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 Oliviers 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 also appeared extensively in film and on television in roles in Elizabeth R, Z-Cars, Edward and Mrs. Simpson, 101 Dalmatians, Space 1999, Inspector Morse, Coogans Run, Notting Hill and Foyles War. He presented an episode of the 1983 BBC television travel series Great Little Railways. He gave performances in three entries in the BBC Television Shakespeare plays and as Creon in the BBCs 1984 productions of the Three Theban plays of Sophocles. In America, he has starred in supporting roles as Senator Gaius in Gladiator, Nestor in Troy and Pompey in the second episode of Ancient Rome The Rise and Fall of an Empire. He also played the Jail Warden in the 10th Kingdom, an epic fantasy miniseries. He has the rare achievement of appearing in two episodes of Midsomer Murders as two different characters, in Death in Chorus and Written in Blood. Shrapnel appeared in an episode of Jonathan Creek as Professor Lance Graumann in the episode The Omega Man. He appears in Chemical Wedding alongside Simon Callow, telling the tale of the resurrection of occultist Aleister Crowley. Shrapnel also has experience in the field of BBC radio drama through such characters as Colin Dexters Inspector Morse and William Gibsons Neuromancer. He is the son-in-law of Deborah Kerr through his 1975 marriage to her younger daughter Francesca Ann Bartley. They have three sons, the actors Lex Shrapnel (b.1979), Tom Shrapnel (b.1981) and the writer Joe Shrapnel (b.1976). They live in Highbury, north London.

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Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire

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Natural World

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Midsomer Murders

Max Jennings

Tv 1997

The Inspector Lynley Mysteries

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Tv 2002

Justice

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Invasion: Earth

Air Marshal Bentley

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Centrepoint

Claud Wareing

Tv 1990

The Woman in White

Sir Percival Glyde

Tv 1982

Between the Lines

D.C.C. Dunning

Tv 1992

Wycliffe

Dr. Sam Malvern

Tv 1994

Midsomer Murders

Leo Clarke

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Shakespeare: The Animated Tales

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Armchair Thriller

Vincent Craig

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The Modern World: Ten Great Writers

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Tv 1988

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The Sarrum

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