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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.
as Mr. Bonaparte
as Chief Justice Belknap
as Harry Conway
as First Voice (voice)
as Mr Parks
as Simon Cohen
as Narrator
as Gilbert
as Sir Constance
as Joe Costello
as Addison Dewett
as Narrator
as Franklin Pope
as Phineas Stark
as Paul
as The Earl of Kent
as Sheriff Weinbacher
as Bar Kappara
as Luciano Pavarotti
as Bill
as Milton Katselas
as Victor Hugo / Vladimir Trunkov / Ivan the Tow Truck (voice)
as Danny Machin
as Gianni
as Inspector Brian Hogan
as Theseus
as David O. Selznick
as Tramp
as Henry
as Saddam
as Zechariah
as Narrator
as Garda Hourigan
as Sam Pollock
as Capt. Tommy Byrnes
as Mara
as Interview Panelist
as Keown
as Victor
as Mickey Mac
as Turkish Governor
as Bride's Father
as Dr. O'Meara
as Matapan
as Newsreader
as Narrator
as Des, Health Inspector
as Mr. Doyle
as John Horan
as Hooker's Driver
as Anaesthetist
as Washington, Destry Rides Again
as Les
as Henry James
