John Lynch

John Lynch

1961-12-26 Corrinshego, Northern Ireland, UK 59 Credits

Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia John Lynch (born 26 December 1961) is an actor and novelist from Northern Ireland. He won the AFI (AACTA) Award for Best Actor for the 1995 film Angel Baby. His other film appearances include Cal (1984), The Secret Garden (1993), In the Name of the Father (1993), Sliding Doors (1998), The Fall (2013–2016), Medici (2019), The Head (2020), and The Banishing (2021). Lynch has also written two novels, Torn Water (2005) and Falling Out of Heaven (2010).

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The Watchers

The Watchers

2024

as Kilmartin

6.4
Acting

A young artist gets stranded in an extensive, immaculate forest in western Ireland, where, after finding shelter, she becomes trapped alongside three ...

Sew Torn

Sew Torn

2024

as Hudson Armitage

6.9
Acting

A seamstress gets tangled in her own thread after stealing a briefcase from a drug deal gone bad. In an escalating game of cat and mouse, her differen...

Starting Tomorrow I'll Get Up Late

Starting Tomorrow I'll Get Up Late

2023

5.0
Acting

Massimo Troisi, away for a long time, reappears silently without anyone knowing. He contacts his friend Gaetano, and Anna, the woman of his life. Anna...

Boys from County Hell

Boys from County Hell

2021

as George Bogue

5.6
Acting

A crew of hardy road workers, led by a bickering Father and Son, must survive the night when they accidentally awaken an ancient Irish vampire.

The Banishing

The Banishing

2021

as Malachi

5.2
Acting

In the 1930s, a young reverend and his family are forced to confront their worst fears when they discover their new home holds a horrifying secret.

Caravan

Caravan

2020

as Sam

Acting

The film centers on an outcast in a rural English community who draws the attention of a vengeful mother after a chance encounter with her two young b...

Kissing Candice

Kissing Candice

2018

as Donal

5.5
Acting

Candice longs to escape the boredom of her seaside town, but when a boy she dreams about turns up in real life, she becomes involved with a dangerous ...

Paul, Apostle of Christ

Paul, Apostle of Christ

2018

as Aquila

7.6
Acting

Risking his life, Luke ventures to Rome to visit Paul -- the apostle who's bound in chains and held captive in Nero's darkest and bleakest prison cell...

Number One

Number One

2017

as Gary

6.2
Acting

A brilliant and determined female engineer is approached by a network of powerful women with an offer to help become the head of a CAC 40 firm. The co...

Upstream

Upstream

2017

as Sean

6.2
Acting

Homer and Joé trace the rivers of Croatia aboard a small boat. In spite of being fifty years old each one, none of them knew of the existence of the o...

Pilgrimage

Pilgrimage

2017

as The Herbalist - Brother Ciaran

5.9
Acting

In 13th century Ireland a group of monks must escort a sacred relic across a landscape fraught with peril.

Detour

Detour

2017

as Frank Malone

6.3
Acting

A young law student, grieving for his dying mother, struggles to decide whether he should kill his unfaithful step-father.

Alleycats

Alleycats

2016

as Redman

5.1
Acting

When bike courier Chris witnesses what looks like a murder, his first instinct is to cut and run. But when his curiosity draws him back in, he's soon ...

Scintilla

Scintilla

2014

as Powell

4.9
Acting

From a torturous cell in Africa, Abel Powell is released and given the chance to regroup his team of skilled mercenaries for one last job. A top scien...

Möbius

Möbius

2013

as Joshua

5.7
Acting

An FSB officer falls in love with his agent, an American woman who works as a trader in a Russian bank.

Private Peaceful

Private Peaceful

2012

as Sergeant Hanley

6.6
Acting

Set in the fields of Devon and the WW1 battlefields of Flanders, two brothers fall for the same girl while contending with the pressures of their feud...

Ghosted

Ghosted

2011

as Jack

5.2
Acting

‘GHOSTED’ tells a story of survival inside a British Prison. Jack a model prisoner, has kept his head down and done his time. After his wife confirms ...

Night of the Hunt

Night of the Hunt

2011

as Narrator (voice)

8.0
Acting

Using the latest advances in camera technology, NGC penetrates the nocturnal hunting behaviors of the lion. Often asleep during the day, at night thes...

13Hrs

13Hrs

2010

as McRae

4.4
Acting

Sarah Tyler returns to her troubled family home in the isolated countryside, for a much put-off visit. As a storm rages outside, Sarah, her family and...

Black Death

Black Death

2010

as Wolfstan

6.1
Acting

As the plague decimates medieval Europe, rumours circulate of a village immune from the plague. There is talk of a necromancer who leads the village a...

Mo

Mo

2010

as Gerry Adams

5.7
Acting

A docudrama about the life of the former UK Secretary of state for Northern Ireland, Mo Mowlam.

Holy Water

Holy Water

2009

as Tom Gaffney

5.8
Acting

The village of Kilcoulins Leap was once a thriving spa town, and was home to a famous Holy Well, but now offers little by way of employment for its pe...

The Tournament

The Tournament

2009

as Gene Walker

5.9
Acting

Every ten years, in an unsuspecting town, The Tournament takes place. A battle royale between 30 of the world's deadliest assassins. The last man stan...

In Tranzit

In Tranzit

2008

as Yakov

5.5
Acting

Nazi POWs suspected of heinous acts are locked up in a Soviet women's prison run by vengeful female guards. To weed out the guilty, the innocent must ...

The Yellow House

The Yellow House

2007

as Paul Gaugin

8.0
Acting

John Simm stars as Vincent Van Gogh in The Yellow House, a feature-length drama that tells the moving human story of the most influential and explosiv...

Lassie

Lassie

2005

as Sam Carraclough

6.4
Acting

A family in financial crisis is forced to sell Lassie, their beloved dog. Hundreds of miles away from her true family, Lassie escapes and sets out on ...

Isolation

Isolation

2005

as Dan

5.5
Acting

On a remote Irish farm, five people become unwilling participants in an experiment that goes nightmarishly wrong.

The Bridge of San Luis Rey

The Bridge of San Luis Rey

2004

as Captain Alvarado

5.1
Acting

The Bridge of San Luis Rey is American author Thornton Wilder's second novel, first published in 1927 to worldwide acclaim. It tells the story of seve...

Alien Hunter

Alien Hunter

2003

as Dr. Michael Straub

5.1
Acting

Government agents find evidence of extraterrestrial life at the South Pole.

Conspiracy of Silence

Conspiracy of Silence

2003

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...

Evelyn

Evelyn

2002

as Senior Counsel Mr. Wolfe

6.4
Acting

Desmond Doyle is devastated when his wife abandons their family on the day after Christmas. His unemployment, and the fact that there is no woman in t...

Puckoon

Puckoon

2002

as O'Brien

6.2
Acting

Spike Milligan's book about the divided Irish village of Puckoon comes to the big screen.

The Seventh Stream

The Seventh Stream

2001

as Tomas Dunhill

6.7
Acting

She's a beautiful stranger lost in his world. Can they find a place in each other's hearts?

blur | The Best Of

blur | The Best Of

2000

Cinematography

8.5

Blur: The Best Of is a greatest hits compilation album by English Britpop band Blur, first released in late 2000 and is the final Blur album by Food R...

The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Love's Sweet Song

The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Love's Sweet Song

2000

as Sean O'Casey

5.0
Acting

Ireland's bloody 1916 Easter Uprising, the suffragette movement in England, a Zeppelin raid, and a meeting with a rising young British cabinet member ...

Best

Best

2000

as George Best

6.1
Acting
The Quarry

The Quarry

1998

as The Man

5.6
Acting

This thriller investigates the mysterious assassination of a gay pastor in rural South Africa. Without witnesses or explanations, the crime appears to...

Sliding Doors

Sliding Doors

1998

as Gerry

6.6
Acting

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...

Night Train

Night Train

1998

Director

7.0
Directing

A man released from jail, where he had served time for doctoring the books of a gangster, has to go into hiding from the gangster's men. He moves into...

This Is the Sea

This Is the Sea

1997

as Padhar McAliskey

5.7
Acting

The film is set in Northern Ireland shortly after 1994 cease-fire. Hazel is a Protestant and Malachy a Catholic. Romance between them is threatened by...

Nothing Personal

Nothing Personal

1996

as Liam

4.5
Acting

A raw depiction of the Belfast 'troubles' as savage tribal warfare. Set shortly after the 1975 cease fire, the film focuses on the tribulations of Ken...

Some Mother's Son

Some Mother's Son

1996

as Bobby Sands

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...

Moll Flanders

Moll Flanders

1996

as Fielding

6.1
Acting

The daughter of a thief, young Moll is placed in the care of a nunnery after the execution of her mother. However, the actions of an abusive priest le...

Angel Baby

Angel Baby

1995

as Harry

6.6
Acting

Two schizophrenics meet during therapy and fall in love. Unfortunately they are on a road to nowhere...

Princess Caraboo

Princess Caraboo

1994

as Amon McCarthy

5.4
Acting

Bristol, England, early 19th century. A beautiful young stranger who speaks a weird language is tried for the crime of begging. But when a man claims ...

Words Upon the Window Pane

Words Upon the Window Pane

1994

as John Corbet

Acting

In 1928 Dublin, during séances concerning Jonathan Swift, the spirits of his former lovers, Stella and Vanessa, emerge to resume their ancient quarrel...

The Secret of Roan Inish

The Secret of Roan Inish

1994

as Tadhg

6.7
Acting

Ten-year-old Fiona is sent to live with her grandparents in a small fishing village in Donegal, Ireland. She soon learns the local legend that an ance...

In the Name of the Father

In the Name of the Father

1993

as Paul Hill

7.9
Acting

A small-time Belfast thief, Gerry Conlon, is wrongly convicted of an IRA bombing in London, along with his father and friends, and spends 15 years in ...

The Secret Garden

The Secret Garden

1993

as Lord Archibald Craven

7.4
Acting

A young British girl born and reared in India loses her neglectful parents in an earthquake. She is returned to England to live at her uncle's castle....

Monkey Boy

Monkey Boy

1992

as Peter Carson

Acting

Half man, half monkey, Chad was born in a lab and kept hidden from the world. A journalist, investigating a macabre mass-murder, discovers the mutant ...

The Railway Station Man

The Railway Station Man

1992

as Damian Sweeney

6.4
Acting

Northern Irishwoman Helen Cuffe (Julie Christie) is overwhelmed with sadness when her husband is killed by the Irish Republican Army. She and her teen...

Edward II

Edward II

1991

as Spencer

6.2
Acting

England, 14th century. King Edward II falls in love with Piers Gaveston, a young man of humble origins, whom he honors with favors and titles of nobil...

Out of the Blue

Out of the Blue

1991

as Rudy

3.5
Acting

Alan makes films in the warehouse studio where he lives, with the help of his friends Rudy and Liz. Even Rudy's girlfriend, Julie, finds herself caugh...

Hardware

Hardware

1990

as Shades

5.9
Acting

Mark 13 is a government-built killing machine programmed with artificial intelligence, able to repair and recharge itself from any energy source. Thro...

1871

1871

1990

as O'Brien

4.8
Acting

A young actress becomes politically aware within the Paris Commune of 1871.

Who Bombed Birmingham?

Who Bombed Birmingham?

1990

as IRA man in cottage

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...

James Joyce's 'Ulysses'

1988

as Stephen Dedalus

Acting

From the series "The Modern World: Ten Great Writers", this playful documentary introduces James Joyce's most famous work "Ulysses". It includes fanta...

Waiting Tables

1986

Acting

Interviews with people whom Gloria Steinem calls "pink collar" workers--those who wait tables.

Cal

Cal

1984

as Cal

5.8
Acting

Cal, a young man on the fringes of the IRA, falls in love with Marcella, a Catholic woman whose husband, a Protestant policeman, was killed one year e...