John Shrapnel: movies and TV shows
John Shrapnel has 135 credits in the archive: 81 films and 54 TV series, from 1965 to 2022. Highest rated: I Am Not an Animal (8.6/10).
Career timeline
1965 – 2022 · busiest year: 1997 (7 credits)
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Full filmography
| Year | Title | Role | Type | Rating | Age then |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | Hamlet Within | Film | — | 80 | |
| 2017 | King Charles III | Archbishop of Canterbury | Film | 6.4 | 75 |
| 2017 | The Lions Rule | Narrator (voice) | TV | 9.0 | 75 |
| 2017 | Britain's Nuclear Bomb - The Inside Story | Narrator (Voice) | Film | 7.0 | 75 |
| 2016 | The Return of the Flying Scotsman | Narrator - (Voice) | Film | — | 74 |
| 2015 | Hamlet | Claudius/Ghost | Film | 8.2 | 73 |
| 2015 | Branagh Theatre Live: The Winter's Tale | Camilo | Film | 7.7 | 73 |
| 2014 | OXI, an Act of Resistance | Creon | Film | — | 72 |
| 2014 | Building Burma's Death Railway: Moving Half the Mountain | Narrator | Film | — | 72 |
| 2013 | Run. | St. Peter | Film | — | 71 |
| 2013 | National Theatre Live: Macbeth | Duncan/Seyton/Old Man | Film | 7.0 | 71 |
| 2011 | The Awakening | Reverend Hugh Purslow | Film | 6.4 | 69 |
| 2009 | National Theatre Live: Phèdre | Théramène | Film | 7.8 | 67 |
| 2009 | An Organization of Dreams | Father | Film | — | 67 |
| 2008 | Merlin | The Sarrum | TV | 7.8 | 66 |
| 2008 | Mirrors | Lorenzo Sapelli | Film | 6.3 | 66 |
| 2008 | The Duchess | General Grey | Film | 7.0 | 66 |
| 2008 | Apparitions | Cardinal Bukovak | TV | 7.2 | 66 |
| 2008 | Chemical Wedding | Crowley | Film | 4.2 | 66 |
| 2007 | Elizabeth: The Golden Age | Lord Howard | Film | 6.7 | 65 |
| 2007 | Once Upon a Time on the Westway | Billy Palmer | Film | — | 65 |
| 2007 | Hindenburg: Titanic of the Skies | Himself (Narrator) | Film | 6.8 | 65 |
| 2006 | Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire | Pompey | TV | 7.6 | 64 |
| 2006 | Alien Autopsy | Michael Kuhn | Film | 5.7 | 64 |
| 2005 | Shadow of the Sword | Archbishop | Film | 5.8 | 63 |
| 2005 | Wachau - Valley of Golden Magic | Narrator (English Version) | Film | — | 63 |
| 2004 | Troy | Nestor | Film | 7.2 | 62 |
| 2004 | New Tricks | DAC John Felsham | TV | 7.3 | 62 |
| 2004 | I Am Not an Animal | Narrator (voice) | TV | 8.6 | 62 |
| 2004 | Seven Wonders of Ancient Egypt | Narrator | Film | 10.0 | 62 |
| 2004 | Seven Wonders of Ancient Greece | Narrator | Film | — | 62 |
| 2004 | Seven Wonders of Ancient Rome | Narrator | Film | — | 62 |
| 2003 | Wild Women of Viramba | Narrator | Film | — | 61 |
| 2003 | The Race for Everest | Narrator | Film | 10.0 | 61 |
| 2002 | Foyle's War | Raymond Brooks | TV | 7.9 | 60 |
| 2002 | The Inspector Lynley Mysteries | Sergent Mike McCaffrey | TV | 7.3 | 60 |
| 2002 | Schönbrunn - Well of Beauty | Narrator (English Version) | Film | — | 60 |
| 2002 | K-19: The Widowmaker | Admiral Bratyeev | Film | 6.6 | 60 |
| 2002 | Whistle | Paul | Film | 6.3 | 60 |
| 2002 | Alone | Hannah | Film | 5.1 | 60 |
| 2002 | Claim | Lex Vandenberg | Film | 5.1 | 60 |
| 2001 | Waking the Dead | John Christie | TV | 7.2 | 59 |
| 2001 | The Body | Moshe Cohen | Film | 5.5 | 59 |
| 2001 | The Gentleman Thief | Monty Sinclair | Film | — | 59 |
| 2001 | Mountain Men: The Ghosts of K2 | Narrator | Film | 7.5 | 59 |
| 2001 | Animals of the Ocean Desert | Narrator | Film | — | 59 |
| 2000 | Gladiator | Gaius | Film | 8.2 | 58 |
| 2000 | The 10th Kingdom | Governor of Prison | TV | 7.6 | 58 |
| 2000 | Horizon: Supermassive Black Holes | Narrator | Film | 8.0 | 58 |
| 2000 | Lost on Everest: The Search for Mallory and Irvine | Self - Narrator | Film | — | 58 |
| 1999 | Notting Hill | PR Chief | Film | 7.3 | 57 |
| 1999 | Mary, Mother of Jesus | Simon | Film | 4.1 | 57 |
| 1999 | Hornblower: The Frogs and the Lobsters | General Charette | Film | 7.2 | 57 |
| 1999 | The Strange Case of Delfina Potocka | Iwaszkiewicz | Film | 10.0 | 57 |
| 1998 | Invasion: Earth | Air Marshal Bentley | TV | 6.3 | 56 |
| 1998 | Lion Queen | Narrator (voice) | Film | 9.0 | 56 |
| 1997 | Midsomer Murders | Max Jennings | TV | 7.5 | 55 |
| 1997 | Midsomer Murders | Leo Clarke | TV | 7.5 | 55 |
| 1997 | Jonathan Creek | Prof. Lance Graumann | TV | 7.6 | 55 |
| 1997 | Predators Killing for a Living | TV | — | 55 | |
| 1997 | True Tilda | Reverand Glasson | TV | 8.0 | 55 |
| 1997 | Bodyguards | Commander Alan MacIntyre | TV | 8.0 | 55 |
| 1997 | St. Stephen's: The Living Cathedral | Narrator (English voice) | Film | — | 55 |
| 1996 | 101 Dalmatians | Skinner | Film | 5.9 | 54 |
| 1996 | Two Deaths | Cinca | Film | 5.6 | 54 |
| 1996 | Alien Empire | Narrator | TV | — | 54 |
| 1995 | Kavanagh Q.C. | Mr. Justice Griffin | TV | 7.3 | 53 |
| 1995 | Coogan's Run | Douglas Crown | TV | 6.4 | 53 |
| 1995 | King Arthur: His Life and Legends | Film | 8.5 | 53 | |
| 1995 | England, My England | Samuel Pepys | Film | 6.5 | 53 |
| 1994 | Wycliffe | Dr. Sam Malvern | TV | 6.8 | 52 |
| 1994 | Fatherland | General Globus | Film | 6.2 | 52 |
| 1993 | Selling Hitler | Gerd Schulte-Hillen | Film | 8.0 | 51 |
| 1992 | Between the Lines | Deputy Assistant Commissioner Dunning | TV | 5.5 | 50 |
| 1992 | Between the Lines | D.C.C. Dunning | TV | 5.5 | 50 |
| 1992 | Shakespeare: The Animated Tales | Claudius / The Ghost (voice) | TV | 6.4 | 50 |
| 1992 | SS-3: The Assassination of Reinhard Heydrich | Narrator | Film | 4.0 | 50 |
| 1992 | Hamlet | Claudius | Film | — | 50 |
| 1991 | G.B.H. | Dr Jacobs | TV | 6.3 | 49 |
| 1991 | Selling Hitler | Gerd Schülte-Hillen | TV | 7.0 | 49 |
| 1991 | For the Greater Good | Norman May-Boys MP | TV | 9.0 | 49 |
| 1990 | The Chief | Dan Cheyney | TV | 7.0 | 48 |
| 1990 | The Tragedy of Flight 103: The Inside Story | BKA Police Chief | Film | 7.0 | 48 |
| 1990 | Centrepoint | Claud Wareing | TV | 6.7 | 48 |
| 1989 | How to Get Ahead in Advertising | Psychiatrist | Film | 6.3 | 47 |
| 1989 | Blackeyes | Detective Blake | TV | 5.9 | 47 |
| 1989 | About Face | TV | 7.0 | 47 | |
| 1988 | The Modern World: Ten Great Writers | Thomas Mann | TV | 8.0 | 46 |
| 1988 | Testimony | Andre Zhdanov | Film | 5.6 | 46 |
| 1987 | Vanity Fair | Lord Steyne | TV | — | 45 |
| 1987 | Personal Services | Lionel | Film | 6.1 | 45 |
| 1987 | Partition | General Flood | Film | 5.5 | 45 |
| 1986 | Theban Plays: Antigone | Creon | Film | 9.0 | 44 |
| 1986 | Theban Plays: Oedipus at Colonus | Creon | Film | 8.0 | 44 |
| 1986 | Theban Plays: Oedipus the King | Creon | Film | 4.5 | 44 |
| 1985 | Screen Two | Rev. Charles Tucker Eland | TV | 7.1 | 43 |
| 1985 | Screen Two | Heiger | TV | 7.1 | 43 |
| 1985 | Poppyland | George Sims | Film | 7.0 | 43 |
| 1985 | The Burston Rebellion | Rev. Charles Tucker Eland | Film | 8.0 | 43 |
| 1984 | Mr. Palfrey of Westminster | Adrian Vyner | TV | 5.7 | 42 |
| 1984 | Sorrell and Son | Thomas Roland | TV | 6.0 | 42 |
| 1983 | Natural World | Narrator | TV | 7.4 | 41 |
| 1982 | The Woman in White | Sir Percival Glyde | TV | 8.3 | 40 |
| 1982 | King Lear | Earl of Kent | Film | 6.5 | 40 |
| 1981 | Private Schulz | German Newsreel Commentator (voice, uncredited) | TV | 5.3 | 39 |
| 1981 | Timon of Athens | Alcibiades | Film | 8.5 | 39 |
| 1981 | Troilus & Cressida | Hector | Film | 8.0 | 39 |
| 1980 | The Tom Machine | Film | — | 38 | |
| 1980 | The Victim | Vincent Craig | Film | 7.0 | 38 |
| 1979 | Screenplay | Matthias Erzberger | TV | 6.3 | 37 |
| 1979 | Gossip from the Forest | Matthias Erzberger | Film | 7.0 | 37 |
| 1978 | Armchair Thriller | Vincent Craig | TV | 4.2 | 36 |
| 1978 | Flayed | Robert | Film | — | 36 |
| 1978 | Edward and Mrs Simpson | Major Alexander Hardinge | TV | 6.8 | 36 |
| 1978 | Edward & Mrs. Simpson | Maj. Alexander Hardinge | Film | 10.0 | 36 |
| 1977 | BBC2 Play of the Week | McKendrick | TV | 7.0 | 35 |
| 1977 | BBC2 Play of the Week | Robert | TV | 7.0 | 35 |
| 1977 | The Three Hostages | Gaudian | Film | — | 35 |
| 1977 | Professional Foul | McKendrick | Film | 7.5 | 35 |
| 1976 | Plays for Britain | Voice of Leonard Brazil | TV | 6.0 | 34 |
| 1976 | Hitting Town | Leonard Brazil (voice) | Film | — | 34 |
| 1975 | Space: 1999 | Jack Tanner | TV | 7.1 | 33 |
| 1975 | Hennessy | Tipaldi | Film | 5.1 | 33 |
| 1975 | King Lear | Duke of Cornwall | Film | 10.0 | 33 |
| 1974 | Good Girl | Christopher Wimple | TV | — | 32 |
| 1972 | Pope Joan | Father James | Film | 6.1 | 30 |
| 1971 | Justice | Roger Anderson | TV | 7.3 | 29 |
| 1971 | Elizabeth R | Earl of Sussex | TV | 7.5 | 29 |
| 1971 | Nicholas and Alexandra | Petya | Film | 7.0 | 29 |
| 1969 | The Ha-Ha | Jamie | Film | — | 27 |
| 1969 | It's Called the Sugar Plum | Wally Zuckerman | Film | — | 27 |
| 1967 | Omnibus | Zborowski | TV | 7.2 | 25 |
| 1967 | ITV Playhouse | Schoner | TV | 7.0 | 25 |
| 1965 | BBC Play of the Month | Duke of Cornwall | TV | 5.3 | 23 |
| 1965 | BBC Play of the Month | Viktor Myshlaevsky | TV | 5.3 | 23 |