Alun Armstrong
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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.
Known for
Credits
Braveheart (1995)
as Mornay
Sleepy Hollow (1999)
as High Constable
The Mummy Returns (2001)
as Baltus Hafez
Van Helsing (2004)
as Cardinal Jinette
Patriot Games (1992)
as Owens
A Bridge Too Far (1977)
as Cpl. Davies
The Saint (1997)
as Inspector Teal
The Choral (2025)
as Herbert Trickett
Krull (1983)
as Torquil
Oliver Twist (2005)
as Magistrate Fang
Split Second (1992)
as Thrasher
Eragon (2006)
as Uncle Garrow
Black Beauty (1994)
as Reuben Smith
Proof of Life (2000)
as Wyatt
The Duellists (1977)
as Lieutenant Lacourbe
The French Lieutenant's Woman (1981)
as Grimes
An Awfully Big Adventure (1995)
as Uncle Vernon
White Hunter, Black Heart (1990)
as Ralph Lockhart
Van Helsing: The London Assignment (2004)
as Cardinal Jinetta (voice)
Get Carter (1971)
as Keith
Blue Ice (1992)
as Osgood
Les Misérables: 25th Anniversary in Concert (2010)
as Monsieur Thenardier (1985 Cast)
Possum (2018)
as Maurice
Millions (2005)
as Saint Peter
It's All About Love (2003)
as David
Brazen Hussies (1996)
as Jimmy Hardcastle
Harrison's Flowers (2000)
as Samuel Brubeck
Paradise Found (2003)
as Camille Pissarro
The Caucasian Chalk Circle (1985)
as Singer
Onegin (1999)
as Zaretsky
MacGyver: Trail to Doomsday (1994)
as Capshaw
The Childeater (1989)
as Stefano
Asunder (2016)
as Self - Narrator (voice)
Filth: The Mary Whitehouse Story (2008)
as Ernest Whitehouse
G:MT Greenwich Mean Time (1999)
as Uncle Henry
Funny Cow (2018)
as Lenny
The Chester Mystery Plays (1976)
as Lightborne
Les Misérables: 10th Anniversary Concert at the Royal Albert Hall (1995)
as Monsieur Thénardier
Billy the Kid and the Green Baize Vampire (1985)
as Maxwell Randall, The Green Baize Vampire
London Kills Me (1991)
as John Stone
This Is Personal: The Hunt for the Yorkshire Ripper (2000)
as Asst. Chief Const. George Oldfield
The Storyteller: The True Bride (1988)
as Troll (Voice)
With or Without You (1999)
as Sammy
Golden Years (2016)
as Sid
Strictly Sinatra (2001)
as Bill
When I'm Sixty-Four (2004)
as Jim
Sorry About Last Night (1995)
as Mickey
Breaking the Code (1996)
as Mick Ross
Freedom of the Dig (1978)
as Quinn
Risking It (1977)
as Richard Clewes
Only Make Believe (1973)
as Michael Biddle
The Eyes Have It (1973)
as Mike
A Night on the Tyne (1989)
as Willy
The Girls Who Came to Stay (2006)
as Bob Jenkins
Doggin' Around (1994)
as Charlie Foster
American Friends (1991)
as Dr. Weeks
The Destruction of Troy and the Adventures of Odysseus (1998)
Actor
The Widowmaker (1990)
as Dad
The Likely Lads (1976)
as Tommy
The Dinner Party (2007)
as Jim
Measure for Measure (1979)
as Provost
Our Day Out (1977)
as Mr. Briggs
Number One (1985)
as Blackpool Police Sergeant
Aristocrats (1999)
as Lord Holland
All Day on the Sands (1979)
Actor
Looking After Number One (1990)
as Dick
Score (2001)
as George
Carrie's War (2004)
as Mr. Samuel Evans
That Summer of White Roses (1989)
as Zemba
The 14 (1973)
as Tommy
The Sex Victims (1973)
as George
Witness Against Hitler (1996)
as Pastor Harold Poelchau
Liza (1978)
as Mikhalevich
Breaking The Codes (2020)
Actor
Number 27 (1988)
as Murray Lester
The House (1984)
as Mr. Smeth
The Tempest (1993)
as Caliban
Out of Innocence (2019)
as Detective Callaghan
Easy Go (1974)
as First docker
Sticky Wickets (1990)
as Evans
Nineteen96 (1989)
as Det. Supt. Frank Burroughs
Fear of God (1980)
as Trahearne
Inquisition (2002)
as Martin
My Little Eye (—)
as Dad
Mr Moon's Last Case (1983)
as Narrator
7 Up 2000 (2000)
as Himself - Narrator
Shooting the Chandelier (1977)
as Brodovich
The Nicky Nack (2021)
Actor