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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
July 17, 1946
Place of Birth
Annfield Plain, County Durham, England, UK
Also Known As
- Αλούν Άρμστρονγκ
Alun Armstrong
1.3 Popularity
Biography
Alun Armstrong is a prolific English character actor. Armstrong grew up in County Durham in North East England. He first became interested in acting through Shakespeare productions at his grammar school. Since his career began in the early 1970s, he has played, in his words, "the full spectrum of characters from the grotesque to musicals... I always play very colourful characters, often a bit crazy, despotic, psychotic." His numerous credits include six different Dickens adaptations and seven series as eccentric ex-detective Brian Lane in New Tricks. Armstrong is also an accomplished stage actor who spent nine years with the Royal Shakespeare Company. He originated the role of Thénardier in the London production of Les Misérables and he won an Olivier Award for playing the title role in Sweeney Todd.
Known For
Credits
The Choral
as Herbert Trickett
2025
6.5
Tom Jones
as Squire Western
2023
5.5
Sherwood
as Gary Jackson
2022
7.0
The Nicky Nack
2021
0.0
Breeders
as Jim
2020
6.9
Breaking The Codes
2020
0.0
Year of the Rabbit
as Chief Inspector Hugh Wisbech
2019
7.0
Out of Innocence
as Detective Callaghan
2019
6.6
Possum
as Maurice
2018
6.2
Funny Cow
as Lenny
2018
6.3
Prime Suspect 1973
as Clifford Bentley
2017
7.3
Frontier
as Lord Benton
2016
6.8
Dark Angel
as George Stot
2016
6.2
Asunder
as Self - Narrator (voice)
2016
0.0
Golden Years
as Sid
2016
6.3
Penny Dreadful
as Vincent Brand
2014
7.8
The Hollow Crown
as Northumberland
2012
7.4
The Mystery of Edwin Drood
as Hiram Grewgious
2012
5.9
Les Misérables: 25th Anniversary in Concert
as Monsieur Thenardier (1985 Cast)
2010
8.2
A Passionate Woman
as Donald (1980s)
2010
5.9
Garrow's Law
as John Southouse
2009
7.4
Little Dorrit
as Ephraim Flintwinch
2008
7.8
Filth: The Mary Whitehouse Story
as Ernest Whitehouse
2008
6.3
The Dinner Party
as Jim
2007
6.0
Eragon
as Uncle Garrow
2006
5.1
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The Girls Who Came to Stay
as Bob Jenkins
2006
6.0
Bleak House
as Inspector Bucket
2005
8.1
Oliver Twist
as Magistrate Fang
2005
6.7
When I'm Sixty-Four
as Jim
2004
5.0
Van Helsing: The London Assignment
as Cardinal Jinetta (voice)
2004
6.1
Van Helsing
as Cardinal Jinette
2004
6.4
Millions
as Saint Peter
2004
6.4
New Tricks
as Brian Lane
2004
7.4
Carrie's War
as Mr. Samuel Evans
2004
7.4
Between The Sheets
as Peter Delany
2003
4.5
It's All About Love
as David
2003
5.4
Paradise Found
as Camille Pissarro
2003
6.4
Inquisition
as Martin
2002
0.0
Sparkhouse
as Richard Bolton
2002
7.6
🎬
Extinct
as Himself - Narrator
2001
8.0
Bedtime
as Neil Henshaw
2001
2.0
Strictly Sinatra
as Bill
2001
4.8
🎬
Score
as George
2001
0.0
Messiah
as DCI Charlie McIntyre
2001
7.2
The Mummy Returns
as Baltus Hafez
2001
6.4
Adrian Mole: The Cappuccino Years
as George Mole
2001
3.0
Proof of Life
as Wyatt
2000
6.1
Harrison's Flowers
as Samuel Brubeck
2000
6.5
7 Up 2000
as Himself - Narrator
2000
0.0
This Is Personal: The Hunt for the Yorkshire Ripper
as Asst. Chief Const. George Oldfield
2000
7.6
This Is Personal: The Hunt for the Yorkshire Ripper
as Asst. Chief Const. George Oldfield
2000
7.0
David Copperfield
as Dan Peggotty
1999
7.1
Onegin
as Zaretsky
1999
6.1
Oliver Twist
as Mr. Fleming
1999
6.3
Sleepy Hollow
as High Constable
1999
7.2
G:MT Greenwich Mean Time
as Uncle Henry
1999
5.3
With or Without You
as Sammy
1999
5.2
Aristocrats
as Lord Holland
1999
6.0
In the Red
as DCI Frank Jefferson
1998
5.5
Underworld
1997
7.0
The Saint
as Inspector Teal
1997
6.1
Brazen Hussies
as Jimmy Hardcastle
1996
2.8
Breaking the Code
as Mick Ross
1996
5.1
Witness Against Hitler
as Pastor Harold Poelchau
1996
6.0
Our Friends in the North
as Austin Donohue
1996
7.4
Sorry About Last Night
as Mickey
1995
6.0
Les Misérables: 10th Anniversary Concert at the Royal Albert Hall
as Thenardier
1995
8.7
Braveheart
as Mornay
1995
7.9
An Awfully Big Adventure
as Uncle Vernon
1995
6.5
MacGyver: Trail to Doomsday
as Capshaw
1994
6.0
Doggin' Around
as Charlie Foster
1994
6.0
Black Beauty
as Reuben Smith
1994
6.7
🎬
Goggle Eyes
as Gerald 'Goggle Eyes' Faulkner
1993
0.0
The Tempest
as Caliban
1993
1.0
Shakespeare: The Animated Tales
as Caliban (voice)
1992
6.3
Blue Ice
as Osgood
1992
5.0
Patriot Games
as Owens
1992
6.7
Split Second
as Thrasher
1992
5.9
London Kills Me
as John Stone
1991
5.7
Stanley and the Women
as Rufus Hilton
1991
6.0
🎬
Murder in Eden
as Sgt. McGing
1991
6.0
American Friends
as Dr. Weeks
1991
6.2
The Widowmaker
as Dad
1990
0.0
Sticky Wickets
as Evans
1990
0.0
White Hunter, Black Heart
as Ralph Lockhart
1990
6.4
Looking After Number One
as Dick
1990
0.0
Nineteen96
as Det. Supt. Frank Burroughs
1989
0.0
A Night on the Tyne
as Willy
1989
0.0
Tales from the Crypt
as Inspector Herbert
1989
8.0
The Childeater
as Stefano
1989
7.0
That Summer of White Roses
as Zemba
1989
5.3
Number 27
as Murray Lester
1988
0.0
The Storyteller
as Troll (voice)
1988
8.2
Married... with Children
as Trevor
1987
7.7
Inspector Morse
as Superintendent Holdsby
1987
7.8
Billy the Kid and the Green Baize Vampire
as Maxwell Randall, The Green Baize Vampire
1985
5.9
A.D.
as Gamesmaster
1985
5.1
Number One
as Blackpool Police Sergeant
1985
5.0
The Caucasian Chalk Circle
as Singer
1985
0.0
The House
as Mr. Smeth
1984
5.0
Krull
as Torquil
1983
6.1
Mr Moon's Last Case
as Narrator
1983
0.0
The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby
1982
7.0
The French Lieutenant's Woman
as Grimes
1981
6.4
Get Lost!
as Neville Keaton
1981
5.0
🎬
Fear of God
as Trahearne
1980
0.0
All Day on the Sands
1979
6.0
Measure for Measure
as Provost
1979
5.2
Freedom of the Dig
as Quinn
1978
0.0
Liza
as Mikhalevich
1978
0.0
Armchair Thriller
as Trahearne
1978
4.2
Enemy at the Door
as Louis Mendoza
1978
7.8
Our Day Out
as Mr. Briggs
1977
7.6
Shooting the Chandelier
as Brodovich
1977
0.0
BBC2 Play of the Week
as Brodovich
1977
7.0
BBC2 Play of the Week
as Mikhalevich
1977
7.0
The Duellists
as Lieutenant Lacourbe
1977
7.2
A Sharp Intake of Breath
1977
7.0
Risking It
as Richard Clewes
1977
0.0
A Bridge Too Far
as Cpl. Davies
1977
7.2
The New Avengers
as Private George Harris
1976
7.0
The Likely Lads
as Tommy
1976
6.1
Days of Hope
as Billy Shepherd
1975
6.2
The Stars Look Down
as Joe Gowlan
1975
0.0
The Sweeney
as Peter Jenner
1975
7.8
Father Brown
as Joe
1974
6.6
Porridge
as Spraggon
1974
8.1
Easy Go
as First docker
1974
0.0
The 14
as Tommy
1973
5.7
The Eyes Have It
as Mike
1973
7.2
Thriller
as Mike
1973
6.6
The Sex Victims
as George
1973
3.8
Only Make Believe
as Michael Biddle
1973
0.0
Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads?
as Scaife
1973
7.7
Justice
as Bob Graham
1971
6.0
Get Carter
as Keith
1971
7.0
Great Performances
as Thénardier
1971
5.8
Play for Today
as 1st Docker
1970
6.3
Play for Today
as Mr Briggs
1970
6.3
BBC Play of the Month
as Lightborne
1965
5.0
Public Eye
as Vince Gregson
1965
7.8
🎬
My Little Eye
as Dad
N/A
0.0