Gerard McSorley Filmography

Tell it to the Fishes

Actors: Dylan Moran, Gerard McSorley

Synopsis: Two men who don't like one another very much are on the receiving end of a very creative punishment from the mob in this darkly comic short subject from filmmaker William Sinclair. Finn (Dylan Moran) is a low-level gangster who has fallen out of favor with his higher-ups -- so much so that they Read More

The Front Line

Actors: Eriq Ebouaney, James Frain, Gerard McSorley, Hakeem Kae-Kazim, Fatou N'Diaye

Synopsis: A musician from the Democratic Republic of Congo finds his peaceful existence in Ireland suddenly shattered when he made an irresistible offer by one of the nation's most notorious criminals. When Joe Juma's application for asylum was accepted, he thought he was leaving all of his troubles back in Read More

Middletown

Actors: Matthew MacFadyen, Daniel Mays, Eva Birthistle, Gerard McSorley, Richard Dormer

Synopsis: Brian Kirk's gothic thriller Middletown excoriates the actions and attitudes of the Irish Catholic clergy by honing in on one psychotically deranged fire-and-brimstone preacher. Matthew MacFadyen is Gabriel Hunter, a priest fresh from missions work in Africa. After 15 years of service in the Read More

Rory O'Shea Was Here

Actors: James McAvoy, Steven Robertson, Romola Garai, Gerard McSorley, Tom Hickey, Brenda Fricker

Synopsis: Two guys facing more challenges than most people learn some valuable lessons about life and love in this comedy drama. Michael Connolly (Steven Robertson) is a young man in his early twenties who suffers from cerebral palsy; confined to a wheelchair, Michael's speech is unintelligible to all but a Read More

Omagh

Actors: Gerard McSorley, Michele Forbes, Brenda Fricker, Paul Kelly

Synopsis: A devastated father struggles to find answers after a bomb detonated in the peaceful Irish town of Omagh claims the life of his twenty-one year-old son in this topical docudrama from writer/producer Paul Greengrass and director Pete Travis. In 1988 a group who referred to themselves as the "Real Read More

Veronica Guerin

Actors: Cate Blanchett, Gerard McSorley, Ciarán Hinds, Brenda Fricker, Barry Barnes

Synopsis: Producer Jerry Bruckheimer and director Joel Schumacher take on the real-life story of an assassinated Irish journalist in the dramatic thriller Veronica Guerin. Cate Blanchett appears as the title character, a relentless crime reporter for The Sunday Independent during the early '90s. Guerin's Read More

Dead Bodies

Actors: Andrew Scott, Kelly Reilly

Synopsis: The return of a vengeful ex-girlfriend sets into motion a series of gruesome events for a hapless Irish bachelor in director Robert Quinn's grim black comedy. Tommy (Andrew Scott) had thought he had seen the last of Jean (Katy Davis) after their recent breakup, but when Jean returns to stake her Read More

Bloody Sunday

Actors: James Nesbitt, Tim Pigott-Smith, Nicholas Farrell, Gerard McSorley, Kathy Kiera Clarke

Synopsis: Paul Greengrass (The Theory of Flight) wrote and directed this powerful look at January 30, 1972 -- better known as "Bloody Sunday." Ivan Cooper (James Nesbitt) attempts to organize a peaceful protest after Protestant leaders imprison Catholics without a trial. His actions conflict with hard-line Read More

In Search of Ancient Ireland, Program I: Heroes

Synopsis: In Search of Ancient Ireland, Episode I: Heroes investigates the early myths and legends of Ireland. Gerard McSorley narrates. This hour-long program begins before written history by examining burial mounds and stone age relics. Archaeologists and historians provide a historical context to Read More

In Search of Ancient Ireland, Program II: Saints

Synopsis: In Search of Ancient Ireland, Episode II: Saints investigates the rise of Christianity in Ireland. Gerard McSorley narrates. This hour-long program starts with the flock of missionaries after the fifth century A.D. After the fall of the Roman Empire, these missionaries converted the mostly pagan Read More

In Search of Ancient Ireland [TV Documentary Series]

Synopsis: The PBS series In Search of Ancient Ireland was inspired by the simultaneously published book co-authored by filmmaker Leo Eaton and Carmel McCaffrey. The three-part, three-hour series endeavored to separate fact from fantasy in its depiction of the Emerald Isle, though in most cases the dividing Read More

In Search of Ancient Ireland, Program III: Warlords

Synopsis: In Search of Ancient Ireland, Episode III: Warlords investigates the 150 years of war in Ireland. Gerard McSorley narrates. This hour-long program begins with the Vikings seizing control and the murder of King Brian Boru. In 1155, Pope Adrian IV gives King Henry II of England permission to conquer Read More

Agnes Browne

Actors: Anjelica Huston, Marion O'Dwyer, Niall O'Shea, Ciaran Owens, Roxanna Williams

Synopsis: Actress Anjelica Huston directed and stars in this drama based on Brendan O'Carroll's novel The Mammy. Set in Dublin in 1967, Agnes Browne (Anjelica Huston) is the mother of seven children, barely making ends meet when her husband dies, leaving her to figure out not only how to support the family Read More

Felicia's Journey

Actors: Bob Hoskins, Elaine Cassidy, Arsinée Khanjian, Peter McDonald, Gerard McSorley

Synopsis: Directed by Atom Egoyan, Felicia's Journey is a low-key psychological thriller about the relationship between a lovesick young woman and an older man with an ugly secret. Felicia (Elaine Cassidy) has lived all of her life in a small village in rural Ireland. She has fallen in love with a boy named Read More

Ordinary Decent Criminal

Actors: Kevin Spacey, Linda Fiorentino, Peter Mullan, Stephen Dillane, Helen Baxendale, David Hayman

Synopsis: Ordinary Decent Criminal is a classic gangster movie in modern-day Ireland. It follows the extraordinary adventures of a Robin Hood character, Michael Lynch, a thief, bigamist, liar, and criminal genius who robs from the rich to give to the poor. Michael is suave, sardonic, and sexy. When his Read More

The Serpent's Kiss

Actors: Ewan McGregor, Greta Scacchi, Pete Postlethwaite

Synopsis: Haughty and vain British industrialist Thomas Smithers (Pete Postlethwaite) dearly loves his wife Juliana (Greta Sacchi). Since they only have a daughter (Carmen Chaplin), and a strange one at that, Smithers decides that rather than leaving his fortune to his wife and child, he will build a Read More

The Boxer

Actors: Daniel Day-Lewis, Emily Watson, Brian Cox, Ken Stott, Gerard McSorley

Synopsis: Jim Sheridan (In the Name of the Father) directed this drama about a Belfast boxer, filmed with Dublin locations substituting for Belfast. Released after his 14-year prison sentence for IRA activities, 32-year-old Danny Flynn (Daniel Day-Lewis) returns to his old neighborhood and sees former-flame Read More

Some Mother's Son

Actors: Helen Mirren, Fionnula Flanagan, Aidan Gillen, David Patrick O'Hara, John Lynch

Synopsis: A 1981 hunger strike in a Belfast prison is the historical inspiration for the drama Some Mother's Son, which attempts to focus on the personal dimensions of the event through its portrayal of the families of the striking prisoners. Directed by Terry George, co-author of In the Name of the Father Read More

Michael Collins

Actors: Paul Hickey, Liam Neeson, Aidan Quinn, Stephen Rea, Alan Rickman, Julia Roberts

Synopsis: The rise and fall of one of the most important and controversial figures in Ireland's struggle for independence is chronicled in this biographical drama. In 1916, the British government ruled Ireland with a firm and cruel hand, as they had for 700 years. When a group of Irish rebels staged a Read More

Braveheart

Actors: Mel Gibson, Sophie Marceau, Patrick McGoohan, Catherine McCormack, Brendan Gleeson

Synopsis: Mel Gibson, long-time heartthrob of the silver screen, came into his own as a director with Braveheart, an account of the life and times of medieval Scottish patriot William Wallace and, to a lesser degree, Robert the Bruce's struggle to unify his nation against its English oppressors. The story Read More

Nothing Personal

Actors: Ian Hart, John Lynch, James Frain, Michael Gambon, Gary Lydon

Synopsis: Northern Ireland's civil unrest is the backdrop for this tense drama. In Belfast in 1975, a bomb blast rips open a pub in a Protestant neighborhood, killing the patrons inside. Following this attack, representatives from the Irish Republican Army and local Loyalist forces call a mutual truce Read More

Words upon the Window Pane

Actors: Geraldine Chaplin, Geraldine James, Ian Richardson, John Lynch, Gerard McSorley

Synopsis: The ghosts of Jonathan Swift and friends pay a visit to two Dublin spiritualists in this Irish drama, adapted from Yeat's one-act play. In 1928, Miss McKenna, an aging spinster and the head of the Dublin Spiritual Society invites a visiting medium, Mrs. Henderson over to try to contact Jonathan Read More

Widows' Peak

Actors: Mia Farrow, Joan Plowright, Natasha Richardson, Adrian Dunbar, Jim Broadbent

Synopsis: In the Irish town of Kilshannon in the 1920s, a matriarchal clique of widows tightly sets the rules for behavior. Heading the town's ruling circle is the doughty Mrs. Counihan (Joan Plowright). The only non-widow in town is a reclusive middle-aged spinster, Miss O'Hare (Mia Farrow), who seems to Read More

An Awfully Big Adventure

Actors: Alan Rickman, Hugh Grant, Georgina Cates, Alun Armstrong, Peter Firth

Synopsis: A misleading title and a different type of performance from Hugh Grant are two of the offbeat features of An Awfully Big Adventure. Virginal theatre fanatic Stella (Georgina Cates), who speaks with her dead mother by phone, joins a theatrical troupe in 1947 England headed by manipulative director Read More

In the Name of the Father

Actors: Daniel Day-Lewis, Pete Postlethwaite, Emma Thompson, John Lynch, Corin Redgrave

Synopsis: The My Left Foot team of star Daniel Day-Lewis and director Jim Sheridan were reunited to make this political docudrama about Irish citizen Gerry Conlon (Day-Lewis), who was wrongly convicted of taking part in an IRA bombing that killed five in Guildford, England in 1974. After a brutal Read More

Taffin

Actors: Pierce Brosnan, Ray McAnally, Alison Doody, Jeremy Child, Dearbhla Molloy

Synopsis: This melodrama is set in Ireland and follows bill collector and karate master Taffin as he and other try to keep a soccer field from being destroyed by developers. Soon he finds himself involved in a sticky web of blackmail, political corruption and murder all precipitated by the avarice of a Read More

Act of Betrayal

Actors: Patrick Bergin

Synopsis: The troubles in Northern Ireland are the backdrop for this made-for-television drama about an IRA hitman assigned to seek revenge against a defector. Patrick Bergin stars as Michael McGurk, an IRA terrorist who suffers from a guilty conscience after a bombing takes the lives of innocent citizens. Read More

Angel

Actors: Stephen Rea, Alan Devlin, Veronica Quilligan, Peter Caffrey, Honor Heffernan

Synopsis: Writer/director Neil Jordan's debut feature is a tense thriller played out amid the violence in Northern Ireland. Stephen Rea stars as Danny, a saxophone player in a traveling band who witnesses the brutal murders of the manager of the band (who is involved in some extortion payoffs) and a deaf Read More

S.O.S. Titanic

Actors: David Janssen, Cloris Leachman

Synopsis: An Anglo-American co-production, S.O.S. Titanic is a costly, 150-minute reenactment of the infamous sea disaster of 1912. Heading the cast is David Janssen as millionaire John Jacob Astor, who went down with the Titanic, and Cloris Leachman as raucous Denver dowager Molly Brown, who didn't Read More