Des McAleer

AKA: دِس مک‌آلیر

5.1409

1952-05-25

Belfast, Northern Ireland

Biography

Des McAleer is a Belfast born actor of film, TV and stage.

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Cast RolesCast Roles Played = {42}

Flowers Salesman

1998-02-15 5.6

I Want You

A young boy and his sister are drawn into one man's obsessive pursuit of his former lover. ...

Genre :Thriller, Crime, Drama, Music, Romance

Mr. Black

2000-12-22 5.9

An Everlasting Piece

Colin is a Catholic and George is a poetry-loving Protestant. In Belfast in the 1980s, they could have been enemies, but instead they became business partners. After persuading a mad wig salesman, kno ...

Genre :Comedy, Crime

2000-06-26 5

When the Sky Falls

Fact-based story about Irish crime-investigating reporter Sinead Hamilton, who invaded the Irish underworld and attempted to expose the illegitimate activities she found. Hampered by the system, a pol ...

Genre :Drama

Major Bond

1983-06-15 0

The Writing on the Wall

A youth workshop in Derry is mounting various projects, including a dramatized enquiry into the death of a soldier. But when a squaddie is shot on the doorstep, then real life intrudes in the shape of ...

Genre :Drama

Col. Burton C. Andrus

2006-08-24 7

Nuremberg: Goering's Last Stand

The Nuremberg trials, 1946 Goering and the Nazi high command stand trial. Within the prison a dangerous mind game is being conducted by Goering and the prison guards who stand watch over the perpetrat ...

Genre :History, War

Eugene

1984-11-29 6.4

Four Days in July

Two couples, one Catholic, one Protestant, exist on two sides of the chasm that is everyday life in Northern Ireland. ...

Genre :Drama, TV Movie

Narrator

2023-05-05 10

Handmade - A Tale of Stop-motion

A documentary about an old animation technique and the film studio that tries to carry on the legacy. The worlds oldest animation studio still making film with stop motion technique is Nukufilm locate ...

Genre :Documentary, Animation

Shamrayev

2016-10-08 0

National Theatre Live: The Seagull

On a summer’s day in a makeshift theatre by a lake, Konstantin’s cutting-edge new play is performed, changing the lives of everyone involved forever. Chekhov’s masterly meditation on how the old take ...

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Eric McDermott

1995-08-18 6.5

Butterfly Kiss

Deeply mentally unbalanced drifter Eunice roams grim northern Britain committing psychosexual serial murders of both men and women while ostensibly searching for an unknown woman named Judith. She spa ...

Genre :Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller

1986-10-24 0

No Man's Land

Genre :Comedy

Richard

2014-11-19 6.667

North

Isolated on a farm and fighting against his family's decision, Aaron struggles to be heard as he watches his mother willingly die. ...

Genre :Drama, Family

Dermot Shea

1988-03-15 0

Crossfire

A police computer expert is seconded to Belfast to track down the identity of an IRA mole. ...

Genre :

Sgt Kennedy

1990-11-21 6.892

Hidden Agenda

In Ireland, American lawyer Ingrid Jessner and her activist partner, Paul Sullivan, struggle to uncover atrocities committed by the British government against the Northern Irish during the "Troubles." ...

Genre :Drama, Thriller

Jim Prager

2005-06-08 0

Deadlines

Alex Randal (Stephen Moyer), a young reporter on the make, decides, without knowing anything about the situation, to go to Beirut on October 23, 1983, when he hears a radio report about suicide trucks ...

Genre :Drama

1988-10-16 6

Coppers

Two bored twentysomethings buy a Vauxhall Cavalier kit it out with a siren and spend their evenings masquerading as police officers in this Screen One TV movie ...

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Mr. Benson

1999-12-25 7.296

Angela's Ashes

An Irish Catholic family returns to 1930s Limerick after a child's death in America. The unemployed I.R.A. veteran father struggles with poverty, prejudice, and alcoholism as the family endures harsh ...

Genre :Drama

Ray Harris

1994-05-08 8.5

Family

This four-part made-for-TV drama focuses up close on a Dublin couple with four children. Charlo is a hustler, a head-first footballer, a thief, abusive. Paula drinks, objects to Charlie's thievery and ...

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CID Supt. Jimmy Richards

1990-06-03 0

Shoot to Kill

Shoot to Kill is a four-hour drama documentary reconstruction of the events that led to the 1984–86 Stalker Inquiry into the shooting of six terrorist suspects in Northern Ireland in 1982 by a special ...

Genre :

Senior Policeman

2011-11-23 6.681

My Week with Marilyn

London, 1956. Genius actor and film director Laurence Olivier is about to begin the shooting of his upcoming movie, premiered in 1957 as The Prince and the Showgirl, starring Marilyn Monroe. Young Col ...

Genre :Drama, Romance

Finbar

1998-08-08 5.2

Titanic Town

Belfast 1972: The politically naive Bernie is trying to bring up a normal family in less than normal surroundings. Her best friend is accidentally shot dead by the IRA, and her neighbours are constant ...

Genre :Drama

Major McEvoy

2013-09-10 6.6

How I Live Now

An American girl, sent to the English countryside to stay with relatives, finds love and purpose while fighting for her survival as war envelops the world around her. ...

Genre :Drama, Action, Thriller, War

James Hope

1984-10-01 5

Anne Devlin

The story of Anne Devlin, who was caught up in the revolt of the Irish under Robert Emmett in 1803, told exclusively from the woman's point of view. ...

Genre :Drama, History

Jim the Porter

2018-08-01 6.579

The Children Act

In the midst of a marital crisis, a High Court judge must decide if she should order a life-saving blood transfusion for a teen with cancer despite his family's refusal to accept medical treatment for ...

Genre :Drama

Mr Sands

2008-05-15 7.247

Hunger

The story of Bobby Sands, the IRA member who led the 1981 hunger strike during The Troubles in which Irish Republican prisoners tried to win political status. ...

Genre :Drama, History

Père O'Reilly

2019-04-12 6.6

Out of Innocence

After a police investigation, a young mother, confused and scared, confesses to a crime she did not commit and is charged with murder. ...

Genre :Drama

Inspector Wilson

1997-09-15 5.7

This Is the Sea

The film is set in Northern Ireland shortly after 1994 cease-fire. Hazel is a Protestant and Malachy a Catholic. Romance between them is threatened by Rohan (leader in militant underground and pal of ...

Genre :Drama, Romance

Paddy John O'Neill

1995-04-02 0

Life After Life

Leo Doyle, a convicted IRA murderer, is released into the community after 14 years in prison on a scheme to rehabilitate former terrorists. He soon finds that the ceasefire has robbed him of both purp ...

Genre :TV Movie, Drama

Boatman

1983-12-26 0

The Schooner

8-year-old Terry comes to stay with his uncle and aunt on their farm on one of the magical Irish isles. But this is a lonely place for a little boy whose mother has just died... A movie of Celtic path ...

Genre :

1st Furniture Removal Man

1980-04-12 0

Juno and the Paycock

During the Irish Civil War in 1922, a family earns a big inheritance. They start leading a rich life, forgetting what the most important values are. In the 1980 BBC adaptation of "Juno and the Paycock ...

Genre :

1984-10-16 6.646

The Bill

The daily lives of the men and women at Sun Hill Police Station as they fight crime on the streets of London. From bomb threats to armed robbery and drug raids to the routine demands of policing this ...

Genre :Crime, Drama

1996-02-21 7.6

Silent Witness

A team of exceptional forensic pathologists and scientists investigate heinous crimes and use their skills to catch the people responsible. ...

Genre :Crime, Drama

Matt Rawlings

1992-04-10 7.125

Heartbeat

Set during the 1960s in the fictional North Yorkshire village of Aidensfield, this enduringly popular series interweaves crime and medical storylines. ...

Genre :Crime, Drama, Comedy

1992-09-04 5.6

Between the Lines

Detective Superintendent Tony Clark is an ambitious member of the Complaints Investigation Bureau, an internal organisation that investigates claims of corruption inside the police in England and Wale ...

Genre :Drama

Joseph

2009-08-30 7.131

Wuthering Heights

Foundling Heathcliff is raised by the wealthy Earnshaws in Yorkshire but in later life launches a vendetta against the family. ...

Genre :Drama

Tommy Delaney

1996-08-09 6

Safe And Sound

Belfast-set comedy series about best mates and colleagues, Catholic Tommy and protestant Dougy, who own and run the Safe And Sound garage. ...

Genre :Comedy, Drama

Barry Pettigrew

2021-11-24 5.8

Hope Street

The arrival of DC Leila Hussain sets tongues wagging – what brings this big city girl to a sleepy Northern Irish seaside town? Warm-hearted detective drama in a stunning setting. ...

Genre :Drama, Crime

Philip Kinghorn Burbidge

2016-11-04 8.206

The Crown

The gripping, decades-spanning inside story of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and the Prime Ministers who shaped Britain's post-war destiny. The Crown tells the inside story of two of the most famou ...

Genre :Drama

Dave McGann

1986-09-06 6.1

Casualty

Drama series about the staff and patients at Holby City Hospital's emergency department, charting the ups and downs in their personal and professional lives. ...

Genre :Drama, Soap

Ned Hanlon

2016-11-13 6.7

My Mother and Other Strangers

Drama series set in 1943 following the Coyne family and their neighbours as they struggle to maintain a normal life after a US Army Air Force base is set up in the middle of their rural parish. ...

Genre :Drama

DCS Flemyng

1989-09-19 5.8

The Paradise Club

The Paradise Club is a BBC television drama starring Don Henderson and Leslie Grantham as Frank & Danny Kane. Two series were produced and were broadcast between 1989 and 1990. The show focuses upon ...

Genre :Drama, Crime

Jim Rutledge

2018-11-28 6.1

Death and Nightingales

Fermanagh, Irish countryside, 1885. On her 23rd birthday, Beth, who lives on a remote farm with Billy Winters, her tyrannical stepfather, whom she can barely stand, prepares to flee from such a suffoc ...

Genre :Drama

DCI Frank Dolland

1997-04-29 7.571

Touching Evil

Follow the exploits of the Organized and Serial Crime Unit (OSC). Maverick Detective Inspector Dave Creegan is the newest member of the unit, an elite, rapid-response crime squad. The OSC uses their d ...