David Threlfall
Acting
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.
Filmography
80
The Death of Bunny Munro
2025
Unforgivable
2025
Bing & Friends: Birthday Celebration
2024
Nightsleeper
2024
Passenger
2024
The Completely Made-Up Adventures of Dick Turpin
2024
Dodger Special: Bad Egg
2023
Funny Woman
2023
Dodger Special: Train
2022
Art That Made Us
2022
Wolfe
2021
Faith Healer
2020
Beckett Double Bill (Krapp's Last Tape / The Old Tune)
2020
Troy: Fall of a City
2018
Urban Myths
2017
Midwinter of the Spirit
2015
Code of a Killer
2015
The Ark
2015
Black Sea
2014
Tommy Cooper: Not Like That, Like This
2014
What Remains
2013
Ripper Street
2012
Evidently... John Cooper Clarke
2012
Nowhere Boy
2009
Elizabeth: The Golden Age
2007
Hot Fuzz
2007
Housewife, 49
2006
Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire
2006
Like Minds
2006
Alien Autopsy
2006
The Queen's Sister
2005
Benefit to Mankind
2004
Shameless
2004
Celebrity Mastermind
2003
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
2003
Chunky Monkey
2003
Spooks
2002
Cutting It
2002
Conspiracy
2001
A Dinner of Herbs
2000
In the Beginning
2000
Mary, Mother of Jesus
1999
Sex, Chips & Rock n' Roll
Sex, Chips & Rock n' Roll
1999
Sex, Chips & Rock n' Roll
1999
Men of the World
1994
The Clothes in the Wardrobe
1993
Diana: Her True Story
1993
A Statement of Affairs
A Statement of Affairs
1993
Patriot Games
1992
A Murder of Quality
1991
Titmuss Regained
1991
The Russia House
1990
Have I Got News for You
1990
Nightingales
1990
He's Asking For Me
He's Asking For Me
1990
A Casualty of War
1989
Seeing in the Dark
1989
Jumping The Queue
Jumping The Queue
1989
Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story
1989
When the Whales Came
1989
The Marksman
1987
Paradise Postponed
1986
ScreenPlay
1986
Paradise Postponed
Paradise Postponed
1986
Screen Two
1985
Dog Ends
1984
The Gathering Seed
1983
Red Monarch
1983
King Lear
1983
Rolling Home
1982
Objects of Affection
1982
The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby
1982
Mike Leigh: Making Plays
1982
The Brylcreem Boys
1979
Scum
1977
The Kiss of Death
1977
I Want to Be Like You
1976
Playhouse
1974
Second City Firsts
Second City Firsts
1973
Play for Today
1970