Actor
John Shrapnel
April 27, 1942 · Birmingham, England, UK
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-Cars, Edward and Mrs. Simpson, 101 Dalmatians, Space: 1999, Inspector Morse, Coogan's Run, Notting Hill and Foyle's War. He presented an episode of the 1983 BBC television travel series Great Little Railways. He gave performances in three entries in the BBC Television Shakespeare plays and as Creon in the BBC's 1984 productions of the Three Theban plays of Sophocles.
Notable work
8.2Gladiator (2000)
as Gaius
7.2Troy (2004)
as Nestor
7.3Notting Hill (1999)
as PR Chief
5.9101 Dalmatians (1996)
as Skinner
6.3Mirrors (2008)
as Lorenzo Sapelli
7The Duchess (2008)
as General Grey
6.4The Awakening (2011)
as Reverend Hugh Purslow
6.7Elizabeth: The Golden Age (2007)
as Lord Howard
6.6K-19: The Widowmaker (2002)
as Admiral Bratyeev
7.8Merlin (2008)
as The Sarrum
8.6I Am Not an Animal (2004)
as Narrator (voice)
7.5Midsomer Murders (1997)
as Max Jennings and as Leo Clarke
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