Alun Armstrong
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.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 1.081 |
| Birthday | 1946-07-17 |
| Place of Birth | Annfield Plain, County Durham, England, UK |
| Also Known As | Αλούν Άρμστρονγκ, |
2003
Paradise Found
6.5/30
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Paradise Found
1997
The Saint
6.11/1245
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The Saint
1983
Krull
6.054/614
A prince and a fellowship of companions set out to rescue his bride from a fortress of alien invaders who have arrived on their home planet.
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Krull
2001
The Mummy Returns
6.407/7700
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The Mummy Returns
2006
Eragon
5.135/3452
In his homeland of Alagaesia, a farm boy happens upon a dragon's egg -- a discovery that leads him on a predestined journey where he realized he's the...
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Eragon
1999
Sleepy Hollow
7.2/7379
Skeptical young detective Ichabod Crane gets transferred to the hamlet of Sleepy Hollow, New York, where he is tasked with investigating the decapitat...
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Sleepy Hollow
1995
An Awfully Big Adventure
6.562/69
Liverpool. 1947. Right after World War II, a star struck naive teenage girl joins a shabby theatre troupe in Liverpool. During a winter production of...
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An Awfully Big Adventure
2021
The Nicky Nack
0/0
A man walking home from his local pub one night is tormented by a terrifying sound: The Nicky Nack.
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The Nicky Nack
2004
Van Helsing: The London Assignment
6.168/176
It tells of the events before the film, in which monster hunter Gabriel Van Helsing travels to London to investigate a series of horrific, and decided...
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Van Helsing: The London Assignment
2004
Van Helsing
6.417/6671
Famed monster slayer Gabriel Van Helsing is dispatched to Transylvania to assist the last of the Valerious bloodline in defeating Count Dracula. Anna...
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Van Helsing
2003
It's All About Love
5.478/116
The story of two lovers and their attempts to save their relationship in a near-future world on the brink of cosmic collapse. John, and world-famous i...
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It's All About Love
1992
Split Second
5.938/360
In a flooded future London, Detective Harley Stone hunts a serial killer who murdered his partner and has haunted him ever since — but he soon discove...
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Split Second
1992
Patriot Games
6.682/1820
When CIA Analyst Jack Ryan interferes with an IRA assassination, a renegade faction targets Jack and his family as revenge.
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Patriot Games
1994
MacGyver: Trail to Doomsday
6.023/65
A close friend of MacGyver is murdered. In searching for a reason for this assassination MacGyver discovers a secret nuclear weapons plant right in th...
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MacGyver: Trail to Doomsday
1994
Black Beauty
6.723/350
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Black Beauty
1995
Les Misérables: 10th Anniversary Concert at the Royal Albert Hall
8.78/25
The top stars from the original London and Broadway productions join together with a 150-voice chorus and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in London's...
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Les Misérables: 10th Anniversary Concert at the Royal Albert Hall
1990
Sticky Wickets
0/0
It's a big night at the New Dragon Inn when a coach of distinguished Germans arrives. But disaster looms - it's the local cricket team's annual fancy...
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Sticky Wickets
1999
G:MT Greenwich Mean Time
5.579/19
Six London school-leavers attempt to make it in the world, balancing the challenge of trying to make a name for themselves in the music industry again...
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G:MT Greenwich Mean Time
1977
The Duellists
7.244/633
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The Duellists
1996
Breaking the Code
5.5/18
A biography of the English mathematician Alan Turing, who was one of the inventors of the digital computer and one of the key figures in the breaking...
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Breaking the Code
2004
Carrie's War
7.7/10
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Carrie's War
2008
Filth: The Mary Whitehouse Story
6.3/3
The story of the rise of morals crusader Mary Whitehouse in the UK in the 1960's.
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Filth: The Mary Whitehouse Story
1985
Number One
6.667/3
A down on his luck Irishman in London decides to play snooker for money.
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Number One
1996
Witness Against Hitler
8/2
The true story of a Prussian aristocrat working for German military intelligence during World War II, who, with a group of fellow devout Christians, p...
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Witness Against Hitler
1985
Billy the Kid and the Green Baize Vampire
6.071/14
Cocky cockney snooker player Billy Kid accepts the challenge of a grudge match from Maxwell Randall (the Green Baize Vampire), six times world champio...
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Billy the Kid and the Green Baize Vampire
1977
Our Day Out
7.833/6
When a teacher takes a group of troubled school children on a school trip to Conwy in Wales, the children understand life outside of Liverpool.
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Our Day Out
2004
When I'm Sixty-Four
5.033/15
When widowed cabbie Ray and retired teacher Jim meet by chance, they discover they long for the same things from life: adventure, challenge and love....
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When I'm Sixty-Four
2006
The Girls Who Came to Stay
8/2
The story of a couple who take in two girls from Belarus, a country that has been affected by the Chernobyl disaster.
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The Girls Who Came to Stay
1991
London Kills Me
5.9/15
For want of a nail a shoe was lost, for want of a shoe... a young man's life is almost lost, which is exactly what this film is all about: a man barel...
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London Kills Me
1990
White Hunter, Black Heart
6.4/311
Renowned filmmaker John Wilson travels to Africa to direct a new movie, but constantly leaves to hunt elephants and other game, to the dismay of his c...
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White Hunter, Black Heart
2010
Les Misérables: 25th Anniversary in Concert
8.265/85
This concert, recorded to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the landmark musical Les Miserables, gathers the casts of the show's 2010 original product...
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Les Misérables: 25th Anniversary in Concert
1980
Fear of God
10/1
A journalist finds his life is in danger when he investigates the death of a woman who was involved with a religious cult.
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Fear of God
1990
Looking After Number One
0/0
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Looking After Number One
1973
The 14
5.867/15
Set in London’s East End, The 14 (aka The Wild Little Bunch aka Existence) is based on the true story of fourteen children who struggle against overwh...
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The 14
1989
The Childeater
7.667/3
Eight-year old Betty is sent to stay with family on a remote Welsh farm, but her father has warned her that her uncle eats children who don't behave.
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The Childeater
1992
Blue Ice
5.303/33
An ex-British spy (Michael Caine) helps a U.S. diplomat's wife (Sean Young) and blows the lid off a deadly government cover-up.
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Blue Ice
1999
With or Without You
5.313/16
Rosie and Vincent have known each other for ten years, and have been married for five. She doesn't like her job, he isn't too pleased working with her...
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With or Without You
2000
This Is Personal: The Hunt for the Yorkshire Ripper
7/1
This is a dramatisation of the real-life investigation into the notorious Yorkshire Ripper murders of the late 1970s, showing the effect that it had o...
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This Is Personal: The Hunt for the Yorkshire Ripper
1995
Braveheart
7.946/11126
Enraged at the slaughter of Murron, his new bride and childhood love, Scottish warrior William Wallace slays a platoon of the local English lord's sol...
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Braveheart
1989
A Night on the Tyne
9/1
When four shipbuilders are made redundant they decide that as a protest they will launch the ship they have been working on.
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A Night on the Tyne
1979
All Day on the Sands
7/2
Mr and Mrs Cooper are staying at a boarding-house in the seaside resort of Morecambe with their small children, Colin and Jennifer. Mr Cooper has just...
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All Day on the Sands
1976
The Likely Lads
6.325/20
With the destruction of their previous neighbourhood has inevitably come the destruction of the lads’ favoured watering hole The Fat Ox. Again, it’s B...
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The Likely Lads
2007
The Dinner Party
6/2
Young couple Jackie and Leo move from North London to a suburban home in the green belt paradise of Southern England. At the birthday party of a neigh...
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The Dinner Party
1990
The Widowmaker
10/1
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The Widowmaker
1977
Risking It
0/0
"There's always a sale to be made if you're willing to work hard enough." Richard is a top salesman and is content. His wife, however, has had enough.
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Risking It
1995
Sorry About Last Night
8/2
A romantic comedy written by and starring Alexei Sayle. A couple on a first date in London are determined to find a drink after closing time, to prove...
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Sorry About Last Night
2025
The Choral
6.214/35
As World War I rages on, Dr. Henry Guthrie takes over a British choral society that's lost most of its men to the army. The community soon discovers t...
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The Choral
2016
Golden Years
6.3/37
Fate, the pensions crisis and a steadfast refusal to accept the injustice of old age have contrived to force law abiding, retired couple, Arthur and M...
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Golden Years
1994
Doggin' Around
6.5/2
The past catches up with an ageing American jazz pianist when he returns to the clubs of Lancashire and Yorkshire that he last visited 10 years previo...
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Doggin' Around
1971
Get Carter
7/561
Jack Carter is a small-time hood working in London. When word reaches him of his brother's death, he travels to Newcastle to attend the funeral. Refus...
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Get Carter
1977
A Bridge Too Far
7.2/936
The story of Operation Market Garden—a failed attempt by the allies in the latter stages of WWII to end the war quickly by securing three bridges in H...
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A Bridge Too Far
2000
Harrison's Flowers
6.518/83
1991. Harrison Lloyd, a renowned photojournalist covering the war in Yugoslavia, is reported missing. Sarah, his wife, convinced that he is not dead,...
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Harrison's Flowers
1989
That Summer of White Roses
6/4
In the summer of 1944, in a peaceful resort town in the Nazi-occupied Yugoslavia, an easy-going lifeguard takes in a widow of a partisan and her young...
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That Summer of White Roses
2016
Asunder
0/0
Esther Johnson’s film uses local archive footage to convey the story of Sunderland's involvement in the First World War, from the men who fought in th...
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Asunder
2002
Inquisition
7/1
Set in the Spain of 1680, a time of torture and interrogation by the Grand Inquisitor. A young man appears that is healing the sick and raising the de...
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Inquisition
1996
Brazen Hussies
3.8/5
After meeting her old school friend Sandra Delaney, who now works as a stripper, pub owner Maureen Hardcastle decides to spice up her flagging busines...
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Brazen Hussies
2018
Funny Cow
6.3/33
A comedian uses her troubled past as material for her stand-up routine, trying to rise up through the comedy circuit by playing Northern England's wor...
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Funny Cow
2005
Oliver Twist
6.751/1243
When 9-year-old orphan Oliver Twist dares to ask his cruel taskmaster, Mr. Bumble, for a second serving of gruel, he's hired out as an apprentice. Esc...
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Oliver Twist
2001
Strictly Sinatra
5/9
In Glasgow, Toni Cocozza, age 28, aspires to be a lounge singer; his repertoire is strictly Sinatra, backed by Bill, an aging piano player and his onl...
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Strictly Sinatra
2005
Millions
6.384/415
Two boys, still grieving the death of their mother, find themselves the unwitting benefactors of a bag of bank robbery loot in the week before the Uni...
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Millions
2018
Possum
6.124/326
A disgraced children's puppeteer returns to his childhood home and is forced to confront his wicked stepfather and the secrets that have tortured him...
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Possum
2001
Score
7/1
Comedy about a Sunday League football team who win the Lottery.
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Score
2000
7 Up 2000
8/1
A new generation of British children feature in a follow-up to the original 7 Up series
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7 Up 2000
2000
Proof of Life
6.139/868
When Peter Bowman, an American engineer working in a South American country, is captured by anti-government forces, the rebels learn his identity and...
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Proof of Life
1973
Only Make Believe
10/1
Playwright Christopher Hudson finds his medical problem hinders his writing. He employs secretary Sandra George and dictates his new play to her, but...
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Only Make Believe
1983
Mr Moon's Last Case
0/0
Play based on Brian Patten's book. Local children and retired detective Moon band together to protect a leprechaun from the investigations of the loca...
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Mr Moon's Last Case
2019
Out of Innocence
6.6/5
After a police investigation, a young mother, confused and scared, confesses to a crime she did not commit and is charged with murder.
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Out of Innocence
1999
Aristocrats
6/1
18th-century England and Ireland viewed through the eyes of four beautiful high-born sisters - Caroline, Emily, Louisa, and Sarah Lennox, great-grandd...
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Aristocrats
1984
The House
5.667/3
Set in 1884, and based on the assumption that Britain is one of the Baltic states between Russia and Latvia, making it part of Europe instead of an of...
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The House
1979
Measure for Measure
5.857/7
When the Duke of Vienna takes a mysterious leave of absence and leaves the strict Angelo in charge, things couldn't be worse for Claudio, who is sente...
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Measure for Measure
1981
The French Lieutenant's Woman
6.459/243
In this story-within-a-story, Anna is an actress starring opposite Mike in a period piece about the forbidden love between their respective characters...
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The French Lieutenant's Woman
1977
Shooting the Chandelier
0/0
During the closing days of the Second World War, a young Czechoslovakian woman, Blanka, is caught between ideologies of the Soviet regime. Part of BBC...
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Shooting the Chandelier
1974
Easy Go
0/0
A hot day by the Thames - very hot for some Deptford children. When they and some dockers spot a 'prize' in the river, the race is on between the riva...
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Easy Go
1973
The Sex Victims
5/5
A lone truck driver who is lured into the woods by a nubile Lady Godiva discovers after he’s slept with her that all is not as it seems. The Sex Victi...
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The Sex Victims
1999
Onegin
6.102/118
A virtuous and passionate girl falls in love with a cynical but a dashing aristocrat.
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Onegin
1989
Nineteen96
0/0
Britain in the mid-1990s: a divided, violent nation where civil disorder and urban terrorism are on the increase. Scotland Yard detective Commander Ja...
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Nineteen96
1973
The Eyes Have It
7.5/6
A group of terrorists posing as plumbers set up base at a school for the blind. The students remain blissfully unaware while the terrorists plan the a...
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The Eyes Have It
1985
The Caucasian Chalk Circle
0/0
The hardships faced by a woman trying to survive a bloody civil war while caring for the abandoned child of the deposed former ruler.
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The Caucasian Chalk Circle
1991
American Friends
6.409/11
Francis Ashby, a senior Oxford don on holiday alone in the Alps, meets holidaying American Caroline and her companion Elinor, the blossoming Irish-Ame...
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American Friends
1978
Freedom of the Dig
0/0
After 15 years in HM Prisons, Emerson just wants to keep his nose clean and get out. Working on the Stone Age fort keeps him away from trouble, but th...
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Freedom of the Dig
1978
Liza
0/0
Lavretsky returns to Russia from Europe and joins the group of admirers of his beautiful young cousin Liza.
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Liza
2020
Breaking The Codes
0/0
Using rare archive footage and exclusive interviews, this series takes you to the heart of a war that was fought far from the bombs and shells of any...
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Breaking The Codes
1988
Number 27
9/1
Miss Barwick is 90 years old. She has lived peacefully in the same house all her life - until a young property developer arrives at her front door to...
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Number 27
1993
The Tempest
5/2
Shakespeare: The Animated Tales, Season 1, Episode 2.
Exiled Prospero lives on a desolate island with his daughter, Miranda. When Prospero's usurping...
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My Little Eye
9/1
The discovery of the world by a young boy singing "I spy with my little eye something beginning with..."
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My Little Eye
1988
The Storyteller: The True Bride
0/0
A white lion comes to the aid of a girl being held under the cruel care of a troll.
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The Storyteller: The True Bride
1976
The Chester Mystery Plays
0/0
Medieval Mystery Cycle first performed in Chester in the 14th century.
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