Liam Cunningham

Liam Cunningham

1961-06-02 Dublin, Ireland 67 Credits

Biography

Liam Cunningham (born 2 June 1961) is an Irish actor. He has appeared in numerous film and television productions including A Little Princess, First Knight, Jude and the BBC One science-fiction drama series Outcasts. Description above from the Wikipedia article Liam Cunningham (actor), licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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The Physician II

2025

as Canute

Acting

1050 AD: Rob Cole returns to England to bring the medical light of the Orient to his countrymen. But he fails because of the intrigues of the establis...

Let It Bring Hope: Bohemians v Palestine

Let It Bring Hope: Bohemians v Palestine

2024

as Himself

10.0
Acting

A documentary on the historic first-ever visit of a Palestinian National team to Europe, following the Palestinian women's team as they arrive in Irel...

The Last Voyage of the Demeter

The Last Voyage of the Demeter

2023

as Captain Eliot

6.8
Acting

The crew of the merchant ship Demeter attempts to survive the ocean voyage from Carpathia to London as they are stalked each night by a merciless pres...

The Wind & the Reckoning

The Wind & the Reckoning

2022

as Honolulu Rifle

10.0
Acting

As an outbreak of leprosy engulfs 19th-century colonial Hawai'i, a small group of infected Native Hawaiians resist government-mandated exile, taking a...

The Vault

The Vault

2021

as Walter

6.8
Acting

Madrid, Spain, 2010. While the whole city follows the national team's successful participation in the World Cup, a group of daring thieves look for a ...

Game of Thrones: The Last Watch

Game of Thrones: The Last Watch

2019

as Self

7.1
Acting

For a year, acclaimed British filmmaker Jeanie Finlay was embedded on the set of the hit HBO series “Game of Thrones,” chronicling the creation of the...

24 Hours to Live

24 Hours to Live

2017

as Wetzler

5.9
Acting

An assassin seeks redemption after being given a second chance at life.

The Childhood of a Leader

The Childhood of a Leader

2016

as The Father

6.2
Acting

The chilling story of a young American boy living in France in 1918 whose father is working for the US government on the creation of the Treaty of Ver...

The Soul of a Spy

The Soul of a Spy

2015

4.4
Acting

The Russian spy in England, Alex Wilkie, is tasked with infiltrating American intelligence and identifying a mole – our intelligence officer, who tran...

Pursuit

Pursuit

2015

as Fionn

4.0
Acting

Pursuit is a modern take on Irish mythology, adapting the legend of Diarmuid and Gráinne and transforming it into a road movie and gangster thriller f...

Ladygrey

Ladygrey

2015

as Angus

4.5
Acting

Estelle fights to maintain her sense of self while sleeping with Angus for money.

Game of Thrones The IMAX Experience

Game of Thrones The IMAX Experience

2015

as Davos Seaworth

8.6
Acting

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...

Noble

Noble

2014

as Thomas

6.5
Acting

Christina Noble overcomes the harsh difficulties of her childhood in Ireland to discover her destiny on the streets of Saigon. A true story.

Let Us Prey

Let Us Prey

2014

as Six

5.7
Acting

Rachel, a rookie cop, is about to begin her first night shift in a neglected police station in a Scottish, backwater town. The kind of place where the...

SLR

SLR

2013

as Elliot

7.1
Acting

SLR is a short thriller about a man obsessed with "voyeur pornography". When he makes a shocking discovery online, he is forced onto the trail of an a...

The Numbers Station

The Numbers Station

2013

as Grey

5.5
Acting

When the moral values of a longtime wetwork black ops agent is tested during his last operation, he receives an unfavorable psych evaluation. Now he i...

Good Vibrations

Good Vibrations

2012

as Davy

6.8
Acting

The story of music legend Terri Hooley, a key figure in Belfast's punk rock scene. Hooley founded the Good Vibrations store from which a record label ...

Pitch Black Heist

Pitch Black Heist

2012

as Liam

6.6
Acting

Liam and Michael are professional safe crackers who meet on a simple job to relieve an office safe from its contents. The catch is a light activated a...

Pitch Black Heist

Pitch Black Heist

2012

Executive Producer

6.6
Producing

Liam and Michael are professional safe crackers who meet on a simple job to relieve an office safe from its contents. The catch is a light activated a...

Saving the Titanic

Saving the Titanic

2012

as Narrator (voice)

7.9
Acting

In the hours after the Titanic struck an iceberg 100 years ago, a team of shipbuilders and engineers raced against time to save the stricken vessel. ...

Safe House

Safe House

2012

as Alec Wade

6.5
Acting

A dangerous CIA renegade resurfaces after a decade on the run. When the safe house he's remanded to is attacked by mercenaries, a rookie operative esc...

War Horse

War Horse

2011

as Army Doctor

7.3
Acting

On the brink of the First World War, Albert's beloved horse Joey is sold to the Cavalry by his father. Against the backdrop of the Great War, Joey beg...

The Guard

The Guard

2011

as Francis Sheehy

7.0
Acting

When a small-town Irish cop with a crass personality is partnered with a straight-laced FBI agent to bust an international drug-trafficking ring, they...

The Silence of Joan

The Silence of Joan

2011

as English Captain

3.6
Acting

In 1430, Joan of Arc, the prisoner of a powerful lord of the north of France is sold to the English. As a captive awaiting her death, she is approache...

Black Butterflies

Black Butterflies

2011

as Jack Cope

5.7
Acting

Confronted by Apartheid and a father who was Minister of Censorship, Ingrid Jonker searched for a home, searched for love. With men like Jack Cope and...

The Whistleblower

The Whistleblower

2010

as Bill Hines

6.7
Acting

Nebraska cop Kathryn Bolkovac discovers a deadly sex trafficking ring while serving as a U.N. peacekeeper in post-war Bosnia. Risking her own life to ...

Clash of the Titans

Clash of the Titans

2010

as Solon

5.9
Acting

Born of a god but raised as a man, Perseus is helpless to save his family from Hades, vengeful god of the underworld. With nothing to lose, Perseus vo...

Centurion

Centurion

2010

as Brick

6.2
Acting

Britain, A.D. 117. Quintus Dias, the sole survivor of a Pictish raid on a Roman frontier fort, marches north with General Virilus' legendary Ninth Leg...

Harry Brown

Harry Brown

2009

as Sid Rourke

6.8
Acting

An elderly ex-serviceman and widower looks to avenge his best friend's murder by doling out his own form of justice.

Perrier's Bounty

Perrier's Bounty

2009

as The Mutt

5.8
Acting

A gangster named Perrier looks to exact his revenge on a trio of fugitives responsible for the accidental death of one of his cronies.

The Tournament

The Tournament

2009

as Powers

5.9
Acting

Every ten years, in an unsuspecting town, The Tournament takes place. A battle royale between 30 of the world's deadliest assassins. The last man stan...

Blood: The Last Vampire

Blood: The Last Vampire

2009

as Michael

5.9
Acting

On the surface, Saya is a stunning 16-year-old, but that youthful exterior hides the tormented soul of a 400-year-old "halfling". Born to a human fath...

Atlantic

2008

Acting

A quietly gripping tale of a lonely farmer and the letter on its way from the woman who loved and left him many years ago. A letter that could change ...

The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor

The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor

2008

as "Mad Dog" Maguire

5.5
Acting

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...

The Escapist

The Escapist

2008

as Brodie

6.2
Acting

Frank Perry is an institutionalized convict twelve years into a life sentence without parole. When his estranged daughter falls ill, he is determined ...

Hunger

Hunger

2008

as Priest

7.2
Acting

The story of Bobby Sands, the IRA member who led the 1981 hunger strike during The Troubles in which Irish Republican prisoners tried to win political...

Northanger Abbey

Northanger Abbey

2007

as General Tilney

6.8
Acting

A young woman's penchant for sensational Gothic novels leads to misunderstandings in the matters of the heart.

Anner House

Anner House

2007

as Neil Barry

Acting

'Anner House' is a romantic story of dreams and aspirations. Neil Barry leaves Ireland after a bitter divorce and custody battle to face the demons of...

Last Night

Last Night

2006

as Frank

6.0
Acting

A couple's marriage falls apart under the canopy of a much darker secret.

The Wind That Shakes the Barley

The Wind That Shakes the Barley

2006

as Dan

7.4
Acting

In 1920s Ireland young doctor Damien O'Donovan prepares to depart for a new job in a London hospital. As he says his goodbyes at a friend's farm, Brit...

Breakfast on Pluto

Breakfast on Pluto

2005

as 1st Biker

7.2
Acting

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...

The League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse

The League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse

2005

as Director

6.3
Acting

The fictional world of Royston Vasey is facing apocalypse and the only way to avert disaster is for our nightmarish cast of characters to find a way i...

Showbands

Showbands

2005

as Tony Golden

Acting

It's Ireland in the 1960s and showbands and ballrooms are big business. However, Tony is struggling to repay his bank loan and is in danger of losing ...

Screwback

2004

6.3
Acting

They don't know him. Nobody knows him.

The Card Player

The Card Player

2004

as John Brennan

4.4
Acting

Policewoman Anna Mari is forced to play a dangerous game with the title serial killer. If she loses, she witnesses the maniac's tortured victims havin...

The Crooked Man

2003

as Hamilton

Acting

Harry Fielding is an investigative reporter with a brief to covertly document the compromising exploits of public figures. Incriminating evidence capt...

Mystics

Mystics

2003

as Sean Foley

5.3
Acting

A black comedy about two old-time conmen who pretend to be able to communicate with the dead.

Final Demand

2003

as David Milner

6.0
Acting

Tamzin Outhwaite stars in Deborah Moggach 's dark two-part drama. On the surface Swindon-based Natalie has it all -good looks, a steady job and a reli...

Shadow Man

Shadow Man

2002

Acting

A little girl spies two men breaking into a derelict house. Fascinated by them, she brings herself to the men's attention and a friendship blossoms: b...

The Abduction Club

The Abduction Club

2002

as John Power

5.8
Acting

A group of Irish noblemen kidnap girls in order to marry into their fortune and avoid becoming priests or soldiers.

Dog Soldiers

Dog Soldiers

2002

as Capt. Ryan

6.7
Acting

A band of soldiers is dispatched to war games deep in the woods. When they stumble across a rival team slaughtered in camp, they realize they're not a...

Stranded

Stranded

2002

as David Robinson

6.8
Acting

A retelling of the classic Swiss Family Robinson story.

The Island of the Mapmaker's Wife

2001

as John Wyndham

6.0
Acting

Descotes, a young map expert, discovers the marvelous erotic secret of an elaborate ancient map that she lusts to own.

Revelation

Revelation

2001

as Father Ray Connolly

4.8
Acting

Since A.D. 50, a mysterious sacred artifact known as the Loculus has been at the center of a bloody clandestine war. Missing for a few hundred years, ...

When the Sky Falls

When the Sky Falls

2000

as John Cosgrave

5.0
Acting

Fact-based story about Irish crime-investigating reporter Sinead Hamilton, who invaded the Irish underworld and attempted to expose the illegitimate a...

RKO 281

RKO 281

2000

as Gregg Toland

6.4
Acting

In 1939, boy-wonder Orson Welles leaves New York, where he has succeeded in radio and theater, and, hired by RKO Pictures, moves to Hollywood with the...

The Second Death

2000

as James Mangan

6.0
Acting

On a lonely country road, James Mangan hears a voice from his past and comes to realise he is damned.

A Love Divided

A Love Divided

1999

6.0
Acting

The dramatic true story of a marriage between a Catholic man and a Protestant woman in 1950s Ireland.

Sweety Barrett

Sweety Barrett

1999

as Detective Bone

5.6
Acting

Sweety Barrett is a giant of a man with the mind of a child. An easy target in a corrupt world, Sweety becomes embroiled in a smuggling operation unle...

Falling for a Dancer

Falling for a Dancer

1998

as Mossie Sheehan

7.0
Acting

Romantic drama set in rural Ireland of the 1930s. The story begins when 19-year-old Elizabeth has a brief fling with an actor and falls pregnant. Comm...

The Life of Stuff

The Life of Stuff

1997

as Alex Sneddon

Acting

Brutal drama, with the occasional comic twist, about a wannabe gangster who buys a Glasgow warehouse which he plans to turn into the flagship of his c...

Police 2020

Police 2020

1997

as DCI Billy O'Connell

3.0
Acting

In 2020, DCI Billy O'Connell is tasked with tackling an armed suspect who takes a group of Russian immigrants hostage in a lift after blaming the immi...

Jude

Jude

1996

as Phillotson

6.3
Acting

In late 19th-century England, Jude aspires to be an academic, but is hobbled by his blue-collar background. Instead, he works as a stonemason and is t...

First Knight

First Knight

1995

as Agravaine

6.1
Acting

The timeless tale of King Arthur and the legend of Camelot are retold in this passionate period drama. Arthur is reluctant to hand the crown to Lancel...

A Little Princess

A Little Princess

1995

as Capt. Crewe / Prince Rama

7.6
Acting

When her father enlists to fight for the British in WWI, young Sara Crewe goes to New York to attend the same boarding school her late mother attended...

War of the Buttons

War of the Buttons

1994

as The Master

7.0
Acting

War between two Irish youth gangs consists of removing and retrieving buttons from each other's clothing.

Palestine 36

N/A

Acting

The picture explores the lead-up to and events of the Palestinian Arab Revolt from 1936 to 1939. As villages rise-up against British rule, protagonist...