Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Niall Buggy (born 1948) is an Irish actor who has worked extensively on the stage and screen in Ireland, the UK and the US. Some of his more well known roles include the lead in Brian Friel's, Uncle Vanya, for which he won an Irish Theatre Award and an Olivier Award for Dead Funny. His latest movie is The Duel by Anton Chekov which has just been released in the US and is due for release in Ireland and the UK in the coming months. Description above from th...
Known For
Complete Filmography
The Miracle Club
2023
as Tommy Fox
Three close friends who have never left the outskirts of Dublin (much less Ireland) get the journey of a lifetime — a visit to Lourdes, the picturesqu...
As Luck Would Have It
2021
as Alroy
When Lindsey travels to Ireland to acquire land that is perfect for a resort, she decides to enter the town's matchmaking festival to prove her invest...
Beckett Double Bill (Krapp's Last Tape / The Old Tune)
2020
as Gorman
Krapp’s Last Tape: James Hayes uses his natural Irish accent to deliver the best known of these works, a meditation on ageing. He plays the eponymous...
National Theatre Live: Saint Joan
2017
as Archbishop
Josie Rourke directs Gemma Arterton as Joan of Arc in Bernard Shaw's electrifying classic. Performed at the Donmar Warehouse, and part of the NT Live ...
Mr. Turner
2014
as John Carew
Eccentric British painter J.M.W. Turner lives his last 25 years with gusto and secretly becomes involved with a seaside landlady, while his faithful ...
Rufus Stone
2012
as Flip
Rufus Stone is a short film about “love, sexual awakening, and treachery.” According to Director Josh Appignanesi, “the story dramatizes the old and c...
Anton Chekhov's The Duel
2010
as Samoylenko
Set in a seaside resort in the Caucasus, the story centers on n'er do well, Laevsky and his illicit relationship with his mistress Nadya. Laevsky has ...
Brideshead Revisited
2008
as Father Mackay
Artist Charles Ryder runs into aristocrat Julia Flyte and recalls his friendship with her eccentric family prior to the outbreak of the Second World W...
Mamma Mia!
2008
as Father Alex
A spirited young bride-to-be living with her single mother on a small Greek island secretly invites three of her mother's ex-boyfriends in hope of fin...
What If?
2006
Two struggling stuntmen decide to write their own script.
Casanova
2005
as Bookseller / Printer
With a reputation for seducing members of the opposite sex, regardless of their marital status, a notorious womanizer discovers a beauty who seems imp...
Spin the Bottle
2003
as Brendan
Rats is released from prison and needs to make some money; fast. To his dismay, things have changed dramatically during his absence; his mother no lon...
Coogan's Runner
2003
as Self
Video diary from behind the scenes of 2002's "Cruise of the Gods."
Cruise of the Gods
2002
as Graham Ball
Andy Van Allen, former hero of the cult 80s futuristic TV show Children of Castor, is now working as a hotel porter. When Andy receives an unusual off...
That Time
2000
The disembodied head of an old man with long white hair listens to three of his own voices: that of maturity, youth and old age.
The Butcher Boy
1998
as Father Dom
Francie and Joe live the usual playful, fantasy filled childhoods of normal boys. However, with a violent, alcoholic father and a manic depressive, su...
Anna Karenina
1997
as Doctor
Anna Karenina, the wife of a Russian imperial minister, creates a high-society scandal by an affair with Count Vronsky, a dashing cavalry officer in 1...
Alien³
1992
as Eric
After escaping with Newt and Hicks from the alien planet, Ripley crash lands on Fiorina 161, a prison planet and host to a correctional facility. Unfo...
The Playboys
1992
as Denzil
A young woman, Tara Maguire (Robin Wright) scandalizes her provincial Irish village in the 1950s by having a baby out of a wedlock, and refusing to na...
Close My Eyes
1991
as Geof
After some years of tension, Richard begins a sexual relationship with his sister Natalie. Now married, the relationship proves dangerously obsessiona...
The Pope Must Die
1991
as BBC Reporter
A less-than-qualified and far-from-perfect priest is mistakenly named the new pope. As the pontiff, he must deal with Vatican corruption, the Mob and ...
Chinese Whispers
1989
as Kenny
Kenny's work as a nurse in a psychiatric hospital isn't just a job, it's a vocation. His special group of patients are his friends - his only friends....
The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne
1987
as Mr Lenehan
A penniless middle-aged spinster scrapes by giving piano lessons in the Dublin of the 1950s. She makes a sad last bid for love with a fellow resident ...
Hellraiser
1987
as Dinner Guest (uncredited)
Hedonist Frank Cotton finds a mysterious puzzle box that summons the Cenobites, who open the doors to a dominion where pain and pleasure are indivisib...
King David
1985
as Nathan
This is a movie about the life of Israel's king David.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
1977
as Davin
Bosco Hogan plays Joyce's alter-ego, Stephen Daedelus, growing up in Ireland in the early part of the 20th century, and at odds with the strictures of...
The Purple Taxi
1977
as Little Person
With his mauve taxi, the old philosopher Dr. Seamus Scully runs around the small green roads of the south of Ireland, becoming confident of his patien...
Philadelphia, Here I Come
1975
as Ned
Friel contrasts Gar's cloistered emotional life with his gregarious social persona by portraying him as two distinct characters, a public self (Donal ...
Zardoz
1974
as Arthur Frayn / Zardoz
In the far future, a savage trained only to kill finds a way into the community of bored immortals that alone preserves humanity's achievements.