David Threlfall
Acting
Born October 12, 1953 · Burnage, Manchester, England, UK
Born in Burnage, Manchester in 1953, David Threlfall is a celebrated actor of stage, film and television. In the latter, he is perhaps best known as the feckless Frank Gallagher in Channel 4's Shameless. In 1994 whilst working on a production of The Count of Monte Cristo at the Royal Exchange, Manchester, Threlfall met Bosnian actress Brana Bajic and the pair subsequently married a year later.
Films (44)
Unforgivable
2025
Bing & Friends: Birthday Celebration
2024
Dodger Special: Bad Egg
2023
Dodger Special: Train
2022
Faith Healer
2020
Beckett Double Bill (Krapp's Last Tape / The Old Tune)
2020
The Ark
2015
Black Sea
2014
Tommy Cooper: Not Like That, Like This
2014
Evidently... John Cooper Clarke
2012
Nowhere Boy
2009
Elizabeth: The Golden Age
2007
Hot Fuzz
2007
Housewife, 49
2006
Like Minds
2006
Alien Autopsy
2006
The Queen's Sister
2005
Benefit to Mankind
2004
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
2003
Chunky Monkey
2003
Conspiracy
2001
Mary, Mother of Jesus
1999
Sex, Chips & Rock n' Roll
1999
The Clothes in the Wardrobe
1993
Diana: Her True Story
1993
A Statement of Affairs
1993
Patriot Games
1992
A Murder of Quality
1991
The Russia House
1990
He's Asking For Me
1990
A Casualty of War
1989
Seeing in the Dark
1989
Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story
1989
When the Whales Came
1989
Paradise Postponed
1986
Dog Ends
1984
Red Monarch
1983
King Lear
1983
Rolling Home
1982
Mike Leigh: Making Plays
1982
The Brylcreem Boys
1979
Scum
1977
The Kiss of Death
1977
I Want to Be Like You
1976