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David Bradley

David Bradley
David Bradley was on the 17th April in 1942 in York in North Yorkshire.
He became an actor in 1971, and first appeared the successful comedy Nearest and Dearest playing a police officer.
He was awarded a Laurence Olivier Theatre Award in 1991 for his supporting actor role in King Lear at the Royal National Theatre, and has appeared in the Harold Pinter play called The Caretaker.
He also starred in the comedy series called "Wild West" as Jake. David played the fictional Labour MP Eddie Wells, in the award-winning series Our Friends In The North in 1996.
David had a part in the musical drama called Blackpool, and as the father of Sweeney Todd, playing opposite Ray Winstone.
He has also had a small part in an episode of Taggart, and a leading character Tom, in an episode of "Midsummer Murders."
He has also appeared as the character Stemroach, in the comedy series, called Ideal, as Electric in Thieves Like Us, and appeared in the series True Dare Kiss.
David had a small part in the film called Hot Fuzz, alongside Simon Pegg, and has become best known for his role as Argus Filch, the caretaker of Hogwarts in the Harry Potter films.
David played Cohen the Barbarian in the Sky One adaptation of The Colour Of Magic by Terry Pratchett. David stars alongside Sir David Jason as Rincewind, and Sean Astin as Two Flower ( of Click and Lord Of The Rings fame).
David Bradley is the active President of Second Thoughts Drama Group in Stratford-upon-Avon.
He is starring in a movie callied The Daisy Chain as Sean Cryan, which will be out soon.






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David Bradley - what members say


  • Kes
  • Kes review by from
    Rated - 3.0 stars gritty, touching and british 21 July 2004
    ... sooo glad i rented this one. The host of chracters is like a Dickens novel and David Bradley is absolutely outstanding as Billy Casper. Highly recommended. 10/10...   Read customer review
  • Absolution
  • Absolution review by A customer from Burton-On-Trent
    Rated - 4.0 stars Don't miss this gem 21 November 2007
    ...se to do at the height of his career; that launched Billy Connolly as an actor; David Bradley followed on from “Kes” and then find out that the Catholic church tried to ban ...   Read customer review

David Bradley - filmography


  • The Holding on DVD (2011)
    Starring: Vincent Regan,  David Bradley,  Georgia Groome
    Director: Susan Jacobson
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    Sometimes our worst secrets can’t be buried. What we think is the right thing to do can be the most dangerous thing of all. Cassie Naylor (Kierston Wareing: Bonded By Blood, Fish Tank) killed her husband to protect her daughters from him. Eight months later, when the charming drifter, Aden (Vincent ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 55% from 320 members
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  • Another Year on DVD (2010)
    Starring: Jim Broadbent,  Ruth Sheen,  Lesley Manville
    Director: Mike Leigh
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
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    Another Year is a touching comedic drama which follows happily-married couple Tom and Gerri and their dysfunctional friends and family over four seasons; a grown son who can't seem to meet the right girl; an overweight friend; a depressive brother; and a lonely hard-drinking divorced co-worker.
    3 stars out of 5 64% from 18,268 members
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  • I Know You Know on DVD (2010)
    Starring: Robert Carlyle,  David Bradley,  Aaron Fuller
    Director: Justin Kerrigan
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Charlie is highly charged and on the edge — an undercover agent, always on an important mission, always on the move. Jamie, his son, is fascinated by his father’s espionage work, until the world of spies becomes all too real. Charlie is unpredictable, explosive, yet kind hearted and fiercely ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 50% from 1,532 member
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  • Harry Brown - Blu-ray (2009)
    Starring: Michael Caine,  Emily Mortimer,  Iain Glen
    Director: Daniel Barber
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Watch now: £2.49
    Michael Caine returns to the vengeance-fuelled chills of GET CARTER for this contemporary thriller in which he seeks to avenge the death of an elderly friend. Marking his feature film directorial debut, Daniel Barber presents a London that's a million miles away from the picturesque beauty of ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 77% from 14,429 members
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  • Harry Brown on DVD (2009)
    Starring: Michael Caine,  Emily Mortimer,  Iain Glen
    Director: Daniel Barber
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Watch now: £2.49
    Michael Caine returns to the vengeance-fuelled chills of GET CARTER for this contemporary thriller in which he seeks to avenge the death of an elderly friend. Marking his feature film directorial debut, Daniel Barber presents a London that's a million miles away from the picturesque beauty of ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 77% from 43,767 members
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  • The Colour Of Magic - Blu-ray (2008)
    Starring: David Jason,  Richard da Costa,  Sean Astin
    Director: Vadim Jean
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    The Discworld - a magical realm quite unlike, yet hauntingly familiar to, ours - has got it's first tourist - Twoflower (Sean Astin). Rincewind (David Jason), an inept ex-student wizard is given the task of guiding Twoflower (Sean Astin) through the city state of Ankh Morpork. Rincewind has two ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 63% from 1,932 member
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  • The Colour Of Magic on DVD (2008)
    Starring: David Jason,  Richard da Costa,  Sean Astin
    Director: Vadim Jean
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    The Discworld - a magical realm quite unlike, yet hauntingly familiar to, ours - has got it's first tourist - Twoflower (Sean Astin). Rincewind (David Jason), an inept ex-student wizard is given the task of guiding Twoflower (Sean Astin) through the city state of Ankh Morpork. Rincewind has two ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 11,015 members
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  • Hot Fuzz - HD (2007)
    Starring: Tim Barlow,  Anne Reid,  Steve Coogan
    Director: Edgar Wright
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Edgar Wright, Simon Pegg, and Nick Frost follow up SHAUN OF THE DEAD with another collaboration in HOT FUZZ. This time around Pegg and Frost are mismatched cops who are reluctantly forced to work together, with hilarious results.
    4 stars out of 5 77% from 1,670 member
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  • Hot Fuzz on DVD (2007)
    Starring: Tim Barlow,  Bill Ni,  Anne Reid
    Director: Edgar Wright
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Edgar Wright, Simon Pegg, and Nick Frost follow up SHAUN OF THE DEAD with another collaboration in HOT FUZZ. This time around Pegg and Frost are mismatched cops who are reluctantly forced to work together, with hilarious results.
    3.5 stars out of 5 73% from 103,313 members
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  • Hot Fuzz - Blu-ray (2007)
    Starring: Anne Reid,  Steve Coogan,  Nick Frost
    Director: Edgar Wright
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Pop culture sponges Edgar Wright, Simon Pegg, and Nick Frost team up again for HOT FUZZ, their follow-up to the hit movie SHAUN OF THE DEAD. HOT FUZZ follows a near-identical formula to its predecessor, simply replacing the various homages to horror movies by heaping on the adulation for action ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 77% from 2,095 members
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  • Gabriel And Me on DVD (2001)
    Starring: Billy Connolly,  Iain Glen,  David Bradley
    Director: Udayan Prasad
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Set in Newcastle, GABRIEL & ME follows the exploits of young Jimmy Spud (Sean Landless), who wants to become an angel to cure his father's illness, and seeks guidance from Archangel Gabriel (Billy Connolly). The script is by BILLY ELLIOT scribe, Lee Hall.
    2.5 stars out of 5 52% from 271 members
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  • Tom's Midnight Garden on DVD (1999)
    Starring: Nigel Le Vaillant,  Greta Scacchi,  James Wilby
    Director: Willard Carroll
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    While staying with his aunt and uncle, young Tom Long (Anthony Way) discovers he can enter a magical garden when the grandfather clock strikes midnight. Tom is joined by a girl named Hatty (Florence Hoath) on his adventures in the garden. The film also stars Greta Scacchi, James Wilby, and Joan ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 760 members
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  • Our Friends In The North (4 discs) on DVD (1996)
    Starring: Christopher Eccleston,  Peter Vaughan,  Gina McKee
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    This nine-part miniseries follows the lives of four Newcastle friends--Nicky (Christopher Eccleston), Mary (Gina McKee), Geordie (Daniel Craig), and Tosker (Mark Strong)--from 1964 to 1995. The highly acclaimed production also features Malcolm McDowell, David Bradley, and many other familiar faces.
    4 stars out of 5 80% from 3,554 members
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  • Cyborg Cop (1993)
    Starring: David Bradley,  John Rhys-Davies,  Alonna Shaw
    Director: Sam Firstenberg
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    A blend of futuristic and martial arts action in this tale of an undercover agent who is matched against a power-mad scientist whose cyborg creations are programmed to kill the world's leaders.
    2 stars out of 5 41% from 100 members
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  • American Ninja 4 - The Annihilation (1991)
    Starring: Michael Dudikoff,  David Bradley
    Director: Cedric Sundstrom
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    CIA agent Sean Davidson and his sidekick Carl are sent into the stronghold of sadistic British ex-soldier Mulgrew to rescue some Delta Force commandoes who have been captured and tortured. When Sean, Carl and pretty doctor Sarah run into some problems, Peace Corps vet Joe Armstrong is lured out of ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 52% from 38 members
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  • Absolution on DVD (1978)
    Starring: Richard Burton,  Dominic Guard,  David Bradley
    Director: Anthony Page
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Father Goddard (Richard Burton) hears confessions at a catholic school. In confession, student Benjamin Stanfield tells Goddard that he has accidentally murdered his friend (Billy Connolly) and buried him in the forest. Goddard investigates the matter and finds a buried scarecrow. Shortly after, ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 58% from 235 members
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  • Kes on DVD (1969)
    Starring: Colin Welland,  David Bradley,  Brian Glover
    Director: Ken Loach
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Rebellious Billy Casper (David Bradley) finds that training a kestrel takes his mind off his troubled home life and the bullies at school. Set in the Northern English town of Barnsley, the film is a gritty slice of working-class life in the '60s. Based on the Barry Hines novel A KESTREL FOR A KNAVE,..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 12,123 members
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  • They Saved Hitler's Brain (1963)
    Starring: Walter Stocker,  Audrey Caire,  Carlos Rivas
    Director: David Bradley
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    At the end of World War II, Nazi officials spirited the living head of Adolf Hitler out of Germany to a hiding place in the South American country of Mandoras, in order to revive the Third Reich at a later date. By the 1960s these men believed the time had come, so they kidnap a top scientist in ..read more »
    0.5 stars out of 5 10% from 1 member
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  • This Is Not A Love Song on DVD
    Starring: Michael Colgan,  Kenny Glennan,  David Bradley
    Director: Billie Eltringham
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Travelling through the countryside, criminals Spike and Heaton initiate a bloodthirsty chase when Spike accidentally shoots a farmer's daughter. As the hunt intensifies, Heaton becomes injured and Spike must decide whether to remain loyal to his friend, or to run for his life...
    2 stars out of 5 42% from 642 members
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David Bradley facts

5 most recent films

The Holding - 3.0 stars
Another Year - 3.0 stars
I Know You Know - 2.5 stars
Harry Brown - Blu-ray - 4.0 stars
Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars

5 highest-rated films

Our Friends In The North - 4.0 stars
Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban - HD - 4.0 stars
Hot Fuzz - Blu-ray - 4.0 stars
Harry Brown - Blu-ray - 4.0 stars
Harry Brown - 4.0 stars

5 lowest-rated films

The Jensen Code - Complete - 0.5 stars
They Saved Hitler's Brain - 0.5 stars
Total Reality - 1.5 stars
Another Sunday And Sweet FA - 2.5 stars
American Ninja 5 - 2.5 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Jim Broadbent - 6 times - show films
Daniel Radcliffe - 5 times - show films
Maggie Smith - 5 times - show films
Michael Gambon - 5 times - show films
Rupert Grint - 5 times - show films

Most frequent directors

none - 5 times - show films
Alfonso Cuaron - 4 times - show films
Cedric Sundstrom - 3 times - show films
Daniel Barber - 3 times - show films
Jonathan Gershfield - 3 times - show films