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Acting

David Threlfall

Career: Active from 1976 to 2025, busiest in 1989 with 5 main titles.

Leading roles: 31
top three billing

Average score: 67/100

Highest rated: The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby
84/100

What stands out

Compared with the average well-known movie, over 43 of their titles. Select a trait to filter titles.

David Threlfall Catalog average

Rarely in their work

Fantasy
0.7, average 1.7
Adrenaline
4.0, average 4.8
Contemporary Realism
4.7, average 5.4
Absurdist Humor
1.4, average 2.0

Main genres

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Recurring tags

Character-Driven 5
Character Study 4
Social Satire 3
British Period Drama 3
Biographical Drama 3
Family Loyalty 2
Moral Ambiguity 2
Psychological Drama 2
Historical Account 2
Social Commentary 2
British Sitcom 2
Social Realism 2

Works often with

People in at least two of their main titles.

Movies and TV shows

77

Type

Role

Score

Decade

Genre

Group by

Upcoming

1 title

1000 AD

as Narrator

2020s

12 titles · average score 69

The Death of Bunny Munro

76

TV show · as Bunny Snr

Unforgivable

76

as Brian Mitchell

Nightsleeper

57

TV show · as Paul Peveril

Passenger

65

TV show · as Jim Bracknell

The Completely Made-Up Adventures of Dick Turpin

73

TV show · as Tom King

Bing & Friends: Birthday Celebration

as Flop (voice)

Funny Woman

73

TV show · as George Parker

Dodger Special: Bad Egg

as Sir Charles Rowan

Dodger Special: Train

as Sir Charles Rowan

Wolfe

62

TV show · as Howard

Faith Healer

as Teddy

Beckett Double Bill (Krapp's Last Tape / The Old Tune)

as Cream

2010s

9 titles · average score 67

Troy: Fall of a City

53

TV show · as Priam

Urban Myths

72

TV show · as Samuel Beckett

Code of a Killer

74

TV show · as DCS David Baker

Midwinter of the Spirit

64

TV show · as Rev Huw Owens

The Ark

52

as Noah

Tommy Cooper: Not Like That, Like This

71

as Tommy Cooper

Black Sea

67

as Peters

What Remains

73

TV show · as Len Harper

Ripper Street

82

TV show · as Abel Croker

2000s

18 titles · average score 70

Nowhere Boy

73

as George Toogood Smith

Hot Fuzz

83

as Martin Blower

Elizabeth: The Golden Age

52

as Dr. John Dee

Housewife, 49

72

as Will Last

Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire

77

TV show · as Constantine the Great

The Queen's Sister

60

as Prince Philip

Shameless

77

TV show · as Frank Gallagher

Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World

80

as Preserved Killick, Captain's Steward

Chunky Monkey

as Donald Leek

Spooks

80

TV show · as Keith Moran

Cutting It

71

TV show · as Beauregard Smee

Conspiracy

74

as Friedrich Wilhelm Kritzinger

1990s

12 titles · average score 62

Sex, Chips & Rock n' Roll

77

TV show · as Norman

Mary, Mother of Jesus

48

as Joseph of Nazareth

Men of the World

TV show · as Lenny Smart

Diana: Her True Story

39

as Prince Charles

The Clothes in the Wardrobe

63

as Syl

A Statement of Affairs

as Alan

Patriot Games

68

as Inspector Highland

Titmuss Regained

TV show · as Leslie Titmuss

A Murder of Quality

60

as Stanley Rode

Nightingales

75

TV show · as Bell

The Russia House

65

as Wicklow

He's Asking For Me

as Andy

1980s

17 titles · average score 68

Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story

67

as Alex

When the Whales Came

64

as Jack Jenkins

Jumping The Queue

TV show · as Hugh Warner

A Casualty of War

as Tom Rowse

The Marksman

TV show · as Weaver

Paradise Postponed

as Leslie Titmus

ScreenPlay

TV show · as Tony

Screen Two

68

TV show · as Andy / Syl

Dog Ends

as Robert

The Gathering Seed

TV show · as Joe Henshaw

Red Monarch

59

as Vasily

The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby

84

TV show

1970s

8 titles · average score 70

The Brylcreem Boys

as George Hunn

Scum

75

as Archer

The Kiss of Death

65

as Trevor

Here I Stand...

TV show · as Stapleton

I Want to Be Like You

as Steve

Playhouse

TV show · as George Hunn

Second City Firsts

TV show · as Gaz

Play for Today

72

TV show · as Robert