Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Seán McGinley (born ca. 1956) is an Irish film and television actor. Description above from the Wikipedia article Seán McGinley, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Complete Filmography

That They May Face the Rising Sun
2024
as Johnny Murphy
Joe and Kate Ruttledge have returned from London to live and work among the small, close-knit community near to where Joe grew up. Now deeply embedded...

The Last Rifleman
2023
as Brendan O'Brien
A WWII veteran escapes his care home in Northern Ireland and embarks on an arduous but inspirational journey to France to attend the 75th anniversary ...

Wait for Me
2023
as Ged
Alison is no girl-next-door. Dragged into a life of crime after arriving in England from Ireland. She works for small time gangster Max, whose fixatio...

Christmas at Castle Hart
2021
as Liam
Brooke Bennett goes to Ireland for Christmas to search for her Irish roots. While there, she meets Aiden Hart, Earl of Glaslough. Mistaken for an elit...

The Curse of Audrey Earnshaw
2020
as Seamus Dwyer
A devout community suffering from a plague is torn apart by a beautiful young woman and the forces of witchcraft, black magic, and possession.

Lost Lives
2019
This poignant testament to the physical and emotional cost of war, centres on the Troubles in Northern Ireland.

Stalker
2019
as Henry
In the remote Scottish Highlands an aging stalker sets his wits and grit against a poacher who is taking the heads of his best stags.

The Truth Commissioner
2016
as Francis Gilroy
Set in a post-Troubles Northern Ireland, The Truth Commissioner follows the fictional story of Henry Stanfield, played by Roger Allam, a career diplom...

A Century of Irish Aviation: Pioneers and Aviators
2014
as Self
A landmark documentary which tells the epic story of the remarkable pioneering individuals whose vision, passion, successes, and failures helped forge...

Wild Decembers
2009
as O'Dea
The film, based on the novel of the same title by Edna O'Brien, is a dark story about love and land set in County Clare in the West of Ireland.

Closing the Ring
2007
as Campbell
During the 1940s, a group of young men go off to war, leaving behind Ethel Ann, who is in love with one of them, Teddy. In modern-day Belfast, a man n...

Shrooms
2007
as Bernie
A group of American teens comes to Ireland to visit a friend who takes them on a camping trip in search of the local, fabled magic mushrooms. When the...

Black Dog
2006
as Grandfather
When fourteen- year- old Chris is sent across the city to deliver a tonic to his sick grandfather, his journey becomes a chilling trip of self-discove...

Sixty Six
2006
as Mr. O'Connor
A boy's Bar Mitzvah looks set to be a disaster when it coincides with the 1966 World Cup Final.

The Tiger's Tail
2006
as Declan Murray
After a chance encounter, a Dubliner is stalked by a murderous facsimile of himself.

The Wind That Shakes the Barley
2006
as Father Denis
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...

48 Angels
2006
as Dilly
Seamus is a 9 year old boy who has been diagnosed with a serious illness. In search of a miracle, he sets off to find God before God comes for him. In...

On a Clear Day
2005
as Eddie
After decades of laboring as a Glasgow shipbuilder, Frank Redmond, a no-nonsense 55-year-old working-class man, suddenly finds himself laid off. For t...

The Mighty Celt
2005
as I'm A Cripple
Donal is a 14-year old who develops a passion for greyhound racing. He works in a kennel, which is owned by Good Joe. Good Joe promises Donal ownershi...

Man About Dog
2004
as J.P. McCallion
Three pedigree chumps learn that every underdog has its day in this freewheeling Irish comedy. In hock to the tune of £50,000 to a Belfast bookie and ...

Freeze Frame
2004
as Detective Louis Emeric
Sean Veil is an ultra paranoid murder suspect who takes to filming himself round the clock to provide an alibi, just in case he's ever accused of anot...

Conspiracy of Silence
2003
as Rector Cathal
When a priest commits suicide and two trainees are expelled from a seminary, a journalist starts to investigate the Vatican’s silence on broken vows o...

Dead Bodies
2003
as Detective Inspector Wheeler
The return of a vengeful ex-girlfriend sets into motion a series of gruesome events for a hapless Irish bachelor in director Robert Quinn's grim black...

Watermelon
2003
as Joe Ryan
A tangled web of deciet pitches three lovers together with the added proposition of a baby.

Gangs of New York
2002
as Forty Thieves Leader
In early 1860s New York, Irish immigrant Amsterdam Vallon is released from prison and returns to the Five Points, seeking revenge against his father's...
Do Armed Robbers Have Love Affairs?
2002
as Mimms
An aging criminal, about to pull an armed robbery,reflects on a friend of his: a fellow criminal, who lost his life in a recent robbery attempt,on a w...

Clare sa Spéir
2001
as Eóin
A neglected and overworked housewife reaches her record-breaking point. Attempting to break a world record, mother and wife Clare is determined to liv...

The Claim
2000
as Sweetley
A prospector sells his wife and daughter to another gold miner for the rights to a gold mine. Twenty years later, the prospector is a wealthy man who ...

The Closer You Get
2000
as Ian O'Donnell
Irish lads send an ad to the Miami Herald inviting fit and enticing women, between the ages of 20 and 21, to live in their isolated Donegal village. T...

What Where
2000
as Bam
There are five survivors in a futuristic library. Bam is their supreme dictator, and has the others interrogated and tortured, believing them to have ...

Lipservice
1999
as Mairtin O Cathain
A look at exam day in a modern Irish school, where students try to pass their oral Irish language exams, even though they have little knowledge and le...

Simon Magus
1999
as Maximillian Hase
Simon is an outcast from his Jewish community because he claims that the devil talks to him and he has the ability to put curses on crops. When Dovid ...

The General
1998
as Gary
The real-life story of Dublin folk hero and criminal Martin Cahill, who pulled off two daring robberies in Ireland with his team, but attracted unwant...

The Butcher Boy
1998
as Sergeant
Francie and Joe live the usual playful, fantasy filled childhoods of normal boys. However, with a violent, alcoholic father and a manic depressive, su...

Resurrection Man
1998
as Sammy McClure
Belfast, in 1970s. Victor Kelly is a young protestant man who hates the Catholics so much that one night he begins to brutally murder them. A reporter...

The Disappearance of Finbar
1997
as Detective Roche
A dissatisfied teen disappears from his small town, leaving friends to wonder about his whereabouts.

Bogwoman
1997
as Mr D
Bogwoman charts the experiences of a woman who moves to the city from Donegal in 1958. Down the years she copes with various personal and familiy pres...

The Informant
1997
as Frankie Conroy
A former Irish Republican Army fighter, Gingy McAnally (Anthony Brophy), is reluctant about being called back into service after serving time in priso...

Scorned 2
1997
Screenplay
Amanda Foley has confusing nightmares and flashbacks that lead her to seek professional help. Nothing can shed light on her repressed memories, until ...

A Further Gesture
1997
as Tommy Breen
Dowd, an IRA prisoner in the H-blocks, is gloomily facing his sentence, until he joins a comrade in a risky escape. Dowd begins a new life in New York...

Michael Collins
1996
as Smith
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...

Trojan Eddie
1996
as Raymie
Trojan Eddie sells stolen goods for John Power, aging godfather of a local network of Irish gypsies, known as "travelers." Having done time rather tha...
Initiation
1996
The relationship between a father and son is taken to the limit when the workmen at the family firm initiate the boy into his new job.

Braveheart
1995
as MacClannough
Enraged at the slaughter of Murron, his new bride and childhood love, Scottish warrior William Wallace slays a platoon of the local English lord's sol...
Dangerous Lady
1995
No one thinks a seventeen-year-old girl can take on the hard men of London's gangland, but it's a mistake to underestimate Maura Ryan: she's tough, cl...

Circle of Friends
1995
as Mr Duggan
Three girlhood friends now at college share first loves, first kisses and first betrayals. At the center of it all is the best-looking boy on campus. ...

Rik Mayall Presents: Dirty Old Town
1995
as Michael
A tramp called Raymond finds his life changes radically when he gets his hands on a sought-after film script.

The Hanging Gale
1995
as Ferry
In this historical miniseries created for BBC Northern Ireland, four brothers struggle to survive during the Irish potato famine of the 1840s while fa...

Family
1994
as Charlo Spencer
This four-part made-for-TV drama focuses up close on a Dublin couple with four children. Charlo is a hustler, a head-first footballer, a thief, abusiv...

The Field
1990
as Father Chris Doran
"Bull" McCabe's family has farmed a field for generations, sacrificing much in the name of the land. When the widow who owns the field decides to sell...

Fools of Fortune
1990
as Doyle
A Protestant Irish family is caught up in a conflict between Irish Republicans and the British army.

Who Bombed Birmingham?
1990
as A
Docudrama film exploring the efforts of World in Action researchers Ian MacBride and Chris Mullin in proving that the "Birmingham Six" only admitted t...
The Playboy of the Western World
1985
as Shawn Keogh
A story of love, rivalry and betrayal – Synge’s best-known work is a must-see from this multi-award winning company.' Synge’s great comic masterpiece...

Gilgamesh
N/A
as Utnapishtim
Inspired by humanity's oldest story, Gilgamesh, this epic tale explores themes of power, love and loss.