John Shrapnel

John Shrapnel

Birthday: 1942-04-27

Deathday: 2020-02-14

Place of birth: Birmingham, England, UK

Also known as: John Morley Shrapnel

imdb_id: nm0795344

Biography:

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. In America, he has starred in supporting roles as Senator Gaius in Gladiator, Nestor in Troy and Pompey in the second episode of Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire. He also played the Jail Warden in the 10th Kingdom, an epic fantasy miniseries. He has the rare achievement of appearing in two episodes of Midsomer Murders as two different characters, in Death in Chorus and Written in Blood. Shrapnel appeared in an episode of Jonathan Creek as Professor Lance Graumann in the episode The Omega Man. He appears in Chemical Wedding alongside Simon Callow, telling the tale of the resurrection of occultist Aleister Crowley. Shrapnel also has experience in the field of BBC radio drama through such characters as Colin Dexter's Inspector Morse and William Gibson's Neuromancer. He is the son-in-law of Deborah Kerr through his 1975 marriage to her younger daughter Francesca Ann Bartley. They have three sons, the actors Lex Shrapnel (b.1979), Tom Shrapnel (b.1981) and the writer Joe Shrapnel (b.1976). They live in Highbury, north London.

Played in movies:

King Arthur: His Life and Legends

Score: 10.0

Edward & Mrs. Simpson

Score: 10.0

Seven Wonders of Ancient Egypt

Score: 10.0

Gladiator

Score: 8.2

Hamlet

Score: 8.2

Troilus & Cressida

Score: 8.0

Supermassive Black Holes

Score: 8.0

National Theatre Live: Phèdre

Score: 7.8

Branagh Theatre Live: The Winter's Tale

Score: 7.7

Hornblower: The Frogs and the Lobsters

Score: 7.4

Notting Hill

Score: 7.3

Troy

Score: 7.2

Mountain Men: The Ghosts of K2

Score: 7.0

Timon of Athens

Score: 7.0

Britain's Nuclear Bomb - The Inside Story

Score: 7.0

Selling Hitler

Score: 7.0

National Theatre Live: Macbeth

Score: 7.0

The Duchess

Score: 7.0

Nicholas and Alexandra

Score: 6.9

Hindenburg: Titanic of the Skies

Score: 6.8

Elizabeth: The Golden Age

Score: 6.7

K-19: The Widowmaker

Score: 6.6

The Tragedy of Flight 103: The Inside Story

Score: 6.5

The Awakening

Score: 6.4

King Charles III

Score: 6.3

Mirrors

Score: 6.3

How to Get Ahead in Advertising

Score: 6.3

Fatherland

Score: 6.2

Personal Services

Score: 6.1

Whistle

Score: 6.1

King Lear

Score: 6.0

Professional Foul

Score: 6.0

101 Dalmatians

Score: 5.9

Pope Joan

Score: 5.9

Shadow of the Sword

Score: 5.9

Alien Autopsy

Score: 5.6

The Body

Score: 5.5

Two Deaths

Score: 5.4

Claim

Score: 5.4

England, My England

Score: 5.0

Partition

Score: 5.0

Hennessy

Score: 4.7

Alone

Score: 4.6

Testimony

Score: 4.5

Chemical Wedding

Score: 4.3

Mary, Mother of Jesus

Score: 4.2

SS-3: The Assassination of Reinhard Heydrich

Score: 4.0

Theban Plays: Oedipus the King

Score: 2.0

Once Upon a Time on the Westway

Score: 0.0

Hamlet

Score: 0.0

It's Called the Sugar Plum

Score: 0.0

The Victim

Score: 0.0

Hamlet

Score: 0.0

Run.

Score: 0.0

King Lear

Score: 0.0

The Gentleman Thief

Score: 0.0

Flayed

Score: 0.0

Building Burma's Death Railway: Moving Half the Mountain

Score: 0.0

The Strange Case of Delfina Potocka

Score: 0.0

The Burston Rebellion

Score: 0.0

The Race for Everest

Score: 0.0

Seven Wonders of Ancient Greece

Score: 0.0

Seven Wonders of Ancient Rome

Score: 0.0

Poppyland

Score: 0.0

Theban Plays: Antigone

Score: 0.0

Theban Plays: Oedipus at Colonus

Score: 0.0

The Three Hostages

Score: 0.0

Gossip from the Forest

Score: 0.0

The Return of the Flying Scotsman

Score: 0.0

The Tom Machine

Score: 0.0

Animals of the Ocean Desert

Score: 0.0

The Ha-Ha

Score: 0.0

An Organization of Dreams

Score: 0.0

OXI, an Act of Resistance

Score: 0.0

Hitting Town

Score: 0.0

Wild Women of Viramba

Score: 0.0

Schönbrunn - Well of Beauty

Score: 0.0

Wachau - Valley of Golden Magic

Score: 0.0

St. Stephen's: The Living Cathedral

Score: 0.0

Hamlet Within

Score: 0.0

Played in tv shows:

The Lions Rule

Score: 9.0

I Am Not an Animal

Score: 8.6

Foyle's War

Score: 7.9

Merlin

Score: 7.8

The 10th Kingdom

Score: 7.6

The Woman in White

Score: 7.5

Jonathan Creek

Score: 7.5

Midsomer Murders

Score: 7.5

Midsomer Murders

Score: 7.5

Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire

Score: 7.4

New Tricks

Score: 7.4

Elizabeth R

Score: 7.4

Omnibus

Score: 7.2

Waking the Dead

Score: 7.2

Apparitions

Score: 7.2

The Inspector Lynley Mysteries

Score: 7.2

Space: 1999

Score: 7.1

Natural World

Score: 7.1

BBC2 Play of the Week

Score: 7.0

BBC2 Play of the Week

Score: 7.0

Kavanagh Q.C.

Score: 6.8

G.B.H.

Score: 6.5

Shakespeare: The Animated Tales

Score: 6.3

Edward and Mrs Simpson

Score: 6.2

Invasion: Earth

Score: 6.1

The Chief

Score: 6.0

Wycliffe

Score: 6.0

Centrepoint

Score: 6.0

Justice

Score: 6.0

About Face

Score: 6.0

Between the Lines

Score: 5.6

Between the Lines

Score: 5.6

Mr. Palfrey of Westminster

Score: 5.0

BBC Play of the Month

Score: 5.0

BBC Play of the Month

Score: 5.0

Armchair Thriller

Score: 4.2

True Tilda

Score: 0.0

The Modern World: Ten Great Writers

Score: 0.0

Predators Killing for a Living

Score: 0.0

Bodyguards

Score: 0.0