John Shrapnel

Acting · Born 1942-04-27 in Birmingham, England, UK

Biography

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…

Filmography

• Gladiator as Gaius
• Notting Hill as PR Chief
• Troy as Nestor
• The Duchess as General Grey
• K-19: The Widowmaker as Admiral Bratyeev
• Alien Autopsy as Michael Kuhn
• The Body as Moshe Cohen
• Alone as Hannah
• How to Get Ahead in Advertising as Psychiatrist
• Chemical Wedding as Crowley

TV

• I Am Not an Animal as Narrator (voice)
• Merlin as The Sarrum
• Foyle's War as Raymond Brooks
• Elizabeth R as Earl of Sussex
• Apparitions as Cardinal Bukovak
• Edward and Mrs Simpson as Major Alexander Hardinge
• Natural World as Narrator
• Between the Lines as Deputy Assistant Commissioner Dunning
• New Tricks as DAC John Felsham
• Waking the Dead as John Christie