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Acting

John Shrapnel

Career: Active from 1969 to 2017, with up to 4 main titles a year.

Leading roles: 32
top three billing

Average score: 61/100

Highest rated: Edward & Mrs. Simpson
87/100

What stands out

Compared with the average well-known movie, over 54 of their titles. Select a trait to filter titles.

John Shrapnel Catalog average

Rarely in their work

Contemporary Realism
3.2, average 5.4
Coming of Age
1.4, average 3.0
Adrenaline
3.9, average 4.8
Physical Comedy
1.5, average 2.4

Main genres

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Recurring tags

Political Intrigue 3
Educational & Informative 2
Psychological Thriller 2
Period Piece 2
Intriguing Plot 2
Social Commentary 2
Eccentric Characters 2
Dark Satire 2
Political Thriller 2
Mystery 2
Nature Documentary 2
Visually Stunning 2

Works often with

People in at least two of their main titles.

Movies and TV shows

124

Type

Role

Score

Decade

Genre

Group by

2010s

11 titles · average score 72

The Lions Rule

TV show · as Narrator (voice)

King Charles III

78

as Archbishop of Canterbury

Britain's Nuclear Bomb - The Inside Story

as Narrator (Voice)

The Return of the Flying Scotsman

as Narrator - (Voice)

Hamlet

as Claudius/Ghost

Branagh Theatre Live: The Winter's Tale

77

as Camilo

OXI, an Act of Resistance

as Creon

Building Burma's Death Railway: Moving Half the Mountain

as Narrator

Run.

as St. Peter

National Theatre Live: Macbeth

74

as Duncan/Seyton/Old Man

The Awakening

60

as Reverend Hugh Purslow

2000s

35 titles · average score 62

Chemical Wedding

39

as Crowley

Apparitions

50

TV show · as Cardinal Bukovak

Merlin

75

TV show · as The Sarrum

I Am Not an Animal

82

TV show · as Narrator (voice)

Troy

63

as Nestor

K-19: The Widowmaker

61

as Admiral Bratyeev

Claim

52

as Lex Vandenberg

Alone

46

as Hannah

The Body

35

as Moshe Cohen

The Gentleman Thief

as Monty Sinclair

Horizon: Supermassive Black Holes

as Narrator

Gladiator

79

as Gaius

1990s

31 titles · average score 67

Hornblower: The Frogs and the Lobsters

81

as General Charette

The Strange Case of Delfina Potocka

as Iwaszkiewicz

Mary, Mother of Jesus

48

as Simon

Notting Hill

75

as PR Chief

Bodyguards

TV show · as Commander Alan MacIntyre

Midsomer Murders

80

TV show · as Max Jennings / Leo Clarke

Jonathan Creek

77

TV show · as Prof. Lance Graumann

101 Dalmatians

50

as Skinner

Alien Empire

TV show · as Narrator

Fatherland

55

as General Globus

Hamlet

as Claudius

SS-3: The Assassination of Reinhard Heydrich

as Narrator

1980s

23 titles · average score 68

How to Get Ahead in Advertising

58

as Psychiatrist

Testimony

63

as Andre Zhdanov

Partition

as General Flood

Theban Plays: Oedipus the King

as Creon

The Burston Rebellion

as Rev. Charles Tucker Eland

as George Sims

Screen Two

69

TV show · as Rev. Charles Tucker Eland / Heiger

Sorrell and Son

TV show · as Thomas Roland

Natural World

80

TV show · as Narrator

The Woman in White

79

TV show · as Sir Percival Glyde

King Lear

70

as Earl of Kent

as Vincent Craig

1970s

19 titles · average score 67

Gossip from the Forest

as Matthias Erzberger

Edward & Mrs. Simpson

87

as Maj. Alexander Hardinge

Edward and Mrs Simpson

71

TV show · as Major Alexander Hardinge

Armchair Thriller

59

TV show · as Vincent Craig

Professional Foul

as McKendrick

BBC2 Play of the Week

TV show · as Robert / McKendrick

as Leonard Brazil (voice)

Space: 1999

73

TV show · as Jack Tanner

Hennessy

52

as Tipaldi

Elizabeth R

80

TV show · as Earl of Sussex

Justice

TV show · as Roger Anderson

Nicholas and Alexandra

58

as Petya

1960s

5 titles · average score 66

as Jamie

It's Called the Sugar Plum

as Wally Zuckerman

Omnibus

72

TV show · as Zborowski

ITV Playhouse

TV show · as Schoner

BBC Play of the Month

61

TV show · as Viktor Myshlaevsky / Duke of Cornwall