John Shrapnel
1942-04-27 ( 82 years old ) in Birmingham, England, UK

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.

Movies

Hamlet Within 2022-05-21
King Charles III 2017-05-10
Britain's Nuclear Bomb - The Inside Story 2017-05-03
The Return of the Flying Scotsman 2016-03-06
Branagh Theatre Live: The Winter's Tale 2015-11-30
Hamlet 2015-03-23
OXI, an Act of Resistance 2014-10-09
Building Burma's Death Railway: Moving Half the Mountain 2014-01-01
National Theatre Live: Macbeth 2013-07-19
The Awakening 2011-08-17
National Theatre Live: Phèdre 2009-06-25
An Organization of Dreams 2009-01-02
The Duchess 2008-09-05
Mirrors 2008-08-15
Chemical Wedding 2008-05-04
Hindenburg: Titanic of the Skies 2007-09-17
Elizabeth: The Golden Age 2007-09-09
Alien Autopsy 2006-04-07
Wachau - Valley of Golden Magic 2005-06-08
Shadow of the Sword 2005-05-12
Seven Wonders of Ancient Greece 2004-06-01
Troy 2004-05-13
Seven Wonders of Ancient Egypt 2004-02-17
Seven Wonders of Ancient Rome 2004-01-01
The Race for Everest 2003-05-27
Wild Women of Viramba 2003-01-15
Schönbrunn - Well of Beauty 2002-12-19
Whistle 2002-08-22
K-19: The Widowmaker 2002-07-19
Claim 2002-07-16
Alone 2002-04-11
The Gentleman Thief 2001-06-24
Animals of the Ocean Desert 2001-06-21
Mountain Men: The Ghosts of K2 2001-05-31
The Body 2001-04-13
Supermassive Black Holes 2000-11-30
Gladiator 2000-05-04
Mary, Mother of Jesus 1999-11-14
Notting Hill 1999-05-21
Hornblower: The Frogs and the Lobsters 1999-04-02
The Strange Case of Delfina Potocka 1999-01-01
St. Stephen's: The Living Cathedral 1997-12-23
101 Dalmatians 1996-11-27
Two Deaths 1996-06-14
King Arthur: His Life and Legends 1995-09-18
England, My England 1995-01-01
Fatherland 1994-11-26
SS-3: The Assassination of Reinhard Heydrich 1992-01-01
Selling Hitler 1991-06-11
The Tragedy of Flight 103: The Inside Story 1990-12-09
How to Get Ahead in Advertising 1989-05-05
Testimony 1988-11-01
Partition 1987-08-19
Personal Services 1987-02-12
Theban Plays: Antigone 1986-09-19
Theban Plays: Oedipus at Colonus 1986-09-17
Theban Plays: Oedipus the King 1986-09-16
The Burston Rebellion 1985-02-24
Poppyland 1985-01-13
King Lear 1982-09-19
Troilus & Cressida 1981-11-07
Timon of Athens 1981-04-16
The Tom Machine 1980-11-20
Gossip from the Forest 1979-07-28
Edward & Mrs. Simpson 1978-11-06
Flayed 1978-02-22
The Three Hostages 1977-12-27
Professional Foul 1977-09-21
Hitting Town 1976-04-26
Hennessy 1975-12-31
King Lear 1975-03-23
Pope Joan 1972-08-16
Nicholas and Alexandra 1971-11-29
The Ha-Ha 1969-08-25

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