Nicholas Farrell
Acting
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Nicholas Farrell (born Nicholas Charles Frost, in September 1955) is an English stage, film and television actor. His early screen career included the role of Aubrey Montague in the 1981 film Chariots of Fire. In 1983, he starred as Edmund Bertram in a television adaptation of the Jane Austen novel, Mansfield Park. In 1984, he appeared in Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes and The Jewel in the Crown. Since then, his film and television work has included several screen adaptations of Shakespeare's works, including Kenneth Branagh's 1996 Hamlet , in which he played Horatio, a role he had played previously with Branagh for the Royal Shakespeare Company. He has also appeared in film adaptations of Twelfth Night (1996), Othello (1995) and In the Bleak Midwinter (1995). He provided the voice of Hamlet for the animated television adaptation Shakespeare: The Animated Tales (1992). Other television appearances have included two Agatha Christie's Poirot movies, Sharpe's Regiment, To Play the King, Torchwood and Collision. He has also appeared in episodes of Lovejoy, Foyle's War, Absolute Power, Spooks, Midsomer Murders, Drop the Dead Donkey and Casualty. Farrell's theatre work includes performances of The Cherry Orchard, Camille, and The Crucible as well as Royal Shakespeare Company productions of The Merchant of Venice, Julius Caesar, and Hamlet. He is married to Scottish actress Stella Gonet. Description above from the Wikipedia article Nicholas Farrell, licensed under CC-BY-SA,full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
132 credits
Cosmos Within Us
Movie • 2019
Aiken
Legionnaire
Movie • 1998
Mackintosh
Bloody Sunday
Movie • 2002
Brigadier Maclellan
The Third Wave
Movie • 2003
Devlin
Fiona's Story
Movie • 2008
Edward
Chariots of Fire
Movie • 1981
Aubrey Montague
Persuasion
Movie • 2007
Mr. Musgrove
Amazing Grace
Movie • 2006
Henry Thornton
The Vision Thing
Movie • 1993
Batt Prender
Dead Lucky
Movie • 1988
Martin Urban
Munich – The Edge of War
Movie • 2021
Sir Alexander Cadogan
The Treasure Seekers
Movie • 1996
Bastable
Sharpe's Regiment
Movie • 1996
Lord Fenner
Arthur's Dyke
Movie • 2001
Geoffrey
The Rocking Horse Winner
Movie • 1982
Lawyer
Summer in February
Movie • 2013
Mr. Carter-Wood
Grace of Monaco
Movie • 2014
Jean-Charles Rey
Beautiful People
Movie • 1999
Dr Mouldy
Plunkett & MacLeane
Movie • 1999
MP's Secretary
Hamlet
Movie • 1996
Horatio
Finding Altamira
Movie • 2016
Vilanova
Driving Lessons
Movie • 2006
Robert
Nobody Here But Us Chickens
Movie • 1989
Othello
Movie • 1995
Montano
A Christmas Carol: A Ghost Story
Movie • 2022
Ebenezer Scrooge
Charlotte Gray
Movie • 2001
Mr. Jackson
Legend
Movie • 2015
Dr Humphries
Berlin Tunnel 21
Movie • 1981
Georg Heptner
Sex, Chips & Rock n' Roll
Movie • 1999
In the Bleak Midwinter
Movie • 1995
Tom Newman
Testament of Youth
Movie • 2015
Headmaster
By Common Consent
Movie • 1975
Sharpe: The Legend
Movie • 1997
Fenner
Tear Me Apart
Movie • 2016
Old Man (voice)
Spying on Hitler’s Army: The Secret Recordings
Movie • 2013
General von Thoma
Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes
Movie • 1984
Sir Hugh Belcher
Jack the Ripper: The London Slasher
Movie • 2016
Samuel Harris
The Iron Lady
Movie • 2011
Airey Neave
Pearl Harbor
Movie • 2001
RAF Squadron Leader
Prometheus Bound
Movie • 2004
Prometheus (voice)
Widow Clicquot
Movie • 2024
Jean-Remy Moet
Reversals
Movie • 2003
Edward Leitch
Mindhorn
Movie • 2016
Mayor
Red Mercury
Movie • 2005
Minister
Remainder
Movie • 2015
Daubenay
Another Mother's Son
Movie • 2017
De La Haye
Twelfth Night
Movie • 1996
Antonio
Lies We Tell
Movie • 2018
Anthony Quest
Playing Away
Movie • 1987
Derek
A Breed of Heroes
Movie • 1994
Lt. Col Ian Gowrie, MC
Late Bloomers
Movie • 2011
Francis
Hurricane
Movie • 2018
Air Chief Marshal Sir Hugh Dowding
White Chamber
Movie • 2018
Dr. Edgar Chrystler
The Coldest Game
Movie • 2019
G. Moran
Dream Horse
Movie • 2021
Philip Hobbs
Mortdecai
Movie • 2015
Auctioneer
The Trials of Oz
Movie • 1991
Dr. Michael Schofield
Robot Overlords
Movie • 2015
Sentry Robot/Air Drone (voice)
Christmas in the Highlands
Movie • 2019
Duke of Glenmorie
Bait
Movie • 2002
Alfred White
The Man Who Saw Too Much
Movie • 2019
Yurka Galitzine (voice)
The Fools on the Hill
Movie • 1986
David
Napoleon's Waterloo
Movie • 2015
Narrator
A Toast to Love
Movie • 2024
Professor Dale Farringdon
A Silly Little Habit
Movie • 1982
Simon
Nipplejesus
Movie • 2015
Silver Fox
Hamlet
Movie • 1992
Hamlet
Past Life
Movie • 2026
Elliot Reed
The Minoans
Movie • 2004
Readings (voice)
Portrait of Isa Mulvenny
Movie • 1985
Bill Thompson
Creditors
Movie • 2025
Adolf
Sex, Chips & Rock n' Roll
TV • 1999
Howard
The Nevers
TV • 2021
Prince Albrecht
Lovejoy
TV • 1986
Douglas Holden
Agatha Christie's Poirot
TV • 1989
Donald Fraser
The Diary of Anne Frank
TV • 2009
Albert Dussel
The Gold
TV • 2023
Jim Clark
Rebus
TV • 2000
Davis Haigh
Father Brown
TV • 2013
Sir Raleigh Beresford
37 Days
TV • 2014
Eyre Crowe
Suburban Shootout
TV • 2006
Raymond
New Tricks
TV • 2004
James Winslow
The Jury
TV • 2002
Jeremy Crawford
The Agatha Christie Hour
TV • 1982
Edward Robinson
Bramwell
TV • 1995
Major Stuart Hyde
Jericho
TV • 2005
Charles Hewitt
Jo
TV • 2013
Lewis
TV • 2007
Charles Milner
Waking the Dead
TV • 2001
Douglas Malham
Drop the Dead Donkey
TV • 1990
Casualty
TV • 1986
Phil Byron
Siblings
TV • 2014
Bedtime
TV • 2001
Ray
The Inspector Lynley Mysteries
TV • 2002
Sam Oborne
Casualty 1900s
TV • 2008
Sydney Holland
Bodies
TV • 2023
Chief Inspector Paxman
Secret State
TV • 2012
General Munnery
Sparkhouse
TV • 2002
Paul Lawton
The Choir
TV • 1995
Leo Beckford
The Ginger Tree
TV • 1989
Father Anthony
Going Postal
TV • 2010
Mr. Pump
To Play the King
TV • 1993
David Mycroft
Death in Paradise
TV • 2011
Nicholas Dunham
Thirteen
TV • 2016
Henry Stone
A Touch of Frost
TV • 1992
Simon Slater
Fool Me Once
TV • 2024
Neville Lockwood
Spooks
TV • 2002
Richard Maynard
Call the Midwife
TV • 2012
Charles Newgarden
Agatha Christie's Poirot
TV • 1989
Knighton
Everything I Know About Love
TV • 2022
Graham
The Riff Raff Element
TV • 1994
Boyd Tundish
Heartbeat
TV • 1992
Traumatised Man / Buckley
Silent Witness
TV • 1996
Professor Adrian Cowley
Midsomer Murders
TV • 1997
Isaac Starling
Torchwood
TV • 2006
Brian Green
Shakespeare: The Animated Tales
TV • 1992
Hamlet (voice)
Endeavour
TV • 2013
Sir Alexander Lermontov
Matador
TV • 1978
Jim Donaldson, Engelsk flyver
Lipstick on Your Collar
TV • 1993
Major Church
The Crown
TV • 2016
Michael Shea
The Count of Monte Cristo
TV • 2025
Morrel
Signora Volpe
TV • 2022
Michael Priest / Henry Fox
Signora Volpe
TV • 2022
Michael Priest
Foyle's War
TV • 2002
James Collier
Playhouse
TV • 1974
Simon
BBC Play of the Month
TV • 1965
Larion Surzhansky
Mansfield Park
TV • 1983
Edmund Bertram
The Jewel in the Crown
TV • 1984
Teddy Bingham
Talk to Me
TV • 2007
Harry
The Village
TV • 2013
Crispin Rose
Will
TV • 2017
Sir Francis Walsingham
Hold the Dream
TV • 1987
Sebastian Cross