Alun Armstrong

Acting · 1.3 popularity

Age

Movies

Born: July 17, 1946
From: Annfield Plain, County Durham, England, UK

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.

Works

87 films

The Mummy Returns

20016.4

Braveheart

19957.9

Van Helsing

20046.4

Sleepy Hollow

19997.2

Patriot Games

19926.7

A Bridge Too Far

19777.2

The Saint

19976.1

Krull

19836.0

The Choral

20256.4

Eragon

20065.1

Oliver Twist

20056.8

Proof of Life

20006.2

Black Beauty

19946.7

Split Second

19925.9

Get Carter

19717.0

The French Lieutenant's Woman

19816.5

Van Helsing: The London Assignment

20046.2

The Duellists

19777.2

Possum

20186.1

Blue Ice

19925.3

White Hunter, Black Heart

19906.4

Harrison's Flowers

20006.5

Onegin

19996.1

Asunder

2016

An Awfully Big Adventure

19956.5

Brazen Hussies

19963.8

Millions

20056.4

Les Misérables: 25th Anniversary in Concert

20108.3

It's All About Love

20035.5

Funny Cow

20186.3

Paradise Found

20036.5

MacGyver: Trail to Doomsday

19946.0

The Likely Lads

19766.3

The Chester Mystery Plays

1976

G:MT Greenwich Mean Time

19995.6

The Dinner Party

20076.0

Filth: The Mary Whitehouse Story

20086.3

The Sex Victims

19735.0

The Childeater

19897.7

Breaking the Code

19965.6

Golden Years

20166.3

The House

19845.7

Number One

19856.7

American Friends

19916.4

London Kills Me

19915.9

Risking It

1977

The Storyteller: The True Bride

1988

Les Misérables: 10th Anniversary Concert at the Royal Albert Hall

19958.8

The 14

19735.9

Only Make Believe

197310.0

Billy the Kid and the Green Baize Vampire

19856.1

Aristocrats

19996.0

Strictly Sinatra

20015.0

Inquisition

20027.0

Out of Innocence

20196.6

That Summer of White Roses

19896.0

Score

20017.0

The Tempest

19935.0

When I'm Sixty-Four

20045.4

Number 27

19889.0

Nineteen96

1989

Measure for Measure

19795.9

Doggin' Around

19946.0

Witness Against Hitler

19968.0

The Caucasian Chalk Circle

1985

This Is Personal: The Hunt for the Yorkshire Ripper

20007.0

Shooting the Chandelier

1977

With or Without You

19995.3

Our Day Out

19777.8

Liza

1978

All Day on the Sands

19797.0

Freedom of the Dig

1978

The Girls Who Came to Stay

20068.0

Sorry About Last Night

19958.0

The Eyes Have It

19737.3

Sticky Wickets

1990

Carrie's War

20047.7

The Nicky Nack

2021

Easy Go

1974

The Widowmaker

199010.0

7 Up 2000

20008.0

Mr Moon's Last Case

1983

Breaking The Codes

2020

Looking After Number One

1990

Fear of God

198010.0

A Night on the Tyne

19899.0

My Little Eye

20269.0