Colm Meaney

Colm Meaney

1953-05-30 Dublin, Ireland 113 Credits

Biography

Colm J. Meaney (born May 30, 1953) is an Irish actor. He is widely known for playing Miles O'Brien in Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. He is second only to Michael Dorn in most appearances in Star Trek episodes. He has guest starred on many other television shows, from Law & Order to The Simpsons, and has a significant career in motion pictures.

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Legend of the Happy Worker

2025

Acting

Follows Joe who battles to save what he and others have spent years building.

Re-Creation

Re-Creation

2025

Acting

In a fictitious trial, twelve members of a jury must decide whether journalist Ian Bailey is guilty of the murder of French filmmaker Sophie Toscan Du...

Bring Them Down

Bring Them Down

2025

as Ray

6.7
Acting

When the ongoing rivalry between farmers Michael and Jack suddenly escalates, it triggers a chain of events that take increasingly violent and devasta...

The Problem with People

The Problem with People

2024

as Ciáran

6.2
Acting

Two estranged cousins who never knew each other try to make amends for many generations of family dispute.

Duchess

Duchess

2024

as Frank Monaghan

6.1
Acting

A tough, working-class petty criminal is drawn into the treacherous world of diamond smuggling and morphs into an anti-heroine to be reckoned with in ...

The Ballad of Davy Crockett

The Ballad of Davy Crockett

2024

as Caleb

5.2
Acting

In 1815, an American Legend, whose wife has fallen deathly ill, leaving his young children to survive on their own, must fight his way back to them ac...

No Way Up

No Way Up

2024

as Brandon

6.3
Acting

Characters from different backgrounds are thrown together when the plane they're travelling on crashes into the Pacific Ocean. A nightmare fight for s...

In the Land of Saints and Sinners

In the Land of Saints and Sinners

2023

as Robert McQue

6.5
Acting

In a remote Irish village, a damaged Finbar is forced to fight for redemption after a lifetime of sins, but what price is he willing to pay? In the la...

There's Always Hope

There's Always Hope

2023

as Jonathan

2.0
Acting

Author Jonathan Stack, who has been so obsessed with trying to pen his magnum opus that he’s let his marriage to Samantha, who is also his agent and e...

Marlowe

Marlowe

2023

as Bernie Ohls

5.8
Acting

Private detective Philip Marlowe becomes embroiled in an investigation involving a wealthy Californian family after a beautiful blonde hires him to tr...

Unwelcome

Unwelcome

2023

as Colm “Daddy” Whelan

5.9
Acting

Londoners Maya and Jamie escape their urban nightmare to the tranquility of rural Ireland only to discover malevolent, murderous goblins lurking in th...

Three Day Millionaire

Three Day Millionaire

2022

as Mr. Barr

4.6
Acting

A raucous black comedy about a gang of Grimsby Trawler-men who carry out the heist of a lifetime.

Three Day Millionaire

Three Day Millionaire

2022

Executive Producer

4.6
Producing

A raucous black comedy about a gang of Grimsby Trawler-men who carry out the heist of a lifetime.

Confession

Confession

2022

as Father Peter

4.3
Acting

A wounded, bloodied man takes a priest hostage, hell-bent on confessing a vengeful truth before it is too late. The seemingly random encounter is soon...

Save the Cinema

Save the Cinema

2022

as Martyn

6.2
Acting

The true story of Liz Evans, a hairdresser and leader of a youth theatre in Carmarthen, Wales, who began a campaign in 1993 to save the Lyric theatre ...

The Monkey

The Monkey

2021

as MacDonell

6.3
Acting

In 1588, a castaway from the Spanish Armada, sent from Portugal by Philip II of Spain to conquer England, is captured on an Irish beach. There he is t...

Pixie

Pixie

2020

as Dermot O'Brien

5.9
Acting

To avenge her mother's death, Pixie masterminds a heist but must flee across Ireland from gangsters, take on the patriarchy, and choose her own destin...

The Banker

The Banker

2020

as Patrick Barker

7.6
Acting

In the 1960s, two entrepreneurs hatch an ingenious business plan to fight for housing integration—and equal access to the American Dream. Nicholas Hou...

Seberg

Seberg

2019

as Frank Ellroy

5.9
Acting

An ambitious young FBI agent is assigned to investigate iconic actress Jean Seberg when she becomes embroiled in the tumultuous civil rights movement ...

The Last Right

The Last Right

2019

as Detective Donall Crowley

6.2
Acting

Daniel Murphy is lumbered with a corpse that has the same last name as his, who dies on his flight from Boston to County Cork. Travelling back to Irel...

Tolkien

Tolkien

2019

as Father Francis Morgan

6.9
Acting

England, early 20th century. The future writer and philologist John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (1892-1973) and three of his schoolmates create a strong bond...

What We Left Behind: Looking Back at Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

What We Left Behind: Looking Back at Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

2018

as Self

7.1
Acting

A documentary exploring the legacy of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, the reasons it went from the black sheep of Star Trek to a beloved mainstay of the f...

National Theatre Live: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

National Theatre Live: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

2018

as Big Daddy

6.0
Acting

Tennessee Williams’ twentieth century masterpiece Cat on a Hot Tin Roof played a strictly limited season in London’s West End in 2017. An alcoholic ex...

Halal Daddy

Halal Daddy

2017

as Martin Logan

6.2
Acting

While managing a run down abattoir, young Muslim Raghdan Aziz stumbles through cultural chaos and generational conflicts, dealing with enraged fathers...

The Journey

The Journey

2017

as Martin McGuinness

6.3
Acting

Firebrand Democratic Unionist Party leader Ian Paisley and Sinn Fein politician Martin McGuinness, two implacable enemies in Northern Ireland, are for...

The Secrets of Emily Blair

The Secrets of Emily Blair

2016

as Father Avital

4.3
Acting

Desperate to save his fiancée from a demon that has possessed her soul, a man turns to his longtime priest for help.

Pelé: Birth of a Legend

Pelé: Birth of a Legend

2016

as George Raynor

7.3
Acting

The life story of Brazilian football legend, Pele.

Pelé: Birth of a Legend

Pelé: Birth of a Legend

2016

as Coach George Raynor

7.3
Acting

The life story of Brazilian football legend, Pele.

Norm of the North

Norm of the North

2016

as Grandfather (voice)

4.6
Acting

Polar bear Norm and his three Arctic lemming buddies are forced out into the world once their icy home begins melting and breaking apart. Landing in N...

I Am Your Father

I Am Your Father

2015

as Narrator (voice)

6.6
Acting

David Prowse is an eighty years old actor, who has lived behind Darth Vader's mask during three decades. A group of Star Wars fans find out why he has...

A Dangerous Arrangement

A Dangerous Arrangement

2015

as Leslie

5.7
Acting

In a secluded cove in Malta, a beautiful young woman tries to drown herself. Her name is Ellen, a night club employee who just days before trying to e...

The Devil's Hand

The Devil's Hand

2014

as Elder Beacon

5.2
Acting

Five young Amish girls accused of being Satan's children must fight for their lives when their devout community elders insist they be "cleansed" befor...

The Yank

The Yank

2014

as Fintan McGuire

3.5
Acting

Tom Murphy, a middle-aged Irish-American man from Cleveland, travels to Ireland for his best friend’s wedding and to find the perfect woman.

Free Birds

Free Birds

2013

as Myles Standish (voice)

5.9
Acting

Two turkeys from opposite sides of the tracks must put aside their differences and team up to travel back in time to change the course of history—and ...

A Belfast Story

A Belfast Story

2013

as Detective

4.4
Acting

A BELFAST STORY explores life after terrorism. Set in a city which has weathered hundreds of years of hatred, 30 years of bombs, and a war without win...

One Chance

One Chance

2013

as Roland Potts

6.7
Acting

This film follows the remarkable and inspirational true story of Paul Potts, a shy, bullied shop assistant by day and an amateur opera singer by night...

Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa

Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa

2013

as Patt Farrell

6.6
Acting

When famous DJ Alan Partridge’s radio station is taken over by a new media conglomerate, it sets in motion a chain of events which see Alan having to ...

Star Trek: The Next Generation - The Best of Both Worlds

Star Trek: The Next Generation - The Best of Both Worlds

2013

as Chief Miles O'Brien (archive footage)

7.1
Acting

The Enterprise has a deadly encounter with the Borg, resulting in Picard's kidnap, while Commander Riker encounters a beautiful rival with an eye on h...

Soldiers of Fortune

Soldiers of Fortune

2012

as Mason

4.9
Acting

Wealthy thrill-seekers pay huge premiums to have themselves inserted into military adventures, only this time things don't go exactly to plan.

The Cold Light of Day

The Cold Light of Day

2012

as Bandler

5.4
Acting

After his family is kidnapped during their sailing trip in Spain, a young Wall Street trader is confronted by the people responsible: intelligence age...

Bel Ami

Bel Ami

2012

as Monsieur Rousset

5.3
Acting

Georges Duroy travels through 1890s Paris, from cockroach ridden garrets to opulent salons, using his wits and powers of seduction to rise from povert...

The Perfect Stranger

The Perfect Stranger

2011

as Mark O'Reilly

5.8
Acting

The mysterious arrival of a foreigner to a small village in a Mediterranean island, awake the sudden interest from a diverse group of residents, who w...

Whole Lotta Sole

Whole Lotta Sole

2011

as Detective Weller

5.4
Acting

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...

The Conspirator

The Conspirator

2011

as David Hunter

6.6
Acting

Mary Surratt is the lone female charged as a co-conspirator in the assassination trial of Abraham Lincoln. As the whole nation turns against her, she ...

The Flight of the Swan

The Flight of the Swan

2011

as Giannopoulos

7.6
Acting

Alexis is an explosive personality, passionate about life, humanity, nature, love and beauty. That is until the breakneck rhythm, intensity, stress an...

The Hot Potato

The Hot Potato

2011

as Harry

6.0
Acting

The 'Hot Potato' is an exciting new British period ‘caper movie’, in the spirit of ‘The Italian Job’ and ‘Two Way Stretch’ and is based on real events...

Alleged

Alleged

2010

as H.L. Mencken

4.4
Acting

Alleged is a romantic drama based on events occurring behind the scenes and outside the courtroom of the famous Scopes "Monkey Trial" of 1925. Charles...

Parked

Parked

2010

as Fred Daly

6.6
Acting

Fred Daly returns to Ireland with nowhere to live but his car. Then dope-smoking 21-year-old Cathal parks beside him, and brightens up his lonely worl...

Get Him to the Greek

Get Him to the Greek

2010

as Jonathan Snow

6.0
Acting

Pinnacle records has the perfect plan to get their sinking company back on track: a comeback concert in LA featuring Aldous Snow, a fading rockstar wh...

The Race

The Race

2009

as Frank Kensay

6.5
Acting

The story of an 11-year-old girl from a poor rural community who dreams of becoming a racing driver.

Law Abiding Citizen

Law Abiding Citizen

2009

as Detective Dunnigan

7.4
Acting

A frustrated man decides to take justice into his own hands after a plea bargain sets one of his family's killers free. He targets not only the killer...

The Damned United

The Damned United

2009

as Don Revie

7.2
Acting

Taking over Leeds United, Brian Clough's abrasive approach and his clear dislike of the players' dirty style of play make it certain there is going to...

Three and Out

Three and Out

2008

as Tommy Cassidy

5.6
Acting

A London tube driver considers pursuing a third fatal accident to collect a huge payout.

Unnatural Causes

Unnatural Causes

2008

as Trevor Jones

4.4
Acting

A dramatic thriller about a couple who own an advertising agency. The husband apparently commits suicide, but the police and the insurance company dec...

Kings

Kings

2007

as Joe Mullan

4.9
Acting

In the mid 1970s a group of young men leave the Connemara Gaeltacht, bound for London and filled with ambition for a better life. After thirty years, ...

Five Fingers

Five Fingers

2006

as Gavin

6.0
Acting

Martijn, an idealistic Dutch pianist, travels to Morocco to help start a food program for malnourished children. Within moments of his arrival, howeve...

Caved In: Prehistoric Terror

Caved In: Prehistoric Terror

2006

as Vincent

3.4
Acting

An extreme adventure tour group headed by deep caving expert John Palmer descends into a 2000 Ft abandoned salt mine , that was mysteriously closed do...

A Lobster Tale

A Lobster Tale

2006

as Cody

6.8
Acting

Cody Brewer, a quiet New England fisherman isn't doing too well for himself. His wife feels neglected, and his son keeps getting picked on by the scho...

Turning Green

Turning Green

2005

as Tom

5.4
Acting

Set in late 1970s Ireland, it tells the story of 16-year-old James Powers, an American who finds himself lost after his mother dies and he is forced t...

Battle of the Brave

Battle of the Brave

2004

as Benjamin Franklin

6.1
Acting

In the mid-18th Century, as England and France battle over control of Canada, an epic romance between a peasant woman and a trapper unfurls

Layer Cake

Layer Cake

2004

as Gene

6.9
Acting

When a seemingly straight-forward drug deal goes awry, XXXX has to break his die-hard rules and turn up the heat, not only to outwit the old regime an...

The Murdoch Mysteries: Poor Tom Is Cold

The Murdoch Mysteries: Poor Tom Is Cold

2004

as Inspector Brackenreid

Acting

Detective William Murdoch is called upon to investigate the death of police constable Oliver Wicken, who is believed to have committed suicide. Howeve...

The Murdoch Mysteries: Except the Dying

The Murdoch Mysteries: Except the Dying

2004

as Inspector Brackenreid

Acting

In late 19th century Toronto, Detective William Murdoch investigates the murder of a young girl found in the red light district. When a possible witne...

Bad Apple

Bad Apple

2004

as Gibbons

4.0
Acting

Black Comedy about a undercover FBI agent in New York who falls for his informant's sister resulting in a deadly game between the criminals and cops.

Renegade

Renegade

2004

as Jimmy McClure

4.8
Acting

U.S Marshal Mike Donovan has dark memories of the death of his first love. He keeps peace between the Americans and the natives who had temporarily ad...

Deep Space Nine: Ending an Era

Deep Space Nine: Ending an Era

2003

as Himself

Acting
The Boys & Girl from County Clare

The Boys & Girl from County Clare

2003

as Jimmy

6.0
Acting

In Ireland in the mid 1960s, two feuding brothers and their respective Ceilidh bands compete at a music festival.

Intermission

Intermission

2003

as Jerry Lynch

6.2
Acting

A raucous story of the interweaving lives and loves of small-town delinquents, shady cops, pretty good girls and very bad boys. With Irish guts and gr...

King of Texas

King of Texas

2002

as Mr. Tumlinson

5.0
Acting

In this re-imagining of Shakespear's King Lear, Patrick Stewart stars as John Lear, a Texas cattle baron, who, after dividing his wealth among his thr...

Random Passage

Random Passage

2002

as Thomas Hutchings

Acting

This award winning miniseries traces the difficult passage of young Mary Keane (Aoife McMahon) from servitude in Ireland to the squalor of rough-and-t...

Backflash

Backflash

2002

as Gin O'Malley

4.6
Acting

A woman is released from prison and heads home to help outwit a local mob boss and pull off the scam of a lifetime.

How Harry Became a Tree

How Harry Became a Tree

2001

as Harry

5.5
Acting

Set in rural Ireland. Believing that "a man is measured by his enemies", Harry Maloney (Colm Meany) sets out to ruin George O'Flaherty – the most powe...

Intimacy

Intimacy

2001

6.2
Acting

Failed musician Jay abandoned his family and now earns a living as head bartender in a trendy London pub. Every Wednesday afternoon, a woman comes to ...

Chapter Zero

Chapter Zero

1999

as Frank Lazaras

4.5
Acting

A novelist examines his life and ambition when his world is turned upside down by a sultry publisher.

Mystery, Alaska

Mystery, Alaska

1999

as Mayor Scott Pitcher

6.3
Acting

In Mystery, Alaska, life revolves around the legendary Saturday hockey game at the local pond. But everything changes when the hometown team unexpecte...

Four Days

Four Days

1999

as Fury

5.0
Acting

A teenaged boy becomes tangled up in a botched bank robbery attempt mastermined by his father and his father's friend.

This Is My Father

This Is My Father

1999

as Seamus

5.4
Acting

When schoolteacher Kieran Johnson discovers that his father was not a French sailor (as he had been led to believe) but rather an Irish farmer, he loo...

Money Kings

Money Kings

1998

as Al Sheehan

6.1
Acting

Vinnie's a bookie, happily married, running his operation for 30 years out of his bar in Brooklyn. Times change, the boys up the chain want a bigger p...

October 22

October 22

1998

as Steve

6.5
Acting

A wounded man makes a desperate call, reporting that a gunman is holding a coffee shop hostage and shooting anyone he pleases -- but when the SWAT tea...

Monument Ave.

Monument Ave.

1998

as Jackie O'Hara

5.6
Acting

Bobby O'Grady is a low level member of a Boston Irish gang run by Jackie O'Hara. Jackie demands absolute, total loyalty to him. When Jackie kills one ...

Claire Dolan

Claire Dolan

1998

as Roland Cain

5.6
Acting

A high-priced call girl, shocked by her mother's death, decides to get out of the business and have a baby.

Owd Bob

Owd Bob

1998

as Keith Moore

5.6
Acting

Recently orphaned David must move to the Isle of Man to live with his grandfather, Adam, who's a sheep farmer. Both long for the end of the summer, h...

Con Air

Con Air

1997

as Agent Duncan Malloy

6.8
Acting

Newly-paroled former US Army ranger Cameron Poe is headed back to his wife, but must fly home aboard a prison transport flight dubbed "Jailbird" takin...

The Last of the High Kings

The Last of the High Kings

1996

as Jim Davern

5.7
Acting

It is 1977, Dublin rocks to the music of Thin Lizzy and the world is stunned by the death of Elvis Presley. Frankie, caught between acne and adulthood...

The Van

The Van

1996

as Larry

6.3
Acting

In a working-class quarter of Dublin, 'Bimbo' Reeves gets laid off from his job and, with his redundancy payout, buys a van and sells fish and chips w...

The Making of Star Trek Deep Space Nine Trials And Tribble-ations

1996

as Self

Acting

The Making of Star Trek Deep Space Nine Trials And Tribble-ations was a documentary which was broadcast on the Sci-Fi Channel in the US on 4 November ...

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - The Way of the Warrior

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - The Way of the Warrior

1995

as Miles O'Brien

5.5
Acting

When a Klingon fleet under General Martok arrives at the station ostensibly to protect the Alpha Quadrant from the Dominion, Sisko recruits Lieutenant...

The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain

The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain

1995

as Morgan the Goat

6.3
Acting

When an English cartographer arrives in Wales to tell the residents of the Welsh village of Ffynnon Garw that their 'mountain' is only a hill, the of...

The New Explorers: The Science of Star Trek

The New Explorers: The Science of Star Trek

1995

as Self

4.2
Acting

How real is the 'science' in Star Trek?

The Road to Wellville

The Road to Wellville

1994

as Dr. Lionel Badger

5.6
Acting

An unhappy young couple visit the infamous Kellogg spa in Battle Creek, Michigan while a young hustler tries get into the breakfast-cereal business an...

War of the Buttons

War of the Buttons

1994

as Geronimo's Dad

7.0
Acting

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

Star Trek: The Next Generation - All Good Things...

Star Trek: The Next Generation - All Good Things...

1994

as Chief Miles O'Brien

9.0
Acting

Q returns as Capt. Picard finds himself continually shifting into the past, future, and present, and he must use that to discover a threat to humanity...

Journey's End - The Saga of Star Trek: The Next Generation

Journey's End - The Saga of Star Trek: The Next Generation

1994

as Self

6.9
Acting

Your destination: the 24th century. Your mission: to voyage where few have gone before--behind the scenes of Star Trek: The Next Generation! Join Jona...

The Snapper

The Snapper

1993

as Dessie Curley

6.4
Acting

Sharon Curley is a 20-year-old living with her parents and many brothers and sisters in Dublin. When she gets pregnant and refuses to name the father,...

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - Emissary

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - Emissary

1993

as Miles O'Brien

7.0
Acting

Three years after his wife died at the hands of the Borg and following the Cardassian withdrawal from the planet Bajor, Commander Benjamin Sisko and a...

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - Behind the Scenes

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - Behind the Scenes

1993

as Himself

1.0
Acting

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine – Behind the Scenes was a fifty minute documentary hosted by Terry Farrell that looked at the creation of Star Trek: Deep S...

Into the West

Into the West

1992

as Barreller

6.4
Acting

Accused of a crime they didn't commit, two city kids and a magical horse are about to become the coolest outlaws ever to ride Into The West.

Under Siege

Under Siege

1992

as Daumer

6.3
Acting

A disgruntled ex-CIA operative, his assistant and their assembled group of terrorists seize a battleship with nuclear blackmail in mind. They've plann...

The Last of the Mohicans

The Last of the Mohicans

1992

as Major Ambrose

7.4
Acting

In war-torn colonial America, in the midst of a bloody battle between British, the French and Native American allies, the aristocratic daughter of a B...

Far and Away

Far and Away

1992

as Kelly

6.8
Acting

A young couple escapes Ireland, dreaming of a new life during the land giveaway in Oklahoma. As they struggle to survive against betrayal and harsh wi...

Star Trek: The Next Generation - Redemption

Star Trek: The Next Generation - Redemption

1991

as Miles O'Brien (archive footage)

6.4
Acting

Loyalties are divided when civil war splits the Klingon Empire. When Worf sees a chance to regain his wrongfully lost family honor, he must choose bet...

The Commitments

The Commitments

1991

as Jimmy Rabbitte, Sr.

7.3
Acting

Jimmy Rabbitte, just a thick-ya out of school, gets a brilliant idea: to put a soul band together in Barrytown, his slum home in north Dublin. First h...

Come See the Paradise

Come See the Paradise

1990

as Gerry McGurn

6.2
Acting

In this drama from director Alan Parker, on-the-lam Jack McGurn flees to Los Angeles and takes a job as a projectionist at a movie theater owned by a ...

Die Hard 2

Die Hard 2

1990

as Windsor Plane - Pilot

7.0
Acting

One year after his heroics in Los Angeles, John McClane is an off-duty cop who is the wrong guy in the wrong place at the wrong time. On a snowy Chris...

Dick Tracy

Dick Tracy

1990

as Cop at Tess'

6.2
Acting

The comic strip detective finds his life vastly complicated when Breathless Mahoney makes advances towards him while he is trying to battle Big Boy Ca...

Perfect Witness

Perfect Witness

1989

as Meagher

6.5
Acting

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...

The Gambler: The Legend Continues

The Gambler: The Legend Continues

1987

as Tinkerer

5.9
Acting

Brady Hawkes and Billy Montana join forces once again in this new adventure. This time around their goal is to help the Sioux fight the government and...

The Dead

The Dead

1987

as Mr. Bergin

6.8
Acting

After a convivial holiday dinner party, things begin to unravel when a husband and wife address some prickly issues concerning their marriage.

Omega Syndrome

Omega Syndrome

1986

as Sean

4.2
Acting

An ex-GI's daughter is abducted by a gang of white supremacists. He calls on one of his former Army buddies, and together they set out to track down t...

Easter 2016

Easter 2016

1982

as Kevin Murphy

Acting

Set in 2016 prior to the centennial of the Easter Rising at Northern Ireland's only integrated teacher training college. A struggle develops between t...

Nailed

Nailed

1981

as Younger Protestant

Acting

In a holding centre in Northern Ireland a member of the RUC attempts to interrogate a suspect.

Remarkably Bright Creatures

N/A

Acting

A lonely elderly widow named Tova forms an unlikely friendship with a curmudgeonly cephalopod octopus named Marcellus, but unbeknownst to her, Marcell...

Shelter Me

N/A

Acting

Jon Boylan, an A.I. research scientist, develops a remote monitoring system that exposes personal struggles, weaknesses and strengths during the isola...