Stanley Townsend
Acting • Born 1961-08-20
Biography
Stanley Townsend (born August 1961) is an Irish actor. Townsend was born and brought up in Dublin. After attending Wesley College, Dublin, he studied mathematics and civil engineering at Trinity College. While there he joined the Dublin University Players, the college's Amateur Dramatic Society. He later co-founded co-operative theatre company Rough Magic with writer/director Declan Hughes and theatre director Lynne Parker, performing in numerous productions including The Country Wife, Nightshade, and Sexual Perversity in Chicago. He subsequently went on to perform in several productions at The Gate and The Abbey Theatres in Dublin. In London, he has worked with such directors as Sam Mendes in The Plough and the Stars, Richard Eyre in Guys and Dolls and Rufus Norris in Under the Blue Sky. Theatre appearances at the Royal Court include The Alice Trilogy directed by Ian Rickson and Shining City directed by Conor McPherson, for which he won an Irish Theatre Award and was nominated for the Evening Standard Theatre Award for Best Actor in 2004. Townsend's television work began on a number of shows for RTÉ in Dublin. Since moving to London, television appearances have included Spooks, The Commander, Hustle, Waking the Dead, and Omagh Bombing. ilm credits include Mike Newell's Into the West, Jim Sheridan's In the Name of the Father with Daniel Day-Lewis, The Van by Stephen Frears, Peter Greenaway's The Tulse Luper Suitcases, The Libertine with Johnny Depp, Paul Morrison's Wondrous Oblivion with Delroy Lindo, John Boorman's The Tiger's Tale and Michael Radford's Flawless. He currently lives in London.
Filmography
90 credits
Happy-Go-Lucky
Movie • 2008
Tramp
The Nativity Story
Movie • 2006
Zechariah
The Libertine
Movie • 2004
Keown
Wondrous Oblivion
Movie • 2004
Victor
Dot.Kill
Movie • 2005
Capt. Tommy Byrnes
Isolation
Movie • 2005
Garda Hourigan
Flawless
Movie • 2007
Henry
Altmann's Tongue
Movie • 2000
Narrator
National Theatre Live: Phèdre
Movie • 2009
Theseus
Holy Water
Movie • 2009
Inspector Brian Hogan
Monsieur N.
Movie • 2003
Dr. O'Meara
Killing Bono
Movie • 2011
Danny Machin
My Friend Joe
Movie • 1996
Mr. Doyle
Mystics
Movie • 2003
Mickey Mac
The Pizza Miracle
Movie • 2010
Gianni
The Miracle
Movie • 1991
Washington, Destry Rides Again
Burton and Taylor
Movie • 2013
Milton Katselas
Phil Lynott: The Long Goodbye
Movie • 2022
Narrator
Psychomanteum
Movie • 2018
Narrator
Lovely Louise
Movie • 2013
Bill
The Teacher
Movie • 2024
Simon Cohen
Taffin
Movie • 1988
Les
Standby
Movie • 2014
Paul
The Voices
Movie • 2014
Sheriff Weinbacher
Cars 2
Movie • 2011
Victor Hugo / Vladimir Trunkov / Ivan the Tow Truck (voice)
Rat
Movie • 2000
Newsreader
Beyond Reason
Movie • 1995
John Horan
In the Name of the Father
Movie • 1993
Hooker's Driver
The Physician
Movie • 2013
Bar Kappara
Fallen
Movie • 2004
Mara
Hilde
Movie • 2009
David O. Selznick
Byron
Movie • 2003
Turkish Governor
Florence Foster Jenkins
Movie • 2016
Phineas Stark
Station Jim
Movie • 2001
Matapan
What a Girl Wants
Movie • 2003
Bride's Father
Omagh
Movie • 2005
Sam Pollock
National Theatre Live: King Lear
Movie • 2014
The Earl of Kent
National Theatre Live: All About Eve
Movie • 2019
Addison Dewett
The Van
Movie • 1996
Des, Health Inspector
The Snapper
Movie • 1993
Anaesthetist
Inside I'm Dancing
Movie • 2004
Interview Panelist
The Current War
Movie • 2018
Franklin Pope
One Chance
Movie • 2013
Luciano Pavarotti
A Girl from Mogadishu
Movie • 2019
Joe Costello
The Song of Names
Movie • 2019
Gilbert
Agatha and the Curse of Ishtar
Movie • 2019
Sir Constance
Ink
Movie • 1988
Saddam's Tribe
Movie • 2007
Saddam
Another Turn of the Screw
Movie
Henry James
Kinked
Movie • 2023
Once Upon a Time in a Cinema
Movie • 2026
Harry Conway
Thin Lizzy: Outlawed - The Real Phil Lynott
Movie • 2006
Narrator
National Theatre Live: Retrograde
Movie • 2025
Mr Parks
The Uprising
Movie • 2026
Jay Kelly
Movie • 2025
First Voice (voice)
Titanic: Blood and Steel
TV • 2012
Rex Riley
Heartbeat
TV • 1992
Igor Saukas
Spooks
TV • 2002
Roy Woodring
Sherlock
TV • 2010
Angelo
Hallmark Hall of Fame
TV • 1951
Constable
The Commander
TV • 2003
Zen
TV • 2011
Moscati
Galavant
TV • 2015
King of Valencia
Quirke
TV • 2014
Inspector Hackett
Ballykissangel
TV • 1996
Micky Keeler
Murder City
TV • 2004
Fresh Meat
TV • 2011
John Frobisher
Hustle
TV • 2004
Johnny Keyes
Toast of London
TV • 2013
Peak Practice
TV • 1993
Keith Johnson
The Ambassador
TV • 1998
Jonathan Creek
TV • 1997
Det. Inspector Barrison
Waking the Dead
TV • 2001
DI Bailey
Wire in the Blood
TV • 2002
Becoming Elizabeth
TV • 2022
Anthony Denny
Ripper Street
TV • 2012
Aiden Galvin
Fleming
TV • 2014
Colonel William Donovan
Jake's Progress
TV • 1995
Consultant
Call the Midwife
TV • 2012
Father Joe
Whistleblower
TV • 2008
Michael Neary
Blackshore
TV • 2024
Bill McGuire
The Regime
TV • 2024
Emil Bartos
Resistance
TV • 2019
Senator Daniel Shea
Andor
TV • 2022
Commandant Jayhold Beehaz
The Hollow Crown
TV • 2012
Warwick
The Spy
TV • 2019
General Ad-Din
KAOS
TV • 2024
President Minos
Foyle's War
TV • 2002
Jose De Perez
24
TV • 2001
Anatol Stolnavich
New Worlds
TV • 2014
Colonel Blood