Gone
2026 · TV Show
as Michael Polly
David Morrissey
1964-06-21
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Everton, Liverpool, England, UK
David Mark Morrissey (born 21 June 1964) is an English actor and director. Morrissey grew up in the Kensington and Knotty Ash areas of Liverpool. He learned to act at the Everyman Youth Theatre, alongside Ian Hart, Mark and Stephen McGann, and Cathy Tyson. At the age of 18, he and Hart were cast in the television series One Summer (1983), which won them recognition throughout the country. After making One Summer, Morrissey attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art before acting with the Royal Shakespeare Company and the National Theatre. Throughout the 1990s, he often portrayed policemen and soldiers, though took other defining roles such as Bradley Headstone in Our Mutual Friend (1998) and Christopher Finzi in Hilary and Jackie (1998). More film parts followed, including roles in Some Voices (2000) and Captain Corelli's Mandolin (2001), before he played the critically acclaimed roles of Stephen Collins in State of Play (2003) and Gordon Brown in The Deal (2003). The former won him a nomination at the British Academy Television Awards and the latter a Best Actor award at the Royal Television Society Awards. His film roles have not always been acclaimed; his appearance as the male lead in Basic Instinct 2 (2006) was widely criticised, and The Reaping (2007) bombed at the box office. Since then, he has had leading roles in Sense and Sensibility (2008), Red Riding (2009) and Five Days (2010), acted in the films Nowhere Boy (2009) and Centurion (2010), and produced and starred in the crime drama Thorne (2010). He returned to the stage in 2008 for a run of Neil LaBute's In a Dark Dark House and will take the title role in the Liverpool Everyman's production of Macbeth in 2011. As a director Morrissey has helmed short films, and the dramas Sweet Revenge (2001) and Passer By (2004) for the BBC. His feature debut, Don't Worry About Me, premiered at the 2009 London Film Festival and was broadcast on BBC television in March 2010. He is married to the novelist Esther Freud, has three children and is a patron of numerous charities. Description above from the Wikipedia article David Morrissey, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
Filmography
Tip Toe
2026 · TV Show
as Clive Goss
The Woman in Cabin 10
2025 · Movie
as Thomas Heatherley
Manhunt
2025 · TV Show
as Narrator
Prime Target
2025 · TV Show
as Professor Robert Mallinder
Slingshot
2024 · Movie
as Sam Napier
The Walking Dead: The Return
2024 · Movie
as The Governor (archive footage)
Six Inches of Soil
2024 · Movie
as Narrator (animated sequence)
Daddy Issues
2024 · TV Show
as Malcolm
Rob Beckett's Smart TV
2024 · TV Show
as Self - Guest
Turkey: Empire of Erdogan
2023 · TV Show
as Narrator
Gods of Tennis
2023 · TV Show
as Narrator
The Long Shadow
2023 · TV Show
as DCS George Oldfield, ACC George Oldfield
Britain's Notorious Prisons
2023 · TV Show
as Narrator
Dampyr
2022 · Movie
as Gorka
Sherwood
2022 · TV Show
as DCS Ian St Clair
Ellie & Natasia
2022 · TV Show
as Dentist
The Colour Room
2021 · Movie
as Fred Ridgeway
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A Separate Peace
2020 · Movie
as John Brown
Jürgen Klopp: Germany's Greatest Export
2020 · Movie
as Self - Narrator (voice)
Klopp: The Inside Story
2020 · Movie
as Narrator
Between the Covers
2020 · TV Show
as Self
The Singapore Grip
2020 · TV Show
as Walter Blackett
Two Tribes
2019 · Movie
as Self
Good Omens
2019 · TV Show
as Captain Vincent
National Theatre Live: Julius Caesar
2018 · Movie
as Mark Antony
The Great Celebrity Bake Off for Stand Up To Cancer
2018 · TV Show
as Self - Guest
Britannia
2018 · TV Show
as General Aulus Plautius
The City and the City
2018 · TV Show
as Tyador Borlú
Lion Country: Night and Day
2017 · TV Show
as Narrator (voice)
National Theatre Live: Hangmen
2016 · Movie
as Harry
The Ones Below
2016 · Movie
as Jon
The Not So Secret Life of the Manic Depressive: 10 Years On
2016 · Movie
as Narrator (voice)
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Secrets of Mexico's Drug War
2015 · Movie
as Narrator
Ronaldo
2015 · Movie
as Dramatic VO (voice)
Rock 'n' Roll America
2015 · TV Show
as Narrator
Extant
2014 · TV Show
as Tobias Shepherd
The 7.39
2014 · TV Show
as Carl Matthews
The Driver
2014 · TV Show
as Vince McKee
The Missing
2014 · TV Show
as Sam Webster
Inside No. 9
2014 · TV Show
as Martin
Doctor Who Explained
2013 · Movie
as Self
Welcome to the Punch
2013 · Movie
as Thomas Geiger
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The Walking Dead: A Decade of Dead
2013 · Movie
as Self
Earthbound
2012 · Movie
as Bill Norman
True Love
2012 · TV Show
as Adrian
The Hollow Crown
2012 · TV Show
as Earl of Northumberland
Blitz
2011 · Movie
as Dunlop
No image
Around The World In 60 Mins
2011 · Movie
as Self - Narrator (voice)
No image
Gee Gee
2011 · Movie
as Michael
Macbeth
2011 · Movie
as Macbeth
London's Burning
2011 · Movie
as Borough Commander
The Field of Blood
2011 · TV Show
as Murray Devlin
South Riding
2011 · TV Show
as Robert Carne
Centurion
2010 · Movie
as Bothos
Thorne: Scaredycat
2010 · Movie
as DI Tom Thorne
Mrs Mandela
2010 · Movie
as Theunis Swanepoel
Cooked
2010 · Movie
as (voice)
The Walking Dead
2010 · TV Show
as Philip Blake
Thorne
2010 · TV Show
as Tom Thorne
Nowhere Boy
2009 · Movie
as Bobby Dykins
U Be Dead
2009 · Movie
as Dr. Jan Falkowski
Is Anybody There?
2009 · Movie
as Dad
Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1974
2009 · Movie
as Maurice Jobson
Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1980
2009 · Movie
as Maurice Jobson
Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1983
2009 · Movie
as Maurice Jobson
Doctor Who Greatest Moments
2009 · TV Show
as Self
Red Riding
2009 · TV Show
as DS Maurice Jobson
The Other Boleyn Girl
2008 · Movie
as Thomas Howard - Duke of Norfolk
Doctor Who: The Next Doctor
2008 · Movie
as Jackson Lake
Sense and Sensibility
2008 · TV Show
as Colonel Brandon
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Meet The Immigrants
2008 · TV Show
The Reaping
2007 · Movie
as Doug
Taking Liberties
2007 · Movie
as Narration
The Water Horse
2007 · Movie
as Captain Thomas Hamilton
Five Days
2007 · TV Show
as DI Mal Craig
Meadowlands
2007 · TV Show
as Danny Brogan
Would I Lie to You?
2007 · TV Show
as Self - Panellist
Basic Instinct 2
2006 · Movie
as Michael Glass
Viva Blackpool
2006 · Movie
as Ripley Holden
The One Show
2006 · TV Show
as Self
Derailed
2005 · Movie
as Sam Griffin
Stoned
2005 · Movie
as Tom Keylock
The Year London Blew Up
2005 · Movie
as Narrator (voice)
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
2005 · TV Show
as Self
No image
Zero Hour - Terror in Tokyo
2004 · Movie
as Self-Narrator(voice)
Disaster at Chernobyl
2004 · Movie
as Self - Narrator (voice)
Zero Hour: Massacre at Columbine High
2004 · Movie
as Narrator
Blackpool
2004 · TV Show
as Ripley Holden
This World
2004 · TV Show
Zero Hour
2004 · TV Show
as Narrator (Voice)
The Deal
2003 · Movie
as Gordon Brown
Trust Me - I'm a Politician
2003 · Movie
as Self
This Little Life
2003 · Movie
as Richie MacGregor
State of Play
2003 · TV Show
as Stephen Collins
9mm: Guns and Gangs
2003 · TV Show
as Narrator
Out of Control
2002 · Movie
as Mike
Murder
2002 · TV Show
as Dave Dewston
Captain Corelli's Mandolin
2001 · Movie
as Captain Günther Weber
Friday Night with Jonathan Ross
2001 · TV Show
as Self - Guest
Linda Green
2001 · TV Show
as Pete
The Suicide Club
2000 · Movie
as Henry Joyce
Born Romantic
2000 · Movie
as Fergus
Some Voices
2000 · Movie
as Pete
Fanny & Elvis
1999 · Movie
as Rob
No image
Pure Wickedness
1999 · TV Show
as Frank Healy
Hilary and Jackie
1998 · Movie
as Kiffer Finzi
The Commissioner
1998 · Movie
as Murray Lomax
No image
Big Cat
1998 · Movie
as Leo
Our Mutual Friend
1998 · TV Show
as Bradley Headstone
Holding On
1997 · TV Show
as Shaun
The One That Got Away
1996 · Movie
as Andy "Mac" McNab
Soccer AM
1995 · TV Show
as Self
No image
Devil's Advocate
1995 · TV Show
as Matthew Salt
Out of the Blue
1995 · TV Show
as DS Jim 'Lew' Lewyn
Being Human
1994 · Movie
as Cyprion's Man
Finney
1994 · TV Show
as Stephen Finney
The Knock
1994 · TV Show
as Gerry Birch
No image
Black and Blue
1992 · Movie
as DC Norman Mills
Waterland
1992 · Movie
as Dick Crick
Between the Lines
1992 · TV Show
Framed
1992 · TV Show
as DC Lawrence 'Larry' Jackson
Robin Hood
1991 · Movie
as Little John
Clubland
1991 · Movie
as DC Judd
The Storyteller: Greek Myths
1991 · TV Show
as Theseus
No image
Available Light
1990 · Movie
as Marcus
The Widowmaker
1990 · Movie
as Rob
Agatha Christie's Poirot
1989 · TV Show
as John Arbuthnot
Screen One
1989 · TV Show
as DC Norman Mills
Drowning by Numbers
1988 · Movie
as Bellamy
Out of Town
1988 · Movie
as The Traveller
Cause Célèbre
1987 · Movie
as George Bowman
ScreenPlay
1986 · TV Show
as Marcus, Judd
One Summer
1983 · TV Show
as Billy Rizley
Inflicted Kindness
· Movie
as DS Mark Thompson
No image
The Siege
· TV Show
