Alun Armstrong
Acting
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…
Filmography
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The Choral
2025
After the Flood
2024
Tom Jones
2023
Sherwood
2022
The Nicky Nack
2021
Breeders
2020
Breaking The Codes
2020
Year of the Rabbit
2019
Out of Innocence
2019
Possum
2018
Funny Cow
2018
Prime Suspect 1973
2017
Frontier
2016
Dark Angel
2016
Golden Years
2016
Penny Dreadful
2014
The Hollow Crown
2012
The Mystery of Edwin Drood
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
The Girls Who Came to Stay
2006
Bleak House
2005
Oliver Twist
2005
Millions
2005
When I'm Sixty-Four
2004
Van Helsing: The London Assignment
2004
Van Helsing
2004
Carrie's War
2004
New Tricks
2004
Between The Sheets
2003
It's All About Love
2003
Paradise Found
2003
Inquisition
2002
Sparkhouse
2002
Extinct
Extinct
2001
Bedtime
2001
Strictly Sinatra
2001
Score
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
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
Braveheart
1995
An Awfully Big Adventure
1995
MacGyver: Trail to Doomsday
1994
Doggin' Around
1994
Black Beauty
1994
Goggle Eyes
Goggle Eyes
1993
The Tempest
1993
Shakespeare: The Animated Tales
1992
Blue Ice
1992
Patriot Games
1992
Split Second
1992
Goodbye Cruel World
1992
London Kills Me
1991