Alun Armstrong

Known for ActingBorn 1946-07-17 (age 79) Annfield Plain, County Durham, England, UK

Alun Armstrong is a prolific English character actor. Armstrong grew up in County Durham in North East England. He first became interested in acting through Shakespeare productions at his grammar school. Since his career began in the early 1970s, he has played, in his words, "the full spectrum of characters from the grotesque to musicals... I always play very colourful characters, often a bit crazy, despotic, psychotic." His numerous credits include six different Dickens adaptations and seven series as eccentric ex-detective Brian Lane in New Tricks. Armstrong is also an accomplished stage actor who spent nine years with the Royal Shakespeare Company. He originated the role of Thénardier in the London production of Les Misérables and he won an Olivier Award for playing the title role in Sweeney Todd.Read more

Movies & web series

The Widowmaker

Fear of God

Only Make Believe

A Night on the Tyne

Number 27

The Jim Henson Hour

Les Misérables: 10th Anniversary Concert at the Royal Albert Hall

Les Misérables: 25th Anniversary in Concert

Bleak House

The Storyteller

The Girls Who Came to Stay

Extinct

7 Up 2000

Enemy at the Door

Witness Against Hitler

Sorry About Last Night

Penny Dreadful

Goggle Eyes

Braveheart

Little Dorrit

Tales from the Crypt

Porridge

Public Eye

Sparkhouse

Inspector Morse

The Sweeney

The Stars Look Down

Carrie's War

Our Day Out

Our Friends in the North

Married... with Children

The Hollow Crown

The Childeater

Prime Suspect 1973

Garrow's Law

The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby

Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads?

This Is Personal: The Hunt for the Yorkshire Ripper

Goodbye Cruel World

New Tricks

Messiah

After the Flood

The Eyes Have It

Villains

Year of the Rabbit

Sleepy Hollow

Sherwood

David Copperfield