    King Priam

2015
Code of a Killer

as    DCS David Baker

2015
Code of a Killer

as    DCS David Baker

2015
The Ark

as    Noah

2015
Black Sea

as    Peters

2015
Midwinter of the Spirit

as    Rev Huw Owens

2014
2013
What Remains

as    Len Harper

2010
Nowhere Boy

as    George Toogood Smith

2006
Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire

as    Constantine the Great

2006
Like Minds

as    John Colbie

2006
Housewife, 49

as    Will Last

2004
Shameless

as    Frank Gallagher

2003
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World

as    Preserved Killick, Captain's Steward

1999
Mary, Mother of Jesus

as    Joseph of Nazareth

1991
A Murder of Quality

as    Stanley Rode

1990
The Russia House

as    Wicklow

1989
When the Whales Came

as    Jack Jenkins

1984
King Lear

as    Edgar

1977
Scum

as    Archer