1. John Shrapnel is known mainly for his stage work with the Royal Shakespeare Company and the National Theatre in the United Kingdom and for his many television appearances.
14 Facts About John Shrapnel
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John Shrapnel was a member of Laurence Olivier's National Theatre Company and the Royal Shakespeare Company and appeared as Sir Oliver Surface in The School for Scandal at the Barbican Centre in 2011.
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John Shrapnel appeared in Z-Cars, Space: 1999, Inspector Morse, GBH, Coogan's Run, Foyle's War and many other dramas.
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John Shrapnel presented an episode of the 1983 BBC television travel series Great Little Railways.
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John Shrapnel performed in three of the BBC Television Shakespeare plays and as Creon in the BBC's productions of the Three Theban plays of Sophocles.
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John Shrapnel played Pompey in the second episode of Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire and the Jail Warden in The 10th Kingdom.
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John Shrapnel appeared in historical films such as Gladiator as Senator Gaius and in Troy as Nestor.
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John Shrapnel had the rare distinction of appearing in two episodes of Midsomer Murders as two characters in 'Death in Chorus' and 'Written in Blood'.
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John Shrapnel appeared in Jonathan Creek episode "The Omega Man" as Professor Lance Graumann.
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John Shrapnel appeared in Chemical Wedding alongside Simon Callow, telling the tale of the resurrection of occultist Aleister Crowley.
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John Shrapnel played John Christie in "Solidarity" of Waking the Dead.
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John Shrapnel had experience in the field of BBC radio drama: John Shrapnel played Colin Dexter's Inspector Morse and starred in William Gibson's Neuromancer.
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In 1975, John Shrapnel married Francesca Ann Bartley, the younger daughter of Deborah Kerr and Tony Bartley.
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John Shrapnel died from prostate cancer at his home in Suffolk on 14 February 2020, at the age of 77.