John Shrapnel
- Schauspiel
- 27. April 1942 · Birmingham, England, UK
- 14. Februar 2020
Biografie
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.
Bekannt aus
Filmografie
- Hamlet Within
- Das Gesetz der Löwen · Narrator (Stimme)
- King Charles III · Archbishop of Canterbury
- Britain's Nuclear Bomb - The Inside Story · Narrator (Stimme)
- The Return of the Flying Scotsman · Narrator - (Stimme)
- Branagh Theatre Live: The Winter's Tale · Camilo
- Hamlet · Claudius/Ghost
- OXI, an Act of Resistance · Creon
- Building Burma's Death Railway: Moving Half the Mountain · Narrator
- National Theatre Live: Macbeth · Duncan/Seyton/Old Man
- Run. · St. Peter
- The Awakening - Geister der Vergangenheit · Reverend Hugh Purslow
- National Theatre Live: Phèdre · Théramène
- An Organization of Dreams · Father
- Apparitions · Cardinal Bukovak
- Merlin - Die Neuen Abenteuer · The Sarrum
- Die Herzogin · General Grey
- Mirrors · Lorenzo Sapelli
- Crowley - Back from Hell · Crowley
- Das Geheimnis der Hindenburg · Selbst
- Elizabeth: Das goldene Königreich · Lord Howard
- Once Upon a Time on the Westway · Billy Palmer
- Rom und seine großen Herrscher · Pompey
- Alien Autopsy - Das All zu Gast bei Freunden · Michael Kuhn
- Shadow of the Sword – Der Henker · Archbishop
- Seven Wonders of Ancient Greece · Narrator
- Troja · Nestor
- I Am Not an Animal · Narrator (Stimme)
- Seven Wonders of Ancient Egypt · Narrator
- Seven Wonders of Ancient Rome · Narrator
- New Tricks – Die Krimispezialisten · DAC John Felsham
- The Race for Everest · Narrator
- Wild Women of Viramba · Narrator
- Inspector Foyle · Raymond Brooks
- Whistle · Paul
- K-19 - Showdown in der Tiefe · Admiral Bratyeev
- Claim - Der Betrug · Lex Vandenberg
- Alone - Hör auf deine Angst · Hannah
- Inspector Lynley · Sergent Mike McCaffrey
- The Gentleman Thief · Monty Sinclair
- Animals of the Ocean Desert · Narrator
- Waking the Dead - Im Auftrag der Toten · John Christie
- Mountain Men: The Ghosts of K2 · Narrator
- The Body · Moshe Cohen
- The Misfit and the Matterhorn · Narrator
- Horizon: Supermassive Black Holes · Narrator
- Gladiator · Gaius
- Das zehnte Königreich · Governor of Prison
- Lost on Everest: The Search for Mallory and Irvine · Selbst
- Maria - Die heilige Mutter Gottes · Simon
- Notting Hill · PR Chief
- Hornblower - Froschfresser und Rotröcke · General Charette
- Chopins Geheimnis · Iwaszkiewicz
- Solo Shuttle · Cain
- Lion Queen · Narrator (Stimme)
- Mysteriöse Phänomene · Air Marshal Bentley
- Predators Killing for a Living
- Jonathan Creek · Prof. Lance Graumann
- Bodyguards · Commander Alan MacIntyre
- Inspector Barnaby · Max Jennings, Leo Clarke
- True Tilda · Reverand Glasson
- 101 Dalmatiner · Skinner
- Two Deaths · Cinca
- Alien Empire · Narrator
- Coogan's Run · Douglas Crown
- King Arthur: His Life and Legends
- Kavanagh Q.C. · Mr. Justice Griffin
- England, My England · Samuel Pepys
- Vaterland · General Globus
- Wycliffe · Dr. Sam Malvern
- Hitler zu verkaufen · Gerd Schulte-Hillen
- Hamlet · Claudius
- Shakespeare: The Animated Tales · Claudius / The Ghost (Stimme)
- Between the Lines · Deputy Assistant Commissioner Dunning, D.C.C. Dunning
- SS-3: The Assassination of Reinhard Heydrich · Narrator
- Hitler zu verkaufen · Gerd Schülte-Hillen
- G.B.H. · Dr Jacobs
- For the Greater Good · Norman May-Boys MP
- The Tragedy of Flight 103: The Inside Story · BKA Police Chief
- Centrepoint · Claud Wareing