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  • Housewife 49
  • Housewife 49 review by A customer from Romford, Essex
    Rated - 5.0 stars Housewife 49 - excellent! 13 March 2010
    ...roject. Christopher Harper is perfectly cast as Nella’s son, Cliff, as is David Threlfall in the role of her husband. In addition there are lots of familiar faces from p...   Read customer review

David Threlfall - filmography


  • Shameless - Series 6 (5 discs) on DVD (2009)
    Starring: David Threlfall,  Brid Brennan,  Jody Latham
    Director: David Richardson
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    The sixth series of offbeat TV drama SHAMELESS promises plenty of laughs from Manchester's most dysfunctional family, the Gallaghers, as they go about their hectic lives. Join Frank and his menagerie of kids, his wife and his ex, for whom there is never a dull moment on Chatsworth housing estate. ..read more »
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  • Housewife 49 on DVD (2006)
    Starring: Victoria Wood,  David Threlfall,  Stephanie Cole
    Director: Gavin Millar
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
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    Housewife 49 is set in Northern England and based on a true story about Nella Last's 'Mass Observation' diary. Trapped in a difficult marriage and dreading the departure of her beloved son who leaves to fight in the Second World War, Nella (Victoria Wood) draws strength from the diary, writing down ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 78% from 1,076 member
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  • Shameless - S03 E05 (2005)
    Starring: David Threlfall,  Maggie O'Neill,  Dean Lennox Kelly
    Director: Jim O'Hanlon
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    On his 35th Birthday Kev receives the shocking news that his mother has taken her own life and what's more, she hasn't even sent a card. If that's not bad enough for poor Kev, his ex-wife, Roxy, shows up at the funeral and it soon becomes clear that she's got more on her mind than just paying her ..read more »
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  • Shameless - S03 E07 (2005)
    Starring: David Threlfall,  Maggie O'Neill,  Dean Lennox Kelly
    Director: Paul Walker
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    When the lights go out on Debbie's party the Gallaghers discover that Sue's forgotten to pay the electricity bill. No big deal until they scratch the surface of her excuses and unravel Sue's got twelve grand worth of debt. She claims it's owed to her by her ex Craig but Carol's having none of it ..read more »
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  • Shameless - S03 E03 (2005)
    Starring: David Threlfall,  Maggie O'Neill,  Dean Lennox Kelly
    Director: Jim O'Hanlon
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    When Mandy Maguire gives birth prematurely after a smash and grab at the shop, Lip is desperate to see his baby but the Maguire family won't let him near the child or their daughter. So when he gets information about who it was robbed Mandy and knocked her to the ground, he sees his opportunity to ..read more »
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  • Shameless - S03 E06 (2005)
    Starring: David Threlfall,  Maggie O'Neill,  Dean Lennox Kelly
    Director: David Threlfall
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Lip finally realises his true feelings for Mandy when he sees she has a new boyfriend and as soon he's alone in his bedroom with her seizes the opportunity to tell her how he feels. But before the words can leave his mouth the ceiling collapses and Carl comes tumbling down from the attic surrounded ..read more »
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  • Shameless - S03 E08 (2005)
    Starring: David Threlfall,  Maggie O'Neill,  Dean Lennox Kelly
    Director: Paul Walker
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Frank and Sheila's wedding day looms, and in celebration Sheila commissions a conservatory for her back yard. Unfortunately she doesn't bargain on the builders needing to excavate for the foundations - in a panic she cancels the work, and then confesses to Frank: her first husband, Sheldon, is ..read more »
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  • Shameless - S02 E09 (2004)
    Starring: Anne-Marie Duff,  David Threlfall,  Jody Latham
    Director: Dearbhla Walsh
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Debbie's on a mission to help Marty who has an impending Court appearance for a breach of the peace and Fiona and Craig are planning a weekend away. When Sue (Gillian Kearney), Craig's ex, comes round wanting to get the boiler fixed, Craig refuses to be derailed from his plans but for Marty it's ..read more »
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  • Shameless - S02 E02 (2004)
    Starring: Anne-Marie Duff,  David Threlfall,  James McAvoy
    Director: Peter Lydon
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    It's the end of a big party round at Kev and Veronica's and everyone is lying around stoned in the early hours when the hosts discover that social services are due round in the morning to discuss their application to foster. It's panic stations as Veronica and Kev start cleaning furiously.
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  • Shameless - S02 E04 (2004)
    Starring: Anne-Marie Duff,  David Threlfall,  James McAvoy
    Director: Dearbhla Walsh
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Wedding preparations are well under way in the Gallagher house. Dresses are being made, curry dishes are being sampled, courtesy of Yvonne and Frank is showing off the speech he stole from Lip. But when Steve's car gets stolen from outside the church after a visit to the local priest something is ..read more »
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  • Shameless - S01 E01 (2004)
    Starring: David Threlfall,  Anne-Marie Duff,  Joseph Furnace
    Director: Mark Mylod
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    On a night out with neighbor Veronica, Fiona's bag is stolen and handsome stranger Steve chases after the thief. While he isn't successful in capturing the thief he does succeed in capturing the eye of Fiona, she invites him home to meet the rest of the Gallagher family.
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  • Shameless - S02 E06 (2004)
    Starring: Anne-Marie Duff,  David Threlfall,  Jody Latham
    Director: Dearbhla Walsh
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Mandy Maguire turns up with some bad news. The arrangement she has with Ian and Lip where she acts as Ian's girlfriend to give him "straight boy" cover and does the sex bit with Lip has gone horribly wrong. She's pregnant. This is enough of a problem in itself, except that it's made worse by the ..read more »
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  • Shameless - S02 E01 (2004)
    Starring: Anne-Marie Duff,  David Threlfall,  James McAvoy
    Director: David Evans
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    It's a bad day for Frank when his father, Neville, turns up at Sheila's house to see his new grandchildren. Neville is the antithesis of Frank, a life long union man who never missed a days work in his life and who despairs at Frank's lack of employment, whilst Frank is reduced to a sulking boy in ..read more »
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  • Shameless - S02 E08 (2004)
    Starring: Anne-Marie Duff,  David Threlfall,  Jody Latham
    Director: David Evans
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    After walking out of her job at the nursery, Fiona makes a sudden and shocking confession to Veronica. She's pregnant by Craig (Chris Coghill) from episode six. She hasn't told him and she's not sure what to do except find new employment and quick. Veronica comes to the rescue and finds her a ..read more »
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  • Shameless - S01 E04 (2004)
    Starring: Anne-Marie Duff,  David Threlfall,  James McAvoy
    Director: Mark Mylod
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    When a child goes missing from a children's party on the Chatsworth estate the police start a frantic hunt for little Jody. However, Fiona and Steve find that Debbie has the girl in her bedroom, having lured her away with chocolate because she just wanted a little sister.
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  • Shameless - S02 E10 (2004)
    Starring: Anne-Marie Duff,  David Threlfall,  James McAvoy
    Director: Dearbhla Walsh
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    When Frank hears of a neighbours tragic death in a road accident he sees in it an opportunity to obtain a new identity. He pays a visit to the widow, Lillian, and offers to split her late husband's social security benefits with her if she doesn't register the death. Lillian agrees but only on ..read more »
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  • Shameless - S02 E07 (2004)
    Starring: Anne-Marie Duff,  David Threlfall,  Jody Latham
    Director: David Evans
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Fiona wakes up one morning to discover she's in bed with Joey Dawson(Ryan Pope) with only the vaguest memories of the party at the Jockey the night before. Things turn from bad to worse when Liam swallows an entire packet of Fiona's contraceptive pills and Marty "accidentally" slams Joey's arm in ..read more »
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  • Shameless - S02 E03 (2004)
    Starring: Anne-Marie Duff,  David Threlfall,  James McAvoy
    Director: Peter Lydon
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Things liven up on the Chatsworth Estate when the council run a best kept garden competition with the offer of a years free rent to the lucky winners. Carol sees it as an opportunity to stay well in and stay put at the Gallagher's by turning the back yard into another Eden, but this ruffles ..read more »
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  • Shameless - S02 E05 (2004)
    Starring: Anne-Marie Duff,  David Threlfall,  Jody Latham
    Director: Dearbhla Walsh
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    When Sheila asks Lip to water the plants for a neighbour who's away on holiday, he finds a haven of tranquility away from the chaos of the Gallagher house. He has a mound of other peoples homework to do to finance a planned trip to the United States and an empty house is just the peace he needs. ..read more »
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  • Shameless - S01 E02 (2004)
    Starring: Anne-Marie Duff,  David Threlfall,  James McAvoy
    Director: Jonny Campbell
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    After a row with Steve one night Frank mysteriously goes missing. Nothing new in the Gallagher household until Fiona realises it's Friday. He never goes missing on Giro day. The family start a manhunt and panic sets in when a body is found in the canal but Frank turns up in Calais with no passport, ..read more »
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  • Sex, Chips And Rock 'n' Roll (2 discs) (1999)
    Starring: Sue Johnston,  Phil Daniels,  Joe McFadden
    Director: John Woods
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    This television miniseries, directed by John Woods, depicts the lives of teens working at a Manchester chip shop during the rock & roll boom of 1965. The cast includes Phil Daniels, Sue Johnston, and Gillian Kearney.
    3.5 stars out of 5 74% from 314 members
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  • Diana - Her True Story on DVD (1993)
    Starring: Serena Scott-Thomas,  Brid Brennan,  Jemma Redgrave
    Director: Kevin Connor
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Based on Andrew Morton's bestselling exposé of the real story behind the Royal Marriage. Beginning with her childhood and her parents' troubled marriage, "Diana: Her True Story" traces Diana Spencer's transformation from shy and introverted young girl to public icon and sophisticated beauty who ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 59% from 50 members
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  • A Murder Of Quality (1991)
    Starring: Denholm Elliott,  Joss Ackland,  Glenda Jackson
    Director: Gavin Millar
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    The British class system is under fire in this adaptation of John Le Carre's novel. One-time spy master George Smiley (Denholm Elliott) is called in to investigate the murder of Stella Strode, a schoolteacher's wife at a public school. She had predicted her own death in a letter to a friend. ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 58% from 566 members
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  • The Nightingales - Complete Series (2 discs) (1990)
    Starring: Robert Lindsay,  David Threlfall,  James Ellis
    Director: Tony Dow
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    First transmitted on Channel 4 in 1990, the series focuses on three security guards who have the unenviable task of the graveyard night shift in a tower block, Nightingales - The Complete Series is a strange comedy where just about anything can happen. A werewolf that performs open-heart surgery, ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 64% from 466 members
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  • The Russia House on DVD (1990)
    Starring: Sean Connery,  Michelle Pfeiffer,  Klaus Maria Brandauer
    Director: Fred Schepisi
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    Sean Connery and Michelle Pfieffer ignite the screen in this enchanting adaptation of John Le Carre's suspenseful espionage drama. Connery portrays Barley Blair -- a lonely, middle aged, hard-drinking, London publisher -- who has a love for all things Russian. While in Russia, Barley captures the ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 62% from 997 members
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  • When The Whales Came (1989)
    Starring: Paul Scofield,  David Threlfall,  Helen Mirren
    Director: Clive Rees
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    A pair of children befriend an eccentric old man, who lives isolated on the far shore of their island home. But it turns out that the old man knows a terrible secret about the island and the narwhals who sometimes come. Meanwhile WWI is making life hard in the village. Based on story by Children'..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 83% from 6 members
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  • King Lear (1984)
    Starring: Laurence Olivier,  Jeremy Kemp,  Anna Calder-Marshall
    Director: Michael Elliott
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Shakespeare's story of King Lear, who divided his kingdom between those he loved and trusted, and then was deceived and lost what he held dear. Laurence Olivier puts in another award winning performance as the struggling King.
    3 stars out of 5 60% from 268 members
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  • Red Monarch on DVD (1983)
    Starring: Colin Blakely,  David Suchet,  Brian Glover
    Director: Jack Gold
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    In a Russia where fear has become the everyday currency, Stalin and Beria are the two double acts to end them all. With the Kremlin as their stage and the Politburo as their stooges, Stalin signs death warrants while Beria chases women. United by their Georgian heritage and moral depravity, they ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 57% from 19 members
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  • Mike Leigh At The BBC (6 discs) on DVD
    Starring: Roger Sloman,  Alison Steadman,  Brid Brennan
    Director: Mike Leigh
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Hard Labour: Mike Leigh's first TV drama for the BBC in 1973. Shot entirely on location in Leigh's native Salford, Hard Labour depicts the grinding daily routine of stoical domestic cleaner Mrs Thornley and her cantankerous family. The Permissive Society: The title is ironic - a popular expression ..read more »
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David Threlfall facts

5 most recent films

Shameless - Series 8 - 3.5 stars
Shameless - Series 7 - 4.0 stars
Shameless - Series 6 - 4.0 stars
Shameless - Series 5 - 4.0 stars
Shameless - Series 4 - 4.0 stars

5 highest-rated films

Shameless - Series 6 - 4.0 stars
Shameless - Series 5 - 4.0 stars
Shameless - Series 4 - 4.0 stars
Shameless - Series 3 - 4.0 stars
Shameless - Series 2 - 4.0 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Frederick Forsyth - A Casualty of War - 2.5 stars
Red Monarch - 3.0 stars
Diana - Her True Story - 3.0 stars
When The Whales Came - 4.0 stars
Chunky Monkey - 2.5 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Gerard Kearns - 65 times - show films
Maggie O'Neill - 47 times - show films
Anne-Marie Duff - 47 times - show films
Jody Latham - 43 times - show films
James McAvoy - 37 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Dearbhla Walsh - 39 times - show films
Mark Mylod - 15 times - show films
Catherine Morshead - 14 times - show films
Paul Walker - 14 times - show films
Brid Brennan - 12 times - show films