Stanley Townsend

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Stanley Townsend is an Irish actor.

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Personal life Townsend was born and brought up in Dublin. After attending Wesley College, Dublin, he studied mathematics and civil engineering at Trinity College. While there he joined the Dublin University Players, the college's Amateur Dramatic Society. He later co-founded co-operative theatre company Rough Magic with writer/director Declan Hughes and theatre director Lynne Parker, performing in numerous productions including The Country Wife, Nightshade, and Sexual Perversity in Chicago. He subsequently went on to perform in several productions at The Gate and The Abbey Theatres in Dublin. In London, he has worked with such directors as Sam Mendes in The Plough and the Stars, Richard Eyre in Guys and Dolls and Rufus Norris in Under the Blue Sky. Theatre appearances at the Royal Court include The Alice Trilogy directed by Ian Rickson and Shining City directed by Conor McPherson, for which he won an Irish Theatre Award and was nominated for the Evening Standard Theatre Award for Best Actor in 2004.

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Career Townsend's television work began on a number of shows for RTÉ in Dublin. Since moving to London, television appearances have included Spooks, The Commander, Hustle, Waking the Dead, and Omagh Bombing.

Film credits include Mike Newell's Into the West, Jim Sheridan's In the Name of the Father with Daniel Day-Lewis, The Van by Stephen Frears, Peter Greenaway's The Tulse Luper Suitcases, The Libertine with Johnny Depp, Paul Morrison's Wondrous Oblivion with Delroy Lindo, John Boorman's The Tiger's Tale and Michael Radford's Flawless. He currently lives in London.

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Theatre Townsend's work in theatre includes: Remember This, Guys and Dolls, Phedre and Happy Now? at the National Theatre, London; The Alice Trilogy, Shining City (for which he won the Irish Times Best Actor Award), Under the Blue Sky, The Royal Court Theatre / Under The Blue Sky The Weir and Tribes at the Royal Court, London; The Wake, The Wake. (Abbey Theater, Dublin, Ireland) (theater reviews) | Variety | Find Articles at BNET.com Trinity for Two and Sacred Mysteries at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin; The Gingerbread Mix-up at St Andrews Lane, Dublin; Prayers of Sherkin Theatre: First night review – Prayers of Sherkin Old Vic, London | Independent, The (London) | Find Articles at BNET.com at the Old Vic, London; Someone Who'll Watch Over Me at West Yorkshire Playhouse, Leeds; The Plough and the Stars at the Young Vic, London; Democracy at the Bush Theatre, London; thebushtheatre Speed-the-Plow for Project Arts Centre, Dublin; Saint Oscar for Field Day Theatre Company, Derry; Sexual Perversity in Chicago, The Caucasian Chalk Circle, The Country Wife, Nightshade and The White Devil for Rough Magic, Dublin; Who Shall Be Happy...? for Mad Cow Productions, Belfast, London and tour; and Art in the West End. He played Eddie Carbone in A View from the Bridge at the Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh in early 2011. His portrayal of Sims in The Nether for director Jeremy Herrin at the Royal Court Theatre in July 2014 won critical acclaim.

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Filmography

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Television

1987	Lapsed Catholic	Mickey Geraghty	TV film
	Fortycoats & Co.	Ranny Gazoo
1991	Parnell and the Englishwoman	Thomas Sexton	Miniseries, 4 episodes
1992	The Bill	Jim Kerr	Episode: "Counting the Cost"
1993	Screen Two	Anaesthetist	Episode: "The Snapper"
1994	Downwardly Mobile	Seamus	Episode: "Grapefruit and Roses"
1995	The Governor	Pete (Carpenter)	Episode: "Episode 6"	La Plante Productions – The Governor
	Jake's Progress	Consultant	Miniseries
	Beyond Reason	John Horan	TV film
1998	Jonathan Creek	Detective Inspector Barrison	2 episodes
	Peak Practice	Keith Johnson	Episode: "Body and Soul"
1998	Ballykissangel	Micky Keeler	3 episodes
1999	The Ambassador	DS Slater	Episode: "Getting Away with Murder"
		Ciaran Gregory	Episode: "The Gates of Eden"
2000	In Defence	Dr. Jack Gower	Episode: "Episode 4"
2001	Best of Both Worlds	Paddy	3 episodes
	Table 12	Guido	Episode: "Opera Lovers"
	Station Jim	Matapan	TV film
	Casualty	Joe	Episode: "Dirty Laundry"
	Heartbeat	Igor Saukas	Episode: "Russian Roulette"
	The Seventh Stream	Constable	TV film
2002	Menace	Fellner	Miniseries, 2 episodes	Menace Credits
2003	The Commander	David Sperry
	Byron	Turkish Governor	TV film
	Wire in the Blood	Geoffrey Markham	2 episodes
2004	Murder City	Edward De Vere	Episode: "Nothing Sacred"
	Fallen	Mara
	The Brief	Costas Nicolaou	Episode: "So Long, Samantha"
	Omagh	Sam Pollock	TV film
2005	Hustle	Johnny Keyes	Episode: "Confessions"
	Proof	Patrick Mooney	4 episodes
	Spooks	Roy Woodring	Episode: "The Book"
	The Virgin Queen	King Philip of Spain	1 episode
2007	Waking the Dead	DI Bailey	2 episodes
	Foyle's War	Jose De Perez	Episode: "Casualties of War"
	Rough Diamond	Charlie Carrick	6 episodes
	Saddam's Tribe	Saddam	TV film
	Prosperity	Eamonn	Episode: "Pala's Story"
2008	He Kills Coppers	Mick	TV film
	Whistleblower	Michael Neary	2 episodes
	The Clinic	Michael Kinsella	2 episodes
2009	New Tricks	Don Maddox	Episode: "Shadow Show"
2010	Ashes to Ashes	Jason Sacks	1 episode
	Sherlock	Angelo	Episode: "A Study in Pink"
2011	Zen	Moscati	Miniseries, 3 episodes
	The Shadow Line	Bulkat Babur	Miniseries, 4 episodes
	Appropriate Adult	Syd Young	1 episode
2012	Call the Midwife	Father Joe	Episode: "The Browne Incident"
		Rex Riley	Episode: "The 'Unsinkable' Sets Sail"
	Coming Up	Yevgeny Sukhov	Episode: "If We Dead Awaken"
	Fresh Meat	John Frobisher	1 episode
2013	Mad Dogs	Lazaro	1 episode
	Burton and Taylor	Milton Katselas	TV film
	Toast of London	Mr. Fasili	Episode: "Vanity Project"
	Ripper Street	Aiden Galven	Episode: "Dynamite and a Woman"
2014		Colonel William Donovan	2 episodes
	Quirke	Inspector Hackett	Miniseries, 3 episodes
	New Worlds	Colonel Blood	Miniseries, 1 episode
		Anatol Stolnavich	5 episodes
2015-2016	Galavant	King of Valencia	13 episodes
2016	The Hollow Crown	Warwick	2 episodes
	The Tunnel	Mike Bowden	7 episodes
	The Collection	Stanley Rossi	3 episodes
2017	Redwater	Peter Dolan	5 episodes
2018	Informer	Geoffrey Boyce	5 episodes
	Finding Joy	Joy's Dad	3 episodes
2019	Rebellion	Senator Daniel Shea	Miniseries, 2 episodes
	Resistance		Miniseries, 4 episodes
	Traitors	Henry	Miniseries, 5 episodes
	The Spy	General Ad-Din	Miniseries, 6 episodes
	Agatha and the Curse of Ishtar	Sir Constance	TV film
2021	Death in Paradise	Bruce Garrett	Episode: "Christmas in Paradise"
2022	Becoming Elizabeth	Anthony Denny	2 episodes
	Andor	Commandant Jayhold Beehaz	Episode: "The Eye"
	Dangerous Liaisons	Eduard Abbaye	3 episodes
2024	The Regime	Emil Bartos	Miniseries, 4 episodes
	Blackshore	Bill McGuire	6 episodes
	Kaos	Minos	6 episodes

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Film

1988	Taffin	Les
1991	The Miracle	Washington
1992	Blue Ice	Interrogator #1
	Into the West	Rico
1993	In the Name of the Father	Hooker's Driver
1995	Undercurrent	Bob Harris
1996	The Van	Health Inspector
	My Friend Joe	Mr. Doyle
	Moll Flanders	Gambler
2000	Rat	Newsreader
2002	American Girl
2003	Wondrous Oblivion	Victor Wiseman
	Monsieur N	Barry O'Meara
	Mystics	Mickey Mac
	What a Girl Wants	Bride's Father
2004	The Libertine	Keown
	Inside I'm Dancing	Interview Panelist
	Tulse Luper II
	Suzie Gold	Irving Gold
2005	Isolation	Garda Hourican	Isolation Movie Review (2005) from Channel 4 Film
	Dot.Kill	Captain Tommy Byrnes
2006	Nativity	Zechariah	The Nativity Story Movie Review (2006) from Channel 4 Film
	The Tiger's Tail	Jim Brady
2007	Flawless	Henry
2008	Happy-Go-Lucky	Tramp	Happy-Go-Lucky Movie Review From The Berlin Film Festival
2009	Hilde	David O. Selznick
	Holy Water	Inspector Brian Hogan
	Happy Ever Afters	Mr. Maguire
2010	1st Night	Paolo Prodi
2011	Killing Bono	Danny
	Cars 2	Vladimir Trunkov, Ivan, Victor Hugo	Voice A green check mark indicates that a role has been confirmed using a screenshot (or collage of screenshots) of a title's list of voice actors and their respective characters found in its credits or other reliable sources of information.
2013		Bill
	One Chance	Luciano Pavarotti
	The Physician	Bar Kappara
2014	The Voices	Sheriff Weinbacher
2015	Metegol	The Agent	Voice
2016	Florence Foster Jenkins	Phineas Stark
2017	The Current War	Franklin Pope
2019	A Girl from Mogadishu	Joe Costello
	The Song of Names	Gilbert Simmonds
2022	About Joan	Doug
2023	Kinked	Bulent
	The Teacher	Simon Cohen

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Video games

1997	Independence War
2001	RuneScape	Saradomin
		Smith
2002		Various voices
2004	Powerdrome	Amran Dachs / Angul
2005		Ares
	Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire	Mad-Eye Moody
2007	The Witcher	Azar Javed
2008	WorldShift	Jack the Crank
2011		Victor Hugo
2014	Transformers Universe	Rampart
	Sacred 3	Zane
2017		Nakmor Drack
	Xenoblade Chronicles 2	Battle Narrator
2018
2022	Xenoblade Chronicles 3	Consul Triton

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Categories: Living People, 20th-century Irish Male Actors, 21st-century Irish Male Actors, Alumni Of Trinity College Dublin, Irish Male Film Actors, Irish Male Stage Actors, Irish Male Television Actors, Irish Male Voice Actors, Irish Video Game Actors, Male Actors From County Dublin, People Educated At Wesley College, Dublin, Year Of Birth Missing

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