Neil Bell

Acting

Born February 4, 1970, Oldham, Lancashire, England, UK

Neil Bell (born February 4, 1970) is an English actor, mainly on British television and occasionally in films. Bell studied drama at Oldham College and has played character roles in such TV series as Buried, Shameless, Murphy's Law, Ideal, City Lights, The Bill and Casualty, and the films 24 Hour Party People (2002) and Dead Man's Shoes (2004). He also had a small role in the acclaimed TV series State of Play, playing the colleague of Polly Walker's character. He has recently had a main role in The Bill playing the role of a killer. In 2010, he had a role in the ITV comedy-drama Married Single Other. He has appeared in Coronation Street, and in 2012, he had a regular role in Downton Abbey as Durrant. In 2013, he appeared in the first series of BBC2's Peaky Blinders as Publican Harry Fenton. In February 2016, he appeared in the BBC drama series Moving On.

Filmography

• 2026Greenland 2: Migration — One-Eyed Man
• 2026Little Rock — Kevin Lang
• 2026Synthesized — ALAN
• Adolescence — Sgt Golding
• The Listeners — Man in Therapy
• 2023Short Stay, Long Stay — Bill
• 2023The End We Start From — MWC
• 2023Wait for Me — Max
• Andor — Time Grappler
• 2022Andor: A Disney+ Day Special Look — Time Grappler (archive footage) (uncredited)
• 2022Floodlights — DS Haleford
• 2021Dune — Sardaukar Bashar
• 2020Enola Holmes — Constable
• Brassic — Keithy
• Carnival Row — Warden Wrenbrick
• 2019Trucker's Atlas — Mike
• 2018Peterloo — Samuel Bamford
• Broken — Cash Switchers Man
• 2017Quadraturin — Mr. Black
• 2016Swallows and Amazons — Young Billy
• Cuffs — Vinnie Forbes
• No Offence — Mad Matt
• 2015Pan — Baggy
• This Is England '90 — Neil
• 2015Victor Frankenstein — Huntsman
• Crackanory — Various
• Peaky Blinders — Harry Fenton
• 2013Radio Silence — Jimmy Mulligan
• Secrets and Words — Anthony
• True Love — Phil
• World Without End — Sim Chapman
• 2011Powder — Billy Tidy
• Downton Abbey — Durrant
• Married Single Other — Connelly
• Moving On — Dave
• 2009Victoria Wood's Midlife Christmas
• Sunshine — Eddie
• 2008The Crew — Jimmy the Truck
• 2007Dead Clever: The Life and Crimes of Julie Bottomley — Figgy
• The Visit — Russell
• Eleventh Hour
• I'm with Stupid — Macca
• The Chase
• Ideal — Ian
• The Ghost Squad
• 2004Dead Man's Shoes — Soz
• Hustle — Bogdan
• Sex Traffic — Guard with Araz
• Shameless — Hippy Pete
• Blue Murder — Patrick Dunwoody
• Buried — 'Slacker' Courtenay
• The Second Coming — Homeless Man
• 200224 Hour Party People — Aspiring Singer
• Lenny Blue — Simmo
• Murphy's Law — Derek
• 2001When I Was 12 — Neil