David Threlfall
Acting
1953-10-12 · Burnage, Manchester, England, UK
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
The Death of Bunny Munro
2025 · Series
Unforgivable
2025 · Movie
Bing & Friends: Birthday Celebration
2024 · Movie
Nightsleeper
2024 · Series
Passenger
2024 · Series
The Completely Made-Up Adventures of Dick Turpin
2024 · Series
Dodger Special: Bad Egg
2023 · Movie
Funny Woman
2023 · Series
Dodger Special: Train
2022 · Movie
Art That Made Us
2022 · Series
Wolfe
2021 · Series
Faith Healer
2020 · Movie
Beckett Double Bill (Krapp's Last Tape / The Old Tune)
2020 · Movie
Troy: Fall of a City
2018 · Series
Urban Myths
2017 · Series
Midwinter of the Spirit
2015 · Series
Code of a Killer
2015 · Series
The Ark
2015 · Movie
Black Sea
2014 · Movie
Tommy Cooper: Not Like That, Like This
2014 · Movie
What Remains
2013 · Series
Ripper Street
2012 · Series
Evidently... John Cooper Clarke
2012 · Movie
Nowhere Boy
2009 · Movie
The Millionaire and the Murder Mansion
2009 · Movie
Elizabeth: The Golden Age
2007 · Movie
Hot Fuzz
2007 · Movie
Housewife, 49
2006 · Movie
Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire
2006 · Series
Like Minds
2006 · Movie
Alien Autopsy
2006 · Movie
The Queen's Sister
2005 · Movie
Benefit to Mankind
2004 · Movie
Shameless
2004 · Series
Celebrity Mastermind
2003 · Series
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
2003 · Movie
Chunky Monkey
2003 · Movie
Spooks
2002 · Series
Cutting It
2002 · Series
Conspiracy
2001 · Movie
A Dinner of Herbs
2000 · Series
In the Beginning
2000 · Series
Mary, Mother of Jesus
1999 · Movie
Sex, Chips & Rock n' Roll
1999 · Series
Sex, Chips & Rock n' Roll
1999 · Movie
Men of the World
1994 · Series
The Clothes in the Wardrobe
1993 · Movie
Diana: Her True Story
1993 · Movie
A Statement of Affairs
1993 · Movie
Patriot Games
1992 · Movie
A Murder of Quality
1991 · Movie
Titmuss Regained
1991 · Series
The Russia House
1990 · Movie
Have I Got News for You
1990 · Series
Nightingales
1990 · Series
He's Asking For Me
1990 · Movie
A Casualty of War
1989 · Movie
Seeing in the Dark
1989 · Movie
Jumping The Queue
1989 · Series
Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story
1989 · Movie
When the Whales Came
1989 · Movie
The Marksman
1987 · Series
Paradise Postponed
1986 · Series
ScreenPlay
1986 · Series
Paradise Postponed
1986 · Movie
Screen Two
1985 · Series
Dog Ends
1984 · Movie
The Gathering Seed
1983 · Series
Red Monarch
1983 · Movie
King Lear
1983 · Movie
Rolling Home
1982 · Movie
Objects of Affection
1982 · Series
The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby
1982 · Series
Mike Leigh: Making Plays
1982 · Movie
The Brylcreem Boys
1979 · Movie
Scum
1977 · Movie
Here I Stand...
1977 · Series
The Kiss of Death
1977 · Movie
I Want to Be Like You
1976 · Movie
Playhouse
1974 · Series
Second City Firsts
1973 · Series
Play for Today
1970 · Series
Have I Got a Bit More News for You
Series