David Morrissey

Biography

David Mark Morrissey (born 21 June 1964) is an English actor and director. Morrissey grew up in the Kensington and Knotty Ash areas of Liverpool. He learned to act at the Everyman Youth Theatre, alongside Ian Hart, Mark and Stephen McGann, and Cathy Tyson. At the age of 18, he and Hart were cast in the television series One Summer (1983), which won them recognition throughout the country. After making One Summer, Morrissey attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art before acting with the Royal Shakespeare Company and the National Theatre. Throughout the 1990s, he often portrayed policemen and soldiers, though took other defining roles such as Bradley Headstone in Our Mutual Friend (1998) and Christopher Finzi in Hilary and Jackie (1998). More film parts followed, including roles in Some Voices (2000) and Captain Corelli's Mandolin (2001), before he played the critically acclaimed roles of Stephen Collins in State of Play (2003) and Gordon Brown in The Deal (2003). The former won him a nomination at the British Academy Television Awards and the latter a Best Actor award at the Royal Television Society Awards. His film roles have not always been acclaimed; his appearance as the male…

Movies & TV Shows

1. The Walking Dead (2010) — Philip Blake
2. Good Omens (2019) — Captain Vincent
3. The Other Boleyn Girl (2008) — Thomas Howard - Duke of Norfolk
4. Blitz (2011) — Dunlop
5. Centurion (2010) — Bothos
6. The Water Horse (2007) — Captain Thomas Hamilton
7. Derailed (2005) — Sam Griffin
8. The Woman in Cabin 10 (2025) — Thomas Heatherley
9. The Reaping (2007) — Doug
10. Nowhere Boy (2009) — Bobby Dykins
11. Basic Instinct 2 (2006) — Michael Glass
12. Welcome to the Punch (2013) — Thomas Geiger
13. Captain Corelli's Mandolin (2001) — Captain Günther Weber
14. Agatha Christie's Poirot (1989) — John Arbuthnot
15. Ronaldo (2015) — Dramatic VO (voice)
16. The Ones Below (2016) — Jon
17. Extant (2014) — Tobias Shepherd
18. The Missing (2014) — Sam Webster
19. Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1974 (2009) — Maurice Jobson
20. Inside No. 9 (2014) — Martin
21. Slingshot (2024) — Sam Napier
22. Doctor Who: The Next Doctor (2008) — Jackson Lake
23. Britannia (2018) — General Aulus Plautius
24. Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1980 (2009) — Maurice Jobson
25. Drowning by Numbers (1988) — Bellamy
26. Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1983 (2009) — Maurice Jobson
27. Robin Hood (1991) — Little John
28. Dampyr (2022) — Gorka
29. The Walking Dead: The Return (2024) — The Governor (archive footage)
30. Would I Lie to You? (2007) — Self - Panellist
31. Prime Target (2025) — Professor Robert Mallinder
32. Sense and Sensibility (2008) — Colonel Brandon
33. The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson (2005) — Self
34. Hilary and Jackie (1998) — Kiffer Finzi
35. State of Play (2003) — Stephen Collins
36. The Storyteller: Greek Myths (1991) — Theseus
37. Sherwood (2022) — DCS Ian St Clair
38. The Hollow Crown (2012) — Earl of Northumberland
39. The Long Shadow (2023) — DCS George Oldfield
40. Is Anybody There? (2009) — Dad

Directed

1. Don't Worry About Me (2009) — Director
2. Passer By (2004) — Director
3. Sweet Revenge (2001) — Director