Cast
John Shrapnel
Acting
Cast
John Shrapnel
Known for
Acting
Born
1942-04-27
From
Birmingham, England, UK
Died
2020-02-14
Also known as John Morley Shrapnel
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.
Troy
as Nestor
Gladiator
as Gaius
Notting Hill
as PR Chief
101 Dalmatians
as Skinner
Elizabeth: The Golden Age
as Lord Howard
Mirrors
as Lorenzo Sapelli
The Duchess
as General Grey
K-19: The Widowmaker
as Admiral Bratyeev
Nicholas and Alexandra
as Petya
The Awakening
as Reverend Hugh Purslow
The Body
as Moshe Cohen
Pope Joan
as Father James
Personal Services
as Lionel
Fatherland
as General Globus
Hennessy
as Tipaldi
Alien Autopsy
as Michael Kuhn
Mary, Mother of Jesus
as Simon
Hornblower: The Frogs and the Lobsters
as General Charette
How to Get Ahead in Advertising
as Psychiatrist
King Charles III
as Archbishop of Canterbury
Troilus & Cressida
as Hector
Chemical Wedding
as Crowley
King Lear
as Earl of Kent
The Three Hostages
as Gaudian
Shadow of the Sword
as Archbishop
The Strange Case of Delfina Potocka
as Iwaszkiewicz
Alone
as Hannah
Two Deaths
as Cinca
The Tragedy of Flight 103: The Inside Story
as BKA Police Chief
Selling Hitler
as Gerd Schulte-Hillen
Poppyland
as George Sims
National Theatre Live: Macbeth
as Duncan/Seyton/Old Man
Flayed
as Robert
Testimony
as Andre Zhdanov
Timon of Athens
as Alcibiades
Claim
as Lex Vandenberg
Branagh Theatre Live: The Winter's Tale
as Camilo
National Theatre Live: Phèdre
as Théramène
Partition
as General Flood
Theban Plays: Oedipus at Colonus
as Creon
England, My England
as Samuel Pepys
King Lear
as Duke of Cornwall
Hamlet
as Claudius/Ghost
Professional Foul
as McKendrick
The Gentleman Thief
as Monty Sinclair
Edward & Mrs. Simpson
as Maj. Alexander Hardinge
The Tom Machine
Theban Plays: Antigone
as Creon
Hamlet Within
Theban Plays: Oedipus the King
as Creon
Gossip from the Forest
as Matthias Erzberger
Hamlet
as Claudius
An Organization of Dreams
as Father
OXI, an Act of Resistance
as Creon
Animals of the Ocean Desert
as Narrator
St. Stephen's: The Living Cathedral
as Narrator (English voice)
Run.
as St. Peter
The Burston Rebellion
as Rev. Charles Tucker Eland
Hindenburg: Titanic of the Skies
as Himself (Narrator)
Whistle
as Paul
Hitting Town
as Leonard Brazil (voice)
Schönbrunn - Well of Beauty
as Narrator (English Version)
Once Upon a Time on the Westway
as Billy Palmer
SS-3: The Assassination of Reinhard Heydrich
as Narrator
Seven Wonders of Ancient Rome
as Narrator
Wachau - Valley of Golden Magic
as Narrator (English Version)
The Victim
as Vincent Craig
The Ha-Ha
as Jamie
Mountain Men: The Ghosts of K2
as Narrator
The Race for Everest
as Narrator
Lion Queen
as Narrator (voice)
King Arthur: His Life and Legends
Seven Wonders of Ancient Greece
as Narrator
It's Called the Sugar Plum
as Wally Zuckerman
Building Burma's Death Railway: Moving Half the Mountain
as Narrator
Britain's Nuclear Bomb - The Inside Story
as Narrator (Voice)
Seven Wonders of Ancient Egypt
as Narrator
Horizon: Supermassive Black Holes
as Narrator
Wild Women of Viramba
as Narrator
The Return of the Flying Scotsman
as Narrator - (Voice)