B.J. Hogg

B.J. Hogg

Born: April 30, 1955
Died: April 30, 2020
in Lisburn County, Antrim, Northern Ireland, UK
B.J. Hogg (1955-2020) was a County Antrim born actor of several years standing. Among his many credits, he played the title role in the Oscar-nominated short film Dance Lexie Dance and appeared as Addam Marbrand in Game of Thrones.

Movies for B.J. Hogg...

The Windermere Children
Title: The Windermere Children
Character: Dr Willenshaw
Released: January 27, 2020
Type: Movie
The story of the pioneering project to rehabilitate child survivors of the Holocaust on the shores of Lake Windermere.
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Property of the State
Title: Property of the State
Character: Michael Pat
Released: July 6, 2016
Type: Movie
A woman must deal with the devastating effects of having a murderer for a brother.
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Title: The Secret
Character: Jim Buchanan
Released: April 29, 2016
Type: TV
The true story of a Sunday school teacher and respectable dentist and pillar of the community, who formed a murderous partnership.
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Title: The Fall
Character: Ian Kay
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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Title: Blandings
Character: Constable Evans
Released: January 13, 2013
Type: TV
Blandings is a British comedy television series adapted by Guy Andrews from the Blandings Castle stories of P.G. Wodehouse. It was first broadcast on BBC One from 13 January 2013, and stars Timothy Spall, Jennifer Saunders and Mark Williams. The series was produced with the partial financial assistance of the European Regional Development Fund.
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Title: Game of Thrones
Character: Addam Marbrand
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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Your Highness
Title: Your Highness
Character: Royal Advisor
Released: April 8, 2011
Type: Movie
A fantasy movie about an arrogant, lazy prince and his more heroic brother who must complete a quest in order to save their father's kingdom.
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City of Ember
Title: City of Ember
Character: Mayor's Guard
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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Hunger
Title: Hunger
Character: Loyalist Orderly
Released: May 15, 2008
Type: Movie
The story of Bobby Sands, the IRA member who led the 1981 hunger strike during The Troubles in which Irish Republican prisoners tried to win political status.
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Closing the Ring
Title: Closing the Ring
Character: Maguigan
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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Small Engine Repair
Title: Small Engine Repair
Released: September 7, 2006
Type: Movie
Doug, an aspiring country singer, has spent his life as a loser in a non-descript small town with nobody believing in his heartbreaking voice and talent as a musician. His wife has left him and only his best friend believes in him. But he has one last chance to make it.
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Mickybo and Me
Title: Mickybo and Me
Character: Sydney
Released: March 25, 2005
Type: Movie
The film tells the story of two boys who become friends at the start of the Troubles in 1970. The boys share an obsession with Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, with the consequence that they run away to Australia.
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Puckoon
Title: Puckoon
Character: Rafferty
Released: January 1, 2002
Type: Movie
Spike Milligan's book about the divided Irish village of Puckoon comes to the big screen.
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Sunset Heights
Title: Sunset Heights
Character: Minister
Released: June 4, 1999
Type: Movie
Irish thriller starring Toby Stephens. Belfast of the near future finds the city ruled by two rival law-enforcing punishment squads. When Luke Bradley (Stephens)'s son is found murdered, suspicion falls upon the local preacher (Jim Norton). Taken to Sunset Heights, a druid's circle on a hill overlooking the city, the accused is summarily executed by the boy's father. However, when another child goes missing, it appears that they have killed the wrong man - or that the preacher has come back from the dead to wreak his revenge...
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Titanic Town
Title: Titanic Town
Character: Chair
Released: August 8, 1998
Type: Movie
Belfast 1972: The politically naive Bernie is trying to bring up a normal family in less than normal surroundings. Her best friend is accidentally shot dead by the IRA, and her neighbours are constantly raided by the army. In this climate of fear she stands up and condemns the murders. Criticising both factions, her call for a ceasefire is interpreted as an attack against the IRA, and as her peace movement takes momentum, she and her family are placed in the frontline.
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Resurrection Man
Title: Resurrection Man
Character: Hacksaw McGrath
Released: February 13, 1998
Type: Movie
Belfast, in 1970s. Victor Kelly is a young protestant man who hates the Catholics so much that one night he begins to brutally murder them. A reporter soon tries to uncover the murder and obtained prestige for himself, while Victor sinks deeper into madness.
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The Second Jungle Book: Mowgli & Baloo
Title: The Second Jungle Book: Mowgli & Baloo
Character: Col. Reece
Released: May 16, 1997
Type: Movie
In this exciting live-action adventure, young Mowgli, an orphan raised by wolves, is spotted by a scout for a giant circus. Accompanied by a cruel hunter and a snake charmer, the scout sets out to trap Mowgli. But with the help of Baloo the bear and Bagheera the panther, little Mowgli leads the adults into his biggest and wildest adventure yet! A fun-filled movie every member of the family will enjoy.
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The Informant
Title: The Informant
Character: Constable Goss
Released: March 15, 1997
Type: Movie
A former Irish Republican Army fighter, Gingy McAnally (Anthony Brophy), is reluctant about being called back into service after serving time in prison. He executes the grisly task but ends up captured by a sympathetic British police lieutenant named Ferris (Cary Elwes). The intimidating Chief Inspector of the Belfast Police (Timothy Dalton) convinces Gingy that his best hope is to become an informant and turn in other IRA operatives. As Gingy's marriage unravels under the stress, he is forced to come to terms with the fact that in this war both sides lose. Three men, three political circles, each fighting for their lives, each with their own agenda in the battle for Northern Ireland.
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A Further Gesture
Title: A Further Gesture
Character: Albert
Released: January 1, 1997
Type: Movie
Dowd, an IRA prisoner in the H-blocks, is gloomily facing his sentence, until he joins a comrade in a risky escape. Dowd begins a new life in New York, but he might as well be in prison again - until he strikes up a friendship with co-worker Tulio and gets to know his close group of Guatemalan exiles.
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The Brylcreem Boys
Title: The Brylcreem Boys
Character: Sean
Released: November 14, 1996
Type: Movie
In 1941, as part of an effort to remain strictly neutral, the Dublin government made a deal with both Berlin and London whereby any soldier, sailor or pilot captured on Irish soil, whether of German or Allied forces, would be interned for the duration of the war. What the Irish failed to tell was that they would intern everybody in the same camp. It is here that Canadian pilot Miles Keogh and German pilot Rudolph Von Stegenbeck meet after a fight in which both their planes were downed.
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Dance Lexie Dance
Title: Dance Lexie Dance
Character: Lexie
Released: October 1, 1996
Type: Movie
Lexie is a single parent father of a young girl. One day, coming home from work, he is told by her that she wants to be am Irish River Dancer. He refuses, replying laconically, 'We don't dance'. With time, her fascination grows and he begrudgingly becomes accepting of her passion, helping her out with an instructional video and then a costume. She enters a contest, and he enthusiastically applauds her performance. In the final scene, she teaches him a few steps as they move together along the shore.
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Life After Life
Title: Life After Life
Character: Liam
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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The Hanging Gale
Title: The Hanging Gale
Character: Harkin
Released: January 1, 1995
Type: Movie
In this historical miniseries created for BBC Northern Ireland, four brothers struggle to survive during the Irish potato famine of the 1840s while facing persecution from an agent (Michael Kitchen) of their indifferent English landlord. Looking on in horror as their primary food source dwindles, the Phelan brothers (portrayed by real-life siblings Joe, Mark, Paul and Stephen McGann) are torn between nonviolent protest and bloody revolt.
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Title: Crocodile Shoes
Released: November 10, 1994
Type: TV
Crocodile Shoes is a British 7-part television series made by the BBC and screened on BBC One in 1994. The series was written by and starred Jimmy Nail as a factory worker who becomes a country and western singer. A sequel, Crocodile Shoes II followed in 1996 and the theme tune "Country Boy" was a hit for Nail too.
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Henri
Title: Henri
Character: Uncle Jerry
Released: April 20, 1994
Type: Movie
A ten year old Protestant girl travels to Belfast to take part in a music festival, and is billetted with a Catholic family.
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You, Me & Marley
Title: You, Me & Marley
Character: PC Bill
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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Title: So You Think You've Got Troubles
Character: Billy Murray
Released: October 17, 1991
Type: TV
Six-part comedy series about a Londoner, and non-practising Jew, is sent by his boss to Northern Ireland to run a tobacco company.
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Arise and Go Now
Title: Arise and Go Now
Character: Police Sergeant
Released: September 4, 1991
Type: Movie
Exploding poets, randy bishops and bungling IRA hoodlums are causing havoc in a small town in Northern Ireland. Kevin, an IRA recruit, and Father Dade, the local priest, try to drive some sanity into their world
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Force of Duty
Title: Force of Duty
Character: Detective Cross
Released: July 8, 1991
Type: Movie
RUC detective Simon Gabby is consumed by guilt after he fails to act decisively in a moment of terror. As the pressure on him builds, Gabby gradually loses control of his life
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Shoot to Kill
Title: Shoot to Kill
Character: E4A Officer
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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Elephant
Title: Elephant
Released: January 25, 1989
Type: Movie
A depiction of a series of violent killings in Northern Ireland.
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The Venus de Milo Instead
Title: The Venus de Milo Instead
Character: Painter
Released: September 9, 1987
Type: Movie
A group of children and their teachers from a Protestant school in Northern Ireland go on a trip to Paris.
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Title: Foreign Bodies
Character: Sammy
Released: March 5, 1987
Type: TV
Roisin and Septa are two young nurses from Dublin who go to work at a hospital in Belfast. Roisin meets and falls in love with Tom, a young Protestant car mechanic. This causes a series of problems for the young couple, their families and friends.
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Four Days in July
Title: Four Days in July
Character: Big Billy
Released: November 29, 1984
Type: Movie
Two couples, one Catholic, one Protestant, exist on two sides of the chasm that is everyday life in Northern Ireland.
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The Cry
Title: The Cry
Character: Shop Customer
Released: July 31, 1984
Type: Movie
Ulster 1959. A young journalist visiting his quiet hometown is awakened by a scream in the night. He catches sight of a youth being beaten up and dragged away. When he investigates, witnesses seem to melt away, and life-long friends reveal a sinister indifference. Or is it fear?