
Owen Teale
Acting • Born 1961-05-20
Biography
Owen Teale (born 20 May 1961) is a Welsh actor. Trained at the Guildford School of Acting, Teale made his television debut in The Mimosa Boys in 1984. He later appeared in Knights of God (1989), Great Expectations (1989), Waterfront Beat (1990) and Boon (1990) before being cast as Will Scarlet in the 1991 TV movie Robin Hood. He went on to appear in such series as Dangerfield, Ballykissangel and the long-running Belonging, and later Spooks and Murphy's Law. In 2005, he played a lead role in Marian, Again—opposite Stephen Tompkinson, Samantha Beckinsale and Kelly Harrison—in which he was the abusive husband of Harrison's eponymous character. His film debut was in War Requiem in 1989. He later appeared as Lophakin in the 1999 adaptation of The Cherry Orchard, opposite Charlotte Rampling as Ranevskaya and Alan Bates as Gayev. His appearance in King Arthur, as Pelagius, was relegated to the DVD extended edition. He played Nazi Judge Roland Freisler in the HBO film Conspiracy. In 2006 he appeared in the Torchwood episode "Countrycide"; in 1985, he had appeared in the Doctor Who serial Vengeance on Varos as "Maldak". In 2006 he had a role in the HBO UK TV movie Tsunami: The Aftermath. In 2007, he guest-starred in the Doctor Who audio drama The Mind's Eye. In the same year, he starred in The Last Legion. In 2011, appeared as Ser Alliser Thorne in the HBO TV adaptation of George R. R. Martin's novel series A Song of Ice and Fire, called Game of Thrones. Teale has been married twice: to Dilys Watling and then to Sylvestra Le Touzel. Description above from the Wikipedia article Owen Teale, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
76 credits
It's Alive
Movie • 2009
Sgt. Perkins

The Last Legion
Movie • 2007
Vatrenus

War Requiem
Movie • 1989
The Unknown Soldier

From A Strange Land
Movie • 2021
Michael Crown

Marian, Again
Movie • 2005
Bernie Sullivan

Save the Cinema
Movie • 2022
Darek

The Fifteen Streets
Movie • 1989
John O'Brien

The Hawk
Movie • 1993
Ken Marsh

The Fold
Movie • 2014
Edward Ashton

Death of a Salesman
Movie • 1996
Happy

The Pembrokeshire Murders: Catching the Gameshow Killer
Movie • 2021

Under Milk Wood
Movie • 2014
Dai Bread

The Vacillations of Poppy Carew
Movie • 1995
Edmund Platt

Dangerous Lady
Movie • 1995

Game of Thrones The IMAX Experience
Movie • 2015
Alliser Thorne

Conspiracy
Movie • 2001
Roland Freisler

Murder in Rome
Movie • 2005
Erucius

The Search for John Gissing
Movie • 2001
Giles Hanagan

Doctor Who: Vengeance on Varos
Movie • 1985
Maldak

Marco Polo: Haperek Ha'aharon
Movie • 1997
Adolph

Nocturne
Movie • 2016
Murray

National Theatre Live: No Man's Land
Movie • 2016
Briggs

Judas
Movie • 2004
Flavius

King Arthur
Movie • 2004
Pelagius (uncredited)

Inconceivable
Movie • 2008
Richard Newman

Robin Hood
Movie • 1991
Will Scarlett

The Cherry Orchard
Movie • 1999
Lopahin

Tolkien
Movie • 2019
Headmaster Gilson

Dream Horse
Movie • 2021
Brian Vokes

Panic
Movie
Thomas

Wilderness
Movie • 1996
Dan Somers

Salt Water Town
Movie • 2021
Glenn

The Physician II
Movie • 2025
Godwin

Blue
Movie • 2023
Lucy's Dad

No Man's Land
Movie
Briggs

The Dead Peasants Society
Movie • 2007
Tom Cornell

Something Pointless
Movie
Aldous Evans

Hunky Dory
Movie • 2011
Davey's Dad

Island at War
TV • 2004
PC Wilf Jonas

Midsomer Murders
TV • 1997
Little Mal Kirby

Torchwood
TV • 2006
Ewan Sherman

Doctor Who
TV • 1963
Maldak

The Thin Blue Line
TV • 1995
Gary

The Pembrokeshire Murders
TV • 2021
Gerard Elias QC

Spooks
TV • 2002
Robert Morgan

Ballykissangel
TV • 1996

Belonging
TV • 2000

Line of Duty
TV • 2012
Philip Osborne

Ted and Alice
TV • 2002

Timewatch
TV • 1982
Erucius

River
TV • 2015
Marcus McDonald

Ballykissangel
TV • 1996
Conor Devlin

Beast
TV • 2000
Mr. Head

The Ruth Rendell Mysteries
TV • 1987
Bob North

Game of Thrones
TV • 2011
Alliser Thorne

Houdini & Doyle
TV • 2016
Professor Havensling

The Rig
TV • 2023
Lars Hutton

Stella
TV • 2012
Dai Kosh

Ripper Street
TV • 2012
Felix Hackman

Pulse
TV • 2017
Chad Berger

Tales of the Tardis
TV • 2023
Maldak

The Children
TV • 2008
Peter

Cleopatra
TV • 1999
Grattius

Tsunami: The Aftermath
TV • 2006
James Peabody

Wilderness
TV • 1996
Dan Somers

Tales from the Green Valley
TV • 2005
Narrator

A Discovery of Witches
TV • 2018
Peter Knox

The Hollow Crown
TV • 2012
Captain Fluellen

Line of Duty
TV • 2012
CI Osborne

Wolf
TV • 2023
Oliver Anchor-Ferrers

Sandokan
TV • 2025
Lord Guillonk

Great Expectations
TV • 1989
Mr Drummle

David Copperfield
TV • 1986
Ham Peggotty

Line of Duty
TV • 2012
CI Philip Osborne

Silk
TV • 2011
Brian Frogett

Murphy's Law
TV • 2001
Paul Allison