Alun Armstrong Movies and Career Information

Alun Armstrong (born 17 July 1946) is an English actor and singer recently popular for his role as Brian Lane in New Tricks. Armstrong made his debut in the 1971 film Get Carter, and has appeared in several films, although in this medium he has usually played supporting or minor roles. He has appeared in Sleepy Hollow, Braveheart, The Mummy Returns, Eragon and Van Helsing among other things. He appeared as Torquil, the bandit leader who agrees to help Colwyn defeat the evil Slayers, in the 1983 movie Krull. On television, Armstrong has played the character of Brian Lane in the highly popular BBC drama New Tricks where he was reunited with James Bolam, with whom he appeared in an episode of Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads? called "Conduct Unbecoming" and the feature film The Likely Lads, in which he played Terry's milkman. Armstrong also starred in the 1981, Yorkshire Television drama, Get Lost!, which inspired the later better known drama, The Beiderbecke Affair, in which James Bolam played Armstrong's counterpart. He also played Austin Donohue in the 1996 BBC drama series Our Friends in the North, a character based on the politician T. Dan Smith, Inspector Bucket in the 2005