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Acting

Nicholas Farrell

Career: Active from 1981 to 2026, with up to 3 main titles a year.

Leading roles: 17
top three billing

Average score: 63/100

Highest rated: Hamlet
86/100

What stands out

Compared with the average well-known movie, over 97 of their titles. Select a trait to filter titles.

Nicholas Farrell Catalog average

Rarely in their work

Fantasy
0.6, average 1.7
Absurdist Humor
1.0, average 2.0
Contemporary Realism
4.4, average 5.4
Physical Comedy
1.4, average 2.4

Main genres

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Recurring tags

Character-Driven 4
Psychological Warfare 4
Historical Drama 4
Shakespearean Tragedy 2
Moral Conflict 2
Character-Driven Drama 2
High Stakes 2
Ensemble Cast 2
Social Satire 2
British History 2
Investigative Drama 2
Intellectual Duel 2

Works often with

People in at least two of their main titles.

Movies and TV shows

133

Type

Role

Score

Decade

Genre

Group by

2020s

15 titles · average score 65

Past Life

33

as Elliot Reed

The Count of Monte Cristo

79

TV show · as Morrel

Fool Me Once

61

TV show · as Neville Lockwood

A Toast to Love

61

as Professor Dale Farringdon

Bodies

70

TV show · as Chief Inspector Paxman

The Gold

80

TV show · as Jim Clark

A Christmas Carol: A Ghost Story

as Ebenezer Scrooge

Signora Volpe

52

TV show · as Michael Priest / Henry Fox / Michael Priest

Everything I Know About Love

73

TV show · as Graham

The Nevers

60

TV show · as Prince Albrecht

Munich - The Edge of War

68

as Sir Alexander Cadogan

White House Farm

71

TV show · as Nevill Bamber

2010s

38 titles · average score 60

Christmas in the Highlands

50

as Duke of Glenmorie

The Coldest Game

36

as G. Moran

The Man Who Saw Too Much

as Yurka Galitzine (voice)

Hurricane

69

as Air Chief Marshal Sir Hugh Dowding

Another Mother's Son

50

as De La Haye

The Crown

82

TV show · as Michael Shea

Jack the Ripper: The London Slasher

62

as Samuel Harris

Remainder

73

as Daubenay

Father Brown

77

TV show · as Sir Raleigh Beresford

Call the Midwife

82

TV show · as Charles Newgarden

The Iron Lady

55

as Airey Neave

Death in Paradise

59

TV show · as Nicholas Dunham

2000s

31 titles · average score 67

Casualty 1900s

80

TV show · as Sydney Holland

Driving Lessons

58

as Robert

Suburban Shootout

37

TV show · as Raymond

Torchwood

81

TV show · as Brian Green

New Tricks

83

TV show · as James Winslow

The Third Wave

62

as Devlin

Bloody Sunday

84

as Brigadier Maclellan

Sparkhouse

75

TV show · as Paul Lawton

Spooks

80

TV show · as Richard Maynard

Bait

as Alfred White

Foyle's War

83

TV show · as James Collier

Pearl Harbor

48

as RAF Squadron Leader

1990s

27 titles · average score 68

Legionnaire

39

as Mackintosh

TV show · as Harry

Midsomer Murders

80

TV show · as Isaac Starling

Hamlet

86

as Horatio

Sharpe's Regiment

74

as Lord Simon Fenner

Silent Witness

75

TV show · as Professor Adrian Cowley

Othello

67

as Montano

In the Bleak Midwinter

79

as Tom Newman

A Breed of Heroes

as Lt. Col Ian Gowrie, MC

To Play the King

80

TV show · as David Mycroft

Hamlet

as Hamlet

Heartbeat

80

TV show · as Traumatised Man / Buckley

1980s

19 titles · average score 67

Agatha Christie's Poirot

84

TV show · as Knighton / Donald Fraser

Dead Lucky

as Martin Urban

Playing Away

59

as Derek

Casualty

62

TV show · as Phil Byron

The Fools on the Hill

as David

Lovejoy

50

TV show · as Douglas Holden

Screen Two

68

TV show · as Martin Urban

Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes

65

as Sir Hugh Belcher

The Jewel in the Crown

74

TV show · as Teddy Bingham

Mansfield Park

64

TV show · as Edmund Bertram

Chariots of Fire

76

as Aubrey Montague

Berlin Tunnel 21

78

as Georg Heptner

1970s

2 titles · average score 91

Matador

91

TV show · as Jim Donaldson, Engelsk flyver

Playhouse

TV show · as Simon

1960s

1 title · average score 61

BBC Play of the Month

61

TV show · as Larion Surzhansky