Ian McElhinney
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Ian McElhinney is an actor and director.
. Together they started their own company, Rathmore Productions Ltd.
Personal life
He is married to playwright/actress Marie JonesMarie Jones
Sarah Marie Jones is a Belfast-based actress and playwright. Born into a working class family, Jones was an actress for several years before turning her hand to writing.-Charabanc/DubbelJoint:...
. Together they started their own company, Rathmore Productions Ltd.
Filmography
Year | Film | Role | Notes |
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1981 | Cowboys | TV movie | |
1982 | BBC2 Playhouse | Mousey | Episode "Potatohead Blues" |
Angel Angel (1982 film) Angel is a 1982 film directed by Neil Jordan and starring Stephen Rea. The film was Neil Jordan's directorial debut, and the executive producer was John Boorman.-Plot summary:... |
Groom | ||
1984 | After You've Gone | TV movie | |
Anne Devlin | Maj Sirr | ||
1985 | Acceptable Levels | Andy | |
Lamb Lamb (film) Lamb is a 1985 English drama film, directed by Colin Gregg and starring Liam Neeson, Hugh O'Conor and Ian Bannen. The film is based on the novel by Bernard MacLaverty, who also wrote the screenplay.-Plot:... |
Maguire | ||
1986 | The End of the World Man | Architecht | |
Screen Two Play for Today Play for Today is a British television anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC1 from 1970 to 1984. During the run, more than three hundred programmes, featuring original television plays, and adaptations of stage plays and novels, were transmitted... |
Damien/ Inspector McBride | Episodes "Shergar"/ "Naming the Names" | |
1987 | The Rockingham Shoot | John Reilly | TV movie |
Lapsed Catholics | Derek O'Gorman | TV movie | |
First Sight | Joe | Episode "The Last of a Dyin' Race" | |
A Prayer for the Dying A Prayer for the Dying A Prayer for the Dying is a 1987 thriller film about a former IRA member trying to escape his past. The film was directed by Mike Hodges, and stars Mickey Rourke, Liam Neeson, Bob Hoskins, and Alan Bates... |
Lodger | ||
1988 | Wipe Out | Max Raines | TV mini-series (Episodes 1-5) |
1989 | Reefer and the Model | Reefer | |
1990 | The Grasscutter The Grasscutter The Grasscutter is a 1990 film directed by Ian Mune and written by Roy Mitchell. It was shot in southern New Zealand, mostly in Queenstown and Dunedin.The music was written by Don McGlashan and Wayne Laird.... |
Brian Devlin | |
Shoot to Kill Shoot to Kill (1990 TV drama) 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 specialist unit of the Royal Ulster Constabulary , allegedly without warning ; the organised fabrication... |
Assistant Chief Constable Trevor Forbes | TV movie | |
Hidden Agenda Hidden Agenda (1990 film) Hidden Agenda , directed by Ken Loach, is a political thriller about British terrorism in Northern Ireland that includes the assassination of an American civil rights lawyer.-Plot and historical context:... |
Jack Cunningham | ||
Fools of Fortune Fools of Fortune Fools of Fortune is a 1990 British drama film directed by Pat O'Connor and starring Iain Glen, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Julie Christie, Amy Joyce Hastings and Michael Kitchen. It depicts a Protestant family caught up in the conflict between the British army and the IRA during the Irish War of... |
Stranger | ||
4 Play | Eddie/ McQuire | Episodes "Valentine Falls"/ "In the Border Country" | |
1992 | The Playboys The Playboys The Playboys is a 1992 Irish film directed by Gillies MacKinnon and starring Albert Finney, Aidan Quinn and Robin Wright. The plot follows an unwed young mother whose life is transformed with the arrival of a traveling troupe of actors to her Irish village. The script was written by Shane... |
Joe Cassidy | |
The Bill The Bill The Bill is a police procedural television series that ran from October 1984 to August 2010. It focused on the lives and work of one shift of police officers, rather than on any particular aspect of police work... |
Mickey Felcher | Episode Trial and Error | |
Screenplay | Reggie Devine | Episode "You, Me & Marley" | |
1993 | Spender Spender Spender is a BBC television drama set in Newcastle upon Tyne, written by Ian La Frenais and Jimmy Nail, who also starred. The series was produced by Martin McKeand . The series was broadcast on BBC between 1991 and 1993... |
Flynn | Episode "Bad Company" |
Lovejoy Lovejoy Lovejoy is a TV series about the adventures of Lovejoy, a British antiques dealer and faker based in East Anglia, a less than scrupulous yet likeable rogue. The episodes were based on a series of picaresque novels by John Grant... |
Cieran Stow | Episode "Ducking and Diving" | |
Circle of Deceit Circle of Deceit (1993 film) Circle of Deceit is a 1993 television film produced by Yorkshire Television about a former SAS operative who is called to infiltrate the Irish Republican Army in Northern Ireland.... |
Father Fergel | TV movie | |
Between the Lines | Chief Supt. Trevor Dunne | Episode "The Great Detective" | |
A Woman's Guide to Adultery | Martin | Unknown episodes | |
Taggart Taggart Taggart is a Scottish detective television programme, created by Glenn Chandler, who has written many of the episodes, and made by STV Productions for the ITV network... |
Archie Rae / Sean O'Donnell | Episodes "Death Without Dishonour"/ "Cause and Effect" | |
1994 | Blind Justice | Father Malone | |
1995 | Beyond Reason | Smythe QC | TV movie |
Hearts and Minds | Alex | Unknown episodes | |
Life After Life | Working out governor | TV movie | |
The Pan Loaf | Short | ||
1996 | The Boy from Mercury The Boy from Mercury The Boy from Mercury is a nostalgiac Irish Film, the first from writer and director Martin Duffy. The film concerns the science-fiction daydreams of a young boy in 1960 Dublin. Upon release, the film received international critical acclaim, and several awards, though was commercially unsuccessful... |
Brother Dowdall | |
Small Faces Small Faces (film) Small Faces is a Scottish film directed by Gillies MacKinnon about gangs, specifically the Tongs, in 1960s Glasgow. It stars Iain Robertson, Joseph McFadden, Steven Duffy, Kevin McKidd, Laura Fraser, Mark McConnochie, Clare Higgins, Garry Sweeney and Alastair Galbraith.The film was produced in... |
Uncle Andrew | ||
Michael Collins Michael Collins (film) Michael Collins is a 1996 historical biopic written and directed by Neil Jordan and starring Liam Neeson as General Michael Collins, the Irish patriot and revolutionary who died in the Irish Civil War. It won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival.... |
Belfast Detective | ||
Hamlet Hamlet (1996 film) Hamlet is a 1996 film version of William Shakespeare's classic play of the same name, adapted and directed by Kenneth Branagh, who also stars in the title role as Prince Hamlet... |
Barnardo | ||
1997 | Silicone Valerie | Short | |
Wokenwell Wokenwell Wokenwell was a British drama series that aired in 1997. Produced by LWT for the ITV network, it centered on three policemen and their wives living in the fictional northern England town of Wokenwell... |
Sgt. Duncan Bonney | ||
This Is the Sea This Is the Sea (film) This Is the Sea is an Irish film, released in 1997, directed and written by Mary McGuckian and produced by Michael Garland. It is a romance film, focusing on the relationship between the character Hazel Stokes, played by Samantha Morton, and Malachy McAliskey, played by Ross McDade. The two... |
Da Stokes | ||
The Boxer The Boxer (film) The Boxer is a 1997 film by Irish director Jim Sheridan. Starring Daniel Day-Lewis and Emily Watson, the film centers on the life of a boxer and former Provisional IRA Volunteer, Danny Flynn, played by Day-Lewis, who is trying to "go straight" after his release from prison... |
Reggie Bell | ||
1998 | Divorcing Jack Divorcing Jack (film) Divorcing Jack is a 1998 satirical black comedy. The plot is set around the Northern Irish reporter Dan Starkey who gets entangled into a web of political intrigue and Irish sectarian violence, at the same time as Northern Ireland is set to elect a new Prime Minister... |
Alfie Stewart | |
Touch and Go | Clive Bevan | TV movie | |
Hornblower Hornblower (TV series) Hornblower is the umbrella title of a series of television drama programmes based on C. S. Forester's novels about the fictional character Horatio Hornblower, a Royal Naval officer during the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars.... |
Capt. Hammond | Episode "The Examination of Lieutenant" | |
Maisie Raine Maisie Raine Maisie Raine was a drama series originally broadcast on BBC1 for 2 series from 28 July 1998 - 9 July 1999.Pauline Quirke took the lead role as DI Maisie Raine, an unorthodox detective whose hands on and down to earth approach was not always appreciated by her superiors... |
C.S. Jack Freeman | ||
1999 | Durango | Vestor McCarthy | TV movie |
A Love Divided | Reverend Hamilton | ||
Queer as Folk Queer as Folk (UK TV series) Queer as Folk is a 1999 British television series that chronicles the lives of three gay men living in Manchester's gay village around Canal Street. Both Queer as Folk and Queer as Folk 2 were written by Russell T Davies... |
Clive Jones | Episodes "Episode #1.6" and "Episode #2.1" | |
2000 | Queer as Folk 2 | Clive Jones | TV movie |
Borstal Boy Borstal Boy (film) Borstal Boy is a 2000 British/Irish romantic drama film adaptation of the Brendan Behan autobiographical novel of the same name. The film is directed and written by Irish playwright Peter Sheridan.-Plot:... |
Verreker | ||
The King's Wake | Aherne (voice) | ||
In Defence | DCS David Dillne | Episode "#1.3" | |
2001 | Hornblower Hornblower (TV series) Hornblower is the umbrella title of a series of television drama programmes based on C. S. Forester's novels about the fictional character Horatio Hornblower, a Royal Naval officer during the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars.... |
Capt. Hammond | Episodes "Mutiny" and "Retribution" |
Mapmaker | Inspector Devlin | ||
2002 | No Tears | Padraig McFadden | TV mini-series |
2003 | Murphy's Law Murphy's Law (TV series) Murphy's Law is a BBC television drama, produced by Tiger Aspect Productions for BBC Northern Ireland, starring James Nesbitt as an undercover police officer, Tommy Murphy. There were five series of the drama, shown on BBC One. The first two were composed of individual stories. Series three, four... |
Fulton | Episode "Manic Munday" |
Hornblower Hornblower (TV series) Hornblower is the umbrella title of a series of television drama programmes based on C. S. Forester's novels about the fictional character Horatio Hornblower, a Royal Naval officer during the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars.... |
Capt. Hammond | Episode "Loyalty" | |
Holby City Holby City Holby City, stylised as Holby Ci+y, is a British medical drama television series that airs weekly on BBC One.The series was created by Tony McHale and Mal Young as a spin-off from the established BBC medical drama Casualty, and premiered on 12 January 1999... |
Brian Chapman | Episode "For Better, for Worse" | |
Cold Feet Cold Feet Cold Feet is a British comedy-drama television series produced by Granada Television for the ITV network. The series was created and principally written by Mike Bullen as a follow-up to his award-winning 1997 Comedy Premiere of the same name. The storyline follows three couples experiencing the... |
Bill Williams | Season 5 | |
Doctors | Howard Brackley | Episode "Faking the Dead" | |
The Clinic The Clinic (TV series) The Clinic is an award-winning Irish primetime television medical drama series produced by Parallel Film Productions for RTÉ. It debuted on RTÉ One in 2003 to positive reviews and proved to be one of the network's most popular shows. The show ran for seven seasons between September 2003 to November... |
Joseph McGarry | Episodes "1.2", "1.3", "1.4", "1.7" and "1.8" | |
2004 | Omagh Omagh (film) Omagh was a film dramatising the events surrounding the Omagh bombing and its aftermath, co-produced by Irish state broadcaster RTÉ and UK network Channel 4, and directed by Pete Travis. It was first shown on television in both countries in June, 2004.... |
Stanley McCombe | TV movie |
2005 | Pure Mule Pure Mule Pure Mule was an Irish six-part drama mini-series aimed at a young audience and broadcast on RTÉ Two as part of RTÉ's autumn schedule in 2005, shot and screened in 2004–2005 in County Offaly.... |
Harry Kilroy | Episode "Kevin's Weekend" |
2006 | The Front Line The Front Line (2006 film) The Front Line is a 2006 Irish crime drama film. The film revolves around a Congolese immigrant working in a bank in Dublin city whose family is kidnapped by a gang of criminals who force him to be the inside man on their robbery of the bank. The film is directed by David Gleeson.... |
Mikey | |
2007 | Rough Diamond | Tim Regan | Episodes "1.2" and "1.6" |
The Tudors The Tudors The Tudors is a Canadian produced historical fiction television series filmed in Ireland, created by Michael Hirst and produced for the American premium cable television channel Showtime... |
Pope Clement VII Pope Clement VII Clement VII , born Giulio di Giuliano de' Medici, was a cardinal from 1513 to 1523 and was Pope from 1523 to 1534.-Early life:... |
Episode "Message to the Emperor" | |
Casualty Casualty (TV series) Casualty, stylised as Casual+y, is a British weekly television show broadcast on BBC One, and the longest-running emergency medical drama television series in the world. Created by Jeremy Brock and Paul Unwin, it was first broadcast on 6 September 1986, and transmitted in the UK on BBC One. The... |
Robert Finch | Episode "Communion" | |
Closing the Ring Closing the Ring Closing the Ring is a film directed by Richard Attenborough and starring Shirley MacLaine, Christopher Plummer, Mischa Barton, Stephen Amell, Neve Campbell, Pete Postlethwaite, and Brenda Fricker.... |
Cathal Thomas | ||
Single-Handed Single-Handed (2007 drama) Single-Handed is an Irish television drama series broadcast on RTÉ Television. Set and filmed in the west of Ireland, it focuses on the life of a member of the , Sergeant Jack Driscoll . Three two-episode, single-story series aired, one each on consecutive nights in 2007, 2008 and 2009... |
Ex-Garda Sergeant Gerry Driscoll | Episodes "Home Part 1 & 2" and "Stolen Child Part 1 & 2" | |
2008 | Fairy Tales Fairy Tales (TV series) Fairy Tales is a British television drama anthology series produced by Hat Trick Productions for BBC Northern Ireland and broadcast on BBC One. Traditional fairy tales are adapted into modern settings, after the model of ShakespeaRe-Told and The Canterbury Tales... |
Vice Chancellor Ralph Graham | Episodes "Cinderella" |
Clay Clay (2008 film) Clay is a 2008 British TV film drama directed by Andrew Gunn and starring Harry McEntire and Ben Davies .The screenplay by Peter Tabern is based on the 1998 novel of the same name by David Almond.-Plot:... |
Father O'Mahoney | TV movie | |
Of Best Intentions | Thomas Midgely | Short | |
Last Man Hanging | Narrator | TV movie | |
City of Ember City of Ember City of Ember is a 2008 science fiction-fantasy film based on the 2003 novel of the same name by Jeanne DuPrau. It was directed by Gil Kenan from a screenplay by Caroline Thompson, and stars Saoirse Ronan, Harry Treadaway, Bill Murray, Mackenzie Crook, Martin Landau and Tim Robbins.-Plot:In the... |
Builder | ||
Little Dorrit Little Dorrit (TV serial) Little Dorrit is a 2008 British television serial directed by Adam Smith, Dearbhla Walsh, and Diarmuid Lawrence. The teleplay by Andrew Davies is based on the serial novel of the same title by Charles Dickens, originally published between 1855 and 1857.... |
Mr. Clennam | Episodes "1.1" and "1.13" | |
2009 | A Shine of Rainbows A Shine of Rainbows (film) A Shine of Rainbows, also known as Tomás and the Rainbows, is a 2009 Irish family drama, directed and co-written by Vic Sarin and is a film adaptation of the novel A Shine of Rainbows by Lillian Beckwith.-Plot:... |
Father Doyle | |
Swansong: Story of Occi Byrne | Skip | ||
Triage Triage (film) Triage is a 2009 drama film starring Colin Farrell, Paz Vega and Christopher Lee. The film’s plot is described as a dark tale of a photojournalist who comes home after a dangerous assignment in Kurdistan during the Anfal Genocide against the Kurdish people. The film focuses on the psychological... |
Ivan | ||
Scapegoat | H. A. McVeigh QC | TV movie | |
2010 | New Tricks | Fintan MacEntee | Episode "Coming Out Ball" |
An Old Fashioned Christmas | Sean Bassett | TV movie | |
Leap Year Leap Year (2010 film) Leap Year is a 2010 American romantic comedy film directed by Anand Tucker. The film, which is largely set in Ireland and stars Amy Adams and Matthew Goode, premiered in New York City on January 6, 2010.-Plot:... |
Priest | ||
2011 | Bittersweet | Father | Short video |
Brendan Smyth: Betrayal of Trust | Abbot Smith | Tv movie | |
Game of Thrones Game of Thrones (TV series) Game of Thrones is an American medieval fantasy television series created for HBO by David Benioff and D. B. Weiss. Based on author George R. R. Martin's best-selling A Song of Ice and Fire series of fantasy novels, the first of which is called A Game of Thrones, the television series debuted in... |
Ser Barristan Selmy | Episodes "Lord Snow Lord Snow "Lord Snow" is the third episode of the HBO medieval fantasy television series Game of Thrones. It first aired on May 1, 2011. It was written by the show creators David Benioff and D. B. Weiss, and directed by series regular Brian Kirk... ", "Cripples, Bastards, and Broken Things Cripples, Bastards, and Broken Things "Cripples, Bastards, and Broken Things" is the fourth episode of the HBO medieval fantasy television series Game of Thrones, first aired on May 8, 2011. It was written by Bryan Cogman and directed by Brian Kirk.... ", "The Wolf and the Lion The Wolf and the Lion "The Wolf and the Lion" is the fifth episode of the HBO medieval fantasy television series Game of Thrones, first aired on May 15, 2011. It was written by the show creators and executive producers David Benioff and D. B. Weiss, and directed by Brian Kirk.... ", "A Golden Crown A Golden Crown "A Golden Crown" is the sixth episode of the HBO medieval fantasy television series Game of Thrones, first aired on May 22, 2011. The teleplay was written by Jane Espenson, David Benioff and D.B... ", "You Win or You Die You Win or You Die "You Win or You Die" is the seventh episode of the HBO medieval fantasy television series Game of Thrones, written by David Benioff and D. B. Weiss and directed by Daniel Minahan... ", and "The Pointy End The Pointy End "The Pointy End" is the eighth episode of the HBO medieval fantasy television series Game of Thrones, first aired on June 5, 2011. The episode is significant in that it was written by George R. R. Martin, the author of the book series the tv show is based on. It was directed by Daniel Minahan.The... " |
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The Sea | Alfred Blunden | Based on The Sea The Sea (novel) - Plot summary:The story is told by Max Morden, a self-aware, retired art historian attempting to reconcile himself to the deaths of those whom he loved as a child and as an adult.... |
External links
- http://www.rathmoreproductions.com/ - A link to Jones' and McElhinney's company