Biography
Alan David is a British actor.
Known For
Complete Filmography
National Theatre Live: Under Milk Wood
2021
as Mr Pritchard / Mr Pugh
A community is sleeping. If you listen closely, you can hear their dreams. The retired sea captain yearning for his lost love. The landlady living ...
Dream Horse
2021
as Bert
The inspiring true story of Dream Alliance, an unlikely race horse bred by small town bartender, Jan Vokes. With very little money and no experience, ...
The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister
2010
as Uncle Lister
A lesbian in the 1800s who keeps a detailed account of her life written in coded diaries attempts to live independently while juggling an affair with ...
The Oxford Murders
2008
as Mr. Higgins
At Oxford University, a professor and a grad student work together to try and stop a potential series of murders seemingly linked by mathematical symb...
The Painted Veil
2006
as Mr. Garstin
A British medical doctor fights a cholera outbreak in a small Chinese village, while also being trapped at home in a loveless marriage to an unfaithfu...
Wimbledon
2004
as Doctor Taylor
Britain’s Peter Colt has never quite lived up to his dreams of tennis stardom. Once ranked as high as number 11 in the world, the journeyman veteran h...
Benefit to Mankind
2004
as Tecwyn Hughes
With a history of depression, a bloodstream full of booze, and a high-pressure job in medical research, Henry Winton seems like an open-and-shut suici...
Dead Gorgeous
2002
as Mr Greeley
Rose and Antonia are two old friends who meet up again after the second world war. Unhappy in their relationships, they plan to 'accidentally' murder ...
The Man Who Cried
2000
as Welsh Teacher
A young refugee travels from Russia to America in search of her lost father and falls in love with a gypsy horseman.
The Great Indoors
2000
as Cyril Davies
A British short film.
Boswell and Johnson's Tour of the Western Isles
1993
as Sir Aeneas MacPherson
In the autumn of 1773, the English writer Samuel Johnson visits the Hebrides, or Western Isles, off the North-West coast of Scotland. With him are his...
Thicker Than Water
1993
as Chief Superintendent
Debbie and Jo are identical twins. After Jo is killed in a car accident, Debbie starts to act increasingly like Jo. Mysterious circumstances lead Jo's...
A Little Bit of Lippy
1992
as Mr. Cartwright
When working-class Liverpudlian Rick Fairley reveals his long-standing interest in cross-dressing to his wife, Marian, she is understandably surprised...
Sleepers
1991
as K1
Amidst the thaw of glasnost, the Kremlin discovers that two Soviet agents, sent to England under deep cover in 1965, have been “lost.” A beautiful and...
The Mountain and the Molehill
1989
as Mr Smout
It is May 1944, two weeks before D-day. Britain stands poised for the long-awaited invasion of France - thousands of troops wait anxiously for the ord...
Road
1987
as Jerry
A view of the inhabitants of a derelict road in Manchester, unsatisfied with their lives and routines. A young man locks himself away from the world. ...
Sakharov
1984
Biography of Russian physicist & dissident Andrei Sakharov focuses on his first acts in his civil rights.
The Merchant of Venice
1980
as Solanio
A rich merchant, Antonio is depressed for no good reason, until his good friend Bassanio comes to tell him how he's in love with Portia. Portia's fath...
The Circe Complex
1980
as Ollie Milton
Tom Foreman kills a policeman after stealing jewellery worth a fortune. He is caught and incarcerated. Prison psychiatrist Ollie Milton and Tom's wife...
Shakespeare or Bust
1973
as Boat Hirer
Three miners take a boat trip to Stratford-on-Avon.