Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Adrian Dunbar (born 1 August 1958) is an actor from Northern Ireland, best known for his television and theatre work. Dunbar co-wrote and starred in the 1991 film, Hear My Song, nominated for Best Original Screenplay at the BAFTA awards. Description above from the Wikipedia article Adrian Dunbar, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Complete Filmography
Kiss Me, Kate
2024
as Fred Graham / Petruchio
Recorded from the West End, Kiss Me Kate follows a pair of divorced actors brought together to participate in a musical version of The Taming of the S...
A Sudden Case of Christmas
2024
as Otto
An American couple bring their 10 year old daughter, Claire, to her grandfather Lawrence's hotel in The Dolomites, Italy. They usually come for Christ...
Emily
2022
as Patrick Brontë
The imagined life of one of the world’s most famous authors, Emily Brontë, as she finds her voice and writes the literary classic Wuthering Heights. E...
Searching for Sam: Adrian Dunbar on Samuel Beckett
2019
as Self - Presenter
Samuel Beckett has fascinated Adrian Dunbar since he was a young student. Now, 30 years after Beckett's death in Paris, Dunbar explores what made the ...
Lost Lives
2019
This poignant testament to the physical and emotional cost of war, centres on the Troubles in Northern Ireland.
The Snowman
2017
as Frederik Aasen
Detective Harry Hole investigates the disappearance of a woman whose pink scarf is found wrapped around an ominous looking snowman.
Two Angry Men
2016
as Sam Thompson
Short film telling the story of James Ellis and Sam Thompson as they battle against the establishment to stage a controversial play in Belfast in 1959...
Brendan Behan: The Roaring Boy
2014
as Himself
Actor Adrian Dunbar has played Brendan Behan on the stage many times, and now sets out on a journey to discover the real story of the poet and playwri...
Walter
2014
as DI Walter Gambon
DI Walter Gambon is a self-styled “Yoda of the force”, whose workload suddenly increases when he’s handed the cases of an officer who committed suicid...
The Attendant
2012
as Frankie
Frankie is a car park attendant at the spectacular Giant’s Causeway in Co. Antrim. His friend Cathy and her husband Paul are in trouble. Nevertheless ...
Good Vibrations
2012
as Andy
The story of music legend Terri Hooley, a key figure in Belfast's punk rock scene. Hooley founded the Good Vibrations store from which a record label ...
Hideaways
2011
as Dr. Russell
The elder one of each generation in the Furlong family is equipped with an extraordinary capacity. James discovers the nature of his at the time of an...
Mother's Milk
2011
as Seamus
An English family is forced to come to terms with the imminent loss of their beloved holiday house in Provence.
Mo
2010
as David Trimble
A docudrama about the life of the former UK Secretary of state for Northern Ireland, Mo Mowlam.
The Last Confession of Alexander Pearce
2009
as Philip Conolly
Eight men escape from the most isolated prison on earth. Only one man survives and the story he recounts shocks the British establishment to the core....
Act of God
2009
as Frank O'Connor
When a heart surgeon chooses to save one female patient's life over another, her boyfriend looks for revenge.
Tailwind
2009
as Narrator
During World War 2, Northern Ireland served a crucial part in airforce operations against the Axis, used as a base for Allied nations across the world...
Eye of the Dolphin
2007
as Dr. James Hawk
Alyssa is a troubled 14-year old, suspended from school a year after her mother has drowned. Her grandmother Lucy, at wit's end, decides to take Alyss...
Child of Mine
2005
as Alfie Palmer
A child psychologist adopted two girls whose mother was murdered, but when one begins acting strangely, fear drives her to the crime scene for answer.
The Quatermass Experiment
2005
as Detective Lomax
Bernard Quatermass heads the futuristic Experimental Rocket Group whose greatest voyage is coming to an end, but after a dramatic crash landing Victor...
Mickybo and Me
2005
as Mickybo's Da
The film tells the story of two boys who become friends at the start of the Troubles in 1970. The boys share an obsession with Butch Cassidy and the S...
Kidnapped
2005
as Alexander Balfour/Ebenezer Balfour
15-year-old Davie Balfour is poised to receive a vast inheritance when he's lured onto a cargo ship, knocked unconscious, and kidnapped by his malevol...
Car Crash: The Delorean Story
2004
as Narrator
Former General Motors high-flyer John DeLorean had a plan to build a stylish European sports car, at a price that would make it attractive to the Amer...
Triggermen
2002
as Andy Jarrett
Two British conmen in Chicago are mistaken for hired hitmen by mobsters wanting to rub out a rival gangster. Keen to make a fast buck, they pretend th...
Shooters
2002
as Max Bell
Gilly comes out of prison after serving a six year stretch and decides that he will now turn his life around and go straight. But when he returns to h...
How Harry Became a Tree
2001
as George
Set in rural Ireland. Believing that "a man is measured by his enemies", Harry Maloney (Colm Meany) sets out to ruin George O'Flaherty – the most powe...
Wild About Harry
2000
as J. J. MacMahon
A sleazy chef is forced to face the truth about the man he has become and realizes that he has the chance to begin again.
Tough Love
2000
as DCI Mike Love
DC Lenny Milton (Winstone) is not as ambitious as his best friend and popular boss DCI Michael Love (Dunbar), but the pair are drinking partners and t...
The Wedding Tackle
2000
as Mr. Mac
The sexual rivalries between a group of friends cause comic chaos during a stag night celebration.
The General
1998
as Noel Curley
The real-life story of Dublin folk hero and criminal Martin Cahill, who pulled off two daring robberies in Ireland with his team, but attracted unwant...
The Near Room
1997
as Charlie Colquhoun
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 Near Room
1997
Script Consultant
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...
Richard III
1995
as James Tyrrell
A murderous lust for the British throne sees Richard III descend into madness. Though the setting is transposed to the 1930s, England is torn by civil...
Cruel Train
1995
as Jack Dando
In wartime England, railway official Ruben Roberts discovers that his wife was sexually abused as a child by the Chairman of the Line, also her godfat...
Innocent Lies
1995
as Alan Cross
In September 1938 a British detective comes to a small French coastal town in order to investigate the death of a colleague. Prime suspects are the me...
Pleasure
1994
as Gustave Coudray
Alan Bleasdale's modern re-telling of Madame Bovary. A tale of passion, greed, revenge, and of course pleasure, set in France. Starring Line of Duty's...
The Blue Boy
1994
as Joe
Marie is an insecure housewife whose husband, Joe, is having an affair. The two of them take a holiday to rural Scotland, but by sheer bad luck, end u...
Widows' Peak
1994
as Godfrey Doyle-Counihan
Scandal and mystery reign following the arrival of Edwina in a small Irish town populated entirely by widows. Edwina quickly falls out with the locals...
A Statement of Affairs
1993
as Adrian
A group of six friends, who have known each other since childhood, find their friendship tested when one of their number is found dead, leading to the...
The Crying Game
1992
as Maguire
Irish Republican Army member Fergus forms an unexpected bond with Jody, a kidnapped British soldier in his custody, despite the warnings of fellow IRA...
The Playboys
1992
as Mick
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...
Hear My Song
1991
as Micky O'Neill
Singer Josef Locke fled to Ireland 25 years ago to escape the clutches of the tax man and police Chief Jim Abbott. What he also left behind was the lo...
Hear My Song
1991
Screenplay
Singer Josef Locke fled to Ireland 25 years ago to escape the clutches of the tax man and police Chief Jim Abbott. What he also left behind was the lo...
Children of the North
1991
as Martin Deeley
The murders of two MI6 agents in Northern Ireland add up to an explosive political situation.
Force of Duty
1991
as DS Billy McCourbrey
RUC detective Simon Gabby is consumed by guilt after he fails to act decisively in a moment of terror. As the pressure on him builds, Gabby gradually ...
A Box of Swan
1990
as John
A moving and unusual film about a young man who returns to his Liverpool roots for his father's funeral.
The Wake
1990
as Lucien
Alone after her mother's funeral, Frances relives the tangle of emotions between her husband, her mother and herself.
Drowning in the Shallow End
1990
as John
Nothing seems to go right for Colin, no matter how he tries. No one is offering him writing work, and his marriage is disintegrating. Why can't he be ...
The Englishman's Wife
1990
as Andy
A woman and her daughter are stranded in a rambling old house deep in the countryside of County Tyrone. Their economic circumstances are hopeless, but...
Dealers
1989
as Lennon Mayhew
The London branch of Whitney Paine, a major American investment bank, is in the midst of a crisis; after the loss of $100 million, one of their leadin...
My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown
1989
as Peter
No one expects much from Christy Brown, a boy with cerebral palsy born into a working-class Irish family. Though Christy is a spastic quadriplegic and...
The Four Minute Mile
1988
as Norris McWhirter
A dramatization of the race to the four-minute mile.
The Dawning
1988
as Capt. Rankin
An IRA gunman on the run from the government meets an idealistic young woman and attempts to win her support for his cause.
Reasonable Force
1988
as Robbie MacIntyre
In times of civil unrest, crack police units like Inspector Maclntyre 's get the job of keeping order on the streets. But when a demonstrator dies af...
Unusual Ground Floor Conversion
1988
Sky Bandits
1986
as Mechanic
A pair of old west cowboys become fighter pilots in World War I.
The Price
1985
as Willy
Geoffrey Carr is a wealthy, key player in Britain's emerging computer industry, and newly married to Frances , a much younger woman, with wilful daug...
The Cry
1984
as Peter Douglas
Ulster 1959. A young journalist visiting his quiet hometown is awakened by a scream in the night. He catches sight of a youth being beaten up and drag...
The Long March
1980
as Colm
A woman returns to Belfast after ten years in England and becomes involved in the Maze prison protest.