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.
12 Facts About John Shrapnel
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John Shrapnel appeared extensively on television in roles from the 1960s onwards.
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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 has appeared in historical films such as Gladiator as Senator Gaius, and in Troy as Nestor.
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John Shrapnel appears 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 was the son-in-law of Deborah Kerr and Tony Bartley through his 1975 marriage to their younger daughter Francesca Ann Bartley.
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John Shrapnel lived the last years of his life with his family in Highbury, north London.
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John Shrapnel died at his home in Suffolk on St Valentine's Day, 14 February 2020.