Gerard McSorley

Gerard McSorley

Birthday: 1950-09-14

Place of Birth: Omagh, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland

Biography: Gerard McSorley is a theatre, TV and an Irish film actor. He is known for hit films Veronica Guerin, Braveheart & In The Name of The Father. He also known for playing Father Todd Unctious in the Christmas special episode ("A Christmassy Ted") of the sitcom Father Ted. He now resides in County Donegal, he has three children.

Movies

Veronica Guerin
Veronica Guerin

In this true story, Veronica Guerin is an investigative reporter for an Irish newspaper. As the drug...

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The Constant Gardener
The Constant Gardener

Justin Quayle is a low-level British diplomat who has always gone about his work very quietly, not c...

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Omagh
Omagh

The movie starts at the 1998 bomb attack by the Real IRA at Omagh, Northern Ireland. The attack kill...

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The Front Line
The Front Line

An African immigrant bank security guard turns the tables on Dublin's nastiest criminals when they f...

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Swansong: Story of Occi Byrne
Swansong: Story of Occi Byrne

Born in London to single mum Bridget, Austin Byrne returns with her to her hometown in Ireland as a ...

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Taffin
Taffin

When a small Irish town is terrorized by a corrupt business syndicate, a lone hero wages an all out ...

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Agnes Browne
Agnes Browne

Set in Dublin in 1967, the story of feisty woman, who along with her seven children, learns to cope ...

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Dead Bodies
Dead Bodies

The return of a vengeful ex-girlfriend sets into motion a series of gruesome events for a hapless Ir...

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The Serpent's Kiss
The Serpent's Kiss

A man sends a young architect to build an extravagant garden to bankrupt the husband of the woman he...

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Middletown
Middletown

Having spent most of his life in religious instruction, Gabriel returns to his hometown as its new p...

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Felicia's Journey
Felicia's Journey

Seventeen and pregnant, Felicia travels to England in search of her lover and is found instead by Jo...

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Trapped
Trapped

When Anton O'Neill returns home after five years at sea, he finds that 1970's Ireland is a radically...

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Withdrawal
Withdrawal

Based on the writings of David Chapman and Jimmy Brennan, Withdrawal is about Jimmy, a heroin user i...

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Do Armed Robbers Have Love Affairs?
Do Armed Robbers Have Love Affairs?

An aging criminal, about to pull an armed robbery,reflects on a friend of his: a fellow criminal, wh...

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The Deep End of the Ocean
The Deep End of the Ocean

A three-year-old boy disappears during his mother's high school reunion. Nine years later, by chance...

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Just in Time
Just in Time

Frank is a confident, charming author with a secret mistress in London; a relationship he wants to k...

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Blood Creek
Blood Creek

A man and his brother on a mission of revenge become trapped in a harrowing occult experiment dating...

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Braveheart
Braveheart

Enraged at the slaughter of Murron, his new bride and childhood love, Scottish warrior William Walla...

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Hesitation
Hesitation

A middle aged man, on a package holiday in France with his wife, focuses all his frustrations and di...

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The Rockingham Shoot
The Rockingham Shoot

Rigid nationalist Reilly's frustration at the last remains of British rule draws him to the Rockingh...

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War Horse
War Horse

On the brink of the First World War, Albert's beloved horse Joey is sold to the Cavalry by his fathe...

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S.O.S. Titanic
S.O.S. Titanic

The Titanic disaster as seen through the eyes of one couple in each of the three classes on board....

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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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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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Easter 2016
Easter 2016

Set in 2016 prior to the centennial of the Easter Rising at Northern Ireland's only integrated teach...

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The Hanging Gale
The Hanging Gale

In this historical miniseries created for BBC Northern Ireland, four brothers struggle to survive du...

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An Awfully Big Adventure
An Awfully Big Adventure

Liverpool. 1947. Right after World War II, a star struck naive teenage girl joins a shabby theatre t...

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Robin Hood
Robin Hood

When soldier Robin happens upon the dying Robert of Loxley, he promises to return the man's sword to...

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Michael Collins
Michael Collins

Michael Collins plays a crucial role in the establishment of the Irish Free State in the 1920s, but ...

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Dancing at Lughnasa
Dancing at Lughnasa

Five unmarried sisters make the most of their simple existence in rural Ireland in the 1930s....

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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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Lift
Lift

Sean's vicious attack leaves a man unconscious and him stranded in an elevator with five others. In ...

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Angela's Ashes
Angela's Ashes

An Irish Catholic family returns to 1930s Limerick after a child's death in America. The unemployed ...

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Ordinary Decent Criminal
Ordinary Decent Criminal

Michael Lynch is a notorious criminal with two wives and a flair for showmanship. He's also a huge e...

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Wide Open Spaces
Wide Open Spaces

Have you ever had a best friend you couldn't stand? Myles has one - Austin - only he's too much of a...

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Vicious Circle
Vicious Circle

Criminal Martin Cahill gets in trouble when a major robbery succeeds. He aims for more trouble when ...

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Penance
Penance

Unequivocal about the need for violence to force Britain out of Ireland, Father Eoin O’Donnell seals...

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Bloody Sunday
Bloody Sunday

The dramatised story of the Irish civil rights protest march on January 30 1972 which ended in a mas...

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Runway One
Runway One

An Irish Garda finds himself involved in a complex smuggling operation....

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The Boxer
The Boxer

Nineteen-year-old Danny Flynn is imprisoned for his involvement with the I.R.A. in Belfast. He leave...

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Inside I'm Dancing
Inside I'm Dancing

Michael is a 24-year-old who has cerebral palsy and long-term resident of the Carrigmore Residential...

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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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The Butcher Boy
The Butcher Boy

Francie and Joe live the usual playful, fantasy filled childhoods of normal boys. However, with a vi...

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Widows' Peak
Widows' Peak

Scandal and mystery reign following the arrival of Edwina in a small Irish town populated entirely b...

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Angel
Angel

Saxophonist Danny witnesses the murder of his band manager and a deaf-mute girl after a gig. Questio...

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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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Tell It to the Fishes
Tell It to the Fishes

The tide is slowly coming in and Finn, a worthless low-rent hood, has been dropped on an isolated be...

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The Halo Effect
The Halo Effect

Fatso is the proprietor of what may be the worst eaterie in the city, and is struggling to keep a si...

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Fractured City
Fractured City

Dance culture brings communities together in 1990s Belfast but there will be consequences....

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