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Acting

Alun Armstrong

Career: Active from 1973 to 2025, with up to 4 main titles a year.

Leading roles: 43
top three billing

Average score: 64/100

Highest rated: Les Misérables: 10th Anniversary Concert at the Royal Albert Hall
90/100

What stands out

Compared with the average well-known movie, over 83 of their titles. Select a trait to filter titles.

Alun Armstrong Catalog average

Rarely in their work

Contemporary Realism
4.0, average 5.4
Adrenaline
4.1, average 4.8
Physical Comedy
1.7, average 2.4
Pop Culture
1.6, average 2.2

Main genres

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Recurring tags

Character Study 8
Social Commentary 7
Historical Drama 5
Melancholic Tone 5
Moral Ambiguity 4
Character-Driven 4
Psychological Drama 3
Gritty Realism 3
Political Intrigue 3
Coming-of-Age 3
Social Realism 3
Dialogue-Driven 3

Works often with

People in at least two of their main titles.

Movies and TV shows

153

Type

Role

Score

Decade

Genre

Group by

Upcoming

3 titles

A Ticket Too Far

as Dad

as Dad

The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole

TV show · as Bert Baxter

2020s

5 titles · average score 65

The Choral

63

as Herbert Trickett

After the Flood

57

TV show · as Alan Benson

Tom Jones

50

TV show · as Squire Western

Sherwood

80

TV show · as Gary Jackson

Breeders

77

TV show · as Jim

2010s

13 titles · average score 67

Year of the Rabbit

77

TV show · as Chief Inspector Hugh Wisbech

Out of Innocence

as Detective Callaghan

Possum

67

as Maurice

Funny Cow

72

as Lenny

Prime Suspect 1973

66

TV show · as Clifford Bentley

Frontier

66

TV show · as Lord Benton

Dark Angel

65

TV show · as George Stot

Golden Years

39

as Sid

Penny Dreadful

82

TV show · as Vincent Brand

The Hollow Crown

84

TV show · as Northumberland

A Passionate Woman

41

TV show · as Donald (1980s)

Les Misérables: 25th Anniversary in Concert

85

as Monsieur Thenardier (1985 Cast)

2000s

29 titles · average score 64

Garrow's Law

80

TV show · as John Southouse

Little Dorrit

85

TV show · as Ephraim Flintwinch

Filth: The Mary Whitehouse Story

67

as Ernest Whitehouse

The Dinner Party

as Jim

Eragon

35

as Uncle Garrow

Millions

74

as Saint Peter

New Tricks

83

TV show · as Brian Lane

Between The Sheets

63

TV show · as Peter Delany

Paradise Found

51

as Camille Pissarro

It's All About Love

32

as David

Sparkhouse

75

TV show · as Richard Bolton

This Is Personal: The Hunt for the Yorkshire Ripper

75

TV show · as Asst. Chief Const. George Oldfield

1990s

36 titles · average score 65

Onegin

58

as Zaretsky

In the Red

69

TV show · as DCI Frank Jefferson

The Saint

51

as Inspector Teal

Underworld

TV show

Brazen Hussies

as Jimmy Hardcastle

Our Friends in the North

81

TV show · as Austin Donohue

Breaking the Code

70

as Mick Ross

Black Beauty

71

as Reuben Smith

TV show · as Gerald 'Goggle Eyes' Faulkner

Split Second

42

as Thrasher

Murder in Eden

TV show · as Sgt McGing

White Hunter, Black Heart

70

as Ralph Lockhart

1980s

25 titles · average score 72

The Childeater

as Stefano

Tales from the Crypt

75

TV show · as Inspector Herbert

That Summer of White Roses

as Zemba

The Storyteller

85

TV show · as Troll (voice)

Married... with Children

71

TV show · as Trevor

Inspector Morse

80

TV show · as Superintendent Holdsby

Billy the Kid and the Green Baize Vampire

61

as Maxwell Randall, The Green Baize Vampire

Krull

49

as Torquil

The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby

84

TV show

Get Lost!

TV show · as Neville Keaton

The French Lieutenant's Woman

71

as Grimes

as Trahearne

1970s

40 titles · average score 73

Our Day Out

79

as Mr. Briggs

A Bridge Too Far

68

as Cpl. Davies

The Likely Lads

69

as Tommy

The New Avengers

72

TV show · as Private George Harris

The Stars Look Down

TV show · as Joe Gowlan

The Sweeney

80

TV show · as Peter Jenner

Porridge

82

TV show · as Spraggon

The Sex Victims

as George

Thriller

74

TV show · as Mike

The 14

60

as Tommy

Great Performances

70

TV show · as Thénardier

Play for Today

72

TV show · as 1st Docker / Mr Briggs

1960s

2 titles · average score 72

BBC Play of the Month

61

TV show · as Lightborne

Public Eye

83

TV show · as Vince Gregson