Stanley Townsend

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Field	Value
name	Stanley Townsend
birth_place	Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland
nationality	Irish
occupation	Actor
spouse	Orla Charlton
education	Wesley College, Dublin
alma_mater	Trinity College Dublin
awards	Irish Times Best Actor Award
2004 Shining City
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Stanley Townsend is an Irish actor.

Early 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.

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 Tail and Michael Radford's Flawless. He currently lives in London.

Theatre

Townsend 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 at the Young Vic, London, 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.

Townsend's other theatre work includes: Remember This, Phèdre and Happy Now? at the National Theatre, London; The Weir and Tribes at the Royal Court, London; The Wake, Trinity for Two and Sacred Mysteries at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin; The Gingerbread Mix-up at St Andrews Lane, Dublin; Prayers of Sherkin at the Old Vic, London; Someone Who'll Watch Over Me at West Yorkshire Playhouse, Leeds; Democracy at the Bush Theatre, London; 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 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.

Filmography

Television

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Year	Title	Role	Notes	Ref.
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"
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"
DDU: District Detective Unit	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
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: Bound by Blood	Saddam Hussein	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"
Titanic: Blood and Steel	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	Fleming : The Man Who Would Be Bond	Colonel William Donovan	2 episodes
Quirke	Inspector Hackett	Miniseries, 3 episodes
New Worlds	Colonel Blood	Miniseries, 1 episode
24: Live Another Day	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

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Year	Title	Role	Reference
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
Dot.Kill	Captain Tommy Byrnes
2006	Nativity	Zechariah
The Tiger's Tail	Jim Brady
2007	Flawless	Henry
2008	Happy-Go-Lucky	Tramp	url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080221050941/http://www.variety.com/index.asp?layout=festivals&jump=review&id=2478&reviewid=VE1117936183&cs=1
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	title=Stanley Townsend (visual voices guide)	url=http://www.behindthevoiceactors.com/Stanley-Townsend/
2013	**	Bill
One Chance	Luciano Pavarotti
The Physician	Bar Kappara
2014	The Voices	Sheriff Weinbacher
2015	Underdogs	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
2025	Jay Kelly	First Voice
TBA	The Uprising		Post-production
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Video games

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Year	Title	Role
1997	Independence War
2001	RuneScape	Saradomin
Independence War 2: Edge of Chaos	Smith
2002	Drakan: The Ancients' Gates	Various voices
2004	Powerdrome	Amran Dachs / Angul
2005	Spartan: Total Warrior	Ares
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire	Mad-Eye Moody
2007	The Witcher	Azar Javed
2008	WorldShift	Jack the Crank
2011	Cars 2: The Video Game	Victor Hugo
2014	Transformers Universe	Rampart
Sacred 3	Zane
2017	Mass Effect: Andromeda	Nakmor Drack
Xenoblade Chronicles 2	Battle Narrator
2018	Xenoblade Chronicles 2: Torna – The Golden Country
World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth
2022	Xenoblade Chronicles 3	Consul Triton
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References

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