Biography
James Greene was a Northern Irish actor of film, TV and stage
Known For
Complete Filmography

Loving Vincent
2017
as Old Peasant
A young man arrives at the last hometown of painter Vincent van Gogh to deliver the troubled artist's final letter and ends up investigating his final...

The Christmas Candle
2013
as Old Man
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...

Les Misérables
2012
as Ensemble 'Master of the House'
An adaptation of the successful stage musical based on Victor Hugo's classic novel set in 19th-century France. Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stea...

Albert Nobbs
2011
as Patrick
Albert Nobbs struggles to survive in late 19th century Ireland, where women aren't encouraged to be independent. Posing as a man, so she can work as a...

Dimensions
2011
as Old Man
Stephen is a brilliant young boy who lives in England, in what appears to be the 1920s—but nothing in Stephen’s life is quite as it seems. His world i...

Whole Lotta Sole
2011
as Granda Sox
In a misguided attempt to protect his family and pay back gambling debts to the local Mobster, Jimbo robs a fish market, which is coincidentally owned...

Love/Loss
2010
as Laurie
A chance meeting reunites Mary and Joe, childhood sweethearts from the 1940s. But after 60 years apart, is there still love between them? How have the...

Sherlock Holmes
2009
as Governor
Eccentric consulting detective Sherlock Holmes and Doctor John Watson battle to bring down a new nemesis and unravel a deadly plot that could destroy ...

James Ellis: An Actor's Life
2007
as Himself
Documentary tracing the life of James Ellis, one of Northern Ireland’s best loved actors.

This Life +10
2007
A decade on, Egg, Milly, Warren, Anna and Miles meet again at Ferdy's funeral. Egg is a writer, Milly a mum, Anna's still a lawyer, while Warren and M...

Dracula
2006
as Dr. Blore
The Romanian count known as Dracula is summoned to London by Arthur Holmwood, a young Lord who is one the verge of being wed. Unknown to Arthur's futu...

Brothers of the Head
2006
as Brian Aldiss
In the 1970s a music promoter plucks Siamese twins from obscurity and grooms them into a freakish rock'n'roll act. A dark tale of sex, strangeness and...

Breakfast on Pluto
2005
as Gentleman
In the 1970s, a young transgender woman called “Kitten” leaves her small Irish town for London in search of love, acceptance, and her long-lost mother...

What a Girl Wants
2003
as Percy
An American girl, Daphne, heads to Europe in search of the father she's never met. But instead of finding a British version of her bohemian mother, sh...

Johnny English
2003
as Scottish Bishop
A lowly pencil pusher working for MI7, Johnny English is suddenly promoted to super spy after Agent One is assassinated and every other agent is blown...

Instinct to Kill
2001
as Old Man
Escaped serial killer James Becket, who killed his own father whose expectations he never fulfilled, but now especially targets his wife Theresa 'Tess...

From Hell
2001
as Masonic Governor
Frederick Abberline is an opium-huffing inspector from Scotland Yard who falls for one of Jack the Ripper's prostitute targets in this Hughes brothers...

Janice Beard 45 WPM
1999
as Michael
Janice Beard is a dreamer who can't seem to quite make it big. She is working in an auto design company and falls for the mailboy, but he is hiding s...

Photographing Fairies
1997
as Minister
Photographer Charles Castle is numbed with grief following the death of his beautiful bride. He goes off to war, working in the trenches as a photogra...
Pauline Calf's Wedding Video
1994
as Priest
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...

Guinevere
1994
as Bishop
As border wars break out in Camelot, the young princess Guinevere is taken to live in safety with the High Priestess L'Fei. When King Arthur claims th...

Tom & Viv
1994
as Dr. Cyriax
The story of the marriage of the poet T. S. Eliot to socialite Vivienne Haigh-Wood, which had to cope with her gynaecological and emotional problems a...

You, Me & Marley
1992
as Father Peter
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...

The Jazz Detective
1992
as Rev. Durdham
Jazz musician Bernie Weston find himself falsely accused of murder in Bristol. With the aid of a local reporter he sets out to clear his name and find...

A Different Hand
1992
as The Priest
A musical comedy drama about a young woman (played by Tina Leslie) rebelling against society's attitudes (including her parents, her doctor, her pries...

Shoot to Kill
1990
as DPP
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...

Perfect Witness
1989
as Paddy O'Rourke
An innocent man is thrust into a political power struggle in this drama. After witnessing a mob killing, New York restaurant owner Sam Paxton (Aidan Q...

Empire of the Sun
1987
as British Prisoner
Jamie Graham, a privileged English boy, is living in Shanghai when the Japanese invade and force all foreigners into prison camps. Jamie is captured w...

Brimstone and Treacle
1987
as Man in street
The Bates care for their severely disabled daughter Pattie. Martin arrives at their door claiming to be her college friend. He charms them into accept...

Chocky
1984
as Mr. Trimble
Matthew Gore is an intelligent boy chosen by a mysterious extraterrestrial visitor to be a source of information about life on Earth. As his schoolwor...

Iris in the Traffic, Ruby in the Rain
1981
as Dr Blair
Two women navigate the challenges of life on a wintry day in 1980s Belfast. While Ruby has a cold and gets caught in the rain, Iris is job-hunting but...

London Is Drowning
1981
as John
A fictional look at what might happen if the Thames were to flood before completion of the Thames Barrier at the end of 1982. A series of freak weathe...

The Spell
1977
as Stan
A distraught mother must cope with her embittered daughter who has the ability to cause "accidents" to happen.

Good Salary, Prospects, Free Coffin
1975
as Constable Breck
After two of her roommates disappear while out for a job interview, a woman answers a want ad for the same job.

Henry James' The Jolly Corner
1975
Expatriate Spencer Brydon returns to his now-empty childhood home, and finds himself obsessed with what his life would have been, had he not left Amer...

Eleanor
1974
as Det.-Sgt. Gregg
Eleanor seems normal enough to her parents and teachers. Why then has she disappeared?

According to the Rules
1974
as Bank Manager
When an aging ex-IRA man is found dead, a Garda inspector suspects the involvement of his old comrade, now a powerful politician and industrialist. Bu...

Carson Country
1972
as Clergyman
Play set in Northern Ireland about Carson and the setting up of the Stormont Government of 1918-1920, after strong protests by the Northern Irish Prot...

Mad Dog Coll
1961
Killer Vincent "Mad Dog" Coll moves in on gangster Dutch Schultz in 1920s New York.

John Brown's Raid
1960
White abolitionist John Brown and twenty of his men attempt to start an armed slave revolt in 1859 by seizing a U.S. arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virgini...