Brendan Gleeson

Highest Rated:
97% The Snapper (1993)
Lowest Rated:
15% 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: 15% - 97%
Number of Movies: 58
Box Office Since 2001: $1933.7M
Year Rating Title Credit Box Office
2013 The Smurfs 2
  • Victor Doyle
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2013 The Shadow King
  • Actor
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2013 54% The Company You Keep
  • Henry Osborne
$3.4M
2012 86% The Pirates! Band of Misfits
  • The Pirate with Gout
$31.1M
2012 23% The Raven
  • Colonel Hamilton
$16.0M
2012 26% The Cup
  • Dermot Weld
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2012 53% Safe House
  • David Barlow
$126.1M
2011 95% The Guard
  • Gerry Boyle
$5.4M
2011 56% Albert Nobbs
  • Dr. Holloran
$3.0M
2010 79% Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 1
  • Alastor "Mad-Eye" Moody
$295.0M
2010 53% Green Zone
  • Martin Brown
$33.1M
2010 Noreen
  • Actor
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2009 91% The Secret of Kells
  • Abbot Cellach
$0.7M
2009 56% Perrier's Bounty
  • Darren Perrier
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2008 Tiger's Tail
  • Actor
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2008 Into the Storm
  • Winston Churchill
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2008 82% In Bruges
  • Ken
$7.6M
2007 71% Beowulf
  • Wiglaf
$82.2M
2007 Studs
  • Actor
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2007 31% Black Irish
  • Desmond
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2007 79% Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
  • Alastor "Mad-Eye" Moody
$292.0M
2006 70% Mission: Impossible III
  • Actor
$133.4M
2006 15% The Tiger's Tail
  • Liam O'Leary
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2005 Studs
  • Walter Keegan
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2005 39% Kingdom of Heaven
  • Reynald
$47.3M
2005 88% Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
  • Alastor 'Mad-Eye' Moody
$290.0M
2005 57% Breakfast on Pluto
  • John Joe Kenny
$0.8M
2004 43% The Village
  • August Nicholson
$114.2M
2004 54% 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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2004 Troy (Director's Cut)
  • Actor
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2003 71% Cold Mountain
  • Stobrod
$95.6M
2003 58% Dark Blue
  • Jack Van Meter
$9.1M
2003 88% 28 Days Later
  • Frank
$44.9M
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 Wild About Harry
  • Actor
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2000 57% Mission: Impossible 2
  • McCloy
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2000 49% Harrison's Flowers
  • Marc Stevenson
$1.6M
2000 Saltwater
  • "Simple" Simon McCurdie
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1999 39% Lake Placid
  • Hank Keogh
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1998 81% The General
  • Martin Cahill
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1998 The Tale of Sweety Barrett
  • Sweety Barrett
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1998 75% This is My Father
  • Officer Jim
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1997 17% Turbulence
  • Stubbs
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1997 Break
  • Richard
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1997 84% I Went Down
  • Bunny Kelly
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1996 77% Michael Collins
  • Liam Tobin
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1996 Trojan Eddie
  • Ginger
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1995 81% Braveheart
  • Hamish
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1993 97% The Snapper
  • Lester
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1993 Love Lies Bleeding
  • Actor
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1993 80% Into the West
  • Inspector Bolger
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1992 50% 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. Ken: Ray, you're about the worst tourist in the world.
    2. Ray: Ken, I grew up in Dublin. I love Dublin. If I grew up on a farm, and was retarded, Bruges might impress me, but I didn't so it doesn't.
    From In Bruges. Submitted by Sergi D (3 months ago)
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