Alun Armstrong
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.
Known For
Camille Pissarro
Paradise Found
Inspector Teal
The Saint
Torquil
Krull
Baltus Hafez
The Mummy Returns
Uncle Garrow
Eragon
High Constable
Sleepy Hollow
Uncle Vernon
An Awfully Big Adventure
The Nicky Nack
Cardinal Jinetta (voice)
Van Helsing: The London Assignment
Cardinal Jinette
Van Helsing
David
It's All About Love
Thrasher
Split Second
Owens
Patriot Games
Capshaw
MacGyver: Trail to Doomsday
Reuben Smith
Black Beauty
Thenardier
Les Misérables: 10th Anniversary Concert at the Royal Albert Hall
Evans
Sticky Wickets
Uncle Henry
G:MT Greenwich Mean Time
Lieutenant Lacourbe
The Duellists
Mick Ross
Breaking the Code
Mr. Samuel Evans
Carrie's War
Ernest Whitehouse
Filth: The Mary Whitehouse Story
Blackpool Police Sergeant
Number One
Pastor Harold Poelchau
Witness Against Hitler
Maxwell Randall, The Green Baize Vampire
Billy the Kid and the Green Baize Vampire
Mr. Briggs
Our Day Out
Jim
When I'm Sixty-Four
Bob Jenkins
The Girls Who Came to Stay
John Stone
London Kills Me
Ralph Lockhart
White Hunter, Black Heart
Monsieur Thenardier (1985 Cast)
Les Misérables: 25th Anniversary in Concert
Trahearne
Fear of God
Dick
Looking After Number One
Tommy
The 14
Stefano
The Childeater
Osgood
Blue Ice
Sammy
With or Without You
Asst. Chief Const. George Oldfield
This Is Personal: The Hunt for the Yorkshire Ripper
Mornay
Braveheart
Willy
A Night on the Tyne
All Day on the Sands
Tommy
The Likely Lads
Jim
The Dinner Party
Dad
The Widowmaker
Richard Clewes
Risking It
Mickey
Sorry About Last Night
The Choral
Sid
Golden Years
Charlie Foster
Doggin' Around
Keith
Get Carter
Cpl. Davies
A Bridge Too Far
Samuel Brubeck
Harrison's Flowers
Zemba
Đavolji raj
Self - Narrator (voice)
Asunder
Martin
Inquisition
Jimmy Hardcastle
Brazen Hussies
Lenny
Funny Cow
Magistrate Fang
Oliver Twist
Bill
Strictly Sinatra
Saint Peter
Millions
Maurice
Possum
George
Score
Himself - Narrator
7 Up 2000
Wyatt
Proof of Life
Michael Biddle
Only Make Believe
Narrator
Mr Moon's Last Case
Detective Callaghan
Out of Innocence
Lord Holland
Aristocrats
Mr. Smeth
The House
Provost
Measure for Measure
Grimes
The French Lieutenant's Woman
Brodovich
Shooting the Chandelier
First docker
Easy Go
George
The Sex Victims
Zaretsky
Onegin
Det. Supt. Frank Burroughs
Nineteen96
Mike
The Eyes Have It
Singer
The Caucasian Chalk Circle
Dr. Weeks
American Friends
Quinn
Freedom of the Dig
Mikhalevich
Liza
Breaking The Codes
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
82
Gender
Male
Birthday
1946-07-17
Place of Birth
Annfield Plain, County Durham, England, UK
Also Known As
Αλούν Άρμστρονγκ