David Dawson
Acting • Born 1982-09-07
Biography
David Robert Dawson (born 7 September 1982) is an English actor. He has had a varied career on television, including roles in The Road to Coronation Street (2010), series 2 of Luther (2011), Ripper Street (2012–2016), The Secret Agent (2016), as King Alfred in The Last Kingdom (2015–2018) and as Joseph Merrick ("The Elephant Man") in Year of the Rabbit (2019). On stage, Dawson received a Laurence Olivier Award nomination for playing Smike in the 2007 production of The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby. Other notable performances have been in the 2009 production of Comedians, the 2010 production of Posh, and the 2011 production of Luise Miller.
Filmography
27 credits
London Boulevard
Movie • 2010
Big Issue Seller
All the Old Knives
Movie • 2022
Owen Lassiter
The Complete Walk: Love's Labour's Lost
Movie • 2016
Berowne
The Road to Coronation Street
Movie • 2010
Tony Warren
The Duchess of Malfi
Movie • 2014
Ferdinand
Gracie!
Movie • 2009
Harry Parr Davies
The Rise of the Nutters
Movie • 2007
Affers
Damage
Movie • 2007
Tom Byrne
My Policeman
Movie • 2022
Younger Patrick
The Flaw
Movie
Elsinore
Movie
The Experiment
TV • 2002
Luther
TV • 2010
Toby Kent
Ripper Street
TV • 2012
Fred Best
The Last Kingdom
TV • 2015
Alfred
Secret Diary of a Call Girl
TV • 2007
Byron
Banished
TV • 2015
Captain Collins
Dancing on the Edge
TV • 2013
Horton
The Secret Agent
TV • 2016
Vladimir
The Burning Girls
TV • 2023
Aaron Marsh
The Hollow Crown
TV • 2012
Poins
Year of the Rabbit
TV • 2019
Joseph Merrick, The Elephant Man
Peaky Blinders
TV • 2013
Roberts
This Town
TV • 2024
Robbie Carmen
Maigret
TV • 2016
Marcel Moncin
The Mystery of Edwin Drood
TV • 2012
Bazzard
The Borgias
TV • 2011
The French Ambassador