
Alun Armstrong
0 FOLLOWERS • 27 CREDITS • JUL 17, 1946 • 78
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 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.
Known For

Married... with Children

MacGyver

Inspector Morse

Tales from the Crypt

Downton Abbey

The Hollow Crown

A.D.

The Storyteller

Breeders

Penny Dreadful

Braveheart

Sleepy Hollow

Patriot Games

The Duellists

Van Helsing

The Mummy Returns

Blue Ice

Tom Jones

Eragon

Sherwood

The Saint

New Tricks

MacGyver: Trail to Doomsday

An Awfully Big Adventure

Frontier

Dark Angel

Possum
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