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 televisio...
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Gladiator
As Gaius
Notting Hill
As PR Chief
Troy
As Nestor
K-19: The Widowmaker
As Admiral Bratyeev
Alien Autopsy
As Michael Kuhn
The Body
As Moshe Cohen
Hamlet Within
Alone
As Hannah
How to Get Ahead in Advertising
As Psychiatrist
Chemical Wedding
As Crowley
Hornblower: The Frogs and the Lobsters
As General Charette
Claim
As Lex Vandenberg
St. Stephen's: The Living Cathedral
As Narrator (English voice)
Wachau - Valley of Golden Magic
As Narrator (English Version)
Schönbrunn - Well of Beauty
As Narrator (English Version)
Wild Women of Viramba
As Narrator
Hitting Town
As Leonard Brazil (voice)
The Awakening
As Reverend Hugh Purslow
OXI, an Act of Resistance
As Creon
An Organization of Dreams
As Father
The Ha-Ha
As Jamie
National Theatre Live: Macbeth
As Duncan, King of Scotland/Seyton, attendant to Macbeth/Old Man
Animals of the Ocean Desert
As Narrator
Partition
As General Flood
Selling Hitler
As Gerd Schulte-Hillen
Personal Services
As Lionel
Shadow of the Sword
As Archbishop
Britain's Nuclear Bomb - The Inside Story
As Narrator (Voice)
The Tom Machine
Professional Foul
As McKendrick
The Tragedy of Flight 103: The Inside Story
As BKA Police Chief
Hamlet
As Claudius/Ghost
The Return of the Flying Scotsman
As Narrator - (Voice)
Fatherland
As General Globus
Gossip from the Forest
As Matthias Erzberger
Seven Wonders of Ancient Egypt
As Narrator
Timon of Athens
As Alcibiades
The Three Hostages
As Gaudian
Elizabeth: The Golden Age
As Lord Howard
Hennessy
As Tipaldi
England, My England
As Samuel Pepys
Lion Queen
As Narrator (voice)
Branagh Theatre Live: The Winter's Tale
As Camilo
Supermassive Black Holes
As Narrator
Hindenburg: Titanic of the Skies
As Himself (Narrator)
King Charles III
As Archbishop of Canterbury
Troilus & Cressida
As Hector
Two Deaths
As Cinca
Testimony
As Andre Zhdanov
The Duchess
As General Grey
101 Dalmatians
As Skinner
Theban Plays: Oedipus the King
As Creon
Theban Plays: Oedipus at Colonus
As Creon
Theban Plays: Antigone
As Creon
Mirrors
As Lorenzo Sapelli
Nicholas and Alexandra
As Petya
King Lear
As Earl of Kent
Whistle
As Paul
Poppyland
As George Sims
Edward & Mrs. Simpson
As Maj. Alexander Hardinge
King Arthur: His Life and Legends
Seven Wonders of Ancient Rome
As Narrator
Seven Wonders of Ancient Greece
As Narrator
Pope Joan
As Father James
National Theatre Live: Phèdre
As Théramène
Mary, Mother of Jesus
As Simon
Mountain Men: The Ghosts of K2
As Narrator
The Race for Everest
As Narrator
The Burston Rebellion
As Rev. Charles Tucker Eland
The Strange Case of Delfina Potocka
As Iwaszkiewicz
Building Burma's Death Railway: Moving Half the Mountain
As Narrator
SS-3: The Assassination of Reinhard Heydrich
As Narrator
Flayed
As Robert
I Am Not an Animal
As Narrator
Elizabeth R
As Earl of Sussex
Apparitions
As Cardinal Bukovak
Edward and Mrs Simpson
As Major Alexander Hardinge
Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire
As Pompey
Bodyguards
As Commander Alan MacIntyre
Natural World
As Narrator
Predators Killing for a Living
Between the Lines
As Deputy Assistant Commissioner Dunning
New Tricks
As DAC John Felsham
Waking the Dead
As John Christie
About Face
G.B.H.
As Dr Jacobs
Jonathan Creek
As Prof. Lance Graumann
Kavanagh Q.C.
As Mr. Justice Griffin
Midsomer Murders
As Max Jennings
The Inspector Lynley Mysteries
As Sergent Mike McCaffrey
Justice
As Roger Anderson
The 10th Kingdom
As Governor of Prison
Invasion: Earth
As Air Marshal Bentley
Centrepoint
As Claud Wareing
The Woman in White
As Sir Percival Glyde
Wycliffe
As Dr. Sam Malvern
Space: 1999
As Jack Tanner
Shakespeare: The Animated Tales
As Claudius / The Ghost (voice)
Armchair Thriller
As Vincent Craig
The Modern World: Ten Great Writers
As Thomas Mann
Merlin
As The Sarrum
Inspector Morse
As Dr. Julian Storrs