David Bradley

David Bradley is one of those actors who makes every single scene he's in feel more real, and I genuinely think he doesn't get enough credit for it. Born in York in 1942, he built a career the old-fashioned way — grinding through stage work until he won the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Supporting Actor in 1991 and the Clarence Derwent Award in 1993. Then a whole new generation discovered him as the gloriously cantankerous Argus Filch in Harry Potter, and after that he just kept stacking iconic roles: Walder Frey in Game of Thrones, where he made "the Freys send their regards" land like a gut punch. That's the thing about Bradley — he's a character actor's character actor, the kind of guy who turns up, says three lines, and somehow steals the whole episode.

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Name (English)

David Bradley

Name (Japanese)

デイビッド・ブラッドリー

Reading

でいびっど・ぶらっどりー

Born

April 17, 1942 (age 84)

Origin

York, United Kingdom

Occupation

actor / stage actor / film actor / television actor

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Aries / Horse

Awards & achievements

• 1991 Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role
• 1993 Clarence Derwent Awards

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Bradley%20(English%20actor)
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%87%E3%82%A4%E3%83%93%E3%83%83%E3%83%89%E3%83%BB%E3%83%96%E3%83%A9%E3%83%83%E3%83%89%E3%83%AA%E3%83%BC
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q320073

Tags

• actor
• stage actor
• film actor

Last updated

October 18, 2026

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