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Shrapnel was born in Birmingham, Warwickshire, the son of Mary Lillian Myfanwy (née Edwards) and journalist/author Norman Shrapnel.[1] As a stage actor, he was a member of Laurence Olivier's Royal 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 has also appeared extensively in film and on television in roles in Elizabeth R, Z-Cars, Edward and Mrs. Simpson, 101 Dalmatians, Space: 1999, Inspector Morse, Coogan's Run, Notting Hill 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 1984 productions of the Three Theban plays of Sophocles. In America, he has starred in supporting roles as Senator Gaius in Gladiator, Nestor in Troy and Pompey in the second episode of Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire. He also played the Jail Warden in the 10th Kingdom, an epic fantasy miniseries. He has the rare achievement of appearing in two episodes of Midsomer Murders as two different characters, in Death in Chorus and Written in Blood. Shrapnel appeared in an episode of Jonathan Creek as Professor Lance Graumann in the episode The Omega Man. He appears in Chemical Wedding alongside Simon Callow, telling the tale of the resurrection of occultist Aleister Crowley. Shrapnel also has experience in the field of BBC radio drama through such characters as Colin Dexter's Inspector Morse and William Gibson's Neuromancer. He is the son-in-law of Deborah Kerr through his 1975 marriage to her younger daughter Francesca Ann Bartley. They have three sons, the actors Lex Shrapnel (b.1979), Tom Shrapnel (b.1981) and the writer Joe Shrapnel (b.1976). They live in Highbury, north London.

Hamlet Within

The Lions Rule
as Narrator (voice)

King Charles III
as Archbishop of Canterbury

Britain's Nuclear Bomb - The Inside Story
as Narrator (Voice)
The Return of the Flying Scotsman
as Narrator - (Voice)

Branagh Theatre Live: The Winter's Tale
as Camilo

Hamlet
as Claudius/Ghost
OXI, an Act of Resistance
as Creon

Building Burma's Death Railway: Moving Half the Mountain
as Narrator

National Theatre Live: Macbeth
as Duncan/Seyton/Old Man

Run.
as St. Peter

The Awakening
as Reverend Hugh Purslow

National Theatre Live: Phèdre
as Théramène

An Organization of Dreams
as Father

Apparitions
as Cardinal Bukovak

Merlin
as The Sarrum

The Duchess
as General Grey

Mirrors
as Lorenzo Sapelli

Chemical Wedding
as Crowley

Hindenburg: Titanic of the Skies
as Himself (Narrator)

Elizabeth: The Golden Age
as Lord Howard

Once Upon a Time on the Westway
as Billy Palmer

Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire
as Pompey

Alien Autopsy
as Michael Kuhn

Wachau - Valley of Golden Magic
as Narrator (English Version)

Shadow of the Sword
as Archbishop

Seven Wonders of Ancient Greece
as Narrator

Troy
as Nestor

I Am Not an Animal
as Narrator (voice)

Seven Wonders of Ancient Egypt
as Narrator

Seven Wonders of Ancient Rome
as Narrator

New Tricks
as DAC John Felsham

The Race for Everest
as Narrator
Wild Women of Viramba
as Narrator

Schönbrunn - Well of Beauty
as Narrator (English Version)

Foyle's War
as Raymond Brooks

Whistle
as Paul

K-19: The Widowmaker
as Admiral Bratyeev

Claim
as Lex Vandenberg

Alone
as Hannah

The Inspector Lynley Mysteries
as Sergent Mike McCaffrey

The Gentleman Thief
as Monty Sinclair

Animals of the Ocean Desert
as Narrator

Waking the Dead
as John Christie

Mountain Men: The Ghosts of K2
as Narrator

The Body
as Moshe Cohen

Horizon: Supermassive Black Holes
as Narrator

Gladiator
as Gaius

The 10th Kingdom
as Governor of Prison

Lost on Everest: The Search for Mallory and Irvine
as Self - Narrator

Mary, Mother of Jesus
as Simon

Notting Hill
as PR Chief

Hornblower: The Frogs and the Lobsters
as General Charette

The Strange Case of Delfina Potocka
as Iwaszkiewicz

Lion Queen
as Narrator (voice)

Invasion: Earth
as Air Marshal Bentley

St. Stephen's: The Living Cathedral
as Narrator (English voice)

Predators Killing for a Living

Jonathan Creek
as Prof. Lance Graumann

Bodyguards
as Commander Alan MacIntyre