Cast & creator
Stanley Townsend
Best known for The Uprising, 24, The Gentlemen
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.
57
film credits
41
television credits
98
1951–2026 · acting roles
6.7
average across scored titles
Signature credits
Known for
Across film & television
Filmography (98)
Showing 98 of 98 credits
The Uprising
Chief Justice Bealknap
2026
24
Anatol Stolnavich
2001
The Gentlemen
Pat Gallagher
2024
Call the Midwife
Father Joe
2012
Peak Practice
Keith Johnson
1993
Heartbeat
Igor Saukas
1992
Spooks
Roy Woodring
2002
Sherlock
Angelo
2010
Andor
Commandant Jayhold Beehaz
2022
Waking the Dead
DI Bailey
2001
Hustle
Johnny Keyes
2004
Foyle's War
Jose De Perez
2002
Cars 2
Victor Hugo / Vladimir Trunkov / Ivan the Tow Truck (voice)
2011
Ripper Street
Aiden Galvin
2012
Jonathan Creek
Det. Inspector Barrison
1997
The Spy
General Ad-Din
2019
Ashes to Ashes
Sacks
2008
The Hollow Crown
Warwick
2012
Wire in the Blood
2002
Galavant
King of Valencia
2015
Fresh Meat
John Frobisher
2011
Ballykissangel
Micky Keeler
1996
KAOS
President Minos
2024
The Commander
2003
Titanic: Blood and Steel
Rex Riley
2012
The Regime
Emil Bartos
2024
What a Girl Wants
Bride's Father
2003
Toast of London
2013
The Physician
Bar Kappara
2013
Jay Kelly
First Voice (voice)
2025
In the Name of the Father
Hooker's Driver
1993
Becoming Elizabeth
Anthony Denny
2022
The Current War
Franklin Pope
2018
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Constable
1951
Traitors
Henry
2019
The Song of Names
Gilbert
2019
One Chance
Luciano Pavarotti
2013
The Nativity Story
Zechariah
2006
Murder City
2004
Der Medicus
Bar Kappara
2014
The Ambassador
1998
New Worlds
Colonel Blood
2014
Blackshore
Bill McGuire
2024
The Voices
Sheriff Weinbacher
2014
Flawless
Henry
2007
Zen
Moscati
2011
Fleming
Colonel William Donovan
2014
Happy-Go-Lucky
Tramp
2008
Florence Foster Jenkins
Phineas Stark
2016
The Libertine
Keown
2004
Resistance
Senator Daniel Shea
2019
Quirke
Inspector Hackett
2014
Agatha and the Curse of Ishtar
Sir Constance
2019
Inside I'm Dancing
Interview Panelist
2004
Once Upon a Time in a Cinema
Harry Conway
2026
Station Jim
Matapan
2001Best of Both Worlds
Paddy
2001
Burton and Taylor
Milton Katselas
2013
National Theatre Live: Golden Boy
Mr. Bonaparte
2026
Jake's Progress
Consultant
1995
Rat
Newsreader
2000
Holy Water
Inspector Brian Hogan
2009
National Theatre Live: King Lear
The Earl of Kent
2014
National Theatre Live: All About Eve
Addison Dewett
2019
Taffin
Les
1988
Isolation
Garda Hourigan
2005
Fallen
Mara
2004
The Van
Des, Health Inspector
1996
The Snapper
Anaesthetist
1993
My Friend Joe
Mr. Doyle
1996
A Girl from Mogadishu
Joe Costello
2019
Killing Bono
Danny Machin
2011
Hilde
David O. Selznick
2009
Monsieur N.
Dr. O'Meara
2003
Omagh
Sam Pollock
2005
Wondrous Oblivion
Victor
2004Parnell & the Englishwoman
Thomas Sexton
1991
Dot.Kill
Capt. Tommy Byrnes
2005
Standby
Paul
2014
Whistleblower
Michael Neary
2008
The Teacher
Simon Cohen
2024
National Theatre Live: Phèdre
Theseus
2009
Psychomanteum
Narrator
2018
Byron
Turkish Governor
2003Another Turn of the Screw
Henry James
Mystics
Mickey Mac
2003
Thin Lizzy: Outlawed - The Real Phil Lynott
Narrator
2006
The Pizza Miracle
Gianni
2010
The Miracle
Washington, Destry Rides Again
1991
National Theatre Live: Retrograde
Mr Parks
2025The Life of Reilly
Phil Lynott: The Long Goodbye
Narrator
2022
Saddam's Tribe
Saddam
2007
Beyond Reason
John Horan
1995
Lovely Louise
Bill
2013Altmann's Tongue
Narrator
2000
Kinked
2023