Biography
Aidan Quinn (born March 8, 1959) is an American actor. He made his film debut in Reckless (1984) and has starred in over 80 feature films, including Desperately Seeking Susan (1985), The Mission (1986), Stakeout (1987), All My Sons (1987), Avalon (1990), Benny & Joon (1993), Legends of the Fall (1994), Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1994), Michael Collins (1996), Practical Magic (1998), Song for a Raggy Boy (2003), Wild Child (2008) and Unknown (2011). He also played Captain Thomas "Tommy" Gregson...
Known For
Complete Filmography
The Gettysburg Address
2025
as Theodore Parker (voice)
In the midst of the Civil War, President Lincoln went to Gettysburg. "The Gettysburg Address" investigates the five extant copies of Lincoln's famous ...
Food Fight
2025
as Daniel
A cancelled film about two ruthless rivals who come head-to-head in this intense battle of culinary supremacy of the Mediterranean. Malta is the epice...
Daughter of the Bride
2023
as Bruce
Diane and Kate are not only mother and daughter but also best friends. Their lives are turned upside down, however, when Diane announces her engagemen...
Blacklight
2022
as Gabriel Robinson
Travis Block is a shadowy Government agent who specializes in removing operatives whose covers have been exposed. He then has to uncover a deadly cons...
Spiked
2021
as John Wilson
Inspired by True Events. When the murder of a migrant worker shakes a southwest border town to its core, the feud between a newspaper owner and the ch...
A Journey to Sundance
2021
as Self
'A JOURNEY TO SUNDANCE' is about the spirit, dreams and struggles of independent filmmakers from all over the world, as well as my own struggles to fi...
Babenco: Tell Me When I Die
2020
as Self (archive footage)
Besieged by cancer and nearing the end, the genius Argentine-Brazilian filmmaker Héctor Babenco (1946-2016) asks Bárbara Paz, his wife, for one last w...
Change in the Air
2018
as Moody Burkhart
A peaceful community is forever changed when a mysterious young woman moves in. As the quirky locals embrace her, their lives soon improve. But, they ...
Arthur Miller: Writer
2017
as Self (archive footage)
One of the greatest playwrights of the 20th century, Arthur Miller created such celebrated works as Death of a Salesman and The Crucible, which contin...
Stay
2013
as Dermot
A woman finds out she's pregnant and returns home when the expected father wants nothing to do with her.
Rushlights
2013
as Cameron Brogden
Young lovers Billy and Sarah journey from L.A. to Texas with plans to make a false claim to the valuable assets left behind by a dead friend. But when...
If I Were You
2013
as Derek
When a woman tries to outwit her husband's sexy young mistress, the unexpected consequences include starring as King Lear in a very amateur production...
The Last Keepers
2013
as John
This romantic fantasy movie is about two people who are the last survivors of an ancient line of goddess worshipers, who sell art at a shop. When thei...
Allegiance
2012
as Lieutenant Colonel Owens
After being granted a questionable transfer that will keep him stateside as his National Guard unit deploys for Iraq, Lieutenant Danny Sefton becomes ...
The Horses of McBride
2012
as Matt Davidson
When Nicki finds two horses stranded deep in the Rocky Mountain snow, she makes it her mission to find a way to get them to safety. With no other opti...
Festival of Lights
2012
as Adem
After receiving shocking news about her absent father, a rebellious teenage girl embarks on a journey from New York to Guyana to discover the truth ab...
The Stand Up
2012
as Sandy
After his girlfriend's tragic death, devastated stand-up comic Zoe Hardwick drops his budding career on stage and moves back home. But when his father...
The Greening of Whitney Brown
2011
as Henry Brown
Whitney, a spoiled pre-teen from Philadelphia, is forced to move to the country when her parents feel the squeeze of economic hard times. A fish out o...
Unknown
2011
as Martin B.
A man awakens from a coma, only to discover that someone has taken on his identity and that no one, (not even his wife), believes him. With the help o...
Across the Line: The Exodus of Charlie Wright
2010
as Charlie Wright
The story centers on Charlie, a Los Angeles billionaire financial whiz who goes into self-imposed exile in Tijuana after his empire is revealed to hav...
Sarah's Key
2010
as William Rainsferd
On the night of 16 July 1942, ten year old Sarah and her parents are being arrested and transported to the Velodrome d'Hiver in Paris where thousands ...
Flipped
2010
as Richard Baker
When Juli meets Bryce in the second grade, she knows it's true love. After spending six years trying to convince Bryce the same, she's ready to give u...
Jonah Hex
2010
as Ulysses S. Grant
Gunslinger Jonah Hex is appointed by President Ulysses Grant to track down terrorist Quentin Turnbull, a former Confederate officer determined on unle...
The 5th Quarter
2010
as Steven Abbate
In the wake of a car crash that killed his brother, football player Jon Abbate leads his school's struggling team to its most successful season ever.
A Shine of Rainbows
2009
as Alec
An orphaned boy named Tomás is adopted by Maire O’Donnell to live on a whimsical Irish isle filled with new friends, secret caves and a lost baby pup ...
From Ararat to Zion
2009
as Narrator
The mosaic of Christian pilgrimage to the Holy Land has been shaped during two thousand years. The pilgrims have brought along their stories and left ...
Handsome Harry
2009
as Prof. Porter
An ex-Navy man carrying out the last wish of a dying shipmate renews contact with old friends to break the code of silence around a mysterious, long-b...
The Eclipse
2009
as Nicholas Holden
Michael is a widower who is struggling to adjust to his new role as the sole caretaker of his two children. Still reeling from the death of his wife, ...
Irish Chicago
2009
as Self - Host
The colorful stories of Irish-American immigrants and their descendants who lived the history and exemplify the repeated cycle of the outsider becomin...
Wild Child
2008
as Gerry Moore
Sixteen-year-old Poppy has everything her unlimited credit cards can buy, and a spoiled attitude to match. After a final thoughtless prank, her exaspe...
The Prince of Motor City
2008
as Charlie Hamilton
A modern-day adaptation of Shakespeare's Hamlet set in Detroit.
Dark Matter
2008
as Jacob Reiser
Liu Xing a brilliant Chinese student, arrives at University and makes the transition into American life with the help of Joanna Silver. Xing joins a c...
32A
2007
as Frank Brennan
This story is set in the "in-between" time of a girl's life, when she is no longer a child and not yet a woman. We open with our heroine, Maeve, putti...
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
2007
as Henry Dawes
Beginning just after the bloody Sioux victory over General Custer at Little Big Horn, the story is told through two unique perspectives: Charles Eastm...
The Exonerated
2006
as Kerry Max Cook
Six people tell their stories on a single subject - how they got wrongfully convicted to death penalty, but later got exonerated.
Mayday
2005
as John Berry
Twelve miles above the Pacific Ocean, an errant missile strikes a state of the art passenger jet. The flight crew is crippled or dead. Now, defying bo...
Nine Lives
2005
as Henry
Captives of the very relationships that define and sustain them, nine women resiliently meet the travails and disappointments of life.
Return to Sender
2004
as Frank Nitzche
While fighting for a woman who sits on death row, a lawyer happens upon new information which brings into question the motives of a man associated wit...
Shadow of Fear
2004
as Detective Scofield
When a young man accidentally kills someone, he is plunged into a rich man's world of blackmail, betrayal, adultery and ...murder.
Miracle Run
2004
as Douglas Thomas
Corinne is a single mother of twin 5-year-old boys, Steven and Phillip, who are diagnosed with autism. Public school officials threaten to remove them...
Proud
2004
as Commodore Alfred Lind
The true story of the only African-American crew to take a Navy warship into combat in World War II.
See You in My Dreams
2004
as Joe F. Brown
Joe, an overwrought rancher is striving from his harsh upbringing, trying make a better life for his family. When his business falters, Joe fears his ...
Cavedweller
2004
as Clint Windsor
A traumatic event sends a musician back to her hometown in an effort to reunite with the daughters she abandoned. To do so, she must confront her abus...
Bobby Jones: Stroke of Genius
2004
as Harry Vardon
The story of golf icon and legend, Bobby Jones, who retired from competition at the tender age of 28.
Plainsong
2004
as Tom Guthrie
Tom Guthrie, a high school history teacher, is faced with raising two young sons after his wife leaves him. Maggie Jones, a fellow teacher, tries to p...
Song for a Raggy Boy
2003
as William Franklin
William Franklin is a teacher who was born in Ireland and moved to the United States only to repatriate in 1939 after his leftist political views caus...
Benedict Arnold: A Question of Honor
2003
as Gen. Benedict Arnold
On the glorious battlefields of the American Revolution, two great generals distinguished themselves; George Washington and Benedict Arnold. Washingto...
Evelyn
2002
as Nick Barron
Desmond Doyle is devastated when his wife abandons their family on the day after Christmas. His unemployment, and the fact that there is no woman in t...
Stolen Summer
2002
as Joe O'Malley
Pete, an eight-year-old Catholic boy growing up in the suburbs of Chicago in the mid-1970s, attends Catholic school, where as classes let out for the ...
Songcatcher
2001
as Tom Bledsoe
After being denied a promotion at the university where she teaches, Doctor Lily Penleric, a brilliant musicologist, impulsively visits her sister, who...
The Prince and the Pauper
2000
as Miles Hendon
An adaptation of the classic, "The Prince and the Pauper" is the retelling of Edward Tudor and young Thomas Canty, two amazing look-alikes caught up i...
Two of Us
2000
as Paul McCartney
In this purely fictional story, Paul McCartney drops by The Dakota to visit John Lennon in 1976. Paul is still on top of the music world, reaching #1 ...
Music of the Heart
1999
as Brian
Story of a schoolteacher's struggle to teach violin to inner-city Harlem kids.
This Is My Father
1999
as Kieran O'Day
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...
This Is My Father
1999
Executive Producer
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...
In Dreams
1999
as Paul Cooper
A suburban housewife learns that she has psychic connections to a serial killer, and can predict this person's motives through her dreams.
Practical Magic
1998
as Gary Hallet
Sally and Gillian Owens, born into a magical family, have mostly avoided witchcraft themselves. But when Gillian's vicious boyfriend, Jimmy Angelov, d...
Forbidden Territory: Stanley's Search for Livingstone
1997
as Henry Morton Stanley
British explorer Henry Stanley travels to Africa in 1871 seeking missionary David Livingstone.
The Assignment
1997
as Annibal Ramirez / Carlos
Jack Shaw has experienced the terror first-hand. He's a top CIA agent who's tracked international killer-for-hire Carlos "The Jackal" Sanchez for over...
Commandments
1997
as Seth Warner
Seth Warner has reached the end of his rope. Ever since his wife died two years earlier, his world has been in turmoil. He is despondent, his career h...
Michael Collins
1996
as Harry Roland
Michael Collins plays a crucial role in the establishment of the Irish Free State in the 1920s, but becomes vilified by those hoping to create a compl...
Looking for Richard
1996
as Richmond
Al Pacino's deeply-felt rumination on Shakespeare's significance and relevance to the modern world through interviews and an in-depth analysis of "Ric...
Lumière & Company
1995
as (segment "John Boorman")
40 international directors were asked to make a short film using the original Cinematographe invented by the Lumière Brothers, working under condition...
Haunted
1995
as Prof. David Ash
Professor David Ash exposes false spiritulists and mediums. He is invited to Edbrook to resolve the fears and torments within its secretive family. So...
The Stars Fell on Henrietta
1995
as Don Day
The setting is early America during the oil boom. An elderly, down on his luck 'oil man', Mr. Cox finds himself in the town of Henrietta. Using unconv...
Out of Ireland
1995
as Maurice Woulfe (voice)
Over the course of two centuries, seven million men, women and children abandoned their homeland for America's shores. In just one horrifying decade, ...
Legends of the Fall
1994
as Alfred Ludlow
In early 20th-century Montana, Col. William Ludlow lives on a ranch in the wilderness with his sons, Alfred, Tristan, and Samuel. Eventually, the unco...
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
1994
as Cap. Robert Walton
Victor Frankenstein is a promising young doctor who, devastated by the death of his mother during childbirth, becomes obsessed with bringing the dead ...
Out of Ireland: The Story of Irish Emigration to America
1994
as Maurice Woulfe (voice)
Originally broadcast to critical acclaim on PBS, this documentary traces the story of flight from the famine-swept villages of 19th century Ireland to...
Blink
1993
as Detective John Hallstrom
Emma is an attractive girl in her 20s who has been blind for 20 years. A new type of eye operation partially restores her sight, but she is having pro...
Benny & Joon
1993
as Benjamin 'Benny' Pearl
A mentally ill young woman finds her love in an eccentric man who models himself after Buster Keaton.
A Private Matter
1992
as Bob Finkbine
The true story of Romper Room host "Miss Sherri" Finkbine, who, after the devastating effects of thalidomide were discovered in the early 1960s, spark...
The Playboys
1992
as Tom Casey
A young woman, Tara Maguire (Robin Wright) scandalizes her provincial Irish village in the 1950s by having a baby out of a wedlock, and refusing to na...
At Play in the Fields of the Lord
1991
as Martin Quarrier
Martin and Hazel Quarrier are small-town fundamentalist missionaries sent to the jungles of South America to convert the Indians. Their remote mission...
Lies of the Twins
1991
as James McEwan / Jonathan McEwan
An ex-model is seduced into danger by her psychotherapist boyfriend's wicked identical twin.
Avalon
1990
as Jules Kaye
A Polish-Jewish family comes to the U.S. at the beginning of the twentieth century. There, the family and their children try to make themselves a bett...
The Handmaid's Tale
1990
as Nick
In a dystopian, polluted right-wing religious tyranny, a young woman is put in sexual slavery on account of her now rare fertility.
The Lemon Sisters
1989
as Frankie McGuinness
Three life-long friends work the bars in 1980s Atlantic City performing the songs of the 1960s girl groups.
Perfect Witness
1989
as Sam Paxton
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...
Crusoe
1988
as Crusoe
Robinson Crusoe is shipwrecked and he finds himself all alone on a tropical island. With a few tools he manages to rescue from the wreck he has to lea...
Stakeout
1987
as Richard "Stick" Montgomery
Two detectives observe an escaped convict's ex-girlfriend, but complications set in when one of them falls for her.
All My Sons
1987
as Chris Keller
Two families, related by friendship and love, face up to the consequences of greed and avarice in the post-war years. Love and death play equal roles ...
The Mission
1986
as Felipe Mendoza
When a Spanish Jesuit goes into the South American wilderness to build a mission in the hope of converting the Indians of the region, a slave hunter i...
An Early Frost
1985
as Michael Pierson
Successful lawyer Michael Pierson is gay, but he has always hidden this part of his life from his mother, Katherine, father, Nick, and grandmother Bea...
Desperately Seeking Susan
1985
as Dez
A bored New Jersey suburban housewife's fascination with a free-spirited woman she has read about in the personal columns leads to her being mistaken ...
Reckless
1984
as Johnny Rourke
Teenager Johnny Rourke is reckless. Born on the wrong side of the tracks, he breaks the law and girls' hearts with equal cool. Cheerleader Tracey Pres...
The Well of Saint Nobody
N/A
Famous concert pianist William retires to a rectory in West Cork, Ireland. There, he hires a local woman, Tara, as a housekeeper, whom he has met thre...
Cry from the Sea
N/A
as Father MacGabbhan
CRY FROM THE SEA is the story of a lighthouse keeper stuck in a cycle of grief and the three people who change the course of his life: the housekeeper...
Butterfly in the Typewriter
N/A
as Barnet Rosset
Troubled author John Kennedy Toole's struggle to bring A Confederacy of Dunces to print.
Ages of the Moon
N/A
A movie adaptation of the Sam Shepard play Ages Of The Moon.
Ages of the Moon
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Director, Producer
A movie adaptation of the Sam Shepard play Ages Of The Moon.