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David Bradley

 
Actor: David Bradley
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  • Born: Apr 17, 1942
  • Occupation: Actor
  • Active: '90s-2000s
  • Major Genres: Drama, Fantasy
  • Career Highlights: The King Is Alive, Tom's Midnight Garden, Catherine Cookson's The Moth
  • First Major Screen Credit: Catherine Cookson's The Moth (1997)

Biography

Though actor David Bradley is perhaps best known to younger generations as the craggy-faced Argus Filch, irascible caretaker of the Hogwarts Academy, in each of the Harry Potter adaptations, that role succeeded Bradley's lengthy and formidable career as a character actor in predominantly British films and television productions. The dramatist officially debuted on-camera in the early '70s, but his activity proliferated during the 1990s and 2000s; as time rolled on, Bradley increasingly specialized in played sadistic headmasters, wizened barristers, or other figures with a slightly nasty authoritarian bent. Outside of Potter, Bradley's projects included the miniseries Our Mutual Friend (1998), the features Tom's Midnight Garden (1998) and Exorcist: The Beginning (2004), and the telemovie Sweeney Todd (2005). ~ Nathan Southern, All Movie Guide
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David Bradley
Born 17 April 1942 (1942-04-17) (age 67)
York, England
Occupation Actor
Years active 1971-present

David Bradley (born 17 April 1942) is an English character actor. He has recently become known for playing the caretaker of Hogwarts, Argus Filch, in the Harry Potter series of films.

Bradley was born in York, England. He became an actor in 1971, first appearing on television that year in the successful comedy Nearest and Dearest playing a police officer. He was awarded a Olivier Award in 1991 for his supporting actor role in King Lear at the Royal National Theatre. He has appeared in the Royal National Theatre's 1997 production of Harold Pinter's The Homecoming, as well as productions of Pinter's The Caretaker at Sheffield Theatres and the Tricycle Theatre in London in 2006/2007.

Bradley starred in the BBC comedy series Wild West playing the character of Jake. He played fictional Labour MP Eddie Wells in the 1996 award-winning BBC Two serial Our Friends in the North. Other television appearances include the 2004 musical drama serial Blackpool on BBC One, the 2005 BBC television drama Mr. Harvey Lights a Candle, playing the part of the morose coach driver taking an unruly party of pupils on a daytrip to Salisbury Cathedral and the 2006 BBC drama Sweeney Todd, playing the father of opposite Ray Winstone, and a small part in a 2006 episode of the series Taggart. Also in 2006 he played a leading character, Tom, in an episode of "Midsomer Murders." He also appears as the character Stemroach in the BBC comedy series Ideal and as Electric in the BBC's Thieves Like Us, and in the BBC1 series True Dare Kiss.

Bradley appeared in Nicholas Nickleby (2002) and had a small role in the 2007 comedy film Hot Fuzz as a farmer who illegally hoarded weapons, including a sea mine which later proves important to the story.

Bradley played Cohen the Barbarian[1] in a Sky One adaptation of The Colour of Magic by Terry Pratchett.

In 2008 Bradley appeared in the role of Spooner in No Man's Land by Harold Pinter in the Gate Theatre, Dublin, opposite Michael Gambon as Hirst, in a production directed by Rupert Goold, which transferred to the London West End's.

On 4 May 2009 Bradley appeared as an animal rights activist in the popular BBC drama Ashes to Ashes, and appeared again on television in BBC's The Street on July 20 2009.

Bradley portrayed Will Somers, Henry VIII's court fool, in episode #3.5 of the Showtime series The Tudors (2009).

He lives in Stratford-upon-Avon, where he serves as the president of Second Thoughts Drama Group [2].

He is a lifelong supporter of York City Football Club.

Filmography

Notes

  1. ^ Roz Laws (2007-06-15). "Harry Potter and the Magical Midlanders" (Web). Sunday Mercury. Trinity Mirror. http://icbirmingham.icnetwork.co.uk/sundaymercury/features/tm_headline=harry-potter-and-the-magical-midlanders%26method=full%26objectid=19463171%26siteid=50002-name_page.html. Retrieved 2009-02-25. 
  2. ^ Second Thoughts|url=http://www.secondthoughts.org.uk/Our President for several years now has been David Bradley.

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