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David Bradley is a Actor British born on 17 april 1942 at York (United-kingdom)
David John Bradley (born 17 April 1942) is an English actor. He is best known for playing Argus Filch in the Harry Potter film series, Walder Frey in the HBO series Game of Thrones and Abraham Setrakian in The Strain, though he is also an established stage actor with a career that includes a Laurence Olivier Award for his role in a production of King Lear.
Other acting credits include the BBC series Our Friends in the North, the ITV series Broadchurch (for which he won the best supporting actor award at the 2014 British Academy Television Awards), and the films Hot Fuzz, The World's End and Captain America: The First Avenger. In 2013, Bradley portrayed William Hartnell, the actor who played the First Doctor, in the Doctor Who drama An Adventure in Space and Time.
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Birth name David John Bradley
Nationality United-kingdom
Birth 17 april 1942 (82 years) at York (United-kingdom)
Awards Laurence Olivier Award
Nationality United-kingdom
Birth 17 april 1942 (82 years) at York (United-kingdom)
Awards Laurence Olivier Award
David John Bradley (born 17 April 1942) is an English actor. He is best known for playing Argus Filch in the Harry Potter film series, Walder Frey in the HBO series Game of Thrones and Abraham Setrakian in The Strain, though he is also an established stage actor with a career that includes a Laurence Olivier Award for his role in a production of King Lear.
Other acting credits include the BBC series Our Friends in the North, the ITV series Broadchurch (for which he won the best supporting actor award at the 2014 British Academy Television Awards), and the films Hot Fuzz, The World's End and Captain America: The First Avenger. In 2013, Bradley portrayed William Hartnell, the actor who played the First Doctor, in the Doctor Who drama An Adventure in Space and Time.
Biography
Bradley serves as the President of Second Thoughts Drama Group, which performs in and around Stratford-upon-Avon. He is an avid fan of Aston Villa and York City. On 17 July 2012, he was awarded an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Warwick. On 22 November 2014, he took part in a video paying tribute to Aston Villa on the club's 140th birthday.Best films
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Altered Species (2001)
, 1h31Genres Science fiction, Horror
Themes Films about animals, Natural horror films
Actors David Bradley
Roles Frank
Rating26%
A scientist, searching for a way to end cancer, creates a green substance. His assistant, Walter, gets rid of it by pouring it down the sink. Due to pipes in the basement having leaks, the substance falls in a spot where it is exposed to rats. When the scientist leaves, Walter invites friends over for a party. As the party continues, the rats, including a giant one, attack the party goers.
Gabriel & Me (2001)
, 1h24Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama
Themes Films about religion, Films about angels
Actors Iain Glen, David Bradley, Sean Landless, Billy Connolly, Rosie Rowell, Ian Cullen
Roles Grandad
Rating48%
Jimmy Spud is a young loner living in the Byker Wall. Ever since his father threw him high in the air from South Shields pier, he dreamt of being able to fly, and specifically of being an angel.
Station Jim (2001)
, 1h30Genres Drama, Romance
Actors George Cole, Charlie Creed-Miles, John Thomson, Laura Fraser, Celia Imrie, Frank Finlay
Roles Elliot
Rating69%
Un jeune homme tente de sauver, avec l'aide de son chien et de sa fiancée, l'orphelinat où il a grandi.
The King Is Alive (2000)
, 1h49Origin Danemark
Genres Drama
Themes Films set in Africa, Théâtre, Le désert
Actors Miles Anderson, Romane Bohringer, David Bradley, David Calder, Bruce Davison, Brion James
Roles Henry
Rating62%
A group of tourists are stranded in the Namibian desert when their bus loses its way and runs out of fuel. Canned carrots and dew keep the tourists alive, but they are helplessly entrapped, completely cut off from the rest of the world. As courage and moral fibre weaken and relationships grow shaky, Henry, a theatrical manager, persuades the group to put on Shakespeare's tragedy King Lear. As the tourists work their way through Henry's hand-written scripts for an audience of only the sand dunes and one distant, indigenous watcher, real life increasingly begins to resemble the play.
Tom's Midnight Garden (1999)
Directed by Willard Carroll
Genres Fantasy, Adventure
Themes Time travel films
Actors Nigel Le Vaillant, Serena Gordon, Mel Martin, Greta Scacchi, James Wilby, Anthony Way
Roles Abel
Rating64%
When Tom Long's brother Peter gets measles he is sent to stay with his Uncle Alan and Aunt Gwen in a flat with no garden. An elderly and reclusive landlady, Mrs Bartholomew, lives upstairs. Because he may be infectious he is not allowed out to play, and feels lonely. Without exercise he is less sleepy at night and when he hears the communal grandfather clock strangely strike 13, he investigates and finds the small back yard is now a large sunlit garden. Here he meets another lonely child called Hatty, who seems to be the only one who can see him. They have adventures which he gradually realises are taking place in the 19th century. Each night when Tom visits, Hatty is slightly older and Tom begins to wonder about the nature of time and reality. In an attempt to discover what's going on Tom asks Hattie to leave her skates in a hidden place. When he goes back into the future he manages to find them.
Left Luggage (1998)
, 1h40Directed by Jeroen Krabbé
Origin Pays-bas
Genres Drama, Comedy-drama
Themes Films about religion, Political films, Films about Jews and Judaism
Actors Laura Fraser, Isabella Rossellini, Jeroen Krabbé, Chaim Topol, Marianne Sägebrecht, Maximilian Schell
Roles Concierge
Rating72%
While escaping from Nazis during World War II, a Jewish man buries two suitcases full of things dear to his heart in the ground. The war deprived him of his family, and afterwards he endlessly turns over the soil of Antwerp to find the suitcases, an obsessive compulsion. He keeps checking old maps and keeps digging, trying to find what he lost. His daughter Chaya is a beautiful modern girl looking for a part-time job. She finds a place as a nanny in the strictly observant hassidic family with many children, although her secular manners clearly fly in the face of their beliefs. One of the reasons she is accepted is that mother of the family is absolutely overburdened by the household, so Chaya stays despite the resistance of the father, who is normally an indisputable authority in the family.
Vanity Fair (1998 TV serial) (1998)
, 5hGenres Drama, Romance
Themes Films about children, Political films, Napoleonic Wars films, French Revolution films
Actors Natasha Little, Philip Glenister, Nathaniel Parker, Jeremy Swift, Miriam Margolyes, Tom Ward
Rating76%
For a full length summary of the book see: Vanity Fair plot summary.
Total Reality (1997)
, 1h40Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Action
Themes Films set in the future
Actors David Bradley, David Bradley, Ely Pouget, Thomas Kretschmann, Patsy Pease, Ken Olandt
Roles Anthony Rand
Rating43%
Le soldat Anthony Rand doit remonter le temps afin de sauver l'humanité.
Kangaroo Palace (1997)
Genres Drama
Actors Jacqueline McKenzie, John Polson, Rebecca Gibney, Jeremy Sims, Jonathan Firth, Jerome Ehlers
Roles Mr Macaleese
Rating74%
In 1966, Catherine Macaleese (Jacqueline McKenzie) is counting the days until she meets her father, a distant childhood memory, and starts a new life with him in England. Heather Randall (Rebecca Gibney) is Catherine's cousin and closest friend who puts her marriage plans on hold to travel on the Oriana. Richard Turner (John Polson), an aspiring journalist, decides to try his luck on Fleet Street, and promises his fiancée, Sandy, that he will return in a few months. Jack Gill (Jeremy Sims), heading along a path of self-destruction, embarks on the journey at the last minute. On board, Jack disappears with the group's money and the trio arrive penniless. The only contact they have is a friend of Jack's, the mysterious Terence Foster-Burrows (Jonathan Firth). He shows little surprise for their predicament and offers them rooms in the Palace.
Directed by Roger Michell
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Comedy
Actors Naveen Andrews, Roshan Seth, Susan Fleetwood, Steven Mackintosh, Brenda Blethyn, Harish Patel
Roles Helen's Father
Rating72%
American Samurai (1992)
, 1h34Directed by Sam Firstenberg
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Martial arts, Action, Martial arts
Themes Sports films, Martial arts films, Samurai films
Actors David Bradley, David Bradley, Marc Dacascos, John Fujioka, Antony Szeto, Dion Lam
Roles Drew Collins
Rating49%
After a plane crash in the Japanese mountains, its only survivor—a baby named Andrew—is adopted by a samurai master. Andrew, along with the samurai's son, Kenjiro, are trained in the warrior’s way. Andrew excels in his training and soon surpasses his stepbrother’s skills. Kenjiro's jealousy pushes him to join the Yakuza, where he takes the Mafia oath and forsakes the moral values of the samurai’s code. He leaves his father’s home, swearing to one day take revenge on his brother.
Prick Up Your Ears (1987)
, 1h51Directed by Stephen Frears
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Biography, Comedy
Themes Films about writers, Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Gary Oldman, Alfred Molina, Vanessa Redgrave, Wallace Shawn, Frances Barber, Julie Walters
Roles Undertaker
Rating70%
The film tells the story of Orton and Halliwell in flashback, framed by sequences of Lahr researching the book upon which the film is based with Orton's literary agent, Peggy Ramsay. Orton and Halliwell's relationship is traced from its beginnings at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts. Orton starts out as the uneducated youth to Halliwell's older faux-sophisticate. As the relationship progresses, however, Orton grows increasingly confident in his talent while Halliwell's writing stagnates. They fall into a parody of a traditional married couple, with Orton as the "husband" and Halliwell as the long-suffering and increasingly ignored "wife" (a situation exacerbated by Orton's unwillingness, in 1960s England, to acknowledge having a male lover). Orton is commissioned to write a screenplay for the Beatles and Halliwell gets carried away in preparing for a meeting with the "Fab Four", but in the end Orton is taken away for a meeting on his own. Finally, a despondent Halliwell kills Orton and commits suicide.
The Frisco Kid (1979)
, 1h54Directed by Robert Aldrich
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Action, Adventure, Western
Themes Films about religion, Films about Jews and Judaism, Buddy films
Actors Gene Wilder, Harrison Ford, Ramon Bieri, Val Bisoglio, George DiCenzo, David Bradley
Roles Julius Rosensheine
Rating62%
Rabbi Avram Belinski (Wilder) arrives in Philadelphia from Poland en route to San Francisco where he will be a congregation's new rabbi. He has with him a Torah scroll for the San Francisco synagogue. Belinski, an innocent, trusting, and inexperienced traveler, falls in with three con men, the brothers Matt and Darryl Diggs and their partner Mr. Jones, who trick him into helping pay for a wagon and supplies to go west, then brutally rob him and leave him and most of his belongings scattered along a deserted road in Pennsylvania.
, 2h30Directed by Delbert Mann
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Action, Historical
Themes Political films
Actors Richard Thomas, Ernest Borgnine, Donald Pleasence, Ian Holm, Patricia Neal, David Bradley
Roles Kropp
Rating70%
The film follows Paul Baumer, who during World War I enlists in the Imperial German Army with many of his high school friends, after being indoctrinated by their teacher (Donald Pleasence) as to the glory and superiority of German culture. After surviving training camp under the brutal Corporal Himmelstoss (Ian Holm), the young men board a troop train bound for the front lines. Ominously, at the same moment, they notice another train arriving in town loaded with wounded returning soldiers, who are carried off on stretchers. Once at the front lines, they are placed under the supervision of Stanislaus "Kat" Katzinsky, (Ernest Borgnine). Kat teaches them how to best take cover, how to find extra food, and other survival skills.
Absolution (1978)
, 1h35Directed by Anthony Page
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller
Themes Films about education, Films about religion
Actors Richard Burton, Dominic Guard, David Bradley, Dai Bradley, Billy Connolly, Robert Addie
Roles Arthur Dyson
Rating64%
The film centres on Benjamin Stanfield and his unpopular, bespectacled friend, Arthur Dyson, who wears a leg brace; their form master, Father Goddard, and a travelling motorcyclist named Blakey. The opening scenes feature Connolly’s character, Blakey, arriving at the school on his motorbike. He asks Father Goddard (Burton) whether there are any odd jobs he can do but Goddard tells him that there are none available and that he should try in the town.