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.

Фільмографія

• 2025Хоровий спів — Herbert Trickett
• After the Flood — Alan Benson
• Tom Jones — Squire Western
• Шервуд — Gary Jackson
• 2021The Nicky Nack
• 2020Breaking The Codes
• Наплодили — Jim
• 2019Out of Innocence — Detective Callaghan
• Year of the Rabbit — Chief Inspector Hugh Wisbech
• 2018Funny Cow — Lenny
• 2018Опосум — Maurice
• Prime Suspect 1973 — Clifford Bentley
• Dark Angel — George Stot
• 2016Golden Years — Sid
• Кордон — Lord Benton
• Бульварні жахіття — Vincent Brand
• The Mystery of Edwin Drood — Hiram Grewgious
• Порожня корона — Northumberland
• A Passionate Woman — Donald (1980s)
• 2010Les Misérables: 25th Anniversary in Concert — Monsieur Thenardier (1985 Cast)
• Garrow's Law — John Southouse
• 2008Filth: The Mary Whitehouse Story — Ernest Whitehouse
• Little Dorrit — Ephraim Flintwinch
• 2007The Dinner Party — Jim
• 2006The Girls Who Came to Stay — Bob Jenkins
• 2006Ераґон — Uncle Garrow
• Bleak House — Inspector Bucket
• 2005Millions — Saint Peter
• 2005Олівер Твіст — Magistrate Fang
• 2004Carrie's War — Mr. Samuel Evans
• New Tricks — Brian Lane
• 2004Van Helsing: The London Assignment — Cardinal Jinetta (voice)
• 2004When I'm Sixty-Four — Jim
• 2004Ван Гелсінґ — Cardinal Jinette
• Between The Sheets — Peter Delany
• 2003It's All About Love — David
• 2003Paradise Found — Camille Pissarro
• 2002Inquisition — Martin
• Sparkhouse — Richard Bolton
• Adrian Mole: The Cappuccino Years — George Mole
• Bedtime — Neil Henshaw
• Messiah — DCI Charlie McIntyre
• 2001Score — George
• 2001Strictly Sinatra — Bill
• 2001Мумія повертається — Baltus Hafez
• 2000Harrison's Flowers — Samuel Brubeck
• 2000This Is Personal: The Hunt for the Yorkshire Ripper — Asst. Chief Const. George Oldfield
• This Is Personal: The Hunt for the Yorkshire Ripper — Asst. Chief Const. George Oldfield
• 2000Доказ життя — Wyatt
• 1999Aristocrats — Lord Holland
• David Copperfield — Dan Peggotty
• 1999G:MT Greenwich Mean Time — Uncle Henry
• Oliver Twist — Mr. Fleming
• 1999Onegin — Zaretsky
• 1999With or Without You — Sammy
• 1999Сонна лощина — High Constable
• In the Red — DCI Frank Jefferson
• 1998The Destruction of Troy and the Adventures of Odysseus
• Underworld
• 1997Святий — Inspector Teal
• 1996Brazen Hussies — Jimmy Hardcastle
• 1996Breaking the Code — Mick Ross
• Our Friends in the North — Austin Donohue
• 1996Witness Against Hitler — Pastor Harold Poelchau
• 1995An Awfully Big Adventure — Uncle Vernon
• 1995Les Misérables: 10th Anniversary Concert at the Royal Albert Hall — Monsieur Thénardier
• 1995Sorry About Last Night — Mickey
• 1995Хоробре серце — Mornay
• 1994Doggin' Around — Charlie Foster
• 1994MacGyver: Trail to Doomsday — Capshaw
• 1994Чорний красень — Reuben Smith
• Goggle Eyes — Gerald 'Goggle Eyes' Faulkner
• 1993The Tempest — Caliban
• 1992Blue Ice — Osgood
• Goodbye Cruel World — Roy Grade
• Shakespeare: The Animated Tales — Caliban (voice)
• The Life and Times of Henry Pratt — Uncle Teddy
• 1992Ігри патріотів — Owens
• 1992Лічені секунди — Thrasher
• 1991American Friends — Dr. Weeks
• 1991London Kills Me — John Stone
• Murder in Eden — Sgt McGing
• Stanley and the Women — Rufus Hilton
• 1990Looking After Number One — Dick
• 1990Sticky Wickets — Evans
• 1990The Widowmaker — Dad
• 1990White Hunter, Black Heart — Ralph Lockhart
• 1989A Night on the Tyne — Willy
• 1989Nineteen96 — Det. Supt. Frank Burroughs
• Screen One — Det Supt Frank Burroughs, Evans, Charlie Foster
• 1989That Summer of White Roses — Zemba
• 1989The Childeater — Stefano
• The Jim Henson Hour — The Troll (archive audio)
• Байки зі склепу — Inspector Herbert
• 1988Number 27 — Murray Lester
• The Storyteller — Troll (voice)
• 1988The Storyteller: The True Bride — Troll (Voice)
• Inspector Morse — Superintendent Holdsby
• Одружені... та з дітьми — Trevor
• ScreenPlay — Willy
• A.D. — Gamesmaster
• 1985Billy the Kid and the Green Baize Vampire — Maxwell Randall, The Green Baize Vampire
• 1985Number One — Blackpool Police Sergeant
• 1985The Caucasian Chalk Circle — Singer
• Sharing Time — Luke
• 1984The House — Mr. Smeth
• 1983Mr Moon's Last Case — Narrator
• 1983Крулл — Torquil
• The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby
• Get Lost! — Neville Keaton
• 1981Жінка французького лейтенанта — Grimes
• 1980Fear of God — Trahearne
• 1979All Day on the Sands
• 1979Measure for Measure — Provost
• Armchair Thriller — Trahearne
• Enemy at the Door — Louis Mendoza
• 1978Freedom of the Dig — Quinn
• 1978Liza — Mikhalevich
• The BBC Television Shakespeare — Provost
• A Sharp Intake of Breath — Arthur Clegg, Terry, Jackson, Brian, Simon Wilson, Albert, Jack Dyson, Alec, Frank Grant, Barry, Les Buckley
• BBC2 Play of the Week — Brodovich, Mikhalevich
• 1977Our Day Out — Mr. Briggs
• Premiere — Quinn
• 1977Risking It — Richard Clewes
• Romance — Weaver
• 1977Shooting the Chandelier — Brodovich
• 1977Дуелянти — Lieutenant Lacourbe
• 1977Міст надто далеко — Cpl. Davies
• 1976The Chester Mystery Plays — Lightborne
• 1976The Likely Lads — Tommy
• The New Avengers — Private George Harris
• The Stars Look Down — Joe Gowlan
• The Sweeney — Peter Jenner
• 1974Easy Go — First docker
• Father Brown — Joe
• Porridge — Spraggon
• Armchair 30 — Glazier
• Centre Play — Richard Clewes
• 1973Only Make Believe — Michael Biddle
• Second City Firsts — Ken
• Sporting Scenes — Bernie
• 1973The 14 — Tommy
• 1973The Eyes Have It — Mike
• 1973The Sex Victims — George
• Thriller — Mike
• Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads? — Scaife
• New Scotland Yard — Ray Davies
• Six Days of Justice — P.C. Williamson
• Villains — Terence 'Tel' Bolden
• 1971Get Carter — Keith
• Great Performances — Thénardier
• Justice — Bob Graham
• Play for Today — 1st Docker, Mr Briggs
• BBC Play of the Month — Lightborne
• Public Eye — Vince Gregson
• My Little Eye — Dad
• The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole — Bert Baxter

Ток-шоу, премії та інші появи (4)

• Remembers… — Self
• 2016Asunder — Self - Narrator (voice)
• Extinct — Himself - Narrator
• 20007 Up 2000 — Himself - Narrator