Nicholas Farrell
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Nicholas Farrell (born Nicholas Charles Frost, in September 1955) is an English stage, film and television actor. His early screen career included the role of Aubrey Montague in the 1981 film Chariots of Fire. In 1983, he starred as Edmund Bertram in a television adaptation of the Jane Austen novel, Mansfield Park. In 1984, he appeared in Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes and The Jewel in the Crown. Since then, his film and television work has included several screen adaptations of Shakespeare's works, including Kenneth Branagh's 1996 Hamlet , in which he played Horatio, a role he had played previously with Branagh for the Royal Shakespeare Company. He has also appeared in film adaptations of Twelfth Night (1996), Othello (1995) and In the Bleak Midwinter (1995). He provided the voice of Hamlet for the animated television adaptation Shakespeare: The Animated Tales (1992). Other television appearances have included two Agatha Christie's Poirot movies, Sharpe's Regiment, To Play the King, Torchwood and Collision. He has also appeared in episodes of Lovejoy, Foyle's War, Absolute Power, Spooks, Midsomer Murders, Drop the Dead Donkey and Casualty. Farrell's theatre work includes performances of The Cherry Orchard, Camille, and The Crucible as well as Royal Shakespeare Company productions of The Merchant of Venice, Julius Caesar, and Hamlet. He is married to Scottish actress Stella Gonet. Description above from the Wikipedia article Nicholas Farrell, licensed under CC-BY-SA,full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known for
Credits
Pearl Harbor (2001)
as RAF Squadron Leader
Legend (2015)
as Dr Humphries
The Iron Lady (2011)
as Airey Neave
Mortdecai (2015)
as Auctioneer
The Coldest Game (2019)
as G. Moran
Chariots of Fire (1981)
as Aubrey Montague
Dream Horse (2021)
as Philip Hobbs
Grace of Monaco (2014)
as Jean-Charles Rey
Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes (1984)
as Sir Hugh Belcher
Widow Clicquot (2024)
as Jean-Remy Moet
Munich - The Edge of War (2021)
as Sir Alexander Cadogan
Robot Overlords (2015)
as Sentry Robot/Air Drone (voice)
Testament of Youth (2015)
as Headmaster
Past Life (2026)
as Elliot Reed
Bloody Sunday (2002)
as Brigadier Maclellan
Hamlet (1996)
as Horatio
Legionnaire (1998)
as Mackintosh
Plunkett & Macleane (1999)
as MP's Secretary
Persuasion (2007)
as Mr. Musgrove
Twelfth Night (1996)
as Antonio
Another Mother's Son (2017)
as De La Haye
Finding Altamira (2016)
as Vilanova
Hurricane (2018)
as Air Chief Marshal Sir Hugh Dowding
Going Postal 2in1 (2011)
as Mr. Pump (voice)
Amazing Grace (2007)
as Henry Thornton
In the Bleak Midwinter (1995)
as Tom Newman
Summer in February (2013)
as Mr. Carter-Wood
Charlotte Gray (2001)
as Mr. Jackson
Othello (1995)
as Montano
Driving Lessons (2006)
as Robert
The Third Wave (2003)
as Devlin
The Trials of Oz (1991)
as Dr. Michael Schofield
Bait (2002)
as Alfred White
Sharpe's Regiment (1996)
as Lord Simon Fenner
Sharpe: The Legend (1997)
as Fenner
Remainder (2015)
as Daubenay
Lies We Tell (2018)
as Anthony Quest
Mindhorn (2016)
as Mayor
Christmas in the Highlands (2019)
as Duke of Glenmorie
A Breed of Heroes (1994)
as Lt. Col Ian Gowrie, MC
Jack the Ripper: The London Slasher (2016)
as Samuel Harris
The Treasure Seekers (1996)
as Bastable
A Christmas Carol: A Ghost Story (2022)
as Ebenezer Scrooge
Portrait of Isa Mulvenny (1985)
as Bill Thompson
The Fools on the Hill (1986)
as David
Nobody Here But Us Chickens (1989)
Actor
A Silly Little Habit (1982)
as Simon
Late Bloomers (2011)
as Francis
White Chamber (2018)
as Dr. Edgar Chrystler
The Rocking Horse Winner (1982)
as Lawyer
Berlin Tunnel 21 (1981)
as Georg Heptner
A Toast to Love (2024)
as Professor Dale Farringdon
Sex, Chips & Rock n' Roll (1999)
Actor
The Man Who Saw Too Much (2019)
as Yurka Galitzine (voice)
Spying on Hitler’s Army: The Secret Recordings (2013)
as General von Thoma
Nipplejesus (2015)
as Silver Fox
Beautiful People (1999)
as Dr Mouldy
Reversals (2003)
as Edward Leitch
Creditors (2025)
as Adolf
Arthur's Dyke (2001)
as Geoffrey
Playing Away (1987)
as Derek
The Minoans (2004)
as Readings (voice)
Red Mercury (2005)
as Minister
The Vision Thing (1993)
as Batt Prender
Tear Me Apart (2016)
as Old Man (voice)
By Common Consent (1975)
Actor
Fiona's Story (2008)
as Edward
Dead Lucky (1988)
as Martin Urban
Prometheus Bound (2004)
as Prometheus (voice)
Cosmos Within Us (2019)
as Aiken
Napoleon's Waterloo (2015)
as Narrator
Hamlet (1992)
as Hamlet