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.
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
Preserved Killick, Captain's Steward
Alien Autopsy
Jeffrey
Patriot Games
Inspector Highland
A Murder of Quality
Stanley Rode
Mary, Mother of Jesus
Joseph of Nazareth
The Kiss of Death
Trevor
Tommy Cooper: Not Like That, Like This
Tommy Cooper
Dodger Special: Train
Sir Charles Rowan
Dodger Special: Bad Egg
Sir Charles Rowan
The Ark
Noah
Elizabeth: The Golden Age
Dr. John Dee
The Brylcreem Boys
George Hunn
When the Whales Came
Jack Jenkins
Scum
Archer
Seeing in the Dark
Tony
Black Sea
Peters
The Russia House
Wicklow
Housewife, 49
Will Last
Conspiracy
Friedrich Wilhelm Kritzinger
King Lear
Edgar
Hot Fuzz
Martin Blower
Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story
Alex
Mike Leigh: Making Plays
Self
The Queen's Sister
Prince Philip
Like Minds
John Colbie
Nowhere Boy
George Toogood Smith
Red Monarch
Vasily
Diana: Her True Story
Prince Charles
A Casualty of War
Tom Rowse
Dog Ends
Robert
Evidently... John Cooper Clarke
Himself
The Clothes in the Wardrobe
Syl
Beckett Double Bill (Krapp's Last Tape / The Old Tune)
Cream
Faith Healer
Teddy
I Want to Be Like You
Steve
Bing & Friends: Birthday Celebration
Flop (voice)
Unforgivable
Brian Mitchell
Rolling Home
Donald
Benefit to Mankind
Carl Swannee