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.
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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Filmography (Movies)
Hamlet Within
Character:
Release Date:21/05/2022
King Charles III
Character:Archbishop of Canterbury
Release Date:10/05/2017
Britain's Nuclear Bomb - The Inside Story
Character:Narrator (Voice)
Release Date:03/05/2017
The Return of the Flying Scotsman
Character:Narrator - (Voice)
Release Date:06/03/2016
Branagh Theatre Live: The Winter's Tale
Character:Camilo
Release Date:30/11/2015
Hamlet
Character:Claudius/Ghost
Release Date:23/03/2015
OXI, an Act of Resistance
Character:Creon
Release Date:09/10/2014
Building Burma's Death Railway: Moving Half the Mountain
Character:Narrator
Release Date:01/01/2014
National Theatre Live: Macbeth
Character:Duncan/Seyton/Old Man
Release Date:19/07/2013
Run.
Character:St. Peter
Release Date:01/01/2013
The Awakening
Character:Reverend Hugh Purslow
Release Date:17/08/2011
National Theatre Live: Phèdre
Character:Théramène
Release Date:25/06/2009
An Organization of Dreams
Character:Father
Release Date:02/01/2009
The Duchess
Character:General Grey
Release Date:05/09/2008
Mirrors
Character:Lorenzo Sapelli
Release Date:14/08/2008
Chemical Wedding
Character:Crowley
Release Date:04/05/2008
Hindenburg: Titanic of the Skies
Character:Himself (Narrator)
Release Date:17/09/2007
Elizabeth: The Golden Age
Character:Lord Howard
Release Date:09/09/2007
Once Upon a Time on the Westway
Character:Billy Palmer
Release Date:03/05/2007
Alien Autopsy
Character:Michael Kuhn
Release Date:07/04/2006
Wachau - Valley of Golden Magic
Character:Narrator (English Version)
Release Date:08/06/2005
Shadow of the Sword
Character:Archbishop
Release Date:12/05/2005
Seven Wonders of Ancient Greece
Character:Narrator
Release Date:01/06/2004
Troy
Character:Nestor
Release Date:13/05/2004
Seven Wonders of Ancient Egypt
Character:Narrator
Release Date:17/02/2004
Seven Wonders of Ancient Rome
Character:Narrator
Release Date:01/01/2004
The Race for Everest
Character:Narrator
Release Date:27/05/2003
Wild Women of Viramba
Character:Narrator
Release Date:15/01/2003
Schönbrunn - Well of Beauty
Character:Narrator (English Version)
Release Date:19/12/2002
Whistle
Character:Paul
Release Date:22/08/2002
K-19: The Widowmaker
Character:Admiral Bratyeev
Release Date:19/07/2002
Claim
Character:Lex Vandenberg
Release Date:16/07/2002
Alone
Character:Hannah
Release Date:11/04/2002
The Gentleman Thief
Character:Monty Sinclair
Release Date:24/06/2001
Animals of the Ocean Desert
Character:Narrator
Release Date:21/06/2001
Mountain Men: The Ghosts of K2
Character:Narrator
Release Date:31/05/2001
The Body
Character:Moshe Cohen
Release Date:13/04/2001
Supermassive Black Holes
Character:Narrator
Release Date:30/11/2000
Gladiator
Character:Gaius
Release Date:04/05/2000
Mary, Mother of Jesus
Character:Simon
Release Date:14/11/1999
Notting Hill
Character:PR Chief
Release Date:21/05/1999
Hornblower: The Frogs and the Lobsters
Character:General Charette
Release Date:02/04/1999
The Strange Case of Delfina Potocka
Character:Iwaszkiewicz
Release Date:01/01/1999
Lion Queen
Character:Narrator (voice)
Release Date:01/06/1998
St. Stephen's: The Living Cathedral
Character:Narrator (English voice)
Release Date:23/12/1997
101 Dalmatians
Character:Skinner
Release Date:27/11/1996
Two Deaths
Character:Cinca
Release Date:14/06/1996
King Arthur: His Life and Legends
Character:
Release Date:18/09/1995
England, My England
Character:Samuel Pepys
Release Date:01/01/1995
Fatherland
Character:General Globus
Release Date:26/11/1994
Selling Hitler
Character:Gerd Schulte-Hillen
Release Date:20/04/1993
SS-3: The Assassination of Reinhard Heydrich
Character:Narrator
Release Date:01/01/1992
The Tragedy of Flight 103: The Inside Story
Character:BKA Police Chief
Release Date:26/11/1990
How to Get Ahead in Advertising
Character:Psychiatrist
Release Date:05/05/1989
Testimony
Character:Andre Zhdanov
Release Date:01/11/1988
Partition
Character:General Flood
Release Date:19/08/1987
Personal Services
Character:Lionel
Release Date:12/02/1987
Theban Plays: Antigone
Character:Creon
Release Date:19/09/1986
Theban Plays: Oedipus at Colonus
Character:Creon
Release Date:17/09/1986
Theban Plays: Oedipus the King
Character:Creon
Release Date:16/09/1986
The Burston Rebellion
Character:Rev. Charles Tucker Eland
Release Date:24/02/1985
Poppyland
Character:George Sims
Release Date:13/01/1985
King Lear
Character:Earl of Kent
Release Date:19/09/1982
Troilus & Cressida
Character:Hector
Release Date:07/11/1981
Timon of Athens
Character:Alcibiades
Release Date:16/04/1981
The Tom Machine
Character:
Release Date:20/11/1980
The Victim
Character:Vincent Craig
Release Date:08/01/1980
Gossip from the Forest
Character:Matthias Erzberger
Release Date:28/07/1979
Edward & Mrs. Simpson
Character:Maj. Alexander Hardinge
Release Date:06/11/1978
Flayed
Character:Robert
Release Date:22/02/1978
The Three Hostages
Character:Gaudian
Release Date:27/12/1977
Professional Foul
Character:McKendrick
Release Date:21/09/1977
Hitting Town
Character:Leonard Brazil (voice)
Release Date:26/04/1976
Hennessy
Character:Tipaldi
Release Date:31/12/1975
King Lear
Character:Duke of Cornwall
Release Date:23/03/1975
Pope Joan
Character:Father James
Release Date:16/08/1972
Nicholas and Alexandra
Character:Petya
Release Date:29/11/1971
It's Called the Sugar Plum
Character:Wally Zuckerman
Release Date:01/11/1969
The Ha-Ha
Character:Jamie
Release Date:25/08/1969
Television Appearances
The Lions Rule
Character:Narrator (voice)
Apparitions
Character:Cardinal Bukovak
Merlin
Character:The Sarrum
Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire
Character:Pompey
I Am Not an Animal
Character:Narrator (voice)
New Tricks
Character:DAC John Felsham
Foyle's War
Character:Raymond Brooks
The Inspector Lynley Mysteries
Character:Sergent Mike McCaffrey
Waking the Dead
Character:John Christie
The 10th Kingdom
Character:Governor of Prison
Invasion: Earth
Character:Air Marshal Bentley
Predators Killing for a Living
Character:
Jonathan Creek
Character:Prof. Lance Graumann
Bodyguards
Character:Commander Alan MacIntyre
Midsomer Murders
Character:Max Jennings
Midsomer Murders
Character:Leo Clarke
True Tilda
Character:Reverand Glasson
Kavanagh Q.C.
Character:Mr. Justice Griffin
Wycliffe
Character:Dr. Sam Malvern
Shakespeare: The Animated Tales
Character:Claudius / The Ghost (voice)
Between the Lines
Character:Deputy Assistant Commissioner Dunning
Between the Lines
Character:D.C.C. Dunning
G.B.H.
Character:Dr Jacobs
Centrepoint
Character:Claud Wareing
The Chief
Character:Dan Cheyney
About Face
Character:
The Modern World: Ten Great Writers
Character:Thomas Mann
Vanity Fair
Character:Lord Steyne
Screen Two
Character:Rev. Charles Tucker Eland
Mr. Palfrey of Westminster
Character:Adrian Vyner
Natural World
Character:Narrator
The Woman in White
Character:Sir Percival Glyde
Private Schulz
Character:German Newsreel Commentator (voice, uncredited)
Edward and Mrs Simpson
Character:Major Alexander Hardinge
Armchair Thriller
Character:Vincent Craig
BBC2 Play of the Week
Character:McKendrick
BBC2 Play of the Week
Character:Robert
Space: 1999
Character:Jack Tanner
Justice
Character:Roger Anderson
Elizabeth R
Character:Earl of Sussex
Omnibus
Character:Zborowski
BBC Play of the Month
Character:Duke of Cornwall
BBC Play of the Month
Character:Viktor Myshlaevsky
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