Robert Carlyle
Actor | Director
Robert Carlyle, OBE (born 14 April 1961) is a Scottish film and television actor. He is known for a variety of roles including those in Trainspotting, Hamish Macbeth, The Full Monty, The World Is Not Enough, Angela's Ashes, The 51st State, and 28 Weeks Later. He also portrayed Doctor Nicholas Rush in Stargate Universe.
Filmography - Acting
Filters:
Job:
T2: Trainspotting (2017)
As: Francis "Franco" Begbie
After 20 years abroad, Mark Renton returns to Scotland and reunites with his old friends Sick Boy, Spud and Begbie.
Runtime: 117 min.
Directed by: Danny Boyle
Stars: Ewen Bremner | Ewan McGregor | Robert Carlyle | Anjela Nedyalkova | Jonny Lee Miller
Antonia Bird: From EastEnders to Hollywood (2016)
As: Himself
In this new documentary, Susan Kemp explores the life and work of the great British director Antonia Bird, who died in 2013. Bird blazed a trail from the radical hotbed of the Royal Court Theatre in the 70s, via the groundbreaking early days of EastEnders and Casualty in the 80s, all the way to Hollywood in the 90s and back again. She always had something urgent to say, but her career was a long struggle ...
Runtime: 93 min.
Directed by: Susan Kemp
Stars: Steven Mackintosh | Robert Carlyle | Irvine Welsh | Kate Hardie | Mark Cousins
The Legend of Barney Thomson (2015)
As: Barney
Barney Thomson, awkward, diffident, Glasgow barber, lives a life of desperate mediocrity and his uninteresting life is about to go from 0 to 60 in five seconds, as he enters the grotesque and comically absurd world of the serial killer.
Runtime: 96 min.
Directed by: Robert Carlyle
Stars: James Cosmo | Ray Winstone | Emma Thompson | Robert Carlyle | Ashley Jensen
Adolf Hitler: The Greatest Story Never Told (2013)
As: Adolf Hitler
Far outside what's normally taught as "history", this 6-hour documentary attempts to explain what's normally glossed over - Germany's actions prior to WWII, Hitler's popularity, the support of the Nazis by the Germans, the basis for hardline Nazi stances against Jews, and why Nazism was such a danger to the established world powers. It chronicles the German WWI defeat, communist attempts to take over ...
Runtime: 350 min.
Directed by: Dennis Wise
Stars: Adolf Hitler | Hermann Göring | Heinrich Himmler | George S. Patton | Hanna Reitsch
California Solo (2012)
As: Lachlan MacAldonich
Lachlan MacAldonich is a self-described “lazy Scotsman” and former guitar player for a once-popular 1990s rock band. No longer famous, he now lives a comfortably numb existence working on an organic farm outside Los Angeles. He drinks himself into a stupor every night and retires to his shabby apartment to record his podcast, recounting the tragic deaths of great musicians. After a particularly heavy ...
Runtime: 94 min.
Directed by: Marshall Lewy
Stars: Kathleen Wilhoite | A Martinez | Robert Carlyle | Danny Masterson | Alexia Rasmussen
The Unloved (2009)
As: Lucy's Father
The Unloved is film that gives a child's eye view of the U.K.'s government-run care system for orphans and children in danger. Lucy is eleven years old. Having been neglected by her estranged mother and father, she is placed in a children's home. Through her eyes, we follow Lucy's struggle to cope with the system. Her saving is her self-belief and her certainty that she is being watched ...
Runtime: 106 min.
Directed by: Samantha Morton
Stars: Andrea Lowe | Craig Parkinson | Susan Lynch | Robert Carlyle | Molly Windsor
The Tournament (2009)
As: Father Joseph MacAvoy
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
I Know You Know (2009)
As: Charlie
Jamie, an 11-year-old boy, is fascinated by his father Charlie’s espionage work until the world of spies becomes all too real. Charlie lives in his own reality—an undercover agent, always on an important mission, always on the move. Life for Charlie is highly charged and on the edge. He is unpredictable, explosive, yet kind hearted and fiercely protective of his Jamie who hero-worships his father.
Runtime: 81 min.
Directed by: Justin Kerrigan
Stars: Karl Johnson | David Bradley | Robert Carlyle | Arron Fuller | Valerie Lilley
Stone of Destiny (2008)
As: John MacCormick
Tells of the daring heist of The Stone of Destiny in the 1950s by a charming group of idealistic Scottish undergraduates, whose action rekindled Scottish nationalistic pride.
Runtime: 96 min.
Directed by: Charles Martin Smith
Stars: Peter Mullan | Billy Boyd | Kate Mara | Robert Carlyle | Charlie Cox
Summer (2008)
As: Shaun
Shaun and Daz are vibrant kids, wasted by their experience of education. All they have is friendship and Shaun's first love Katy. From the moment Shaun steps into our world he is bound to lose. Labeled as a violent bully he destroys himself and Daz with him. Shaun has twelve years to reflect on an intense summer of love, sex and loyalty. But Daz's imminent death forces Shaun to confront his past.
Runtime: 83 min.
Directed by: Kenneth Glenaan
Stars: Kate Dickie | Steve Evets | Michael Socha | Robert Carlyle | Rachael Blake
24: Redemption (2008)
As: Carl Benton
Former federal agent Jack Bauer confronts African dictator Benjamin Juma, whose forces have been ordered to capture the children Bauer oversees for malicious military training.
Runtime: 84 min.
Directed by: Jon Cassar
Stars: Bob Gunton | Kiefer Sutherland | Cherry Jones | Jon Voight | Colm Feore
Flood (2007)
As: Rob
Timely yet terrifying, The Flood predicts the unthinkable. When a raging storm coincides with high seas it unleashes a colossal tidal surge, which travels mercilessly down England's East Coast and into the Thames Estuary. Overwhelming the Barrier, torrents of water pour into the city. The lives of millions of Londoners are at stake.
Runtime: 110 min.
Directed by: Tony Mitchell
Stars: Joanne Whalley | Robert Carlyle | Jessalyn Gilsig | David Suchet | Tom Courtenay
28 Weeks Later (2007)
As: Don
In this chilling sequel to 28 Days Later, the inhabitants of the British Isles appear to have lost their battle against the onslaught of disease, as the deadly rage virus has killed every citizen there. Six months later, a group of Americans dare to set foot on the isles, convinced the danger has come and gone. But it soon becomes all too clear that the scourge continues to live, waiting to pounce on its ...
Runtime: 100 min.
Directed by: Juan Carlos Fresnadillo
Stars: Jeremy Renner | Imogen Poots | Rose Byrne | Robert Carlyle | Harold Perrineau
Eragon (2006)
As: Durza
In his homeland of Alagaesia, a farm boy happens upon a dragon's egg -- a discovery that leads him on a predestined journey where he realized he's the one person who can defend his home against an evil king.
Runtime: 104 min.
Directed by: Stefen Fangmeier
Stars: Djimon Hounsou | Sienna Guillory | Robert Carlyle | Jeremy Irons | Ed Speleers
Born Equal (2006)
As: Robert
Four characters living in one neighborhood in London - all living dramatically different lives, all of them on the edge - see their stories unfold.
Runtime: 83 min.
Directed by: Dominic Savage
Stars: Colin Firth | Emilia Fox | Robert Carlyle | Anne-Marie Duff | Nicholas Burns
Marilyn Hotchkiss' Ballroom Dancing & Charm School (2006)
As: Frank Keane
Writer-director Randall Miller's heart-achingly sweet drama centers on the unsatisfying personal life of protagonist Frank Keane (Robert Carlyle), a sensitive baker who remains deeply despondent over his late wife's untimely death. When Frank helps a stranger (John Goodman) who's sidelined by a fatal accident on his way to a fateful reunion, he decides to show up for the rendezvous in the man's place. In ...
Runtime: 103 min.
Directed by: Randall Miller
Stars: Danny DeVito | John Goodman | Mary Steenburgen | Robert Carlyle | Marisa Tomei
Dead Fish (2005)
As: Danny Devine
Gary Oldman is Lynch, a strangely charming hit man in this explosively funny dark comedy in the tradition of Snatch and Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels. With an all-star cast including Terence Stamp, Elena Anaya, Robert Carlyle and Billy Zane, Dead Fish is a chaotic tale of criminals looking for love, money and revenge that will have you falling out of your chair laughing!
Runtime: 98 min.
Directed by: Charley Stadler
Stars: Gary Oldman | Robert Carlyle | Cassandra Bell | Anouska Bolton Lee | John Pearson
Class of '76 (2005)
As: DI Tom Monroe
Inspector Tom Monroe (Robert Carlyle) investigates the mysterious death of several people that the only thing they have in common is being classmates. In addition, the deaths appear to be related to a mysterious "faceless child."
Runtime: 180 min.
Directed by: Ashley Pearce
Stars: Daniel Mays | Robert Carlyle | Claire Skinner | Sean Gallagher | Robert Glenister
The Mighty Celt (2005)
As: O
Centred around greyhound racing in a Catholic community after the "Troubles" have ended but where their legacy remains strong. Donal is a 14-year old who works in a greyhound racing kennel owned by Good Joe. If Donal's favourite greyhound, The Mighty Celt, wins three races in a row, Good Joe has promised him full ownership.
Runtime: 82 min.
Directed by: Pearse Elliott
Stars: Sean McGinley | Gillian Anderson | Robert Carlyle | Ken Stott | Tyrone McKenna
Black and White (2002)
As: David O'Sullivan
Australia, 1958. When a nine year old white girl is found murdered, police are quick to arrest illiterate Aborigine, Max Stuart. Under interrogation Max admits to the killing and signs a statement that will send him to the gallows. With no Court of Appeal established in the country, and with a legal system compromised by intimidation tactics and the stain of institutional racism, the skills of his two ...
Runtime: 99 min.
Directed by: Craig Lahiff
Stars: Ben Mendelsohn | Kerry Fox | Charles Dance | David Ngoombujarra | Robert Carlyle
Once Upon a Time in the Midlands (2002)
As: Jimmy
Dek, a decent but somewhat dull man, enjoys a happy existence with beloved girlfriend Shirley. They live together with her 12-year-old, Marlene: her daughter by the delinquent Jimmy, who flew the coop years ago and hasn't been heard from since. Dek loves Shirley so much that he proposes to her on national television.
Runtime: 104 min.
Directed by: Shane Meadows
Stars: Shirley Henderson | Rhys Ifans | Ricky Tomlinson | Kathy Burke | Robert Carlyle
The 51st State (2001)
As: Felix DeSouza
Elmo McElroy is a streetwise American master chemist who heads to England to sell his special new formula - a powerful, blue concoction guaranteed to take you to 'the 51st state.' McElroy's new product delivers a feeling 51 times more powerful than any thrill, any pleasure, any high in history. But his plans for a quick, profitable score go comically awry when he gets stuck in Liverpool with an ...
Runtime: 93 min.
Directed by: Ronny Yu
Stars: Meat Loaf | Rhys Ifans | Samuel L. Jackson | Emily Mortimer | Robert Carlyle
To End All Wars (2001)
As: Major Ian Campbell
Based on a real-life story, this drama focuses on a small group of Allied soldiers in Burma who are held captive by the Japanese. Capt. Ernest Gordon (Ciaran McMenamin), Lt. Jim Reardon (Kiefer Sutherland) and Maj. Ian Campbell (Robert Carlyle) are among the military officers kept imprisoned and routinely beaten and deprived of food. While Campbell wants to rebel and attempt an escape, Gordon tries to take ...
Runtime: 125 min.
Directed by: David L. Cunningham
Stars: Kiefer Sutherland | Ciarán McMenamin | Mark Strong | Robert Carlyle | Sakae Kimura
There's Only One Jimmy Grimble (2000)
As: Eric Wirral
Jimmy Grimble is a shy Manchester school boy. At school he is constantly being bullied by the other kids, and at home he has to face his mother's new boyfriend. However, through football, and some special boots, he manages to gain the confidence to succeed and leads his school football team towards the final of the local schools cup.
Runtime: 106 min.
Directed by: John Hay
Stars: Robert Carlyle | Gina McKee | Jane Lapotaire | Ben Miller | Lewis McKenzie
The Beach (2000)
As: Daffy
Twenty-something Richard travels to Thailand and finds himself in possession of a strange map. Rumours state that it leads to a solitary beach paradise, a tropical bliss - excited and intrigued, he sets out to find it.
Runtime: 119 min.
Directed by: Danny Boyle
Stars: Leonardo DiCaprio | Tilda Swinton | Virginie Ledoyen | Guillaume Canet | Staffan Kihlbom
Angela's Ashes (1999)
As: Malachy McCourt
Based on the best selling autobiography by Irish expat Frank McCourt, Angela's Ashes follows the experiences of young Frankie and his family as they try against all odds to escape the poverty endemic in the slums of pre-war Limerick. The film opens with the family in Brooklyn, but following the death of one of Frankie's siblings, they return home, only to find the situation there even ...
Runtime: 145 min.
Directed by: Alan Parker
Stars: Emily Watson | Robert Carlyle | Michael Legge | Ciaran Owens | Joe Breen
The World Is Not Enough (1999)
As: Renard
Greed, revenge, world dominance and high-tech terrorism – it's all in a day's work for Bond, who's on a mission to a protect beautiful oil heiress from a notorious terrorist. In a race against time that culminates in a dramatic submarine showdown, Bond works to defuse the international power struggle that has the world's oil supply hanging in the balance.
Runtime: 128 min.
Directed by: Michael Apted
Stars: Sophie Marceau | Pierce Brosnan | Robert Carlyle | Denise Richards | Robbie Coltrane
Plunkett & MacLeane (1999)
As: Will Plunkett
Will Plunkett and Captain James Macleane, two men from different ends of the social spectrum in 18th-century England, enter a gentlemen's agreement: They decide to rid the aristocrats of their belongings. With Plunkett's criminal know-how and Macleane's social connections, they team up to be soon known as "The Gentlemen Highwaymen". But when one day these gentlemen hold up Lord Chief Justice Gibson's ...
Runtime: 99 min.
Directed by: Jake Scott
Stars: Liv Tyler | Michael Gambon | Robert Carlyle | Ken Stott | Jonny Lee Miller
Ravenous (1999)
As: Colonel Ives / F.W. Colqhoun
Upon receiving reports of missing persons at Fort Spencer, a remote Army outpost on the Western frontier, Capt. John Boyd investigates. After arriving at his new post, Boyd and his regiment aid a wounded frontiersman who recounts a horrifying tale of a wagon train murdered by its supposed guide -- a vicious U.S. Army colonel gone rogue. Fearing the worst, the regiment heads out into the wilderness to ...
Runtime: 101 min.
Directed by: Antonia Bird
Stars: Jeremy Davies | Guy Pearce | Robert Carlyle | Neal McDonough | David Arquette
Face (1997)
As: Ray
Ray is an aging ex-socialist who has become a bankrobber after seeing the demise of socialism in 1980s Britain. Teaming up with a gang of other has-beenish crims, he commits one bank job too many. The gang dissolves in a murderous flurry of recriminations.
Runtime: 105 min.
Directed by: Antonia Bird
Stars: Ray Winstone | Lena Headey | Steven Waddington | Robert Carlyle | Phil Davis
The Full Monty (1997)
As: Gaz
Sheffield, England. Gaz, a jobless steelworker in need of quick cash persuades his mates to bare it all in a one-night-only strip show.
Runtime: 91 min.
Directed by: Peter Cattaneo
Stars: Mark Addy | Tom Wilkinson | Robert Carlyle | Steve Huison | William Snape
Carla's Song (1996)
As: George Lennox
A Glasgow man (Robert Carlyle) visits war-torn Nicaragua with a refugee (Oyanka Cabezas) tormented by her memories.
Runtime: 127 min.
Directed by: Ken Loach
Stars: Louise Goodall | Scott Glenn | Robert Carlyle | Salvador Espinoza | Oyanka Cabezas
Trainspotting (1996)
As: Francis "Franco" Begbie
Mark Renton, deeply immersed in the Edinburgh drug scene, tries to clean up and get out, despite the allure of the drugs and influence of friends.
Runtime: 94 min.
Directed by: Danny Boyle
Stars: Ewen Bremner | Ewan McGregor | Robert Carlyle | Jonny Lee Miller | Kelly Macdonald
Go Now (1995)
As: Nick Cameron
Nick, is a young Scottish soccer player living in the big city. He meets Karen, and the two fall in love and move in together. Soon after, Nick exhibits signs of serious illness. As his body slowly succumbs to multiple sclerosis, he experiences a wide sweep of jagged emotions, and in the process gives himself and those who love him the strength to carry on.
Runtime: 81 min.
Directed by: Michael Winterbottom
Stars: James Nesbitt | Juliet Aubrey | Robert Carlyle | Berwick Kaler | Sophie Okonedo
Being Human (1994)
As: Priest
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
Priest (1994)
As: Graham
Father Greg Pilkington is torn between his call as a conservative Catholic priest and his secret life as a homosexual with a gay lover, frowned upon by the Church. Upon hearing the confession of a young girl of her incestuous father, Greg enters an intensely emotional spiritual struggle deciding between choosing morals over religion and one life over another.
Runtime: 105 min.
Directed by: Antonia Bird
Stars: Christine Tremarco | Tom Wilkinson | Robert Carlyle | Linus Roache | Cathy Tyson
Safe (1993)
Antonia Bird's first feature length film; "Safe" from 1993, focused on the plight of the homeless in London.
Runtime: 66 min.
Directed by: Antonia Bird
Stars: Steven Mackintosh | Aidan Gillen | Robert Carlyle | George Costigan | Kate Hardie
Riff-Raff (1991)
As: Stevie
The story of Stevie, a construction worker, and his girlfriend, an unemployed pop singer, serves to show the living conditions of the British poor class.
Runtime: 95 min.
Directed by: Ken Loach
Stars: Ricky Tomlinson | Robert Carlyle | George Moss | Emer McCourt | Jimmy Coleman