David Bradley (born 17 April 1942) is an English actor. He is most widely known for portraying Argus Filch in the Harry Potter film series, Walder Frey in the HBO fantasy series Game of Thrones, and Abraham Setrakian in the FX horror series The Strain. He was awarded a Olivier Award in 1991 for his supporting role in King Lear at the Royal National Theatre.

Filmography

• 2026Life Goes On — Bill
• 2026My Sister's Bones — Ray
• 2025A Night Like This — John
• 2025Frankenstein — Blind Man
• Coma — Harry
• 2023Allelujah — Joe Colman
• 2023Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget — Fowler (voice)
• 2023Good Grief — Duncan
• 2023Your Christmas or Mine 2 — Jack
• 2022Catherine Called Birdy — Lord Gideon Sidebottom
• 2022Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio — Geppetto (voice)
• The Responder — Davey
• 2022Type — Doctor (voice)
• 2022Your Christmas or Mine? — Jack
• 2021Jolt — Gareth Fizel
• 2021Roy — Roy
• Adventure Time: Distant Lands — Old Finn (voice)
• Gangs of London — Jim
• Mandy — Frank
• Wizards: Tales of Arcadia — Merlin (voice)
• After Life — Tony's Dad, Ray
• 2018Await Further Instructions — Grandad
• Hang Ups — Frank Ellerby
• Les Misérables — Gillenormand
• 2017Doctor Who: Twice Upon a Time — The Doctor (1)
• 2017Edmund the Magnificent — Farmer
• 2017The Lodgers — Bermingham
• Beowulf: Return to the Shieldlands — Gorrik
• 2016Broadcast Signal Intrusion — James' Father
• 2016The Young Messiah — Old Rabbi
• The Strain — Abraham Setrakian
• 2013An Adventure in Space and Time — William Hartnell
• Broadchurch — Jack Marshall
• 2013The World's End — Basil
• Bad Education — Ennis
• 2012Bad Sugar — Ralphfred Cauldwell
• Eternal Law
• Prisoners' Wives — Frank
• The Hollow Crown — Gardener
• World Without End — Brother Joseph
• 2011Captain America: The First Avenger — Tower Keeper
• Game of Thrones — Walder Frey
• 2011Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 — Argus Filch
• Silk — LJ Reynolds
• 2011The Holding — Cooper
• 2010Another Year — Ronnie
• Five Daughters — Patrick Palmer
• 2010The Color of Magic 2in1 — Barbar Cohan
• 2009Harry Brown — Leonard Attwell
• 2009Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince — Argus Filch
• 2009I Know You Know — Mr Fisher
• Ashes to Ashes
• 2008The Color of Magic - Die Reise des Zauberers Teil 2 — Cohen the Barbarian
• The Colour of Magic — Cohen the Barbarian
• 2008The Daisy Chain — Sean Cryan
• Benidorm
• 2007Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix — Argus Filch
• 2007Hot Fuzz — Arthur Webley
• The Sarah Jane Adventures — Shansheeth Blue (voice)
• The Tudors
• True Dare Kiss — Stanley Tyler
• 2006Lycanthropy — Club Owner
• 2006Sweeney Todd — Sweeney's Father
• Criminal Minds — Martin Sanz
• Doctor Who — Solomon
• 2005Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire — Argus Filch
• Ideal — Stemroach
• 2005Mr Harvey Lights a Candle — Archie
• 2005Red Mercury — Neil Ashton
• Blackpool
• 2004Exorcist: The Beginning — Father Gionetti
• 2004Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban — Argus Filch
• New Tricks
• Celebrity Mastermind
• Charles II: The Power and The Passion — Sir Edmund Berry Godfrey
• The Mayor of Casterbridge — Councillor Vatt
• 2002Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets — Argus Filch
• 2002Nicholas Nickleby — Nigel Bray
• 2002The Intended — The Priest
• 2002This Is Not a Love Song — Mr Bellamy
• Wild West — Old Jake
• 2001Altered Species — Frank
• 2001Blow Dry — Noah
• 2001Gabriel & Me — Grandad
• 2001Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone — Mr Filch
• Murphy's Law — Hatcher, Snr.
• Shades — Alan Roberts
• 2001Station Jim — Elliot
• The Way We Live Now — Mr Broune
• Waking the Dead — George Barlow
• Black Cab — Gerald
• 2000The King Is Alive — Henry
• The Wilsons
• 1999Doomwatch: Winter Angel — Angel
• 1999Tom's Midnight Garden — Abel
• 1998Left Luggage — Concierge
• Our Mutual Friend — Roger 'Rogue' Riderhood
• 1998Reckless: The Sequel — Arnold Springer
• Vanity Fair — Sir Pitt Crawley
• 1997In Your Dreams — Tutor
• 1997Kangaroo Palace — Mr Macaleese
• Midsomer Murders — Tom
• Reckless — Arnold Springer
• 1997The Moth — Dave Waters
• The Moth — Dave Waters
• 1996Cracker: White Ghost — Frank Carter
• 1996Kiss and Tell — Superintendent Hines
• Our Friends in the North — Eddie Wells
• 1996The Star
• Band of Gold — Alf
• Bramwell — Charles Matthews
• The Vet — Dick Sims
• 1994Criminal — Headmaster
• 1994Fair Game — Whitby Policeman
• Martin Chuzzlewit — David Crimple
• 1994Measure for Measure — Barnadine
• Wycliffe — Joe Mawnan
• Full Stretch
• The Buddha of Suburbia — Helen's Father
• A Touch of Frost — Les James
• 1992Bad Girl — Mike Preach
• Between the Lines
• Performance — Barnadine
• 1989A Master of the Marionettes — Harry
• Shadow of the Noose — Edward Lawrence
• The Play on One — Harry
• 1987Prick Up Your Ears — Undertaker
• Casualty — Stanmore
• King of the Ghetto — Ralph
• Screen Two — Headmaster
• 1983Tartuffe, or The Imposter — Cleante
• 1981Clapperclaw — Wike
• 1981Findings on a Late Afternoon — Barman
• 1981The Union — Communist speaker
• 1979The Frisco Kid — Julius Rosensheine
• Pickersgill People — Hartley Hellawell
• The Professionals — Tony Kristo
• Bill Brand — Peter Malone
• Playhouse — Wike, Barman
• 1973Kisses at Fifty — Policeman
• 1972Another Sunday and Sweet F.A. — Parker Street Goalie
• 1972That Quiet Earth — The Evangelist
• 1970Double Pisces, Scorpio Rising
• Play for Today — Policeman, Communist Speaker
• ITV Saturday Night Theatre — Parker Street Goalie
• Nearest and Dearest — Policeman
• Thirty-Minute Theatre — The Evangelist
• Brothers — Nigel

Appearances as themselves (7)

• VE Day 80 — Self
• 2022Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio: Handcarved Cinema — Self
• 2012Frankenstein: A Modern Myth — Self - Narrator (voice)
• Celebrity Antiques Road Trip — Self - Participant
• 2011When Harry Left Hogwarts — Self
• 2010Harold Pinter: A Celebration — Self
• Great British Menu — Self - Guest Judge