
David Threlfall
Acting
Born 1953-10-12 · Burnage, Manchester, England, UK
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.
Known for

Hot Fuzz
2007 · Movie

Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
2003 · Movie

Patriot Games
1992 · Movie

Elizabeth: The Golden Age
2007 · Movie

Conspiracy
2001 · Movie

Nowhere Boy
2009 · Movie

Black Sea
2014 · Movie

The Russia House
1990 · Movie

Like Minds
2006 · Movie

Mike Leigh: Making Plays
1982 · Movie

Evidently... John Cooper Clarke
2012 · Movie

Unforgivable
2025 · Movie

Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story
1989 · Movie

Alien Autopsy
2006 · Movie

Scum
1977 · Movie

The Ark
2015 · Movie

King Lear
1983 · Movie

Tommy Cooper: Not Like That, Like This
2014 · Movie

The Clothes in the Wardrobe
1993 · Movie

When the Whales Came
1989 · Movie

Housewife, 49
2006 · Movie

The Kiss of Death
1977 · Movie

Red Monarch
1983 · Movie

A Murder of Quality
1991 · Movie

The Queen's Sister
2005 · Movie

Mary, Mother of Jesus
1999 · Movie

Chunky Monkey
2003 · Movie

Diana: Her True Story
1993 · Movie

A Casualty of War
1989 · Movie

Bing & Friends: Birthday Celebration
2024 · Movie

Rolling Home
1982 · Movie

Benefit to Mankind
2004 · Movie

Dog Ends
1984 · Movie

Seeing in the Dark
1989 · Movie

The Brylcreem Boys
1979 · Movie

Dodger Special: Bad Egg
2023 · Movie

Dodger Special: Train
2022 · Movie

Faith Healer
2020 · Movie

Beckett Double Bill (Krapp's Last Tape / The Old Tune)
2020 · Movie

I Want to Be Like You
1976 · Movie