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 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.
Acting
Movie
Cars 2
as Victor Hugo / Vladimir Trunkov / Ivan the Tow Truck (voice)
2011
TV
Sherlock
as Angelo
2010
TV
Andor
as Commandant Jayhold Beehaz
2022
Movie
In the Name of the Father
as Hooker's Driver
1993
Movie
The Voices
as Sheriff Weinbacher
2014
TV
24
as Anatol Stolnavich
2001
Movie
What a Girl Wants
as Bride's Father
2003
Movie
Florence Foster Jenkins
as Phineas Stark
2016
Movie
The Physician
as Bar Kappara
2013
Movie
The Current War
as Franklin Pope
2018
Movie
Flawless
as Henry
2007
Movie
Happy-Go-Lucky
as Tramp
2008
Movie
The Libertine
as Keown
2004
Movie
Jay Kelly
as First Voice (voice)
2025
TV
KAOS
as President Minos
2024
TV
The Spy
as General Ad-Din
2019
Movie
One Chance
as Luciano Pavarotti
2013
TV
Call the Midwife
as Father Joe
2012
Movie
The Nativity Story
as Zechariah
2006
Movie
Inside I'm Dancing
as Interview Panelist
2004
Movie
Isolation
as Garda Hourigan
2005
TV
Ripper Street
as Aiden Galvin
2012
TV
Hustle
as Johnny Keyes
2004
Movie
The Song of Names
as Gilbert
2019