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Stanley Townsend
1.0 Popularity
Biography
Stanley Townsend (born August 1961) is an Irish actor. Townsend was born and brought up in Dublin. After attending Wesley College, Dublin, he studied mathematics and civil engineering at Trinity College. While there he joined the Dublin University Players, the college's Amateur Dramatic Society. He later co-founded co-operative theatre company Rough Magic with writer/director Declan Hughes and theatre director Lynne Parker, performing in numerous productions including The Country Wife, Nightshade, and Sexual Perversity in Chicago. He subsequently went on to perform in several productions at The Gate and The Abbey Theatres in Dublin. In London, he has worked with such directors as Sam Mendes in The Plough and the Stars, Richard Eyre in Guys and Dolls and Rufus Norris in Under the Blue Sky. Theatre appearances at the Royal Court include The Alice Trilogy directed by Ian Rickson and Shining City directed by Conor McPherson, for which he won an Irish Theatre Award and was nominated for the Evening Standard Theatre Award for Best Actor in 2004. Townsend's television work began on a number of shows for RTÉ in Dublin. Since moving to London, television appearances have included Spooks, The Commander, Hustle, Waking the Dead, and Omagh Bombing. ilm credits include Mike Newell's Into the West, Jim Sheridan's In the Name of the Father with Daniel Day-Lewis, The Van by Stephen Frears, Peter Greenaway's The Tulse Luper Suitcases, The Libertine with Johnny Depp, Paul Morrison's Wondrous Oblivion with Delroy Lindo, John Boorman's The Tiger's Tale and Michael Radford's Flawless. He currently lives in London.
Known For
6.0
First Voice (voice)
Jay Kelly
2025
10.0
Mr Parks
National Theatre Live: Retrograde
2025
7.2
President Minos
KAOS
2024
6.1
Simon Cohen
The Teacher
2024
6.1
Emil Bartos
The Regime
2024
6.6
Bill McGuire
Blackshore
2024
0.0
Kinked
2023
8.3
Commandant Jayhold Beehaz
Andor
2022
6.6
Anthony Denny
Becoming Elizabeth
2022
0.0
Narrator
Phil Lynott: The Long Goodbye
2022
Credits
Jay Kelly
as First Voice (voice)
2025
6.0
National Theatre Live: Retrograde
as Mr Parks
2025
10.0
KAOS
as President Minos
2024
7.2
The Teacher
as Simon Cohen
2024
6.1
The Regime
as Emil Bartos
2024
6.1
Blackshore
as Bill McGuire
2024
6.6
Kinked
2023
0.0
Andor
as Commandant Jayhold Beehaz
2022
8.3
Becoming Elizabeth
as Anthony Denny
2022
6.6
Phil Lynott: The Long Goodbye
as Narrator
2022
0.0
The Song of Names
as Gilbert
2019
6.7
Agatha and the Curse of Ishtar
as Sir Constance
2019
5.7
A Girl from Mogadishu
as Joe Costello
2019
5.8
The Spy
as General Ad-Din
2019
7.4
National Theatre Live: All About Eve
as Addison Dewett
2019
8.5
Resistance
as Senator Daniel Shea
2019
6.2
Psychomanteum
as Narrator
2018
1.0
The Current War
as Franklin Pope
2018
6.7
Florence Foster Jenkins
as Phineas Stark
2016
6.7
Galavant
as King of Valencia
2015
7.3
Standby
as Paul
2014
6.0
National Theatre Live: King Lear
as The Earl of Kent
2014
7.1
New Worlds
as Colonel Blood
2014
6.1
Quirke
as Inspector Hackett
2014
5.9
Fleming
as Colonel William Donovan
2014
6.8
The Voices
as Sheriff Weinbacher
2014
6.2
The Physician
as Bar Kappara
2013
7.3
Toast of London
2013
7.4
One Chance
as Luciano Pavarotti
2013
6.6
Lovely Louise
as Bill
2013
5.4
Burton and Taylor
as Milton Katselas
2013
6.2
Ripper Street
as Aiden Galvin
2012
7.4
The Hollow Crown
as Warwick
2012
7.4
Titanic: Blood and Steel
as Rex Riley
2012
7.2
Call the Midwife
as Father Joe
2012
7.5
Fresh Meat
as John Frobisher
2011
7.1
Cars 2
as Victor Hugo / Vladimir Trunkov / Ivan the Tow Truck (voice)
2011
6.2
Killing Bono
as Danny Machin
2011
6.2
Zen
as Moscati
2011
7.1
Sherlock
as Angelo
2010
8.5
The Pizza Miracle
as Gianni
2010
5.0
Holy Water
as Inspector Brian Hogan
2009
5.6
National Theatre Live: Phèdre
as Theseus
2009
7.8
Hilde
as David O. Selznick
2009
5.2
Whistleblower
as Michael Neary
2008
0.0
Happy-Go-Lucky
as Tramp
2008
6.6
Flawless
as Henry
2007
6.7
Saddam's Tribe
as Saddam
2007
0.0
The Nativity Story
as Zechariah
2006
6.9
Thin Lizzy: Outlawed - The Real Phil Lynott
as Narrator
2006
7.0
Isolation
as Garda Hourigan
2005
5.5
Omagh
as Sam Pollock
2005
6.3
Dot.Kill
as Capt. Tommy Byrnes
2005
4.2
Fallen
as Mara
2004
6.0
Inside I'm Dancing
as Interview Panelist
2004
7.4
The Libertine
as Keown
2004
5.9
Wondrous Oblivion
as Victor
2004
6.4
Murder City
2004
7.6
Hustle
as Johnny Keyes
2004
7.7
Mystics
as Mickey Mac
2003
5.3
Byron
as Turkish Governor
2003
4.3
What a Girl Wants
as Bride's Father
2003
6.3
The Commander
2003
5.8
Monsieur N.
as Dr. O'Meara
2003
6.3
Wire in the Blood
2002
7.8
Foyle's War
as Jose De Perez
2002
7.9
Spooks
as Roy Woodring
2002
7.7
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Station Jim
as Matapan
2001
7.0
24
as Anatol Stolnavich
2001
7.8
Waking the Dead
as DI Bailey
2001
7.2
Rat
as Newsreader
2000
5.9
🎬
Altmann's Tongue
as Narrator
2000
0.0
The Ambassador
1998
6.0
Jonathan Creek
as Det. Inspector Barrison
1997
7.5
The Van
as Des, Health Inspector
1996
6.4
My Friend Joe
as Mr. Doyle
1996
7.2
Ballykissangel
as Micky Keeler
1996
6.9
Jake's Progress
as Consultant
1995
2.7
Beyond Reason
as John Horan
1995
0.0
In the Name of the Father
as Hooker's Driver
1993
7.9
The Snapper
as Anaesthetist
1993
6.4
Peak Practice
as Keith Johnson
1993
6.1
Heartbeat
as Igor Saukas
1992
7.1
The Miracle
as Washington, Destry Rides Again
1991
5.8
Taffin
as Les
1988
5.6
Ink
1988
0.0
Hallmark Hall of Fame
as Constable
1951
8.6
The Uprising
N/A
0.0
Once Upon A Time In A Cinema
as Harry Conway
N/A
0.0
🎬
Another Turn of the Screw
as Henry James
N/A
0.0