David Threlfall

David Threlfall

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.

On screen

  • The Death of Bunny Munro
  • Nightsleeper
  • Passenger
  • The Completely Made-Up Adventures of Dick Turpin
  • Funny Woman
  • Art That Made Us
  • Wolfe
  • Troy: Fall of a City
  • Urban Myths
  • Code of a Killer
  • Midwinter of the Spirit
  • What Remains
  • Ripper Street
  • Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire
  • Shameless
  • Celebrity Mastermind
  • Cutting It
  • Spooks
  • In the Beginning
  • A Dinner of Herbs
  • Sex, Chips & Rock n' Roll
  • Men of the World
  • Titmuss Regained
  • Nightingales
  • The Marksman
  • Paradise Postponed
  • ScreenPlay
  • Screen Two
  • The Gathering Seed
  • The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby
  • Objects of Affection
  • Playhouse
  • Play for Today

Behind the camera

  • Shameless

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