John Shrapnel

John Shrapnel (born 27 April 1942)^[1] is an English actor.

Shrapnel was born in Birmingham, the son of MaryLillian Myfanwy (née Edwards) and Norman Shrapnel.^[1] As a stage actor, he was a member of the Royal National Theatre and the Royal Shakespeare Company. 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, 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 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.

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) and Tom Shrapnel (b.1981), and the writer Joe Shrapnel (b.1976).

References

External links

• John Shrapnel at the Internet Movie Database

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