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