Niall O'Brien

1946-02-08 Dublin, Ireland 24 Credits

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Teeth

Teeth

2007

as Joe

6.5
Acting

A last laugh tale of two old friends, their teeth and a fishing trip that leaves them lost for words.

The Halo Effect

The Halo Effect

2004

Associate Producer

Producing

Fatso is the proprietor of what may be the worst eaterie in the city, and is struggling to keep a sinking ship afloat. His compulsive gambling is gett...

Conspiracy of Silence

Conspiracy of Silence

2003

4.6
Acting

When a priest commits suicide and two trainees are expelled from a seminary, a journalist starts to investigate the Vatican’s silence on broken vows o...

The Emperor's New Clothes

The Emperor's New Clothes

2001

as Bosun

6.7
Acting

Napoleon, exiled, devises a plan to retake the throne. He'll swap places with commoner Eugene Lenormand, sneak into Paris, then Lenormand will reveal ...

When Brendan Met Trudy

When Brendan Met Trudy

2000

as Judge

4.0
Acting

Brendan is an earnest, introverted schoolteacher who, aside from his participation in the local choir, has only one passion in his life -- the movies....

St. Patrick: The Irish Legend

St. Patrick: The Irish Legend

2000

as Longhaire

5.3
Acting

A young Christian boy attends a druid worship that is attacked by invading Irish tribes. Taken captive, he is taken back to Ireland to become a slave....

The Legend of 1900

The Legend of 1900

1998

as Harbor Master

8.3
Acting

The story of a virtuoso piano player who lives his entire life aboard an ocean liner. Born and raised on the ship, 1900 learned about the outside worl...

The Last Bus Home

The Last Bus Home

1997

as Jessop's Father

1.0
Acting

Though it is late in the punk rock movement, four Dublin youths get together in 1979 to form their own band. Accurately recounting the energy and rawn...

Braveheart

Braveheart

1995

as English General

7.9
Acting

Enraged at the slaughter of Murron, his new bride and childhood love, Scottish warrior William Wallace slays a platoon of the local English lord's sol...

Broken Harvest

Broken Harvest

1994

as Josie McCarthy

7.0
Acting

Broken Harvest is set in 1950's Ireland framed by modern-day New York. It deals with a bitter feud between two farmers who had taken opposite sides in...

The Playboys

The Playboys

1992

as Police Superintendant

6.0
Acting

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...

King Ralph

King Ralph

1991

as Tommy McGuire

5.4
Acting

As the only relative in line to ascend the Royal throne, a down-on-his-luck American slob must learn the ways of the English.

Who Bombed Birmingham?

Who Bombed Birmingham?

1990

as Walker

7.0
Acting

Docudrama film exploring the efforts of World in Action researchers Ian MacBride and Chris Mullin in proving that the "Birmingham Six" only admitted t...

Rawhead Rex

Rawhead Rex

1986

as Det. Insp. Isaac Gissing

5.2
Acting

Ireland will never be the same after Rawhead Rex, a particularly nasty demon, is released from his underground prison by an unwitting farmer. The film...

Half Moon Street

Half Moon Street

1986

as Captain Twilley

5.1
Acting

Dr. Lauren Slaughter, a research fellow at the Arab-Anglo Institute in London is utterly frustrated by her job. To supplement her income, she starts m...

Shergar

Shergar

1986

as Brendan

Acting

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,...

Anne Devlin

Anne Devlin

1984

as Michael Dwyer

5.0
Acting

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.

Gorky Park

Gorky Park

1983

as KGB Agent Rurik

6.3
Acting

Police Inspector Renko tries to solve the case of three bodies found in Moscow's Gorky Park but finds his attempts to solve the crime impeded by his s...

John, Love

1983

Acting

A BAFTA award nominated drama about a young boy's memories of his first communion, set in Dublin in 1950.

Lovespell

Lovespell

1981

as Corvenal

3.7
Acting

Romantic tragedy, the story of Tristan and Isolde.

Excalibur

Excalibur

1981

as Kay

7.0
Acting

A surreal adaptation of Sir Thomas Malory's "Le Morte d'Arthur" chronicling Arthur Pendragon's conception, his rise to the throne, the search by his K...

The Outsider

The Outsider

1979

as Emmett Donovan

5.6
Acting

Michael Flaherty (Craig Wasson), an American Vietnam veteran of Irish descent, returns to Belfast to join the cause of his grandfather, Seamus (Sterli...

Exposure

1978

as Oliver

Acting

Set on the desolate west coast of Ireland, the film explores a Polanski-like plot in which three surveyors find themselves stuck in a remote hotel wit...

Ryan's Daughter

Ryan's Daughter

1970

as Bernard

7.1
Acting

The wife of an Irish school teacher is branded a traitor when she falls for a British officer who is part of an occupying force in 1917 Ireland.