Peter Mullan
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Peter Mullan is a Scottish actor and film-maker who has been appearing in films since 1990.
in the northeast of Scotland, the son of Patricia, a nurse, and Charles Mullan, a lab technician who worked at Glasgow University. He was brought up in a working class
Roman Catholic family. Later they moved to Mosspark
, a suburb on the south side of Glasgow
.
An alcoholic
and latterly a sufferer from lung cancer
, Mullan's father became increasingly tyrannical and abusive. For a brief period, Mullan was a member of a street gang while at secondary school, and worked as a bouncer
in a number of south-side pubs. His father died on the day Mullan began studying economic history and drama at the University of Glasgow
.
, Trainspotting
, Braveheart
, and a supporting role in Ken Loach
's Riff-Raff
. He also began to work as a writer and director, producing the short films Close, Good Day for the Bad Guys, and Fridge. His first full-length film Orphans won an award at the Venice Film Festival
.
Mullan's appearance in Loach's film My Name Is Joe
, portraying a recovering alcoholic wrestling with his demons, won him the Best Actor Award
at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival
. He appeared in the lead role in Brad Anderson's 2001 psychological/supernatural thriller Session 9
. In 2002 he returned to directing and screenwriting with the controversial film The Magdalene Sisters
, based on life in an Irish Magdalene Asylum. For that movie Mullan won a Golden Lion
award from the Venice Film Festival.
In 2004, he starred in On a Clear Day and Criminal
. He also played Michel Scot in the BBC show, Shoebox Zoo
. In 2006 he had a small but critical role in Children of Men
, a thriller directed by Alfonso Cuarón
. In 2007, he played a prominent role in the Channel 4 adaptation of Boy A
, and will star as James Connolly
in the upcoming movie Connolly.
He co-starred in the Red Riding Trilogy and the second series of ITV crime drama The Fixer
.
Mullan appeared in the last two Harry Potter films, as the Death Eater
Yaxley, and in actor Paddy Considine
's directorial debut, Tyrannosaur
as the lead. His latest film as director, Neds, was released in October 2010. He will also appear in the Steven Spielberg film War Horse
released in December 2011.
, Mullan was a leading figure in the left-wing theatre movement which blossomed in Scotland during the Conservative Thatcher
government, including stints in the 7:84
and Wildcat Theatre companies. A strident critic of Tony Blair
's New Labour
government, he told The Guardian
"the TUC
and the Labour Party sold us [the working class] out big style, unashamedly so".
Mullan took part in a 2005 occupation of the Glasgow offices of the UK Immigration Service
, protesting the UKIS's "dawn raid" tactics when deporting failed asylum seekers.
In January 2009 he joined other actors in protesting the BBC's refusal to screen a Disasters Emergency Committee
appeal for Gaza. They told BBC director general Mark Thompson in an email: "Like millions of others, we are absolutely appalled at the decision to refuse to broadcast the appeal. We will never work for the BBC again unless this disgraceful decision is reversed. We will urge others from our profession and beyond to do likewise."
Mullan is also a life long follower of Celtic Football Club.
Early life
Mullan, the sixth of eight children, was born in PeterheadPeterhead
Peterhead is a town in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. It is Aberdeenshire's biggest settlement , with a population of 17,947 at the 2001 Census and estimated to have fallen to 17,330 by 2006....
in the northeast of Scotland, the son of Patricia, a nurse, and Charles Mullan, a lab technician who worked at Glasgow University. He was brought up in a working class
Working class
Working class is a term used in the social sciences and in ordinary conversation to describe those employed in lower tier jobs , often extending to those in unemployment or otherwise possessing below-average incomes...
Roman Catholic family. Later they moved to Mosspark
Mosspark
Mosspark is a district in the Scottish city of Glasgow. It is situated south of the River Clyde, in the south-west of the city.-History:Mosspark and the lands of East and Mid-Henderston were incorporated into Glasgow in 1909...
, a suburb on the south side of Glasgow
Glasgow
Glasgow is the largest city in Scotland and third most populous in the United Kingdom. The city is situated on the River Clyde in the country's west central lowlands...
.
An alcoholic
Alcoholism
Alcoholism is a broad term for problems with alcohol, and is generally used to mean compulsive and uncontrolled consumption of alcoholic beverages, usually to the detriment of the drinker's health, personal relationships, and social standing...
and latterly a sufferer from lung cancer
Lung cancer
Lung cancer is a disease characterized by uncontrolled cell growth in tissues of the lung. If left untreated, this growth can spread beyond the lung in a process called metastasis into nearby tissue and, eventually, into other parts of the body. Most cancers that start in lung, known as primary...
, Mullan's father became increasingly tyrannical and abusive. For a brief period, Mullan was a member of a street gang while at secondary school, and worked as a bouncer
Bouncer (doorman)
A bouncer is an informal term for a type of security guard employed at venues such as bars, nightclubs or concerts to provide security, check legal age, and refuse entry to a venue based on criteria such as intoxication, aggressive behavior, or attractiveness...
in a number of south-side pubs. His father died on the day Mullan began studying economic history and drama at the University of Glasgow
University of Glasgow
The University of Glasgow is the fourth-oldest university in the English-speaking world and one of Scotland's four ancient universities. Located in Glasgow, the university was founded in 1451 and is presently one of seventeen British higher education institutions ranked amongst the top 100 of the...
.
Career
At University, Mullan began acting, and continued stage acting after graduation. He had roles in several Scottish films, including Shallow GraveShallow Grave
-Track listing:# Leftfield – "Shallow Grave" – 4:38# Simon Boswell – "Shallow Grave Theme" – 3:30# Nina Simone – "My Baby Just Cares for Me" – 3:38# Simon Boswell – "Laugh Riot" – 3:02# Leftfield – "Release the Dubs" – 5:45...
, Trainspotting
Trainspotting (film)
Trainspotting is a 1996 British satirical/drama film directed by Danny Boyle based on the novel of the same name by Irvine Welsh. The movie follows a group of heroin addicts in a late 1980s economically depressed area of Edinburgh and their passage through life...
, Braveheart
Braveheart
Braveheart is a 1995 epic historical drama war film directed by and starring Mel Gibson. The film was written for the screen and then novelized by Randall Wallace...
, and a supporting role in Ken Loach
Ken Loach
Kenneth "Ken" Loach is a Palme D'Or winning English film and television director.He is known for his naturalistic, social realist directing style and for his socialist beliefs, which are evident in his film treatment of social issues such as homelessness , labour rights and child abuse at the...
's Riff-Raff
Riff-Raff
Riff-Raff is a 1991 British film directed by Ken Loach, starring Robert Carlyle and Ricky Tomlinson . It won the 1991 European Film Award Best Picture award....
. He also began to work as a writer and director, producing the short films Close, Good Day for the Bad Guys, and Fridge. His first full-length film Orphans won an award at the Venice Film Festival
Venice Film Festival
The Venice International Film Festival is the oldest international film festival in the world. Founded by Count Giuseppe Volpi in 1932 as the "Esposizione Internazionale d'Arte Cinematografica", the festival has since taken place every year in late August or early September on the island of the...
.
Mullan's appearance in Loach's film My Name Is Joe
My Name Is Joe
My Name Is Joe is a 1998 Scottish film directed by Ken Loach. The film stars Peter Mullan as Joe Kavanagh, an unemployed recovering alcoholic in Glasgow who meets and falls in love with a health visitor. David McKay plays his troubled friend Liam...
, portraying a recovering alcoholic wrestling with his demons, won him the Best Actor Award
Best Actor Award (Cannes Film Festival)
The Best Actor Award is an award presented at the Cannes Film Festival. It is chosen by the jury from the 'official section' of movies at the festival. It was first awarded in 1946.- Award Winners :-External links:* * ....
at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival
1998 Cannes Film Festival
The 51st Cannes Film Festival was held on May 13-24, 1998. The Palme d'Or went to the Greek film Mia aioniotita kai mia mera by Theo Angelopoulos.- Jury :*Martin Scorsese *Alain Corneau *Chiara Mastroianni...
. He appeared in the lead role in Brad Anderson's 2001 psychological/supernatural thriller Session 9
Session 9
Session 9 is a 2001 American psychological horror film directed by Brad Anderson. It stars David Caruso, Peter Mullan, Stephen Gevedon, Paul Guilfoyle, Josh Lucas, and Brendan Sexton III...
. In 2002 he returned to directing and screenwriting with the controversial film The Magdalene Sisters
The Magdalene Sisters
The Magdalene Sisters is a 2002 film written and directed by Peter Mullan about teenage girls who were sent to Magdalene Asylums, otherwise known as the 'Magdalene Laundries': homes for women who were labeled as "fallen" by their families or society...
, based on life in an Irish Magdalene Asylum. For that movie Mullan won a Golden Lion
Golden Lion
Il Leone d’Oro is the highest prize given to a film at the Venice Film Festival. The prize was introduced in 1949 by the organizing committee and is now regarded as one of the film industry's most distinguished prizes...
award from the Venice Film Festival.
In 2004, he starred in On a Clear Day and Criminal
Criminal (film)
Criminal is a 2004 American film based upon the Argentine film Nine Queens. Directed by Gregory Jacobs, it stars John C. Reilly, Diego Luna, Maggie Gyllenhaal, and Maeve Quinlan and is a production of Section Eight, the production company of Steven Soderbergh and George Clooney.-Plot:John C. Reilly...
. He also played Michel Scot in the BBC show, Shoebox Zoo
Shoebox Zoo
Shoebox Zoo is a children's fantasy TV series made in a collaboration between BBC Scotland and various Canadian television companies. It is mostly live-action, but with CGI used for the animal figurines. It was first broadcast in 2004 by CBBC...
. In 2006 he had a small but critical role in Children of Men
Children of Men
Children of Men is a 2006 science fiction film loosely adapted from P. D. James's 1992 novel The Children of Men, directed by Alfonso Cuarón. In 2027, two decades of human infertility have left society on the brink of collapse. Illegal immigrants seek sanctuary in England, where the last...
, a thriller directed by Alfonso Cuarón
Alfonso Cuarón
Alfonso Cuarón Orozco is a Mexican film director, screenwriter and film producer, best known for his films Children of Men, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Y tu mamá también, and A Little Princess.- Early life :...
. In 2007, he played a prominent role in the Channel 4 adaptation of Boy A
Boy A
Boy A is the title of a 2004 novel by British writer Jonathan Trigell.-Premise:The book is the story of a child criminal released into society as an adult, taking its title from the court practice of concealing the identity of child defendants....
, and will star as James Connolly
James Connolly
James Connolly was an Irish republican and socialist leader. He was born in the Cowgate area of Edinburgh, Scotland, to Irish immigrant parents and spoke with a Scottish accent throughout his life. He left school for working life at the age of 11, but became one of the leading Marxist theorists of...
in the upcoming movie Connolly.
He co-starred in the Red Riding Trilogy and the second series of ITV crime drama The Fixer
The Fixer (TV series)
The Fixer is a British drama television series, produced by Kudos for ITV. Set in modern Britain, it follows the life of an ex-British Special Forces soldier arrested by police after he killed his aunt and uncle following his discharge from the military...
.
Mullan appeared in the last two Harry Potter films, as the Death Eater
Death Eater
In the fictional world of the Harry Potter series, the Death Eaters constitute a group of wizards and witches, led by the dark wizard Lord Voldemort, the chief antagonist of the series, who seek to purify the Wizarding community by eliminating the Muggle-borns...
Yaxley, and in actor Paddy Considine
Paddy Considine
Patrick George "Paddy" Considine is an English actor, filmmaker, screenwriter, musician and frequent collaborator with Shane Meadows. Best known to audiences for his portrayals of dark, troubled, morally or mentally ambiguous characters...
's directorial debut, Tyrannosaur
Tyrannosaur (film)
Tyrannosaur is a 2011 British drama film written and directed by actor Paddy Considine .The film depicts an environment similar to what Considine witnessed growing up on a council estate in the Midlands, although the film is in no way autobiographical...
as the lead. His latest film as director, Neds, was released in October 2010. He will also appear in the Steven Spielberg film War Horse
War Horse (film)
War Horse is a 2011 British-American war drama film directed by Steven Spielberg and is intended for release in the United States on 25 December 2011 and in the United Kingdom on 13 January 2012...
released in December 2011.
Personal life
A MarxistMarxism
Marxism is an economic and sociopolitical worldview and method of socioeconomic inquiry that centers upon a materialist interpretation of history, a dialectical view of social change, and an analysis and critique of the development of capitalism. Marxism was pioneered in the early to mid 19th...
, Mullan was a leading figure in the left-wing theatre movement which blossomed in Scotland during the Conservative Thatcher
Margaret Thatcher
Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher, was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990...
government, including stints in the 7:84
7:84
7:84 was a Scottish left-wing agitprop theatre group. The name comes from a statistic, published in The Economist in 1966, that 7% of the population of the UK owned 84% of the state's wealth....
and Wildcat Theatre companies. A strident critic of Tony Blair
Tony Blair
Anthony Charles Lynton Blair is a former British Labour Party politician who served as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 2 May 1997 to 27 June 2007. He was the Member of Parliament for Sedgefield from 1983 to 2007 and Leader of the Labour Party from 1994 to 2007...
's New Labour
Labour Party (UK)
The Labour Party is a centre-left democratic socialist party in the United Kingdom. It surpassed the Liberal Party in general elections during the early 1920s, forming minority governments under Ramsay MacDonald in 1924 and 1929-1931. The party was in a wartime coalition from 1940 to 1945, after...
government, he told The Guardian
The Guardian
The Guardian, formerly known as The Manchester Guardian , is a British national daily newspaper in the Berliner format...
"the TUC
Trades Union Congress
The Trades Union Congress is a national trade union centre, a federation of trade unions in the United Kingdom, representing the majority of trade unions...
and the Labour Party sold us [the working class] out big style, unashamedly so".
Mullan took part in a 2005 occupation of the Glasgow offices of the UK Immigration Service
UK Immigration Service
The United Kingdom Immigration Service, , was the operational arm of the Home Office, Immigration and Nationality Directorate...
, protesting the UKIS's "dawn raid" tactics when deporting failed asylum seekers.
In January 2009 he joined other actors in protesting the BBC's refusal to screen a Disasters Emergency Committee
Disasters Emergency Committee
The Disasters Emergency Committee is an umbrella group comprising fourteen UK charities. These charities are all associated with disaster related issues such as providing clean water, humanitarian aid and medical care....
appeal for Gaza. They told BBC director general Mark Thompson in an email: "Like millions of others, we are absolutely appalled at the decision to refuse to broadcast the appeal. We will never work for the BBC again unless this disgraceful decision is reversed. We will urge others from our profession and beyond to do likewise."
Mullan is also a life long follower of Celtic Football Club.
Filmography
| Year | Film | Role | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990 | The Big Man The Big Man This article is about the film. For the saxophonist with that nickname, see Clarence Clemons.The Big Man is a 1990 film produced by Miramax Films. It starred Liam Neeson, Joanne Whalley and Billy Connolly and the film's score was composed by Ennio Morricone. It was featured in FlixMix's Ultimate... |
Vince | ||
| 1991 | Riff Raff | Jake | European Film Award for Best European Film 1991 | |
| 1992 | Sealladh | Sim | Short Drama | |
| 1993 | Close | Vincent | Short Thriller | |
| 1994 | Shallow Grave Shallow Grave -Track listing:# Leftfield – "Shallow Grave" – 4:38# Simon Boswell – "Shallow Grave Theme" – 3:30# Nina Simone – "My Baby Just Cares for Me" – 3:38# Simon Boswell – "Laugh Riot" – 3:02# Leftfield – "Release the Dubs" – 5:45... |
Andy | ||
| 1995 | Good Day for the Bad Guys | John | Short Horror | |
| Braveheart Braveheart Braveheart is a 1995 epic historical drama war film directed by and starring Mel Gibson. The film was written for the screen and then novelized by Randall Wallace... |
Veteran | |||
| 1996 | Trainspotting Trainspotting (film) Trainspotting is a 1996 British satirical/drama film directed by Danny Boyle based on the novel of the same name by Irvine Welsh. The movie follows a group of heroin addicts in a late 1980s economically depressed area of Edinburgh and their passage through life... |
Swanney | ||
| 1997 | Poor Angels | Gordon | Short Drama/Thriller | |
| Fairy Tale: A True Story | Sergeant Farmer | |||
| 1998 | Duck | Mick | ||
| My Name Is Joe My Name Is Joe My Name Is Joe is a 1998 Scottish film directed by Ken Loach. The film stars Peter Mullan as Joe Kavanagh, an unemployed recovering alcoholic in Glasgow who meets and falls in love with a health visitor. David McKay plays his troubled friend Liam... |
Joe Kavanagh | Award for Best Actor, Cannes festival 1998 | ||
| 1999 | Miss Julie | Jean | ||
| Mauvaise passe | Patricia's Husband | |||
| 2000 | Ordinary Decent Criminal Ordinary Decent Criminal Ordinary Decent Criminal is a 2000 crime/comedy film, directed by Thaddeus O'Sullivan, written by Gerard Stembridge. The film is loosely based on the story of Martin Cahill, a famous Irish crime boss.- Plot :... |
Stevie | ||
| The Claim The Claim The Claim is a 2000 British Western/romance film directed by Michael Winterbottom. The screenplay by Frank Cottrell Boyce is loosely based on the novel The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy. The original music score is composed by Michael Nyman.... |
Daniel Dillon | |||
| 2001 | Session 9 Session 9 Session 9 is a 2001 American psychological horror film directed by Brad Anderson. It stars David Caruso, Peter Mullan, Stephen Gevedon, Paul Guilfoyle, Josh Lucas, and Brendan Sexton III... |
Gordon Fleming | ||
| 2002 | The Magdalene Sisters The Magdalene Sisters The Magdalene Sisters is a 2002 film written and directed by Peter Mullan about teenage girls who were sent to Magdalene Asylums, otherwise known as the 'Magdalene Laundries': homes for women who were labeled as "fallen" by their families or society... |
Mr O'Connor | Golden Lion winner Golden Lion Il Leone d’Oro is the highest prize given to a film at the Venice Film Festival. The prize was introduced in 1949 by the organizing committee and is now regarded as one of the film industry's most distinguished prizes... 2002 |
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| 2003 | Young Adam Young Adam (film) Young Adam is a 2003 British drama film written and directed by David Mackenzie. The screenplay is based on the 1954 novel of the same name by Alexander Trocchi.-Plot:... |
Les Gault | ||
| Kiss of Life Kiss of Life (film) Kiss of Life is a 2003 British drama film directed by Emily Young. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2003 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Ingeborga Dapkunaite - Helen* Peter Mullan - John* David Warner - Pap* Millie Findlay - Kate... |
John | |||
| 2004 | Out of This World | Jim | ||
| Criminal Criminal (film) Criminal is a 2004 American film based upon the Argentine film Nine Queens. Directed by Gregory Jacobs, it stars John C. Reilly, Diego Luna, Maggie Gyllenhaal, and Maeve Quinlan and is a production of Section Eight, the production company of Steven Soderbergh and George Clooney.-Plot:John C. Reilly... |
William Hannigan | |||
| Blinded | Francis Black | |||
| Waves | Himself | |||
| 2005 | On a Clear Day | Frank Redmond | ||
| 2006 | Cargo Cargo (2006 film) Cargo is a 2006 thriller film. It was directed by Clive Gordon, produced by Andrea Calderwood and Juan Gordon, and written by Paul Laverty... |
Brookes | ||
| Children of Men Children of Men Children of Men is a 2006 science fiction film loosely adapted from P. D. James's 1992 novel The Children of Men, directed by Alfonso Cuarón. In 2027, two decades of human infertility have left society on the brink of collapse. Illegal immigrants seek sanctuary in England, where the last... |
Syd | |||
| True North True North (film) True North is a 2006 Scottish drama film directed by Steve Hudson and starring Martin Compston, Peter Mullan, Gary Lewis and Steven Robertson as sailors aboard a Scottish fishing boat smuggling Chinese into the United Kingdom.... |
Riley | |||
| 2007 | The Last Legion The Last Legion The Last Legion is a 2007 film directed by Doug Lefler. Produced by Dino De Laurentiis and others, it is based on a 2003 Italian novel of the same name written by Valerio Massimo Manfredi... |
Odoacer | ||
| Dog Altogether Dog Altogether Dog Altogether is the first film to be entirely written and directed by Paddy Considine. The term 'Dog Altogether' comes from an Irish expression that Paddy's father used to use when situations got really bad... |
Joseph | |||
| Boy A Boy A (film) Boy A is a 2007 British film adaptation of Jonathan Trigell's critically acclaimed novel of the same name which shares some similarities with the notorious James Patrick Bulger case... |
Terry | |||
| 2008 | Stone of Destiny | Ian's dad | ||
| 2009 | Red Riding: 1974 | Martin Laws | ||
| Red Riding: 1980 | Martin Laws | |||
| Red Riding: 1983 | Martin Laws | |||
| Connolly | James Connolly | |||
| 2010 | Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1 | Yaxley | ||
| Neds | Father | |||
| 2011 | Tyrannosaur Tyrannosaur (film) Tyrannosaur is a 2011 British drama film written and directed by actor Paddy Considine .The film depicts an environment similar to what Considine witnessed growing up on a council estate in the Midlands, although the film is in no way autobiographical... |
Joseph | ||
| War Horse War Horse (film) War Horse is a 2011 British-American war drama film directed by Steven Spielberg and is intended for release in the United States on 25 December 2011 and in the United Kingdom on 13 January 2012... |
Ted Narracott | |||
| Film Director | ||||
| Year | Title | Role | Notes | |
| 1998 | Orphans | Director | ||
| 2002 | The Magdalene Sisters The Magdalene Sisters The Magdalene Sisters is a 2002 film written and directed by Peter Mullan about teenage girls who were sent to Magdalene Asylums, otherwise known as the 'Magdalene Laundries': homes for women who were labeled as "fallen" by their families or society... |
Director | ||
| 2010 | Neds | Director | ||
| Television | ||||
| Year | Title | Role | Notes | |
| 1988 | The Steamie The Steamie The Steamie is a comedy-drama stage play, written by Rab C. Nesbitt actor Tony Roper. It followed the lives of a group of 1950s Glasgow women washing their clothes in a public washhouse . It was first performed at the Crawford Theatre, Glasgow in 1987.A television version was made by Scottish... |
Andy | ||
| 1990 | Opium Eaters | Willy | ||
| Your Cheatin' Heart | Tonto | Season 1, Episodes 3-5 | ||
| Taggart Taggart Taggart is a Scottish detective television programme, created by Glenn Chandler, who has written many of the episodes, and made by STV Productions for the ITV network... |
Peter Latimer | Season 5, Episode 2 Season 6, Episode 3 |
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| 1991 | Jute City | Mallet | ||
| 1992 | Rab C. Nesbitt Rab C. Nesbitt Rab C. Nesbitt is a Scottish sitcom which began in 1988. Produced by BBC Scotland, it stars Gregor Fisher as an alcoholic Glaswegian who believed unemployment was the life for him... |
Peter the Warlock | Season 2, Episode 6 | |
| 1994 | The Priest and the Pirate | Billy Hill | ||
| 1995 | Ruffian Hearts | Chez | ||
| 1996 | Nightlife Nightlife Nightlife is the collective term for any entertainment that is available and more popular from the late evening into the early hours of the morning... |
Billy | ||
| 1997 | The Longest Memory The Longest Memory The Longest Memory is a short fiction novel by British writer Fred D'Aguiar. The story takes place on a Virginian plantation and is told through many different people and in different forms. It begins in first person, with Whitechapel, the oldest and most respected slave on the plantation,... |
Sanders sr | Whitbread First Novel Award 1994 Whitbread Awards The Whitbread Awards are among the United Kingdom's most prestigious literary awards. They were launched in 1971, are given both for high literary merit but also for works that are enjoyable reading and whose aim is to convey the enjoyment of reading to the widest possible audience... for First Novel 1994 |
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| Bogwoman Bogwoman Bogwoman is a 1997 film that follows the story of Maureen, a woman born in the Boglands of County Donegal who moves across the border to the Bogside to marry a Derry man.-Etymology of title:... |
Barry | |||
| 2003 | This Little Life This Little Life This Little Life is a 2003 drama starring Kate Ashfield, Peter Mullan and Linda Bassett. The story centres around the life of a married couple following the premature birth of their son.... |
Consultant | ||
| 2004 | Shoebox Zoo Shoebox Zoo Shoebox Zoo is a children's fantasy TV series made in a collaboration between BBC Scotland and various Canadian television companies. It is mostly live-action, but with CGI used for the animal figurines. It was first broadcast in 2004 by CBBC... |
Michael Scot | unknown episodes | |
| 2007 | British Film Forever | Himself | Season 1, Episode 3 | |
| The Trial of Tony Blair The Trial of Tony Blair The Trial of Tony Blair is a satirical drama, based around the notion that the former British Prime Minister, Tony Blair is to face charges of war crimes by an international tribunal, following his departure from 10 Downing Street... |
Gordon Brown | |||
| 2008 | The Fixer The Fixer (TV series) The Fixer is a British drama television series, produced by Kudos for ITV. Set in modern Britain, it follows the life of an ex-British Special Forces soldier arrested by police after he killed his aunt and uncle following his discharge from the military... |
Lenny Douglas | Season 1, Episodes 1-6 | |
| 2009 | The Fixer The Fixer (TV series) The Fixer is a British drama television series, produced by Kudos for ITV. Set in modern Britain, it follows the life of an ex-British Special Forces soldier arrested by police after he killed his aunt and uncle following his discharge from the military... |
Lenny Douglas | Season 2, Episodes 1-6 | |
| Scotland on Screen | Himself | Documentary (released on 17 September 2009) | ||
| Guest Appearances | ||||
| Year | Title | Role | Notes | |
| 1995 | Harry Harry (TV series) Harry is a television drama series that was made by Union Pictures for the BBC, and shown on BBC One between 1993 and 1995. The programme concerned a journalist called Harry Salter who ran a news agency in the town of Darlington in England.- Cast :* Harry Salter - Michael Elphick* Jonathan - Tom... |
Jimmy | Season 2, Episode 6 | |
| 2003 | Richard & Judy Richard & Judy Richard & Judy was a British magazine/chat show which was presented by married couple Richard Madeley and Judy Finnigan. It originally aired on Channel 4 from 2001 to 2008 but later moved to digital channel Watch in October 2008. It featured the world's most famous stars, along with their Book Club... |
Himself | Episode dated 13 February 2003 | |
| 2005 | Sunday Morning Shootout Shootout (TV series) Shootout, also known as Sunday Morning Shootout, is a talk and interview program produced by the cable television network AMC. The episodes first aired on AMC on Sunday mornings, before being rerun and syndicated to other networks .The show debuted on October 12, 2003... |
Himself | Season 2, Episode 15 | |
| Continuará... Continuará... Continuará… is a fan convention for fans of comics, anime, role-playing games, fantasy and strategy games, among others.The event takes place in Montevideo, Uruguay, and is usually held on the second week of November... |
Himself | Episode dated 14 May 2005 | ||
| 2006 | Continuará... Continuará... Continuará… is a fan convention for fans of comics, anime, role-playing games, fantasy and strategy games, among others.The event takes place in Montevideo, Uruguay, and is usually held on the second week of November... |
Himself | Episode dated 12 March 2006 | |