Ian McElhinney
Ian McElhinney (born 19 August 1948) is a Northern Irish actor and director. He has appeared in many television series in a career spanning more than forty years; notable appearances include Taggart, Hornblower, Cold Feet, and The Tudors. In recent times his best known roles are as Barristan Selmy in Game of Thrones, Morgan Monroe in The Fall, and Granda Joe in Derry Girls.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.7206 |
| Birthday | 1948-08-19 |
| Place of Birth | Belfast, Northern Ireland |
| Also Known As | Ίαν ΜακΕλχίνεϊ, 이안 매켈리니, |
2005
Omagh
6.6/21
The movie starts at the 1998 bomb attack by the Real IRA at Omagh, Northern Ireland. The attack killed 31 people. Michael Gallagher one of the relativ...
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Omagh
2010
Leap Year
6.894/2059
When yet another anniversary passes without a marriage proposal from her boyfriend, Anna decides to take action. Aware of a Celtic tradition that allo...
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Leap Year
2008
City of Ember
6.336/1758
For generations, the people of the City of Ember have flourished in an amazing world of glittering lights. But Ember's once powerful generator is fail...
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City of Ember
1998
Hornblower: The Examination for Lieutenant
7.3/34
Acting Lieutenant Hornblower attempts to study for his promotion examination, but becomes distracted by the serious supply problems that face his crew...
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Hornblower: The Examination for Lieutenant
1994
Blind Justice
5.1/24
Canaan, a mysterious gunfighter left nearly blind from Civil War combat, roams through Mexico with a baby he has sworn to protect. On his way to a tow...
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Blind Justice
2003
Hornblower: Loyalty
7/30
Hornblower must deliver a French nobleman to a secret rendezvous near Brest, all while coping with enemy agents in his own ranks.
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Hornblower: Loyalty
1998
Silicone Valerie
0/0
Ian McElhinney stars as a priest who meets temptation in the form of a young woman. Valerie wants to enlist the priest's help as she aims to be crowne...
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Silicone Valerie
2010
An Old Fashioned Christmas
5.2/10
Isabella takes her granddaughter to Ireland to stay with a famous family friend for the holidays, only to discover that the best Christmases are simpl...
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An Old Fashioned Christmas
1993
Circle of Deceit
7.5/1
John is a special forces operative who retires after his family is killed in a terrorist bombing, but his former bosses have other plans. He is re-act...
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Circle of Deceit
1999
Durango
6.3/3
In 1939 Ireland, a young man decides to lead a forty mile cattle drive rather than selling his cattle to an unscrupulous local buyer.
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Durango
2001
Borstal Boy
6.2/45
Based on Irish poet Brendan Behan's experiences in a reform school in 1942. A 16 year-old Irish republican terrorist arrives on the ferry at Liverpoo...
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Borstal Boy
1996
The Boy from Mercury
6/1
Set in 1960s Dublin, a fatherless eight-year-old boy who feels alienated by his family, escapes his reality by deciding he's been sent from Mercury to...
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The Boy from Mercury
1996
Hamlet
7.332/485
Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, returns home to find his father murdered and his mother now marrying the murderer... his uncle. Meanwhile, war is brewing.
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Hamlet
2023
The Last Rifleman
6.6/66
A WWII veteran escapes his care home in Northern Ireland and embarks on an arduous but inspirational journey to France to attend the 75th anniversary...
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The Last Rifleman
1982
Angel
5.639/18
Saxophonist Danny witnesses the murder of his band manager and a deaf-mute girl after a gig. Questioned by the police, he remembers only the orthopedi...
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Angel
2007
Closing the Ring
6.1/97
During the 1940s, a group of young men go off to war, leaving behind Ethel Ann, who is in love with one of them, Teddy. In modern-day Belfast, a man n...
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Closing the Ring
1990
The Grasscutter
5/1
An Ulster Volunteer Force vigilante, turned police informer, is sent by the British government to New Zealand to start a new life, leaving behind hi...
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The Grasscutter
1996
Michael Collins
6.898/482
Michael Collins plays a crucial role in the establishment of the Irish Free State in the 1920s, but becomes vilified by those hoping to create a compl...
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Michael Collins
1987
The Rockingham Shoot
0/0
Rigid nationalist Reilly's frustration at the last remains of British rule draws him to the Rockingham Shoot, where a violent incident occurs.
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The Rockingham Shoot
2023
The Boys in the Boat
7.3/284
The triumphant underdog story of the University of Washington men's rowing team, who stunned the world by competing at the 1936 Berlin Olympics.
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The Boys in the Boat
1986
Lamb
5.9/16
Michael Lamb is a Father questioning his calling, in a Reform School in Ireland. When young epileptic runaway Eoin is sent to the school, the two reco...
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Lamb
2022
Andor: A Disney+ Day Special Look
6.9/20
Celebrate Disney+ Day with a special look at the Star Wars original series Andor.
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Andor: A Disney+ Day Special Look
2015
A Patch of Fog
6.478/46
A university teacher gets caught shoplifting by a security guard, who won’t let him go. He becomes his new best friend and says ‘I won’t call the cops...
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A Patch of Fog
1995
Beyond Reason
0/0
Drama based on a real-life story of a love affair between a married army captain and a young female soldier. Susan Christie and Duncan McAllister have...
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Beyond Reason
2017
To Be Frank Carson
0/0
Frank Carson was one of Britain and Ireland's most loved comedians. Dan Gordon explores the story of the Belfast funny man as he prepares to stage a o...
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To Be Frank Carson
1990
Who Bombed Birmingham?
7/1
Docudrama film exploring the efforts of World in Action researchers Ian MacBride and Chris Mullin in proving that the "Birmingham Six" only admitted t...
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Who Bombed Birmingham?
2015
Game of Thrones The IMAX Experience
8.6/35
The first episode of this IMAX screening takes place entirely at The Wall with the Night’s Watch (S4 EP9) hopelessly outnumbered as they attempt to de...
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Game of Thrones The IMAX Experience
1998
Touch and Go
7/1
Nick and Alison, a young couple although married for several years, find their sex-life is uninspiring. After much agonising, they decide to visit a w...
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Touch and Go
1996
Small Faces
6.3/27
Three teenage brothers, gang-member Bobby, troubled mama's boy Alan and self-assured prankster Lex, reside in a downtrodden section of Glasgow, Scotla...
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Small Faces
2013
Wodehouse In Exile
7.2/6
An all-star cast heads up this intimate film about how author, P.G.Wodehouse, came to face a charge of treason during the Second World War and how thi...
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Wodehouse In Exile
2016
Sacrifice
5.332/229
Sacrifice is the story of consultant surgeon, Tora Hamilton, who moves with her husband, Duncan, to the remote Shetland Islands, 100 miles off the nor...
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Sacrifice
1990
Hidden Agenda
6.9/94
In Ireland, American lawyer Ingrid Jessner and her activist partner, Paul Sullivan, struggle to uncover atrocities committed by the British government...
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Hidden Agenda
1987
A Prayer for the Dying
5.8/98
Martin, an I.R.A. hitman, is seen by a Catholic priest while carrying out a hit. He grows a bond with the priest and his niece. But his past and his f...
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A Prayer for the Dying
2016
The Truth Commissioner
4.3/3
Set in a post-Troubles Northern Ireland, The Truth Commissioner follows the fictional story of Henry Stanfield, played by Roger Allam, a career diplom...
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The Truth Commissioner
2010
Make it New John
0/0
Make it new John tells the story of the DeLorean car, its creator John DeLorean and the workers of the Belfast-based car plant who built it. The film...
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Make it New John
Mutant: Year Zero
0/0
Based on the popular video game of the same name; set in a post-apocalyptic world, an unlikely team of animal-mutants, led by a witty duck and a gruff...
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Mutant: Year Zero
1990
The Lilac Bus
7/1
The lives of seven friends who share a bus from their village to Dublin every day get complicated as the reasons for their discontent are revealed.
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The Lilac Bus
2016
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
7.495/15533
A rogue band of resistance fighters unite for a mission to steal the Death Star plans and bring a new hope to the galaxy.
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Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
2022
The Ulysses Project
0/0
An irreverent, modern, non-traditional re-telling of Ulysses, told rapidly by a succession of over 75 international actors. The film maintains the rhy...
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The Ulysses Project
2017
Bad Day for the Cut
6.5/172
A middle-aged Irish farmer, who still lives at home with his mother, sets off on a mission of revenge when the old lady is murdered.
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Bad Day for the Cut
2011
Brendan Smyth: Betrayal of Trust
4/1
The true story of the notorious paedophile priest Brendan Smyth, and how one family in Belfast, aided by journalist Chris Moore, uncovered the true ex...
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Brendan Smyth: Betrayal of Trust
1992
You, Me & Marley
6/4
A group of bored Roman Catholic teens from Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom steal cars and joyride around the city, causing havoc among the n...
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You, Me & Marley
1995
Life After Life
0/0
Leo Doyle, a convicted IRA murderer, is released into the community after 14 years in prison on a scheme to rehabilitate former terrorists. He soon fi...
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Life After Life
2001
Hornblower: Retribution
7.3/30
Hornblower and the other officers of the Renown must return to Jamaica to face a court-martial and possible execution for their actions in relieving t...
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Hornblower: Retribution
2017
The Journey
6.3/56
Firebrand Democratic Unionist Party leader Ian Paisley and Sinn Fein politician Martin McGuinness, two implacable enemies in Northern Ireland, are for...
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The Journey
1988
Reefer and the Model
5.2/5
Comerford’s signature sharp realism infuses this drama about Reefer, an ex-IRA man who picks up hitch-hiker Teresa, a pregnant woman trying to overcom...
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Reefer and the Model
1986
The End of the World Man
3/1
When some Belfast children find out that city planners intend to "develop" a wooded area called the Glen that the girls use as a retreat from the pres...
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The End of the World Man
2008
Clay
5.2/4
Adaptation of the book by David Almond, set in 1960s Tyneside. Two 14-year-old boys team up against Mouldy, the town bully. Turning Crazy Mary s garde...
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Clay
2000
The King's Wake
0/0
It's Samhain (Hallowe'en) in old Ireland, and King Connor is haunted by his life, his legacy, and the enemies he killed in his time. Based on the famo...
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The King's Wake
2018
Zoo
6.676/102
Young Tom and his misfit friends fight to save 'Buster' the baby elephant during the German air raid bombings of Belfast in 1941.
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Zoo
2009
Triage
6/160
The wife of a photojournalist sets out to discover why he came home from a recent assignment without his colleague.
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Triage
2018
Dave Allen at Peace
4.4/17
Filmed in homage to his original TV series, this fictionalised account follows Dave Allen from childhood to becoming one of the UK and Ireland's come...
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Dave Allen at Peace
1990
Shoot to Kill
0/0
Shoot to Kill is a four-hour drama documentary reconstruction of the events that led to the 1984–86 Stalker Inquiry into the shooting of six terrorist...
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Shoot to Kill
1997
The Boxer
6.712/283
Nineteen-year-old Danny Flynn is imprisoned for his involvement with the I.R.A. in Belfast. He leaves behind his family and his sixteen-year-old girlf...
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The Boxer
2009
Scapegoat
0/0
This is the fascinating true life story of one of Ireland's most famous unsolved murders. It is the tale of how an innocent man was found guilty but i...
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Scapegoat
1984
Anne Devlin
5/1
The story of Anne Devlin, who was caught up in the revolt of the Irish under Robert Emmett in 1803, told exclusively from the woman's point of view.
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Anne Devlin
1984
A Woman Calling
0/0
Professor Broderick, a famous professor of Psychology, returns to his house by Belfast Lough to discover a woman waiting for him.
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A Woman Calling
1983
Acceptable Levels
0/0
A BBC film crew is interviewing a ‘typical Catholic family’ in the Divis Flats area of Belfast, when news comes in that a child, known to the family,...
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Acceptable Levels
1994
A Breed of Heroes
1/1
In 1971, fresh-faced, eager for heroics, the young officers arrive in Belfast. Pelted with rocks by kids, sniped at by the IRA, they take refuge in se...
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A Breed of Heroes
1992
The Playboys
6/20
A young woman, Tara Maguire (Robin Wright) scandalizes her provincial Irish village in the 1950s by having a baby out of a wedlock, and refusing to na...
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The Playboys
2012
Bomb Squad Men: The Long Walk
0/0
Three former bomb disposal officers who served at the height of the Northern Ireland conflict, return for the first time in 30 years to revisit the d...
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Bomb Squad Men: The Long Walk
1986
Shergar
0/0
Malachy: "Who do you kidnap? You can't touch children, women, no sons of Irish mothers. What's left?" When Frankie is released from Portlaoise Prison,...
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Shergar
1990
Fools of Fortune
5.3/3
A Protestant Irish family is caught up in a conflict between Irish Republicans and the British army.
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Fools of Fortune
2001
Mapmaker
0/0
Hired to draw a map of tourist sites in a small Northern Ireland town, cartographer Richie Markey (Brian F. O'Byrne) uncovers a dark secret and realiz...
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Mapmaker
2019
Father Father
0/0
Father James must decide what kind of a "Father" God wants him to be?
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Father Father
2015
The Death of a Projectionist
0/0
Gerry is a projectionist. He loves his work, his colleagues and the joy that the films gives him. But is he ready for the changes around the corner?
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The Death of a Projectionist
2010
Three Wise Women
4.917/12
After a young girl witnesses her father having an affair, she declares she will never love anybody ever again. As a result, her guardian angel is forc...
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Three Wise Women
1991
Children of the North
7/2
The murders of two MI6 agents in Northern Ireland add up to an explosive political situation.
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Children of the North
1997
This Is the Sea
5.7/6
The film is set in Northern Ireland shortly after 1994 cease-fire. Hazel is a Protestant and Malachy a Catholic. Romance between them is threatened by...
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This Is the Sea
2012
Titanic: Born in Belfast
0/0
This thought-provoking program offers a behind-the-scenes look at the construction of the ill-fated Titanic, the lavishly grand White Star liner that...
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Titanic: Born in Belfast
1987
Naming the Names
0/0
Finn's story seems to begin when Henry Kirk comes into the bookshop where she works. But it goes back a lot further than that...
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Naming the Names
1982
Potatohead Blues
0/0
Stan McVay has given up smoking, gone on a diet and feels like hell. He's also abandoned the Ulster spud and learned that his teenage daughter is havi...
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Potatohead Blues
2006
The Front Line
6.3/15
An African immigrant bank security guard turns the tables on Dublin's nastiest criminals when they force him to be the "inside man" on a bank robbery.
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The Front Line
2024
Secrets of The Christmas Market
0/0
Behind the scenes at Belfast's much-loved festive market, where stallholders from 30 countries welcome over a million visitors to 106 Christmas chalet...
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Secrets of The Christmas Market
2015
Game of Thrones: A Day in the Life
7.625/32
Glimpse the epic scale of Game of Thrones in this featurette that spends one day touring various Season 5 sets in Croatia, Spain and Ireland.
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