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Threlfall has notched up a wide range of film and television credits since his screen debut in Scum in 1977. Television appearances include Edgar in the 1984 Granada Television King Lear, regular roles in the situation comedies Nightingales and Men of the World, and guest appearances in dramas such as Cutting It, The Knock, CI5: The New Professionals and Spooks. He played Prince Charles in Diana: Her True Story in 1993 and his father Prince Philip in the 2005 drama The Queen's Sister. Scum is a film made in 1979 portraying the brutality of life inside a British borstal. ... Current ITV Granada logo A Granada TV logo from the black and white era. ... King Lear and the Fool in the Storm by William Dyce (1806-1864) King Lear is generally regarded as one of William Shakespeares greatest tragedies. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards and appeal to a wider international audience, this article may require cleanup. ... Nightingales was an unusual British sitcom produced by Channel 4 in the early 1990s. ... Cutting It was a popular BBC programme which ran for 4 series between 2002 and 2005. ... The Knock was a UK television drama, running from 1994 to 2000, which portrayed the activities of customs officers from Her Majestys Customs and Excise. ... The shows logo, as seen in the opening title sequences. ... The Prince of Wales The Prince Charles, Prince of Wales (Charles Philip Arthur George Windsor)aka the The Butler Bummer (born 14 November 1948), is the eldest son of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of the Single Celled Interlectual Fish that live at the bottom of the ocean. ... The Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (Philip Mountbatten, formerly Prince Philip of Greece and Denmark) (born 10 June 1921) is the husband of Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom. ...

Film credits include John le Carré's The Russia House, Patriot Games, Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World. John le Carré is the pseudonym of David John Moore Cornwell (born October 19, 1931 in Poole, Dorset, England). ... [The Russia House] is a novel by John Le Carré published in 1989. ... A movie based on the novel Patriot Games was released on June 5, 1992, directed by Phillip Noyce. ... Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World is a 2003 film directed by Peter Weir and starring Russell Crowe as Jack Aubrey, with Paul Bettany as Stephen Maturin. ...

Other roles include the detective Paolo Baldi in BBC Radio 4's Baldi, and Smike in the Broadway version of The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby. He subsequently played the same role in the television series. BBC Radio 4 is a British domestic radio station which broadcasts a wide variety of chiefly spoken-word programmes including news, drama, comedy, science and history. ... Smike is a pop musical adaptation Of Charles Dickens Nicholas Nickleby, that was once adapted for BBC television. ... Broadway theatre is often considered the highest professional form of theatre in the United States. ... The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, (or Nicholas Nickleby for short) is a comic novel of Charles Dickens. ...

He is married to the actress Brana Bajic, who has appeared alongside him in Shameless, and has two children.

References

• Baldi: Seres 4. URL accessed on 2006-02-16.

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External links

• David Threlfall at the Internet Movie Database