Richard Bremmer

Acting

Born January 27, 1953, Warwickshire, England, UK

Richard Bremmer (born January 27, 1953) is an English actor. Bremmer was born and brought up in Warwickshire. Bremmer first began his career in the short film of Couples and Robbers before being in his first full-length film The Girl with Brains in Her Feet. He was the first to portray the character Lord Voldemort in Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (with the footage he appears in being reused in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2), in a flashback sequence where the famous villain arrived at the home of the titular character's parents to kill them, though Bremmer's face is never seen (later in the film, the character is CGI and voiced by Ian Hart, the actor who played Quirrell in the same film). He was cast as Skeld in The 13th Warrior and also appeared in the 2004 film Viper in the Fist, an adaptation of the novel of the same name by Hervé Bazin. Bremmer's stage credits include A Midsummer Night's Dream, Julius Caesar, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, King Lear and MacBeth. He has appeared in movies such as the 2014 biographical drama Mr. Turner, the 2015 adventure-drama In the Heart of the Sea, the 2007 biographical drama Control, the 2003 action comedy Shanghai Knights and the 2001 comedy film Just Visiting. His television credits include the fantasy drama series Beowulf: Return to the Shieldlands, the historical drama series The Borgias, the adventure-drama series Crusoe, and the docudrama Dunkirk.

Filmography

• 2022Flux Gourmet — Dr. Glock
• The Third Day — The Father
• 2019Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker — First Order Officer
• 2019The Song of Names — Billy the Busker
• 2018In Fabric — Mr. Lundy
• The Alienist — Mortician
• Beowulf: Return to the Shieldlands — Roth
• 2016Swallows and Amazons — Old Billy
• 2015In the Heart of the Sea — Benjamin Fuller
• 2014Mr. Turner — George Jones
• 2014Perdition County
• 2013Murder on the Home Front — Charlie Maxton
• Murder on the Home Front — Charlie Maxton
• 2012City Slacker — Matt
• 2012Les Misérables — Ensemble 'At the End of the Day'
• The Hollow Crown — Abbot of Westminster
• 2011Macbeth — Duncan / Porter / Doctor
• The Borgias — Notary
• 2011The Power of Three — Donald
• 2010Ourhouse — Charles 'Daddy' Maddox-Wilson
• 2010The Lost Explorer
• 2010Volpone — Volpone
• 2007Control — Ian's Father
• Kingdom — Stan Geddick
• 2006Mr. Loveday's Little Outing — Doctor
• Agatha Christie's Marple — Mr Sims
• 2004Ripper 2: Letter from Within — Dr. Weisser
• 2004The Aryan Couple
• 2004Viper in the Fist — Abbé Traquet
• Charles II: The Power and The Passion — Solomon Eccles
• 2003Shanghai Knights — Master at Arms
• 2003The Order — Bookstore Owner
• 2003To Kill a King — Abraham
• 2003Twelfth Night, or What You Will — Andrew Aguecheek
• 2002Half Past Dead — Sonny Eckvall
• 2001Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone — 'He Who Must Not Be Named'
• 2001Just Visiting — King Henry
• 1999Onegin — Diplomat at Ball
• 1999The 13th Warrior — Skeld (Superstitious)
• 1998Crime and Punishment — Arkady Ivanovich
• 1997Richard II — Henry Bolingbroke
• 1997Sharpe's Justice — Arnold
• 1997The Girl with Brains in Her Feet — Vic
• Peak Practice — Nick Bowman
• Scarlet and Black — Laughing Coachman
• Performance — Henry Bolingbroke
• The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole — Devil
• 1984Stars of the Roller State Disco — Security Guard
• 1983Made in Britain — Policeman