David John Bradley (born 17 April 1942) is an English actor. He is
known for playing Argus Filch in the Harry Potter film series, Walder
Frey in the HBO fantasy series Game of Thrones, and Abraham Setrakian
in the FX horror series The Strain. He is also an established stage
actor, with a career that includes a Laurence Olivier Award for his
role in a production of King Lear. Other acting credits include the
BBC Two series Our Friends in the North, the ITV series Broadchurch
(for which he won the Best Supporting Actor award at the 2014 British
Academy Television Awards), the BBC One miniseries Les Misérables,
the comedy series After Life and the films Hot Fuzz, The World's End
and Captain America: The First Avenger.In 2012, Bradley played Solomon
in the Doctor Who episode "Dinosaurs on a Spaceship". In 2013, Bradley
portrayed William Hartnell, the actor who played the First Doctor, in
the Doctor Who docudrama An Adventure in Space and Time. He returned
to Doctor Who in 2017, appearing as the First Doctor in "The Doctor
Falls" and "Twice Upon a Time". Since January 2018, Bradley has
reprised the role in a series of audio stories released by Big Finish
entitled The First Doctor Adventures.Bradley was born in York, where
he attended the Catholic St George's Secondary Modern School, at which
he was a member of the choir. He first performed on stage in musical
productions, as a member of a youth club and with the Rowntree Youth
Theatre. Upon leaving school, he completed a five-year apprenticeship
with the optical instruments maker Cooke, Troughton & Simms and he
remained with the firm until 1966, when he moved to London to train as
an actor at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. David Bradley (English actor) Biography, NetWorth, Height, Age, Weight, Family, Married, Son, Daughter