David Morrissey
David Mark Joseph Morrissey is an English actor and filmmaker. He had numerous small roles in films and television series throughout the 1990s before achieving wider recognition for playing Gordon Brown in The Deal (2003), Stephen Collins in State of Play (2003), The Governor in the third, and fourth seasons of The Walking Dead (2012–2015), and DCS Ian St Clair in Sherwood (2022–present). He has also acted extensively on stage with companies such as the Royal Shakespeare Company and Royal National Theatre.
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🎬 Movies
The Oresteia
actor
2026
The Woman in Cabin 10
actor
2025
Slingshot
actor
2024
The Walking Dead: The Return
actor
2024
Six Inches of Soil
actor
2024
Dampyr
actor
2022
The Colour Room
actor
2021
National Theatre Live: Julius Caesar
actor
2018
24 Davids
actor
2018
The Ones Below
actor
2016
Ronaldo
actor
2015
The Walking Dead: A Decade of Dead
actor
2013
Welcome to the Punch
actor
2013
Earthbound
actor
2012
Blitz
actor
2011
Macbeth
actor
2011
Centurion
actor
2010
Nowhere Boy
actor
2009
Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1974
actor
2009
Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1980
actor
2009
Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1983
actor
2009
U Be Dead
actor
2009
Is Anybody There?
actor
2009
Don't Worry About Me
director
2009
Doctor Who: The Next Doctor
actor
2008
The Other Boleyn Girl
actor
2008
The Water Horse
actor
2007
The Reaping
actor
2007
Taking Liberties
actor
2007
Viva Blackpool
actor
2006
Basic Instinct 2
actor
2006
Stoned
actor
2005
Derailed
actor
2005
Zero Hour: Massacre at Columbine High
actor
2004
The Deal
actor
2003
Captain Corelli's Mandolin
actor
2001
Born Romantic
actor
2000
Some Voices
actor
2000
Fanny & Elvis
actor
1999
Hilary and Jackie
actor
1998
Big Cat
actor
1998
The Commissioner
actor
1998
The One That Got Away
actor
1996
Black and Blue
actor
1992
Waterland
actor
1992
The Storyteller: Greek Myths - Theseus & the Minotaur
actor
1991
Robin Hood
actor
1991
The Widowmaker
actor
1990
Drowning by Numbers
actor
1988
Cause Célèbre
actor
1987
Tip Toe
actor
Agatha Christie's Poirot - Murder on the Orient Express
actor
Too Far Gone
actor
📺 TV Shows
Gone
actor
2026
Prime Target
actor
2025
Manhunt
actor
2025
Daddy Issues
executive_producer
2024
Daddy Issues
actor
2024
Parish
executive_producer
2024
The Long Shadow
actor
2023
Gods of Tennis
actor
2023
Turkey: Empire of Erdogan
actor
2023
Sherwood
actor
2022
The Singapore Grip
actor
2020
The City and the City
actor
2018
dinnerladies diaries
actor
2018
Britannia
actor
2018
Lion Country: Night and Day
actor
2017
Rock 'n' Roll America
actor
2015
The Missing
actor
2014
The Driver
actor
2014
The 7.39
actor
2014
True Love
actor
2012
The Field of Blood
actor
2011
South Riding
actor
2011
Thorne
actor
2010
Coastline Cops
actor
2009
Sense and Sensibility
actor
2008
Meadowlands
actor
2007
Five Days
actor
2007
Skint
actor
2005
Blackpool
actor
2004
Who Do You Think You Are?
actor
2004
State of Play
actor
2003
Into the Fire
actor
1996
Out of the Blue
actor
1995
Finney
actor
1994
Framed
actor
1992
One Summer
actor
1983
The Siege
actor
Tip Toe
actor