Birthday
1946/07/17 (78 years old)
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
Annfield Plain, County Durham, England, UK
Also know as
Αλούν Άρμστρονγκ
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 ...Read more
(2003) Paradise Found
as Camille Pissarro
(1997) The Saint
as Inspector Teal
(1983) Krull
as Torquil
(2001) The Mummy Returns
as Baltus Hafez
(2006) Eragon
as Uncle Garrow
(1999) Sleepy Hollow
as High Constable
(1995) An Awfully Big Adventure
as Uncle Vernon
(2021) The Nicky Nack
as ---
(2004) Van Helsing: The London Assignment
as Cardinal Jinetta (voice)
(2004) Van Helsing
as Cardinal Jinette
(2003) It's All About Love
as David
(1992) Split Second
as Thrasher
(1992) Patriot Games
as Owens
(1994) MacGyver: Trail to Doomsday
as Capshaw
(1994) Black Beauty
as Reuben Smith
(1995) Les Misérables: 10th Anniversary Concert at the Royal Albert Hall
as Thenardier
(1990) Sticky Wickets
as Evans
(1999) G:MT Greenwich Mean Time
as Uncle Henry
(1977) The Duellists
as Lieutenant Lacourbe
(1996) Breaking the Code
as Mick Ross
(2004) Carrie's War
as Mr. Samuel Evans
(2008) Filth: The Mary Whitehouse Story
as Ernest Whitehouse
(1985) Number One
as Blackpool Police Sergeant
(1996) Witness Against Hitler
as Pastor Harold Poelchau
(1985) Billy the Kid and the Green Baize Vampire
as Maxwell Randall, The Green Baize Vampire
(1977) Our Day Out
as Mr. Briggs
(2004) When I'm Sixty-Four
as Jim
(2006) The Girls Who Came to Stay
as Bob Jenkins
(1991) London Kills Me
as John Stone
(1990) White Hunter, Black Heart
as Ralph Lockhart
(2010) Les Misérables: 25th Anniversary in Concert
as Monsieur Thenardier (1985 Cast)
(1980) Fear of God
as Trahearne
(1990) Looking After Number One
as Dick
(1973) The 14
as Tommy
(1989) The Childeater
as Stefano
(1999) With or Without You
as Sammy
(1992) Blue Ice
as Osgood
(2000) This Is Personal: The Hunt for the Yorkshire Ripper
as Asst. Chief Const. George Oldfield
(1995) Braveheart
as Mornay
(1989) A Night on the Tyne
as Willy
(1979) All Day on the Sands
as ---
(1976) The Likely Lads
as Tommy
(2007) The Dinner Party
as Jim
(1990) The Widowmaker
as Dad
(1977) Risking It
as Richard Clewes
(1995) Sorry About Last Night
as Mickey
The Choral
as ---
(2016) Golden Years
as Sid
(1994) Doggin' Around
as Charlie Foster
(1971) Get Carter
as Keith
(1977) A Bridge Too Far
as Cpl. Davies
(2000) Harrison's Flowers
as Samuel Brubeck
(1989) That Summer of White Roses
as ---
(2016) Asunder
as Self - Narrator (voice)
(2002) Inquisition
as Martin
(1996) Brazen Hussies
as Jimmy Hardcastle
(2018) Funny Cow
as Lenny
(2005) Oliver Twist
as Magistrate Fang
(2001) Strictly Sinatra
as Bill
(2004) Millions
as Saint Peter
(2018) Possum
as Maurice
(2001) Score
as George
(2000) 7 Up 2000
as Himself - Narrator
(2000) Proof of Life
as Wyatt
(1973) Only Make Believe
as Michael Biddle
(1983) Mr Moon's Last Case
as Narrator
(2019) Out of Innocence
as Detective Callaghan
(1999) Aristocrats
as Lord Holland
(1984) The House
as Mr. Smeth
(1979) Measure for Measure
as Provost
(1981) The French Lieutenant's Woman
as Grimes
(1977) Shooting the Chandelier
as Brodovich
(1974) Easy Go
as First docker
(1973) The Sex Victims
as George
(1999) Onegin
as Zaretsky
(1989) Nineteen96
as Det. Supt. Frank Burroughs
(1973) The Eyes Have It
as Mike
(1985) The Caucasian Chalk Circle
as Singer
(1991) American Friends
as Dr. Weeks
(1978) Freedom of the Dig
as Quinn
(1978) Liza
as Mikhalevich
(2020) Breaking The Codes
as ---
(1973) Thriller
as Mike
(1975) The Sweeney
as Peter Jenner
(1973) Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads?
as Scaife
(1989) Tales from the Crypt
as Inspector Herbert
(2005) Bleak House
as Inspector Bucket
(1987) Inspector Morse
as Superintendent Holdsby
(1982) The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby
as ---
(1977) A Sharp Intake of Breath
as ---
(2003) Between The Sheets
as Peter Delany
(2002) Sparkhouse
as Richard Bolton
(1988) The Storyteller
as ---
(1976) The New Avengers
as ---
(1996) Our Friends in the North
as Austin Donohue
(2008) Little Dorrit
as Ephraim Flintwinch
(1970) Play for Today
as 1st Docker
(2004) New Tricks
as Brian Lane
(2001) Bedtime
as Neil Henshaw
(1981) Get Lost!
as Neville Keaton
(1997) Underworld
as ---
(1965) BBC Play of the Month
as Lightborne
(1974) Porridge
as Spraggon
(1978) The BBC Television Shakespeare
as ---
(2001) Adrian Mole: The Cappuccino Years
as George Mole
(2009) Garrow's Law
as John Southouse
(2010) A Passionate Woman
as Donald (1980s)
(1991) Murder in Eden
as Sgt. McGing
(1974) Father Brown
as ---
(2014) Penny Dreadful
as Vincent Brand
(2000) This Is Personal: The Hunt for the Yorkshire Ripper
as Asst. Chief Const. George Oldfield
(2023) Tom Jones
as Squire Western
(2016) Frontier
as Lord Benton
(2001) Messiah
as DCI Charlie McIntyre
(1998) In the Red
as DCI Frank Jefferson
(2010) Downton Abbey
as Stowell
(2016) Dark Angel
as George Stot
(1987) Married... with Children
as Trevor
(1978) Enemy at the Door
as Louis Mendoza
(2017) Prime Suspect 1973
as Clifford Bentley
(1975) The Stars Look Down
as Joe Gowlan
(1971) Justice
as Bob Graham
(1985) A.D.
as Gamesmaster
(1999) Oliver Twist
as Mr. Fleming
(1991) Stanley and the Women
as Rufus Hilton
(1993) Goggle Eyes
as Gerald 'Goggle Eyes' Faulkner
(1999) David Copperfield
as Dan Peggotty
(1975) Days of Hope
as Billy Shepherd
(2022) Sherwood
as Gary Jackson
(1985) MacGyver
as Chief Superintendent Capshaw
(2020) Breeders
as Jim
(2001) Extinct
as Himself - Narrator
(2012) The Hollow Crown
as Northumberland
(2019) Year of the Rabbit
as Chief Inspector Hugh Wisbech
(1965) Public Eye
as Vince Gregson
(1992) Shakespeare: The Animated Tales
as Caliban (voice)
(1970) Play for Today
as Mr Briggs
(2012) The Mystery of Edwin Drood
as Hiram Grewgious