Neil Bell
Acting • Born 1970-02-04
Biography
Neil Bell (born February 4, 1970) is an English actor, mainly on British television and occasionally in films. Bell studied drama at Oldham College and has played character roles in such TV series as Buried, Shameless, Murphy's Law, Ideal, City Lights, The Bill and Casualty, and the films 24 Hour Party People (2002) and Dead Man's Shoes (2004). He also had a small role in the acclaimed TV series State of Play, playing the colleague of Polly Walker's character. He has recently had a main role in The Bill playing the role of a killer. In 2010, he had a role in the ITV comedy-drama Married Single Other. He has appeared in Coronation Street, and in 2012, he had a regular role in Downton Abbey as Durrant. In 2013, he appeared in the first series of BBC2's Peaky Blinders as Publican Harry Fenton. In February 2016, he appeared in the BBC drama series Moving On.
Filmography
50 credits
Dead Clever: The Life and Crimes of Julie Bottomley
Movie • 2007
Figgy
Dune
Movie • 2021
Sardaukar Bashar
Short Stay, Long Stay
Movie • 2023
Bill
Wait for Me
Movie • 2023
Max
Victor Frankenstein
Movie • 2015
Huntsman
Floodlights
Movie • 2022
DS Haleford
Andor: A Disney+ Day Special Look
Movie • 2022
Time Grappler (archive footage) (uncredited)
The End We Start From
Movie • 2023
MWC
Victoria Wood's Midlife Christmas
Movie • 2009
24 Hour Party People
Movie • 2002
Aspiring Singer
Lenny Blue
Movie • 2002
Simmo
Dead Man's Shoes
Movie • 2004
Soz
Swallows and Amazons
Movie • 2016
Young Billy
Quadraturin
Movie • 2017
Mr. Black
Peterloo
Movie • 2018
Samuel Bamford
Trucker's Atlas
Movie • 2019
Mike
Enola Holmes
Movie • 2020
Constable
Radio Silence
Movie • 2013
Jimmy Mulligan
Pan
Movie • 2015
Baggy
When I Was 12
Movie • 2001
Neil
Greenland 2: Migration
Movie • 2026
One-Eyed Man
The Chase
TV • 2006
The Ghost Squad
TV • 2005
Eleventh Hour
TV • 2006
The Visit
TV • 2007
Russell
Buried
TV • 2003
'Slacker' Courtenay
Moving On
TV • 2009
Dave
True Love
TV • 2012
Phil
Blue Murder
TV • 2003
Patrick Dunwoody
Hustle
TV • 2004
Bogdan
Downton Abbey
TV • 2010
Durrant
The Second Coming
TV • 2003
Homeless Man
This Is England '90
TV • 2015
Neil
World Without End
TV • 2012
Sim Chapman
Sunshine
TV • 2008
Eddie
Broken
TV • 2017
Cash Switchers Man
Ideal
TV • 2005
Ian
I'm with Stupid
TV • 2006
Macca
Sex Traffic
TV • 2004
Guard with Araz
Brassic
TV • 2019
Keithy
Andor
TV • 2022
Time Grappler
Peaky Blinders
TV • 2013
Harry Fenton
Secrets and Words
TV • 2012
Anthony
Carnival Row
TV • 2019
Warden Wrenbrick
Adolescence
TV • 2025
Sgt Golding
Crackanory
TV • 2013
Various
Shameless
TV • 2004
Hippy Pete
Married Single Other
TV • 2010
Connelly
No Offence
TV • 2015
Mad Matt
Murphy's Law
TV • 2001
Derek