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National Theatre Live: Macbeth

as Duncan, King of Scotland/Seyton, attendant to Macbeth/Old Man

2013
The Awakening

as Reverend Hugh Purslow

2011
Apparitions

as Cardinal Bukovak

2008
The Duchess

as General Grey

2008
Mirrors

as Lorenzo Sapelli

2008
Alien Autopsy

as Michael Kuhn

2006
I Am Not an Animal

as Narrator

2004
Troy

as

2004
K-19: The Widowmaker

as Admiral Bratyeev

2002
Whistle

as Paul

2002
Alone

as Hannah

2002
The Body

as Moshe Cohen

2001
Gladiator

as Gaius

2000
Hornblower: The Frogs and the Lobsters

as General Charette

1999
Mary, Mother of Jesus

as Simon

1999
101 Dalmatians

as Skinner

1996
Bodyguards

as Commander Alan MacIntyre

1997
Two Deaths

as Cinca

1996
Fatherland

as General Globus

1994
How to Get Ahead in Advertising

as Psychiatrist

1989
Partition

as General Flood

1987
Edward & Mrs. Simpson

as Maj. Alexander Hardinge

1978
Elizabeth R

as

1971
John Shrapnel John Shrapnel

Birthday

1942-04-27

Place of Birth

Birmingham, England, UK

Biography

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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