Alun Armstrong
Actor

Alun Armstrong

10 Movies
10 Credits
Personal Info
Known For Acting
Known Credits 10
Birthday July 17, 1946 (79 years old)
Place of Birth Annfield Plain, County Durham, England, UK
Also Known As Αλούν Άρμστρονγκ
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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 ThΓ©nardier in the London production of Les MisΓ©rables and he won an Olivier Award for playing the title role in Sweeney Todd.

Filmography (156)

The Choral 2025
After the Flood 2024
Tom Jones 2023
Sherwood 2022
Remembers… 2022
The Nicky Nack 2021
Breaking The Codes 2020
Breeders 2020
Out of Innocence 2019
Year of the Rabbit 2019
Funny Cow 2018
Possum 2018
Prime Suspect 1973 2017
Golden Years 2016
Asunder 2016
Frontier 2016
Dark Angel 2016
Penny Dreadful 2014
The Hollow Crown 2012
The Mystery of Edwin Drood 2012
Les MisΓ©rables: 25th Anniversary in Concert 2010
A Passionate Woman 2010
Garrow's Law 2009
Filth: The Mary Whitehouse Story 2008
Little Dorrit 2008
The Dinner Party 2007
Eragon 2006
The Girls Who Came to Stay 2006
Oliver Twist 2005
Millions 2005
Bleak House 2005
Van Helsing: The London Assignment 2004
Van Helsing 2004
Carrie's War 2004
When I'm Sixty-Four 2004
New Tricks 2004
Paradise Found 2003
It's All About Love 2003
Between The Sheets 2003
Inquisition 2002
Sparkhouse 2002
The Mummy Returns 2001
Strictly Sinatra 2001
Score 2001
Bedtime 2001
Adrian Mole: The Cappuccino Years 2001
Messiah 2001
Extinct 2001
This Is Personal: The Hunt for the Yorkshire Ripper 2000
Harrison's Flowers 2000
7 Up 2000 2000
Proof of Life 2000
This Is Personal: The Hunt for the Yorkshire Ripper 2000
Sleepy Hollow 1999
G:MT Greenwich Mean Time 1999
With or Without You 1999
Aristocrats 1999
Onegin 1999
Oliver Twist 1999
David Copperfield 1999
In the Red 1998
The Saint 1997
Underworld 1997
Breaking the Code 1996
Witness Against Hitler 1996
Brazen Hussies 1996
Our Friends in the North 1996
An Awfully Big Adventure 1995
Les MisΓ©rables: 10th Anniversary Concert at the Royal Albert Hall 1995
Braveheart 1995
Sorry About Last Night 1995
MacGyver: Trail to Doomsday 1994 Black Beauty 1994
Doggin' Around 1994
The Tempest 1993
Goggle Eyes 1993
Split Second 1992
Patriot Games 1992
Blue Ice 1992
Shakespeare: The Animated Tales 1992
Goodbye Cruel World 1992
London Kills Me 1991
American Friends 1991
Murder in Eden 1991
Stanley and the Women 1991
Sticky Wickets 1990
White Hunter, Black Heart 1990
Looking After Number One 1990
The Widowmaker 1990
The Childeater 1989
A Night on the Tyne 1989
That Summer of White Roses 1989
Nineteen96 1989
Tales from the Crypt 1989
The Jim Henson Hour 1989
Screen One 1989
Number 27 1988
The Storyteller: The True Bride 1988
The Storyteller 1988
Inspector Morse 1987
Married... with Children 1987
ScreenPlay 1986
Number One 1985
Billy the Kid and the Green Baize Vampire 1985
The Caucasian Chalk Circle 1985
A.D. 1985
The House 1984
Krull 1983
Mr Moon's Last Case 1983
The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby 1982
The French Lieutenant's Woman 1981
Get Lost! 1981
Fear of God 1980
All Day on the Sands 1979
Measure for Measure 1979
Freedom of the Dig 1978
Liza 1978
Enemy at the Door 1978
Armchair Thriller 1978
The BBC Television Shakespeare 1978
The Duellists 1977
Our Day Out 1977
Risking It 1977
A Bridge Too Far 1977
Shooting the Chandelier 1977
A Sharp Intake of Breath 1977
BBC2 Play of the Week 1977
Romance 1977
The Likely Lads 1976
The Chester Mystery Plays 1976
The New Avengers 1976
The Sweeney 1975
The Stars Look Down 1975
Days of Hope 1975
Easy Go 1974
Porridge 1974
Father Brown 1974
The 14 1973
Only Make Believe 1973
The Sex Victims 1973
The Eyes Have It 1973
Thriller 1973
Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads? 1973
Centre Play 1973
Armchair 30 1973
Second City Firsts 1973
Villains 1972
New Scotland Yard 1972
Six Days of Justice 1972
Get Carter 1971
Justice 1971
Great Performances 1971
Play for Today 1970
BBC Play of the Month 1965
Public Eye 1965
My Little Eye