David Bradley (English Actor) Bio, Age, Movies and TV Series

BIOGRAPHY OF DAVID BRADLEY

David Bradley (David John Bradley) is an English actor best known for playing Argus Filch in the Harry Potter film series, Walder Frey in the HBO fantasy series Game of Thrones, and Abraham Setrakian in the FX horror series The Strain .

He is also an established stage actor with a career that includes a Laurence Olivier Award for his work in a production of King Lear.

His other acting credits include the BBC series Our Friends in the North, the ITV series Broadchurch (for which he won Best Supporting Actor at the 2014 British Academy Television Awards) and the films Hot Fuzz, The World’s End and Captain America: The First Avenger.
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In 2012, he played the role of Solomon in the Doctor Who episode titled “Dinosaurs on a Spaceship”. In 2013, Bradley played William Hartnell in the Doctor Who docudrama An Adventure in Space and Time. He returned to Doctor Who playing the First Doctor in ‘The Doctor Falls’ and the 2017 Christmas special ‘Twice Upon Once’. He also played William Hartnell’s First Doctor in a series of audio stories released by Big Finish called The First Doctor Adventures beginning in January 2018.

DAVID BRADLEY AGE

Bradley was born on April 17, 1942 in York, Yorkshire, England. He turns 77 in April 2019.

DAVID BRADLEY WIFE

Bradley is married to Rosanna Bradley.

DAVID BRADLEY HEIGHT

Bradley is 1.78 meters tall.

DAVID BRADLEY CAREER

Bradley joined the Royal Shakespeare Company and performed in Laurence Olivier’s National Theater Company in the early 1970s. His first television appearance was in 1971, as a policeman in the hit comedy Nearest and Dearest. He received a Laurence Olivier Award in 1991 for his supporting role as Fool in King Lear at the Royal National Theatre. He appeared in the 1997 Royal National Theater production of The Homecoming, as well as productions of The Caretaker at Sheffield Theaters and the Tricycle Theater from 2006 to 2007.

Bradley portrayed a fictional Labor MP Eddie Wells in the award-winning 1996 BBC Two series Our Friends in the North. In 1996 he appeared as mobster Alf Black in Band of Gold. In 1998 he appeared in the BBC’s adaptation of Vanity Fair playing miserly Sir Pitt Crawley and Our Mutual Friend as the villainous Rogue Riderhood. Other television appearances include the 2001 series The Way We Live Now, directed by David Yates, who worked with Bradley five years later on the Harry Potter films.

From 2002 to 2004, Bradley starred as Jake in the BBC comedy series Wild West. Bradley starred in the 2004 musical drama series Blackpool on BBC One. He appeared in the 2005 BBC drama Mr Harvey Lights a Candle, portraying a moody coach driver who takes a group of unruly schoolchildren on a trip to Salisbury Cathedral, and the drama of the BBC in 2006, Sweeney Todd. He had a small role in a 2005 episode of the Taggart series. In 2003, he played the role of Tom in the Midsomer Murders episode “The Green Man”. He appeared as the electrolarynx gangster Stemroach in the BBC comedy series Ideal and as Electric in The BBC’s Thieves Like Us, as well as the BBC One series True Dare Kiss from 2007 to 2008.

Bradley appeared in the 2002 film Nicholas Nickleby and had a small role in the 2007 comedy film Hot Fuzz as a farmer who illegally stores weapons. He played Cohen the Barbarian in a Sky One adaptation of The Color of Magic in 2008. The same year he appeared as Spooner in a production of No Man’s Land at the Gate Theater in Dublin, which later moved to the West End of London.

From 2014 to 2017, Bradley played Professor Abraham Setrakian, a Holocaust survivor turned vampire hunter in Guillermo del Toro’s television series The Strain. He will voice Lord High Admiral Suvarov in the PC RPG The Mandate.

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DAVID BRADLEY MOVIES AND TV SHOWS