Biography
John Shrapnel
Acting
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-C…
Career works
127
Movies
81
Series
46
Career average
7.0/10
Birth date
04/27/1942
Place of birth
Birmingham, England, UK
Date of death
02/14/2020
Filmography highlights
Movies
Hamlet Within
2022
King Charles III
2017 · 6.4
Britain's Nuclear Bomb - The Inside Story
2017 · 7.0
Branagh Theatre Live: The Winter's Tale
2015 · 7.7
Hamlet
2015 · 8.2
Building Burma's Death Railway: Moving Half the Mountain
2014
National Theatre Live: Macbeth
2013 · 7.0
Run.
2013
The Awakening
2011 · 6.4
National Theatre Live: Phèdre
2009 · 7.8
An Organization of Dreams
2009
The Duchess
2008 · 7.0
Mirrors
2008 · 6.3
Chemical Wedding
2008 · 4.2
Hindenburg: Titanic of the Skies
2007 · 6.8
Series
The Lions Rule
2017 · 9.0
Apparitions
2008 · 7.2
Merlin
2008 · 7.8
Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire
2006 · 7.6
I Am Not an Animal
2004 · 8.6
New Tricks
2004 · 7.3
Foyle's War
2002 · 7.8
The Inspector Lynley Mysteries
2002 · 7.2
Waking the Dead
2001 · 7.2
The 10th Kingdom
2000 · 7.6
Invasion: Earth
1998 · 6.3
Predators Killing for a Living
1997
Jonathan Creek
1997 · 7.5
Bodyguards
1997 · 8.0
Midsomer Murders
1997 · 7.5