Alun Armstrong
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.
151 acting credits
Acting · 151
Married... with Children
1987
Play for Today
1970
Great Performances
1971
The Mummy Returns
2001
Tales from the Crypt
1989
BBC Play of the Month
1965
New Tricks
2004
Inspector Morse
1987
The Sweeney
1975
Van Helsing
2004
Penny Dreadful
2014
Thriller
1973
Braveheart
1995
The Storyteller
1988
Justice
1971
The Hollow Crown
2012
Public Eye
1965
Frontier
2016
The New Avengers
1976
BBC2 Play of the Week
1977
Remembers…
2022
Sleepy Hollow
1999
ScreenPlay
1986
Breeders
2020
Enemy at the Door
1978
Sherwood
2022
Possum
2018
Shakespeare: The Animated Tales
1992
Little Dorrit
2008
Screen One
1989
Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads?
1973
Our Friends in the North
1996
Bleak House
2005
Messiah
2001
Garrow's Law
2009
The Jim Henson Hour
1989
Centre Play
1973
Eragon
2006
Porridge
1974
Father Brown
1974
A.D.
1985
A Bridge Too Far
1977
After the Flood
2024
Prime Suspect 1973
2017
Patriot Games
1992
Krull
1983
New Scotland Yard
1972
David Copperfield
1999
The Choral
2025
Oliver Twist
1999
Oliver Twist
2005
Tom Jones
2023
The Saint
1997
Year of the Rabbit
2019
Bedtime
2001
Black Beauty
1994
Between The Sheets
2003
In the Red
1998
The Mystery of Edwin Drood
2012
Armchair Thriller
1978
Split Second
1992
The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby
1982
Get Carter
1971
Proof of Life
2000
Underworld
1997
The Duellists
1977
Dark Angel
2016
Days of Hope
1975
Onegin
1999
Millions
2005
Van Helsing: The London Assignment
2004
Sparkhouse
2002
White Hunter, Black Heart
1990
The Stars Look Down
1975
The French Lieutenant's Woman
1981
Les Misérables: 25th Anniversary in Concert
2010
Get Lost!
1981
Adrian Mole: The Cappuccino Years
2001
Villains
1972
Goggle Eyes
1993
An Awfully Big Adventure
1995
Harrison's Flowers
2000
A Passionate Woman
2010
Carrie's War
2004
Stanley and the Women
1991
A Sharp Intake of Breath
1977
It's All About Love
2003
This Is Personal: The Hunt for the Yorkshire Ripper
2000
Golden Years
2016
Funny Cow
2018
MacGyver: Trail to Doomsday
1994
Blue Ice
1992
Murder in Eden
1991
Strictly Sinatra
2001
Les Misérables: 10th Anniversary Concert at the Royal Albert Hall
1995
The 14
1973
Witness Against Hitler
1996
American Friends
1991
This Is Personal: The Hunt for the Yorkshire Ripper
2000
That Summer of White Roses
1989
The Dinner Party
2007
Paradise Found
2003
The Likely Lads
1976
Out of Innocence
2019
Filth: The Mary Whitehouse Story
2008
Extinct
2001
Billy the Kid and the Green Baize Vampire
1985
Liza
1978
Brazen Hussies
1996
Number One
1985
Breaking the Code
1996
Doggin' Around
1994
Aristocrats
1999
G:MT Greenwich Mean Time
1999
The Caucasian Chalk Circle
1985
Measure for Measure
1979
Nineteen96
1989
London Kills Me
1991
The House
1984
With or Without You
1999
Sorry About Last Night
1995
When I'm Sixty-Four
2004
Goodbye Cruel World
1992
Our Day Out
1977
Inquisition
2002
The Widowmaker
1990
Score
2001
Number 27
1988
Breaking The Codes
2020
The Eyes Have It
1973
All Day on the Sands
1979
Asunder
2016
Sticky Wickets
1990
Easy Go
1974
The Storyteller: The True Bride
1988
Risking It
1977
The Sex Victims
1973
Shooting the Chandelier
1977
Only Make Believe
1973
Freedom of the Dig
1978
The Childeater
1989
The Chester Mystery Plays
1976
The Tempest
1993
7 Up 2000
2000
The Girls Who Came to Stay
2006
Fear of God
1980
A Night on the Tyne
1989
Looking After Number One
1990
My Little Eye
—
The Nicky Nack
2021
Mr Moon's Last Case
1983