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).
Known For
Complete Filmography

The Watchers
2024
as Kilmartin
A young artist gets stranded in an extensive, immaculate forest in western Ireland, where, after finding shelter, she becomes trapped alongside three ...

Sew Torn
2024
as Hudson Armitage
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
2023
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
2021
as George Bogue
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
2021
as Malachi
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
2020
as Sam
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
2018
as Donal
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
2018
as Aquila
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
2017
as Gary
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
2017
as Sean
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
2017
as The Herbalist - Brother Ciaran
In 13th century Ireland a group of monks must escort a sacred relic across a landscape fraught with peril.

Detour
2017
as Frank Malone
A young law student, grieving for his dying mother, struggles to decide whether he should kill his unfaithful step-father.

Alleycats
2016
as Redman
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
2014
as Powell
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
2013
as Joshua
An FSB officer falls in love with his agent, an American woman who works as a trader in a Russian bank.

Private Peaceful
2012
as Sergeant Hanley
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
2011
as Jack
‘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
2011
as Narrator (voice)
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
2010
as McRae
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
2010
as Wolfstan
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
2010
as Gerry Adams
A docudrama about the life of the former UK Secretary of state for Northern Ireland, Mo Mowlam.

Holy Water
2009
as Tom Gaffney
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
2009
as Gene Walker
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
2008
as Yakov
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
2007
as Paul Gaugin
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
2005
as Sam Carraclough
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
2005
as Dan
On a remote Irish farm, five people become unwilling participants in an experiment that goes nightmarishly wrong.

The Bridge of San Luis Rey
2004
as Captain Alvarado
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
2003
as Dr. Michael Straub
Government agents find evidence of extraterrestrial life at the South Pole.

Conspiracy of Silence
2003
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
2002
as Senior Counsel Mr. Wolfe
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
2002
as O'Brien
Spike Milligan's book about the divided Irish village of Puckoon comes to the big screen.

The Seventh Stream
2001
as Tomas Dunhill
She's a beautiful stranger lost in his world. Can they find a place in each other's hearts?

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2000
Cinematography
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The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Love's Sweet Song
2000
as Sean O'Casey
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
2000
as George Best

The Quarry
1998
as The Man
This thriller investigates the mysterious assassination of a gay pastor in rural South Africa. Without witnesses or explanations, the crime appears to...

Sliding Doors
1998
as Gerry
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
1998
Director
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
1997
as Padhar McAliskey
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
1996
as Liam
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
1996
as Bobby Sands
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
1996
as Fielding
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
1995
as Harry
Two schizophrenics meet during therapy and fall in love. Unfortunately they are on a road to nowhere...

Princess Caraboo
1994
as Amon McCarthy
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
1994
as John Corbet
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
1994
as Tadhg
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
1993
as Paul Hill
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
1993
as Lord Archibald Craven
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
1992
as Peter Carson
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
1992
as Damian Sweeney
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
1991
as Spencer
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
1991
as Rudy
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
1990
as Shades
Mark 13 is a government-built killing machine programmed with artificial intelligence, able to repair and recharge itself from any energy source. Thro...

1871
1990
as O'Brien
A young actress becomes politically aware within the Paris Commune of 1871.

Who Bombed Birmingham?
1990
as IRA man in cottage
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
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
Interviews with people whom Gloria Steinem calls "pink collar" workers--those who wait tables.

Cal
1984
as Cal
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...