Sean McGinley

Sean McGinley

1956-01-01 Gaoth Dobhair, Donegal, Ireland 54 Credits

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​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.

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That They May Face the Rising Sun

That They May Face the Rising Sun

2024

as Johnny Murphy

7.2
Acting

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

The Last Rifleman

2023

as Brendan O'Brien

6.6
Acting

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

Wait for Me

2023

as Ged

8.7
Acting

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

Christmas at Castle Hart

2021

as Liam

6.4
Acting

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

The Curse of Audrey Earnshaw

2020

as Seamus Dwyer

5.5
Acting

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

Lost Lives

2019

6.0
Acting

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

Stalker

Stalker

2019

as Henry

Acting

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

The Truth Commissioner

2016

as Francis Gilroy

4.5
Acting

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

A Century of Irish Aviation: Pioneers and Aviators

2014

as Self

Acting

A landmark documentary which tells the epic story of the remarkable pioneering individuals whose vision, passion, successes, and failures helped forge...

Wild Decembers

Wild Decembers

2009

as O'Dea

4.5
Acting

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

Closing the Ring

2007

as Campbell

6.1
Acting

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

Shrooms

2007

as Bernie

4.9
Acting

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

Black Dog

2006

as Grandfather

Acting

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

Sixty Six

2006

as Mr. O'Connor

6.6
Acting

A boy's Bar Mitzvah looks set to be a disaster when it coincides with the 1966 World Cup Final.

The Tiger's Tail

The Tiger's Tail

2006

as Declan Murray

5.8
Acting

After a chance encounter, a Dubliner is stalked by a murderous facsimile of himself.

The Wind That Shakes the Barley

The Wind That Shakes the Barley

2006

as Father Denis

7.4
Acting

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

48 Angels

2006

as Dilly

4.5
Acting

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

On a Clear Day

2005

as Eddie

6.5
Acting

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

The Mighty Celt

2005

as I'm A Cripple

6.3
Acting

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

Man About Dog

2004

as J.P. McCallion

6.3
Acting

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

Freeze Frame

2004

as Detective Louis Emeric

6.2
Acting

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

Conspiracy of Silence

2003

as Rector Cathal

4.6
Acting

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

Dead Bodies

2003

as Detective Inspector Wheeler

5.5
Acting

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

Watermelon

2003

as Joe Ryan

4.3
Acting

A tangled web of deciet pitches three lovers together with the added proposition of a baby.

Gangs of New York

Gangs of New York

2002

as Forty Thieves Leader

7.3
Acting

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

Acting

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

Clare sa Spéir

2001

as Eóin

Acting

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

The Claim

2000

as Sweetley

6.0
Acting

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

The Closer You Get

2000

as Ian O'Donnell

5.3
Acting

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

What Where

2000

as Bam

6.0
Acting

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

Lipservice

1999

as Mairtin O Cathain

Acting

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

Simon Magus

1999

as Maximillian Hase

7.3
Acting

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

The General

1998

as Gary

6.7
Acting

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

The Butcher Boy

1998

as Sergeant

6.8
Acting

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

Resurrection Man

1998

as Sammy McClure

6.1
Acting

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

The Disappearance of Finbar

1997

as Detective Roche

6.8
Acting

A dissatisfied teen disappears from his small town, leaving friends to wonder about his whereabouts.

Bogwoman

Bogwoman

1997

as Mr D

Acting

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

The Informant

1997

as Frankie Conroy

6.3
Acting

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

Scorned 2

1997

Screenplay

3.2
Writing

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

A Further Gesture

1997

as Tommy Breen

4.7
Acting

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

Michael Collins

1996

as Smith

6.9
Acting

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

Trojan Eddie

1996

as Raymie

5.3
Acting

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

Acting

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

Braveheart

1995

as MacClannough

7.9
Acting

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

Acting

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

Circle of Friends

1995

as Mr Duggan

6.3
Acting

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

Rik Mayall Presents: Dirty Old Town

1995

as Michael

8.0
Acting

A tramp called Raymond finds his life changes radically when he gets his hands on a sought-after film script.

The Hanging Gale

The Hanging Gale

1995

as Ferry

Acting

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

Family

1994

as Charlo Spencer

8.5
Acting

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

The Field

1990

as Father Chris Doran

7.1
Acting

"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

Fools of Fortune

1990

as Doyle

5.3
Acting

A Protestant Irish family is caught up in a conflict between Irish Republicans and the British army.

Who Bombed Birmingham?

Who Bombed Birmingham?

1990

as A

7.0
Acting

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

Acting

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

Gilgamesh

N/A

as Utnapishtim

Acting

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