David O'Hara

David O'Hara

1965-07-09 Glasgow, Scotland, UK 54 Credits

Biography

David Patrick O'Hara (born 9 July 1965) is a Scottish stage and character actor. A graduate of the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama in London, he is best known to audiences for his numerous supporting roles in high-profile films; including Irishman Stephen in Braveheart, dimwitted mobster Fitzy in The Departed, hitman Mr. X in Wanted, and Albert Runcorn in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1. He portrayed Det. Danny 'Mac' McGregor on The District, and Henry Howard, Earl of Surr...

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Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter 2

Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter 2

2024

7.6
Acting

Explore the lure of the Old West and how it was won—and lost—through the blood, sweat and tears of many. Spanning 15 years before, during, and followi...

Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter 1

Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter 1

2024

as Bowler Hat Surveyor

6.9
Acting

In 1859, families discover the lure of the Old West as they settle in territories from Wyoming to Kansas. Meanwhile, a gruff cowboy soon finds himself...

Deus

Deus

2022

as Ulph

5.3
Acting

A mysterious black sphere is discovered in the orbit of Mars. The Achilles is sent to investigate. After the bedraggled six-person crew wake from eigh...

The Sparrow

The Sparrow

2022

as Larry

5.4
Acting

A teenager lies about his brother's death and struggles to face the consequences that unfold until his domineering father offers the possibility of fo...

Santana

Santana

2020

5.7
Acting

Two brothers — one a narcotics agent and the other a general — finally discover the identity of the drug lord who murdered their parents decades ago. ...

Stan the Man

Stan the Man

2020

as Old Timer

2.0
Acting

Stan Mann, a new money multi-millionaire, whose life consists of ladies, gambling and booze, lives at a 5-star hotel where the staff tends to his ever...

TYSON

2019

Colorist

8.5

Mike Tyson escaped a life of poverty and petty crime to make a name for himself, becoming the youngest Heavyweight Champion of the World and a househo...

The Professor and the Madman

The Professor and the Madman

2019

as Church

7.1
Acting

Professor James Murray begins work compiling words for the first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary in the mid 19th century, and receives over 1...

Cold Pursuit

Cold Pursuit

2019

as Gallum 'Sly' Ferrante

5.8
Acting

The quiet family life of Nels Coxman, a snowplow driver, is upended after his son's murder. Nels begins a vengeful hunt for Viking, the drug lord he h...

Dirt Road To Lafayette

Dirt Road To Lafayette

2018

as Tom

9.0
Acting

A musical journey from the Scottish Highlands to the southern US.

In Extremis

In Extremis

2017

as Alex

5.1
Acting

Alex is a man with everything – the well-paid executive job, the impressive house in the country and the beautiful wife and child. When he inexplicabl...

The Messenger

The Messenger

2015

as DCI Keane

4.8
Acting

The Messenger is the story of Jack’s last melt down: a story of frustration and guilt, love and betrayal, family and blame. Unwillingly becoming embro...

Reach Me

Reach Me

2014

as Dominic

5.3
Acting

Each member of a group of people has a connection to a self-help book authored by a reclusive former football coach.

The Groundsman

The Groundsman

2013

as Keith

Acting

A Scottish football groundsman discovers the club he's been a part of for thirty years is going out of business.

Best Laid Plans

Best Laid Plans

2012

as Curtis

5.6
Acting

David Blair directs this powerful British Drama, loosely inspired by John Steinbeck's novel 'Of Mice and Men'. Set in Nottingham, the film revolves ar...

Contraband

Contraband

2012

as Jim Church

6.3
Acting

When his brother-in-law runs afoul of a drug lord, family man Chris Farraday turns to a skill he abandoned long ago—smuggling—to repay the debt. But t...

Cowboys & Aliens

Cowboys & Aliens

2011

as Pat Dolan

5.6
Acting

A stranger stumbles into the desert town of Absolution with no memory of his past and a futuristic shackle around his wrist. With the help of mysterio...

Golf in the Kingdom

Golf in the Kingdom

2011

as Shivas Irons

4.0
Acting

In 1956, American philosophy student Michael Murphy is on his way to an ashram in India when he stops off in Scotland for one last game of golf. He me...

Whole Lotta Sole

Whole Lotta Sole

2011

as Mad Dog Flynn

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...

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1

2010

as Albert Runcorn

7.7
Acting

Harry, Ron and Hermione walk away from their last year at Hogwarts to find and destroy the remaining Horcruxes, putting an end to Voldemort's bid for ...

The Kid

The Kid

2010

as Terry

6.7
Acting

Based on the real life story of Kevin Lewis, the film follows his childhood of abuse, his descent into a life of crime and the way he put his life tog...

Attack On Darfur

Attack On Darfur

2009

as Freddie Smith

6.0
Acting

American journalists in Sudan are confronted with the dilemma of whether to return home to report on the atrocities they have seen, or to stay behind ...

Jack Said

Jack Said

2009

as The Boss

5.2
Acting

Some journeys are measured by what you sacrifice to get there

Wanted

Wanted

2008

as Mr. X

6.5
Acting

Doormat Wesley Gibson is an office worker whose life is going nowhere. He meets an attractive woman named Fox and discovers that his recently murdered...

Doomsday

Doomsday

2008

as Michael Canaris

6.0
Acting

The lethal Reaper virus spreads throughout Britain—infecting millions and killing hundreds of thousands. Authorities brutally and successfully quarant...

Damage

Damage

2007

as John Ward

1.0
Acting

Set in affluent, contemporary, south-side Dublin, the Cahills appear to have the world at their feet. Dad Aidan, is a successful property tycoon, his ...

The Departed

The Departed

2006

as Fitzy

8.2
Acting

To take down South Boston's Irish Mafia, the police send in one of their own to infiltrate the underworld, not realizing the syndicate has done likewi...

Club Soda

Club Soda

2006

as Man at Bar #2

Acting

A young man's dream to become a successful actor is threatened by the poor decisions he makes until a spiritual guide steps in and sets his conscience...

Tristan & Isolde

Tristan & Isolde

2006

as Donnchadh

6.7
Acting

An affair between the second in line to Britain's throne and the princess of the feuding Irish spells doom for the young lovers.

Hotel Rwanda

Hotel Rwanda

2004

as David

7.7
Acting

Inspired by true events, this film takes place in Rwanda in the 1990s when more than a million Tutsis were killed in a genocide that went mostly unnot...

Stander

Stander

2003

as Allan Heyl

6.2
Acting

The life and career of Andre Stander, a South African police officer turned bank robber.

Den of Lions

Den of Lions

2003

as Ferko Kurchina

5.5
Acting

A Hungarian gypsy working for a Russian mobster becomes a double agent for the FBI.

Made

Made

2001

as The Welshman

5.8
Acting

Two aspiring boxers and lifelong friends get involved in a money-laundering scheme through a low-level organized crime group.

Crossfire Trail

Crossfire Trail

2001

as Rock Mullaney

6.3
Acting

Rafe Covington is as good as his word, and he's determined to keep his promise to a dying man that he'll look after the man's widow and Wyoming ranch....

Donovan Quick

Donovan Quick

2000

as Clive

5.7
Acting

Quirky stranger Donovan (Colin Firth) blows into the Scottish village of Port Clyde. There, he rents a room with the Pannick family and ingratiates hi...

Jesus

Jesus

1999

as John The Baptist

6.7
Acting

Jesus, a carpenter living a simple life, discovers his destiny as the biblical Messiah.

Janice Beard 45 WPM

Janice Beard 45 WPM

1999

as O'Brien

4.8
Acting

Janice Beard is a dreamer who can't seem to quite make it big. She is working in an auto design company and falls for the mailboy, but he is hiding s...

The Match

The Match

1999

as Mechanic

5.8
Acting

Romantic comedy set against the story of a grudge football match between two pubs. The prize for the winner of the centenary match is the the closure ...

Fever

Fever

1999

as Will

4.7
Acting

A struggling artist is implicated in a string of macabre murders.

The Matchmaker

The Matchmaker

1997

as Sean Kelly

6.2
Acting

Marcy, a worker in the reelection campaign of bumbling Senator John McGlory, is sent to Ireland on a quest to find the Irish ancestry of Sen. McGlory,...

The Slab Boys

The Slab Boys

1997

as Terry Skinnedar

8.0
Acting

Paisley, Scotland, in 1957. Three likely lads look forward to the staff dance at the local carpet factory where they work

Oliver Twist

Oliver Twist

1997

as Bill Sikes

6.2
Acting

Charles Dickens' classical story about the young orphan boy in 1837 England is again re-filmed in grand fashion. Richard Dreyfuss portrays Fagin, the ...

The Near Room

The Near Room

1997

as Harris Hill

4.9
Acting

Charlie Colquhoun is a burnt out journalist. His old school friend Harris Hill is a lawyer at the top of his game. Their lives are smashed together by...

The Devil's Own

The Devil's Own

1997

as Martin MacDuff

6.2
Acting

Frankie McGuire, one of the IRA's deadliest assassins, draws an American family into the crossfire of terrorism. But when he is sent to the U.S. to bu...

Some Mother's Son

Some Mother's Son

1996

as Frank Higgins

6.7
Acting

Based on the true story of the 1981 hunger strike in a British prison, in which IRA prisoner Bobby Sands led a protest against the treatment of IRA pr...

Braveheart

Braveheart

1995

as Stephen, Irish Fighter

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...

Open Fire

Open Fire

1994

as Armed Robber

7.0
Acting

Based on real events from 1983; DC Peter Finch is awarded a medal for the courage he showed in arresting a dangerous criminal. Meanwhile transvestite...

Grushko

Grushko

1994

as Lev

6.0
Acting

A restaurant is fire-bombed, a TV journalist and a member of a local mafia are murdered, and a valuable statuette is stolen. Yevgeni Grushko is Head o...

Maria's Child

Maria's Child

1993

as Michael

1.0
Acting

Maria is a dancer who becomes pregnant, unexpectedly, and has to decide whether or not to keep the baby. When her live-in boyfriend, who is not the fa...

The Bridge

The Bridge

1992

as Philip Wilson Steer

4.5
Acting

When Isobel Hetherington and her three young daughters take up their seaside residence in the hot summer of 1887, life seems idyllic. But the arrival ...

Fellow Traveller

Fellow Traveller

1989

as Ronnie Wilson

4.0
Acting

In the Golden Age of Hollywood, two men had it all; one was a top screenwriter, the other a film idol. But when the witch hunts of McCarthyism swept i...

Resurrected

Resurrected

1989

as Male Nurse

5.6
Acting

A Falklands War soldier missing, believed dead, turns up claiming amnesia.

Link

Link

1986

as Tom

6.2
Acting

Young graduate student Jane Chase becomes the new assistant to an eccentric zoology professor at the remote home he shares with two brilliant chimpanz...

Comfort and Joy

Comfort and Joy

1984

as Engineer

6.5
Acting

Radio host Alan 'Dickie' Bird witnesses how an icecream van is attacked and destroyed by angry competitors. This leads him into the struggle between t...