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.

John Shrapnel

John Shrapnel

Biography

Troy

Gladiator

101 Dalmatians

Notting Hill

Elizabeth: The Golden Age

Mirrors

The Duchess

The Awakening

Fatherland

Schönbrunn - Well of Beauty

K-19: The Widowmaker

Two Deaths

Nicholas and Alexandra

The Body

Flayed

Alien Autopsy

Mary, Mother of Jesus

Run.

How to Get Ahead in Advertising

Personal Services

Hennessy

King Charles III

Hornblower: The Frogs and the Lobsters

The Tragedy of Flight 103: The Inside Story

Horizon: Supermassive Black Holes

Timon of Athens

King Lear

Troilus & Cressida

Shadow of the Sword

The Return of the Flying Scotsman

The Ha-Ha

King Arthur: His Life and Legends

Edward & Mrs. Simpson

Hamlet Within

St. Stephen's: The Living Cathedral

Wild Women of Viramba

The Gentleman Thief

Poppyland

The Burston Rebellion

Gossip from the Forest

England, My England

Selling Hitler

The Three Hostages

Wachau - Valley of Golden Magic

Once Upon a Time on the Westway

The Strange Case of Delfina Potocka

SS-3: The Assassination of Reinhard Heydrich

Pope Joan

Theban Plays: Antigone

Testimony

Chemical Wedding

Theban Plays: Oedipus at Colonus

National Theatre Live: Phèdre

National Theatre Live: Macbeth

Whistle

Partition

Theban Plays: Oedipus the King

Hamlet

Alone

King Lear

Claim

The Tom Machine

The Victim

Professional Foul

The Race for Everest

OXI, an Act of Resistance

It's Called the Sugar Plum

An Organization of Dreams

Branagh Theatre Live: The Winter's Tale

Hamlet

Lost on Everest: The Search for Mallory and Irvine

Hindenburg: Titanic of the Skies

Lion Queen

Seven Wonders of Ancient Egypt

Hitting Town

Seven Wonders of Ancient Greece

Building Burma's Death Railway: Moving Half the Mountain