Alun Armstrong (actor)
Alun Armstrong ( born July 17, 1946 in Doncaster, South Yorkshire ) is a British film and stage actor.
Life
Alun Armstrong was born to Methodist parents; his father worked in a mine. In school, he was recommended by a teacher to take acting lessons. This he continued, during his time in high school into action and joined in the Shakespeare play The Taming of the Shrew in a roll on. Armstrong later studied at Newcastle University art, however, he broke off his studies because it satisfies the requirements did not feel grown.
At first he practiced then from jobs like masons and gravediggers before he decided again to try acting. Next he took in a theater on a job as an assistant, before he himself at BBC Radio 4 rolls first took over. In 1971, he learned of a film, which was filmed in Newcastle and met with the director Mike Hodges for casting. In fact, he got a role and made his debut in the crime drama Jack settles.
In the years that followed other movies like A Bridge Too Far and Krull. In Mel Gibson's Braveheart, he played in 1995 and 2002 the Scottish traitor Mornay in The Mummy Returns the sinister head of the Egyptian cult. In addition, he was also seen in films such as Sleepy Hollow and Van Helsing. In the fantasy film Eragon - The legacy of the Dragon Riders of 2006, he has also taken on the role of Uncle Garrow.
Armstrong spent nine years with the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford and London, where he excelled in the role of Mr. Squeers in Nicholas Nickleby and acted as Monsieur Thenardier in the original cast of Les Misérables. Other stage plays in which he participated, include The Tempest, The Winter's Tale and The Crucible. Since April 2006 he is seen again on the London stage, in Trevor Nunn's new production of The Royal Hunt of the Sun at the National Theatre.
As a television actor Armstrong has so far recorded over 80 roles for themselves. So he was to see as many as six times in various adaptations of the Charles Dickens works such as Oliver Twist and David Copperfield. In the BBC drama New Tricks - The crime specialists, he played the role of Brainlane. In the BBC drama series Our Friends in the North, he embodied Austin Donohue, a character based on the career of the politician Thomas Daniel Smith. In the BBC adaptation of Bleak House, he was the Inspector Bucket.
Alun Armstrong is married and father of three sons: Tom, Joe and Dan. Joe Armstrong is also an actor and was standing with his father in 2003 and 2010 in television productions already two times in front of the camera and also acted in the BBC One series Robin Hood with, in the Irish born actor Jonas Armstrong from 2006 to 2009 in the title role took over, but is not closely related with Alun Armstrong.