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Brendan Gleeson
Brendan Gleeson (born 29 March 1955) is an Irish character actor. His best-known films include the Harry Potter films, In Bruges, Braveheart, Lake Placid, Kingdom of Heaven, Beowulf, Troy, Gangs of New York, 28 Days Later, The General, and the role of Michael Collins in The Treaty.
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28 Days Later
28 Days Later is a 2002 British post-apocalyptic horror/science fiction film directed by Danny Boyle. With a screenplay written by Alex Garland, the film stars Cillian Murphy, Naomie Harris, Brendan Gleeson, Noah Huntley, and Christopher Eccleston....
Braveheart
Braveheart is an 1995 Academy-award winning action-drama film produced and directed by Mel Gibson, who also starred in the title role. The film was written for screen and then novelized by Randall Wallace. Gibson portrays the legendary Scot, William...
Dark Blue
Dark Blue is a 2003 film directed by Ron Shelton and starring Kurt Russell. The film is based on a story written for film by crime novelist James Ellroy and takes place during the days leading to and including the Rodney King trial verdict.
Set in...
Gangs of New York
Gangs of New York is a 2002 American historical film set in the mid-19th century in the Five Points district of New York City. It was directed by Martin Scorsese and written by Jay Cocks, Steven Zaillian, and Kenneth Lonergan. The film was inspired...
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire is a 2005 fantasy adventure film, based on J. K. Rowling's novel of the same name. The film is the fourth installment in the Harry Potter film series, although 1492 Pictures decided to leave the series. The film...
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In My Country
In My Country is a 2004 film directed by John Boorman, starring Samuel L. Jackson and Juliette Binoche. The screenplay, written by Ann Peacock, was based on Antjie Krog's memoir Country of My Skull.
A special screening of the film was held for...
Kingdom of Heaven
Kingdom of Heaven is a 2005 epic film, directed by Ridley Scott and written by William Monahan. It stars Orlando Bloom, Eva Green, Jeremy Irons, David Thewlis, Marton Csokas, Brendan Gleeson, Kevin McKidd, Alexander Siddig, Ghassan Massoud, Edward...
A.I. Artificial Intelligence
A.I. Artificial Intelligence, also known as Artificial Intelligence: A.I. or simply A.I., is a 2001 science fiction film directed, produced and co-written by Steven Spielberg. Based on Brian Aldiss's short story Super-Toys Last All Summer Long, the...
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The Tailor of Panama
The Tailor of Panama is a 2001 American film based on the 1996 spy novel of the same name by John le Carré, which was inspired by Graham Greene's Our Man in Havana. It was produced and directed by John Boorman from a screenplay by Boorman, Andrew...
Six Shooter
Six Shooter is an Irish 2005 live action short film starring Brendan Gleeson and Rúaidhrí Conroy.
Donnelly's (Gleeson) wife has just died in an accident and he goes home on a train afterwards. There he finds a seat by a kid and the two strike a...
I Went Down
I Went Down is a Irish comedy crime film by director Paddy Breathnach released 3 October 1997.
After serving an eighteen month sentence for breaking and entering, Git Hynes, (Peter McDonald) walks into trouble on the day of his release from jail.
He...
Black Irish
Black Irish is a 2007 film written and directed by Brad Gann.
Sixteen-year-old Cole McKay’s struggle for independence is put to the test as his South Boston Irish-Catholic family implodes around him. Older brother Terry is descending into a life of...
Beowulf
Beowulf is a 2007 American performance capture fantasy film that is based on the Anglo-Saxon English epic poem of the same name. Directed by Robert Zemeckis, the film was created through a motion capture process similar to the technique used in The...
Breakfast on Pluto
Breakfast on Pluto is a 2005 Irish comedy-drama film directed by Neil Jordan and based on the novel of the same name by Patrick McCabe, as adapted by Jordan and McCabe. This dark comedy stars Cillian Murphy as a transgender orphan searching for love...
Cold Mountain
Cold Mountain is a 2003 film written and directed by Anthony Minghella. The film is based on the novel by Charles Frazier.
At the film's inception Jude Law plays a young man named W. P. Inman at a provincial North Carolina town. He meets Ada (Kidman...
Lake Placid
Lake Placid is a 1999 American/Canadian monster movie with elements of comedy, horror, romance and the buddy genre. It was written and produced by David E. Kelley, directed by Steve Miner, and stars Bill Pullman, Bridget Fonda, Brendan Gleeson,...
The Tiger's Tail
The Tiger's Tail is a 2006 Irish film directed by John Boorman. It stars Brendan Gleeson and Kim Cattrall. The story focuses on the modern Celtic Tiger Irish economy of the late 20th century.
The Butcher Boy
The Butcher Boy is a 1992 novel by Patrick McCabe. It was shortlisted for the 1992 Booker Prize and won the 1992 Irish Times Irish Literature Prize for Fiction.
The Butcher Boy is set in a small town in Ireland in the late 1950s. It tells the story...
The Butcher Boy
The Butcher Boy is an 1997 Irish tragicomic drama adapted to film by Neil Jordan and Patrick McCabe from McCabe's 1992 novel of the same name.
Set in the early 1960s, The Butcher Boy is about Francis Brady (Eamonn Owens), a 12-year-old boy, who...
The Village
The Village is a 2004 film written and directed by M. Night Shyamalan that explores the dynamics of an insular turn-of-the-20th-century village and the collective fears of its members. The movie was shot in a recreation of a 19th-century village...
Michael Collins
Michael Collins is a 1996 historical biopic about General Michael Collins, the Irish patriot and revolutionary who died in the Irish Civil War. It won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival.
The film opens in 1922, as a devastated Kitty Kiernan...
Troy
Troy is a 2004 epic/action film concerning the Trojan War. It is loosely based on Homer's Iliad, besides material from Virgil's Aeneid and other sources of the Epic Cycle, but it frequently diverges from myth, which the primary distinction that most...
The General
The General is a true film about Dublin criminal Martin Cahill, who pulled off several daring heists in the early 1980s, and attracted attention from the Garda, IRA, and UVF. The film was directed by John Boorman, filmed in 1997 and released in 1998...
Mission: Impossible II
Mission: Impossible II (also known as M:I-2) is a 2000 action film directed by John Woo, and starring Tom Cruise, who also served as the film's producer. It is a sequel to Brian De Palma's 1996 film Mission: Impossible with Cruise reprising his role...
Into the West
Into the West is a 1992 directed by Mike Newell and written by Jim Sheridan. Actors in the film include Gabriel Byrne, Ellen Barkin, Ruaidhri Conroy, Ciaran Fitzgerald, David Kelly, Colm Meaney, Johnny Murphy, John Kavanagh and Brendan Gleeson.
Into...
The Treaty
The Treaty is a 1991 Irish historical television film directed by Jonathan Lewis.
The film is about the Anglo-Irish Treaty that Michael Collins bargained for with the British government in 1921.
Brendan Gleeson performed the role of Michael Collins,...
Green Zone
Green Zone is an upcoming action thriller war film written by Brian Helgeland and directed by Paul Greengrass. The film is based on the 2006 book Imperial Life in the Emerald City by journalist Rajiv Chandrasekaran which is based in Green Zone,...
Harrison's Flowers
Harrison's Flowers is a 2000 French film by Elie Chouraqui. It stars, among others, Andie MacDowell, Elias Koteas, Brendan Gleeson, Adrien Brody, Marie Trintignant, Gerard Butler and David Strathairn.
Universal Pictures released this film in the...
Churchill at War
Churchill at War is a biographical film about Winston Churchill as he leads Britain into World War II. The movie, set for release in 2008, is directed by Thaddeus O'Sullivan and stars Brendan Gleeson, who plays the former British Prime Minister.
Into the Storm
Into the Storm or Churchill at War (alt. title) is a 2009 biographical film about Winston Churchill and his days in office during World War II. The movie is directed by Thaddeus O'Sullivan and stars Brendan Gleeson, who plays the British Prime...
Brendan and the Secret of Kells
The Secret of Kells (working title: Brendan and the Secret of Kells) is an Irish-Belgian-French animated feature film by Cartoon Saloon (who also created the television series Skunk Fu!) that premiered on February 8, 2009, at the Berlin...
Perrier's Bounty
Perrier's Bounty is an upcoming crime thriller comedy set in modern-day Dublin. Sophomore director Ian Fitzgibbon directs the movie, which stars Brendan Gleeson, who plays the villainous title character, as well as Cillian Murphy and Jim Broadbent...
