Nicholas Farrell
- Known for
- Acting
- Birthplace
- Brentwood, Essex, England, UK
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Nicholas Farrell (born Nicholas Charles Frost, in September 1955) is an English stage, film and television actor. His early screen career included the role of Aubrey Montague in the 1981 film Chariots of Fire. In 1983, he starred as Edmund Bertram in a television adaptation of the Jane Austen novel, Mansfield Park. In 1984, he appeared in Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes and The Jewel in the Crown. Since then, his film and television work has included several screen adaptations of Shakespeare's works, including Kenneth Branagh's 1996 Hamlet , in which he played Horatio, a role he had played previously with Branagh for the Royal Shakespeare Company. He has also appeared in film adaptations of Twelfth Night (1996), Othello (1995) and In the Bleak Midwinter (1995). He provided the voice of Hamlet for the animated television adaptation Shakespeare: The Animated Tales (1992). Other television appearances have included two Agatha Christie's Poirot movies, Sharpe's Regiment, To Play the King, Torchwood and Collision. He has also appeared in episodes of Lovejoy, Foyle's War, Absolute Power, Spooks, Midsomer Murders, Drop the Dead Donkey and Casualty. Farrell's theatre work includes performances of The Cherry Orchard, Camille, and The Crucible as well as Royal Shakespeare Company productions of The Merchant of Venice, Julius Caesar, and Hamlet. He is married to Scottish actress Stella Gonet. Description above from the Wikipedia article Nicholas Farrell, licensed under CC-BY-SA,full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Filmography
Past Life
Movie · as Elliot Reed
Creditors
Movie · as Adolf
The Count of Monte Cristo
TV · as Morrel · 8 eps
Widow Clicquot
Movie · as Jean-Remy Moet
A Toast to Love
Movie · as Professor Dale Farringdon
Fool Me Once
TV · as Neville Lockwood · 1 ep
The Gold
TV · as Jim Clark · 1 ep
Bodies
TV · as Chief Inspector Paxman · 5 eps
A Christmas Carol: A Ghost Story
Movie · as Ebenezer Scrooge
Everything I Know About Love
TV · as Graham · 2 eps
Signora Volpe
TV · as Michael Priest / Henry Fox · 1 ep
Munich - The Edge of War
Movie · as Sir Alexander Cadogan
Dream Horse
Movie · as Philip Hobbs
The Nevers
TV · as Prince Albrecht · 2 eps
White House Farm
TV · as Nevill Bamber · 6 eps
Cosmos Within Us
Movie · as Aiken
The Coldest Game
Movie · as G. Moran
Christmas in the Highlands
Movie · as Duke of Glenmorie
The Man Who Saw Too Much
Movie · as Yurka Galitzine (voice)
Lies We Tell
Movie · as Anthony Quest
Hurricane
Movie · as Air Chief Marshal Sir Hugh Dowding
White Chamber
Movie · as Dr. Edgar Chrystler
Another Mother's Son
Movie · as De La Haye
Will
TV · as Sir Francis Walsingham · 5 eps
Finding Altamira
Movie · as Vilanova
Tear Me Apart
Movie · as Old Man (voice)
Jack the Ripper: The London Slasher
Movie · as Samuel Harris
Mindhorn
Movie · as Mayor
Thirteen
TV · as Henry Stone · 3 eps
The Crown
TV · as Michael Shea · 1 ep
Legend
Movie · as Dr Humphries
Testament of Youth
Movie · as Headmaster
Remainder
Movie · as Daubenay
Mortdecai
Movie · as Auctioneer
Robot Overlords
Movie · as Sentry Robot/Air Drone (voice)
Napoleon's Waterloo
Movie · as Narrator
Nipplejesus
Movie · as Silver Fox
Grace of Monaco
Movie · as Jean-Charles Rey
37 Days
TV · as Eyre Crowe · 3 eps
Siblings
TV · as Charles · 1 ep
Summer in February
Movie · as Mr. Carter-Wood
Spying on Hitler’s Army: The Secret Recordings
Movie · as General von Thoma
Father Brown
TV · as Sir Raleigh Beresford · 1 ep
Jo
TV · 1 ep
Endeavour
TV · as Sir Alexander Lermontov · 1 ep
The Village
TV · as Crispin Rose · 1 ep
Secret State
TV · as General Munnery · 4 eps
Call the Midwife
TV · as Charles Newgarden · 1 ep
The Iron Lady
Movie · as Airey Neave
Late Bloomers
Movie · as Francis
Going Postal 2in1
Movie · as Mr. Pump (voice)
Death in Paradise
TV · as Nicholas Dunham · 1 ep
Going Postal
TV · as Mr. Pump · 2 eps
The Diary of Anne Frank
TV · as Albert Dussel · 5 eps
Fiona's Story
Movie · as Edward
Casualty 1900s
TV · as Sydney Holland · 9 eps
Persuasion
Movie · as Mr. Musgrove
Amazing Grace
Movie · as Henry Thornton
Lewis
TV · as Charles Milner · 1 ep
Talk to Me
TV · as Harry · 4 eps
Driving Lessons
Movie · as Robert
Suburban Shootout
TV · as Raymond · 14 eps
Torchwood
TV · as Brian Green · 5 eps
Red Mercury
Movie · as Minister
Jericho
TV · as Charles Hewitt · 1 ep
Prometheus Bound
Movie · as Prometheus (voice)
The Minoans
Movie · as Readings (voice)
New Tricks
TV · as James Winslow · 1 ep
The Third Wave
Movie · as Devlin
Reversals
Movie · as Edward Leitch
Bloody Sunday
Movie · as Brigadier Maclellan
Bait
Movie · as Alfred White
The Jury
TV · as Jeremy Crawford · 6 eps
The Inspector Lynley Mysteries
TV · as Sam Oborne · 1 ep
Sparkhouse
TV · as Paul Lawton · 3 eps
Spooks
TV · as Richard Maynard · 1 ep
Foyle's War
TV · as James Collier · 1 ep
Rockface
TV · as Duncan McFadden · 1 ep
Arthur's Dyke
Movie · as Geoffrey
Charlotte Gray
Movie · as Mr. Jackson
Pearl Harbor
Movie · as RAF Squadron Leader
Waking the Dead
TV · as Douglas Malham · 2 eps
Bedtime
TV · as Ray · 2 eps
Rebus
TV · as Davis Haigh · 1 ep
Beautiful People
Movie · as Dr Mouldy
Plunkett & Macleane
Movie · as MP's Secretary
Sex, Chips & Rock n' Roll
Movie
Sex, Chips & Rock n' Roll
TV · as Howard · 6 eps
Legionnaire
Movie · as Mackintosh
Sharpe: The Legend
Movie · as Fenner
Midsomer Murders
TV · as Isaac Starling · 1 ep
Family Money
TV · as Harry · 4 eps
The Treasure Seekers
Movie · as Bastable
Sharpe's Regiment
Movie · as Lord Simon Fenner
Hamlet
Movie · as Horatio
Twelfth Night
Movie · as Antonio
Silent Witness
TV · as Professor Adrian Cowley · 1 ep
Othello
Movie · as Montano
In the Bleak Midwinter
Movie · as Tom Newman
Bramwell
TV · as Major Stuart Hyde · 1 ep
The Choir
TV · as Leo Beckford · 5 eps
A Breed of Heroes
Movie · as Lt. Col Ian Gowrie, MC
The Riff Raff Element
TV · as Boyd Tundish · 12 eps
The Vision Thing
Movie · as Batt Prender
To Play the King
TV · as David Mycroft · 4 eps
Lipstick on Your Collar
TV · as Major Church · 6 eps
Hamlet
Movie · as Hamlet
A Touch of Frost
TV · as Simon Slater · 1 ep
Heartbeat
TV · as Traumatised Man / Buckley · 1 ep
Shakespeare: The Animated Tales
TV · as Hamlet (voice) · 1 ep
The Trials of Oz
Movie · as Dr. Michael Schofield
Drop the Dead Donkey
TV · 1 ep
Nobody Here But Us Chickens
Movie
Agatha Christie's Poirot
TV · as Donald Fraser, Knighton · 1 ep
The Ginger Tree
TV · as Father Anthony · 1 ep
Dead Lucky
Movie · as Martin Urban
Playing Away
Movie · as Derek
Hold the Dream
TV · as Sebastian Cross · 4 eps
The Fools on the Hill
Movie · as David
Lovejoy
TV · as Douglas Holden · 1 ep
Casualty
TV · as Phil Byron · 1 ep
Portrait of Isa Mulvenny
Movie · as Bill Thompson
Screen Two
TV · as Martin Urban · 1 ep
Summer Season
TV · as Bill Thompson · 1 ep
Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes
Movie · as Sir Hugh Belcher
The Jewel in the Crown
TV · as Teddy Bingham · 4 eps
Mansfield Park
TV · as Edmund Bertram · 6 eps
The Rocking Horse Winner
Movie · as Lawyer
A Silly Little Habit
Movie · as Simon
The Agatha Christie Hour
TV · as Edward Robinson · 1 ep
Chariots of Fire
Movie · as Aubrey Montague
Berlin Tunnel 21
Movie · as Georg Heptner
Matador
TV · as Jim Donaldson, Engelsk flyver · 1 ep
By Common Consent
Movie
Playhouse
TV · as Simon · 1 ep
BBC Play of the Month
TV · as Larion Surzhansky · 1 ep