John Shrapnel
Actor/Actriz
70
Películas
43
Series
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. Simpson, 101 Dalmatians, Space: 1999, Inspector Morse, Coogan's Run, Notting Hill and Foyle's War. He presented an episode of the 1983 BBC television travel series Great Little Railways. He gave performances in three entries in the BBC Television Shakespeare plays and as Creon in the BBC's 1984 productions of the Three Theban plays of Sophocles. In America, he has starred in supporting roles as Senator Gaius in Gladiator, Nestor in Troy and Pompey in the second episode of Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire. He also played the Jail Warden in the 10th Kingdom, an epic fantasy miniseries. He has the rare achievement of appearing in two episodes of Midsomer Murders as two different characters, in Death in Chorus and Written in Blood. Shrapnel appeared in an episode of Jonathan Creek as Professor Lance Graumann in the episode The Omega Man. He appears in Chemical Wedding alongside Simon Callow, telling the tale of the resurrection of occultist Aleister Crowley. Shrapnel also has experience in the field of BBC radio drama through such characters as Colin Dexter's Inspector Morse and William Gibson's Neuromancer. He is the son-in-law of Deborah Kerr through his 1975 marriage to her younger daughter Francesca Ann Bartley. They have three sons, the actors Lex Shrapnel (b.1979), Tom Shrapnel (b.1981) and the writer Joe Shrapnel (b.1976). They live in Highbury, north London.
Como Actor/Actriz
Los asesinatos de Midsomer
Max Jennings
Natural World
Narrator
Merlín
The Sarrum
New Tricks
DAC John Felsham
Waking the Dead
John Christie
Gladiador
Gaius
BBC Play of the Month
Duke of Cornwall
Foyle's War
Raymond Brooks
Screen Two
Rev. Charles Tucker Eland
Omnibus
Zborowski
Troya
Nestor
Space: 1999
Jack Tanner
ITV Playhouse
Schoner
The Inspector Lynley Mysteries
Sergent Mike McCaffrey
Wycliffe
Dr. Sam Malvern
Jonathan Creek
Prof. Lance Graumann
Between the Lines
Deputy Assistant Commissioner Dunning
Un lugar llamado Notting Hill
PR Chief
BBC2 Play of the Week
McKendrick
Justice
Roger Anderson
Kavanagh Q.C.
Mr. Justice Griffin
The Chief
Dan Cheyney
101 dálmatas: ¡Ahora la magia es real!
Skinner
The 10th Kingdom
Governor of Prison
Shakespeare: The Animated Tales
Claudius / The Ghost (voice)
Private Schulz
German Newsreel Commentator (voice, uncredited)
Roma antigua: El Ascenso y la Caída de un Imperio
Pompey
Espejos siniestros
Lorenzo Sapelli
The Duchess
General Grey
K-19: The Widowmaker
Admiral Bratyeev