Biography
John Hannah (born April 23, 1962) is a Scottish actor of film and television. He has appeared in Stephen Sommers' Mummy Series, Richard Curtis' Four Weddings and a Funeral, and Sliding Doors with Gwyneth Paltrow. After completing his secondary education, Hannah enrolled at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama (now known as the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland) in Glasgow. His time at the academy laid the foundation for his acting career, and he graduated with honors. John Hannah's acti...
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Complete Filmography
Bad Day at the Office
2025
as Karl Davis
The film follows Karl Davis waking in a wrecked hotel room with no memory of what’s happened, where he is, or even who he is.

A Gangster's Kiss
2024
as Mem
For as long as Jack can remember, he and Danny have been friends, and Danny has always gotten Jack into trouble. He's had a few brushes with the law a...

This Time Next Year
2024
as Keith
Minnie and Quinn were both born in London on New Year’s Day, in the same hospital, one minute apart. Thirty years later — and very different people — ...

Bermondsey Tales: Fall of the Roman Empire
2024
as The Postman
London crime boss Mick Roman is deathly ill, and time is running out to find a successor. With deceit, ambition and infighting on the rise, this Roman...

Damaged
2024
as Colin McGregor
A Chicago detective travels to Scotland after an emerging serial killer’s crimes match those that he investigated five years earlier, one of which was...

The Auschwitz Report
2021
as Warren
This is the true story of Freddy and Walter – two young Slovak Jews, who were deported to Auschwitz in 1942. On 10 April 1944, after meticulous planni...

Roald & Beatrix: The Tail of the Curious Mouse
2020
as Narrator (voice)
Roald & Beatrix, the tail of the curious mouse, a heart-warming Christmas film inspired by the true encounter between a six-year-old Roald Dahl and hi...

Max Cloud
2020
as Revengor
A space cruiser crashes on a planet that is home to an intergalactic prison.

Enemy Lines
2020
as Colonel Preston
In the frozen, war torn landscape of occupied Poland during World War II, a crack team of allied commandos are sent on a deadly mission behind enemy l...

The Garden of Evening Mists
2019
as Magnus Gemmell
A woman seeking a quiet life in post-World War II British Malaya finds love and a common interest in gardening with a mysterious Japanese man.

One Red Nose Day and a Wedding
2019
as Matthew
You’re invited to the wedding of the year, as the original cast of Four Weddings and a Funeral reunite in this one-off sequel. Twenty-five years after...

Princess Emmy
2019
as King Karl (voice)
Princess Emmy has a secret gift – she is the only one in the kingdom of Kandis who can speak to horses. She has a wonderful time with her best friends...

Blood, Sweat And Terrors
2018
as Dr. James Borans (segment "Get Some")
Anthology film consisting of 9 shorts featuring blood, action and horror.

Genesis
2018
as Paul Brooks
After an apocalyptic event, the remnants of humanity create an artificial intelligence to save them.

Overboard
2018
as Colin
A spoiled, wealthy yacht owner is thrown overboard and becomes the target of revenge from his mistreated employee.

Scorched Earth
2018
as Doc
In a post-apocalyptic future, bounty hunter Attica Gage pursues a ruthless outlaw at the head of a dangerous criminal gang.

Toy Gun
2018
as Elio Sironi
Ruggero, a meek young man, impulsively robs a bank to prove to his ex-wife that he is courageous and masculine. A police investigation engulfs everyon...

The Marker
2017
as Brendan Doyle
Noir thriller about a criminal seeking redemption by tracking down the daughter of the woman he killed. Along the way he is haunted by his guilt in th...

Another Mother's Son
2017
as Arthur Forster
The true story of Louisa Gould, a widow living in Nazi occupied Jersey, who takes in a Russian prisoner of war.

Love of My Life
2017
as Richard
What if you had only five days to figure out... everything.

Harry Benson: Shoot First
2016
as Self
What we know today about many famous musicians, politicians, and actresses is due to the famous work of photographer Harry Benson. He captured vibrant...

Alleycats
2016
as Yates
When bike courier Chris witnesses what looks like a murder, his first instinct is to cut and run. But when his curiosity draws him back in, he's soon ...

A Midsummer Night's Dream
2016
as Theseus
At the tyrannical court of Athens, pitiless dictator Theseus plans his wedding to Hippolyta, a prisoner of war, while young Hermia is sentenced to dea...

Angel
2015
as Lapslie
Angel, a woman who was horribly abused by her grandmother as a little girl and institutionalized after killing her, embarks on a killing spree as an a...
Girona
2015
For twenty-seven years Hart has sought sanctuary in the anonymity of the same suite, the Girona, in the same hotel, on the same night of the year – th...

Bone in the Throat
2015
as Sullivan
A young ambitious chef gets mixed up with the East End London mob. While showing off his culinary skills, he finds himself trapped.
Scotland In A Day
2014
Mockumentary set on the day of the 2014 Scottish Independence referendum and designed to capture a snap shot of a nation on the brink of both triumph ...
Cutting Grass
2014
as Gerry
It’s a hot summer and a young inner-city boy, Donal, is trying his hand at cutting lawns for pocket money. When he meets Gerry, his luck changes.

Shooting for Socrates
2014
as Billy Bingham
Set in Belfast against the backdrop of the 1986 World Cup, Shooting for Socrates tells the story of a momentous time in Northern Ireland's football hi...

Ping Pong Summer
2014
as Mr. Miracle
In 1985 a summer vacation in Ocean City, Md., changes the life of a shy white teen who's obsessed with table tennis and hip-hop music.

The Christmas Candle
2013
as William Barstow
Deep in the heart of the English countryside lies the enchanting village of Gladbury. Legend has it every 25 years an angel visits the village candlem...

The Wee Man
2013
as Tam McGraw
The true life story of the rise to power of Glasgow gangster Paul Ferris.

The Words
2012
as Richard Ford
The Words follows young writer Rory Jansen who finally achieves long sought after literary success after publishing the next great American novel. The...

We Are the People We've Been Waiting For
2009
as Narrator
This landmark documentary explores the extent to which young people around the world are being failed by an education system created at the time of th...

Unraveling the Legacy of the Mummy
2008
as Self
Documentary on the Mummy film(s) by Universal Studios.

The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor
2008
as Jonathan Carnahan
Archaeologist Rick O'Connell travels to China, pitting him against an emperor from the 2,000-year-old Han dynasty who's returned from the dead to purs...

Moose in the Glen
2008
as Narrator
Multimillionaire landowner Paul Lister wants to turn his 23,000-acre estate north of Inverness into Europe's first wilderness reserve. Reinstating the...

Horizon: How Does Your Memory Work?
2008
as Self-Narrator (Voice)
You might think that your memory is there to help you remember facts, such as birthdays or shopping lists. If so, you would be very wrong. The ability...

Sinking of the Lusitania: Terror at Sea
2007
as Prof. Ian Holbourn
The story of the sinking of the Lusitania in 1915 after she was torpedoed off the Irish coast. The story is told from the perspective of Prof. Holbour...

The Last Legion
2007
as Nestor
As the Roman empire crumbles, young Romulus Augustus flees the city and embarks on a perilous voyage to Britain to track down a legion of supporters.

Ghost Son
2007
as Mark
A widowed newlywed stays on her deceased husband's South African farm, then bears a child who seems to be possessed by the dead man.

I Accuse
2003
as Dr. Richard Darian
Kimberly Jansen is a single mother who lives in a small Canadian town. After cutting her hand at a party, she visits the hospital to seek what she ass...

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
2003
as Dr. Jekyll / Mr. Hyde
Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde is Robert Louis Stevenson's classic tale of horror, the duality of mankind and the darker side of late Victorian society. Dr H...

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
2003
Executive Producer
Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde is Robert Louis Stevenson's classic tale of horror, the duality of mankind and the darker side of late Victorian society. Dr H...

Camouflage
2002
as Male Guest
Short animated film by Jonathan Hodgson

I'm with Lucy
2002
as Date 1 - Doug
It's an hour before Lucy's wedding and her best friend wants to hear all about what led up to that moment. So, Lucy tells about the five men she had b...

Before You Go
2002
as Mike
The funny, heart-warming and moving new film, from director Lewis Gilbert. When Violet Heaney's three daughters return home for her funeral, each sist...

Pandaemonium
2001
as William Wordsworth
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, an unstable but brilliant poet, becomes friends with the unknown William Wordsworth, and together they set out to recreate En...

The Mummy Returns
2001
as Jonathan Carnahan
Rick and Evelyn O’Connell, along with their 8-year-old son Alex, discover the key to the legendary Scorpion King’s might: the fabled Bracelet of Anubi...

Circus
2000
as Leo
Bruno, a sadistic criminal, wants clever con man Leo out of the way. Leo and his equally clever wife, Lily, are up to something. So too is Julius: he ...

The Intruder
1999
as Charlie
Catherine meets Nick by accident and, after a whirlwind romance, the two get married and Catherine moves into Nick's apartment only that's the start o...

Building A Better Mummy
1999
as Self
An in-depth look into the creative and technical processes that brought us the heart-stopping visual effects of the film, with director Stephen Sommer...

The Hurricane
1999
as Terry
The story of Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, a boxer wrongly imprisoned for murder, and the people who aided in his fight to prove his innocence.

The Mummy
1999
as Jonathan Carnahan
Dashing legionnaire Rick O'Connell stumbles upon the hidden ruins of Hamunaptra while in the midst of a battle to claim the area in 1920s Egypt. It ha...

Sliding Doors
1998
as James Hamilton
London publicist Helen, effortlessly slides between parallel storylines that show what happens when she does or does not catch a train back to her apa...

Resurrection Man
1998
as Darkie Larche
Belfast, in 1970s. Victor Kelly is a young protestant man who hates the Catholics so much that one night he begins to brutally murder them. A reporter...

The Love Bug
1997
as Simon Moore III
The inimitable VW Beetle is losing all his races and destined for the scrap heap until mechanic Hank takes him over and gives him a new lease of life....

The James Gang
1997
as Spendlove James
After an audacious jewellery robbery the whole James family heads for home on the run with the obsessive detective Julia Armstrong in hot pursuit.
Romance and Rejection (So This Is Romance?)
1997
as Tonay
Mike is a composer who dreams of creating symphonies but instead, dashes off jingles for TV commercials -- all the while pining over ex-girlfriend Hel...

The Innocent Sleep
1996
as James
Inspired by the 1982 Roberto Calvi Affair in which an Italian banker was found hanging from a bridge across the River Thames, the story follows Alan, ...
Truth or Dare
1996
as Nick
When three university friends turn up unexpectedly, twenty-something lawyer Lorna Johnston is led into a dangerous world.

The Final Cut
1995
as Gilmore
A former bomb squad leader comes out of retirement to investigate a series of bombings plaguing Seattle.

Madagascar Skin
1995
as Harry
This is the story of Harry and Flint, an unlikely couple. Harry is a shy young gay man who can't seem to fit into his local bar scene. Flint is a crus...
Pauline Calf's Wedding Video
1994
as Mark
Spoof video diary. Steve Coogan takes on the roles of downtrodden Paul and the vivacious blonde Pauline Calf, who finally gets herself up the aisle wi...

Milner
1994
as Windscreen Washer
Stephen Milner is a solicitor, but he fits uneasily into the world of Lewis Strange and Partners, who are an upmarket firm of solicitors. The film fol...

Four Weddings and a Funeral
1994
as Matthew
Over the course of five social occasions, a committed bachelor must consider the notion that he may have discovered love.

Paul Calf's Video Diary
1993
as Mark
Lager lout and philosopher Paul Calf records his video diary over New Year's Eve and New Year's Day. Accompanied by his friends Fat Bob and Roland and...

Harbour Beat
1990
as Neal McBride
Neal McBride is a Glasgow cop who likes to go undercover - the rest of the police wish he would stay there. When he arrests a politician he gets reass...
Reasonable Force
1988
as Pretty Boy
In times of civil unrest, crack police units like Inspector Maclntyre 's get the job of keeping order on the streets. But when a demonstrator dies af...
Loser's Blues
1987
A steelworker in Lanarkshire, Scotland tries to save his marriage while indulging his gambling habit.

Michael Caton-Jones: This Broxburn Boy's Life
N/A
as Self
Explores Caton-Jones' rise from his humble roots in the working class mining village of Broxburn, West Lothian to the dizzy heights of Hollywood, wher...