Des McAleer
Des McAleer is a Belfast born actor of film, TV and stage.
My Week with Marilyn
as Senior PolicemanLondon, 1956. Genius actor and film director Laurence Olivier is about to begin the shooting of...
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Angela's Ashes
as Mr. BensonAn Irish Catholic family returns to 1930s Limerick after a child's death in America. The...
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The Children Act
as Jim the PorterIn the midst of a marital crisis, a High Court judge must decide if she should order a...
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How I Live Now
as Major McEvoyAn American girl, sent to the English countryside to stay with relatives, finds love and purpose...
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Hunger
as Mr SandsThe story of Bobby Sands, the IRA member who led the 1981 hunger strike during The Troubles in...
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Hidden Agenda
as Sgt KennedyIn Ireland, American lawyer Ingrid Jessner and her activist partner, Paul Sullivan, struggle to...
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I Want You
as Flowers SalesmanA young boy and his sister are drawn into one man's obsessive pursuit of his former lover.
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Butterfly Kiss
as Eric McDermottDeeply mentally unbalanced drifter Eunice roams grim northern Britain committing psychosexual...
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An Everlasting Piece
as Mr. BlackColin is a Catholic and George is a poetry-loving Protestant. In Belfast in the 1980s, they...
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This Is the Sea
as Inspector WilsonThe film is set in Northern Ireland shortly after 1994 cease-fire. Hazel is a Protestant and...
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Titanic Town
as FinbarBelfast 1972: The politically naive Bernie is trying to bring up a normal family in less than...
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When the Sky Falls
as uncreditedFact-based story about Irish crime-investigating reporter Sinead Hamilton, who invaded the Irish...
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Four Days in July
as EugeneTwo couples, one Catholic, one Protestant, exist on two sides of the chasm that is everyday life...
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Family
as Ray HarrisThis four-part made-for-TV drama focuses up close on a Dublin couple with four children. Charlo...
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Anne Devlin
as James HopeThe story of Anne Devlin, who was caught up in the revolt of the Irish under Robert Emmett in...
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Out of Innocence
as Père O'ReillyAfter a police investigation, a young mother, confused and scared, confesses to a crime she did...
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Shoot to Kill
as CID Supt. Jimmy RichardsShoot to Kill is a four-hour drama documentary reconstruction of the events that led to the...
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Crossfire
as Dermot SheaA police computer expert is seconded to Belfast to track down the identity of an IRA mole.
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Life After Life
as Paddy John O'NeillLeo Doyle, a convicted IRA murderer, is released into the community after 14 years in prison on...
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National Theatre Live: The Seagull
as ShamrayevOn a summer’s day in a makeshift theatre by a lake, Konstantin’s cutting-edge new play is...
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Coppers
as uncreditedTwo bored twentysomethings buy a Vauxhall Cavalier kit it out with a siren and spend their...
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North
as RichardIsolated on a farm and fighting against his family's decision, Aaron struggles to be heard as he...
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Handmade - A Tale of Stop-motion
as NarratorA documentary about an old animation technique and the film studio that tries to carry on the...
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The Writing on the Wall
as Major BondA youth workshop in Derry is mounting various projects, including a dramatized enquiry into the...
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Nuremberg: Goering's Last Stand
as Col. Burton C. AndrusThe Nuremberg trials, 1946 Goering and the Nazi high command stand trial. Within the prison a...
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Casualty
as Dave McGannDrama series about the staff and patients at Holby City Hospital's emergency department,...
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Silent Witness
as uncreditedSilent Witness is a British crime thriller series focusing on a team of forensic pathology...
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The Crown
as Philip Kinghorn BurbidgeThe gripping, decades-spanning inside story of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and the Prime...
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The Bill
as uncreditedThe daily lives of the men and women at Sun Hill Police Station as they fight crime on the...
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Heartbeat
as Matt RawlingsSet during the 1960s in the fictional North Yorkshire village of Aidensfield, this enduringly...
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Between the Lines
as uncreditedDetective Superintendent Tony Clark is an ambitious member of the Complaints Investigation...
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Hope Street
as Barry PettigrewThe arrival of DC Leila Hussain sets tongues wagging – what brings this big city girl to a...
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The Paradise Club
as DCS FlemyngThe Paradise Club is a BBC television drama starring Don Henderson and Leslie Grantham as Frank...
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Wuthering Heights
as JosephFoundling Heathcliff is raised by the wealthy Earnshaws in Yorkshire but in later life launches...
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Touching Evil
as DCI Frank DollandFollow the exploits of the Organized and Serial Crime Unit (OSC). Maverick Detective Inspector...
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My Mother and Other Strangers
as Ned HanlonDrama series set in 1943 following the Coyne family and their neighbours as they struggle to...
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Death and Nightingales
as Jim RutledgeFermanagh, Irish countryside, 1885. On her 23rd birthday, Beth, who lives on a remote farm with...
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