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...
Known For
Complete Filmography

Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter 2
2024
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
2024
as Bowler Hat Surveyor
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
2022
as Ulph
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
2022
as Larry
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
2020
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
2020
as Old Timer
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
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
2019
as Church
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
2019
as Gallum 'Sly' Ferrante
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
2018
as Tom
A musical journey from the Scottish Highlands to the southern US.

In Extremis
2017
as Alex
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
2015
as DCI Keane
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
2014
as Dominic
Each member of a group of people has a connection to a self-help book authored by a reclusive former football coach.

The Groundsman
2013
as Keith
A Scottish football groundsman discovers the club he's been a part of for thirty years is going out of business.

Best Laid Plans
2012
as Curtis
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
2012
as Jim Church
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
2011
as Pat Dolan
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
2011
as Shivas Irons
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
2011
as Mad Dog Flynn
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
2010
as Albert Runcorn
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
2010
as Terry
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
2009
as Freddie Smith
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
2009
as The Boss
Some journeys are measured by what you sacrifice to get there

Wanted
2008
as Mr. X
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
2008
as Michael Canaris
The lethal Reaper virus spreads throughout Britain—infecting millions and killing hundreds of thousands. Authorities brutally and successfully quarant...

Damage
2007
as John Ward
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
2006
as Fitzy
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
2006
as Man at Bar #2
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
2006
as Donnchadh
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
2004
as David
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
2003
as Allan Heyl
The life and career of Andre Stander, a South African police officer turned bank robber.

Den of Lions
2003
as Ferko Kurchina
A Hungarian gypsy working for a Russian mobster becomes a double agent for the FBI.

Made
2001
as The Welshman
Two aspiring boxers and lifelong friends get involved in a money-laundering scheme through a low-level organized crime group.

Crossfire Trail
2001
as Rock Mullaney
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
2000
as Clive
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
1999
as John The Baptist
Jesus, a carpenter living a simple life, discovers his destiny as the biblical Messiah.

Janice Beard 45 WPM
1999
as O'Brien
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
1999
as Mechanic
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
1999
as Will
A struggling artist is implicated in a string of macabre murders.

The Matchmaker
1997
as Sean Kelly
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
1997
as Terry Skinnedar
Paisley, Scotland, in 1957. Three likely lads look forward to the staff dance at the local carpet factory where they work

Oliver Twist
1997
as Bill Sikes
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
1997
as Harris Hill
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
1997
as Martin MacDuff
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
1996
as Frank Higgins
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
1995
as Stephen, Irish Fighter
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
1994
as Armed Robber
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
1994
as Lev
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
1993
as Michael
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
1992
as Philip Wilson Steer
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
1989
as Ronnie Wilson
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
1989
as Male Nurse
A Falklands War soldier missing, believed dead, turns up claiming amnesia.

Link
1986
as Tom
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
1984
as Engineer
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...