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 Sur ... face 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.
National Theatre Live: Macbeth
2013
as Duncan, King of Scotland/Seyton, attendant to Macbeth/Old Man
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Between the Lines
as Deputy Assistant Commissioner Dunning
Episodes: 13
First Aired: Sep 04, 1992
Natural World
as Narrator
Episodes: 10
First Aired: Oct 30, 1983
Bodyguards
as Commander Alan MacIntyre
Episodes: 7
First Aired: May 01, 1997
I Am Not an Animal
as Narrator
Episodes: 6
First Aired: May 10, 2004
Apparitions
as Cardinal Bukovak
Episodes: 6
First Aired: Nov 13, 2008
Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire
as Pompey
Episodes: 6
First Aired: Sep 21, 2006
Invasion: Earth
as Air Marshal Bentley
Episodes: 6
First Aired: May 08, 1998
Edward and Mrs Simpson
as Major Alexander Hardinge
Episodes: 5
First Aired: Nov 08, 1978
The 10th Kingdom
as Governor of Prison
Episodes: 5
First Aired: Feb 27, 2000
The Woman in White
as Sir Percival Glyde
Episodes: 5
First Aired: Apr 14, 1982
Centrepoint
as Claud Wareing
Episodes: 4
First Aired: Oct 08, 1990
Armchair Thriller
as Vincent Craig
Episodes: 4
First Aired: Feb 21, 1978
Elizabeth R
as Earl of Sussex
Episodes: 3
First Aired: Feb 17, 1971
G.B.H.
as Dr Jacobs
Episodes: 3
First Aired: Jun 06, 1991
The Lions Rule
as Narrator (voice)
Episodes: 3
First Aired: Sep 20, 2017
Waking the Dead
as John Christie
Episodes: 2
First Aired: Jun 18, 2001
New Tricks
as DAC John Felsham
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Jan 01, 2004
Jonathan Creek
as Prof. Lance Graumann
Episodes: 1
First Aired: May 09, 1997
Kavanagh Q.C.
as Mr. Justice Griffin
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Jan 03, 1995
Midsomer Murders
as Max Jennings
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Mar 23, 1997
The Inspector Lynley Mysteries
as Sergent Mike McCaffrey
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Apr 08, 2002
Justice
as Roger Anderson
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Oct 08, 1971
Between the Lines
as D.C.C. Dunning
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 04, 1992
Wycliffe
as Dr. Sam Malvern
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Jul 24, 1994
Space: 1999
as Jack Tanner
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 04, 1975
Midsomer Murders
as Leo Clarke
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Mar 23, 1997
The Modern World: Ten Great Writers
as Thomas Mann
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Jan 10, 1988
Merlin
as The Sarrum
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 20, 2008
Inspector Morse
as Dr. Julian Storrs
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Jan 06, 1987
Omnibus
as Zborowski
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Oct 13, 1967
Predators Killing for a Living
Episodes: 13
First Aired: Sep 03, 1997
About Face
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Nov 06, 1989
Shakespeare: The Animated Tales
as Claudius / The Ghost (voice)
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Nov 09, 1992
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