Personal Info
Birthday
October 12, 1953
Place of Birth
Burnage, Manchester, England, UK
Known For
Acting
David Threlfall
Biography
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.
Directed Movies (1)
Acting Filmography (75)
5.8
The Death of Bunny Munro
TV Series2025
7.8
Unforgivable
Movie2025
0.0
Bing & Friends: Birthday Celebration
Movie2024
6.7
Nightsleeper
TV Series2024
5.8
Passenger
TV Series2024
6.5
The Completely Made-Up Adventures of Dick Turpin
TV Series2024
0.0
Dodger Special: Bad Egg
Movie2023
6.9
Funny Woman
TV Series2023
0.0
Dodger Special: Train
Movie2022
5.5
Art That Made Us
TV Series2022
5.4
Wolfe
TV Series2021
0.0
Faith Healer
Movie2020
0.0
Beckett Double Bill (Krapp's Last Tape / The Old Tune)
Movie2020
5.8
Troy: Fall of a City
TV Series2018
7.4
Urban Myths
TV Series2017
6.6
Midwinter of the Spirit
TV Series2015
7.3
Code of a Killer
TV Series2015
5.7
The Ark
Movie2015
6.3
Black Sea
Movie2014
No Backdrop
6.9
Tommy Cooper: Not Like That, Like This
Movie2014
7.3
What Remains
TV Series2013
7.4
Ripper Street
TV Series2012
No Backdrop
9.0
Evidently... John Cooper Clarke
Movie2012
7.2
Nowhere Boy
Movie2009
6.7
Elizabeth: The Golden Age
Movie2007
7.6
Hot Fuzz
Movie2007
6.0
Housewife, 49
Movie2006
7.6
Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire
TV Series2006
6.4
Like Minds
Movie2006
5.7
Alien Autopsy
Movie2006
No Backdrop
5.7
The Queen's Sister
Movie2005
No Backdrop
0.0
Benefit to Mankind
Movie2004
7.6
Shameless
TV Series2004
6.0
Celebrity Mastermind
TV Series2003
7.2
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
Movie2003
No Backdrop
4.5
Chunky Monkey
Movie2003
7.7
Spooks
TV Series2002
7.0
Cutting It
TV Series2002
7.3
Conspiracy
Movie2001
6.4
A Dinner of Herbs
TV Series2000
6.1
In the Beginning
TV Series2000
4.1
Mary, Mother of Jesus
Movie1999
7.0
Sex, Chips & Rock n' Roll
TV Series1999
No Backdrop
7.7
Men of the World
TV Series1994
6.0
The Clothes in the Wardrobe
Movie1993
3.0
Diana: Her True Story
Movie1993
6.7
Patriot Games
Movie1992
5.6
A Murder of Quality
Movie1991
No Backdrop
8.0
Titmuss Regained
TV Series1991
6.1
The Russia House
Movie1990
7.2
Have I Got News for You
TV Series1990
7.0
Nightingales
TV Series1990
No Backdrop
0.0
A Casualty of War
Movie1989
No Backdrop
0.0
Seeing in the Dark
Movie1989
No Backdrop
5.9
Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story
Movie1989
6.4
When the Whales Came
Movie1989
10.0
The Marksman
TV Series1987
6.0
Paradise Postponed
TV Series1986
No Backdrop
6.0
ScreenPlay
TV Series1986
7.1
Screen Two
TV Series1985
No Backdrop
0.0
Dog Ends
Movie1984
No Backdrop
10.0
The Gathering Seed
TV Series1983
5.4
Red Monarch
Movie1983
6.7
King Lear
Movie1983
No Backdrop
0.0
Rolling Home
Movie1982
8.0
Objects of Affection
TV Series1982
7.7
The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby
TV Series1982
No Backdrop
8.0
Mike Leigh: Making Plays
Movie1982
No Backdrop
0.0
The Brylcreem Boys
Movie1979
7.3
Scum
Movie1977
6.5
The Kiss of Death
Movie1977
No Backdrop
0.0
I Want to Be Like You
Movie1976
No Backdrop
7.0
Playhouse
TV Series1974
6.6
Play for Today
TV Series1970
7.1
Have I Got a Bit More News for You
TV SeriesN/A