John Kavanagh
- One Sweet Hour
2026 Tommy
- Bucking Fastard
2026 Mr. Westmoreland
- Baltimore
2024 Sir Alfred Beit
- Vikings: Valhalla
2022 The Seer
- Peacock
2022 Georgia's Boss
- The Last Duel
2021 Le Gris' Priest
- Riverdance: The Animated Adventure
2021 Gatekeeper (voice)
- Supervized
2019 Windsor
- Deposits
2017 Narrator (voice)
- Lost Memories
2017 Dad
- Florence Foster Jenkins
2016 Arturo Toscanini
- Vikings: Athelstan's Journal
2015 The Seer (archive footage)
- In Secret
2014 Inspector Michaud
- Horse
2014 Junior
- The Invisible Woman
2013 Reverend Benham
- The Stag
2013 Fionan and Little Kevin's Dad
- Vikings
2013 Pope Leo IV
- Titanic: Blood and Steel
2012 Edward Carson
- The Runway
2010
- Father & Son
2009 John O'Connor
- Closing the Ring
2007 Reverend Smith
- The Tudors
2007 Cardinal Campeggio
- The Tiger's Tail
2006 Harry
- The Black Dahlia
2006 Emmett Linscott
- Alexander
2004 Parmenion
- The Halo Effect
2004 Stan
- Mystics
2003 Gerry the Barman
- Benedict Arnold: A Question of Honor
2003 Judge Shippen
- Pete's Meteor
2002 Sergeant Maloney
- Sinners
2002 Frank
- Puckoon
2002 Haggerty
- Rebel Heart
2001 Eugene O'Brien
- Vicious Circle
1999 Charlie Rice
- Dancing at Lughnasa
1998 Father Carlin
- The Butcher Boy
1998 Dr. Boyd
- The Informant
1997 IRA Chief
- Some Mother's Son
1996 Cardinal
- Samuel Beckett: As the Story Was Told
1996 Voice
- Sharpe's Sword
1995 Father Patrick Curtis
- Braveheart
1995 Craig
- Circle of Friends
1995 Brian Mahon
- Shadow of a Gunman
1995 Adolphus Grigson
- Widows' Peak
1994 Canon Murtagh
- Scarlett
1994 Jamie O'Hara
- Bad Company
1993 Patrick Molloy
- Love Lies Bleeding
1993 Sean Kerrigan
- Sharpe
1993 Father Curtis
- Into the West
1992 Hartnett
- Arise and Go Now
1991 Father Dade
- Events at Drimaghleen
1991 Superintendent O'Kelly
- Children of the North
1991 Seamus Reilly
- Performance
1991 Adolphus Grigson
- Who Bombed Birmingham?
1990 Z
- August Saturday
1990 Tom Crosbie
- Fools of Fortune
1990 Johnny Lacy
- Joyriders
1988 Manager
- The Storyteller: A Story Short
1988 Beggar
- The Storyteller
1988 Beggar
- Bellman and True
1987 Donkey
- The Fantasist
1986 Robert Foxley
- Lovejoy
1986 Hennessey
- ScreenPlay
1986 Tom Crosbie
- The Price
1985 Kearney
- The Price
1985 Kearney
- Cal
1984 Skeffington
- Attracta
1983 Mr. Devereux
- The Country Girls
1983 James
- The Ballroom of Romance
1982 Bowser Egan
- Revival: Pearse's Concept of Ireland
1980 Patrick Pearse
- A Week in the Life of Martin Cluxton
1971 Priest
- Weeks
Jim
- The Great Wide Open
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