Alun Armstrong
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.
21 TV shows
TV Shows
Married... with Children
FOX
Great Performances
PBS
Play for Today
BBC One
BBC Play of the Month
BBC One
Inspector Morse
ITV1
New Tricks
BBC One
The Sweeney
ITV1
Tales from the Crypt
HBO
The Hollow Crown
BBC Two
The Storyteller
NBC
Penny Dreadful
Showtime
Thriller
ITV1
Frontier
Discovery
BBC2 Play of the Week
BBC Two
The New Avengers
ITV1
Justice
ITV1
Remembers…
BBC Four
Shakespeare: The Animated Tales
BBC Two
Breeders
FX
Public Eye
ITV1
Sherwood
BBC One
Other Credits
Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads?, Bleak House, The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, A Sharp Intake of Breath, Between The Sheets, Sparkhouse, Our Friends in the North, Little Dorrit, Bedtime, Get Lost!, Underworld, Porridge, Adrian Mole: The Cappuccino Years, A Passionate Woman, Garrow's Law, Murder in Eden, This Is Personal: The Hunt for the Yorkshire Ripper, Tom Jones, Messiah, In the Red, Dark Angel, Enemy at the Door, Prime Suspect 1973, The Stars Look Down, A.D., Oliver Twist, Stanley and the Women, Goggle Eyes, David Copperfield, Days of Hope, Extinct, Year of the Rabbit, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, Father Brown, Armchair Thriller, After the Flood, Goodbye Cruel World, Centre Play, Villains