John Lynch

John Lynch

Birthday: 1961-12-26

Place of Birth: Corrinshego, Northern Ireland, UK

Biography: John Lynch (born 26 December 1961) is an Irish actor and novelist from Northern Ireland. He won the AFI (AACTA) Award for Best Actor for the 1995 film Angel Baby. His other film appearances include Cal (1984), The Secret Garden (1993), In the Name of the Father (1993), Sliding Doors (1998), The Fall (2013–2016), Medici (2019), The Head (2020), and The Banishing (2021). Lynch has also written two novels, Torn Water (2005) and Falling Out of Heaven (2010).

Movies

Sliding Doors
Sliding Doors

Helen, a London ad executive, is fired from her job and rushes out to catch a train, but, as she run...

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Angel Baby
Angel Baby

Two schizophrenics meet during therapy and fall in love. Unfortunately they are on a road to nowhere...

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Alien Hunter
Alien Hunter

Government agents find evidence of extraterrestrial life at the South Pole....

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Hardware
Hardware

Mark 13 is a government-built killing machine programmed with artificial intelligence, able to repai...

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The Tournament
The Tournament

Every ten years, in an unsuspecting town, The Tournament takes place. A battle royale between 30 of ...

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In the Name of the Father
In the Name of the Father

A small-time Belfast thief, Gerry Conlon, is wrongly convicted of an IRA bombing in London, along wi...

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In Tranzit
In Tranzit

Nazi POWs suspected of heinous acts are locked up in a Soviet women's prison run by vengeful female ...

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Isolation
Isolation

On a remote Irish farm, five people become unwilling participants in an experiment that goes nightma...

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Black Death
Black Death

As the plague decimates medieval Europe, rumours circulate of a village immune from the plague. Ther...

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Cal
Cal

Cal, a young man on the fringes of the IRA, falls in love with Marcella, a Catholic woman whose husb...

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The Secret of Roan Inish
The Secret of Roan Inish

Ten-year-old Fiona is sent to live with her grandparents in a small fishing village in Donegal, Irel...

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Lassie
Lassie

A family in financial crisis is forced to sell Lassie, their beloved dog. Hundreds of miles away fro...

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Edward II
Edward II

England, 14th century. King Edward II falls in love with Piers Gaveston, a young man of humble origi...

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Holy Water
Holy Water

The village of Kilcoulins Leap was once a thriving spa town, and was home to a famous Holy Well, but...

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This Is the Sea
This Is the Sea

The film is set in Northern Ireland shortly after 1994 cease-fire. Hazel is a Protestant and Malachy...

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Starting Tomorrow I'll Get Up Late
Starting Tomorrow I'll Get Up Late

Massimo Troisi, away for a long time, reappears silently without anyone knowing. He contacts his fri...

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13Hrs
13Hrs

Sarah Tyler returns to her troubled family home in the isolated countryside, for a much put-off visi...

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Out of the Blue
Out of the Blue

Alan makes films in the warehouse studio where he lives, with the help of his friends Rudy and Liz. ...

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Conspiracy of Silence
Conspiracy of Silence

When a priest commits suicide and two trainees are expelled from a seminary, a journalist starts to ...

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Ghosted
Ghosted

‘GHOSTED’ tells a story of survival inside a British Prison. Jack a model prisoner, has kept his hea...

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Best
Best

Pulling no punches in its depiction of soccer legend George Best's slow descent from the heights of ...

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The Quarry
The Quarry

This thriller investigates the mysterious assassination of a gay pastor in rural South Africa. Witho...

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The Yellow House
The Yellow House

John Simm stars as Vincent Van Gogh in The Yellow House, a feature-length drama that tells the movin...

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Private Peaceful
Private Peaceful

Set in the fields of Devon and the WW1 battlefields of Flanders, two brothers fall for the same girl...

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Möbius
Möbius

An FSB officer falls in love with his agent, an American woman who works as a trader in a Russian ba...

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1871
1871

A young actress becomes politically aware within the Paris Commune of 1871....

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Moll Flanders
Moll Flanders

The daughter of a thief, young Moll is placed in the care of a nunnery after the execution of her mo...

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Scintilla
Scintilla

From a torturous cell in Africa, Abel Powell is released and given the chance to regroup his team of...

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Monkey Boy
Monkey Boy

Half man, half monkey, Chad was born in a lab and kept hidden from the world. A journalist, investig...

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Some Mother's Son
Some Mother's Son

Based on the true story of the 1981 hunger strike in a British prison, in which IRA prisoner Bobby S...

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Sew Torn
Sew Torn

A seamstress gets tangled in her own thread after stealing a briefcase from a drug deal gone bad. In...

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Pilgrimage
Pilgrimage

In 13th century Ireland a group of monks must escort a sacred relic across a landscape fraught with ...

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Night of the Hunt
Night of the Hunt

Using the latest advances in camera technology, NGC penetrates the nocturnal hunting behaviors of th...

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Detour
Detour

A young law student, grieving for his dying mother, struggles to decide whether he should kill his u...

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Who Bombed Birmingham?
Who Bombed Birmingham?

Docudrama film exploring the efforts of World in Action researchers Ian MacBride and Chris Mullin in...

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The Secret Garden
The Secret Garden

A young British girl born and reared in India loses her neglectful parents in an earthquake. She is ...

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The Watchers
The Watchers

A young artist gets stranded in an extensive, immaculate forest in western Ireland, where, after fin...

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Alleycats
Alleycats

When bike courier Chris witnesses what looks like a murder, his first instinct is to cut and run. Bu...

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Upstream
Upstream

Homer and Joé trace the rivers of Croatia aboard a small boat. In spite of being fifty years old eac...

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The Bridge of San Luis Rey
The Bridge of San Luis Rey

In 1714 Peru, a friar is tried by the Spanish Inquisition for questioning God's intentions when five...

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Nothing Personal
Nothing Personal

A raw depiction of the Belfast 'troubles' as savage tribal warfare. Set shortly after the 1975 cease...

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James Joyce's 'Ulysses'
James Joyce's 'Ulysses'

From the series "The Modern World: Ten Great Writers", this playful documentary introduces James Joy...

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The Seventh Stream
The Seventh Stream

She's a beautiful stranger lost in his world. Can they find a place in each other's hearts?...

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The Railway Station Man
The Railway Station Man

Northern Irishwoman Helen Cuffe (Julie Christie) is overwhelmed with sadness when her husband is kil...

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Mo
Mo

A docudrama about the life of the former UK Secretary of state for Northern Ireland, Mo Mowlam....

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Kissing Candice
Kissing Candice

Candice longs to escape the boredom of her seaside town, but when a boy she dreams about turns up in...

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Number One
Number One

A brilliant and determined female engineer is approached by a network of powerful women with an offe...

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Puckoon
Puckoon

Spike Milligan's book about the divided Irish village of Puckoon comes to the big screen....

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Paul, Apostle of Christ
Paul, Apostle of Christ

Risking his life, Luke ventures to Rome to visit Paul -- the apostle who's bound in chains and held ...

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The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Love's Sweet Song
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Love's Sweet Song

Ireland's bloody 1916 Easter Uprising, the suffragette movement in England, a Zeppelin raid, and a m...

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Waiting Tables
Waiting Tables

Interviews with people whom Gloria Steinem calls "pink collar" workers--those who wait tables....

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Words Upon the Window Pane
Words Upon the Window Pane

In 1928 Dublin, during séances concerning Jonathan Swift, the spirits of his former lovers, Stella a...

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Boys from County Hell
Boys from County Hell

A crew of hardy road workers, led by a bickering Father and Son, must survive the night when they ac...

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Princess Caraboo
Princess Caraboo

Bristol, England, early 19th century. A beautiful young stranger who speaks a weird language is trie...

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The Banishing
The Banishing

In the 1930s, a young reverend and his family are forced to confront their worst fears when they dis...

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Caravan
Caravan

The film centers on an outcast in a rural English community who draws the attention of a vengeful mo...

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Evelyn
Evelyn

Desmond Doyle is devastated when his wife abandons their family on the day after Christmas. His unem...

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