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person_profile-John Shrapnel

John Shrapnel Died at age: 77

Actor | Producer

Fullname:

John Shrapnel

Date of Birth:

Apr 27, 1942

Country of birth:

UK

Died:

Feb 14, 2020

Biography of

John Shrapnel

    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.

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Filmography of

John Shrapnel

Found 62 Movies in total

... 2022

King Charles III

Archbishop of Canterbury ( Actor )

... 2017

... 2017

... 2015

Hamlet

Claudius/Ghost ( Actor )

... 2015

... 2014

National Theatre Live: Macbeth

Duncan, King of Scotland/Seyton, attendant to Macbeth/Old Man ( Actor )

... 2013

The Awakening

Reverend Hugh Purslow ( Actor )

... 2011

National Theatre Live: Phèdre

Théramène ( Actor )

... 2009

... 2009

The Duchess

General Grey ( Actor )

... 2008

Mirrors

Lorenzo Sapelli ( Actor )

... 2008

Chemical Wedding

Crowley ( Actor )

... 2008

Hindenburg: Titanic of the Skies

Himself (Narrator) ( Actor )

... 2007

Elizabeth: The Golden Age

Lord Howard ( Actor )

... 2007

Alien Autopsy

Michael Kuhn ( Actor )

... 2006

Wachau - Valley of Golden Magic

Narrator (English Version) ( Actor )

... 2005

Shadow of the Sword

Archbishop ( Actor )

... 2005

... 2004

Troy

Nestor ( Actor )

... 2004

... 2004

... 2004

Schönbrunn - Well of Beauty

Narrator (English Version) ( Actor )

... 2002

K-19: The Widowmaker

Admiral Bratyeev ( Actor )

... 2002

Claim

Lex Vandenberg ( Actor )

... 2002

Alone

Hannah ( Actor )

... 2002

... 2001

... 2001

The Body

Moshe Cohen ( Actor )

... 2001

Supermassive Black Holes

Narrator ( Actor )

... 2000

Gladiator

Gaius ( Actor )

... 2000

Mary, Mother of Jesus

Simon ( Actor )

... 1999

Notting Hill

PR Chief ( Actor )

... 1999

Hornblower: The Frogs and the Lobsters

General Charette ( Actor )

... 1999

... 1999

Lion Queen

Narrator (voice) ( Actor )

... 1998

St. Stephen's: The Living Cathedral

Narrator (English voice) ( Actor )

... 1997

101 Dalmatians

Skinner ( Actor )

... 1996

Two Deaths

Cinca ( Actor )

... 1996

England, My England

Samuel Pepys ( Actor )

... 1995

Fatherland

General Globus ( Actor )

... 1994

... 1992

Selling Hitler

Gerd Schulte-Hillen ( Actor )

... 1991

... 1990

How to Get Ahead in Advertising

Psychiatrist ( Actor )

... 1989

Testimony

Andre Zhdanov ( Actor )

... 1988

Partition

General Flood ( Actor )

... 1987

Personal Services

Lionel ( Actor )

... 1987

Theban Plays: Antigone

Creon ( Actor )

... 1986

... 1986

... 1986

The Burston Rebellion

Rev. Charles Tucker Eland ( Actor )

... 1985

King Lear

Earl of Kent ( Actor )

... 1982

Troilus & Cressida

Hector ( Actor )

... 1981

Timon of Athens

Alcibiades ( Actor )

... 1981

Gossip from the Forest

Matthias Erzberger ( Actor )

... 1979

Edward & Mrs. Simpson

Maj. Alexander Hardinge ( Actor )

... 1978

Hennessy

Tipaldi ( Actor )

... 1975

King Lear

Duke of Cornwall ( Actor )

... 1975

Pope Joan

Father James ( Actor )

... 1972

Nicholas and Alexandra

Petya ( Actor )

... 1971

The Ha-Ha

Jamie ( Actor )

... 1969