John Shrapnel
Sign in to saveBritish actor (1942-2020)
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1942-04-27
- Died
- 2020-02-14
- Works
- 2
Top works
- Bach (Life and Works (Naxos))
via Open Library + Wikidata
Film & TV
Acting · Birmingham, England, UK
Shrapnel was born in Birmingham, Warwickshire, the son of Mary Lillian Myfanwy (née Edwards) and journalist/author Norman Shrapnel.[1] As a stage actor, he was a member of Laurence Olivier's Royal National Theatre company and the Royal Shakespeare Company and most recently appeared as Sir Oliver Surface in The School for Scandal (directed by Deborah Warner) at the Barbican Centre in 2011. He has…
Known for
- Hamlet Within2022
- Britain's Nuclear Bomb - The Inside Story — Narrator (Voice)2017
- King Charles III — Archbishop of Canterbury2017
- The Lions Rule — Narrator (voice)2017
- The Return of the Flying Scotsman — Narrator - (Voice)2016
- Hamlet — Claudius/Ghost2015
- Branagh Theatre Live: The Winter's Tale — Camilo2015
- OXI, an Act of Resistance — Creon2014
- Building Burma's Death Railway: Moving Half the Mountain — Narrator2014
- National Theatre Live: Macbeth — Duncan/Seyton/Old Man2013
via TMDB
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 10,216
- Total plays
- 35,897
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Generalized Gradient Approximation Made Simple
· 1996 · cited 200,169x
- Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold
· 2021 · cited 41,509x
- Gene Ontology: tool for the unification of biology
· 2000 · cited 36,302x
- Matplotlib: A 2D Graphics Environment
· 2007 · cited 34,187x
- The MOS 36-ltem Short-Form Health Survey (SF-36)
· 1992 · cited 28,819x
via Crossref · CC0
Key dates
- Born
- 27 April 1942
- Died
- 14 February 2020
via Wikidata · CC0
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- John
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Place of birth
- Birmingham
- Place of death
- London Borough of Islington
- Child
- Lex Shrapnel
- Occupation
- television actor
- Educated at
- St Catharine's College
- Languages spoken
- English language
Gallery (2)
Connections
Categories
1942 births2020 deaths20th-century English male actors21st-century English male actorsAlumni of St Catharine's College, CambridgeDeaths from prostate cancer in EnglandEnglish male film actorsEnglish male Shakespearean actorsEnglish male stage actorsEnglish male television actorsMale actors from Birmingham, West MidlandsMale actors from London