Alun Armstrong
{{Short description|English actor (born 1946)}}
{{For|those of the same or a similar name|Alun Armstrong (footballer)|Alan Armstrong (disambiguation)}}
{{use British English|date=January 2012}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=October 2020}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Alun Armstrong
| image = Alun Armstrong (cropped-J1).jpg
| caption = Armstrong in January 2012
| birthname = Alan Armstrong
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1946|7|17|df=yes}}
| birth_place = Annfield Plain, County Durham, England
| death_date =
| death_place =
| othername =
| spouse = Sue Bairstow
| children = 3, including Joe
| occupation = Actor
| yearsactive = 1971–present
}}
Alan Armstrong (born 17 July 1946{{cite web|url=https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/person/mp121504/alun-armstrong |title=year of birth |publisher=National Portrait Gallery |accessdate=2 June 2023}}), known professionally as Alun Armstrong, is an English character actor. He grew up in County Durham in North East England, and first became interested in acting through Shakespeare productions at his grammar school. Since his career began in the early 1970s, he has played, in his words, "the full spectrum of characters from the grotesque to musicals... I always play very colourful characters, often a bit crazy, despotic, psychotic".Kalina, Paul, [http://www.theage.com.au/news/tv--radio/old-hand-returns-with-new-tricks/2007/11/07/1194329300016.html "Old Hand Returns with New Tricks"], The Age, 8 November 2007. Retrieved 2018-06-08.
His credits include several Charles Dickens adaptations, and the eccentric ex-detective Brian Lane in New Tricks. He is also an accomplished stage actor who spent nine years with the Royal Shakespeare Company. He originated the role of Monsieur Thénardier in the West End production of Les Misérables, and won an Olivier Award in the title role of Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street.
Early life
Born Alan Armstrong in Annfield Plain, County Durham, his father was a coal miner and both his parents were Methodist lay preachers.Keal, Graham, [http://www.sundaysun.co.uk/whats-on-newcastle-north-east/celebrity-showbiz-news/2004/07/18/alun-s-glad-to-be-gay-79310-14438293/ "Alun's Glad to Be Gay"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110525051736/http://www.sundaysun.co.uk/whats-on-newcastle-north-east/celebrity-showbiz-news/2004/07/18/alun-s-glad-to-be-gay-79310-14438293/ |date=25 May 2011 }}, Sunday Sun, 18 July 2004. Retrieved 2011-01-29. He attended Annfield Plain Junior School, then Consett Grammar School, where a teacher inspired him to try acting.{{cite news |last1=Conroy |first1=Brian |title=Dennis Earl |url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2006/jul/11/obituaries.mainsection |access-date=3 September 2018 |work=The Guardian |date=11 June 2006}} In the lower sixth, he played Petruchio in The Taming of the Shrew, a role he later played with the Royal Shakespeare Company.Lockyer, Daphne, [http://www.tes.co.uk/article.aspx?storycode=2640832 "Alun Armstrong"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121001084916/http://www.tes.co.uk/article.aspx?storycode=2640832 |date=1 October 2012 }}, TES Magazine, 27 June 2008. Retrieved 2011-02-06.
Armstrong took part in the National Youth Theatre summer school in 1964, but his background and northern accent made him feel out of place. He studied fine art at Newcastle University. He found the course pretentious and felt that he did not fit in, and he was sent down after two years when he stopped attending classes.
Armstrong had jobs with a bricklayer and as a gravedigger before he decided to try acting again. He started out as an assistant stage manager at the Cambridge Arts Theatre, then went on to a Theatre in Education company affiliated with the Sheffield Repertory Theatre. He also performed in several Radio 4 dramas.
Career
=Film=
Armstrong made his screen debut in Get Carter (1971).Chibnall, Steve (2003). Get Carter: The British Film Guide 6, London: I B Tauris & Co Ltd., p. 34 {{ISBN|978-1-86064-910-3}}. On learning that the film was being made in Newcastle, Armstrong wrote a letter to MGM, the studio making the film, and was invited to meet director Mike Hodges, who was keen to cast local actors.Mitchell, Wendy, [http://www.screendaily.com/home/blog/get-armstrong/5025258.article "Get Armstrong"], Screen Daily, 23 March 2011. Retrieved 2011-04-28.
Armstrong has appeared in a number of films, although usually in supporting roles. In A Bridge Too Far (1977), he had a small role as one of the British troops at the Battle of Arnhem.Cummings, Mike, [https://www.allmovie.com/artist/alun-armstrong-2270/bio "Alun Armstrong"], All Movie Guide. Retrieved 2011-02-12. He played a French soldier, Lieutenant Lecourbe, in Ridley Scott's 1977 film The Duellists. He had a supporting role as the bandit leader Torquil in the 1983 fantasy film Krull.Maslin, Janet, [https://movies.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9F02E1DA143BF93AA15754C0A965948260 "Movie Review: Krull (1983): Adventure with Magic and a Beast"], The New York Times, 29 July 1983. Retrieved 2011-02-10.
His first cinematic lead role was as Maxwell Randall, the titular vampire in Alan Clarke's snooker musical Billy the Kid and the Green Baize Vampire (1987). Armstrong sang "I Bite Back".
In Patriot Games (1992), Armstrong played an SO-13 officer. In Braveheart (1995), he played the Scottish noble Mornay who betrayed William Wallace.Travers, Peter, [https://www.rollingstone.com/movies/reviews/braveheart-19950101 "Braveheart"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170207182152/http://www.rollingstone.com/movies/reviews/braveheart-19950101 |date=7 February 2017 }}, Rolling Stone, 1 January 1995. Retrieved 2011-02-10. He was the villainous Egyptian cult leader Baltus Hafez in The Mummy Returns (2001),[http://cinema.theiapolis.com/movie-2RMB/the-mummy-returns/storyline.html "The Mummy Returns"], Theiapolis Cinema. Retrieved 2011-02-11. and he portrayed Saint Peter with a Geordie accent in Millions (2004).[http://www.film4.com/minisite/127-hours/reviews/2004/millions "Millions Film Review"], Film4. Retrieved 2011-02-10. He also had small roles as the High Constable in Sleepy Hollow (1999),Horrod, Marion, [https://archive.today/20120717005822/http://news.planetorigo.com/article.php?poarticle_id=587&s=7ssEl9Sr6K0Gkz3J& "Sleepy Hollow"], Planet Origo, 1 November 2009. Retrieved 2011-02-11. Cardinal Jinette in Van Helsing (2004),Geary, Christopher, [http://www.zone-sf.com/vanhelsing.html "Van Helsing"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110613230425/http://www.zone-sf.com/vanhelsing.html |date=13 June 2011 }}, The Zone. Retrieved 2011-02-10. Magistrate Fang in Roman Polanski's Oliver Twist (2005) and Uncle Garrow in Eragon (2006).Warren, Bill, [http://www.avrev.com/theatrical-movie-reviews/theatrical/eragon-2006.html "Eragon"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110707195143/http://www.avrev.com/theatrical-movie-reviews/theatrical/eragon-2006.html |date=7 July 2011 }}, Audio Video Revolution, 15 December 2006. Retrieved 2011-02-10.
=Television=
Armstrong has had over 80 roles in television productions.[http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/individual/5132 "Alun Armstrong"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071201120000/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/individual/5132 |date=1 December 2007 }}, BFI Film and TV Database. Retrieved 2011-02-12. During the 1970s, he appeared in various TV series, including episodes of Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads?, Porridge, Public Eye and The Sweeney.{{cite book|year=2001|author1=Richard Webster |author2=Dick Clement |author3=Ian la Frenais |isbn=0-7472-3294-6|title=Porridge The Inside Story|publisher=Headline Book Publishing}}[https://www.bbc.co.uk/drama/people/alun_armstrong_person_page.shtml "BBC Drama People Index: Alun Armstrong"], BBC. Retrieved 2011-02-10.
He was cast in two mini-series dealing with coal miners in North East England. He played Joe Gowlan in The Stars Look Down (1974) based on the novel by A. J. Cronin and he appeared in Ken Loach's Days of Hope (1975) set in his native County Durham.[https://web.archive.org/web/20090203124148/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/series/21346 "The Stars Look Down"], BFI Film and TV Database. Retrieved 2011-02-10.Williams, Tony, [http://www.sensesofcinema.com/2004/cteq/days_of_hope/ "Days of Hope"], Senses of Cinema. Retrieved 2011-02-06. In a 2007 interview, Armstrong singled out Days of Hope as a favourite: "I loved that because it was my own history and background that was being dramatised and, in a way, nothing gets better than that".
In the comedy series A Sharp Intake of Breath, he played a variety of characters who complicate the life of the main character played by David Jason.[https://www.bbc.co.uk/sitcom/atoz/s.shtml#a_sharp_intake_of_breath "Britain's Best Sitcom"], BBC, January 2004. Retrieved 2001-02-12. In 1977, he was the strict Deputy Headmaster in Willy Russell's Our Day Out, a television play about a group of poor schoolchildren on a daytrip.[http://www.willyrussell.com/dayout.html "Our Day Out"], Willy Russell website. Retrieved 2011-02-10. He also starred in the 1981 Yorkshire Television drama Get Lost![http://www.screenonline.org.uk/tv/id/975477/ "The Beiderbecke Tapes"], BFI Screenonline. Retrieved 2011-02-10.
Armstrong has portrayed characters from the works of Charles Dickens. He played Wackford Squeers and Mr. Wagstaff in the eight-hour Royal Shakespeare Company stage adaptation of The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby that was filmed for television in 1982.Sinyard, Neil, [http://www.screenonline.org.uk/tv/id/578713/ "The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby"], BFI Screenonline. Retrieved 2011-02-10. He has appeared in two versions of Oliver Twist: the 1999 ITV mini-series as Agnes Fleming's father Captain Fleming and the 2005 Roman Polanski film as Magistrate Fang.[https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/olivertwist/whos_who.html "Oliver Twist"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161215133044/http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/olivertwist/whos_who.html |date=15 December 2016 }}, PBS. Retrieved 2011-02-10.Romney, Jonathan, [https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/reviews/oliver-twist-pgbr-saraband-15-510029.html "Oliver Twist"]{{dead link|date=August 2021|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}, The Independent, 9 October 2005. Retrieved 2011-02-10. He has had roles in four BBC Dickens adaptations, as Daniel Peggotty in David Copperfield (1999);[https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/archive/programs/davidcopperfield/ "David Copperfield"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161109155331/http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/archive/programs/davidcopperfield/ |date=9 November 2016 }}, PBS. Retrieved 2011-02-10. as Inspector Bucket in Bleak House (2005);[https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/bleakhouse/ "Bleak House"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161129150015/http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/bleakhouse/ |date=29 November 2016 }}, PBS. Retrieved 2011-02-10. as Jeremiah and Ephraim Flintwinch in Little Dorrit (2008);[https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/littledorrit/ "Little Dorrit"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090928075115/http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/littledorrit/ |date=28 September 2009 }}, PBS. Retrieved 2011-02-10. and as Hiram Grewgious in The Mystery of Edwin Drood (2012).[https://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2011/09_september/02/drood.shtml "Cast announced for The Mystery Of Edwin Drood on BBC Two"], BBC Press Office, 2 September 2011. Retrieved 2011-09-02. Armstrong has been a fan of Dickens since reading David Copperfield aloud in school. He particularly remembered Dan Peggotty's houseboat on the beach, and in order to play the role he turned down an offer from Clint Eastwood, with whom he had worked on White Hunter Black Heart.[https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/archive/programs/davidcopperfield/whoswho/dan.html "Dan Peggotty: Alun Armstrong"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161013214251/http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/archive/programs/davidcopperfield/whoswho/dan.html |date=13 October 2016 }}, PBS. Retrieved 2011-02-12.
In the BBC drama series Our Friends in the North (1996), he played Austin Donohue, a character based on the politician T. Dan Smith.O'Neill, Martin, [http://www.newstatesman.com/uk-politics/2007/12/dan-smith-labour-funding-party "Labour's Friends in the North"], New Statesman, 3 December 2007. Retrieved 2011-01-29. Armstrong portrayed 18th century politician Henry Fox in the BBC serial Aristocrats (1999). In the 2000 TV film This Is Personal: The Hunt for the Yorkshire Ripper, he portrayed George Oldfield, the Assistant Chief Constable for Crime at West Yorkshire Police whose health deteriorated during the investigation as he received messages purportedly from the killer.Sloan, Billy, [http://www.thefreelibrary.com/TV+preview%3B+Policeman+who+ended+up+Ripper%27s+14th+victim.-a060274940 "TV preview; Policeman who ended up Ripper's 14th victim"], Yorkshire Post, 23 January 2000. Retrieved 2011-02-02. He was nominated for a Royal Television Society award for his role in This Is Personal.{{cite web|url=http://www.rts.org.uk/Info_page_two_pic_2_det.asp?id=6113&sec_id=3483|title=Royal Television Society Programme Awards 2000|access-date=2011-02-11}}{{dead link|date=December 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
In the second series of Bedtime (2002), he played a widower concerned about his son's suspicious behaviour.[https://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/bedtime/ "Bedtime"], BBC. Retrieved 2011-02-10. He and Brenda Blethyn co-starred in Between the Sheets (2003) as a frustrated married couple in sex therapy.Grant, Frances, [http://www.nzherald.co.nz/frances-grant/news/article.cfm?a_id=87&objectid=9002293 "Sexual Healing in the 'burbs"], The New Zealand Herald, 9 December 2004. Retrieved 2011-02-11. In an adaptation of Carrie's War, he played a strict man who reluctantly takes in two children evacuated to Wales during World War II.[https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/carrieswar/index.html "Carrie's War"], PBS. Retrieved 2011-02-11.
Armstrong is known for his role as Brian Lane in the BBC One series New Tricks about a group of former police detectives who help investigate unsolved and open cases for London's Metropolitan Police. The character of Brian Lane is an obsessive and socially inept recovering alcoholic who has a great capacity for remembering details of old cases and colleagues. In August 2012, Armstrong announced he would leave the show after the tenth series. The announcement followed comments by the cast in an interview with the Radio Times that criticised some of the series' writing,{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-19331320 |title=New Tricks stars criticise show's writers|website=BBC News|date=2012-08-21 |access-date=2021-07-29}} and which drew an angry rebuttal from the show's writer-director Julian Simpson.{{cite web|url=http://www.theweek.co.uk/entertainment/48635/new-tricks-star-alun-armstrong-quits-after-angry-writers-tweet |title=New Tricks star Alun Armstrong quits after angry writer's tweet |publisher=Theweek.co.uk |date=2012-08-23 |access-date=2013-08-28}}
During the run of New Tricks, Armstrong continued to take on other projects. He starred in the 2004 TV film When I'm 64 about a lonely retired schoolteacher who starts a relationship with another man. He chose the role, despite his apprehension about filming a love scene with co-star Paul Freeman, because he thought it was a lovely and thought-provoking story.[https://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2004/07_july/02/when_64_armstrong.shtml "When I'm 64"], BBC Press Office, 2 July 2004. Retrieved 2001-02-13. He also starred in The Girls Who Came to Stay (2006), about a British couple who take in two girls exposed to the effects of the Chernobyl disaster,[http://www.memorabletv.com/interviews/alunarmstrongongirlswhocametostay.htm "Alun Armstrong on The Girls Who Came to Stay"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110223123308/http://www.memorabletv.com/interviews/alunarmstrongongirlswhocametostay.htm |date=23 February 2011 }}, Memorable TV, 14 April 2006. Retrieved 2011-02-12. and Filth (2008), as the husband of "Clean-Up TV" activist Mary Whitehouse.Wiegand, David, [https://web.archive.org/web/20100716140633/http://articles.sfgate.com/2008-11-14/entertainment/17127787_1_sir-hugh-greene-mary-whitehouse-masterpiece-contemporary "TV Review: Filth and a Crusading Housewife"], San Francisco Chronicle, 14 November 2008. Retrieved 2011-02-12.
For three series from 2009 to 2011, he played William Garrow's mentor John Southouse in the BBC period legal drama Garrow's Law.[https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00w5c2w "Garrow's Law"], BBC. Retrieved 2011-02-10. In 2012, he played the Earl of Northumberland in the BBC2 adaptations of Henry IV, Parts I and II. His son Joe Armstrong{{Cite web|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/drama/people/alun_armstrong_person_page.shtml|title=BBC - Drama - People Index Alun Armstrong|last=BBC|website=www.bbc.co.uk|language=en-gb|access-date=2020-04-15}} played Northumberland's son Hotspur.{{cite press release|title=Cast confirmed for BBC Two's cycle of Shakespeare films |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/latestnews/shakespeare-cast.html |publisher=BBC Drama Publicity |date=24 November 2011 |access-date=2012-07-20 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111126220557/http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/latestnews/shakespeare-cast.html |archive-date=26 November 2011 |url-status=live}} In the 2014 Showtime horror series Penny Dreadful, Armstrong played Vincent Brand, an actor who gives Frankenstein's monster a job at the Grand Guignol.{{cite news | url=http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/05/25/penny-dreadful-recap-frankensteins-monster-wants-a-partner-now/ | title='Penny Dreadful' Recap: Frankenstein's Monster Wants a Partner. Now. | work=New York Times Arts Beat | date=25 May 2014 | access-date=12 June 2014 | author=Grode, Eric}} He guest starred in the 2014 Christmas special of Downton Abbey,{{cite news | url=http://www.thejournal.co.uk/news/north-east-news/home-grown-tv-star-alun-armstrong-7623993 | title=Home-grown TV star Alun Armstrong is to make special visit in support of a small County Durham theatre | work=The Journal | date=16 August 2014 | access-date=17 August 2014 | author=Hodgson, Barbara | archive-date=8 August 2016 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160808031915/http://www.thejournal.co.uk/news/north-east-news/home-grown-tv-star-alun-armstrong-7623993 | url-status=dead }} and took the role of Clifford Bentley in ITV police drama Prime Suspect 1973.{{citation needed|date=January 2020}}
=Theatre=
In addition to his film and television work, Armstrong has acted in many theatre productions. One of his early roles was Billy Spencer in David Storey's play The Changing Room at the Royal Court Theatre directed by Lindsay Anderson in 1971.[http://www.lindsayanderson.com/the_changing_room.html "The Changing Room"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110717103005/http://www.lindsayanderson.com/the_changing_room.html |date=17 July 2011 }}, Lindsay Anderson Memorial Foundation. Retrieved 2011-02-01. In 1975, he played Touchstone in As You Like It directed by Peter Gill at the Nottingham Playhouse.{{cite web|url=http://www.petergill7.co.uk/works/as_you_like_it.shtml|title=As You Like It, Nottingham Playhouse Company|access-date=2011-02-27|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120317015625/http://www.petergill7.co.uk/works/as_you_like_it.shtml|archive-date=17 March 2012}}
Armstrong spent nine years with the Royal Shakespeare Company from 1979 to 1988. On tour and at the Donmar Warehouse in 1979–80, he played Dogberry in Much Ado About Nothing[http://www.rscshakespeare.co.uk/MuchAdo.html "The RSC Shakespeare Staging History – Much Ado About Nothing"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150626030448/http://www.rscshakespeare.co.uk/MuchAdo.html |date=26 June 2015 }}, Royal Shakespeare Company. Retrieved 2011-02-01. and Azdak in The Caucasian Chalk Circle.[https://web.archive.org/web/20110821123401/http://calm.shakespeare.org.uk/dserve/dserve.exe?dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqCmd=Show.tcl&dsqDb=Works&dsqPos=0&dsqSearch=%28Title=%27caucasian%20chalk%20circle%27%29 "Caucasian Chalk Circle"], Shakespeare Birthplace Trust Archive. Retrieved 2011-02-01.
In 1981, Armstrong joined the cast of the eight-hour production of The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby as Wackford Squeers. The company went on tour to perform on Broadway at the Plymouth Theatre.[http://www.ibdb.com/production.php?id=4134 "The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby"], Internet Broadway Database. Retrieved 2011-02-01. The play was filmed for television at the Old Vic Theatre in 1982.
In productions at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, the Theatre Royal, Newcastle, and the Barbican Theatre in 1982–83, Armstrong played Trinculo in The Tempest[http://www.rscshakespeare.co.uk/tempest.html "The RSC Shakespeare Staging History – The Tempest"] Royal Shakespeare Company. Retrieved 2011-02-01. and Petruchio in The Taming of the Shrew with Sinéad Cusack as Kate.[http://www.rscshakespeare.co.uk/tamingOfTheShrew.html "The RSC Shakespeare Staging History – The Taming of the Shrew"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100822062746/http://www.rscshakespeare.co.uk/tamingOfTheShrew.html |date=22 August 2010 }} Royal Shakespeare Company. Retrieved 2011-02-01. In 1983, he played Ralph Trapdoor in The Roaring Girl starring Helen Mirren.[http://calm.shakespeare.org.uk/dserve/dserve.exe?dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqCmd=Show.tcl&dsqDb=Works&dsqPos=0&dsqSearch=%28Title=%27roaring%20girl%27%29 "The Roaring Girl"]{{Dead link|date=September 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}, Shakespeare Birthplace Trust Archive. Retrieved 2011-02-01. He performed the roles of Leontes in The Winter's Tale and John Proctor in The Crucible on a national tour that included Christ Church, Spitalfields in 1984 and on tour to Poland in 1985.[http://www.rscshakespeare.co.uk/wintersTale.html "The RSC Shakespeare Staging History – The Winter's Tale"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110726235249/http://www.rscshakespeare.co.uk/wintersTale.html |date=26 July 2011 }} Royal Shakespeare Company. Retrieved 2011-02-01.[https://archive.today/20120710014323/http://calm.shakespeare.org.uk/dserve/dserve.exe?dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqCmd=Show.tcl&dsqDb=Works&dsqPos=0&dsqSearch=(Title=%27crucible%27) "The Crucible"], Shakespeare Birthplace Trust Archive. Retrieved 2011-02-01. In 1985–86, he played Thersites in Troilus and Cressida.[http://www.rscshakespeare.co.uk/troilusAndCressida.html "The RSC Shakespeare Staging History – Troilus and Cressida"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150902052830/http://www.rscshakespeare.co.uk/troilusAndCressida.html |date=2 September 2015 }} Royal Shakespeare Company. Retrieved 2011-02-01.
In the autumn of 1985, Armstrong took on what is perhaps his best-known stage role: Thénardier in the original London production of Les Misérables. Thénardier and his wife, played by Susan Jane Tanner, are innkeepers whose shady practices are revealed in the song "Master of the House." Armstrong described Thénardier as "a gruesome and comic character."Jansen, Rochelle, [http://www.sundaytimes.lk/020303/plus6.html#6LABEL2 "Making of Thenadier" (sic)], The Sunday Times (Sri Lanka), 3 March 2002. Retrieved 2011-02-12.
Armstrong was one of the first to be cast, along with fellow Royal Shakespeare Company members Sue Jane Tanner and Roger Allam.Behr, Edward (1989). The Complete Book of Les Misérables, p. 94. Arcade Publishing. {{ISBN|1-55970-033-5}}. He was involved in fleshing out his role, particularly in the second act song "Dog Eats Dog."Behr, p. 86 He was surprised by the success of Les Misérables "because it is different to other musicals. Different because it is a sung musical throughout and also a little operatic; I didn't think it would be very popular." He left the production after a year because he became bored with the repetition and wanted to move on to other things.
He sings on Original London Cast Recording. He reprised the role, paired with Jenny Galloway as Mme. Thénardier, in Les Misérables - The Dream Cast in Concert at the Royal Albert Hall in October 1995, which was filmed and released on DVD. He also appeared in the 25th anniversary concert, though Matt Lucas performed the role of Thénardier.Masters, Tim, [https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-11437196 "Bon anniversaire! 25 facts about Les Mis"], BBC News, 1 October 2010. Retrieved 2011-02-02.
Armstrong received nominations in two categories for the 1985 Olivier Award: Outstanding Performance by an Actor in a Musical for Les Misérables and Actor of the Year for The Crucible and The Winter's Tale.{{cite web|url=http://www.officiallondontheatre.co.uk/olivier_awards/past_winners/view/item98520/Olivier-Winners-1985/|title=Olivier Winners 1985|access-date=2011-02-01|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101221173718/http://officiallondontheatre.co.uk/olivier_awards/past_winners/view/item98520/Olivier-Winners-1985/|archive-date=21 December 2010|url-status=dead}} In 1988, he was again nominated for the Olivier Award for the roles of Barabas in an RSC production of The Jew of Malta and the Captain in a National Theatre production of The Father by August Strindberg.{{cite web|url=http://www.officiallondontheatre.co.uk/olivier_awards/past_winners/view/item98523/Olivier-Winners-1988/|title=Olivier Winners 1988|access-date=2011-02-01|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101221173536/http://officiallondontheatre.co.uk/olivier_awards/past_winners/view/item98523/Olivier-Winners-1988/|archive-date=21 December 2010|url-status=dead}} The New York Times review of The Father said: "At its imploding center is the superb actor Alun Armstrong... 'To eat or be eaten, that is the question,' says the captain. By evening's end, Mr. Armstrong seems to have been devoured alive by his inner demons..."Rich, Frank, [https://www.nytimes.com/1988/12/22/theater/review-theater-jacobi-as-a-sympathetic-richard-ii-in-london.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm "Review/Theater; The Father"], The New York Times, 22 December 1988. Retrieved 2001-02-02.
During the short run of the musical The Baker's Wife at the Phoenix Theatre in 1989–90, he played the role of the baker Aimable Castagnet. The production, directed by Trevor Nunn, received positive reviews but did not attract large audiences and closed after 56 performances.de Giere, Carol (2008). Defying Gravity: The Creative Career of Stephen Schwartz, p. 481. Applause Books, Milwaukee. {{ISBN|978-1-55783-745-5}}. He was nominated for an Olivier Award for Outstanding Performance of the Year by an Actor in a Musical.{{cite web|url=http://www.officiallondontheatre.co.uk/olivier_awards/past_winners/view/item98524/Olivier-Winners-1989-90/|title=Olivier Winners 1989–90|access-date=2011-02-01|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101221173212/http://officiallondontheatre.co.uk/olivier_awards/past_winners/view/item98524/Olivier-Winners-1989-90/|archive-date=21 December 2010|url-status=dead}}
Armstrong won the Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Musical in 1994 for his performance as Sweeney Todd in the 1993 London revival of the musical at the National Theatre. The play also won for Best Musical Revival and his co-star Julia McKenzie won Best Actress in a Musical.{{cite web|url=http://www.officiallondontheatre.co.uk/olivier_awards/past_winners/view/item98528/Olivier-Winners-1994/ |title=Olivier Winners 1994 |access-date=2011-02-01 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101221102337/http://officiallondontheatre.co.uk/olivier_awards/past_winners/view/item98528/Olivier-Winners-1994/ |archive-date=21 December 2010 |url-status=dead }}
At the Donmar Warehouse, Armstrong appeared as Albert Einstein in Terry Johnson's Insignificance in 1995,Rees, Jasper, [https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/theatre-einsteins-theory-of-relationships-1585580.html "Theatre: Einstein's Theory of Relationships"], The Independent, 9 June 1995. Retrieved 2011-02-27. and he played Hamm in Samuel Beckett's Endgame in 1996.Taylor, Paul, [https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/theatre-endgame-donmar-warehouse-1305606.html "Theatre Endgame Donmar Warehouse"], The Independent, 19 April 1996. Retrieved 2011-02-02. He starred as Willy Loman in a 1996–97 National Theatre production of Death of a Salesman.Zoglin, Richard, [https://web.archive.org/web/20121106204803/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,985869-2,00.html "Theater: The Kindness of Foreigners"], Time, 3 February 1997. Retrieved 2011-02-02. In 1997–98, he appeared in a production of the comedy The Front Page directed by Sam Mendes at the Donmar Warehouse. The Independent review noted: "As for Alun Armstrong, we don't meet him until late in the second of three acts but he dominates the entire evening. He barks, bleats and bellows across the stage, grabbing Hildy and the show by the scruff of the neck and hurtling through to a zinger of a climax."Benedict, David, [https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/bold-the-front-page-1289186.html "Bold, The Front Page"], The Independent, 17 December 1997. Retrieved 2011-02-02.
Armstrong took the lead role at short notice in Shelagh Stephenson's play Mappa Mundi in 2002, replacing Ian Holm, who withdrew due to illness.Wolf, Matt, [https://www.variety.com/review/VE1117919346/ "Mappa Mundi Review"], Variety, 17 November 2002. Retrieved 2011-02-02. In 2006, he returned to the stage to star in Trevor Nunn's production of The Royal Hunt of the Sun at the National Theatre.[http://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/15718/productions/the-royal-hunt-of-the-sun.html "The Royal Hunt of the Sun"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110610205352/http://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/15718/productions/the-royal-hunt-of-the-sun.html |date=10 June 2011 }}, National Theatre. Retrieved 2011-01-30. At the Proms in 2012, he played Alfred Doolittle in a performance of My Fair Lady starring Annalene Beechey and Anthony Andrews.[http://westend.broadwayworld.com/article/Armstrong-Fleet-et-al-Join-Cast-of-BBC-PROMS-20120628 "Armstrong, Fleet et al. Join Cast of BBC PROMS"], Broadway World West End, 28 June 2012. Retrieved 2012-07-03. Armstrong stars in a 2014 production of Ionesco's black comedy Exit the King at the Theatre Royal, Bath's Ustinov Studio.{{cite news | url=http://www.thestage.co.uk/news/production/2014/08/alun-armstrong-kenneth-cranham-greg-hicks-star-plays-ustinov-studio/ | title=Alun Armstrong, Kenneth Cranham and Greg Hicks to star in plays at Ustinov Studio | work=The Stage | date=21 August 2014 | access-date=21 August 2014 | author=Snow, Georgia}}
Personal life
Armstrong and his wife, Sue, have three sons: Tom, Joe (also an actor), and Dan. Father and son played older and younger versions of the same character in the 2010 BBC drama A Passionate Woman,Hayes, Martha, "My Family Business: The New Tricks star on the advantages of sharing a role with son Joe in BBC1's A Passionate Woman", TV Times, 10–16 April 2010. and they played Northumberland and his son Hotspur in the 2012 BBC adaptation of Henry IV. Dan was a musician in the band Clock Opera.{{cite AV media notes |title=Ways to Forget |others=Clock Opera |year=2012 |page=9 |type=booklet |publisher=Island Records}} Armstrong appeared in the music video for their song "The Lost Buoys".{{cite video | people=Clock Opera | title=The Lost Buoys | url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQSL3pbnZoE |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211221/oQSL3pbnZoE |archive-date=2021-12-21 |url-status=live| medium=Youtube video | access-date=2012-10-18}}{{cbignore}}
In July 2009, Armstrong was awarded two honorary degrees in recognition of his contributions to the arts. He received an Honorary Doctorate of Letters from the University of East Anglia[http://www.uea.ac.uk/mac/comm/media/press/2009/may/hongrads "Honorary Degrees Announced at University of East Anglia"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120928221445/http://www.uea.ac.uk/mac/comm/media/press/2009/may/hongrads |date=28 September 2012 }}, University of East Anglia, 21 May 2009. Retrieved 2011-01-29. and an Honorary Doctorate of Arts from the University of Sunderland.[http://www.sunderland.ac.uk/faculties/apsc/university/ourpeople/graduates/hondocs/ "Honorary Doctorates"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110724121126/http://www.sunderland.ac.uk/faculties/apsc/university/ourpeople/graduates/hondocs/ |date=24 July 2011 }}, University of Sunderland. Retrieved 2011-01-29. The theatre at the Civic Hall in Stanley, County Durham, near Armstrong's hometown, was named after him in 2014.
Armstrong is a supporter of AFC Wimbledon, as is his character in New Tricks."FA Cup live" 12.35 - 14.50, 27 Nov 2010, ITV.
Filmography
=Film=
| class="wikitable sortable" |
| Year
! Title ! Role ! class="unsortable" | Notes |
|---|
| 1971
| Keith Lacey | |
| 1973
| The 14 | Tommy | Also known as Existence and The Wild Little Bunch |
| 1973
| The Sex Victims | George | Short film |
| 1976
| Don't Tell the Lads | | Dramatised health and safety documentary on lead poisoning |
| 1976
| Milkman | |
| 1977
| Corporal Davies | |
| 1977
| Lacourbe | |
| 1981
| The French Lieutenant's Woman | Grimes | |
| 1983
| Krull | Torquil | |
| 1985
| Billy the Kid and the Green Baize Vampire | Maxwell Randall | |
| 1985
| Number One | Blackpool Sergeant | |
| 1989
| The Childeater | Stefano | Short film |
| 1989
| Zemba | Also known as Djavolji raj |
| 1990
| Ralph Lockhart | |
| 1991
| Dr. Weeks | |
| 1991
| John Stone | |
| 1992
| Blue Ice | Osgood | |
| 1992
| My Little Eye | Dad | Short film |
| 1992
| Sergeant Jimmy Owens | |
| 1992
| Thrasher | |
| 1994
| Reuben Smith | |
| 1995
| Uncle Vernon | |
| 1995
| Mornay | |
| 1997
| |
| 1999
| Uncle Henry | |
| 1999
| Onegin | Zaretsky | |
| 1999
| High Constable | |
| 1999
| Sammy | |
| 2000
| Samuel Brubeck | |
| 2000
| Wyatt | |
| 2001
| Baltus Hafez | |
| 2001
| Bill | |
| 2003
| David | |
| 2003
| Pissarro | |
| 2004
| Millions | |
| 2004
| Van Helsing: The London Assignment | rowspan="2"| Cardinal Jinette | |
| 2004
| |
| 2005
| Magistrate Fang | |
| 2006
| Eragon | |
| 2006
| A Ticket Too Far | Dad | Short film |
| 2012
| The Lost Buoys | Tycoon | Music video |
| 2016
| Sid | |
| 2018
| Possum | Uncle Maurice | |
| 2018
| Lenny | |
=Television=
| class="wikitable sortable" |
| Year
! Title ! Role ! class="unsortable" | Notes |
|---|
| 1971
| Advent of Steam | Series 1, episode 6: "The Iron Horse: Part 2" |
| 1972
| Dividing Fence | Geordie Gilroy | Part of the Full House on Tyneside live arts programme |
| 1972
| Ken Hartley | Series 1, episodes 11–16 & 18 |
| 1972
| Ray Davies | Series 1, episode 7: "The Wrong 'Un" |
| 1972
| Villains | Terence 'Tel' Boldon | Series 1, episode 1: "George" |
| 1973
| Glazier | Series 1, episode 8: "Ross Evans' Story" |
| 1973
| Hunter's Walk | Lorry Driver | Series 1, episode 7: "Discretion" |
| 1973
| Only Make Believe | Michael Biddle | Part of the BBC Play for Today series |
| 1973
| Six Days of Justice | P.C. Williamson | Series 3, episode 4: "The Complaint" |
| 1973
| David Miller | Series 9, episode 3: "A Quiet Man" |
| 1973
| Thriller | Mike | Series 1, episode 9: "The Eyes Have It" |
| 1974
| Easy Go | First docker | Part of the BBC Play for Today series |
| 1974
| Joe | Series 1, episode 1: "The Hammer of God" |
| 1974
| Justice | Bob Graham | Series 3, episode 6: "It's Always a Gamble" |
| 1974
| Sporting Scenes | Bernie | Series 1, episode 3: "The Needle Match" |
| 1974
| Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads? | Dougie Scaife | Series 2, episode 12: "Conduct Unbecoming" |
| 1975
| Billy Shepherd | TV miniseries |
| 1975
| Vince Gregson | Series 7, episode 9: "The Fatted Calf" |
| 1975
| Jim | Series 1, episode 6: "The Favourite" |
| 1975
| Joe Gowlan | TV miniseries |
| 1975
| Peter Jenner | Series 2, episode 9: "Stay Lucky Eh?" |
| 1976
| Lightborne / Secundus Demon | Part of the BBC Play of the Month series |
| 1976
| Private George Harris | Series 1, episode 12: "Dirtier by the Dozen" |
| 1977
| Centre Play | Richard Clewes | Series 6, episode 8: "Risking It" |
| 1977
| Mr. Briggs | Part of the BBC2 Play of the Week series |
| 1977
| Shooting the Chandelier | Brodovich | Part of the BBC2 Play of the Week series |
| 1977
| Porridge | Spraggon | Series 3, episode 5: "A Test of Character" |
| 1977
| Romance | Weaver | Series 1, episode 5: "House of Men" |
| 1977
| Sweeney | Series 3, episode 8: "Shoulder to Shoulder" |
| 1978
| Louis Mendoza | Series 1, episode 8: "Officers of the Law" |
| 1978
| Freedom of the Dig | | Part of the BBC2 Premiere drama series |
| 1978
| Liza | Mikhalevich | Part of the BBC2 Play of the Week series |
| 1978
| Z-Cars | Detective Superintendent Boley | Series 13, episode 13: "Pressure" |
| 1978–79
| Various characters | Series 1–2: 13 episodes |
| 1979
| All Day on the Sands | Dad | Part of the Six Plays by Alan Bennett series |
| 1979
| Provost | Part of the BBC Television Shakespeare series |
| 1980
| Trahearne | Series 3, episodes 17–20: "Fear of God" |
| 1981
| Neville Keaton | 4 episodes |
| 1981
| One in a Thousand | Dick Hayes | Dramatized documentary |
| 1982
| The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby | Wackford Squeers | Stage performance filmed for television |
| 1983
| Mr. Moon's Last Case | Narrator | TV play |
| 1984
| Presenter | Children's programme; 7 episodes |
| 1984
| The House | Mr. Smeth | TV film |
| 1984
| Sharing Time | Luke | Series 1, episode 1: "Guilt on the Gingerbread" |
| 1985
| Bulman | DS Figg | Series 1, episode 4: "Death of a Hitman" |
| 1987
| Christmas Is Coming ... This Is a Government Health Warning! | | Informational programme with comedy sketches |
| 1988
| Number 27 | Murray Lester | |
| 1988
| The Troll (voice) | Series 1, episode 9: "The True Bride" |
| 1988
| Councillor Stennalling | Series 1, episode 1: "Not a Pretty Site" |
| 1989
| A Night on the Tyne | Willy | TV film |
| 1989
| Nineteen 96 | Detective Superintendent Frank Burroughs | Part of the BBC Screen One series |
| 1990
| Looking after Number One | Dick | Part of the BBC Screenplay Firsts series |
| 1990
| Sticky Wickets | Evans | Part of the BBC Screen One series |
| 1990
| Dad | TV film |
| 1991
| Sergeant McGing | TV miniseries |
| 1991
| Rufus Hilton | TV miniseries |
| 1992
| Roy Grade | TV miniseries |
| 1992
| Superintendent Holdsby | Series 6, episode 2: "Happy Families" |
| 1992
| The Life and Times of Henry Pratt | Uncle Teddy | TV miniseries |
| 1992
| Trevor | Season 6, episodes 24–26: "England Show," Parts I, II and III |
| 1992
| Shakespeare: The Animated Tales | Caliban (voice) | Series 1, episode 2: "The Tempest" |
| 1993
| Gerald Faulkner | TV miniseries |
| 1994
| Doggin' Around | Charlie Foster | TV film |
| 1994
| Chief Superintendent Capshaw | TV film |
| 1995
| Sorry about Last Night | Mickey | TV film |
| 1996
| Brazen Hussies | Jimmy Hardcastle | TV film |
| 1996
| Mick Ross | TV film |
| 1996
| Austin Donohue | TV miniseries |
| 1996
| Inspector Herbert | Season 7, episode 12: "Confession" |
| 1996
| Witness Against Hitler | Pastor Harald Poelchau | TV film |
| 1997
| Underworld | Teddy Middlemass | 6 episodes |
| 1998
| DCI Frank Jefferson | TV miniseries |
| 1998
| Shell Shock | Narrator | 3-part documentary |
| 1999
| TV miniseries |
| 1999
| Daniel Peggotty | TV film |
| 1999
| Mr. Fleming | TV miniseries |
| 2000
| 7Up 2000 | Narrator | Documentary |
| 2000
| Challenger: Go for Launch | Narrator | Documentary |
| 2000
| This Is Personal: The Hunt for the Yorkshire Ripper | TV film |
| 2001
| Adrian Mole: The Cappuccino Years | George Mole | 6 episodes |
| 2001
| Extinct | Narrator | 6-part documentary |
| 2001
| Score | George Devon | TV film |
| 2001
| Waiters | Oscar | Part of the ITV First Cut series |
| 2002
| Bedtime | Neil Henshall | Series 2: 6 episodes |
| 2002
| Inquisition | Martin | TV film |
| 2002
| Richard Bolton | TV film |
| 2003
| Peter Delany | TV miniseries |
| 2003
| Messiah 2: Vengeance is Mine | DCI Charlie Macintyre | TV miniseries |
| 2003–2013, 2015
| Brian Lane | Series 1–10: 80 episodes |
| 2004
| Samuel Evans | TV film |
| 2004
| Jim | TV film |
| 2005
| Inspector Bucket | TV miniseries |
| 2006
| The Girls Who Came to Stay | Bob Jenkins | TV film |
| 2007
| The Dinner Party | Jim | TV film |
| 2008
| Filth: The Mary Whitehouse Story | Ernest Whitehouse | TV film |
| 2008
| Jeremiah and Ephraim Flintwinch | TV miniseries |
| 2009–2011
| John Southouse | Series 1–3: 11 episodes |
| 2010
| Donald | TV film (Part 2) |
| 2012
| Hiram Grewgious | TV film |
| 2012
| TV films/series; Henry IV, Parts I and II |
| 2014
| Vincent Brand | TV series |
| 2014
| Stowell | Series 5 Christmas special |
| 2016
| Frontier | Lord Benton | TV series |
| 2016
| George Stott | TV series |
| 2017
| Clifford Bentley | TV series |
| 2019
| Chief Inspector Wisbech | TV Mini Series |
| 2020–2023
|Jim, Paul's father |TV series |
| 2022
| Gary Jackson | TV Mini Series |
| 2023
|Squire Western |TV Miniseries |
=Theatre=
| class="wikitable sortable" |
| Year
! Play ! Playwright ! Role ! Theatre ! class="unsortable" | Notes |
|---|
| 1971
| I Was Hitler's Maid | Christopher Wilkinson | King's Head Theatre Club, London | [http://www.kent.ac.uk/library/specialcollections/theatre/r.php/34714/show.html "I Was Hitler's Maid"], University of Kent Theatre Collections. Retrieved 2011-03-02. |
| 1971
| Billy Spencer | Royal Court Theatre, London | |
| 1973
| Dracula | Bram Stoker | Renfield | Bush Theatre, London |
| 1973
| A Fart for Europe | Edgar | Royal Court Theatre Upstairs, London | Johns, Eric, ed. (1973). Theatre Review '73, p. 122. W.H. Allen. {{ISBN|0-491-01231-4}} |
| 1973
| Cromwell | David Storey | Morgan | Royal Court Theatre, London |
| 1975
| |
| 1976
| The Sons of Light | Yescanab |
| 1976
| Mother's Day | David Storey | Gordon | Royal Court Theatre, London |
| 1978
| Tony Harrison (adaptation) | Fourth Soldier | Cottesloe Theatre, London |
| 1978
| Dennis | National tour | Alternate titles:[http://www.willyrussell.com/one4road.html "One for the Road"], Willy Russell website. Retrieved 2011-03-02. |
| 1979–80
| William Shakespeare | Dogberry | Small-scale tour |
| 1979–80
| Azdak | Small-scale tour | Royal Shakespeare Company |
| 1980
| Bastard Angel | Alun | Donmar Warehouse, London |
| 1980
| The Loud Boy's Life | Harry Baker | Donmar Warehouse, London |
| 1981–82
| The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby | Charles Dickens | Wackford Squeers | Aldwych Theatre, London | Royal Shakespeare Company |
| 1982–83
| William Shakespeare | Trinculo | Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford | Royal Shakespeare Company |
| 1982–83
| William Shakespeare | Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford | Royal Shakespeare Company |
| 1983
| Thomas Middleton | Ralph Trapdoor | Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford | Royal Shakespeare Company |
| 1983
| Reflections | Performer |
| 1984
| Private Hurst | Old Vic, London | Serjeant Musgrave's Dance theatre programme. The Old Vic, 1984. |
| 1984–85
| Small-scale tour | Royal Shakespeare Company |
| 1984–85
| William Shakespeare | Leontes | Small-scale tour | Royal Shakespeare Company |
| 1985–86
| William Shakespeare | Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford | Royal Shakespeare Company |
| 1985–86
| Claude-Michel Schönberg | Barbican Theatre, London | Royal Shakespeare Company |
| 1987–88
| Fashion | Doug Lucie | Stuart Clarke | The Other Place, Stratford |
| 1987–88
| Swan Theatre, Stratford | Royal Shakespeare Company |
| 1988
| The Captain | Cottesloe Theatre, London | Nominated: Olivier Award |
| 1989–90
| Stephen Schwartz | Aimable Castagnet | Phoenix Theatre, London | Nominated: Olivier Award |
| 1993
| Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street | Stephen Sondheim | Cottesloe Theatre, London | Won: Olivier Award |
| 1995
| Insignificance | Donmar Warehouse, London | |
| 1995
| Les Misérables: The Dream Cast in Concert | Claude-Michel Schönberg | Royal Albert Hall, London | 8 October 1995 |
| 1996
| Endgame | Hamm | Donmar Warehouse, London | |
| 1996–97
| Arthur Miller | Willy Loman | Lyttelton Theatre, London | |
| 1997–98
| Walter Burns | Donmar Warehouse, London | |
| 2002
| Mappa Mundi | Jack | Cottesloe Theatre, London | |
| 2006
| Olivier Theatre, London | |
| 2009
| Cornelius McCorkle | Donmar Warehouse, London | Rehearsed reading |
| 2012
| Alfred P. Doolittle | Royal Albert Hall, London |
| 2013
| Family Voices | Voice 3 | Trafalgar Studios, London | |
| 2014
| King Berenger | Ustinov Studio, Theatre Royal, Bath | |
= Radio =
- 2018 The Case of Charles Dexter Ward. BBC Radio 4.
References
{{reflist}}
External links
- {{IMDb name|id=0035605|name=Alun Armstrong}}
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20071201120000/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/individual/5132 Alun Armstrong at the BFI Database]
{{OlivierAward MusicalActor 1979–2000}}
{{Authority control}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Armstrong, Alun}}
Category:Alumni of Newcastle University
Category:People from Annfield Plain
Category:Male actors from County Durham
Category:English male film actors
Category:English male stage actors
Category:English male television actors
Category:English male voice actors
Category:Laurence Olivier Award winners
Category:People educated at Consett Grammar School
Category:Royal Shakespeare Company members
Category:20th-century English male actors
Category:21st-century English male actors