John Shrapnel
Birthday
1942/04/27
Day of death
2020/02/14 (77 years old)
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
Birmingham, England, UK
Also know as
John Morley Shrapnel
Biography
Shrapnel was born in Birmingham, Warwickshire, the son of Mary Lillian Myfanwy (née Edwards) and journalist/author Norman Shrapnel.[1] As a stage actor, he was a member of Laurence Olivier's Royal National Theatre company and the Royal Shakespeare Company and most recently appeared as Sir Oliver Surface in The School for Scandal (directed by Deborah Warner) at the Barbican Centre in 2011. He has also appeared extensively in film and on television in roles in Elizabeth R, Z-Cars, Edward and Mrs....Read more
Acting
(2000) Gladiator
as Gaius
(1999) Notting Hill
as PR Chief
(2004) Troy
as Nestor
(2002) K-19: The Widowmaker
as Admiral Bratyeev
(2006) Alien Autopsy
as Michael Kuhn
(2001) The Body
as Moshe Cohen
(2022) Hamlet Within
as ---
(2002) Alone
as Hannah
(1989) How to Get Ahead in Advertising
as Psychiatrist
(2008) Chemical Wedding
as Crowley
(1999) Hornblower: The Frogs and the Lobsters
as General Charette
(2002) Claim
as Lex Vandenberg
(1997) St. Stephen's: The Living Cathedral
as Narrator (English voice)
(2005) Wachau - Valley of Golden Magic
as Narrator (English Version)
(2002) Schönbrunn - Well of Beauty
as Narrator (English Version)
(2003) Wild Women of Viramba
as Narrator
(1976) Hitting Town
as Leonard Brazil (voice)
(2011) The Awakening
as Reverend Hugh Purslow
(2014) OXI, an Act of Resistance
as Creon
(2009) An Organization of Dreams
as Father
(1969) The Ha-Ha
as Jamie
(2013) National Theatre Live: Macbeth
as Duncan, King of Scotland/Seyton, attendant to Macbeth/Old Man
(2001) Animals of the Ocean Desert
as Narrator
(1987) Partition
as General Flood
(1991) Selling Hitler
as Gerd Schulte-Hillen
(1987) Personal Services
as Lionel
(2005) Shadow of the Sword
as Archbishop
(2017) Britain's Nuclear Bomb - The Inside Story
as Narrator (Voice)
(1980) The Tom Machine
as ---
(1977) Professional Foul
as McKendrick
(1990) The Tragedy of Flight 103: The Inside Story
as BKA Police Chief
(2015) Hamlet
as Claudius/Ghost
(2016) The Return of the Flying Scotsman
as Narrator - (Voice)
(1994) Fatherland
as General Globus
(1979) Gossip from the Forest
as Matthias Erzberger
(1981) Timon of Athens
as Alcibiades
(2004) Seven Wonders of Ancient Egypt
as Narrator
(1977) The Three Hostages
as Gaudian
(2007) Elizabeth: The Golden Age
as Lord Howard
(1975) Hennessy
as Tipaldi
(1995) England, My England
as Samuel Pepys
(2015) Branagh Theatre Live: The Winter's Tale
as Camilo
(2000) Supermassive Black Holes
as Narrator
(2007) Hindenburg: Titanic of the Skies
as Himself (Narrator)
(2017) King Charles III
as Archbishop of Canterbury
(1981) Troilus & Cressida
as Hector
(1996) Two Deaths
as Cinca
(1988) Testimony
as Andre Zhdanov
(2008) The Duchess
as General Grey
(1996) 101 Dalmatians
as Skinner
(1986) Theban Plays: Oedipus the King
as Creon
(1986) Theban Plays: Antigone
as Creon
(1986) Theban Plays: Oedipus at Colonus
as Creon
(2008) Mirrors
as Lorenzo Sapelli
(1971) Nicholas and Alexandra
as Petya
(1982) King Lear
as Earl of Kent
(2002) Whistle
as Paul
(1985) Poppyland
as George Sims
(1978) Edward & Mrs. Simpson
as Maj. Alexander Hardinge
(1995) King Arthur: His Life and Legends
as ---
(2004) Seven Wonders of Ancient Greece
as Narrator
(2004) Seven Wonders of Ancient Rome
as Narrator
(1972) Pope Joan
as Father James
(2009) National Theatre Live: Phèdre
as Théramène
(1999) Mary, Mother of Jesus
as Simon
(2001) Mountain Men: The Ghosts of K2
as Narrator
(2003) The Race for Everest
as Narrator
(1985) The Burston Rebellion
as Rev. Charles Tucker Eland
(1999) The Strange Case of Delfina Potocka
as Iwaszkiewicz
(2014) Building Burma's Death Railway: Moving Half the Mountain
as Narrator
(1992) SS-3: The Assassination of Reinhard Heydrich
as Narrator
(1978) Flayed
as Robert
(2004) I Am Not an Animal
as Narrator
(1971) Elizabeth R
as Earl of Sussex
(2008) Apparitions
as Cardinal Bukovak
(1978) Edward and Mrs Simpson
as Major Alexander Hardinge
(2006) Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire
as Pompey
(1997) Bodyguards
as Commander Alan MacIntyre
(1983) Natural World
as Narrator
(1997) Predators Killing for a Living
as ---
(1992) Between the Lines
as Deputy Assistant Commissioner Dunning
(2004) New Tricks
as DAC John Felsham
(2001) Waking the Dead
as John Christie
(1989) About Face
as ---
(1991) G.B.H.
as Dr Jacobs
(1997) Jonathan Creek
as Prof. Lance Graumann
(1995) Kavanagh Q.C.
as Mr. Justice Griffin
(1997) Midsomer Murders
as Max Jennings
(2002) The Inspector Lynley Mysteries
as Sergent Mike McCaffrey
(1971) Justice
as Roger Anderson
(2000) The 10th Kingdom
as Governor of Prison
(1998) Invasion: Earth
as Air Marshal Bentley
(1990) Centrepoint
as Claud Wareing
(1982) The Woman in White
as Sir Percival Glyde
(1992) Between the Lines
as D.C.C. Dunning
(1994) Wycliffe
as Dr. Sam Malvern
(1975) Space: 1999
as Jack Tanner
(1997) Midsomer Murders
as Leo Clarke
(1992) Shakespeare: The Animated Tales
as Claudius / The Ghost (voice)
(1978) Armchair Thriller
as Vincent Craig
(1988) The Modern World: Ten Great Writers
as Thomas Mann
(2008) Merlin
as The Sarrum
(1987) Inspector Morse
as Dr. Julian Storrs
(2017) The Lions Rule
as Narrator (voice)