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.
Filmography
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Movies 77
TV Shows 57
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Tom Jones (2023)
Sherwood (2022)
The Nicky Nack (2021)
Breeders (2020)
Year of the Rabbit (2019)
Out of Innocence (2019)
Possum (2018)
Funny Cow (2018)
Prime Suspect 1973 (2017)
Frontier (2016)
Dark Angel (2016)
Asunder (2016)
Golden Years (2016)
Penny Dreadful (2014)
The Hollow Crown (2012)
Les Misérables - 25th Anniversary in Concert (2010)
A Passionate Woman (2010)
Garrow's Law (2009)
Little Dorrit (2008)
Filth: The Mary Whitehouse Story (2008)
The Dinner Party (2007)
Eragon (2006)
The Girls Who Came to Stay (2006)
Bleak House (2005)
Oliver Twist (2005)
When I'm Sixty-Four (2004)
Van Helsing: The London Assignment (2004)
Van Helsing (2004)
Millions (2004)
New Tricks (2004)
Carrie's War (2004)
Between The Sheets (2003)
It's All About Love (2003)
Paradise Found (2003)
Inquisition (2002)
Sparkhouse (2002)
Extinct (2001)
Bedtime (2001)
Strictly Sinatra (2001)
Score (2001)
Messiah (2001)
The Mummy Returns (2001)
Adrian Mole: The Cappuccino Years (2001)
Proof of Life (2000)
Harrison's Flowers (2000)
7 Up 2000 (2000)
This Is Personal: The Hunt for the Yorkshire Ripper (2000)
This Is Personal: The Hunt for the Yorkshire Ripper (2000)
David Copperfield (1999)
Onegin (1999)
Oliver Twist (1999)
Sleepy Hollow (1999)
G:MT Greenwich Mean Time (1999)
With or Without You (1999)
Aristocrats (1999)
Aristocrats (1999)
In the Red (1998)
Underworld (1997)
The Saint (1997)
Brazen Hussies (1996)
Breaking the Code (1996)
Witness Against Hitler (1996)
Our Friends in the North (1996)
Sorry About Last Night (1995)
Les Misérables: 10th Anniversary Concert at the Royal Albert Hall (1995)
An Awfully Big Adventure (1995)
Braveheart (1995)
MacGyver: Trail to Doomsday (1994)
Doggin' Around (1994)
Black Beauty (1994)
Goggle Eyes (1993)
The Life and Times of Henry Pratt (1992)
Shakespeare: The Animated Tales (1992)
Blue Ice (1992)
Patriot Games (1992)
Split Second (1992)
London Kills Me (1991)
Stanley and the Women (1991)
Murder in Eden (1991)
American Friends (1991)
The Widowmaker (1990)
Sticky Wickets (1990)
White Hunter, Black Heart (1990)
Looking After Number One (1990)
Nineteen96 (1989)
Screen One (1989)
A Night on the Tyne (1989)
Tales from the Crypt (1989)
The Childeater (1989)
That Summer of White Roses (1989)
This Is David Lander (1988)
The Storyteller (1988)
Married... with Children (1987)
Inspector Morse (1987)
Billy the Kid and the Green Baize Vampire (1985)
A.D. (1985)
Number One (1985)
The Caucasian Chalk Circle (1985)
The House (1984)
Krull (1983)
Mr Moon's Last Case (1983)
The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby (1982)
The French Lieutenant's Woman (1981)
Get Lost! (1981)
Fear of God (1980)
All Day on the Sands (1979)
Measure for Measure (1979)
BBC Television Shakespeare (1978)
Enemy at the Door (1978)
Our Day Out (1977)
Shooting the Chandelier (1977)
The Duellists (1977)
A Sharp Intake of Breath (1977)
A Bridge Too Far (1977)
The New Avengers (1976)
The Likely Lads (1976)
Days of Hope (1975)
The Stars Look Down (1975)
The Sweeney (1975)
Father Brown (1974)
Porridge (1974)
The Squirrels (1974)
Easy Go (1974)
The 14 (1973)
The Eyes Have It (1973)
Thriller (1973)
The Sex Victims (1973)
Only Make Believe (1973)
Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads? (1973)
Justice (1971)
Get Carter (1971)
Play for Today (1970)
BBC Play of the Month (1965)
Public Eye (1965)
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Known ForActing
GenderMale
Birthday1946-07-17 (77 years old)
Birth PlaceAnnfield Plain, United Kingdom
ChildrenJoe Armstrong
CitizenshipsUnited Kingdom
Also Known AsΑλούν Άρμστρονγκ
AwardsLaurence Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Musical, Laurence Olivier Award
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