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Alun Armstrong
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Alun Armstrong is a prolific English character actor. Armstrong grew up in County Durham in North East England. He first became interested in acting through Shakespeare productions at his grammar school. Since his career began in the early 1970s, he has played, in his words, "the full spectrum of characters from the grotesque to musicals... I always play very colourful characters, often a bit crazy, despotic, psychotic." His numerous credits include six different Dickens adaptations and seven series as eccentric ex-detective Brian Lane in New Tricks. Armstrong is also an accomplished stage actor who spent nine years with the Royal Shakespeare Company. He originated the role of Thénardier in the London production of Les Misérables and he won an Olivier Award for playing the title role in Sweeney Todd.
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Alun Armstrong is a prolific English character actor. Armstrong grew up in County Durham in North East England. He first became interested in acting through Shakespeare productions at his grammar school. Since his career began in the early 1970s, he has played, in his words, "the full spectrum of characters from the grotesque to musicals... I always play very colourful characters, often a bit crazy, despotic, psychotic." His numerous credits include six different Dickens adaptations and seven series as eccentric ex-detective Brian Lane in New Tricks. Armstrong is also an accomplished stage actor who spent nine years with the Royal Shakespeare Company. He originated the role of Thénardier in the London production of Les Misérables and he won an Olivier Award for playing the title role in Sweeney Todd.
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Married... with Children
MacGyver
Centre Play
Inspector Morse
Tales from the Crypt
The New Avengers
Downton Abbey
The Hollow Crown
Remembers…
The Jim Henson Hour
BBC Play of the Month
After the Flood
A.D.
The Storyteller
Romance
Second City Firsts
Sherwood
Breeders
Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads?
Bleak House
Enemy at the Door
Penny Dreadful
Braveheart
Oliver Twist
Sleepy Hollow
American Friends
Patriot Games
Oliver Twist
Messiah
Prime Suspect 1973
David Copperfield
The Duellists
Van Helsing
The Mummy Returns
Tom Jones
Measure for Measure
Blue Ice
Bedtime
Eragon
The Saint
Little Dorrit
Sparkhouse
Shooting the Chandelier
MacGyver: Trail to Doomsday
New Tricks
Adrian Mole: The Cappuccino Years
An Awfully Big Adventure
The Chester Mystery Plays
Dark Angel
Frontier
Brazen Hussies
Sorry About Last Night
Possum
Goodbye Cruel World
Garrow's Law
The Dinner Party
Murder in Eden
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