John Shrapnel
| John Shrapnel | |
|---|---|
| Born |
27 April 1942 Birmingham, Warwickshire, England |
| Years active | 1980-present |
John Shrapnel (born 27 April 1942) is an English actor.
Shrapnel was born in Birmingham, Warwickshire, the son of Mary Lillian Myfanwy (née Edwards) and journalist/author Norman Shrapnel.
Shrapnel was educated at the City of London School, an independent school for boys in the City of London, and Mile End School, where he was first involved in acting as a member of the school's drama society, followed by St Catharine's College, Cambridge, where he obtained an M.A..
As a stage actor, Shrapnel was a member of Laurence Olivier's National Theatre Company and the Royal Shakespeare Company and most recently appeared as Sir Oliver Surface in The School for Scandal (directed by Deborah Warner) at the Barbican Centre in 2011. He Narrated the Episode on Wild Discovery.
Shrapnel has also appeared extensively on television in roles in Elizabeth R, Z-Cars, Edward and Mrs. Simpson, Space: 1999, Inspector Morse, GBH, 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 productions of the Three Theban plays (1986) of Sophocles. He also played Pompey in the second episode of Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire and the Jail Warden in The 10th Kingdom, an epic fantasy miniseries.
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