David Bradley

Born: UK

The veteran film and TV actor is probably best known to modern audiences for the role of Hogwarts caretaker Argus Filch in the Harry Potter series.

Big screen work has also included Kes, Tom's Midnight Garden and Nicholas Nickleby with Christopher Plummer and Juliet Stevenson.

A long-standing member of both the RSC and the Royal National, he won the Laurence Olivier Award for best supporiting actor as the Fool in King Lear at the National Theatre.

In 1993 he won the Clarence Derwent Award for Best Supporting Actor for the roles of Polonius in Hamlet and Shallow in Henry IV PT II at the RSC.

Film credits include Udayan Prasad's Gabriel and Me, Rodney Butcher's To Catch a Falling Star and Paddy Breathnack's Blow Dry.

He also appeared in Kristian Levring's The King is Alive, Rob Marchant's Kangaroo Palace and Stephen Frear's Prick Up Your Ears.

TV credits include Where the Heart Is, Cracker, Band of Gold, Our Friends in the North, Buddha of Surburbia and Between the Lines.

Recent feature work includes the role of the vigilante farmer Bellamy in the low-budget thriller This Is Not A Love Song.