Stanley Townsend
Known for Acting · 93 credits
- Born
- 1961-08-20 (age 64)
- Place of birth
- Dublin, Ireland
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. He subsequently went on to perform in several productions at The Gate and The Abbey Theatres in Dublin. In London, he has worked with such directors as Sam Mendes in The Plough and the Stars, Richard Eyre in Guys and Dolls and Rufus Norris in Under the Blue Sky. Theatre appearances at the Royal Court include The Alice Trilogy directed by Ian Rickson and Shining City directed by Conor McPherson, for which he won an Irish Theatre Award and was nominated for the Evening Standard Theatre Award for Best Actor in 2004.
Townsend's television work began on a number of shows for RTÉ in Dublin. Since moving to London, television appearances have included Spooks, The Commander, Hustle, Waking the Dead, and Omagh Bombing.
ilm credits include Mike Newell's Into the West, Jim Sheridan's In the Name of the Father with Daniel Day-Lewis, The Van by Stephen Frears, Peter Greenaway's The Tulse Luper Suitcases, The Libertine with Johnny Depp, Paul Morrison's Wondrous Oblivion with Delroy Lindo, John Boorman's The Tiger's Tale and Michael Radford's Flawless. He currently lives in London.
Known For
TV Shows (38)
24
2001
as Anatol Stolnavich
Call the Midwife
2012
as Father Joe
Andor
2022
as Commandant Jayhold Beehaz
Sherlock
2010
as Angelo
Heartbeat
1992
as Igor Saukas
Spooks
2002
as Roy Woodring
Peak Practice
1993
as Keith Johnson
Foyle's War
2002
as Jose De Perez
Waking the Dead
2001
as DI Bailey
Hustle
2004
as Johnny Keyes
Ripper Street
2012
as Aiden Galvin
The Hollow Crown
2012
as Warwick
Jonathan Creek
1997
as Det. Inspector Barrison
Ballykissangel
1996
as Micky Keeler
Ashes to Ashes
2008
as Sacks
KAOS
2024
as President Minos
Galavant
2015
as King of Valencia
Wire in the Blood
2002
Toast of London
2013
Titanic: Blood and Steel
2012
as Rex Riley
The Spy
2019
as General Ad-Din
The Regime
2024
as Emil Bartos
The Commander
2003
Fresh Meat
2011
as John Frobisher
Murder City
2004
Becoming Elizabeth
2022
as Anthony Denny
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951
as Constable
Resistance
2019
as Senator Daniel Shea
Blackshore
2024
as Bill McGuire
Quirke
2014
as Inspector Hackett
New Worlds
2014
as Colonel Blood
Fleming
2014
as Colonel William Donovan
Zen
2011
as Moscati
Traitors
2019
as Henry
The Ambassador
1998
Jake's Progress
1995
as Consultant
Der Medicus
2014
as Bar Kappara
Whistleblower
2008
as Michael Neary
Movies (55)
Cars 2
2011
as Victor Hugo / Vladimir Trunkov / Ivan the Tow Truck (voice)
The Physician
2013
as Bar Kappara
Flawless
2007
as Henry
Jay Kelly
2025
as First Voice (voice)
In the Name of the Father
1993
as Hooker's Driver
What a Girl Wants
2003
as Bride's Father
The Voices
2014
as Sheriff Weinbacher
Florence Foster Jenkins
2016
as Phineas Stark
The Libertine
2004
as Keown
The Current War
2018
as Franklin Pope
Taffin
1988
as Les
One Chance
2013
as Luciano Pavarotti
The Song of Names
2019
as Gilbert
Once Upon a Time in a Cinema
2026
as Harry Conway
The Nativity Story
2006
as Zechariah
Happy-Go-Lucky
2008
as Tramp
Inside I'm Dancing
2004
as Interview Panelist
Agatha and the Curse of Ishtar
2019
as Sir Constance
Dot.Kill
2005
as Capt. Tommy Byrnes
The Uprising
2026
Killing Bono
2011
as Danny Machin
Hilde
2009
as David O. Selznick
The Snapper
1993
as Anaesthetist
Station Jim
2001
as Matapan
Byron
2003
as Turkish Governor
Rat
2000
as Newsreader
Burton and Taylor
2013
as Milton Katselas
The Teacher
2024
as Simon Cohen
Omagh
2005
as Sam Pollock
Monsieur N.
2003
as Dr. O'Meara
Isolation
2005
as Garda Hourigan
A Girl from Mogadishu
2019
as Joe Costello
Holy Water
2009
as Inspector Brian Hogan
The Van
1996
as Des, Health Inspector
National Theatre Live: King Lear
2014
as The Earl of Kent
My Friend Joe
1996
as Mr. Doyle
Mystics
2003
as Mickey Mac
National Theatre Live: All About Eve
2019
as Addison Dewett
Standby
2014
as Paul
The Miracle
1991
as Washington, Destry Rides Again
National Theatre Live: Phèdre
2009
as Theseus
Wondrous Oblivion
2004
as Victor
Lovely Louise
2013
as Bill
The Pizza Miracle
2010
as Gianni
Fallen
2004
as Mara
Another Turn of the Screw
as Henry James
Altmann's Tongue
2000
as Narrator
Saddam's Tribe
2007
as Saddam
National Theatre Live: Retrograde
2025
as Mr Parks
Ink
1988
Beyond Reason
1995
as John Horan
Thin Lizzy: Outlawed - The Real Phil Lynott
2006
as Narrator
Kinked
2023
Phil Lynott: The Long Goodbye
2022
as Narrator
Psychomanteum
2018
as Narrator
About Stanley Townsend
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. He subsequen… With 93 credits spanning from 1951 to 2026, Stanley Townsend has appeared in 55 films and 38 TV shows.
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- Cars 2 (2011) — as Victor Hugo / Vladimir Trunkov / Ivan the Tow Truck (voice)
- The Physician (2013) — as Bar Kappara
- Flawless (2007) — as Henry
- Jay Kelly (2025) — as First Voice (voice)
- In the Name of the Father (1993) — as Hooker's Driver
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