06/07/1952
Ballymena, County Antrim, Northern Ireland, UK:
Hij werd geboren in Ballymena, County Antrim, Noord-Ierland en volgde zijn opleiding aan Saint Patrick's College, Ballymena Technical College en Queen's University Belfast. Na zijn studie verhuisde hij naar Dublin om zijn acteercarrière voort te zetten en ging hij bij het gerenommeerde Abbey Theatre werken. Begin jaren negentig verhuisde hij opnieuw naar de Verenigde Staten, waar de brede lof voor zijn optreden in Schindler's List leidde tot meer spraakmakend werk. Hij is weduwnaar en woont in New York met zijn twee zonen. Een Ierse acteur die genomineerd is voor een Oscar, een BAFTA en drie Golden Globe Awards. Hij speelde in een aantal opmerkelijke rollen, waaronder Oskar Schindler in Schindler's List, Michael Collins in Michael Collins, Peyton Westlake in Darkman, Jean Valjean in Les Misérables, Qui-Gon Jinn in Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace, Alfred Kinsey in Kinsey, Ras Al Ghul in Batman Begins en de stem van Aslan in de filmreeks The Chronicles of Narnia. Hij speelde ook in diverse andere opmerkelijke films, van grote Hollywood-studiofilms (bijv. Excalibur, The Dead Pool, Nell, Rob Roy, The Haunting, Love Actually, Kingdom of Heaven, Taken, Clash of the Titans, The A-Team, Unknown) tot kleinere arthousefilms (bijv. Deception, Breakfast on Pluto, Chloe).
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Cold Storage (2026) as Robert Quinn |
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Irvine Welsh: Reality Is Not Enough (2025) as Narrator |
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The Naked Gun (2025) as Frank Drebin Jr. |
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Ice Road: Vengeance (2025) as Mike McCann |
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Absolution (2024) as Thug |
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Our Blue World: A Water Odyssey (2024) as Narrator |
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In the Land of Saints and Sinners (2023) as Finbar Murphy |
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Wildcat (2023) as Father Flynn |
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Retribution (2023) as Matt Turner |
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Marlowe (2023) as Philip Marlowe |
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Paul Muldoon: Laoithe is Lirici (2022) as Self |
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Bonnie (2022) as Self |
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Obi-Wan Kenobi: A Jedi's Return (2022) as Self - Qui-Gon Jinn |
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Memory (2022) as Alex Lewis |
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Ireland (2022) as |
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Blacklight (2022) as Travis Block |
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Brian Friel: Shy Man, Showman (2022) as Self |
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The Ice Road (2021) as Mike McCann |
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The Marksman (2021) as Jim |
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WAMEGO: Addendum (2020) as |
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Honest Thief (2020) as Tom Dolan |
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Made in Italy (2020) as Robert |
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The Hunger: The Story of the Irish Famine (2020) as Self - Narrator (voice) |
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Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (2019) as Qui-Gon Jinn (voice) |
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Ordinary Love (2019) as Tom |
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Brave Blue World: Racing to Solve Our Water Crisis (2019) as Narrator |
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Lost Lives (2019) as Self (voice) |
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Men in Black: International (2019) as Agent High T |
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Nice Girls Don't Stay for Breakfast (2019) as Self - Actor |
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Cold Pursuit (2019) as Nels Coxman |
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An Oral History of: Schindler's List (2018) as Self (archive footage) |
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The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018) as Impresario (segment "Meal Ticket") |
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Widows (2018) as Harry Rawlings |
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Schindler's List: 25 Years Later (2018) as Self |
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The Last Horsemen of New York (2018) as |
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The Commuter (2018) as Michael MacCauley |
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And the Winner Isn't (2017) as Self |
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Daddy's Home 2 (2017) as Liam Neeson (voice) (uncredited) |
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Spielberg (2017) as Self - Segment "Schindler's List" |
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Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down the White House (2017) as Mark Felt |
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In the Name of Peace: John Hume in America (2017) as Narrator |
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Martin Scorsese's Journey Into Silence (2017) as Self |
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Red Nose Day Actually (2017) as Daniel |
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Karenina & I (2017) as Leo Tolstoy |
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Silence (2016) as Ferreira |
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A Monster Calls (2016) as The Monster (voice) |
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How to Defuse a Bomb: The Project Children Story (2016) as Narrator (voice) |
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인천상륙작전 (2016) as Douglas MacArthur |
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Love Thy Nature (2016) as Self - Narrator (voice) |
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The Last Laugh (2016) as Self |
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The Huntsman: Winter's War (2016) as Narrator (voice) (uncredited) |
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A Fanatic Heart: Geldof On Yeats (2016) as Self |
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A Christmas Star (2015) as Narrator / Radio DJ |
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Ted 2 (2015) as Customer |
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Entourage (2015) as Liam Neeson |
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Run All Night (2015) as Jimmy Conlon |
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Manny (2014) as Narrator |
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Taken 3 (2014) as Bryan Mills |
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A Walk Among the Tombstones (2014) as Matthew Scudder |
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Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet (2014) as Mustafa (voice) |
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Third Person (2014) as Michael |
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Road (2014) as Narrator (voice) |
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A Million Ways to Die in the West (2014) as Clinch |
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Wild Japan: Snow Monkeys (2014) as Self - Narrator |
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Non-Stop (2014) as Bill Marks |
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The Lego Movie (2014) as Bad Cop / Good Cop / Pa Cop (voice) |
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The Nut Job (2014) as Raccoon (voice) |
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Excalibur: Behind the Movie (2013) as Self |
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Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues (2013) as History Channel Host (uncredited) |
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The Fire Rises: The Creation and Impact of The Dark Knight Trilogy (2013) as Self (archive footage) |
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Khumba (2013) as Phango (voice) |
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Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of the War of the Worlds - The New Generation: Alive on Stage! (2013) as The Journalist |
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Girl Rising (2013) as Narrator (voice) |
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Taken 2 (2012) as Bryan Mills |
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The Dark Knight Rises (2012) as Ra's Al Ghul |
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Dynamic Earth: Exploring Earth's Climate Engine (2012) as Narrator (voice) |
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Battleship (2012) as Admiral Shane |
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Wrath of the Titans (2012) as Zeus |
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The Secret Policeman's Ball (2012) as Self |
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The Grey (2012) as John Ottway |
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A Child's Garden of Poetry (2011) as Self (voice) |
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Unknown (2011) as Dr. Martin Harris |
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The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (2010) as Aslan (voice) |
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The Next Three Days (2010) as Damon |
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The Wildest Dream (2010) as Narrator |
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The A-Team (2010) as Hannibal |
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Clash of the Titans (2010) as Zeus |
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Chloe (2010) as David Stewart |
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After.Life (2009) as Eliot Deacon |
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Five Minutes of Heaven (2009) as Alistair Little |
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The Other Man (2008) as Peter |
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The Making of Fallout 3: The Vault-Tec Files (2008) as Self |
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The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian (2008) as Aslan (voice) |
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Taken (2008) as Bryan Mills |
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The Birth of Christ (2007) as Self - Narrator |
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Trumbo (2007) as Self |
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Seraphim Falls (2007) as Carver |
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Sergeant York: Of God and Country (2006) as |
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Home (2006) as |
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Xavier (2006) as Narrator |
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The Path to Redemption (2006) as Self |
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Eugene O’Neill: A Documentary Film (2006) as Self |
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Black Holes: The Other Side of Infinity (2006) as Narrator |
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The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (2005) as Aslan (voice) |
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Breakfast on Pluto (2005) as Father Liam |
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Batman Begins (2005) as Ducard |
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Kingdom of Heaven (2005) as Godfrey de Ibelin |
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George Lucas: Creating an Empire (2005) as Self |
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Happy Birthday Oscar Wilde (2004) as Self |
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Kinsey (2004) as Alfred Kinsey |
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The Story of Star Wars (2004) as Qui-Gon Jinn (archive footage) |
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Patrick (2004) as Narrator |
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Sesame Street: What's the Name of That Song? (2004) as Self (archive footage) |
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Love Actually (2003) as Daniel |
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Martin Luther (2003) as Self - Narrator (voice) |
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Uncovering the Real Gangs of New York (2003) as Self |
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Coral Reef Adventure (2003) as Narrator (voice) |
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Gangs of New York (2002) as 'Priest' Vallon |
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K-19: The Widowmaker (2002) as Mikhail Polenin |
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The Big Bang (2002) as Self |
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Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones (2002) as Qui-Gon Jinn (voice) |
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The Maze (2002) as Narrator |
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The Beginning: Making Episode I (2001) as Self |
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The Mind's Big Bang (2001) as Self |
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Journey into Amazing Caves (2001) as Narrator (voice) |
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Inside The Space Station (2000) as Self - Narrator |
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The Endurance - Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition (2000) as Narrator (voice) |
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The Greeks: Crucible of Civilization (2000) as Narrator |
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Gun Shy (2000) as Charles Mayough |
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The Haunting (1999) as Dr. David Marrow |
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Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999) as Qui-Gon Jinn |
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Les Misérables (1998) as Jean Valjean |
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Everest (1998) as Narrator |
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A Leap of Faith (1996) as Narrator (voice) |
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Michael Collins (1996) as Michael Collins |
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Before and After (1996) as Ben Ryan |
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Clark Gable: Tall, Dark, and Handsome (1996) as Host |
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Lumière et Compagnie (1995) as (segment "John Boorman") |
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Out of Ireland (1995) as William Murphy (voice) |
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Rob Roy (1995) as Robert Roy MacGregor |
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Miss Sarajevo (1995) as Self |
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Nell (1994) as Dr. Lovell |
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Schindler's List (1993) as Oskar Schindler |
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Ethan Frome (1993) as Ethan Frome |
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Leap of Faith (1992) as Sheriff Will Braverman |
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Ruby Cairo (1992) as Fergus Lamb |
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Husbands and Wives (1992) as Michael Gates |
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Shining Through (1992) as Franze-Otto Dietrich |
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Revolver (1991) as Man |
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Under Suspicion (1991) as Tony Aaron |
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The Big Man (1990) as Danny Scoular |
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Darkman (1990) as Peyton Westlake / Darkman |
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Next of Kin (1989) as Briar Gates |
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High Spirits (1988) as Martin Brogan |
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The Good Mother (1988) as Leo Cutter |
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The Dead Pool (1988) as Peter Swan |
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Satisfaction (1988) as Martin Falcon |
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Sweet as You Are (1988) as Martin Perry |
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Suspect (1987) as Carl Wayne Anderson |
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A Prayer for the Dying (1987) as Liam Docherty |
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Sworn to Silence (1987) as Vincent Cauley |
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Duet for One (1986) as Totter |
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Lamb (1986) as Michael Lamb |
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The Mission (1986) as Father John Fielding |
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The Delta Force (1986) as Delta Force Member (uncredited) |
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Arthur the King (1985) as Grak |
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The Innocent (1985) as John Carns |
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The Bounty (1984) as Charles Churchill |
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An Audience with Mel Brooks (1984) as Self (uncredited) |
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Krull (1983) as Kegan |
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Across the Water (1983) as Martin |
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Nailed (1981) as Young Catholic |
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Excalibur (1981) as Gawain |
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My Dear Palestrina (1980) as Blacksmith |
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Christiana (1979) as Greatheart |
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The Last Window Cleaner (1979) as Self |
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Dinner at the Sporting Club (1978) as Dermot |
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Pilgrim's Progress (1978) as Evangelist / Mr. Goodwill / Mr. Interpreter / Jesus Christ |
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The Trainer () as John Moore |
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Plague of Corruption: 80 Years of Pharmaceutical Corruption Exposed () as Narrator (voice) |
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Charlie Johnson in the Flames () as |
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Hotel Tehran () as Larry |
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Mongoose () as Ryan "Fang" Flanagan |
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Narco Sub () as |
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The Riker's Ghost () as |
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Evolution - Darwin's Dangerous Idea () as Narrator |
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Cold Pursuit 2 () as Nels Coxman |
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4 Kids Walk Into a Bank () as Danny |
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The Nut Job 3 () as Raccoon (voice) |
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The White Crow (2018) Executive Producer |
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The Lost Children of Tuam () Producer |