Ian McElhinney

Ian McElhinney

Born: August 19, 1948
in Belfast, Northern Ireland
Ian McElhinney (born 19 August 1948) is a Northern Irish actor and director. He has appeared in many television series in a career spanning more than forty years; notable appearances include Taggart, Hornblower, Cold Feet, and The Tudors. In recent times his best known roles are as Barristan Selmy in Game of Thrones, Morgan Monroe in The Fall, and Granda Joe in Derry Girls.

Movies for Ian McElhinney...

Title: High Country
Character: Sam Dryson
Released: March 19, 2024
Type: TV
When detective Andrea 'Andie' Whitford is transferred to the Victorian High Country, she is thrust into a baffling mystery of five missing persons who have vanished into the wilderness. Through an edge-of-the-seat, high-stakes investigation, Andie uncovers a complex web involving murder, deceit and revenge.
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The Boys in the Boat
Title: The Boys in the Boat
Character: Elderly Joe Rantz
Released: December 25, 2023
Type: Movie
The triumphant underdog story of the University of Washington men's rowing team, who stunned the world by competing at the 1936 Berlin Olympics.
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The Last Rifleman
Title: The Last Rifleman
Character: Tom Malcolmson
Released: December 7, 2023
Type: Movie
A WWII veteran escapes his care home in Northern Ireland and embarks on an arduous but inspirational journey to France to attend the 75th anniversary of the D-Day landings, finding the courage to face the ghosts of his past.
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Title: A Small Light
Character: Johannes Kleiman
Released: May 1, 2023
Type: TV
Twentysomething Miep Gies didn't hesitate when her boss Otto Frank came to her and asked her to hide his family from the Nazis during World War II. For the next two years, Miep, her husband Jan, and the other helpers watched over the eight souls in hiding in the Secret Annex. And it was Miep who found Anne’s Diary and kept it safe so Otto, the only one of the eight who survived, could later share it with the world as one of the most powerful accounts of the Holocaust.
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Andor: A Disney+ Day Special Look
Title: Andor: A Disney+ Day Special Look
Character: General Jan Dodonna (archive footage) (uncredited)
Released: September 8, 2022
Type: Movie
Celebrate Disney+ Day with a special look at the Star Wars original series Andor.
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Title: Suspicion
Character: Grandad
Released: February 4, 2022
Type: TV
Five ordinary Brits are accused of kidnapping the son of a prominent U.S. media mogul. They embark on a desperate race against time to prove their innocence, but will anyone believe them—and are they telling the truth?
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Title: Bloodlands
Character: Adam Corry
Released: February 21, 2021
Type: TV
Northern Irish police officer DCI Tom Brannick connects a suicide note with an infamous cold case with enormous personal significance.
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Father Father
Title: Father Father
Released: July 13, 2019
Type: Movie
Father James must decide what kind of a "Father" God wants him to be?
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Title: Mrs Wilson
Character: Father Timothy
Released: November 27, 2018
Type: TV
After the sudden death of ex-Secret Intelligence Service man Alexander, his wife Alison investigates when mysteries from her husband's past come knocking.
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Zoo
Title: Zoo
Character: Mr. Shawcross
Released: June 8, 2018
Type: Movie
Young Tom and his misfit friends fight to save 'Buster' the baby elephant during the German air raid bombings of Belfast in 1941.
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Dave Allen at Peace
Title: Dave Allen at Peace
Character: Priest
Released: April 2, 2018
Type: Movie
Filmed in homage to his original TV series, this fictionalised account follows Dave Allen from childhood to becoming one of the UK and Ireland's comedy greats, with just a whiskey, a cigarette and nine-and-a-half fingers. Dave Allen is played by Aidan Gillen
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Title: Krypton
Character: Val-El
Released: March 21, 2018
Type: TV
Set two generations before the destruction of the legendary Man of Steel’s home planet, Krypton follows Superman’s grandfather — whose House of El was ostracized and shamed — as he fights to redeem his family’s honor and save his beloved world from chaos.
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Title: Derry Girls
Character: Granda Joe
Released: January 4, 2018
Type: TV
Amidst the political conflict of Northern Ireland in the 1990s, five secondary school students square off with the universal challenges of being a teenager.
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To Be Frank Carson
Title: To Be Frank Carson
Character: Self
Released: December 27, 2017
Type: Movie
Frank Carson was one of Britain and Ireland's most loved comedians. Dan Gordon explores the story of the Belfast funny man as he prepares to stage a one-man show on the comic's life.
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Bad Day for the Cut
Title: Bad Day for the Cut
Character: Eamon
Released: October 20, 2017
Type: Movie
A middle-aged Irish farmer, who still lives at home with his mother, sets off on a mission of revenge when the old lady is murdered.
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Title: Kat & Alfie: Redwater
Character: Lance
Released: May 14, 2017
Type: TV
Kathleen and Alfie Moon arrive in the sleepy Irish village of Redwater on a quest to find Kathleen's long-lost son Luke, who was given up for adoption to an Irish family 32 years ago. EastEnders spin-off series.
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The Journey
Title: The Journey
Character: Rory O'Suaird
Released: March 30, 2017
Type: Movie
Firebrand Democratic Unionist Party leader Ian Paisley and Sinn Fein politician Martin McGuinness, two implacable enemies in Northern Ireland, are forced to take a short journey together in which they will take the biggest leap of faith and change the course of history.
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Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
Title: Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
Character: General Dodonna
Released: December 14, 2016
Type: Movie
A rogue band of resistance fighters unite for a mission to steal the Death Star plans and bring a new hope to the galaxy.
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Sacrifice
Title: Sacrifice
Character: D.I. McKie
Released: April 29, 2016
Type: Movie
Sacrifice is the story of consultant surgeon, Tora Hamilton, who moves with her husband, Duncan, to the remote Shetland Islands, 100 miles off the north-east coast of Scotland. Deep in the peat soil around her new home, Tora discovers the body of a young woman with rune marks carved into her skin and a gaping hole where her heart once beat. Ignoring warnings to leave well alone, Tora uncovers terrifying links to a legend that might never have been confined to the pages of the story-books.
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The Truth Commissioner
Title: The Truth Commissioner
Character: James Fenton
Released: February 26, 2016
Type: Movie
Set in a post-Troubles Northern Ireland, The Truth Commissioner follows the fictional story of Henry Stanfield, played by Roger Allam, a career diplomat who has just been appointed as Truth Commissioner to Northern Ireland. Eager to make good as a peacemaker, the Prime Minister urges a commission following the South African model of Truth and Reconciliation. But, though Stanfield starts bravely, he quickly uncovers some bloody and inconvenient truths about those now running the country; truths which none of those in power are prepared to have revealed.
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Title: Rebellion
Character: Edward Butler
Released: January 3, 2016
Type: TV
A group of young men and women in Dublin in 1916 are embroiled in a fight for independence during the Easter Rising. The story begins with the outbreak of World War I. As expectations of a short and glorious campaign are dashed, social stability is eroded and Irish nationalism comes to the fore. The tumultuous events that follow are seen through the eyes of a group of friends from Dublin, Belfast and London as they play vital and conflicting roles in the narrative of Ireland's independence.
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Title: Unforgotten
Character: Lord Tony Hume
Released: October 8, 2015
Type: TV
London police detectives Cassie Stuart and Sunny Khan investigate historic cold cases involving missing persons, murder and long-hidden secrets.
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A Patch of Fog
Title: A Patch of Fog
Character: Freddie Clarke
Released: September 11, 2015
Type: Movie
A university teacher gets caught shoplifting by a security guard, who won’t let him go. He becomes his new best friend and says ‘I won’t call the cops if you come and have a pint with me’. From there a twisted romance of sorts unfolds.
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The Death of a Projectionist
Title: The Death of a Projectionist
Character: Gerry
Released: July 12, 2015
Type: Movie
Gerry is a projectionist. He loves his work, his colleagues and the joy that the films gives him. But is he ready for the changes around the corner?
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Game of Thrones The IMAX Experience
Title: Game of Thrones The IMAX Experience
Character: Barristan Selmy
Released: January 29, 2015
Type: Movie
The first episode of this IMAX screening takes place entirely at The Wall with the Night’s Watch (S4 EP9) hopelessly outnumbered as they attempt to defend Castle Black from the Wildings and features one the fiercest and most intense battle scenes ever filmed for television. The second episode (S4 EP10), features Dany coming to grips with the realities of ruling a kingdom, Bran learning the startling reality of his destiny and Tyrion facing the truth of his unfortunate situation.
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Title: Quirke
Character: Bill Latimer
Released: February 16, 2014
Type: TV
Quirke is the chief pathologist in the Dublin city morgue – a charismatic loner whose job takes him into fascinating places as he investigates sudden deaths in 1950s Dublin. His pleasures in life are raw and deep, a drink, a smoke, good food, a woman: With one woman in particular – his adoptive brother's wife Sarah and the forbidden love that has shaped and dominated Quirke's life.
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Title: The Fall
Character: Morgan Monroe
Released: May 12, 2013
Type: TV
When the Police Service of Northern Ireland are unable to close a case after 28 days, Detective Superintendent Stella Gibson of the Metropolitan Police Service is called in to review the case. Under her new leadership, the local detectives must track down and stop a serial killer who is terrorising the city of Belfast.
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Wodehouse In Exile
Title: Wodehouse In Exile
Character: Major Cussen
Released: March 25, 2013
Type: Movie
An all-star cast heads up this intimate film about how author, P.G.Wodehouse, came to face a charge of treason during the Second World War and how this quintessential Englishman, creator of Jeeves and Wooster, became an exile from his own country and never set foot on English soil again.
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Title: Ripper Street
Character: Theodore Swift
Released: December 30, 2012
Type: TV
A drama set in the East End of London in 1889, during the aftermath of the "Ripper" murders. The action centres around the notorious H Division – the police precinct from hell – which is charged with keeping order in the chaotic streets of Whitechapel. Ripper Street explores the lives of characters trying to recover from the Ripper's legacy, from crimes that have not only irretrievably altered their lives, but the very fabric of their city. At the drama's heart our detectives try to bring a little light into the dark world they inhabit.
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Title: Titanic: Blood and Steel
Character: Sir Henry Carlton
Released: May 13, 2012
Type: TV
Belfast, 1909. The Harland and Wolff shipyard has been handed the greatest project in its history. It will build a great, unsinkable ship. And it will be called the RMS Titanic.
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Bomb Squad Men: The Long Walk
Title: Bomb Squad Men: The Long Walk
Character: Narrator
Released: April 5, 2012
Type: Movie
Three former bomb disposal officers who served at the height of the Northern Ireland conflict, return for the first time in 30 years to revisit the defining moments of their careers, and the moments when they almost lost their lives.
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Titanic: Born in Belfast
Title: Titanic: Born in Belfast
Character: Narrator
Released: January 1, 2012
Type: Movie
This thought-provoking program offers a behind-the-scenes look at the construction of the ill-fated Titanic, the lavishly grand White Star liner that infamously sank after striking an iceberg in the North Atlantic in 1912. Shot on location at the Titanic's birthplace in Belfast, Ireland, the film also includes rare interviews with people who actually witnessed the ship being built, as well as those who saw its one and only launch.
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Title: Celebrity Antiques Road Trip
Character: Self - Participant
Released: October 24, 2011
Type: TV
Antiques experts accompany celebrities on a road trip around the UK searching for treasures and competing to make the most money at auction
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Title: Game of Thrones
Character: Barristan Selmy
Released: April 17, 2011
Type: TV
Seven noble families fight for control of the mythical land of Westeros. Friction between the houses leads to full-scale war. All while a very ancient evil awakens in the farthest north. Amidst the war, a neglected military order of misfits, the Night's Watch, is all that stands between the realms of men and icy horrors beyond.
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Brendan Smyth:  Betrayal of Trust
Title: Brendan Smyth: Betrayal of Trust
Character: Abbot Smith
Released: March 13, 2011
Type: Movie
The true story of the notorious paedophile priest Brendan Smyth, and how one family in Belfast, aided by journalist Chris Moore, uncovered the true extent of the clerical abuse scandal.
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Three Wise Women
Title: Three Wise Women
Character: David
Released: December 14, 2010
Type: Movie
After a young girl witnesses her father having an affair, she declares she will never love anybody ever again. As a result, her guardian angel is forced to abandon her. Later, when she grows to be a miserable woman, her angel is given a second chance to save her from a life of sadness. To accomplish his goal, he travels through time to recruit the woman's past and future selves to help her reconcile with her father and change her direction in life.
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An Old Fashioned Christmas
Title: An Old Fashioned Christmas
Character: Sean
Released: December 11, 2010
Type: Movie
Isabella takes her granddaughter to Ireland to stay with a famous family friend for the holidays, only to discover that the best Christmases are simply spent with each other.
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Leap Year
Title: Leap Year
Character: Priest
Released: January 8, 2010
Type: Movie
When yet another anniversary passes without a marriage proposal from her boyfriend, Anna decides to take action. Aware of a Celtic tradition that allows women to pop the question on Feb. 29, she plans to follow her lover to Dublin and ask him to marry her. Fate has other plans, however, and Anna winds up on the other side of the Emerald Isle with handsome, but surly, Declan -- an Irishman who may just lead Anna down the road to true love.
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Make it New John
Title: Make it New John
Character: John
Released: January 1, 2010
Type: Movie
Make it new John tells the story of the DeLorean car, its creator John DeLorean and the workers of the Belfast-based car plant who built it. The film deftly contrasts the DeLorean dream with its spectacular downfall during a critical period in Northern Ireland's history, and the canonisation of the car - the DMC12 - as a symbol of the American myth of mobility. As with the earlier works such as Bernadette (2008) and Falls Burns Malone Fiddles (2003), in Make it New John, Campbell fuses a documentary aesthetic with fictive moments, using existing archive news and documentary footage from the 1980s as well as new 16mm footage which imagines conversations between DeLorean factory workers. Campbell questions the documentary genre and reflects here on broader existential themes and narrative drives.
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Triage
Title: Triage
Character: Ivan
Released: November 13, 2009
Type: Movie
The wife of a photojournalist sets out to discover why he came home from a recent assignment without his colleague.
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Scapegoat
Title: Scapegoat
Character: H. A. McVeigh QC
Released: October 26, 2009
Type: Movie
This is the fascinating true life story of one of Ireland's most famous unsolved murders. It is the tale of how an innocent man was found guilty but insane of the brutal homicide of a young woman from a very prominent family. Told in superb period detail, Scapegoat contains a combustible mix of sex, class, bogus respectability and dark domestic secrets
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City of Ember
Title: City of Ember
Character: Builder
Released: October 7, 2008
Type: Movie
For generations, the people of the City of Ember have flourished in an amazing world of glittering lights. But Ember's once powerful generator is failing and the great lamps that illuminate the city are starting to flicker. Now, two teenagers, in a race against time, must search Ember for clues that will unlock the ancient mystery of the city's existence, before the the lights go out forever.
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Clay
Title: Clay
Character: Father O'Mahoney
Released: March 30, 2008
Type: Movie
Adaptation of the book by David Almond, set in 1960s Tyneside. Two 14-year-old boys team up against Mouldy, the town bully. Turning Crazy Mary s garden shed into a workshop, they discover that the sculptures they create come to life. Together they raise a golem, a creature fashioned from clay, capable of dispatching anyone, even Martin Mould. But when Mouldy winds up dead, the boys have to deal with the awful power they may have unleashed and the perils of getting what you wish for.
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Title: Fairy Tales
Released: January 10, 2008
Type: TV
Four contemporary adaptations of classic fairy tales, Rapunzel, Cinderella, The Emperor's New Clothes and Billy Goats Gruff.
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Closing the Ring
Title: Closing the Ring
Character: Cathal Thomas
Released: September 14, 2007
Type: Movie
During the 1940s, a group of young men go off to war, leaving behind Ethel Ann, who is in love with one of them, Teddy. In modern-day Belfast, a man named Jimmy endeavors to return a ring found in the wreckage of a crashed plane. He travels to Michigan, where the grown Ethel Ann, who married another man after Teddy was killed in battle, now lives. Ethel Ann must decide whether to go with Jimmy to meet the soldier who last saw Teddy alive.
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Title: The Tudors
Character: Pope Clement VII
Released: April 1, 2007
Type: TV
The Tudors is a history-based drama series following the young, vibrant King Henry VIII, a competitive and lustful monarch who navigates the intrigues of the English court and the human heart with equal vigor and justifiable suspicion.
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Title: Single-Handed
Character: Ex-Garda Sergeant Gerry Driscoll
Released: January 1, 2007
Type: TV
Single-Handed is an Irish television drama series, first broadcast on RTÉ Television in 2007. Set and filmed in the west of Ireland, it focuses on the life of a member of the Garda Síochána, Sergeant Jack Driscoll. Three two-episode, single-story series aired one each on consecutive nights in 2007, 2008 and 2009. Series Four, consisting of three stories told over six episodes, began in RTÉ One November 2010. The series is partially inspired by garda corruption in County Donegal.
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Title: Doctor Who
Character: Ko Sharmus
Released: March 26, 2005
Type: TV
The Doctor is a Time Lord: a 900 year old alien with 2 hearts, part of a gifted civilization who mastered time travel. The Doctor saves planets for a living—more of a hobby actually, and the Doctor's very, very good at it.
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Omagh
Title: Omagh
Character: Stanley McCombe
Released: March 23, 2005
Type: Movie
The movie starts at the 1998 bomb attack by the Real IRA at Omagh, Northern Ireland. The attack killed 31 people. Michael Gallagher one of the relatives of the victims starts an examination to bring the people responsible to court.
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Hornblower: Loyalty
Title: Hornblower: Loyalty
Character: Captain Hammond
Released: January 5, 2003
Type: Movie
Hornblower must deliver a French nobleman to a secret rendezvous near Brest, all while coping with enemy agents in his own ranks.
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Title: No Tears
Character: Padraig McFadden
Released: January 14, 2002
Type: TV
Based on the hepatitis C scandal that rocked Ireland in the mid-1990s. Two very different women discover that they have been infected with hepatitis C by a contaminated anti-D injection years before. Despite the devastating effects on the women and their families, they unite in a campaign group to take on the health authorities and expose the evasions and lies of the political and bureaucratic establishment.
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Mapmaker
Title: Mapmaker
Character: Sergeant Devlin
Released: December 1, 2001
Type: Movie
Hired to draw a map of tourist sites in a small Northern Ireland town, cartographer Richie Markey (Brian F. O'Byrne) uncovers a dark secret and realizes that his map may hold the key to the mysterious disappearance of another surveyor. The missing man had been accused of informing on two IRA soldiers, and when Markey discovers his body, it doesn't take long for him to draw the conclusion that he may be next on the group's list.
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Hornblower: Retribution
Title: Hornblower: Retribution
Character: Captain Hammond
Released: April 15, 2001
Type: Movie
Hornblower and the other officers of the Renown must return to Jamaica to face a court-martial and possible execution for their actions in relieving their unstable captain.
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Borstal Boy
Title: Borstal Boy
Character: Verreker
Released: March 22, 2001
Type: Movie
Based on Irish poet Brendan Behan's experiences in a reform school in 1942. A 16 year-old Irish republican terrorist arrives on the ferry at Liverpool and is arrested for possession of explosives. He is imprisoned in a Borstal in East Anglia, where he is forced to live with his would-be enemies, an experience that profoundly changes his life.
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Title: In Defence
Character: DCS David Dillne
Released: June 26, 2000
Type: TV
A sharp barrister teams up with a strong-minded solicitor to take on battles with the British legal system.
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The King's Wake
Title: The King's Wake
Character: Athairne
Released: January 1, 2000
Type: Movie
It's Samhain (Hallowe'en) in old Ireland, and King Connor is haunted by his life, his legacy, and the enemies he killed in his time. Based on the famous Ulster Cycle.
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Durango
Title: Durango
Character: Vestor McCarthy
Released: April 25, 1999
Type: Movie
In 1939 Ireland, a young man decides to lead a forty mile cattle drive rather than selling his cattle to an unscrupulous local buyer.
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Title: Queer as Folk
Character: Clive Jones
Released: February 23, 1999
Type: TV
Stuart Jones has got it all. He's rich, drop-dead gorgeous and always the centre of attention. He can be forgiven the arrogance because he's pretty close to perfection. His best mate Vince Tyler is funny, adorable and definitely a babe but, unlike his friend, has zero confidence in himself. Since time began, Vince has carried a torch for Stuart but his love remains firmly unrequited. They're both 29, hitting Canal Street every night, stalwarts of the scene but just starting to wonder where else their lives may be going. Then along comes Nathan Maloney. Young, wild and coming out with a vengeance, he crowbars his way into their world and once he arrives, nothing is ever the same again.
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Hornblower: The Examination for Lieutenant
Title: Hornblower: The Examination for Lieutenant
Character: Captain Hammond
Released: November 18, 1998
Type: Movie
Acting Lieutenant Hornblower attempts to study for his promotion examination, but becomes distracted by the serious supply problems that face his crew.
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Title: Cold Feet
Released: November 15, 1998
Type: TV
Follow the lives and loves of a group of thirtysomethings in a heart-warming comic drama as they try to find true love - or at least keep their relationships on track. In this wry and funny look at a generation which is as confused as it is liberated by the choices it faces, will the chill in their feet put out the passion that burns in their hearts?
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Title: Hornblower
Character: Captain Hammond
Released: October 7, 1998
Type: TV
Set during the 18th century Napoleonic Wars, Horatio Hornblower, a young and shy midshipman, rises through the ranks to become an admiral.
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Touch and Go
Title: Touch and Go
Character: Clive Bevan
Released: September 15, 1998
Type: Movie
Nick and Alison, a young couple although married for several years, find their sex-life is uninspiring. After much agonising, they decide to visit a wife-swapping club in a risky attempt to reinvigorate their marriage. However, after initial positive effects on their relationship, the activity begins to threaten the basis of their marriage.
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Title: Maisie Raine
Character: C.S. Jack Freeman
Released: July 28, 1998
Type: TV
Maisie Raine was a drama series originally broadcast on BBC1 for 2 series from 28 July 1998 – 9 July 1999. Pauline Quirke took the lead role as DI Maisie Raine, an unorthodox detective whose hands on and down to earth approach was not always appreciated by her superiors. When she took on a case, she did it her way, regardless of whose toes she stepped on and who she offended. Each episode would see the team investigating a crime and often uncovering more about the perpetrators and the victims histories with DI Raine often becoming personally involved or bending the rules to get the results she wanted. Also starring alongside Quirke were Ian McElhinney, Steve John Shepherd, Rakie Ayola and Richard Graham.
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Silicone Valerie
Title: Silicone Valerie
Released: January 1, 1998
Type: Movie
Ian McElhinney stars as a priest who meets temptation in the form of a young woman. Valerie wants to enlist the priest's help as she aims to be crowned winner of the Miss Conneybeg beauty pageant. A coy and funny story with as many twists and turns as its stunning setting, the Antrim Coast Road.
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The Boxer
Title: The Boxer
Character: Reggie Bell
Released: December 31, 1997
Type: Movie
Nineteen-year-old Danny Flynn is imprisoned for his involvement with the I.R.A. in Belfast. He leaves behind his family and his sixteen-year-old girlfriend, Maggie Hamill. Fourteen years later, Danny is released from prison and returns to his old working class neighborhood to resume his life as a boxer.
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This Is the Sea
Title: This Is the Sea
Character: Da Stokes
Released: September 15, 1997
Type: Movie
The film is set in Northern Ireland shortly after 1994 cease-fire. Hazel is a Protestant and Malachy a Catholic. Romance between them is threatened by Rohan (leader in militant underground and pal of Malachy's brother Padhar), who wants Malachy to be recruited and fight for the cause and by Hazel's brother Jef, who spies on her meetings.
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Title: Wokenwell
Released: May 18, 1997
Type: TV
Wokenwell was a British drama series that aired in 1997. Produced by LWT for the ITV network, it centered on three policemen and their wives living in the fictional northern England town of Wokenwell. The series was filmed on location in and around the picturesque West Yorkshire village of Marsden.
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Hamlet
Title: Hamlet
Character: Barnardo
Released: December 25, 1996
Type: Movie
Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, returns home to find his father murdered and his mother now marrying the murderer... his uncle. Meanwhile, war is brewing.
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The Boy from Mercury
Title: The Boy from Mercury
Character: Brother Dowdall
Released: December 6, 1996
Type: Movie
Set in 1960s Dublin, a fatherless eight-year-old boy who feels alienated by his family, escapes his reality by deciding he's been sent from Mercury to study life on Earth. His fantasies mirror the life of his hero, Flash Gordon, from the serial he watches each week at the local cinema. His escapades result in dilemmas that drive his mother to such distraction that she turns to the boy's strange uncle for help.
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Michael Collins
Title: Michael Collins
Character: Belfast Detective
Released: October 25, 1996
Type: Movie
Michael Collins plays a crucial role in the establishment of the Irish Free State in the 1920s, but becomes vilified by those hoping to create a completely independent Irish republic.
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Title: Safe And Sound
Character: Higgins
Released: August 9, 1996
Type: TV
Belfast-set comedy series about best mates and colleagues, Catholic Tommy and protestant Dougy, who own and run the Safe And Sound garage
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Small Faces
Title: Small Faces
Released: April 5, 1996
Type: Movie
Three teenage brothers, gang-member Bobby, troubled mama's boy Alan and self-assured prankster Lex, reside in a downtrodden section of Glasgow, Scotland, circa 1968. But while Bobby and Alan are beginning to experience the power of raging hormones, the story focuses on Lex, who begins a downward spiral after he accidentally shoots the leader of Bobby's gang. Lex's cockiness and immaturity unfortunately prevent him from understanding the effect his subsequent crimes will have on both himself, and on those around him.
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Life After Life
Title: Life After Life
Character: Working out governor
Released: April 2, 1995
Type: Movie
Leo Doyle, a convicted IRA murderer, is released into the community after 14 years in prison on a scheme to rehabilitate former terrorists. He soon finds that the ceasefire has robbed him of both purpose and identity. Relationships with his family are difficult and reach boiling point when they find that he has rekindled his affair with a former fiancee Roisin, now married with three children.
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Title: Hearts and Minds
Character: Alex
Released: February 16, 1995
Type: TV
A young teacher begins work at a tough Liverpool comprehensive, where he has to deal with racism, homophobia and his students' poor backgrounds.
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Beyond Reason
Title: Beyond Reason
Character: Smythe QC
Released: January 1, 1995
Type: Movie
Drama based on a real-life story of a love affair between a married army captain and a young female soldier. Susan Christie and Duncan McAllister have an affair, but Duncan ends the relationship when he's posted to Germany. Three days later, Susan and Duncan's wife, Penny, go for a walk in the woods in Northern Ireland. Fifteen minutes later, Penny is dead and Susan claims they were attacked by an unknown man.
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A Breed of Heroes
Title: A Breed of Heroes
Character: Father O'Browne
Released: September 4, 1994
Type: Movie
In 1971, fresh-faced, eager for heroics, the young officers arrive in Belfast. Pelted with rocks by kids, sniped at by the IRA, they take refuge in sex, black humour and the weird rituals of the officers' mess.
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Blind Justice
Title: Blind Justice
Character: Father Malone
Released: June 25, 1994
Type: Movie
Canaan, a mysterious gunfighter left nearly blind from Civil War combat, roams through Mexico with a baby he has sworn to protect. On his way to a town where a family will supposedly adopt the baby, Canaan passes through a border town where U.S. Cavalry officers assigned to deliver a shipment of silver are under attack from bandits. With some reluctance, Canaan steps in to help the soldiers.
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Title: A Woman's Guide to Adultery
Character: Martin
Released: November 29, 1993
Type: TV
The story of three women who are involved in adulterous affairs - and Rose, who believes that anyone who sleeps with another's husband is committing a crime against womanhood. Ah, but how long will Rose be able to resist the charms of married photographer Paul...? Will Ray leave Sandy? Will Martin leave Margaret? Is ANY relationship better than NO relationship? And will Rose's erotic pictorial portfolio from Paris be the ultimate downfall of Paul? Stay tuned....
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Circle of Deceit
Title: Circle of Deceit
Character: Father Fergal
Released: October 16, 1993
Type: Movie
John is a special forces operative who retires after his family is killed in a terrorist bombing, but his former bosses have other plans. He is re-activated for duty and is given orders to infiltrate the organization responsible for his family's murder.
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You, Me & Marley
Title: You, Me & Marley
Character: Reggie Devine
Released: September 30, 1992
Type: Movie
A group of bored Roman Catholic teens from Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom steal cars and joyride around the city, causing havoc among the nearby Protestants and local Irish Republican Army members, all of who are outraged by the youths' nihilism. The gang, led by ace thief Sean (Marc O'Shea), is connected with the IRA but couldn't care less about the group's politics. But things turn serious when an IRA member captures one of the boys, Marley (Michael Liebmann), in an effort to end the mayhem.
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The Playboys
Title: The Playboys
Character: Joe Cassidy
Released: April 22, 1992
Type: Movie
A young woman, Tara Maguire (Robin Wright) scandalizes her provincial Irish village in the 1950s by having a baby out of a wedlock, and refusing to name the father. She has a rare beauty and every man in town desires her, especially Sergeant Hegarty (Albert Finney). The arrival of a dramatic troupe stirs things up even more, especially when she falls in love with one f the "Playboys", Tom Casey (Aidan Quinn).
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Children of the North
Title: Children of the North
Character: O'Hare
Released: October 30, 1991
Type: Movie
The murders of two MI6 agents in Northern Ireland add up to an explosive political situation.
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Hidden Agenda
Title: Hidden Agenda
Character: Jack Cunnigham
Released: November 21, 1990
Type: Movie
In Ireland, American lawyer Ingrid Jessner and her activist partner, Paul Sullivan, struggle to uncover atrocities committed by the British government against the Northern Irish during the "Troubles." But when Sullivan is assassinated in the streets, Jessner teams up with Peter Kerrigan, a British investigator acting against the will of his own government, and struggles to uncover a conspiracy that may even implicate one of Kerrigan's colleagues.
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Fools of Fortune
Title: Fools of Fortune
Character: Stranger
Released: June 20, 1990
Type: Movie
A Protestant Irish family is caught up in a conflict between Irish Republicans and the British army.
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Shoot to Kill
Title: Shoot to Kill
Character: ACC Trevor Forbes
Released: June 3, 1990
Type: Movie
Shoot to Kill is a four-hour drama documentary reconstruction of the events that led to the 1984–86 Stalker Inquiry into the shooting of six terrorist suspects in Northern Ireland in 1982 by a specialist unit of the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC), allegedly without warning (the so-called shoot-to-kill policy); the organised fabrication of false accounts of the events; and the difficulties created for the inquiry team in their investigation.
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Who Bombed Birmingham?
Title: Who Bombed Birmingham?
Character: Sinn Fein leader
Released: April 22, 1990
Type: Movie
Docudrama film exploring the efforts of World in Action researchers Ian MacBride and Chris Mullin in proving that the "Birmingham Six" only admitted to the bombing under extreme duress, and that the five IRA members were in fact responsible for the deadly attacks
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The Grasscutter
Title: The Grasscutter
Character: Brian Deeds
Released: January 1, 1990
Type: Movie
An Ulster Volunteer Force vigilante, turned police informer, is sent by the British government to New Zealand to start a new life, leaving behind his eldest son. Although his wife and two young boys are also in New Zealand, they are no longer together, and he has a new love interest. After some eight years his past catches up with him when former comrades show up, intent on extracting revenge. After two nearly successful attempts by them (in Dunedin), the action moves to a final confrontation and shootout in the hills above Queenstown.
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The Lilac Bus
Title: The Lilac Bus
Character: Billy
Released: January 1, 1990
Type: Movie
The lives of seven friends who share a bus from their village to Dublin every day get complicated as the reasons for their discontent are revealed.
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Reefer and the Model
Title: Reefer and the Model
Character: Reefer
Released: August 5, 1988
Type: Movie
Comerford’s signature sharp realism infuses this drama about Reefer, an ex-IRA man who picks up hitch-hiker Teresa, a pregnant woman trying to overcome a drug addiction. They head to the trawler where he lives with friends Spider and Badger, that operates between Galway and the Aran Islands. The makeshift family are forced to turn to crime to make a living.
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A Prayer for the Dying
Title: A Prayer for the Dying
Character: Lodger
Released: September 11, 1987
Type: Movie
Jack Higgins' straightforward thriller about a guilt-ridden IRA bomber forced into "one last job"
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The Rockingham Shoot
Title: The Rockingham Shoot
Character: John Reilly
Released: September 10, 1987
Type: Movie
Rigid nationalist Reilly’s frustration at the last remains of British rule draws him to the Rockingham Shoot, where a violent incident occurs.
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Naming the Names
Title: Naming the Names
Character: Mr McBride
Released: February 8, 1987
Type: Movie
Finn's story seems to begin when Henry Kirk comes into the bookshop where she works. But it goes back a lot further than that...
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Lamb
Title: Lamb
Character: Maguire
Released: October 10, 1986
Type: Movie
Michael Lamb is a Father questioning his calling, in a Reform School in Ireland. When young epileptic runaway Eoin is sent to the school, the two recognise kindred spirits and escape to London together. With the police on their tail and the money running out however, Lamb is forced to make some terrible decisions.
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Title: Casualty
Character: Robert Finch
Released: September 6, 1986
Type: TV
Drama series about the staff and patients at Holby City Hospital's emergency department, charting the ups and downs in their personal and professional lives.
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Shergar
Title: Shergar
Character: Damien
Released: March 23, 1986
Type: Movie
Malachy: "Who do you kidnap? You can't touch children, women, no sons of Irish mothers. What's left?" When Frankie is released from Portlaoise Prison, his old comrades are expecting some action. He hits on a plan for raising £2 million, but his plan goes wrong.
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The End of the World Man
Title: The End of the World Man
Character: Architect
Released: February 1, 1986
Type: Movie
When some Belfast children find out that city planners intend to "develop" a wooded area called the Glen that the girls use as a retreat from the pressures of city life, they decide to fight back - but in their own way.
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Title: Lovejoy
Character: Ceiran Stow
Released: January 10, 1986
Type: TV
The adventures of the eponymous Lovejoy, a likeable but roguish antiques dealer based in East Anglia. Within the trade, he has a reputation as a “divvie”, a person with an almost supernatural powers for recognising exceptional items as well as distinguishing genuine antique from clever fakes or forgeries.
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Anne Devlin
Title: Anne Devlin
Character: Maj. Sirr
Released: October 1, 1984
Type: Movie
The story of Anne Devlin, who was caught up in the revolt of the Irish under Robert Emmett in 1803, told exclusively from the woman's point of view.
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A Woman Calling
Title: A Woman Calling
Character: Mr Burke
Released: January 1, 1984
Type: Movie
Professor Broderick, a famous professor of Psychology, returns to his house by Belfast Lough to discover a woman waiting for him.
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Acceptable Levels
Title: Acceptable Levels
Character: Andy
Released: January 1, 1983
Type: Movie
A BBC film crew is interviewing a ‘typical Catholic family’ in the Divis Flats area of Belfast, when news comes in that a child, known to the family, has been hit by a stray plastic bullet fired by a British soldier – a version of events contested by the army. Back in London, editing the footage, the producer and researcher on the project wrestle with how to present the incident, and with their responsibility to the people in the film.
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Angel
Title: Angel
Character: Groom
Released: September 18, 1982
Type: Movie
Saxophonist Danny witnesses the murder of his band manager and a deaf-mute girl after a gig. Questioned by the police, he remembers only the orthopedic shoes of the killers’ leader. So begins his quest to avenge her.