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