Brendan Gleeson: movies and TV shows
Brendan Gleeson has 124 credits in the archive: 100 films and 24 TV series, from 1944 to 2026. Highest rated: Spider-Noir (8.4/10).
Career timeline
1944 – 2026 · busiest year: 2014 (6 credits)
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Full filmography
| Year | Title | Role | Type | Rating | Age then |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Spider-Noir | Finn 'Silvermane' Byrne | TV | 8.4 | 71 |
| 2026 | The Good Daughter | Rusty | TV | — | 71 |
| 2025 | H Is for Hawk | Alisdair Macdonald | Film | 7.2 | 70 |
| 2025 | Kerry: Tides of Time | Narrator | TV | 8.0 | 70 |
| 2024 | Joker: Folie à Deux | Jackie Sullivan | Film | 5.4 | 69 |
| 2024 | Brendan Gleeson's Farewell to Hughes's | Self | Film | — | 69 |
| 2023 | A Greyhound of a Girl | Paddy (voice) | Film | 6.7 | 68 |
| 2023 | On the Red Carpet Presents: The Banshees of Inisherin | Self | Film | 6.0 | 68 |
| 2022 | The Banshees of Inisherin | Colm Doherty | Film | 7.5 | 67 |
| 2022 | The Irish Civil War | Narrator | TV | 8.5 | 67 |
| 2022 | The Dead Zoo | Narrator | Film | — | 67 |
| 2021 | The Tragedy of Macbeth | Duncan | Film | 6.9 | 66 |
| 2021 | Riverdance: The Animated Adventure | Huntsman (voice) | Film | 6.0 | 66 |
| 2021 | Frank of Ireland | Liam | TV | 6.3 | 66 |
| 2021 | The Burren: Heart of Stone | Narrator | TV | — | 66 |
| 2020 | The Comey Rule | Donald Trump | TV | 6.9 | 65 |
| 2020 | Gay Byrne's Late Late Moments | Self (archive footage) | TV | — | 65 |
| 2019 | State of the Union | Scott | TV | 6.9 | 64 |
| 2019 | Frankie | Jimmy | Film | 4.8 | 64 |
| 2019 | Lost Lives | Self (voice) | Film | 6.0 | 64 |
| 2018 | The Ballad of Buster Scruggs | Irishman (segment "The Mortal Remains") | Film | 7.1 | 63 |
| 2018 | Psychic | Jeremiah | Film | 5.0 | 63 |
| 2018 | Psychic | Film | 5.0 | 63 | |
| 2018 | Psychic | Film | 5.0 | 63 | |
| 2018 | Captain Morten and the Spider Queen | Captain Vicks (voice) | Film | 4.4 | 63 |
| 2017 | Mr. Mercedes | Detective Bill Hodges | TV | 7.2 | 62 |
| 2017 | Paddington 2 | Knuckles McGinty | Film | 7.5 | 62 |
| 2017 | Hampstead | Donald Horner | Film | 6.1 | 62 |
| 2016 | Assassin's Creed | Joseph Lynch | Film | 5.4 | 61 |
| 2016 | Live by Night | Thomas Coughlin | Film | 6.3 | 61 |
| 2016 | Atlantic | Narrator | Film | 7.0 | 61 |
| 2016 | Trespass Against Us | Colby Culter | Film | 5.8 | 61 |
| 2016 | Alone in Berlin | Otto Quangel | Film | 6.7 | 61 |
| 2015 | The Late Show with Stephen Colbert | Self | TV | 6.1 | 60 |
| 2015 | The Late Late Show with James Corden | Self - Guest | TV | 5.1 | 60 |
| 2015 | In the Heart of the Sea | Old Thomas Nickerson | Film | 6.8 | 60 |
| 2015 | Suffragette | Arthur Steed | Film | 7.2 | 60 |
| 2015 | Pursuit | Searbhán | Film | 4.0 | 60 |
| 2014 | Late Night with Seth Meyers | Self | TV | 5.1 | 59 |
| 2014 | Edge of Tomorrow | General Brigham | Film | 7.6 | 59 |
| 2014 | Stonehearst Asylum | The Alienist | Film | 6.9 | 59 |
| 2014 | Song of the Sea | Conor / Mac Lir (voice) | Film | 8.0 | 59 |
| 2014 | Calvary | Father James Lavelle | Film | 7.1 | 59 |
| 2014 | The Grand Seduction | Murray French | Film | 6.7 | 59 |
| 2013 | The Smurfs 2 | Victor Doyle | Film | 5.8 | 58 |
| 2013 | 1916 Seachtar Dearmadta | Glór | TV | 2.0 | 58 |
| 2012 | Safe House | David Barlow | Film | 6.5 | 57 |
| 2012 | The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists! | The Pirate with Gout (voice) | Film | 6.5 | 57 |
| 2012 | The Raven | Colonel Hamilton | Film | 6.3 | 57 |
| 2012 | The Company You Keep | Henry Osborne | Film | 6.2 | 57 |
| 2012 | So You Want To Be A Pirate! | The Pirate With Gout | Film | 6.2 | 57 |
| 2011 | The Guard | Sergeant Gerry Boyle | Film | 7.0 | 56 |
| 2011 | Albert Nobbs | Dr. Holloran | Film | 6.3 | 56 |
| 2011 | The Cup | Dermot Weld | Film | 5.7 | 56 |
| 2010 | Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 | Alastor 'Mad-Eye' Moody | Film | 7.7 | 55 |
| 2010 | Green Zone | Martin Brown | Film | 6.5 | 55 |
| 2010 | Noreen | Con Keogh | Film | 7.8 | 55 |
| 2010 | Perrier's Bounty | Darren Perrier | Film | 5.8 | 55 |
| 2010 | 1916 Seachtar na Cásca | Self - Narrator (voice) | TV | 3.7 | 55 |
| 2009 | The Secret of Kells | Abbot Cellach (voice) | Film | 7.4 | 54 |
| 2009 | Into the Storm | Winston Churchill | Film | 6.4 | 54 |
| 2008 | In Bruges | Ken | Film | 7.5 | 53 |
| 2007 | The Graham Norton Show | Self | TV | 7.2 | 52 |
| 2007 | Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix | Alastor 'Mad-Eye' Moody | Film | 7.7 | 52 |
| 2007 | Beowulf | Wiglaf (Voice) | Film | 5.9 | 52 |
| 2007 | Black Irish | Desmond McKay | Film | 6.5 | 52 |
| 2006 | The Path to Redemption | Self | Film | 8.0 | 51 |
| 2006 | The Tiger's Tail | Liam O'Leary | Film | 5.6 | 51 |
| 2006 | Studs | Walter Keegan | Film | 5.2 | 51 |
| 2005 | Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire | Alastor 'Mad-Eye' Moody | Film | 7.8 | 50 |
| 2005 | Kingdom of Heaven | Reynald de Chatillon | Film | 7.1 | 50 |
| 2005 | Breakfast on Pluto | John Joe Kenny | Film | 7.2 | 50 |
| 2005 | Deconstructing 'The Village' | Self | Film | 4.7 | 50 |
| 2004 | Troy | Menelaus | Film | 7.2 | 49 |
| 2004 | The Village | August Nicholson | Film | 6.5 | 49 |
| 2004 | In My Country | De Jagar | Film | 5.9 | 49 |
| 2004 | Six Shooter | Donnelly | Film | 7.2 | 49 |
| 2003 | Cold Mountain | Stobrod Thewes | Film | 6.9 | 48 |
| 2003 | Jakers! The Adventures of Piggley Winks | Ferny Toro (voice) | TV | 6.3 | 48 |
| 2002 | 28 Days Later | Frank | Film | 7.2 | 47 |
| 2002 | Gangs of New York | Walter 'Monk' McGinn | Film | 7.3 | 47 |
| 2002 | Dark Blue | Jack van Meter | Film | 6.3 | 47 |
| 2001 | A.I. Artificial Intelligence | Lord Johnson-Johnson | Film | 7.1 | 46 |
| 2001 | The Tailor of Panama | Mickie Abraxas | Film | 6.0 | 46 |
| 2001 | Cáca Milis | Paul | Film | 6.0 | 46 |
| 2000 | Mission: Impossible II | McCloy | Film | 6.1 | 45 |
| 2000 | Harrison's Flowers | Marc Stevenson | Film | 6.5 | 45 |
| 2000 | Wild About Harry | Harry McKee | Film | 6.0 | 45 |
| 2000 | Saltwater | Simple Simon | Film | 7.1 | 45 |
| 1999 | Lake Placid | Sheriff Hank Keough | Film | 5.9 | 44 |
| 1999 | Sweety Barrett | Sweety Barrett | Film | 6.0 | 44 |
| 1999 | My Life So Far | Jim Menzies | Film | 5.5 | 44 |
| 1999 | This Is My Father | Garda Jim | Film | 5.8 | 44 |
| 1998 | The Butcher Boy | Father Bubbles | Film | 6.8 | 43 |
| 1998 | The General | Martin Cahill | Film | 6.7 | 43 |
| 1997 | Turbulence | Stubbs | Film | 5.4 | 42 |
| 1997 | A Further Gesture | Richard | Film | 4.8 | 42 |
| 1997 | Before I Sleep | John Harte | Film | 7.5 | 42 |
| 1997 | I Went Down | Bunny Kelly | Film | 6.0 | 42 |
| 1997 | Angela Mooney Dies Again | Barney Mooney | Film | 5.5 | 42 |
| 1996 | Michael Collins | Liam Tobin | Film | 6.9 | 41 |
| 1996 | Spaghetti Slow | Frank Ferguson | Film | 5.5 | 41 |
| 1996 | Trojan Eddie | Ginger | Film | 5.3 | 41 |
| 1995 | Braveheart | Hamish Campbell | Film | 7.9 | 40 |
| 1994 | The Lifeboat | Leslie Parry | TV | 8.0 | 39 |
| 1993 | The Snapper | Lester | Film | 6.5 | 38 |
| 1993 | Love Lies Bleeding | Thomas Macken | Film | 10.0 | 38 |
| 1992 | Far and Away | Social Club Policeman | Film | 6.8 | 37 |
| 1992 | Into the West | Inspector Bolger | Film | 6.4 | 37 |
| 1991 | The Treaty | Michael Collins | Film | 6.8 | 36 |
| 1990 | The Field | Quarryman | Film | 7.0 | 35 |
| 1990 | Hard Shoulder | Film | 6.0 | 35 | |
| 1990 | Dear Sarah | Brendan Dowd | Film | 10.0 | 35 |
| 1989 | The Simpsons | Joe Quimby Sr. (voice) | TV | 8.0 | 34 |
| 1989 | 4 Play | Farmer | TV | 7.0 | 34 |
| 1986 | ScreenPlay | Thomas Macken | TV | 6.0 | 31 |
| 1985 | Screen Two | Lester | TV | 7.1 | 30 |
| 1975 | Saturday Night Live | Self - Host | TV | 6.9 | 20 |
| 1944 | Golden Globe Awards | Self - Nominee | TV | 7.1 | 10 |
| Blood Runs Coal | Joseph Yablonski | Film | — | — | |
| The Honey Wars | (voice) | Film | — | — | |
| A Hero's Journey: The Making of Beowulf | Wiglaf | Film | — | — | |
| Sexual Healing | Freddy Cousaert | Film | — | — | |
| Tales from the Poorhouse | Film | 6.0 | — |