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.
Hot Fuzz
2007
Patriot Games
1992
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
2003
Conspiracy
2001
Black Sea
2014
The Clothes in the Wardrobe
1993
A Casualty of War
1989
Nowhere Boy
2009
Like Minds
2006
Elizabeth: The Golden Age
2007
Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story
1989
Dog Ends
1984
The Russia House
1990
The Ark
2015
Alien Autopsy
2006
Benefit to Mankind
2004
Scum
1977
Faith Healer
2020
A Murder of Quality
1991
Housewife, 49
2006
Unforgivable
2025
Mary, Mother of Jesus
1999
King Lear
1983
Red Monarch
1983
The Queen's Sister
2005
Diana: Her True Story
1993
The Kiss of Death
1977
Rolling Home
1982
Tommy Cooper: Not Like That, Like This
2014
The Brylcreem Boys
1979
When the Whales Came
1989
Seeing in the Dark
1989
Mike Leigh: Making Plays
1982
Bing & Friends: Birthday Celebration
2024
Beckett Double Bill (Krapp's Last Tape / The Old Tune)
2020
Dodger Special: Bad Egg
2023