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.
Fotos
Películas (80)
Hamlet Within
2022
King Charles III
2017 · Archbishop of Canterbury
Britain's Nuclear Bomb - The Inside Story
2017 · Narrator (Voice)
The Return of the Flying Scotsman
2016 · Narrator - (Voice)
Branagh Theatre Live: The Winter's Tale
2015 · Camilo
Hamlet
2015 · Claudius/Ghost
OXI, an Act of Resistance
2014 · Creon
Building Burma's Death Railway: Moving Half the Mountain
2014 · Narrator
National Theatre Live: Macbeth
2013 · Duncan/Seyton/Old Man
Run.
2013 · St. Peter
The Awakening
2011 · Reverend Hugh Purslow
National Theatre Live: Phèdre
2009 · Théramène
An Organization of Dreams
2009 · Father
The Duchess
2008 · General Grey
Mirrors
2008 · Lorenzo Sapelli
Chemical Wedding
2008 · Crowley
Hindenburg: Titanic of the Skies
2007 · Himself (Narrator)
Elizabeth: The Golden Age
2007 · Lord Howard
Once Upon a Time on the Westway
2007 · Billy Palmer
Alien Autopsy
2006 · Michael Kuhn
Shadow of the Sword
2005 · Archbishop
Seven Wonders of Ancient Greece
2004 · Narrator
Troy
2004 · Nestor
Seven Wonders of Ancient Egypt
2004 · Narrator
Seven Wonders of Ancient Rome
2004 · Narrator
The Race for Everest
2003 · Narrator
Wild Women of Viramba
2003 · Narrator
Whistle
2002 · Paul
K-19: The Widowmaker
2002 · Admiral Bratyeev
Claim
2002 · Lex Vandenberg
Alone
2002 · Hannah
The Gentleman Thief
2001 · Monty Sinclair
Animals of the Ocean Desert
2001 · Narrator
Mountain Men: The Ghosts of K2
2001 · Narrator
The Body
2001 · Moshe Cohen
The Misfit and the Matterhorn
2001 · Narrator
Horizon: Supermassive Black Holes
2000 · Narrator
Gladiator
2000 · Gaius
Lost on Everest: The Search for Mallory and Irvine
2000 · Self - Narrator
Mary, Mother of Jesus
1999 · Simon
Notting Hill
1999 · PR Chief
Hornblower: The Frogs and the Lobsters
1999 · General Charette
The Strange Case of Delfina Potocka
1999 · Iwaszkiewicz
Solo Shuttle
1998 · Cain
Lion Queen
1998 · Narrator (voice)
101 Dalmatians
1996 · Skinner
Two Deaths
1996 · Cinca
King Arthur: His Life and Legends
1995
England, My England
1995 · Samuel Pepys
Fatherland
1994 · General Globus
Selling Hitler
1993 · Gerd Schulte-Hillen
Hamlet
1992 · Claudius
SS-3: The Assassination of Reinhard Heydrich
1992 · Narrator
The Tragedy of Flight 103: The Inside Story
1990 · BKA Police Chief
How to Get Ahead in Advertising
1989 · Psychiatrist
Testimony
1988 · Andre Zhdanov
Partition
1987 · General Flood
Personal Services
1987 · Lionel
Theban Plays: Antigone
1986 · Creon
Theban Plays: Oedipus at Colonus
1986 · Creon
Theban Plays: Oedipus the King
1986 · Creon
The Burston Rebellion
1985 · Rev. Charles Tucker Eland
Poppyland
1985 · George Sims
King Lear
1982 · Earl of Kent
Troilus & Cressida
1981 · Hector
Timon of Athens
1981 · Alcibiades
The Tom Machine
1980
The Victim
1980 · Vincent Craig
Gossip from the Forest
1979 · Matthias Erzberger
Edward & Mrs. Simpson
1978 · Maj. Alexander Hardinge
Flayed
1978 · Robert
The Three Hostages
1977 · Gaudian
Professional Foul
1977 · McKendrick
Hitting Town
1976 · Leonard Brazil (voice)
Hennessy
1975 · Tipaldi
King Lear
1975 · Duke of Cornwall
Pope Joan
1972 · Father James
Nicholas and Alexandra
1971 · Petya
It's Called the Sugar Plum
1969 · Wally Zuckerman
The Ha-Ha
1969 · Jamie
Series (49)
The Lions Rule
2017 · Narrator (voice)
Apparitions
2008 · Cardinal Bukovak
Merlin
2008 · The Sarrum
Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire
2006 · Pompey
I Am Not an Animal
2004 · Narrator (voice)
New Tricks
2004 · DAC John Felsham
Foyle's War
2002 · Raymond Brooks
The Inspector Lynley Mysteries
2002 · Sergent Mike McCaffrey
Waking the Dead
2001 · John Christie
The 10th Kingdom
2000 · Governor of Prison
Invasion: Earth
1998 · Air Marshal Bentley
Predators Killing for a Living
1997
Jonathan Creek
1997 · Prof. Lance Graumann
Bodyguards
1997 · Commander Alan MacIntyre
Midsomer Murders
1997 · Max Jennings, Leo Clarke
True Tilda
1997 · Reverand Glasson
Alien Empire
1996 · Narrator
Coogan's Run
1995 · Douglas Crown
Kavanagh Q.C.
1995 · Mr. Justice Griffin
Wycliffe
1994 · Dr. Sam Malvern
Shakespeare: The Animated Tales
1992 · Claudius / The Ghost (voice)
Between the Lines
1992 · Deputy Assistant Commissioner Dunning, D.C.C. Dunning
Selling Hitler
1991 · Gerd Schülte-Hillen
G.B.H.
1991 · Dr Jacobs
For the Greater Good
1991 · Norman May-Boys MP
Centrepoint
1990 · Claud Wareing
The Chief
1990 · Dan Cheyney
Blackeyes
1989 · Detective Blake
About Face
1989 · Donald
The Modern World: Ten Great Writers
1988 · Thomas Mann
Vanity Fair
1987 · Lord Steyne
Screen Two
1985 · Rev. Charles Tucker Eland, Heiger
Sorrell and Son
1984 · Thomas Roland
Mr. Palfrey of Westminster
1984 · Adrian Vyner
Natural World
1983 · Narrator
The Woman in White
1982 · Sir Percival Glyde
Private Schulz
1981 · German Newsreel Commentator (voice, uncredited)
Screenplay
1979 · Matthias Erzberger
Edward and Mrs Simpson
1978 · Major Alexander Hardinge
Armchair Thriller
1978 · Vincent Craig
BBC2 Play of the Week
1977 · McKendrick, Robert
Plays for Britain
1976 · Voice of Leonard Brazil
Space: 1999
1975 · Jack Tanner
Good Girl
1974 · Christopher Wimple
Justice
1971 · Roger Anderson
Elizabeth R
1971 · Earl of Sussex
Omnibus
1967 · Zborowski
ITV Playhouse
1967 · Schoner
BBC Play of the Month
1965 · Duke of Cornwall, Viktor Myshlaevsky