
Alun Armstrong
0 FOLLOWERS • 47 CREDITS • JUL 17, 1946 • 79
Biography
Alun Armstrong is a prolific English character actor.
Armstrong grew up in County Durham in North East England. He first became interested in acting through Shakespeare productions at his grammar school. Since his career began in the early 1970s, he has played, in his words, "the full spectrum of characters from the grotesque to musicals... I always play very colourful characters, often a bit crazy, despotic, psychotic."
His numerous credits include six different Dickens adaptations and seven series as eccentric ex-detective Brian Lane in New Tricks.
Armstrong is also an accomplished stage actor who spent nine years with the Royal Shakespeare Company. He originated the role of Thénardier in the London production of Les Misérables and he won an Olivier Award for playing the title role in Sweeney Todd.
Known For

Married... with Children

MacGyver

Inspector Morse

Tales from the Crypt

Downton Abbey

The New Avengers

The Hollow Crown

BBC Play of the Month

A.D.

The Storyteller

Breeders

Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads?

Bleak House

Enemy at the Door

Penny Dreadful

Braveheart

American Friends

Sleepy Hollow

Patriot Games

Oliver Twist

Messiah

The Duellists

David Copperfield

Van Helsing

The Mummy Returns

Measure for Measure

Blue Ice

Tom Jones

Bedtime

Eragon

Little Dorrit

The Saint

Sherwood

New Tricks

MacGyver: Trail to Doomsday

An Awfully Big Adventure

Adrian Mole: The Cappuccino Years

Sparkhouse

Shooting the Chandelier

Sorry About Last Night

Frontier

Dark Angel

Brazen Hussies

Possum

Garrow's Law

The Dinner Party

Murder in Eden
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