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Brendan Gleeson

Highest Rated:
97% The Snapper (1993)
Lowest Rated:
16% The Tiger's Tail (2006)
Birthday:
Mar 29, 1955
Birthplace:
Dublin, Ireland
Bio:
A former teacher, burly Irish actor Brendan Gleeson spent the 1990s earning an increasing amount of acclaim for his work in a variety of films, most notably John Boorman's The General (1998). Gleeson, who made his feature film debut in Jim Sheridan's The Field (1990), first made an impression on…

Highest Rated Movies

Filmography

Range of Movie T-meters: 16% - 97%
Number of Movies: 53
Box Office Since 2001: $1755.6M
Year Rating Title Credit Box Office
2012 52% Safe House
  • David Barlow
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2012 Pirates! Band of Misfits
  • Actor
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2012 The Raven
  • Colonel Hamilton
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2011 31% The Cup
  • Actor
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2011 95% The Guard
  • Sergeant Gerry Boyle
$5.4M
2011 53% Albert Nobbs
  • Dr. Holloran
$1.5M
2010 79% Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 1
  • Alastor "Mad-Eye" Moody
$295.0M
2010 52% Green Zone
  • Martin Brown
$33.1M
2009 55% Perrier's Bounty
  • Darren Perrier
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2009 91% The Secret of Kells
  • Abbot Cellach
$0.7M
2008 Into the Storm
  • Actor
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2008 82% In Bruges
  • Ken
$7.6M
2008 Tiger's Tail
  • Actor
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2007 31% Black Irish
  • Desmond
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2007 78% Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
  • Alastor "Mad-Eye" Moody
$292.0M
2007 70% Beowulf
  • Wiglaf
$82.2M
2007 Studs
  • Actor
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2006 70% Mission: Impossible III
  • Actor
$133.4M
2006 16% The Tiger's Tail
  • Liam O'Leary
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2005 56% Breakfast on Pluto
  • John Joe Kenny
$0.8M
2005 Studs
  • Walter Keegan
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2005 39% Kingdom of Heaven
  • Reynald
$47.3M
2005 87% Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
  • Alastor 'Mad-Eye' Moody
$290.0M
2004 43% The Village
  • August Nicholson
$114.2M
2004 55% Troy
  • King Menelaus
$133.1M
2004 Six Shooter
  • Donnelly
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2004 22% In My Country
  • Col. De Jager
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2003 88% 28 Days Later
  • Frank
$44.9M
2003 71% Cold Mountain
  • Stobrod
$95.6M
2003 58% Dark Blue
  • Jack Van Meter
$9.1M
2002 75% Gangs of New York
  • Walter "Monk" McGinn
$77.6M
2001 77% The Tailor of Panama
  • Mickie Abraxas
$13.1M
2001 73% A.I. Artificial Intelligence
  • Lord Johnson-Johnson
$77.6M
2000 48% Harrison's Flowers
  • Marc Stevenson
$1.6M
2000 Saltwater
  • "Simple" Simon McCurdie
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2000 Wild About Harry
  • Actor
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2000 57% Mission Impossible 2
  • McCloy
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1999 39% Lake Placid
  • Hank Keogh
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1998 75% This is My Father
  • Officer Jim
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1998 79% The General
  • Martin Cahill
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1998 The Tale of Sweety Barrett
  • Sweety Barrett
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1997 84% I Went Down
  • Bunny Kelly
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1997 17% Turbulence
  • Stubbs
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1996 Trojan Eddie
  • Ginger
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1996 77% Michael Collins
  • Liam Tobin
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1996 Break
  • Actor
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1995 79% Braveheart
  • Hamish
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1993 70% Into the West
  • Inspector Bolger
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1993 97% The Snapper
  • Lester
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1993 Love Lies Bleeding
  • Actor
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1992 48% Far and Away
  • Social Club Policeman
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1990 43% The Field
  • Quarryman
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Treaty
  • Actor
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Quotes from Brendan Gleeson's Characters

    1. Sergeant Gerry Boyle: You lads always announce seizure of drugs worth a street value at $10 million or $20 million or half a billion dollars. I wonder what street it is you're buying your cocaine on, because it's not the same street as I'm buying my cocaine on.
    From The Guard. Submitted by Kaitlyn H (4 days ago)
    1. Sergeant Gerry Boyle: Ever been shot?
    2. FBI agent Wendell Everett: Yeah.
    3. Sergeant Gerry Boyle: Does it hurt?
    From The Guard. Submitted by Malisa L (22 days ago)
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