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John Shrapnel
Actor

John Shrapnel

6 Movies
6 Credits
Personal Info
Known For Acting
Known Credits 6
Birthday April 27, 1942 (84 years old)
Place of Birth Birmingham, England, UK
Also Known As John Morley Shrapnel
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Shrapnel was born in Birmingham, Warwickshire, the son of Mary Lillian Myfanwy (née Edwards) and journalist/author Norman Shrapnel.[1] As a stage actor, he was a member of Laurence Olivier's Royal National Theatre company and the Royal Shakespeare Company and most recently appeared as Sir Oliver Surface in The School for Scandal (directed by Deborah Warner) at the Barbican Centre in 2011. He has also appeared extensively in film and on television in roles in Elizabeth R, Z-Cars, Edward and Mrs. Simpson, 101 Dalmatians, Space: 1999, Inspector Morse, Coogan's Run, Notting Hill and Foyle's War. He presented an episode of the 1983 BBC television travel series Great Little Railways. He gave performances in three entries in the BBC Television Shakespeare plays and as Creon in the BBC's 1984 productions of the Three Theban plays of Sophocles. In America, he has starred in supporting roles as Senator Gaius in Gladiator, Nestor in Troy and Pompey in the second episode of Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire. He also played the Jail Warden in the 10th Kingdom, an epic fantasy miniseries. He has the rare achievement of appearing in two episodes of Midsomer Murders as two different characters, in Death in Chorus and Written in Blood. Shrapnel appeared in an episode of Jonathan Creek as Professor Lance Graumann in the episode The Omega Man. He appears in Chemical Wedding alongside Simon Callow, telling the tale of the resurrection of occultist Aleister Crowley. Shrapnel also has experience in the field of BBC radio drama through such characters as Colin Dexter's Inspector Morse and William Gibson's Neuromancer. He is the son-in-law of Deborah Kerr through his 1975 marriage to her younger daughter Francesca Ann Bartley. They have three sons, the actors Lex Shrapnel (b.1979), Tom Shrapnel (b.1981) and the writer Joe Shrapnel (b.1976). They live in Highbury, north London.

Filmography (125)

Hamlet Within 2022
Britain's Nuclear Bomb - The Inside Story 2017
King Charles III 2017
The Lions Rule 2017
The Return of the Flying Scotsman 2016
Hamlet 2015
Branagh Theatre Live: The Winter's Tale 2015
OXI, an Act of Resistance 2014
Building Burma's Death Railway: Moving Half the Mountain 2014
National Theatre Live: Macbeth 2013
Run. 2013
The Awakening 2011
An Organization of Dreams 2009
National Theatre Live: Phèdre 2009
Chemical Wedding 2008
The Duchess 2008
Mirrors 2008
Apparitions 2008
Merlin 2008
Elizabeth: The Golden Age 2007
Hindenburg: Titanic of the Skies 2007
Once Upon a Time on the Westway 2007
Alien Autopsy 2006
Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire 2006
Wachau - Valley of Golden Magic 2005
Shadow of the Sword 2005
Troy 2004
Seven Wonders of Ancient Egypt 2004
Seven Wonders of Ancient Greece 2004
Seven Wonders of Ancient Rome 2004
I Am Not an Animal 2004
New Tricks 2004
Wild Women of Viramba 2003
The Race for Everest 2003
K-19: The Widowmaker 2002
Alone 2002
Claim 2002
Schönbrunn - Well of Beauty 2002
Whistle 2002
The Inspector Lynley Mysteries 2002
Foyle's War 2002
The Body 2001
Animals of the Ocean Desert 2001
Mountain Men: The Ghosts of K2 2001
The Gentleman Thief 2001
Waking the Dead 2001
Gladiator 2000
Horizon: Supermassive Black Holes 2000
Lost on Everest: The Search for Mallory and Irvine 2000
The 10th Kingdom 2000
Notting Hill 1999
Hornblower: The Frogs and the Lobsters 1999
Mary, Mother of Jesus 1999
The Strange Case of Delfina Potocka 1999
Lion Queen 1998
Invasion: Earth 1998
St. Stephen's: The Living Cathedral 1997
Bodyguards 1997
Predators Killing for a Living 1997
Jonathan Creek 1997
Midsomer Murders 1997
True Tilda 1997
Two Deaths 1996
101 Dalmatians 1996 England, My England 1995
King Arthur: His Life and Legends 1995
Kavanagh Q.C. 1995
Coogan's Run 1995
Fatherland 1994
Wycliffe 1994
Selling Hitler 1993
SS-3: The Assassination of Reinhard Heydrich 1992
Between the Lines 1992
Shakespeare: The Animated Tales 1992
G.B.H. 1991
For the Greater Good 1991
Selling Hitler 1991
The Tragedy of Flight 103: The Inside Story 1990
Centrepoint 1990
The Chief 1990
How to Get Ahead in Advertising 1989
About Face 1989
Blackeyes 1989
Testimony 1988
The Modern World: Ten Great Writers 1988
Partition 1987
Personal Services 1987
Vanity Fair 1987
Theban Plays: Oedipus the King 1986
Theban Plays: Antigone 1986
Theban Plays: Oedipus at Colonus 1986
Poppyland 1985
The Burston Rebellion 1985
Screen Two 1985
Mr. Palfrey of Westminster 1984
Natural World 1983
King Lear 1982
The Woman in White 1982
Timon of Athens 1981
Troilus & Cressida 1981
Private Schulz 1981
The Tom Machine 1980
The Victim 1980
Gossip from the Forest 1979
Edward & Mrs. Simpson 1978
Flayed 1978
Edward and Mrs Simpson 1978
Armchair Thriller 1978
Professional Foul 1977
The Three Hostages 1977
BBC2 Play of the Week 1977
Hitting Town 1976
Plays for Britain 1976
Hennessy 1975
Space: 1999 1975
Good Girl 1974
Pope Joan 1972
Nicholas and Alexandra 1971
Elizabeth R 1971
Justice 1971
The Ha-Ha 1969
It's Called the Sugar Plum 1969
Omnibus 1967
ITV Playhouse 1967
BBC Play of the Month 1965
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