Biography
Kevin McNally (born 27 April 1956) is an English actor. He is best known for his role in the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise (2003–2017). He grew up in Birmingham where he attended Redhill and Mapledene Junior schools and Central Grammar School for Boys. At the age of 16, he got his first job at Birmingham Repertory Theatre. A year later he received a scholarship to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. In 1975 he won the Best Actor Bancroft Gold Medal for his stage performance. McNally's most ...
Known For
Complete Filmography

Apartment 7A
2024
as Roman Castevet
A struggling young dancer finds herself drawn in by dark forces when a peculiar, well-connected older couple promise her a shot at fame.

Bottom: Exposed
2024
as Self
Adrian Edmondson gives a first-hand account of making the hit show "Bottom" with the late, great Rik Mayall. His account comes alongside contributions...

Exterminate
2023
Director
Bounty hunters David and Sofia get more than they bargained for when they take shelter from a Covid apocalypse and meet thrill-seeker Dominic.

Bloody Fury
2023
as Bloody Fury (voice)
In the Far West, the fur trade is booming. Bloody Furry, one of the last red wolves still alive, decides to avenge his slaughtered family. But is reve...

Hancock: Very Nearly an Armful
2023
as Self
Hancock fan Jack Dee presents Tony Hancock: Very Nearly An Armful. Taking its title from celebrated Hancock episode The Blood Donor, this two-hour ret...

On Your Behalf
2022
as Detective McHendry
We all have pet peeves which make us say 'I could kill them'. Ava goes one step further and puts these thoughts into action.

Curse of the Macbeths
2022
as Duncan
In their unrelenting quest for power, Macbeth and Lady Macbeth engage in murder and mayhem to attain the Crown and keep it, in this modern-day version...

Decrypted
2021
as Colonel Pike
An outrageous and provocative dark comedy about a mismatched NSA team who kidnap the creator of Bitcoin - Satoshi Nakamoto - and attempt to torture hi...

You Really Got Me
2021
as Older James
It's 1964. James and Linda are young and in love, until one day she disappears. 43 years later he finds her, but James has to find out: is it always b...

Painted Beauty
2021
as Det. Greene
Having done some of the most shocking art the public has ever seen, Sasha is the most sought-after artist in the world. In search of inspiration, she ...

Robert the Bruce
2019
as Old Sean
In 1306, Scottish King Robert the Bruce turns a defeated outlaw when his country is invaded. But before to free his sacred land, he must manage to reg...

King Lear: Live at Shakespeare's Globe
2017
as Lear
King Lear has three daughters, but no sons. Boldly he makes a decision to divide his kingdom among his children, but fails to anticipate the consequen...

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales
2017
as Joshamee Gibbs
Thrust into an all-new adventure, a down-on-his-luck Capt. Jack Sparrow feels the winds of ill-fortune blowing even more strongly when deadly ghost sa...
Macbeth Unhinged
2016
as Duncan
This is a modern interpretation of the bard's tragedy, set in the claustrophobic confines of a stretch limousine which prowls the streets of a contemp...

The Man Who Knew Infinity
2016
as Major MacMahon
Growing up poor in Madras, India, Srinivasa Ramanujan Iyengar earns admittance to Cambridge University during WWI, where he becomes a pioneer in mathe...

Legend
2015
as Harold Wilson
Suave, charming and volatile, Reggie Kray and his unstable twin brother Ronnie start to leave their mark on the London underworld in the 1960s. Using ...
Marked
2014
as Brian Cruft
A middle-aged, debt-laden suburban husband hits a crisis point and in his desperation agrees upon an unlikely opportunity to make some easy money.
1946
2014
as Karl
Having returned from WWII, Hollywood star begins to question his choice of career.

Mel Smith: I've Done Some Things
2013
as Self
A tribute to British comedian Mel Smith, who died in July 2013, aged 60, featuring home video footage, rare archive material and many classic sketches...

Bounty Killer
2013
as Daft Willy
It’s been 20 years since the corporations took over the world’s governments. Their thirst for power and profits led to the Corporate Wars, a fierce gl...

The Challenger Disaster
2013
as Lawrence Mulloy
When the space shuttle Challenger blew up in 1986, it was the most shocking event in the history of American spaceflight. The deaths of seven astronau...

The Raven
2012
as Maddux
A fictionalized account of the last days of Edgar Allan Poe's life, in which the poet is in pursuit of a serial killer whose murders mirror those in t...

Hamilton: In the Interest of the Nation
2012
as Harold Smith
Carl Hamilton manages to infiltrate an international gang that has stolen advanced Swedish GPS-guided missiles. But the league is subjected to a sudde...

Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides
2011
as Joshamee Gibbs
Captain Jack Sparrow crosses paths with a woman from his past, and he's not sure if it's love — or if she's a ruthless con artist who's using him to f...
Poe
2011
as Kyle Kilpatrick
It's 1840 and Boston is in the grips of a series of mysterious murders. When dark forces threaten, the only man who can protect the city is one who ha...

Margaret
2009
as Kenneth Clarke
A detailed and compelling portrait of one of the most formidable characters in British politics as she faces her final days in power. The year is 1990...

Valkyrie
2008
as Carl-Friedrich Goerdeler
Wounded in Africa during World War II, Nazi Col. Claus von Stauffenberg returns to his native Germany and joins the Resistance in a daring plan to cre...

Tu£sday
2008
as Jerry
Four career criminals, two glamorous bank workers and one over-the-hill has-been all happen to be planning a robbery on a London bank on the same day,...

The Murder of Princess Diana
2007
as Charles Davis
Rachel, an American journalist in Paris, is present the night of the fateful accident of Princess Diana and witness to the crime scene. As she starts ...

Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
2007
as Gibbs
Will Turner and Elizabeth Swann join forces with the revived Captain Barbossa to free Jack Sparrow from Davy Jones' locker. The group must navigate da...

According to Plan: The Making of 'Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest'
2006
as Self
Special feature documentary following the cast and crew through the making of Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest.

Scoop
2006
as Mike Tinsley
An American journalism student in London scoops a big story, and begins an affair with an aristocrat as the incident unfurls.

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
2006
as Joshamee Gibbs
Captain Jack Sparrow races to recover the heart of Davy Jones to avoid enslaving his soul to Jones' service, as other friends and foes seek the heart ...

Irish Jam
2006
as Lord Hailstock
Upon discovering that their town is up for sale, crafty Irish villagers scheme to raise the money to prevent the buy-out. They hold a poetry contest w...

Dead Fish
2005
as Frank Rosenheim (as Kevin R. McNally)
Gary Oldman is Lynch, a strangely charming hit man in this explosively funny dark comedy in the tradition of Snatch and Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Ba...

The Phantom of the Opera
2004
as Buquet
A young soprano becomes the obsession of a disfigured and murderous musical genius who lives beneath the Paris Opera House.

De-Lovely
2004
as Gerald Murphy
From Paris to Venice to Broadway to Hollywood, the lives of Cole Porter and his wife, Linda Lee Thomas were never less than glamorous and wildly uncon...

Crust
2003
as Bill Simmonds
Bill, an ex-boxer, is a failure in life but has no idea what to do about it -- until he meets local dodgy businessman Hamid 'Anything-U-Need' Choudhur...

Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
2003
as Joshamee Gibbs
After Port Royal is attacked and pillaged by a mysterious pirate crew, capturing the governor's daughter Elizabeth Swann in the process, William Turne...

Johnny English
2003
as Prime Minister
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...

High Heels and Low Lifes
2001
as Mason
A nurse eavesdrops with a friend on a cell phone conversation that describes a bank heist. She and the friend then conspire to blackmail the robbers f...

Conspiracy
2001
as Martin Luther
At the Wannsee Conference on January 20, 1942, senior Nazi officials meet to determine the manner in which the so-called "Final Solution to the Jewish...

The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: My First Adventure
2000
as Walter Harris (archive footage)
While traveling with his father's world-wide lecture tour, nine-year-old Indiana Jones encounters an ancient mummy and a fresh corpse at an archaeolog...

When the Sky Falls
2000
as Tom Hamilton
Fact-based story about Irish crime-investigating reporter Sinead Hamilton, who invaded the Irish underworld and attempted to expose the illegitimate a...

Instinct
1999
as Prisoners
In a prison for the criminally insane, deranged anthropologist Ethan Powell is set to be examined by a bright young psychiatrist, Theo Caulder. Driven...

Entrapment
1999
as Haas
Two thieves, who travel in elegant circles, try to outsmart each other and, in the process, end up falling in love.

Sliding Doors
1998
as Paul
London publicist Helen, effortlessly slides between parallel storylines that show what happens when she does or does not catch a train back to her apa...

Spice World
1997
as Policeman
World famous pop group the Spice Girls zip around London in their luxurious double decker tour bus having various adventures and performing for their ...

The Precious Blood
1996
as Billy McVea
Rosie Williams is haunted by the murder of her husband 12 years previously. Her teenage son John is heading for a life of delinquency fuelled by reven...
Eleven Men Against Eleven
1995
as Jake Leach
A curtain raiser for the 1995-6 football season and a state of the Premiership comedy drama about the corrupt world of football. Sir Bob is a football...

Return to Blood River
1994
as Terry
Douglas Livingstone has direct experience of the tensions in South Africa. On a research visit there in the summer of 1993, he was mugged within 24 ho...

All Things Bright and Beautiful
1994
as Tommy O'Neill
A young boy's innocent observations leads the local priest to believe he has borne witness to a manifestation of the Virgin Mary. Set in an idyllic ru...

Abraham
1993
as Nahor
Rather than choosing a great leader or king, God chooses Abraham, an elderly shepherd from Mesopotamia, as the way to establish his Covenant with mank...

Stalin
1992
as Kirov
The life and career of the brutal Soviet dictator, Josef Stalin. Through the eyes and memories of Anna Aliluyeva, Stalin’s granddaughter, the film tra...

Common Pursuit
1992
Common Pursuit is a play by Simon Gray which follows the lives of six characters who first meet as undergraduates at Cambridge University when they ar...

A Masculine Ending
1992
as Andrew Gardner
While English professor Loretta Lawson is attending a conference in Paris, she stays the night in the flat of a friend's acquaintance. She discovers a...
Murder East - Murder West
1990
as Regine's Boyfriend in the East
This Cold War dramatic thriller tells the passionate story of three people caught in a murderous web of deceit and revenge on both sides of the former...

Jekyll & Hyde
1990
as Sergeant Hornby
Henry Jekyll is a troubled man. His wife died of pneumonia. He wants his sister-in-law, but her father forbids any contact. And his experiments into t...

Dream Baby
1989
as Slick
Annie Kirk's life is in chaos. She is broke, unemployed, can't pay her poll tax and has two boyfriends she wants to be shot of. She is determined to b...

The Hangover
1989
as Colin

Thin Air
1988
as Mark Gentian
Set in a commercial radio station in an enterprise zone called ‘Riverside’, Thin Air involved property development on a massive scale, the disruption ...

Cry Freedom
1987
as Ken
A dramatic story, based on actual events, about the friendship between two men struggling against apartheid in South Africa in the 1970s. Donald Woods...

The Berlin Affair
1985
as Heinz von Hollendorf
What begins as an innocent art class becomes a steamy triangle of erotic passions and forbidden love. A beautiful Japanese girl becomes the object of ...

Not Quite Paradise
1985
as Pete
Six young volunteers from different backgrounds travel to Israel to spend a summer working on a kibbutz, a communal farm where they can find adventure...

Doctor Who: The Twin Dilemma
1984
as Hugo Lang
A race of giant Gastropods has taken over the planet Jaconda. Their leader, Mestor, now intends to cause an enormous explosion in order to spread his ...

The Bad Sister
1983
as Tony
Jane is the illegitimate daughter of a Scottish landowner. She is disowned and expelled from his estates, but although she settles down to a new life ...

Enigma
1982
as Bruno
Five highly-trained KGB agents are sent to the west to assassinate several Soviet dissidents. In order to stop the diabolical plot, an American agent ...

Commitments
1982
as Hugh
Three-day weeks, strikes and the lights going out - the winter of 1973-4 finally spurs Hugh into political action. But is his new-found zeal going to ...

Praying Mantis
1982
as Bernard
A middle-aged professor's young bride and his assistant plan to commit a double murder disguised as a "Crime Passionel", but discover too late that on...

The Long Good Friday
1980
as Irish Youth
In the late 1970s, Cockney crime boss Harold Shand, a gangster trying to become a legitimate property mogul, has big plans to get the American Mafia t...
Where the Heart Is
1979
as Paul
Dissatisfied with life with Jack, Penny offers a home to baby Zero and his homeless mother.

The Spy Who Loved Me
1977
as HMS Ranger Crewman
Russian and British submarines with nuclear missiles on board both vanish from sight without a trace. England and Russia both blame each other as Jame...
The Paradise Run
1976
as Johnny
Johnny has joined the army because he likes canoeing, but ends up in a war-torn city and is compromised into helping the enemy. However, desertion wil...

Reflections
N/A
as Sid
Sid lives in self-imposed isolation with his dog, Ace. That is until, one day, amidst the surrounding mountainscape, Sid sees a mysterious house appea...

Largo
N/A
as Angus
A young Syrian refugee living in the UK without his parents decides to build a boat and sail home to find them.
Primate
N/A
A group of friends must protect themselves during a pool party when the host family's pet chimpanzee contracts rabies and turns vicious.