David Morrissey
Actor | Director
David Mark Morrissey (born 21 June 1964) is an English actor and director. Morrissey grew up in the Kensington and Knotty Ash areas of Liverpool. He learned to act at the Everyman Youth Theatre, alongside Ian Hart, Mark and Stephen McGann, and Cathy Tyson. At the age of 18, he and Hart were cast in the television series One Summer (1983), which won them recognition throughout the country. After making One Summer, Morrissey attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art before acting with the Royal Shakespeare Company and the National Theatre.
Throughout the 1990s, he often portrayed policemen and soldiers, though took other defining roles such as Bradley Headstone in Our Mutual Friend (1998) and Christopher Finzi in Hilary and Jackie (1998). More film parts followed, including roles in Some Voices (2000) and Captain Corelli's Mandolin (2001), before he played the critically acclaimed roles of Stephen Collins in State of Play (2003) and Gordon Brown in The Deal (2003). The ... Show more...
David Mark Morrissey (born 21 June 1964) is an English actor and director. Morrissey grew up in the Kensington and Knotty Ash areas of Liverpool. He learned to act at the Everyman Youth Theatre, alongside Ian Hart, Mark and Stephen McGann, and Cathy Tyson. At the age of 18, he and Hart were cast in the television series One Summer (1983), which won them recognition throughout the country. After making One Summer, Morrissey attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art before acting with the Royal Shakespeare Company and the National Theatre.
Throughout the 1990s, he often portrayed policemen and soldiers, though took other defining roles such as Bradley Headstone in Our Mutual Friend (1998) and Christopher Finzi in Hilary and Jackie (1998). More film parts followed, including roles in Some Voices (2000) and Captain Corelli's Mandolin (2001), before he played the critically acclaimed roles of Stephen Collins in State of Play (2003) and Gordon Brown in The Deal (2003). The former won him a nomination at the British Academy Television Awards and the latter a Best Actor award at the Royal Television Society Awards. His film roles have not always been acclaimed; his appearance as the male lead in Basic Instinct 2 (2006) was widely criticised, and The Reaping (2007) bombed at the box office. Since then, he has had leading roles in Sense and Sensibility (2008), Red Riding (2009) and Five Days (2010), acted in the films Nowhere Boy (2009) and Centurion (2010), and produced and starred in the crime drama Thorne (2010). He returned to the stage in 2008 for a run of Neil LaBute's In a Dark Dark House and will take the title role in the Liverpool Everyman's production of Macbeth in 2011.
As a director Morrissey has helmed short films, and the dramas Sweet Revenge (2001) and Passer By (2004) for the BBC. His feature debut, Don't Worry About Me, premiered at the 2009 London Film Festival and was broadcast on BBC television in March 2010. He is married to the novelist Esther Freud, has three children and is a patron of numerous charities.
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National Theatre Live: Julius Caesar (2018)
Caesar returns in triumph to Rome and the people pour out of their homes to celebrate. Alarmed by the autocrat’s popularity, the educated élite conspire to bring him down. After his assassination, civil war erupts on the streets of the capital. Nicholas Hytner’s production will thrust the audience into the street party that greets Caesar’s return, the congress that witnesses his murder, the rally ...
Directed by: Nicholas Hytner
Stars: Ben Whishaw | David Morrissey | David Calder | Michelle Fairley
The Ones Below (2016)
As: Jon
A couple expecting their first child discover an unnerving difference between themselves and the couple living in the flat below them who are also having a baby.
Runtime: 87 min.
Directed by: David Farr
Stars: Clémence Poésy | David Morrissey | Stephen Campbell Moore | Laura Birn | Deborah Findlay
The Not So Secret Life of the Manic Depressive: 10 Years On (2016)
As: Narrator (voice)
Ten years ago, in an award-winning series, Stephen Fry first spoke about living with manic depression and began a national conversation about mental health. A decade later, we return to the subject to understand where he and thousands of others diagnosed with bipolar (as it is now called) are now.
Runtime: 58 min.
Directed by: Ross Wilson
Stars: David Morrissey | Stephen Fry
Ronaldo (2015)
As: Dramatic VO (voice)
Filmed over 14 months with unprecedented access into the inner circle of the man and the sport, this is the first official and fully authorised film of one of the most celebrated figures in football. For the first time ever, the world gets vividly candid and un-paralleled, behind-closed-doors access to the footballer, father, family-man and friend in this moving & fascinating documentary. Through in-depth ...
Runtime: 92 min.
Directed by: Anthony Wonke
Stars: Cristiano Ronaldo | Lionel Messi | Dolores Aveiro | Hugo Aveiro | Georgie Bingham
Secrets of Mexico's Drug War (2015)
As: Narrator
Drugs, undercover stings and smuggled AK-47s – were US government enforcement agencies bound up in the business of Mexican gangs?
Runtime: 59 min.
Directed by: Elena Cosentino
Stars: David Morrissey
Lennon or McCartney (2014)
As: Himself (archive footage)
550 Artists were interviewed over the last ten years. At some point during those interviews, they were asked a question and told to answer with one word only. Some stuck to one, some said more, some answered quickly, some thought it through, and some didn't answer at all. That question... Lennon or McCartney.
Runtime: 34 min.
Directed by: Matt Schichter
Stars: Aasif Mandvi | Adam Levine | Adam Lambert | James Valentine | James Valentine
The Walking Dead: A Decade of Dead (2013)
A short documentary celebrating the tenth year of The Walking Dead. Features the creators of the comics and tv show discussing the cultural phenomenon The Walking Dead.
Runtime: 23 min.
Directed by: Lex Halaby
Stars: Chris Hardwick | Todd McFarlane | Robert Kirkman | Charlie Adlard | Gregory Nicotero
Welcome to the Punch (2013)
As: Thomas Geiger
When notorious criminal Jacob Sternwood is forced to return to London, it gives detective Max Lewinsky one last chance to take down the man he's always been after.
Runtime: 99 min.
Directed by: Eran Creevy
Stars: Peter Mullan | Daniel Mays | Mark Strong | James McAvoy | David Morrissey
Earthbound (2013)
As: Bill Norman
At eleven years old Joe Norman is told by his dying father that he is an alien hiding on earth. Joe believes him. He grows up to be a die-hard fan-boy working in a comic shop. When he falls for down-to-earth Maria, a fellow sci-fi fan, he is inspired to lead a more normal social existence. Until intergalactic bounty hunters track Joe down at his new office and the couple ...
Runtime: 93 min.
Directed by: Alan Brennan
Stars: Rafe Spall | David Morrissey | Rory Keenan | Jenn Murray | Stephen Hogan
Blitz (2011)
As: Dunlop
A tough, renegade cop is dispatched to take down a serial killer who has been targeting police officers.
Runtime: 97 min.
Directed by: Elliott Lester
Stars: Jason Statham | Luke Evans | Paddy Considine | Aidan Gillen | Zawe Ashton
Around The World In 60 Mins (2011)
As: Himself - Narrator (voice)
This film takes the viewer on a unique journey around the weird and wonderful planet that we call home. When Yuri Gagarin was blasted into space he became the first human to get a proper look at where we live. The Earth is blue he exclaimed, how amazing! Suddenly our perspective on the world had changed forever. We thought we were going to explore the universe, yet the most extraordinary thing we ...
Runtime: 59 min.
Stars: David Morrissey | Piers Sellers | Rob Edwards | Mark Maslin
Gee Gee (2011)
As: Michael
Gee Gee follows the unsettling effect of drunken and riotous new-comer Gee-Gee on his neighbours in a fashionable block of flats. The closely-knit, respectable community finally force the trouble-maker to move, but one of them - the previously happy and respectable Michael - shows alarming signs of infection...
Runtime: 17 min.
Directed by: Peter Straughan
Stars: Elliot Cowan | David Morrissey | Morven Christie | Eva Pope
Thorne: Scaredy Cat (2010)
As: Tom Thorne
D.I. Tom Thorne's latest case puts him on the hunt for not one, but two serial killers, who seem to be working together, yet killing separately.
Runtime: 120 min.
Directed by: Benjamin Ross
Stars: Eddie Marsan | Aidan Gillen | Aidan Gillen | David Morrissey | O.T. Fagbenle
Cooked (2010)
As: (voice)
Cooked tells the story of the unlikely love triangle that sparks between a walrus a seal and a lobster in an arctic sauna.
Runtime: 7 min.
Directed by: Jens Blank
Stars: David Morrissey | Stephen Mangan | Katherine Parkinson
Centurion (2010)
As: Bothos
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
Mrs Mandela (2010)
As: Theunis Swanepoel
How Winnie Mandela went from innocent country girl to a fighter against apartheid.
Runtime: 90 min.
Directed by: Michael Samuels
Stars: David Morrissey | David Harewood | Sophie Okonedo
Nowhere Boy (2009)
As: Bobby Dykins
The drama tells the story of Lennon's teenage years and the start of his journey to becoming a successful musician. The story also examines the impact on his early life and personality of the two dominant females in his childhood
Runtime: 98 min.
Directed by: Sam Taylor-Johnson
Stars: Kristin Scott Thomas | David Morrissey | Aaron Taylor-Johnson | David Threlfall | Anne-Marie Duff
U Be Dead (2009)
As: Dr. Jan Falkowski
A doctor and his girlfriend are stalked by a woman who claims to be in love with him. Meanwhile, the man falls in love with a younger woman. Based on a true story
Runtime: 93 min.
Directed by: Jamie Payne
Stars: David Morrissey | Tara Fitzgerald | Alex Lowe | Dearbhla Molloy | Michael Elwyn
Is Anybody There? (2009)
As: Dad
A young boy who lives in an old folks' home strikes up a friendship with a retired magician.
Runtime: 94 min.
Directed by: John Crowley
Stars: Michael Caine | Rosemary Harris | Bill Milner | David Morrissey | Anne-Marie Duff
Red Riding: In the Year of Our Lord 1980 (2009)
As: Maurice Jobson
After 6 years of brutal murders the West Yorkshire Police fear that they may have already interviewed The Ripper and let him back into the world to continue his reign of terror upon the citizens of Yorkshire, but things become more difficult for the Police when they discover they not only have The Ripper to catch, but a copycat killer is also at large. Assistant Chief Constable of the ...
Runtime: 93 min.
Directed by: James Marsh
Stars: Paddy Considine | James Fox | Nicholas Woodeson | Warren Clarke | David Calder
Red Riding: In the Year of Our Lord 1983 (2009)
As: Maurice Jobson
Nine years on, another Morley child has gone missing on her way home from school. Detective Chief Superintendent Maurice Jobson is forced to remember the very similar disappearance of Clare Kemplay, who was found dead in 1974, and the subsequent imprisonment of local boy Michael Myshkin. Washed-up local solicitor John Piggott becomes convinced of Myshkin's innocence and begins to fight on his behalf, ...
Runtime: 100 min.
Directed by: Anand Tucker
Stars: David Morrissey | Jim Carter | Chris Walker | Lisa Howard | Shaun Dooley
Doctor Who: The Next Doctor (2008)
As: Jackson Lake
The Doctor arrives in Victorian London, it's Christmas, but the snow isn't the only thing descending on the tranquil and jubilant civilization...familiar silver giants of an alternate reality are amassing in numbers, The Cybermen are on the move again, and the only beings who can stop them are The Doctor...and another Doctor?
Runtime: 60 min.
Directed by: Andy Goddard
Stars: David Morrissey | Dervla Kirwan | David Tennant | Ruari Mears | Velile Tshabalala
The Other Boleyn Girl (2008)
As: Thomas Howard - Duke of Norfolk
A sumptuous and sensual tale of intrigue, romance and betrayal set against the backdrop of a defining moment in European history: two beautiful sisters, Anne and Mary Boleyn, driven by their family's blind ambition, compete for the love of the handsome and passionate King Henry VIII.
Runtime: 115 min.
Directed by: Justin Chadwick
Stars: Natalie Portman | Kristin Scott Thomas | Jim Sturgess | Scarlett Johansson | Eric Bana
The Water Horse (2007)
As: Captain Thomas Hamilton
A lonely boy discovers a mysterious egg that hatches a sea creature of Scottish legend.
Runtime: 112 min.
Directed by: Jay Russell
Stars: Ben Chaplin | Emily Watson | David Morrissey | Priyanka Xi | Alexander Nathan Etel
The Reaping (2007)
As: Doug
Katherine Morrissey, a former Christian missionary, lost her faith after the tragic deaths of her family. Now she applies her expertise to debunking religious phenomena. When a series of biblical plagues overrun a small town, Katherine arrives to prove that a supernatural force is not behind the occurrences, but soon finds that science cannot explain what is happening. Instead, she must regain her faith to ...
Runtime: 99 min.
Directed by: Stephen Hopkins
Stars: Idris Elba | Stephen Rea | AnnaSophia Robb | David Morrissey | Hilary Swank
Taking Liberties Since 1997 (2007)
As: Narration
Taking Liberties Since 1997is a documentary film about the erosion of civil liberties in the United Kingdom and increase of surveillance under the government of Tony Blair. It was released in the UK on 8th June 2007. The director, Chris Atkins, said on 1 May that he wanted to expose "the Orwellian state" that now threatened Britain as a result of Mr Blair's policies.
Runtime: 100 min.
Directed by: Chris Atkins
Stars: David Morrissey | Ashley Jensen
Viva Blackpool (2006)
As: Ripley Holden
Ripley is now an ordained minister and owner of the Chapel of Love. He's on a search for the prize that will bring him untold riches - the Jules Rimet trophy. But when glamorous Kitty De-Luxe is jilted at his altar, Ripley falls hopelessly in love.
Runtime: 90 min.
Stars: David Morrissey | Mark Williams | Annette Crosbie | Gugu Mbatha-Raw | Megan Dodds
Basic Instinct 2 (2006)
As: Michael Glass
Novelist Catherine Tramell is once again in trouble with the law, and Scotland Yard appoints psychiatrist Dr. Michael Glass to evaluate her. Though, like Detective Nick Curran before him, Glass is entranced by Tramell and lured into a seductive game.
Runtime: 114 min.
Directed by: Michael Caton-Jones
Stars: David Thewlis | Charlotte Rampling | David Morrissey | Sharon Stone | Stan Collymore
Stoned (2005)
As: Tom Keylock
A chronicle of the sordid life and suspicious death of Rolling Stones co-founder Brian Jones, who was found in the bottom of his swimming pool weeks after being let go from the band.
Runtime: 102 min.
Directed by: Stephen Woolley
Stars: Paddy Considine | Leo Gregory | Ben Whishaw | David Morrissey | Tuva Novotny
Derailed (2005)
As: Sam Griffin
When two married business executives having an affair are blackmailed by a violent criminal, they are forced to turn the tables on him to save their families.
Runtime: 108 min.
Directed by: Mikael Håfström
Stars: Vincent Cassel | Jennifer Aniston | Clive Owen | Melissa George | Addison Timlin
The Year London Blew Up (2005)
As: Narrator (voice)
Told through documentary, drama and first-hand accounts, this revealing film is a unique account of the most ruthless IRA bombing campaign ever to hit mainland Britain.
Runtime: 102 min.
Directed by: Edmund Coulthard
Stars: David Morrissey | Chris O'Dowd | Edward MacLiam | Jonjo O'Neill | Michael Colgan
The Deal (2003)
As: Gordon Brown
It is approaching an election in the UK when the leader of the Labour party, John Smith, suffers another in a line of heart attacks and dies. With the leadership campaign about to start the clear choice appears to be Gordon Brown, a stanch Scotsman. However Tony Blair is also beginning to appear more likely as he will appeal to Southern voters who would be turned off by Brown. Blair rings Brown ...
Runtime: 90 min.
Directed by: Stephen Frears
Stars: Dexter Fletcher | Michael Sheen | David Morrissey | Frank Kelly | Matt Blair
Murder (2002)
As: Dave Dewston
Chris Maurer is killed the day after his 21st birthday and his grieving mother, Angela Maurer, is unable to come to grips with that fact. She is taken advantage of by a self-interested journalist who only cares about getting a front-page story and she is completely dissatisfied with the way the police are handling the case. A local shopkeeper tries to help her through these trying times, but to no avail. ...
Runtime: 200 min.
Directed by: Beeban Kidron
Stars: David Morrissey | Imelda Staunton | Julie Walters | Robert Glenister | Jason Done
Captain Corelli's Mandolin (2001)
As: Captain Gunther Weber
When a Greek fisherman leaves to fight with the Greek army during WWII, his fiancee falls in love with the local Italian commander. The film is based on a novel about an Italian soldier's experiences during the Italian occupation of the Greek island of Cephalonia (Kefalonia), but Hollywood made it into a pure love story by removing much of the "unpleasant" stuff.
Runtime: 131 min.
Directed by: John Madden
Stars: Christian Bale | Nicolas Cage | John Hurt | Penélope Cruz | Irene Papas
Born Romantic (2000)
As: Fergus
In modern-day London, three men (Craig Ferguson, Jimi Mistry and David Morrissey) and three women (Olivia Williams, Jane Horrocks and Catherine McCormack) fall in and out of love and back again, to the Greek-chorus accompaniment of two cab drivers, who engage in an ongoing conversation about sex. A winning romantic comedy, Born Romantic is the second feature by British writer-director David Kane of ...
Runtime: 96 min.
Directed by: David Kane
Stars: Catherine McCormack | Jimi Mistry | Adrian Lester | Jane Horrocks | Craig Ferguson
Some Voices (2000)
As: Pete
Schizophrenic Ray tries to adjust to the outside world after being released from an institution.
Runtime: 101 min.
Directed by: Simon Cellan Jones
Stars: David Morrissey | Kelly Macdonald | Peter McDonald | Daniel Craig | Julie Graham
The Suicide Club (2000)
As: Henry Joyce
A man joins a secret club for those who are seeking to end their lives, only to rediscover his will to live upon meeting the club's only female member.
Runtime: 89 min.
Directed by: Rachel Samuels
Stars: Paul Bettany | David Morrissey | Jonathan Pryce | Neil Stuke | Catherine Siggins
Hilary and Jackie (1998)
As: Kiffer Finzi
The tragic story of world-renowned cellist Jacqueline du Pré, as told from the point of view of her sister, flautist Hilary du Pré-Finzi.
Runtime: 121 min.
Directed by: Anand Tucker
Stars: Emily Watson | James Frain | David Morrissey | Rachel Griffiths | Charles Dance
Being Human (1994)
As: Cyprion's Man
One man must learn the meaning of courage across four lifetimes centuries apart.
Runtime: 122 min.
Directed by: Bill Forsyth
Stars: Robin Williams | Robert Carlyle | Maudie Johnson | Max Johnson | Irvine Allen
Robin Hood (1991)
As: Little John
The Swashbuckling legend of Robin Hood unfolds in the 12th century when the mighty Normans ruled England with an iron fist.
Runtime: 104 min.
Directed by: John Irvin
Stars: Uma Thurman | Jürgen Prochnow | David Morrissey | Jeroen Krabbé | Patrick Bergin
The Widowmaker (1990)
As: Rob
The Widowmaker is a 1990 made for television film starring Annabelle Apsion, Alun Armstrong, David Morrissey and Kenneth Welsh. The film deals with a woman whose husband has been arrested after going on a killing rampage and the reaction of her local community. It was produced In the United Kingdom by Central Independent Television for the ITV Network and aired on 29 December 1990. It received a nomination ...
Runtime: 102 min.
Directed by: John Madden
Stars: Alun Armstrong | David Morrissey | Eileen Nicholas | Kenneth Welsh | Annabelle Apsion
Drowning by Numbers (1988)
As: Bellamy
An ironic black comedy of love and death that takes place an a lyrically beautiful landscape. Three related women, all named Cissie Colpitts share a solidarity for one another which brings about three copy-cat drownings. The local coroner is in love with all three women and helps to disguise the murders.
Runtime: 118 min.
Directed by: Peter Greenaway
Stars: Bernard Hill | Joely Richardson | Joan Plowright | Jason Edwards | Juliet Stevenson
Cause célèbre (1987)
As: George Bowman
When the ailing husband of an adulterous wife is discovered bludgeoned to death and suspicions fall on the older woman's young lover, the newly widowed woman claims that it was she who was solely responsible for the death despite evidence that points to the contrary in this dramatic account of true-life 1935 trial that shocked all of England. Though notable evidence and strong suspicion suggests that the ...
Runtime: 109 min.
Directed by: John Gorrie
Stars: Helen Mirren | David Morrissey | Harry Andrews | Norma West | David Suchet