David Threlfall: movies and TV shows
David Threlfall has 85 credits in the archive: 44 films and 41 TV series, from 1970 to 2025. Highest rated: Spooks (7.7/10).
Career timeline
1970 – 2025 · busiest year: 1989 (5 credits)
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Full filmography
| Year | Title | Role | Type | Rating | Age then |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | The Death of Bunny Munro | Bunny Snr | TV | 5.8 | 71 |
| 2025 | Unforgivable | Brian Mitchell | Film | 7.8 | 71 |
| 2024 | The Completely Made-Up Adventures of Dick Turpin | Tom King | TV | 6.5 | 70 |
| 2024 | Passenger | Jim Bracknell | TV | 5.8 | 70 |
| 2024 | Nightsleeper | Paul Peveril | TV | 6.7 | 70 |
| 2024 | Bing & Friends: Birthday Celebration | Flop (voice) | Film | — | 70 |
| 2023 | Funny Woman | George Parker | TV | 6.9 | 69 |
| 2023 | Dodger Special: Bad Egg | Sir Charles Rowan | Film | — | 69 |
| 2022 | Art That Made Us | Self - Narrator (voice) | TV | 5.5 | 68 |
| 2022 | Dodger Special: Train | Sir Charles Rowan | Film | — | 68 |
| 2021 | Wolfe | Howard | TV | 5.4 | 67 |
| 2020 | Faith Healer | Teddy | Film | — | 66 |
| 2020 | Beckett Double Bill (Krapp's Last Tape / The Old Tune) | Cream | Film | — | 66 |
| 2018 | Troy: Fall of a City | King Priam | TV | 5.8 | 64 |
| 2017 | Urban Myths | Samuel Beckett | TV | 7.4 | 63 |
| 2015 | Code of a Killer | DCS David Baker | TV | 7.3 | 61 |
| 2015 | Midwinter of the Spirit | Rev Huw Owens | TV | 6.6 | 61 |
| 2015 | The Ark | Noah | Film | 5.7 | 61 |
| 2014 | Black Sea | Peters | Film | 6.3 | 60 |
| 2014 | Tommy Cooper: Not Like That, Like This | Tommy Cooper | Film | 6.9 | 60 |
| 2013 | What Remains | Len Harper | TV | 7.3 | 59 |
| 2012 | Ripper Street | Abel Croker | TV | 7.4 | 58 |
| 2012 | Evidently... John Cooper Clarke | Himself | Film | 9.0 | 58 |
| 2009 | Nowhere Boy | George Toogood Smith | Film | 7.2 | 55 |
| 2007 | Hot Fuzz | Martin Blower | Film | 7.6 | 53 |
| 2007 | Elizabeth: The Golden Age | Dr. John Dee | Film | 6.7 | 53 |
| 2006 | Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire | Constantine the Great | TV | 7.6 | 52 |
| 2006 | Like Minds | John Colbie | Film | 6.4 | 52 |
| 2006 | Housewife, 49 | Will Last | Film | 6.0 | 52 |
| 2006 | Alien Autopsy | Jeffrey | Film | 5.7 | 52 |
| 2005 | The Queen's Sister | Prince Philip | Film | 5.7 | 51 |
| 2004 | Shameless | Frank Gallagher | TV | 7.6 | 50 |
| 2004 | Shameless | TV | 7.6 | 50 | |
| 2004 | Shameless | TV | 7.6 | 50 | |
| 2004 | Benefit to Mankind | Carl Swannee | Film | — | 50 |
| 2003 | Celebrity Mastermind | TV | 6.0 | 49 | |
| 2003 | Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World | Preserved Killick, Captain's Steward | Film | 7.2 | 49 |
| 2003 | Chunky Monkey | Donald Leek | Film | 4.5 | 49 |
| 2002 | Spooks | Keith Moran | TV | 7.7 | 48 |
| 2002 | Cutting It | Beauregard Smee | TV | 7.0 | 48 |
| 2001 | Conspiracy | Friedrich Wilhelm Kritzinger | Film | 7.3 | 47 |
| 2000 | A Dinner of Herbs | Older Hal | TV | 6.4 | 46 |
| 2000 | In the Beginning | Aaron | TV | 6.1 | 46 |
| 1999 | Sex, Chips & Rock n' Roll | Norman | TV | 7.0 | 45 |
| 1999 | Mary, Mother of Jesus | Joseph of Nazareth | Film | 4.1 | 45 |
| 1999 | Sex, Chips & Rock n' Roll | Film | — | 45 | |
| 1994 | Men of the World | Lenny Smart | TV | 7.7 | 40 |
| 1993 | The Clothes in the Wardrobe | Syl | Film | 6.0 | 39 |
| 1993 | Diana: Her True Story | Prince Charles | Film | 3.0 | 39 |
| 1993 | A Statement of Affairs | Alan | Film | 10.0 | 39 |
| 1992 | Patriot Games | Inspector Highland | Film | 6.7 | 38 |
| 1991 | A Murder of Quality | Stanley Rode | Film | 5.6 | 37 |
| 1991 | Titmuss Regained | Leslie Titmuss | TV | 8.0 | 37 |
| 1990 | Have I Got News for You | Self | TV | 7.2 | 36 |
| 1990 | Nightingales | Bell | TV | 7.0 | 36 |
| 1990 | The Russia House | Wicklow | Film | 6.1 | 36 |
| 1990 | He's Asking For Me | Andy | Film | — | 36 |
| 1989 | Jumping The Queue | Hugh Warner | TV | 3.3 | 35 |
| 1989 | When the Whales Came | Jack Jenkins | Film | 6.4 | 35 |
| 1989 | Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story | Alex | Film | 5.9 | 35 |
| 1989 | A Casualty of War | Tom Rowse | Film | — | 35 |
| 1989 | Seeing in the Dark | Tony | Film | — | 35 |
| 1987 | The Marksman | Weaver | TV | 10.0 | 33 |
| 1986 | ScreenPlay | Tony | TV | 6.0 | 32 |
| 1986 | Paradise Postponed | Leslie Titmuss | TV | 6.0 | 32 |
| 1986 | Paradise Postponed | Leslie Titmus | Film | 7.0 | 32 |
| 1985 | Screen Two | Andy | TV | 7.1 | 31 |
| 1985 | Screen Two | Syl | TV | 7.1 | 31 |
| 1984 | Dog Ends | Robert | Film | — | 30 |
| 1983 | The Gathering Seed | Joe Henshaw | TV | 10.0 | 29 |
| 1983 | King Lear | Edgar | Film | 6.7 | 29 |
| 1983 | Red Monarch | Vasily | Film | 5.4 | 29 |
| 1982 | The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby | TV | 7.7 | 28 | |
| 1982 | Objects of Affection | Donald | TV | 8.0 | 28 |
| 1982 | Mike Leigh: Making Plays | Self | Film | 8.0 | 28 |
| 1982 | Rolling Home | Donald | Film | — | 28 |
| 1979 | The Brylcreem Boys | George Hunn | Film | — | 25 |
| 1977 | Scum | Archer | Film | 7.3 | 23 |
| 1977 | Here I Stand... | Stapleton | TV | — | 23 |
| 1977 | The Kiss of Death | Trevor | Film | 6.5 | 23 |
| 1976 | I Want to Be Like You | Steve | Film | — | 22 |
| 1974 | Playhouse | George Hunn | TV | 7.0 | 20 |
| 1973 | Second City Firsts | Gaz | TV | — | 19 |
| 1970 | Play for Today | Robert | TV | 6.6 | 16 |
| Have I Got a Bit More News for You | Self - Panellist | TV | 7.1 | — |