
Actor
David Threlfall
Born 1953 · 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.
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Acting

Hot Fuzz
Martin Blower · 2007

Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
Preserved Killick, Captain's Steward · 2003

Patriot Games
Inspector Highland · 1992

Nowhere Boy
George Toogood Smith · 2009

Elizabeth: The Golden Age
Dr. John Dee · 2007

Conspiracy
Friedrich Wilhelm Kritzinger · 2001

Black Sea
Peters · 2014

Ripper Street
Abel Croker · 2012

Spooks
Keith Moran · 2002

Shameless
Frank Gallagher · 2004

The Russia House
Wicklow · 1990

Have I Got News for You
Self · 1990

Like Minds
John Colbie · 2006

What Remains
Len Harper · 2013

Code of a Killer
DCS David Baker · 2015

Scum
Archer · 1977

Nightsleeper
Paul Peveril · 2024

Troy: Fall of a City
King Priam · 2018

The Completely Made-Up Adventures of Dick Turpin
Tom King · 2024

Alien Autopsy
Jeffrey · 2006

Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire
Constantine the Great · 2006

Funny Woman
George Parker · 2023

Urban Myths
Samuel Beckett · 2017

The Marksman
Weaver · 1987