David Bradley
David Bradley was born in York, England, United Kingdom on April 17th, 1942 and is the Movie Actor. At the age of 81, David Bradley biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, movies, TV shows, and networth are available.
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David John Bradley (born 17 April 1942) is an English actor.
Walder Frey in the HBO fantasy series Game of Thrones and Abraham Setrakian in the FX horror film The Strain is known for his role as Argus Filch in the Harry Potter film series.
He is also a well-known stage actor with a Laurence Olivier Award for his role in King Lear's production. Other acting credits include the BBC series Our Friends in the North, the ITV series Broadchurch (for which he received the best supporting actor award at the 2014 British Academy Television Awards), and The World's End and Captain America: The First Avenger. Solomon was cast in the Doctor Who episode "Dinosaurs on a Spaceship" in 2012.
William Hartnell was depicted in the Doctor Who docudrama An Adventure in Space and Time in 2013.
In "The Doctor Falls" and "Twice Upon a Time," he returned to Doctor Who portrayed the First Doctor.
In a series of audio stories published by Big Finish called The First Doctor Adventures, he also portrayed William Hartnell's First Doctor. Gillenormand appeared in Les Misérables, a BBC television miniseries that aired in the United Kingdom from December 30, 2018 to February 3, 2019 and also in the United States on PBS Masterpiece from April 14 to May 2019.
Early life
Bradley was born in York, where he attended the Catholic St George's Secondary Modern School, where he was a member of the choir. He appeared on stage in musical productions as a member of a youth club and with the Rowntree Youth Theatre for the first time. After leaving school, he completed a five-year apprenticeship with Cooke, Troughton & Simms and stayed with the company until 1966, when he moved to London to study as an actor at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London.
Personal life
In 1978, Bradley married Rosanna. They have three children. George, his eldest son, has appeared on the ITV series Love Your Home and Garden with Alan Titchmarsh. Francesca's daughter, who has worked on Michael Bay's 6 Underground, works in casting. He has said that it was his daughter who drew his attention to the Harry Potter film franchise and coached him for the role of Argus Filch.
Bradley is the president of Second Thought Drama Group, which performs in and around Stratford-upon-Avon. He has received honorary doctorates from the University of Warwick (17 July 2012) and York St John University (19 November 2015).
He is a huge fan of football teams Aston Villa and York City. On the 22nd of November 2014, he appeared on a video congratulating Aston Villa on their 140th birthday.
Career
Bradley joined the Royal Shakespeare Company and appeared at the National Theatre Company of Laurence Olivier in the early 1970s. In 1971, he first appeared in the comedy Nearest and Dearest as a police officer. In 1991, Laurence Olivier was honoured for his support as the Fool in King Lear at the Royal National Theatre. He appeared in The Homecoming, the Royal National Theatre's 1997 revival of The Homecoming, as well as productions of The Caretaker at Sheffield Theatres and the Tricycle Theatre from 2006 to 2007. In 2005, he appeared in Nicholas Hytner's production of Henry IV Parts One and Two at the Olivier Theatre in London.
In the 1996 BBC Two serial Our Friends in the North, Bradley played fictional Labour Member of Parliament Eddie Wells. He appeared in Band of Gold as gangster Alf Black in 1996. He appeared on BBC In 1998 as the miserly Sir Pitt Crawley and Our Mutual Friend as the villainous Rogue Riderhood. Other television appearances include the 2001 film The Way We Live Now, directed by David Yates, who would work with Bradley five years later on the Harry Potter films.
Bradley appeared in the BBC comedy series Wild West from 2002-2004. On BBC One, Bradley appeared in the 2004 musical drama series Blackpool. Mr. Harvey Lights a Candle, a BBC drama in 2005, and the 2006 BBC drama Sweeney Todd. In a 2005 episode of the series Taggart, he appeared in a small role. He appeared in the Midsomer Murders episode "The Green Man" in 2003. 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 in 2007–08.
Bradley appeared in the 2002 film Nicholas Nickleby, which was based on Charles Dickens' biography of Nicholas Nickleby, and he appeared in the 2007 comedy film Hot Fuzz as a farmer who illegally hoards arms. In a Sky One version of The Colour of Magic in 2008, Cohen the Barbarian appeared as Cohen the Barbarian. He appeared in No Man's Land, Harold Pinter's At the Gate Theatre, Dublin, which later moved to London's West End.
Bradley appeared in Ashes to Ashes in 2009, as a human rights activist and in The Street, both on BBC. In an episode of the Showtime series The Tudors in 2009, Bradley played Will Somers, Henry VIII's court fool. He appeared in the film Another Year in 2010, earning him a Gold Medal for Best Supporting Actor from the London Film Critics Circle Awards. In the HBO series Game of Thrones, Bradley appeared as Lord Walder Frey from 2011 to 2017.
In the 2012 Doctor Who episode "Dinosaurs on a Spaceship," Bradley played Solomon, a ruthless buccaneer. He appeared on The Sarah Jane Adventures' serial Death of the Doctor. Bradley was cast as actor William Hartnell in An Adventure in Space and Time, a BBC docudrama about Doctor Who's creation in 1963. The special aired in November 2013, adding to the buildup to Doctor Who's 50th anniversary episode later this month. He appeared in The World's End, a sequel to Hot Fuzz's Three Flavours Cornetto trilogy, this time portraying "Mad" Basil, an eccentric local man from Newton Haven, England, England.
In Guillermo del Toro's television series The Strain, Bradley plays Professor Abraham Setrakian, a Holocaust survivor turned vampire hunter from 2014. Bradley became a public servant of Chapel Lane Theatre Company, based in Stratford-Upon-Avon, in 2015. Bradley appeared in Guillermo del Toro's animated Netflix series Tales of Arcadia as Merlin in 2017. In 2021, he received an Annie Award for Best Voice Actor in a Television Role for his role in Wizards of Arcadia as Merlin Merlin.
Bradley returned to play the First Doctor in the tenth series of Doctor Who, "The Doctor Falls," in 2017. He reprised his role in "Twice Upon a Time," a Big Finish Productions audio series titled Doctor Who: The First Doctor Adventures, as well as his An Adventure in Space and Time cast members, and in the Immersive Theatre program Doctor Who: Time Fracture. Since William Hartnell and Richard Hurndall's appearance in Doctor Who in 1963, he is now the third actor to play the Doctor. In the last episode of the 2022 specials "The Power of the Doctor," he appeared as the First Doctor once more.
In the Netflix series After Life, Bradley played Ray Johnson, Tony's deceased father (Ricky Gervais) from 2019 to 2022. Bradley would be among the cast of Allelujah, Richard Eyre's film adaptation of Alan Bennet's play of the same name directed by Richard Eyre, which also includes Jennifer Saunders, Bally Gill, Russell Tovey, Derek Jacobi, and Judi Dench.