Liam Cunningham
Actor
Liam Cunningham (born 2 June 1961) is an Irish actor. He has appeared in numerous film and television productions including A Little Princess, First Knight, Jude and the BBC One science-fiction drama series Outcasts. Description above from the Wikipedia article Liam Cunningham (actor), licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Way Down (2020)
As: Walter Moreland
Learning that a legendary lost treasure will be deposited in the bank's safe for just 10 days, Thom masterminds a meticulous plan along with charismatic art dealer Walter to break into the Bank. But they have only 90 minutes to do so, when the bank's staff will be mightily distracted by the 2010 soccer World Cup final
Directed by: Jaume Balagueró
Stars: Famke Janssen | Liam Cunningham | Freddie Highmore | Astrid Bergès-Frisbey | Sam Riley
Game of Thrones: The Last Watch (2019)
As: Himself
Post-finale feature-length documentary about the making-of the hit HBO TV show.
Runtime: 120 min.
Directed by: Jeanie Finlay
Stars: Peter Dinklage | Nikolaj Coster-Waldau | Gwendoline Christie | Emilia Clarke | Kit Harington
24 Hours to Live (2017)
As: Wetzler
An assassin seeks redemption after being given a second chance at life.
Runtime: 94 min.
Directed by: Brian Smrz
Stars: Ethan Hawke | Rutger Hauer | Paul Anderson | Xu Qing | Tyrone Keogh
The Childhood of a Leader (2016)
As: The Father
The chilling story of a young American boy living in France in 1918 whose father is working for the US government on the creation of the Treaty of Versailles. What he witnesses helps to mold his beliefs – and we witness the birth of a terrifying ego.
Runtime: 115 min.
Directed by: Brady Corbet
Stars: Yolande Moreau | Bérénice Bejo | Robert Pattinson | Liam Cunningham | Stacy Martin
Pursuit (2015)
As: Fionn
Pursuit is a modern take on Irish mythology, adapting the legend of Diarmuid and Gráinne and transforming it into a road movie and gangster thriller for a contemporary audience.
Runtime: 95 min.
Directed by: Paul Mercier
Stars: Brendan Gleeson | Owen Roe | Liam Cunningham | Ruth Bradley | Barry Ward
The Soul of a Spy (2015)
Runtime: 110 min.
Directed by: Vladimir Bortko
Stars: Malcolm McDowell | Liam Cunningham | Chris Cowlin | Fyodor Bondarchuk | Andrey Chernyshov
Ladygrey (2015)
As: Angus
Estelle fights to maintain her sense of self while sleeping with Angus for money.
Runtime: 109 min.
Directed by: Alain Choquart
Stars: Jérémie Renier | Emily Mortimer | Liam Cunningham | Peter Sarsgaard | Claude Rich
Noble (2014)
As: Thomas
Christina Noble overcomes the harsh difficulties of her childhood in Ireland to discover her destiny on the streets of Saigon. A true story.
Runtime: 100 min.
Directed by: Stephen Bradley
Stars: Sarah Greene | Liam Cunningham | Deirdre O'Kane | Ruth Negga | Gloria Cramer Curtis
Let Us Prey (2014)
As: Six
Rachel, a rookie cop, is about to begin her first night shift in a neglected police station in a Scottish, backwater town. The kind of place where the tide has gone out and stranded a motley bunch of the aimless, the forgotten, the bitter-and-twisted who all think that, really, they deserve to be somewhere else. They all think they're there by accident and that, with a little luck, life is going to get ...
Runtime: 92 min.
Directed by: Brian O'Malley
Stars: Douglas Russell | Liam Cunningham | Niall Greig Fulton | Pollyanna McIntosh | Bryan Larkin
S.L.R. (2013)
As: Elliot
SLR is a short thriller about a man obsessed with "voyeur pornography". When he makes a shocking discovery online, he is forced onto the trail of an anonymous photographer known only by his user name of ANORAK.
Runtime: 22 min.
Directed by: Stephen Fingleton
Stars: Liam Cunningham | Richard Dormer | Amy Wren | Ryan McParland
The Numbers Station (2013)
As: Grey
When the moral values of a longtime wetwork black ops agent is tested during his last operation, he receives an unfavorable psych evaluation. Now he is given a break and a seemingly uncomplicated assignment of simply protecting the security of a young female code announcer, code resources and remote station they are assigned to. After an ambush and one phone call later, it becomes a complicated fight for ...
Runtime: 89 min.
Directed by: Kasper Barfoed
Stars: John Cusack | Malin Åkerman | Liam Cunningham | Hannah Murray | Lucy Griffiths
Good Vibrations (2012)
As: Davy
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 sprung, representing bands such as The Undertones, Rudi and The Outcasts.
Runtime: 103 min.
Directed by: Glenn Leyburn | Lisa Barros D'Sa
Stars: Jodie Whittaker | Liam Cunningham | Karl Johnson | Richard Dormer | Michael Colgan
Saving the Titanic (2012)
As: Narrator (voice)
In the hours after the Titanic struck an iceberg 100 years ago, a team of shipbuilders and engineers raced against time to save the stricken vessel. Based on eye-witness accounts, this film reveals what went on below decks in the hours before the Titanic sank, telling the previously relatively unheralded stories of engineers who fought courageously to hold back the power of the sea and ...
Runtime: 104 min.
Directed by: Maurice Sweeney
Stars: Ciarán McMenamin | David Wilmot | Hugh O'Conor | Liam Cunningham | Owen McDonnell
Safe House (2012)
As: Alec Wade
A dangerous CIA renegade resurfaces after a decade on the run. When the safe house he's remanded to is attacked by mercenaries, a rookie operative escapes with him. Now, the unlikely allies must stay alive long enough to uncover who wants them dead.
Runtime: 115 min.
Directed by: Daniel Espinosa
Stars: Brendan Gleeson | Denzel Washington | Vera Farmiga | Ryan Reynolds | Sam Shepard
War Horse (2011)
As: Army Doctor
Follows a young man named Albert and his horse, Joey, and how their bond is broken when Joey is sold to the cavalry and sent to the trenches of World War One. Despite being too young to enlist, Albert heads to France to save his friend.
Runtime: 146 min.
Directed by: Steven Spielberg
Stars: Emily Watson | Toby Kebbell | Benedict Cumberbatch | Tom Hiddleston | Jeremy Irvine
The Guard (2011)
As: Francis Sheehy
Two policemen must join forces to take on an international drug- smuggling gang - one, an unorthodox Irish policeman and the other, a straitlaced FBI agent. Sergeant Gerry Boyle is an eccentric small-town cop with a confrontational and crass personality and a subversive sense of humor. A longtime policeman in County Galway, Boyle is a maverick with his own moral code. He has seen enough of the world to ...
Runtime: 96 min.
Directed by: John Michael McDonagh
Stars: Brendan Gleeson | Mark Strong | Liam Cunningham | Don Cheadle | Katarina Čas
The Silence of Joan (2011)
As: Le capitaine anglais
In 1430, Joan of Arc, the prisoner of a powerful lord of the north of France is sold to the English. As a captive awaiting her death, she is approached by different men for whom she is believed to be the embodiment of the infinite.
Runtime: 92 min.
Directed by: Philippe Ramos
Stars: Clémence Poésy | Mathieu Amalric | Thierry Frémont | Louis-Do de Lencquesaing | Liam Cunningham
Black Butterflies (2011)
As: Jack Cope
Confronted by Apartheid and a father who was Minister of Censorship, Ingrid Jonker searched for a home, searched for love. With men like Jack Cope and André Brink she found much love, but no home. Later, in his first speech to the South African Parliament Nelson Mandela read her poem "The Dead Child of Nyanga" and addressed her as one of the finest poets of South Africa.
Runtime: 100 min.
Directed by: Paula van der Oest
Stars: Carice van Houten | Liam Cunningham | Rutger Hauer | Grant Swanby | Nicholas Pauling
Pitch Black Heist (2011)
As: Liam
Liam and Michael are professional safe crackers who meet on a simple job to relieve an office safe from its contents. The catch is a light activated alarm system impelling the men to embark on a pitch black heist.
Runtime: 13 min.
Directed by: John Maclean
Stars: Liam Cunningham | Michael Fassbender | Alex MacQueen
The Whistleblower (2010)
As: Bill Hines
Based on the experiences of Nebraska cop Kathryn Bolkovac (Rachel Weisz) who discovers a deadly sex trafficking ring while serving as a U.N. peacekeeper in post-war Bosnia. Risking her own life to save the lives of others, she uncovers an international conspiracy that is determined to stop her, no matter the cost.
Runtime: 112 min.
Directed by: Larysa Kondracki
Stars: Monica Bellucci | Vanessa Redgrave | Nikolaj Lie Kaas | David Strathairn | Rachel Weisz
Centurion (2010)
As: Brick
Britain, A.D. 117. Quintus Dias, the sole survivor of a Pictish raid on a Roman frontier fort, marches north with General Virilus' legendary Ninth Legion, under orders to wipe the Picts from the face of the Earth and destroy their leader, Gorlacon.
Runtime: 97 min.
Directed by: Neil Marshall
Stars: Liam Cunningham | David Morrissey | Michael Fassbender | Dominic West | Olga Kurylenko
Clash of the Titans (2010)
As: Solon
Born of a god but raised as a man, Perseus is helpless to save his family from Hades, vengeful god of the underworld. With nothing to lose, Perseus volunteers to lead a dangerous mission to defeat Hades before he can seize power from Zeus and unleash hell on earth. Battling unholy demons and fearsome beasts, Perseus and his warriors will only survive if Perseus accepts his power as a god, defies fate and ...
Runtime: 106 min.
Directed by: Louis Leterrier
Stars: Jason Flemyng | Mads Mikkelsen | Gemma Arterton | Sam Worthington | Alexa Davalos
Harry Brown (2009)
As: Sid Rourke
An elderly ex-serviceman and widower looks to avenge his best friend's murder by doling out his own form of justice.
Runtime: 103 min.
Directed by: Daniel Barber
Stars: Michael Caine | Emily Mortimer | Liam Cunningham | Iain Glen | Lee Oakes
Perrier's Bounty (2009)
As: The Mutt
A gangster named Perrier looks to exact his revenge on a trio of fugitives responsible for the accidental death of one of his cronies.
Runtime: 88 min.
Directed by: Ian Fitzgibbon
Stars: Brendan Gleeson | Cillian Murphy | Jodie Whittaker | Jim Broadbent | Gabriel Byrne
Blood: The Last Vampire (2009)
As: Michael Harrison
On the surface, Saya is a stunning 16-year-old, but that youthful exterior hides the tormented soul of a 400-year-old "halfling." Born to a human father and a vampire mother, she has for centuries been a loner obsessed with using her samurai skills to rid the world of vampires, all the while knowing that she herself can survive only on blood like those she hunts.
Runtime: 91 min.
Directed by: Chris Nahon
Stars: Liam Cunningham | Allison Miller | Koyuki | J. J. Feild | Jun Ji-hyun
The Tournament (2009)
As: Powers
Every ten or seven years in an unsuspecting town, The Tournament takes place. A battle royale between 30 of the world's deadliest assassins. The last man standing receiving the $10,000,000 cash prize and the title of Worlds No 1, which itself carries the legendary million dollar a bullet price tag.
Runtime: 95 min.
Directed by: Scott Mann
Stars: Ving Rhames | Liam Cunningham | Robert Carlyle | Kelly Hu | Ian Somerhalder
The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor (2008)
As: Maguire
Archaeologist Rick O'Connell travels to China, pitting him against an emperor from the 2,000-year-old Han dynasty who's returned from the dead to pursue a quest for world domination. This time, O'Connell enlists the help of his wife and son to quash the so-called 'Dragon Emperor' and his abuse of supernatural power.
Runtime: 112 min.
Directed by: Rob Cohen
Stars: Jet Li | Michelle Yeoh | Maria Bello | John Hannah | Brendan Fraser
The Escapist (2008)
As: Brodie
Frank Perry is an institutionalized convict twelve years into a life sentence without parole. When his estranged daughter falls ill, he is determined to make peace with her before it's too late. He develops an ingenious escape plan, and recruits a dysfunctional band of escapists - misfits with a mutual dislike for one other but united by their desire to escape their hell hole of an existence.
Runtime: 102 min.
Directed by: Rupert Wyatt
Stars: Brian Cox | Liam Cunningham | Joseph Fiennes | Seu Jorge | Damian Lewis
Hunger (2008)
As: Priest
The story of Bobby Sands, the IRA member who led the 1981 hunger strike in which Republican prisoners tried to win political status. It dramatises events in the Maze prison in the six weeks prior to Sands’ death.
Runtime: 96 min.
Directed by: Steve McQueen
Stars: Stuart Graham | Liam Cunningham | Michael Fassbender | Laine Megaw | Helena Bereen
Northanger Abbey (2007)
As: General Tilney
A young woman's penchant for sensational Gothic novels leads to misunderstandings in the matters of the heart.
Runtime: 84 min.
Directed by: Jon Jones
Stars: Geraldine James | Carey Mulligan | Felicity Jones | Sylvestra Le Touzel | J. J. Feild
The Wind That Shakes the Barley (2006)
As: Dan
In 1920s Ireland young doctor Damien O'Donovan prepares to depart for a new job in a London hospital. As he says his goodbyes at a friend's farm, British Black and Tans arrive, and a young man is killed. Damien joins his brother Teddy in the Irish Republican Army, but political events are soon set in motion that tear the brothers apart.
Runtime: 127 min.
Directed by: Ken Loach
Stars: Cillian Murphy | Liam Cunningham | Gerard Kearney | Orla Fitzgerald | Pádraic Delaney
Breakfast on Pluto (2005)
As: Biker
In the 1970s, a foundling lad, Patrick "Kitten" Braden, comes of age by leaving his Irish town for London, in part to look for his mother and in part because his trans-gender nature is beyond the town's understanding.
Runtime: 128 min.
Directed by: Neil Jordan
Stars: Cillian Murphy | Liam Neeson | Stephen Rea | Laurence Kinlan | Ruth Negga
The League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse (2005)
As: Director
The fictional world of Royston Vasey is facing apocalypse and the only way to avert disaster is for our nightmarish cast of characters to find a way into the real world and confront their creators. From present day Soho to the fictional film world of 17th Century Britain, the residents must overcome countless bizarre obstacles in their bid to return Royston Vasey to safety.
Runtime: 91 min.
Directed by: Steve Bendelack
Stars: Reece Shearsmith | Steve Pemberton | Mark Gatiss | Bruno Langley | Paul Hays-Marshall
Showbands (2005)
As: Tony Golden
It's Ireland in the 1960s and showbands and ballrooms are big business. However, Tony is struggling to repay his bank loan and is in danger of losing his ballroom. In order to save it, he sets out to turn unknown female performer Denise into a superstar practically overnight.
Runtime: 100 min.
Directed by: Ian Fitzgibbon
Stars: Don Wycherley | Liam Cunningham | Tina Kellegher | Denis Conway | Kerry Katona
Screwback (2004)
They don't know him. Nobody knows him.
Runtime: 9 min.
Directed by: Brian O'Malley
Stars: Liam Cunningham
The Card Player (2004)
As: John Brennan
Policewoman Anna Mari is forced to play a dangerous game with the title serial killer. If she loses, she witnesses the maniac's tortured victims having their throats cut in explicit close-up detail via webcam. She teams up with British cop John Brennan to find out the identity of the murderer.
Runtime: 103 min.
Directed by: Dario Argento
Stars: Liam Cunningham | Silvio Muccino | Cosimo Fusco | Fiore Argento | Stefania Rocca
The Crooked Man (2003)
As: Hamilton
Harry Fielding is an investigative reporter with a brief to covertly document the compromising exploits of public figures. Incriminating evidence captured on his camera is used by his unscrupulous boss, Hamilton, to blackmail the very people they are supposed to be protecting. The tables are turned when Fielding and Hamilton themselves become the subject of scrutiny and are plunged into a world ...
Runtime: 100 min.
Directed by: David Drury
Stars: Michael Byrne | Liam Cunningham | Rupert Frazer | Natasha Little | Ross Kemp
Mystics (2003)
As: Sean Foley
A black comedy about two old-time conmen who pretend to be able to communicate with the dead.
Runtime: 90 min.
Directed by: David Blair
Stars: Liam Cunningham | David Kelly | Milo O'Shea | Maria Doyle Kennedy | Doreen Keogh
Final Demand (2003)
As: David Milner
Tamzin Outhwaite stars in Deborah Moggach 's dark two-part drama. On the surface Swindon-based Natalie has it all -good looks, a steady job and a reliable boyfriend. In reality she's bored to tears and short of cash, so when she hatches a scam that could be financially beneficial there's no holding her back
Runtime: 175 min.
Directed by: Tom Vaughan
Stars: Simon Pegg | Liam Cunningham | Demelza Randall | Tamzin Outhwaite | Hazel Ellerby
Shadow Man (2002)
A little girl spies two men breaking into a derelict house. Fascinated by them, she brings herself to the men's attention and a friendship blossoms: but the little girl is unaware she may be crossing dangerous boundaries...
Runtime: 12 min.
Directed by: Amanda Rudman
Stars: Liam Cunningham | Julia Ford | Rob Jarvis | Leah Carroll | Amber Noble
The Abduction Club (2002)
As: John Power
A group of Irish noblemen kidnap girls in order to marry into their fortune and avoid becoming priests or soldiers.
Runtime: 96 min.
Directed by: Stefan Schwartz
Stars: Matthew Rhys | Daniel Lapaine | Liam Cunningham | Sophia Myles | Alice Evans
Dog Soldiers (2002)
As: Capt. Ryan
A squad of British soldiers on training in the lonesome Scottish wilderness find a wounded Special Forces captain and the remains of his team. As they encounter zoologist Megan, it turns out that werewolves are active in the region. They have to prepare for some action as the there will be a full moon tonight...
Runtime: 105 min.
Directed by: Neil Marshall
Stars: Kevin McKidd | Emma Cleasby | Liam Cunningham | Sean Pertwee | Thomas Lockyer
Revelation (2002)
As: Father Ray Connolly
Since A.D. 50, a mysterious sacred artifact known as the Loculus has been at the center of a bloody clandestine war. Missing for a few hundred years, the puzzling relic has suddenly reappeared in the present day, bringing with it a terrible secret that could spell doom for all of mankind. Now it's up to Magnus Martel (Terence Stamp) to subvert a murderous secret society and uncover the truth behind the ...
Runtime: 111 min.
Directed by: Stuart Urban
Stars: Terence Stamp | Udo Kier | James D'Arcy | Natasha Wightman | Charlotte Weston
The Island of the Mapmaker's Wife (2001)
As: John Wyndham
Descotes, a young map expert, discovers the marvelous erotic secret of an elaborate ancient map that she lusts to own.
Directed by: Michie Gleason
Stars: Liam Cunningham | Dominique Sanda | Natasha Little | Roland Gift | Yasna Zivanovic
When The Sky Falls (2000)
As: John Cosgrave
Fact-based story about Irish crime-investigating reporter Sinead Hamilton, who invaded the Irish underworld and attempted to expose the illegitimate activities she found. Hampered by the system, a police consort is ineffectual at aiding her despite trying to step outside of the normal bounds. Kevin McNally plays her husband, who hates her activities and the danger in which she places herself. ...
Runtime: 107 min.
Directed by: John Mackenzie
Stars: Pete Postlethwaite | Liam Cunningham | Patrick Bergin | Joan Allen | Kevin McNally
The Second Death (2000)
As: James Mangan
On a lonely country road, James Mangan hears a voice from his past and comes to realise he is damned.
Runtime: 11 min.
Directed by: John Michael McDonagh
Stars: David Wilmot | Liam Cunningham | Aidan Gillen | Michelle Fairley | Owen Sharpe
RKO 281 (1999)
As: Gregg Toland
A film about the making of Citizen Kane. Orson Welles produces his greatest film, Citizen Kane, despite the opposition of the film's de facto subject, William Randolph Hearst.
Runtime: 86 min.
Directed by: Benjamin Ross
Stars: John Malkovich | Liev Schreiber | James Cromwell | Liam Cunningham | Melanie Griffith
Sweety Barrett (1999)
As: Detective Bone
Sweety Barrett is a giant of a man with the mind of a child. An easy target in a corrupt world, Sweety becomes embroiled in a smuggling operation unleashing a spiral of dangerous and unexpected events.
Runtime: 92 min.
Directed by: Stephen Bradley
Stars: Brendan Gleeson | Cillian Murphy | Andrew Scott | Tony Rohr | Liam Cunningham
Shooting the Past (1999)
As: Christopher Anderson
A US property developer realises that he has a battle on his hands when he tries to renovate a London building containing a vast photographic collection and discovers that the library employees will resort to anything to thwart him.
Runtime: 182 min.
Directed by: Stephen Poliakoff
Stars: Timothy Spall | Liam Cunningham | Emilia Fox | Lindsay Duncan | Billie Whitelaw
Falling for a Dancer (1998)
As: Mossie Sheehan
Romantic drama set in rural Ireland of the 1930s. The story begins when 19-year-old Elizabeth has a brief fling with an actor and falls pregnant. Community pressure forces her to marry a dull middle-aged man, but maybe there is hope on the horizon.
Runtime: 50 min.
Directed by: Richard Standeven
Stars: Liam Cunningham | Dermot Crowley | Maureen O'Brien | Elisabeth Dermot Walsh | Rory Murray
The Life of Stuff (1997)
As: Alex Sneddon
Brutal drama, with the occasional comic twist, about a wannabe gangster who buys a Glasgow warehouse which he plans to turn into the flagship of his criminal empire. Believing he has eliminated his arch-rival, he decides to hold the party of a lifetime to celebrate.
Runtime: 90 min.
Directed by: Simon Donald
Stars: Ewen Bremner | Jason Flemyng | Ciarán Hinds | Liam Cunningham | Mabel Aitken
Police 2020 (1997)
As: DCI Billy O'Connell
In 2020, DCI Billy O'Connell is tasked with tackling an armed suspect who takes a group of Russian immigrants hostage in a lift after blaming the immigrant population for an outbreak of tuberculosis that killed most of his family
Runtime: 100 min.
Directed by: David Richards
Stars: Nick Reding | Liam Cunningham | Saira Todd | Keith Barron | Rachel Davies
Jude (1996)
As: Phillotson
In late 19th-century England, Jude aspires to be an academic, but is hobbled by his blue-collar background. Instead, he works as a stonemason and is trapped in an unloving marriage to a farmer's daughter named Arabella. But when his wife leaves him, Jude sees an opportunity to improve himself. He moves to the city and begins an affair with his married cousin, Sue, courting tragedy every step of the way.
Runtime: 123 min.
Directed by: Michael Winterbottom
Stars: Kate Winslet | Liam Cunningham | Christopher Eccleston | Rachel Griffiths | June Whitfield
First Knight (1995)
As: Agravaine
The timeless tale of King Arthur and the legend of Camelot are retold in this passionate period drama. Arthur is reluctant to hand the crown to Lancelot, and Guinevere is torn between her loyalty to her husband and her growing love for his rival. But Lancelot must balance his loyalty to the throne with the rewards of true love.
Runtime: 134 min.
Directed by: Jerry Zucker
Stars: Sean Connery | Liam Cunningham | Richard Gere | Ben Cross | Julia Ormond
A Little Princess (1995)
As: Capt. Crewe / Prince Rama
When her father enlists to fight for the British in WWI, young Sara Crewe goes to New York to attend the same boarding school her late mother attended. She soon clashes with the severe headmistress, Miss Minchin, who attempts to stifle Sara's creativity and sense of self- worth.
Runtime: 97 min.
Directed by: Alfonso Cuarón
Stars: Eleanor Bron | Liam Cunningham | Vanessa Lee Chester | Rusty Schwimmer | Liesel Matthews
War of the Buttons (1994)
As: The Master
The children of Ballydowse and Carrickdowse engage in battles where they cut of the buttons, shoe-laces and underwear of their captured opponents. This is to get the boys in trouble with their parents. They go to battle in mass groups of dozens, throwing stones and cutting off their opponents buttons etc. And sometimes they go to battle completely naked and exposed. In one such scene about 30 boys return ...
Runtime: 94 min.
Directed by: John Roberts
Stars: Colm Meaney | Liam Cunningham | Gregg Fitzgerald | Gerard Kearney | Ger Ryan