Alun Armstrong

Alun Armstrong

1946-07-17 Annfield Plain, County Durham, England, UK 82 Credits

Biography

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 ...

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The Choral

2025

Acting

Set in Ramsden, Yorkshire in 1916, the plot centers on the chorus master and most of the men of the ambitious local Choral Society, who have volunteer...

The Nicky Nack

The Nicky Nack

2021

Acting

A man walking home from his local pub one night is tormented by a terrifying sound: The Nicky Nack.

Breaking The Codes

Breaking The Codes

2020

Acting

Using rare archive footage and exclusive interviews, this series takes you to the heart of a war that was fought far from the bombs and shells of any ...

Out of Innocence

Out of Innocence

2019

as Detective Callaghan

6.6
Acting

After a police investigation, a young mother, confused and scared, confesses to a crime she did not commit and is charged with murder.

Possum

Possum

2018

as Maurice

6.2
Acting

A disgraced children's puppeteer returns to his childhood home and is forced to confront his wicked stepfather and the secrets that have tortured him ...

Funny Cow

Funny Cow

2018

as Lenny

6.3
Acting

A comedian uses her troubled past as material for her stand-up routine, trying to rise up through the comedy circuit by playing Northern England's wor...

Asunder

Asunder

2016

as Self - Narrator (voice)

Acting

Esther Johnson’s film uses local archive footage to convey the story of Sunderland's involvement in the First World War, from the men who fought in th...

Golden Years

Golden Years

2016

as Sid

6.3
Acting

Fate, the pensions crisis and a steadfast refusal to accept the injustice of old age have contrived to force law abiding, retired couple, Arthur and M...

Les Misérables: 25th Anniversary in Concert

Les Misérables: 25th Anniversary in Concert

2010

as Monsieur Thenardier (1985 Cast)

8.2
Acting

This concert, recorded to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the landmark musical Les Miserables, gathers the casts of the show's 2010 original product...

Filth: The Mary Whitehouse Story

Filth: The Mary Whitehouse Story

2008

as Ernest Whitehouse

6.3
Acting

The story of the rise of morals crusader Mary Whitehouse in the UK in the 1960's.

The Dinner Party

The Dinner Party

2007

as Jim

6.0
Acting

Young couple Jackie and Leo move from North London to a suburban home in the green belt paradise of Southern England. At the birthday party of a neigh...

Eragon

Eragon

2006

as Uncle Garrow

5.1
Acting

In his homeland of Alagaesia, a farm boy happens upon a dragon's egg -- a discovery that leads him on a predestined journey where he realized he's the...

The Girls Who Came to Stay

2006

as Bob Jenkins

6.0
Acting

The story of a couple who take in two girls from Belarus, a country that has been affected by the Chernobyl disaster.

Oliver Twist

Oliver Twist

2005

as Magistrate Fang

6.7
Acting

An adaptation of the classic Dickens tale, where an orphan meets a pickpocket on the streets of London. From there, he joins a household of boys who a...

When I'm Sixty-Four

When I'm Sixty-Four

2004

as Jim

5.3
Acting

When widowed cabbie Ray and retired teacher Jim meet by chance, they discover they long for the same things from life: adventure, challenge and love. ...

Van Helsing: The London Assignment

Van Helsing: The London Assignment

2004

as Cardinal Jinetta (voice)

6.1
Acting

It tells of the events before the film, in which monster hunter Gabriel Van Helsing travels to London to investigate a series of horrific, and decided...

Van Helsing

Van Helsing

2004

as Cardinal Jinette

6.4
Acting

Famed monster slayer Gabriel Van Helsing is dispatched to Transylvania to assist the last of the Valerious bloodline in defeating Count Dracula. Anna ...

Millions

Millions

2004

as Saint Peter

6.4
Acting

Two boys, still grieving the death of their mother, find themselves the unwitting benefactors of a bag of bank robbery loot in the week before the Uni...

Carrie's War

Carrie's War

2004

as Mr. Samuel Evans

7.4
Acting

Carrie's War is an adaptation of a 1973 children's novel by Nina Bawden, set during the Second World War and following two evacuees, Carrie and her yo...

It's All About Love

It's All About Love

2003

as David

5.4
Acting

The story of two lovers and their attempts to save their relationship in a near-future world on the brink of cosmic collapse. John, and world-famous i...

Paradise Found

Paradise Found

2003

as Camille Pissarro

6.6
Acting

Paradise Found is a biography about the painter Paul Gauguin. Focusing on his personal conflict between citizen life and his family life and the art s...

Inquisition

Inquisition

2002

as Martin

Acting

Set in the Spain of 1680, a time of torture and interrogation by the Grand Inquisitor. A young man appears that is healing the sick and raising the de...

Strictly Sinatra

Strictly Sinatra

2001

as Bill

4.8
Acting

In Glasgow, Toni Cocozza, age 28, aspires to be a lounge singer; his repertoire is strictly Sinatra, backed by Bill, an aging piano player and his onl...

Score

2001

as George

Acting

Comedy about a Sunday League football team who win the Lottery.

The Mummy Returns

The Mummy Returns

2001

as Baltus Hafez

6.4
Acting

Rick and Evelyn O’Connell, along with their 8-year-old son Alex, discover the key to the legendary Scorpion King’s might: the fabled Bracelet of Anubi...

Proof of Life

Proof of Life

2000

as Wyatt

6.1
Acting

When American engineer Peter Bowman is kidnapped while working in South America, his wife Alice enlists special agent Terry Thorne to help free him. H...

Harrison's Flowers

Harrison's Flowers

2000

as Samuel Brubeck

6.5
Acting

1991. Harrison Lloyd, a renowned photojournalist covering the war in Yugoslavia, is reported missing. Sarah, his wife, convinced that he is not dead, ...

7 Up 2000

7 Up 2000

2000

as Himself - Narrator

Acting

A new generation of British children feature in a follow-up to the original 7 Up series

This Is Personal: The Hunt for the Yorkshire Ripper

This Is Personal: The Hunt for the Yorkshire Ripper

2000

as Asst. Chief Const. George Oldfield

Acting

This is a dramatisation of the real-life investigation into the notorious Yorkshire Ripper murders of the late 1970s, showing the effect that it had o...

Onegin

Onegin

1999

as Zaretsky

6.2
Acting

A virtuous and passionate girl falls in love with a cynical but a dashing aristocrat.

Sleepy Hollow

Sleepy Hollow

1999

as High Constable

7.2
Acting

Skeptical young detective Ichabod Crane gets transferred to the hamlet of Sleepy Hollow, New York, where he is tasked with investigating the decapitat...

G:MT Greenwich Mean Time

G:MT Greenwich Mean Time

1999

as Uncle Henry

5.5
Acting

Six London school-leavers attempt to make it in the world, balancing the challenge of trying to make a name for themselves in the music industry again...

With or Without You

With or Without You

1999

as Sammy

5.5
Acting

Rosie and Vincent know each other for ten years, and are married for five. She doesn't like her job, he isn't too pleased working with her dad. They'r...

Aristocrats

Aristocrats

1999

as Lord Holland

6.0
Acting

18th-century England and Ireland viewed through the eyes of four beautiful high-born sisters - Caroline, Emily, Louisa, and Sarah Lennox, great-grandd...

The Saint

The Saint

1997

as Inspector Teal

6.1
Acting

Simon Templar (The Saint), is a thief for hire, whose latest job to steal the secret process for cold fusion puts him at odds with a traitor bent on t...

Brazen Hussies

Brazen Hussies

1996

as Jimmy Hardcastle

3.3
Acting

After meeting her old school friend Sandra Delaney, who now works as a stripper, pub owner Maureen Hardcastle decides to spice up her flagging busines...

Breaking the Code

Breaking the Code

1996

as Mick Ross

5.4
Acting

A biography of the English mathematician Alan Turing, who was one of the inventors of the digital computer and one of the key figures in the breaking ...

Witness Against Hitler

Witness Against Hitler

1996

as Pastor Harold Poelchau

6.0
Acting

The true story of a Prussian aristocrat working for German military intelligence during World War II, who, with a group of fellow devout Christians, p...

Sorry About Last Night

Sorry About Last Night

1995

as Mickey

6.0
Acting

A romantic comedy written by and starring Alexei Sayle. A couple on a first date in London are determined to find a drink after closing time, to prove...

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

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

1995

as Thenardier

8.7
Acting

The top stars from the original London and Broadway productions join together with a 150-voice chorus and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in London's...

Braveheart

Braveheart

1995

as Mornay

7.9
Acting

Enraged at the slaughter of Murron, his new bride and childhood love, Scottish warrior William Wallace slays a platoon of the local English lord's sol...

An Awfully Big Adventure

An Awfully Big Adventure

1995

as Uncle Vernon

6.7
Acting

Liverpool. 1947. Right after World War II, a star struck naive teenage girl joins a shabby theatre troupe in Liverpool. During a winter production of ...

MacGyver: Trail to Doomsday

MacGyver: Trail to Doomsday

1994

as Capshaw

6.0
Acting

A close friend of MacGyver is murdered. In searching for a reason for this assassination MacGyver discovers a secret nuclear weapons plant right in th...

Doggin' Around

Doggin' Around

1994

as Charlie Foster

6.0
Acting

The past catches up with an ageing American jazz pianist when he returns to the clubs of Lancashire and Yorkshire that he last visited 10 years previo...

Black Beauty

Black Beauty

1994

as Reuben Smith

6.7
Acting

The fates of horses, and the people who own and command them, are revealed as Black Beauty narrates the circle of his life.

Blue Ice

Blue Ice

1992

as Osgood

5.1
Acting

An ex-British spy (Michael Caine) helps a U.S. diplomat's wife (Sean Young) and blows the lid off a deadly government cover-up.

Patriot Games

Patriot Games

1992

as Owens

6.7
Acting

When CIA Analyst Jack Ryan interferes with an IRA assassination, a renegade faction targets Jack and his family as revenge.

Split Second

Split Second

1992

as Thrasher

5.9
Acting

In a flooded future London, Detective Harley Stone hunts a serial killer who murdered his partner and has haunted him ever since — but he soon discove...

London Kills Me

London Kills Me

1991

as John Stone

6.0
Acting

For want of a nail a shoe was lost, for want of a shoe... a young man's life is almost lost, which is exactly what this film is all about: a man barel...

American Friends

American Friends

1991

as Dr. Weeks

6.2
Acting

Francis Ashby, a senior Oxford don on holiday alone in the Alps, meets holidaying American Caroline and her companion Elinor, the blossoming Irish-Ame...

The Widowmaker

The Widowmaker

1990

as Dad

Acting

The Widowmaker is a 1990 made for television film starring Annabelle Apsion, Alun Armstrong, David Morrissey and Kenneth Welsh. The film deals with a ...

Sticky Wickets

Sticky Wickets

1990

as Evans

Acting

It's a big night at the New Dragon Inn when a coach of distinguished Germans arrives. But disaster looms - it's the local cricket team's annual fancy ...

White Hunter, Black Heart

White Hunter, Black Heart

1990

as Ralph Lockhart

6.4
Acting

Renowned filmmaker John Wilson travels to Africa to direct a new movie, but constantly leaves to hunt elephants and other game, to the dismay of his c...

Looking After Number One

Looking After Number One

1990

as Dick

Acting

Dick is a pigeon fancier. Jean sort of fancies Dick. When a stray bird brings them together, Jean's admiration grows and she discovers Dick's true fee...

Nineteen96

Nineteen96

1989

as Det. Supt. Frank Burroughs

Acting

Britain in the mid-1990s: a divided, violent nation where civil disorder and urban terrorism are on the increase. Scotland Yard detective Commander Ja...

A Night on the Tyne

A Night on the Tyne

1989

as Willy

Acting

When four shipbuilders are made redundant they decide that as a protest they will launch the ship they have been working on.

The Childeater

The Childeater

1989

as Stefano

7.0
Acting

Eight-year old Betty is sent to stay with family on a remote Welsh farm, but her father has warned her that her uncle eats children who don't behave.

That Summer of White Roses

That Summer of White Roses

1989

as Zemba

5.3
Acting

In the summer of 1944, in a peaceful resort town in the Nazi-occupied Yugoslavia, an easy-going lifeguard takes in a widow of a partisan and her young...

Billy the Kid and the Green Baize Vampire

Billy the Kid and the Green Baize Vampire

1985

as Maxwell Randall, The Green Baize Vampire

5.9
Acting

Cocky cockney snooker player Billy Kid accepts the challenge of a grudge match from Maxwell Randall (the Green Baize Vampire), six times world champio...

Number One

Number One

1985

as Blackpool Police Sergeant

5.0
Acting

A down on his luck Irishman in London decides to play snooker for money.

The Caucasian Chalk Circle

The Caucasian Chalk Circle

1985

as Singer

Acting

The hardships faced by a woman trying to survive a bloody civil war while caring for the abandoned child of the deposed former ruler.

The House

The House

1984

as Mr. Smeth

5.0
Acting

Set in 1884, and based on the assumption that Britain is one of the Baltic states between Russia and Latvia, making it part of Europe instead of an of...

Krull

Krull

1983

as Torquil

6.1
Acting

A prince and a fellowship of companions set out to rescue his bride from a fortress of alien invaders who have arrived on their home planet.

Mr Moon's Last Case

Mr Moon's Last Case

1983

as Narrator

Acting

Play based on Brian Patten's book. Local children and retired detective Moon band together to protect a leprechaun from the investigations of the loca...

The French Lieutenant's Woman

The French Lieutenant's Woman

1981

as Grimes

6.4
Acting

In this story-within-a-story, Anna is an actress starring opposite Mike in a period piece about the forbidden love between their respective characters...

Fear of God

1980

as Trahearne

Acting

A journalist finds his life is in danger when he investigates the death of a woman who was involved with a religious cult.

All Day on the Sands

All Day on the Sands

1979

Acting

Mr and Mrs Cooper are staying at a boarding-house in the seaside resort of Morecambe with their small children, Colin and Jennifer. Mr Cooper has just...

Measure for Measure

Measure for Measure

1979

as Provost

6.0
Acting

When the Duke of Vienna takes a mysterious leave of absence and leaves the strict Angelo in charge, things couldn't be worse for Claudio, who is sente...

Freedom of the Dig

Freedom of the Dig

1978

as Quinn

Acting

After 15 years in HM Prisons, Emerson just wants to keep his nose clean and get out. Working on the Stone Age fort keeps him away from trouble, but th...

Liza

Liza

1978

as Mikhalevich

Acting

Lavretsky returns to Russia from Europe and joins the group of admirers of his beautiful young cousin Liza.

Our Day Out

Our Day Out

1977

as Mr. Briggs

7.6
Acting

When a teacher takes a group of troubled school children on a school trip to Conwy in Wales, the children understand life outside of Liverpool.

Shooting the Chandelier

Shooting the Chandelier

1977

as Brodovich

Acting

During the closing days of the Second World War, a young Czechoslovakian woman, Blanka, is caught between ideologies of the Soviet regime. Part of BBC...

The Duellists

The Duellists

1977

as Lieutenant Lacourbe

7.3
Acting

In 1800, as Napoleon Bonaparte rises to power in France, a rivalry erupts between Armand and Gabriel, two lieutenants in the French Army, over a perce...

Risking It

Risking It

1977

as Richard Clewes

Acting

"There's always a sale to be made if you're willing to work hard enough." Richard is a top salesman and is content. His wife, however, has had enough.

A Bridge Too Far

A Bridge Too Far

1977

as Cpl. Davies

7.2
Acting

The story of Operation Market Garden—a failed attempt by the allies in the latter stages of WWII to end the war quickly by securing three bridges in H...

The Likely Lads

The Likely Lads

1976

as Tommy

6.1
Acting

With the destruction of their previous neighbourhood has inevitably come the destruction of the lads’ favoured watering hole The Fat Ox. Again, it’s B...

Easy Go

Easy Go

1974

as First docker

Acting

A hot day by the Thames - very hot for some Deptford children. When they and some dockers spot a 'prize' in the river, the race is on between the riva...

The 14

The 14

1973

as Tommy

6.1
Acting

Set in London’s East End, The 14 (aka The Wild Little Bunch aka Existence) is based on the true story of fourteen children who struggle against overwh...

The Eyes Have It

The Eyes Have It

1973

as Mike

7.0
Acting

A group of terrorists posing as plumbers set up base at a school for the blind. The students remain blissfully unaware while the terrorists plan the a...

The Sex Victims

The Sex Victims

1973

as George

4.3
Acting

A lone truck driver who is lured into the woods by a nubile Lady Godiva discovers after he’s slept with her that all is not as it seems. The Sex Victi...

Only Make Believe

Only Make Believe

1973

as Michael Biddle

Acting

Playwright Christopher Hudson finds his medical problem hinders his writing. He employs secretary Sandra George and dictates his new play to her, but ...

Get Carter

Get Carter

1971

as Keith

7.0
Acting

Jack Carter is a small-time hood working in London. When word reaches him of his brother's death, he travels to Newcastle to attend the funeral. Refus...