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.
Known For
Complete Filmography
The Physician II
2025
as Canute
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
2024
as Himself
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
2023
as Captain Eliot
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
2022
as Honolulu Rifle
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
2021
as Walter
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
2019
as Self
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
2017
as Wetzler
An assassin seeks redemption after being given a second chance at life.

The Childhood of a Leader
2016
as The Father
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
2015
The Russian spy in England, Alex Wilkie, is tasked with infiltrating American intelligence and identifying a mole – our intelligence officer, who tran...

Pursuit
2015
as Fionn
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
2015
as Angus
Estelle fights to maintain her sense of self while sleeping with Angus for money.

Game of Thrones The IMAX Experience
2015
as Davos Seaworth
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
2014
as Thomas
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
2014
as Six
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
2013
as Elliot
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
2013
as Grey
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
2012
as Davy
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
2012
as Liam
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
2012
Executive Producer
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
2012
as Narrator (voice)
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
2012
as Alec Wade
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
2011
as Army Doctor
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
2011
as Francis Sheehy
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
2011
as English Captain
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
2011
as Jack Cope
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
2010
as Bill Hines
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
2010
as Solon
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
2010
as Brick
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
2009
as Sid Rourke
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
2009
as The Mutt
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
2009
as Powers
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
2009
as Michael
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
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
2008
as "Mad Dog" Maguire
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
2008
as Brodie
Frank Perry is an institutionalized convict twelve years into a life sentence without parole. When his estranged daughter falls ill, he is determined ...

Hunger
2008
as Priest
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
2007
as General Tilney
A young woman's penchant for sensational Gothic novels leads to misunderstandings in the matters of the heart.

Anner House
2007
as Neil Barry
'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
2006
as Frank
A couple's marriage falls apart under the canopy of a much darker secret.

The Wind That Shakes the Barley
2006
as Dan
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
2005
as 1st Biker
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
2005
as Director
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
2005
as Tony Golden
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
They don't know him. Nobody knows him.

The Card Player
2004
as John Brennan
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
Harry Fielding is an investigative reporter with a brief to covertly document the compromising exploits of public figures. Incriminating evidence capt...

Mystics
2003
as Sean Foley
A black comedy about two old-time conmen who pretend to be able to communicate with the dead.
Final Demand
2003
as David Milner
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
2002
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
2002
as John Power
A group of Irish noblemen kidnap girls in order to marry into their fortune and avoid becoming priests or soldiers.

Dog Soldiers
2002
as Capt. Ryan
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
2002
as David Robinson
A retelling of the classic Swiss Family Robinson story.
The Island of the Mapmaker's Wife
2001
as John Wyndham
Descotes, a young map expert, discovers the marvelous erotic secret of an elaborate ancient map that she lusts to own.

Revelation
2001
as Father Ray Connolly
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
2000
as John Cosgrave
Fact-based story about Irish crime-investigating reporter Sinead Hamilton, who invaded the Irish underworld and attempted to expose the illegitimate a...

RKO 281
2000
as Gregg Toland
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
On a lonely country road, James Mangan hears a voice from his past and comes to realise he is damned.

A Love Divided
1999
The dramatic true story of a marriage between a Catholic man and a Protestant woman in 1950s Ireland.

Sweety Barrett
1999
as Detective Bone
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
1998
as Mossie Sheehan
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
1997
as Alex Sneddon
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
1997
as DCI Billy O'Connell
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
1996
as Phillotson
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
1995
as Agravaine
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
1995
as Capt. Crewe / Prince Rama
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
1994
as The Master
War between two Irish youth gangs consists of removing and retrieving buttons from each other's clothing.
Palestine 36
N/A
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...