# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/david-bradley
# Generated: 2026-08-31T15:54:39.831Z

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name: "David Bradley"
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description: "He's been the caretaker you'd never cross, the host who orchestrated television's most brutal dinner party, and the vampire hunter who knew the old ways. Bradley turns supporting roles into the parts you remember."
tagline: "British actor"
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birthDate: "1942-04-17"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Born in 1942, David John Bradley came up through the Royal Shakespeare Company, earning a Laurence Olivier Award for King Lear and anchoring productions like Harold Pinter's No Man's Land in the West End. Screen work brought him Argus Filch in the Harry Potter films, then Walder Frey in Game of Thrones and Abraham Setrakian in The Strain — character parts that carved out specific territory. Broadchurch won him the 2014 BAFTA for Best Supporting Actor. He's appeared in Our Friends in the North, the Three Flavours Cornetto trilogy, and After Life. Doctor Who pulled him in twice over: first playing the show's originator William Hartnell in the biopic An Adventure in Space and Time, then stepping into the role itself as the First Doctor. In 2021, voicing Merlin in Guillermo del Toro's Tales of Arcadia earned him an Annie Award.