David Bradley (full name David John Bradley) is an English film and theater actor. Winner of the BAFTA TV Award for his role in The Murder on the Beach and the Laurence Olivier Theater Award for his role in the play King Lear.
The audience knows the actor by his role in the Harry Potter adventure films, where he played the superintendent of the school of magicians Argus Filch. Bradley also starred in the cult TV series Game of Thrones as Lord Walder Frey.
Facts from the biography
The future actor was born in the spring of 1942 in England. His father worked as a bricklayer builder, and his mother was a housewife.
David began to be interested in creativity only in his school years. When he was fifteen years old, he first took part in staging a school play. He really enjoyed playing on stage. Because David decided that he wanted to study acting.
Parents did not support the choice of a son. They wanted him to receive a decent, in their opinion, profession of an engineer and enter a technical university. But they failed to convince David. His passion for theater grew every day. By the end of school, the young man decided to devote his life to art.
Choosing an acting profession, David had a hard time. He did not have money for training, the young man had to go to work. Only at the age of twenty-four was he finally able to enter the Academy of Dramatic Art in London.
Theater career
Having received his education, Bradley was accepted into the troupe of the Royal National Theater (Royal National Theater), where he began a creative career. On the stage, Bradley performed for many years. He played in performances based on the works of classics of English and foreign literature. In his career, there were roles in productions: Twelfth Night, Richard the Third, Cherry Orchard, Homecoming, The Watchman. One of the significant works on stage was the image of God in the play "Sacraments".
Soon he became one of the leading actors in the scene. Since 1978, Bradley performed in the performances of the Royal Shakespeare Theater (The Royal Shakespeare Theater) "Julius Caesar", "King Lear", "Tartuffe."
In 1991, David won the Laurence Olivier Theater Award for his role as the Jester in the play King Lear.
Film career
Bradley's debut on television took place in 1971 in the British series "Nearest and Dearest".
He then played in a variety of television films: Coronation Street, Thirty Minutes of the Theater, Play of the Day, Wild West, Arena, Vanity Fair, Second Screen, Catastrophe, Cracker Method ", " Purely English murders ", " Raising the dead ", " Tudors ", " Life after death ", " Magnificent Medici ", " Les Miserables ", " Game of Thrones ".
In the late 1970s, Bradley began acting in films. He played the first roles in the films: “Frisco Kid”, “Pinch Your Ears”, “Left Baggage”, “The Magic Garden of Tom”, “The King is Alive”, “The English Barber”.
Widespread fame came to the actor after playing the role of superintendent of the school of magicians - Argus Filch, in the film "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone." In the same role, he starred in all subsequent films about the adventures of Harry Potter.
Another role that brought Bradley world fame, he played in the famous project "Game of Thrones." Bradley played the role of Lord Walder Frey.
Among the works of recent years, it is worth noting the roles of Bradley in the films: "Doctor Who: Twice in Time", "Expect Further Instructions", "Magnificent Medici", "Les Miserables", "Life after Death".
In his creative biography, Bradley has more than a hundred roles in film and television. He became a Saturn Award nominee, starring in the TV series Strain.
