David Bradley
Date of birth: 1942-04-17
Place of birth: York, North Yorkshire, England, UK
Known for: Acting
Also known as: David John Bradley
Biography
David Bradley (born 17 April 1942) is an English actor. He is most widely known for portraying Argus Filch in the Harry Potter film series, Walder Frey in the HBO fantasy series Game of Thrones, and Abraham Setrakian in the FX horror series The Strain. He was awarded a Olivier Award in 1991 for his supporting role in King Lear at the Royal National Theatre.
Movie Credits
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
2002-11-13
Cars fly, trees fight back, and a mysterious house-elf comes to warn Harry Potter at the start of hi
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
2005-11-16
When Harry Potter's name emerges from the Goblet of Fire, he becomes a competitor in a grueling batt
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
2007-07-08
Returning for his fifth year at Hogwarts, Harry is stunned to find that his warnings about the retur
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
2009-07-15
As Lord Voldemort tightens his grip on both the Muggle and wizarding worlds, Hogwarts is no longer a
The King Is Alive
2000-05-11
Stranded in the heat of a barren African desert, eleven bus-passengers shelter in the remnants of an
I Know You Know
2009-02-05
Jamie, an 11-year-old boy, is fascinated by his father Charlie’s espionage work until the world of s
Broadcast Signal Intrusion
2016-09-18
A grief-stricken video archivist becomes increasingly obsessed with the meaning behind a sinister te
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
2011-07-12
Harry, Ron and Hermione continue their quest to vanquish the evil Voldemort once and for all. Just a
Harry Brown
2009-11-11
An elderly ex-serviceman and widower looks to avenge his best friend's murder by doling out his own
Allelujah
2023-03-17
When news of the closure of a small hospital's geriatric ward begins to reach the community, the hos
The Daisy Chain
2008-11-09
A grieving couple move to a remote Irish village in the wake of their baby daughter's death. They so
Another Year
2010-11-05
During a year, a very content couple approaching retirement are visited by friends and family less h
Sweeney Todd
2006-01-03
A BBC adaptation of the Victorian "penny dreadful" tale of 19th century "demon barber" Sweeney Todd,
Bad Girl
1992-07-14
A young single mother has to convince the authorities that she is a fit parent.
Roy
2021-04-01
Trapped in a lonely existence, reclusive widower Roy passes the days by cold calling strangers from
Blow Dry
2001-03-01
The annual British Hairdressing Championship comes to Keighley, a town where Phil and son Brian run
Kiss and Tell
1996-11-09
An undercover police officer must prove that a lonely man's missing wife was murdered.
A Master of the Marionettes
1989-04-18
Teddy Rose's passion is security - selling alarm systems to prosperous yet fearful suburban homes, o
Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget
2023-12-08
A band of fearless chickens flock together to save poultry-kind from an unsettling new threat: a nea
The Frisco Kid
1979-07-06
Rabbi Avram arrives in Philadelphia from Poland en route to San Francisco where he will be a congreg
Left Luggage
1998-03-30
While escaping from Nazis during the WWII, a Jewish man dug suitcases full of things dear to his hea
The Holding
2011-09-09
A heart-pounding suspense thriller, set on an isolated farm in England's beautiful, rugged Peak Dist
Reckless: The Sequel
1998-10-11
One year on in their lives, Owen and Anna plan to marry. But Anna's ex-husband may have an other ide
The World's End
2013-07-18
Five friends who reunite in an attempt to top their epic pub crawl from 20 years earlier unwittingly
An Adventure in Space and Time
2013-11-21
Actor William Hartnell felt trapped by a succession of hard-man roles while wannabe producer Verity
Your Christmas or Mine 2
2023-12-07
They've swapped Christmas – again. Can Hayley and James' relationship survive another turbulent fami
Measure for Measure
1994-11-05
Modern dress adaptation of Shakespeare's play.
This Is Not a Love Song
2002-01-01
Heaton and Spike are the unlikeliest pair: two loners who have found each other. When Spike commits
Gabriel & Me
2001-08-13
A young boy believes he can save his dying father if he can become an angel.
Altered Species
2001-09-01
Altered Species is a 2001 horror film, about a scientist who has found a way to regenerate damaged t
Criminal
1994-06-22
Simon Willerton's suicide in 1990 brought to six the number of young prisoners who hanged themselves
My Sister's Bones
2026-01-30
Kate Rafter is back to home after a horrific incident in war-torn Iraq and the death of her mother.
Type
2022-05-20
A young woman with allergies finds love in her lost and lonely life.
Another Sunday and Sweet F.A.
1972-01-09
Mr. Armistead is the referee for an amateur league Sunday Football match. Disliked and abused by all
Frankenstein
2025-10-17
Dr. Victor Frankenstein, a brilliant but egotistical scientist, brings a creature to life in a monst
Your Christmas or Mine?
2022-12-02
Students Hayley and James are young and in love. After saying goodbye for Christmas at a London trai
Catherine Called Birdy
2022-09-23
A teenage girl in Medieval England navigates life and tries to avoid the arranged marriages her fath
Good Grief
2023-12-19
When his husband unexpectedly dies, Marc's world shatters, sending him and his two best friends on a
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
2001-11-16
Harry Potter has lived under the stairs at his aunt and uncle's house his whole life. But on his 11t
When Harry Left Hogwarts
2011-11-11
BAFTA award-winning filmmaker Morgan Matthews was given unprecedented access to the behind-the-scene
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
2004-05-31
Year three at Hogwarts means new fun and challenges as Harry learns the delicate art of approaching
Fair Game
1994-06-11
It is 1970, there is World Cup and General Election fever. Marco, a wealthy Italian has come to Engl
Kangaroo Palace
1997-05-25
The story of four young Australians trying their luck in 1960s London.
King of the Ghetto
1986-05-01
An idealistic former soldier helps unite and house ethnic minorities in a run down area of London's
Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio: Handcarved Cinema
2022-12-09
With mesmerizing footage and time lapses of animators at work, this behind-the-scenes special captur
Hot Fuzz
2007-02-14
Former London constable Nicholas Angel finds it difficult to adapt to his new assignment in the slee
The Moth
1997-01-01
This 1940s drama presents a story of class conflict and its influence on romance. Robert Bradley lea
Exorcist: The Beginning
2004-08-20
Years before Father Merrin helped save Regan MacNeil’s soul, he first encounters the demon Pazuzu in
Mr Harvey Lights a Candle
2005-03-26
A teacher comes to terms with his past during a school trip to Salisbury Cathedral.
Bad Sugar
2012-08-26
A dysfunctional, wealthy mining dynasty, with an ailing patriarch and some greedy siblings. A peculi
Captain America: The First Avenger
2011-07-22
During World War II, Steve Rogers is a sickly man from Brooklyn who's transformed into super-soldier
Prick Up Your Ears
1987-04-17
When the young, attractive Joe Orton meets the older, more introverted Kenneth Halliwell at drama sc
Station Jim
2001-12-30
At a rural railway station in Victorian England, Jim is a spunky Jack Russell Terrier who escapes hi
In Your Dreams
1997-12-13
The second of three contemporary stories showing in the Love Bites 1997 season. Clare accuses fello
The Young Messiah
2016-03-10
Tells the story of Jesus Christ at age seven as he and his family depart Egypt to return home to Naz
The Lodgers
2017-10-05
1920, rural Ireland. Anglo-Irish twins Rachel and Edward share a strange existence in their crumblin
Nicholas Nickleby
2002-12-27
Nicholas Nickleby, a young boy in search of a better life, struggles to save his family and friends
The Intended
2002-06-06
A period drama/thriller about a surveyor and his fiancée who arrive in a remote Malaysian trading po
Harold Pinter: A Celebration
2010-01-24
In June 2009, a group Britain's leading actors gathered for one night only to perform a celebration
Tom's Midnight Garden
1999-07-02
When Tom's brother Peter gets measles, he is sent to stay with his Uncle Alan and Aunt Gwen in a fla
Red Mercury
2005-05-13
Three young Muslim men, part of a terror cell, are making a bomb in a London flat, when they get a c
Tartuffe, or The Imposter
1983-07-28
Royal Shakespeare Company's televised adaptation of Moliere's play with Antony Sher in the title rol
Double Pisces, Scorpio Rising
1970-09-12
One of the human trio is Dick Fontaine, the director, a thin, long-haired youth who has put together
Doctor Who: Twice Upon a Time
2017-12-25
As the Twelfth Doctor nears regeneration, he stumbles on his first incarnation, also refusing to cha
Await Further Instructions
2018-08-26
A dysfunctional family awake on Christmas morning to discover they’re sealed inside their house by a
Edmund the Magnificent
2017-03-01
When news breaks that the county pig fete's being revived, the once-legendary Farmer decides to make
Kisses at Fifty
1973-01-22
A father leaves his grown-up family to move in with his lover in the south, alienating himself from
Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio
2022-11-09
During the rise of fascism in Mussolini's Italy, a wooden boy brought magically to life struggles to
Frankenstein: A Modern Myth
2012-10-31
From Boris Karloff to Mel Brooks - Frankenstein has fired the imagination of generations of artists
The Union
1981-02-24
A dramatised impression of the events surrounding the Electrical Trades Union ballot rigging case of
Lycanthropy
2006-01-01
A detective has to journey into the dark heart of his modern metropolis to investigate a routine mur
Jolt
2021-07-15
A bouncer with an anger management problem goes on a furious and resentful rampage after the murder
Doomwatch: Winter Angel
1999-12-07
University lecturer Neil Tannahill is drawn into a sinister conspiracy involving secretly-stored Sov
Cracker: White Ghost
1996-10-28
A British businessman operating in Hong Kong has feelings of inferiority and turns to murder when he
Clapperclaw
1981-05-06
VE Night, 1945. In a Yorkshire pub not everyone is in a mood to celebrate. Lorna Thorpe 's ' All-Sta
Findings on a Late Afternoon
1981-12-11
Gerald is on the edge of a complete breakdown. During an afternoon spent with his father, he starts
The Star
1996-08-18
A young boy who has recently lost his mother finds new meaning when a shooting star lands in his gar
Beneath
Following the unexpected death of her mother, war correspondent Kate Rafter returns from Iraq to the
A Night Like This
2025-09-26
A stone-broke gay actor and a privileged screw-up with a failing business cross paths on a winter ni
Brothers
When two grandsons confront their grandfather with a life-altering dilemma, he must make a profound
Doctor Who: The Power of the Doctor
2022-10-23
Her final battle. Her deadliest enemies. The Thirteenth Doctor faces multiple threats from Daleks, C