David O'Hara

Janice Beard 45 WPM (2015)

As: O'Brien

Janice Beard is a dreamer who can't seem to quite make it big. She is working in an auto design company and falls for the mailboy, but he is hiding secrets.

Runtime: 81 min.

Directed by: Clare Kilner

Stars: David O'Hara | Rhys Ifans | Eileen Walsh | Sandra Voe | Patsy Kensit

Reach Me (2014)

As: Dominic

Each member of a group of people has a connection to a self-help book authored by a reclusive former football coach.

Runtime: 95 min.

Directed by: John Herzfeld

Stars: Tom Berenger | Cary Elwes | Sylvester Stallone | Lauren Cohan | Kyra Sedgwick

The Groundsman (2013)

As: Keith

A Scottish football groundsman discovers the club he's been a part of for thirty years is going out of business.

Runtime: 15 min.

Directed by: Jonny Blair

Stars: David O'Hara | Brian McCardie | Jim Sweeney | Darran Lightbody | Sean Brown

Whole Lotta Sole (2012)

As: Mad Dog Flynn

In a misguided attempt to protect his family and pay back gambling debts to the local Mobster, Jimbo robs a fish market, which is coincidentally owned by the same Mobster. On the run, Jimbo is cornered in a local curio shop, where he takes hostage an assortment of colorful characters, including Maguire, who may be his illegitimate father. Surrounded by the Police, the SAS, and the Mobster's crew, the young ...

Runtime: 89 min.

Directed by: Terry George

Stars: David O'Hara | Colm Meaney | Brendan Fraser | Martin McCann | Yaya Alafia

Best Laid Plans (2012)

As: Curtis

David Blair directs this powerful British Drama, loosely inspired by John Steinbeck's novel 'Of Mice and Men'. Set in Nottingham, the film revolves around the relationship between the thuggish Danny (Stephen Graham) and Joseph (Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje), a giant of a man with a mental age of seven. When Danny finds himself in debt to a local crime boss, he feels he is left with no choice but to ...

Runtime: 108 min.

Directed by: David Blair

Stars: David O'Hara | Stephen Graham | Lee Ingleby | Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje | Maxine Peake

Contraband (2012)

As: Jim Church

When his brother-in-law runs afoul of a drug lord, family man Chris Farraday turns to a skill he abandoned long ago – smuggling – to repay the debt. But the job goes wrong, and Farraday finds himself wanted by cops, crooks and killers alike.

Runtime: 109 min.

Directed by: Baltasar Kormákur

Stars: Giovanni Ribisi | J.K. Simmons | Mark Wahlberg | Kate Beckinsale | Ben Foster

Cowboys & Aliens (2011)

As: Pat Dolan

A stranger stumbles into the desert town of Absolution with no memory of his past and a futuristic shackle around his wrist. With the help of mysterious beauty Ella and the iron-fisted Colonel Dolarhyde, he finds himself leading an unlikely posse of cowboys, outlaws, and Apache warriors against a common enemy from beyond this world in an epic showdown for survival.

Runtime: 119 min.

Directed by: Jon Favreau

Stars: Harrison Ford | Sam Rockwell | Walton Goggins | Olivia Wilde | Daniel Craig

Golf in the Kingdom (2011)

As: Shivas Irons

In 1956, American philosophy student Michael Murphy is on his way to an ashram in India when he stops off in Scotland for one last game of golf. He meets a spirited pro who teaches him about golf and life, and how the two are beautifully intertwined.

Runtime: 86 min.

Directed by: Susan Streitfeld

Stars: David O'Hara | Tony Curran | Malcolm McDowell | Frances Fisher | Mason Gamble

The Kid (2010)

As: Terry

Based on the real life story of Kevin Lewis, the film follows his childhood of abuse, his descent into a life of crime and the way he put his life together again afterwards.

Runtime: 111 min.

Directed by: Nick Moran

Stars: Bernard Hill | Rupert Friend | Kate Ashfield | Ioan Gruffudd | Natascha McElhone

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (2010)

As: Albert Runcorn

Harry, Ron and Hermione walk away from their last year at Hogwarts to find and destroy the remaining Horcruxes, putting an end to Voldemort's bid for immortality. But with Harry's beloved Dumbledore dead and Voldemort's unscrupulous Death Eaters on the loose, the world is more dangerous than ever.

Runtime: 146 min.

Directed by: David Yates

Stars: Helena Bonham Carter | Ralph Fiennes | Rupert Grint | Daniel Radcliffe | Emma Watson

Attack on Darfur (2009)

As: Freddie Smith

American journalists in Sudan are confronted with the dilemma of whether to return home to report on the atrocities they have seen, or to stay behind and help some of the victims they have encountered.

Runtime: 98 min.

Directed by: Uwe Boll

Stars: David O'Hara | Billy Zane | Kristanna Loken | Noah Danby | Edward Furlong

Jack Said (2009)

As: The Boss

Some journeys are measured by what you sacrifice to get there

Runtime: 101 min.

Directed by: Lee Basannavar | Michael Tchoubouroff

Stars: David O'Hara | Danny Dyer | Simon Phillips | Ashlie Walker | Ashlie Walker

Wanted (2008)

As: Mr. X (as David Patrick O'Hara)

Doormat Wesley Gibson discovers that his recently murdered father – who Wesley never knew – belonged to a secret guild of assassins. After a leather-clad sexpot drafts Wesley into the society, he hones his innate killing skills and turns avenger.

Runtime: 110 min.

Directed by: Timur Bekmambetov

Stars: Morgan Freeman | Terence Stamp | Angelina Jolie | James McAvoy | Thomas Kretschmann

Doomsday (2008)

As: Michael Canaris

A lethal virus spreads throughout the British isles,infecting millions and killing hundreds of thousands. To contain the threat, acting authorities brutally quarantine the country as it succumbs to fear and chaos. The quarantine is successful. Three decades later, the Reaper virus violently resurfaces in a major city. An elite group of specialists is urgently dispatched into the still-quarantined country ...

Runtime: 108 min.

Directed by: Neil Marshall

Stars: David O'Hara | Rhona Mitra | Bob Hoskins | Alexander Siddig | Malcolm McDowell

Tales of William Wallace (2007)

As: Himself

Runtime: 30 min.

Stars: Alan Ladd, Jr. | Nicholas Omana | Jim Ward | John Lee | Bruce Davey

The Departed (2006)

As: Fitzy

To take down South Boston's Irish Mafia, the police send in one of their own to infiltrate the underworld, not realizing the syndicate has done likewise. While an undercover cop curries favor with the mob kingpin, a career criminal rises through the police ranks. But both sides soon discover there's a mole among them.

Runtime: 151 min.

Directed by: Martin Scorsese

Stars: Leonardo DiCaprio | Matt Damon | Mark Wahlberg | Martin Sheen | Jack Nicholson

Tristan & Isolde (2006)

As: Donnchadh

An affair between the second in line to Britain's throne (Franco) and the princess of the feuding Irish (Myles) spells doom for the young lovers.

Runtime: 125 min.

Directed by: Kevin Reynolds

Stars: David O'Hara | Mark Strong | James Franco | Rufus Sewell | Sophia Myles

Hotel Rwanda (2004)

As: David

Inspired by true events, this film takes place in Rwanda in the 1990s when more than a million Tutsis were killed in a genocide that went mostly unnoticed by the rest of the world. Hotel owner Paul Rusesabagina houses over a thousand refuges in his hotel in attempt to save their lives.

Runtime: 121 min.

Directed by: Terry George

Stars: Joaquin Phoenix | Nick Nolte | Fana Mokoena | Don Cheadle | Sophie Okonedo

Den of Lions (2003)

As: Ferko Kurchina

A Hungarian gypsy working for a Russian mobster becomes a double agent for the FBI.

Runtime: 103 min.

Directed by: James Bruce

Stars: David O'Hara | Bob Hoskins | Stephen Dorff | Ian Hart | Laura Fraser

Stander (2003)

As: Allan Heyl

The life and career of Andre Stander, a South African police officer turned bank robber.

Runtime: 111 min.

Directed by: Bronwen Hughes

Stars: David O'Hara | Dexter Fletcher | Deborah Kara Unger | Thomas Jane | Ashley Taylor

Made (2001)

As: The Welshman

Two aspiring boxers lifelong friends get involved in a money-laundering scheme through a low-level organized crime group.

Runtime: 95 min.

Directed by: Jon Favreau

Stars: Famke Janssen | Peter Falk | Vince Vaughn | Jon Favreau | Sean Combs

Crossfire Trail (2001)

As: Rock Mullaney

Rafe Covington is as good as his word, and he's determined to keep his promise to a dying man that he'll look after the man's widow and Wyoming ranch. But the widow doubts the integrity of drifter Covington. And an unscrupulous land grabber and his gunmen are sizing up the ranch the way a spider eyes a fly.

Runtime: 92 min.

Directed by: Simon Wincer

Stars: David O'Hara | Virginia Madsen | Christian Kane | Tom Selleck | Ken Pogue

Jesus (2000)

As: João Batista

The film is notable for presenting a more human Jesus, compared to more solemn portrayals in earlier films; here Jesus laughs and cries like anyone else. Among other things, he weeps at Joseph’s funeral, throws stones in Lake Galilee when meeting Simon Peter and James son of Zebedee for the first time, dances at the wedding at Cana, and starts a water-splashing fight with his disciples as well. Satan ...

Runtime: 240 min.

Directed by: Roger Young

Stars: David O'Hara | Gary Oldman | Armin Mueller-Stahl | Jeremy Sisto | Debra Messing

The Match (1999)

As: Mechanic

The Match is a romantic comedy set against the story of a grudge football match between two pubs. The prize for the winner of the centenary match is the the closure of their opponent's bar. The Match was mainly filmed around Straiton in Ayrshire.

Runtime: 95 min.

Directed by: Mick Davis

Stars: James Cosmo | Laura Fraser | Richard E. Grant | Isla Blair | Max Beesley

Fever (1999)

As: Will

A struggling artist is implicated in a string of macabre murders.

Runtime: 92 min.

Directed by: Alex Winter

Stars: David O'Hara | Teri Hatcher | Henry Thomas | Bill Duke

The MatchMaker (1997)

As: Sean Kelly

Marcy, a worker in the reelection campaign of bumbling Senator John McGlory, is sent to Ireland on a quest to find the Irish ancestry of Sen. McGlory, to help him win the Irish vote. But when Marcy arrives in the small village of Ballinagra, she finds herself in the middle of a matchmaking festival, and the local matchmaker is determined to pair her off with one of the local bachelors.

Runtime: 97 min.

Directed by: Mark Joffe

Stars: David O'Hara | Jay O. Sanders | Janeane Garofalo | Denis Leary | Milo O'Shea

The Slab Boys (1997)

As: Terry Skinnedar

Paisley, Scotland, in 1957. Three likely lads look forward to the staff dance at the local carpet factory where they work

Runtime: 97 min.

Directed by: John Byrne

Stars: Robin Laing | Russell Barr | Bill Gardiner | Julie Wilson Nimmo | Louise Berry

The Devil's Own (1997)

As: Martin MacDuf

Frankie McGuire, one of the IRA's deadliest assassins, draws an American family into the crossfire of terrorism. But when he is sent to the U.S. to buy weapons, Frankie is housed with the family of Tom O'Meara, a New York cop who knows nothing about Frankie's real identity. Their surprising friendship, and Tom's growing suspicions, forces Frankie to choose between the promise of peace or a lifetime ...

Runtime: 111 min.

Directed by: Alan J. Pakula

Stars: Brad Pitt | Treat Williams | Harrison Ford | Natascha McElhone | Rubén Blades

Some Mother's Son (1996)

As: Frank Higgins

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 prisoners as criminals rather than as prisoners of war. The film focuses on the mothers of two of the strikers, and their struggle to save the lives of their sons.

Runtime: 112 min.

Directed by: Terry George

Stars: David O'Hara | Helen Mirren | John Lynch | Aidan Gillen | Fionnula Flanagan

The Near Room (1995)

As: Harris Hill

Charlie Colquhoun is a journalist whose career is floundering. As a teenager, he fathered a daughter, Tommy, who was committed to foster care as an infant. Seventeen years later, Charlie, Tommy and Charlie's old schoolmate Harris Hill, now a squeaky-clean solicitor, are reunited by a scandal that includes child pornography, blackmail and murder.

Runtime: 90 min.

Directed by: David Hayman

Stars: David O'Hara | Robert Pugh | Adrian Dunbar | David Hayman | Julie Graham

Braveheart (1995)

As: Stephen, Irish Fighter

Enraged at the slaughter of Murron, his new bride and childhood love, Scottish warrior William Wallace slays a platoon of the local English lord's soldiers. This leads the village to revolt and, eventually, the entire country to rise up against English rule.

Runtime: 178 min.

Directed by: Mel Gibson

Stars: Mel Gibson | Patrick McGoohan | Sophie Marceau | Angus Macfadyen | Catherine McCormack

Link (1986)

As: Tom

A zoology student must try to out smart a murderous and super-intelligent orangutan.

Runtime: 103 min.

Directed by: Richard Franklin

Stars: David O'Hara | Terence Stamp | Elisabeth Shue | Steven Pinner | Richard Garnett

Comfort and Joy (1984)

As: Engineer

Radio host Alan Bird witnesses how an icecream van is attacked and destroyed by angry competitors. This leads him into the struggle between two Italian families over the icecream market of Glasgow.

Runtime: 106 min.

Directed by: Bill Forsyth

Stars: Alex Norton | Bill Paterson | Patrick Malahide | Eleanor David | Clare Grogan