David Threlfall
Acting • Born 1953-10-12
Biography
Born in Burnage, Manchester in 1953, David Threlfall is a celebrated actor of stage, film and television. In the latter, he is perhaps best known as the feckless Frank Gallagher in Channel 4's Shameless. In 1994 whilst working on a production of The Count of Monte Cristo at the Royal Exchange, Manchester, Threlfall met Bosnian actress Brana Bajic and the pair subsequently married a year later.
Filmography
76 credits
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
Movie • 2003
Preserved Killick, Captain's Steward
Alien Autopsy
Movie • 2006
Jeffrey
Patriot Games
Movie • 1992
Inspector Highland
A Murder of Quality
Movie • 1991
Stanley Rode
Mary, Mother of Jesus
Movie • 1999
Joseph of Nazareth
The Kiss of Death
Movie • 1977
Trevor
Tommy Cooper: Not Like That, Like This
Movie • 2014
Tommy Cooper
Dodger Special: Train
Movie • 2022
Sir Charles Rowan
Dodger Special: Bad Egg
Movie • 2023
Sir Charles Rowan
The Ark
Movie • 2015
Noah
Elizabeth: The Golden Age
Movie • 2007
Dr. John Dee
The Brylcreem Boys
Movie • 1979
George Hunn
When the Whales Came
Movie • 1989
Jack Jenkins
Scum
Movie • 1977
Archer
Seeing in the Dark
Movie • 1989
Tony
Black Sea
Movie • 2014
Peters
Chunky Monkey
Movie • 2003
Donald Leek
The Russia House
Movie • 1990
Wicklow
Housewife, 49
Movie • 2006
Will Last
Conspiracy
Movie • 2001
Friedrich Wilhelm Kritzinger
He's Asking For Me
Movie • 1990
Andy
King Lear
Movie • 1983
Edgar
Sex, Chips & Rock n' Roll
Movie • 1999
Hot Fuzz
Movie • 2007
Martin Blower
Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story
Movie • 1989
Alex
Mike Leigh: Making Plays
Movie • 1982
Self
The Queen's Sister
Movie • 2005
Prince Philip
Like Minds
Movie • 2006
John Colbie
Nowhere Boy
Movie • 2009
George Toogood Smith
Red Monarch
Movie • 1983
Vasily
Diana: Her True Story
Movie • 1993
Prince Charles
A Casualty of War
Movie • 1989
Tom Rowse
Dog Ends
Movie • 1984
Robert
Evidently... John Cooper Clarke
Movie • 2012
Himself
The Clothes in the Wardrobe
Movie • 1993
Syl
A Statement of Affairs
Movie • 1993
Alan
Beckett Double Bill (Krapp's Last Tape / The Old Tune)
Movie • 2020
Cream
Faith Healer
Movie • 2020
Teddy
Paradise Postponed
Movie • 1986
Leslie Titmus
I Want to Be Like You
Movie • 1976
Steve
Bing & Friends: Birthday Celebration
Movie • 2024
Flop (voice)
Unforgivable
Movie • 2025
Brian Mitchell
Rolling Home
Movie • 1982
Donald
Benefit to Mankind
Movie • 2004
Carl Swannee
Men of the World
TV • 1994
Lenny Smart
Shameless
TV • 2004
Frank Gallagher
Sex, Chips & Rock n' Roll
TV • 1999
Norman
Nightingales
TV • 1990
Bell
The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby
TV • 1982
Paradise Postponed
TV • 1986
Leslie Titmuss
Cutting It
TV • 2002
Beauregard Smee
The Marksman
TV • 1987
Weaver
Nightsleeper
TV • 2024
Paul Peveril
Wolfe
TV • 2021
Howard
What Remains
TV • 2013
Len Harper
Code of a Killer
TV • 2015
DCS David Baker
Midwinter of the Spirit
TV • 2015
Rev Huw Owens
Funny Woman
TV • 2023
George Parker
Troy: Fall of a City
TV • 2018
King Priam
Ripper Street
TV • 2012
Abel Croker
Art That Made Us
TV • 2022
Self - Narrator (voice)
Urban Myths
TV • 2017
Samuel Beckett
In the Beginning
TV • 2000
Aaron
Passenger
TV • 2024
Jim Bracknell
The Gathering Seed
TV • 1983
Joe Henshaw
Spooks
TV • 2002
Keith Moran
Have I Got a Bit More News for You
TV
Self - Panellist
The Completely Made-Up Adventures of Dick Turpin
TV • 2024
Tom King
Play for Today
TV • 1970
Robert
Objects of Affection
TV • 1982
Donald
Titmuss Regained
TV • 1991
Leslie Titmuss
Have I Got News for You
TV • 1990
Self
The Death of Bunny Munro
TV • 2025
Bunny Snr
Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire
TV • 2006
Constantine the Great
Playhouse
TV • 1974
George Hunn
A Dinner of Herbs
TV • 2000
Older Hal