Stanley Townsend

Personal Info

Birthday

August 20, 1961

(63 years old)

Place of Birth

Dublin, Ireland

Stanley Townsend

Biography

Stanley Townsend (born August 1961) is an Irish actor. 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.

Known For

Sherlock

Call the Midwife

Andor

Spooks

Foyle's War

Hustle

Heartbeat

Ripper Street

Filmography

2025
National Theatre Live: Retrograde
as Mr Parks
2024
The Teacher
as Simon Cohen
2022
Phil Lynott: The Long Goodbye
as Narrator
2019
The Song of Names
as Gilbert
Agatha and the Curse of Ishtar
as Sir Constance
A Girl From Mogadishu
as Joe Costello
National Theatre Live: All About Eve
as Addison Dewett
2018
Psychomanteum
as Narrator
The Current War
as Franklin Pope
2016
Florence Foster Jenkins
as Phineas Stark
2014
Standby
as Paul
National Theatre Live: King Lear
as The Earl of Kent
The Voices
as Sheriff Weinbacher
2013
The Physician
as Bar Kappara
One Chance
as Luciano Pavarotti
Lovely Louise
as Bill
Burton and Taylor
as Milton Katselas
2011
Cars 2
as Victor Hugo / Vladimir Trunkov / Ivan the Tow Truck (voice)
Killing Bono
as Danny Machin
2010
The Pizza Miracle
as Gianni
2009
Holy Water
as Inspector Brian Hogan
National Theatre Live: Phèdre
as Theseus
Hilde
as David O. Selznick
2008
Happy-Go-Lucky
as Tramp
2007
Flawless
as Henry
Saddam's Tribe
as Saddam
2006
The Nativity Story
as Zechariah
Thin Lizzy: Outlawed - The Real Phil Lynott
as Narrator
2005
Isolation
as Garda Hourigan
Omagh
as Sam Pollock
Dot.Kill
as Capt. Tommy Byrnes
2004
Fallen
as Mara
Inside I'm Dancing
as Interview Panelist
The Libertine
as Keown
Wondrous Oblivion
as Victor
2003
Mystics
as Mickey Mac
Byron
as Turkish Governor
What a Girl Wants
as Bride's Father
Monsieur N.
as Dr. O'Meara
2001
Station Jim
as Matapan
2000
Rat
as Newsreader
Altmann's Tongue
as Narrator
1996
The Van
as Des, Health Inspector
My Friend Joe
as Mr. Doyle
1995
Beyond Reason
as John Horan
1993
In the Name of the Father
as Hooker's Driver
The Snapper
as Anaesthetist
1991
The Miracle
as Washington, Destry Rides Again
1988
Taffin
as Les