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