ACTING
1952
Liam Neeson
Biography
William John Neeson (born 7 June 1952) is an Irish actor. He was born in Ballymena, County Antrim, Northern Ireland and educated at Saint Patrick's College, Ballymena Technical College and Queen's University Belfast. He moved to Dublin after university to further his acting career, joining the renowned Abbey Theatre. In the early 1990s, he moved again to the United States, where the wide acclaim for his performance in Schindler's List led to more high-profile work. He is widowed and lives in New York with his two sons.
He has been nominated for an Oscar, a BAFTA and three Golden Globe Awards. He has starred in a number of notable roles including 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 and the voice of Aslan in The Chronicles of Narnia film series. He has also starred in several other notable films, from major Hollywood studio releases (ie. Excalibur, The Dead Pool, Nell, Rob Roy, The Haunting, Love Actually, Kingdom of Heaven, Taken, Clash of the Titans, The A-Team, Unknown) to smaller arthouse films (ie. Deception, Breakfast on Pluto, Chloe).
Known For
Batman Begins
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
The Dark Knight Rises
Ted 2
Filmography
2026
Cold Storage
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Role: Robert Quinn
2026
The Fix
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Role: Larry
2025
The Naked Gun
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Role: Frank Drebin Jr.
2025
Ice Road: Vengeance
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Role: Mike McCann
2025
Irvine Welsh: Reality Is Not Enough
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Role: Narrator
2024
Absolution
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Role: Thug
2024
Wildcat
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Role: Father Flynn
2024
Our Blue World: A Water Odyssey
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Role: Narrator
2023
Retribution
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Role: Matt Turner
2023
In the Land of Saints and Sinners
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Role: Finbar Murphy
2023
Marlowe
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Role: Philip Marlowe
2022
Obi-Wan Kenobi: A Jedi's Return
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Role: Self - Qui-Gon Jinn
2022
Blacklight
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Role: Travis Block
2022
Memory
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Role: Alex Lewis
2022
Bonnie
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Role: Self
2022
Brian Friel: Shy Man, Showman
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Role: Self
2022
Paul Muldoon: Laoithe is Lirici
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Role: Self
2022
Ireland
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2021
The Marksman
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Role: Jim
2021
The Ice Road
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Role: Mike McCann
2020
Honest Thief
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Role: Tom Dolan
2020
Made in Italy
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Role: Robert
2020
WAMEGO: Addendum
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2020
The Hunger: The Story of the Irish Famine
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Role: Self - Narrator (voice)
2019
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker
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Role: Qui-Gon Jinn (voice)
2019
Men in Black: International
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Role: Agent High T
2019
Cold Pursuit
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Role: Nels Coxman
2019
Ordinary Love
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Role: Tom
2019
Brave Blue World: Racing to Solve Our Water Crisis
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Role: Narrator
2019
Lost Lives
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Role: Self (voice)
2019
Nice Girls Don't Stay for Breakfast
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Role: Self - Actor
2018
The Commuter
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Role: Michael MacCauley
2018
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
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Role: Impresario (segment "Meal Ticket")
2018
Widows
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Role: Harry Rawlings
2018
An Oral History of: Schindler's List
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Role: Self (archive footage)
2018
Schindler's List: 25 Years Later
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Role: Self
2018
The Last Horsemen of New York
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2017
Daddy's Home 2
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Role: Liam Neeson (voice) (uncredited)
2017
Red Nose Day Actually
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Role: Daniel
2017
Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down the White House
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Role: Mark Felt
2017
Spielberg
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Role: Self - Segment "Schindler's List"
2017
And the Winner Isn't
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Role: Self
2017
In the Name of Peace: John Hume in America
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Role: Narrator
2017
Karenina & I
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Role: Leo Tolstoy
2017
Martin Scorsese's Journey Into Silence
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Role: Self
2016
The Huntsman: Winter's War
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Role: Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
2016
A Monster Calls
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Role: The Monster (voice)
2016
Silence
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Role: Ferreira
2016
Operation Chromite
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Role: Douglas MacArthur
2016
The Last Laugh
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Role: Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
2016
Love Thy Nature
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Role: Self - Narrator (voice)
2016
How to Defuse a Bomb: The Project Children Story
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Role: Narrator (voice)
2016
A Fanatic Heart: Geldof On Yeats
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Role: Self
2015
Ted 2
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Role: Customer
2015
Run All Night
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Role: Jimmy Conlon
2015
Entourage
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Role: Liam Neeson
2015
A Christmas Star
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Role: Narrator / Radio DJ
2014
The Lego Movie
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Role: Bad Cop / Good Cop / Pa Cop (voice)
2014
Taken 3
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Role: Bryan Mills
2014
A Million Ways to Die in the West
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Role: Clinch
2014
Third Person
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Role: Michael
2014
Non-Stop
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Role: Bill Marks
2014
A Walk Among the Tombstones
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Role: Matthew Scudder
2014
The Nut Job
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Role: Raccoon (voice)
2014
Road
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Role: Narrator (voice)
2014
Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet
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Role: Mustafa (voice)
2014
Manny
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Role: Narrator
2014
Wild Japan: Snow Monkeys
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Role: Self - Narrator
2013
Khumba
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Role: Phango (voice)
2013
Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues
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Role: History Channel Host (uncredited)
2013
Girl Rising
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Role: Narrator (voice)
2013
The Fire Rises: The Creation and Impact of The Dark Knight Trilogy
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Role: Self (archive footage)
2013
Excalibur: Behind the Movie
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Role: Self
2013
Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of the War of the Worlds - The New Generation: Alive on Stage!
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Role: The Journalist
2012
The Dark Knight Rises
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Role: Ra's Al Ghul
2012
Battleship
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Role: Admiral Shane
2012
Wrath of the Titans
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Role: Zeus
2012
Taken 2
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Role: Bryan Mills
2012
The Grey
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Role: John Ottway
2012
The Secret Policeman's Ball
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Role: Self
2012
Dynamic Earth: Exploring Earth's Climate Engine
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Role: Narrator (voice)
2011
Unknown
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Role: Dr. Martin Harris
2011
A Child's Garden of Poetry
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Role: Self (voice)
2010
Clash of the Titans
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Role: Zeus
2010
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
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Role: Aslan (voice)
2010
The A-Team
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Role: Hannibal
2010
The Next Three Days
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Role: Damon
2010
Chloe
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Role: David Stewart
2010
The Wildest Dream
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Role: Narrator
2009
After.Life
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Role: Eliot Deacon
2009
Five Minutes of Heaven
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Role: Alistair Little
2008
Taken
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Role: Bryan Mills
2008
The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian
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Role: Aslan (voice)
2008
The Other Man
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Role: Peter
2008
The Making of Fallout 3: The Vault-Tec Files
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Role: Self
2007
Seraphim Falls
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Role: Carver
2007
Trumbo
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Role: Self
2007
The Birth of Christ
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Role: Self - Narrator
2006
Home
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2006
The Path to Redemption
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Role: Self
2006
Eugene O’Neill: A Documentary Film
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Role: Self
2006
Xavier
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Role: Narrator
2006
Black Holes: The Other Side of Infinity
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Role: Narrator
2006
Sergeant York: Of God and Country
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2005
Batman Begins
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Role: Ducard
2005
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
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Role: Aslan (voice)
2005
Kingdom of Heaven
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Role: Godfrey de Ibelin
2005
Breakfast on Pluto
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Role: Father Liam
2005
George Lucas: Creating an Empire
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Role: Self
2004
Kinsey
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Role: Alfred Kinsey
2004
Happy Birthday Oscar Wilde
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Role: Self
2004
The Story of Star Wars
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Role: Qui-Gon Jinn (archive footage)
2004
Sesame Street: What's the Name of That Song?
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Role: Self (archive footage)
2004
Patrick
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Role: Narrator
2003
Love Actually
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Role: Daniel
2003
Martin Luther
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Role: Self - Narrator (voice)
2003
Coral Reef Adventure
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Role: Narrator (voice)
2003
Uncovering the Real Gangs of New York
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Role: Self
2002
Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones
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Role: Qui-Gon Jinn (voice)
2002
Gangs of New York
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Role: 'Priest' Vallon
2002
K-19: The Widowmaker
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Role: Mikhail Polenin
2002
The Big Bang
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Role: Self
2002
The Maze
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Role: Narrator
2001
The Beginning: Making Episode I
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Role: Self
2001
Journey into Amazing Caves
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Role: Narrator (voice)
2001
The Mind's Big Bang
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Role: Self
2000
Gun Shy
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Role: Charles Mayough
2000
Inside The Space Station
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Role: Self - Narrator
2000
The Endurance
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Role: Narrator (voice)
2000
The Greeks: Crucible of Civilization
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Role: Narrator
1999
Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace
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Role: Qui-Gon Jinn
1999
The Haunting
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Role: Dr. David Marrow
1998
Les Misérables
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Role: Jean Valjean
1998
Everest
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Role: Narrator
1996
Michael Collins
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Role: Michael Collins
1996
Before and After
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Role: Ben Ryan
1996
A Leap of Faith
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Role: Narrator (voice)
1996
Clark Gable: Tall, Dark, and Handsome
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Role: Host
1995
Rob Roy
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Role: Robert Roy MacGregor
1995
Lumière & Company
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Role: (segment "John Boorman")
1995
Out of Ireland
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Role: William Murphy (voice)
1995
Miss Sarajevo
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Role: Self
1994
Nell
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Role: Dr. Lovell
1994
100 Years at the Movies
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Role: Self (archive footage)
1993
Schindler's List
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Role: Oskar Schindler
1993
Ethan Frome
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Role: Ethan Frome
1992
Shining Through
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Role: Franze-Otto Dietrich
1992
Husbands and Wives
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Role: Michael Gates
1992
Ruby Cairo
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Role: Fergus Lamb
1992
Leap of Faith
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Role: Sheriff Will Braverman
1991
Under Suspicion
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Role: Tony Aaron
1991
Revolver
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Role: Man
1990
Darkman
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Role: Peyton Westlake / Darkman
1990
The Big Man
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Role: Danny Scoular
1989
Next of Kin
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Role: Briar Gates
1988
The Dead Pool
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Role: Peter Swan
1988
The Good Mother
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Role: Leo Cutter
1988
High Spirits
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Role: Martin Brogan
1988
Satisfaction
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Role: Martin Falcon
1988
Sweet as You Are
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Role: Martin Perry
1987
Suspect
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Role: Carl Wayne Anderson
1987
A Prayer for the Dying
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Role: Liam Docherty
1987
Sworn to Silence
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Role: Vincent Cauley
1986
The Delta Force
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Role: Delta Force Member (uncredited)
1986
The Mission
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Role: Father John Fielding
1986
Duet for One
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Role: Totter
1986
Lamb
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Role: Michael Lamb
1985
The Innocent
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Role: John Carns
1985
Arthur the King
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Role: Grak
1984
The Bounty
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Role: Charles Churchill
1984
An Audience with Mel Brooks
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Role: Self (uncredited)
1983
Krull
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Role: Kegan
1983
Across the Water
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Role: Martin
1981
Excalibur
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Role: Gawain
1981
Nailed
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Role: Young Catholic
1980
My Dear Palestrina
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Role: Blacksmith
1979
Christiana
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Role: Greatheart
1979
The Last Window Cleaner
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Role: Self
1978
Pilgrim's Progress
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Role: Evangelist / Mr. Goodwill / Mr. Interpreter / Jesus Christ
1978
Dinner at the Sporting Club
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Role: Dermot
Narco Sub
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The Trainer
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Role: John Moore
4 Kids Walk Into a Bank
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Role: Danny
Plague of Corruption: 80 Years of Pharmaceutical Corruption Exposed
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Role: Narrator (voice)
The Splendid Thing
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Mongoose
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Role: Ryan "Fang" Flanagan
The Riker's Ghost
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The Nut Job 3
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Role: Raccoon (voice)
Cold Pursuit 2
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Role: Nels Coxman
Charlie Johnson in the Flames
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Evolution - Darwin's Dangerous Idea
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Role: Narrator