Alun Armstrong

Acting · 1.4 popularity

Age

Movies

Born: July 17, 1946
From: Annfield Plain, County Durham, England, UK

Biography

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.

Works

87 films

The Mummy Returns

20016.4

Braveheart

19957.9

Van Helsing

20046.4

Sleepy Hollow

19997.2

Patriot Games

19926.7

Eragon

20065.1

The Saint

19976.1

A Bridge Too Far

19777.2

Krull

19836.0

The Choral

20256.4

Van Helsing: The London Assignment

20046.2

Oliver Twist

20056.8

Proof of Life

20006.2

Split Second

19925.9

Black Beauty

19946.7

Get Carter

19717.0

The French Lieutenant's Woman

19816.5

The Duellists

19777.2

Possum

20186.1

White Hunter, Black Heart

19906.4

Blue Ice

19925.3

Harrison's Flowers

20006.5

Onegin

19996.1

Millions

20056.4

Paradise Found

20036.5

An Awfully Big Adventure

19956.5

Brazen Hussies

19963.8

Funny Cow

20186.3

MacGyver: Trail to Doomsday

19946.0

Asunder

2016

Les Misérables: 25th Anniversary in Concert

20108.3

It's All About Love

20035.5

The Dinner Party

20076.0

G:MT Greenwich Mean Time

19995.6

The Chester Mystery Plays

1976

Les Misérables: 10th Anniversary Concert at the Royal Albert Hall

19958.8

Strictly Sinatra

20015.0

Billy the Kid and the Green Baize Vampire

19856.1

Filth: The Mary Whitehouse Story

20086.3

The Childeater

19897.7

The Storyteller: The True Bride

1988

The House

19845.7

Golden Years

20166.3

The 14

19735.9

American Friends

19916.4

Aristocrats

19996.0

Score

20017.0

Number One

19856.7

Risking It

1977

Breaking the Code

19965.6

London Kills Me

19915.9

The Caucasian Chalk Circle

1985

The Sex Victims

19735.0

Only Make Believe

197310.0

When I'm Sixty-Four

20045.4

The Likely Lads

19766.3

That Summer of White Roses

19896.0

Measure for Measure

19795.9

With or Without You

19995.3

Number 27

19889.0

The Tempest

19935.0

The Girls Who Came to Stay

20068.0

Doggin' Around

19946.0

Shooting the Chandelier

1977

All Day on the Sands

19797.0

Witness Against Hitler

19968.0

The Widowmaker

199010.0

Inquisition

20027.0

Easy Go

1974

Sticky Wickets

1990

Out of Innocence

20196.6

Our Day Out

19777.8

Sorry About Last Night

19958.0

This Is Personal: The Hunt for the Yorkshire Ripper

20007.0

The Eyes Have It

19737.3

Mr Moon's Last Case

1983

Freedom of the Dig

1978

7 Up 2000

20008.0

Nineteen96

1989

Looking After Number One

1990

My Little Eye

20269.0

Carrie's War

20047.7

Liza

1978

The Nicky Nack

2021

A Night on the Tyne

19899.0

Fear of God

198010.0

Breaking The Codes

2020