David Threlfall
Acting
Biography
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.
As actor 83
Play for Today
1970
Shameless
2004
Have I Got News for You
1990
Spooks
2002
Screen Two
1985
Have I Got a Bit More News for You
Ripper Street
2012
Playhouse
1974
Hot Fuzz
2007
Celebrity Mastermind
2003
Patriot Games
1992
ScreenPlay
1986
The Completely Made-Up Adventures of Dick Turpin
2024
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
2003
Troy: Fall of a City
2018
Second City Firsts
1973
Urban Myths
2017
Nightsleeper
2024
Elizabeth: The Golden Age
2007
Black Sea
2014
Cutting It
2002
Conspiracy
2001
Funny Woman
2023
The Russia House
1990
Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire
2006
Paradise Postponed
1986
Nowhere Boy
2009
A Dinner of Herbs
2000
What Remains
2013
The Queen's Sister
2005
Like Minds
2006
Nightingales
1990
Passenger
2024
In the Beginning
2000
Sex, Chips & Rock n' Roll
1999
Wolfe
2021
The Death of Bunny Munro
2025
Art That Made Us
2022
Alien Autopsy
2006
Code of a Killer
2015
The Ark
2015
Midwinter of the Spirit
2015
Objects of Affection
1982
Housewife, 49
2006
The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby
1982
Scum
1977
The Marksman
1987
Red Monarch
1983
The Gathering Seed
1983
A Murder of Quality
1991
Here I Stand...
1977
Men of the World
1994
Titmuss Regained
1991
King Lear
1983
Jumping The Queue
1989
The Clothes in the Wardrobe
1993
The Kiss of Death
1977
Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story
1989
Mary, Mother of Jesus
1999
Bing & Friends: Birthday Celebration
2024
Unforgivable
2025
Faith Healer
2020
Diana: Her True Story
1993
Mike Leigh: Making Plays
1982
When the Whales Came
1989
Paradise Postponed
1986
I Want to Be Like You
1976
Chunky Monkey
2003
Tommy Cooper: Not Like That, Like This
2014
Benefit to Mankind
2004
Dodger Special: Train
2022
Rolling Home
1982
Sex, Chips & Rock n' Roll
1999
A Casualty of War
1989
Dodger Special: Bad Egg
2023
Dog Ends
1984
Evidently... John Cooper Clarke
2012
Seeing in the Dark
1989
He's Asking For Me
1990
The Brylcreem Boys
1979
Beckett Double Bill (Krapp's Last Tape / The Old Tune)
2020
The Millionaire and the Murder Mansion
2009
A Statement of Affairs
1993