Colm Meaney
          Actor  
	
	Filmography (All Films)
				 
	  
	        
Commitments, The (1991) 
- Dir. Alan Parker
Feat. Colm Meaney 
- Surprise hit simply chronicles the rise and fall of a Dublin soul band, formed by a group of teens with naught better to do. Unashamedly light fare,…
 
Snapper, The (1993) 
- Dir. Stephen Frears
Feat. Colm Meaney 
- Dublin–set working–class comedy from the pen of Roddy 'The Commitments' Doyle. Harassment and embarrassment ensue for a family when they…
 
Into the West (1993)
 
- Dir. Mike Newell
Feat. Gabriel Byrne, David Kelly, Ellen Barkin… 
- A grand ol' Irish tale about two gypsy boys who 'steal' back a majestic white mare and take off into the wild green yonder. Magical,…
 
Scarlett (TV Mini-Series) (1994) 
- Dir. John Erman
Feat. Timothy Dalton, Joanne Whalley, Stephen Collins… 
- The epic miniseries sequel to GONE WITH THE WIND has Scarlett, Rhett go from tragedy to triumph in an action packed saga of international scope…
 
Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain, The (1995) 
- Dir. Christopher Monger
Feat. Hugh Grant, Tara Fitzgerald, Colm Meaney… 
- In 1917, much ado ensues at a Welsh village. When the local hill falls just short of qualifying for the official map, the locals set about building…
 
Van, The (1996) 
- Dir. Stephen Frears
Feat. Colm Meaney, Donal O'Kelly, Ger Ryan… 
- Conclusive chapter of writer Roddy Doyle's informal trilogy started by THE COMMITMENTS and THE SNAPPER. Colm Meaney returns as the cheery Irish…
 
Owd Bob (1997) 
- Dir. Rodney Gibbons
Feat. Colm Meaney, James Cromwell 
- Set on the Isle of Man, this drama avoids the recent Irish cockle–warming for a more realistic account of rural feuding, that's…
 
Mystery, Alaska (1999) 
- Dir. Jay Roach
Feat. Russell Crowe, Colm Meaney, Burt Reynolds… 
- Pre–superstar Russell Crowe is typically strong and gruff in this grown–up version of THE MIGHTY DUCKS, with an bumbling, amateur Alaskan…
 
Four Days (2001)
 
- Dir. Curtis Wehrfritz
Feat. Colm Meaney, Lolita Davidovich, Kevin Zegers… 
- This accomplished 'existential thriller', based on 60s crime novel by John Buell, fuses genre conventions with weightier concerns about loneliness…
 
Bitter Harvest (How Harry Became a Tree) (2001) 
- Dir. Goran Paskaljevic
Feat. Cillian Murphy, Adrian Dunbar, Colm Meaney 
- Set in 1920s rural Ireland, this raw fable concerns a troubled widower (Meaney) who tries to make a comeback in life by launching a personal vendetta…
 
Intermission (2003) 
- Dir. John Crowley
Feat. Colin Farrell, Colm Meaney, Cillian Murphy… 
- Irish crime drama teeming with 'interconnected' plotlines and profane lowlife, dreaming various criminal and romantic endeavours into…
 
Layer Cake (2004) 
- Dir. Matthew Vaughn
Feat. Daniel Craig, Colm Meaney, Kenneth Cranham… 
- A harder–edged version of Britcrime from the LOCK STOCK stable, this has Daniel Craig playing a cocaine dealer on the verge of retirement,…
 
Five Fingers (2006) 
- Dir. Laurence Malkin
Feat. Ryan Phillippe, Laurence Fishburne, Colm Meaney… 
- Hostage drama with a few surprises up its sleeve has Dutch pianist (Phillippe) on a charity trip to Morocco who gets abducted by Moroccan terrorists…
 
A Deal Is A Deal (Three And Out) (2008) 
- Dir. Jonathan Gershfield
Feat. Mackenzie Crook, Gemma Arterton, Imelda Staunton… 
- Quirky Brit comedy sees miserable train driver Paul (Mackenzie Crook, THE OFFICE) discover a novel loophole in his contract: if three people die…
 
Damned United, The (2009)
 
- Dir. Tom Hooper
Feat. Michael Sheen, Jim Broadbent, Colm Meaney… 
- Michael Sheen gets under the skin of another (infamous) British personality in this charismatic portrait of superstar football manager Brian Clough,…
 
Law Abiding Citizen (2009) 
- Dir. F. Gary Gray
Feat. Jamie Foxx, Gerard Butler, Colm Meaney… 
- Spiteful revenger with Butler wreaking vengeance from behind prison bars on the legal system who let his family's killers walk…
 
Alice (TV Mini-Series) (2009) 
- Dir. Nick Willing
Feat. Caterina Scorsone, Andrew Lee Potts, Matt Frewer… 
- Modernist re–imagining of the Lewis Carroll classic with wonderland portrayed as a dystopian netherworld that sucks the emotions from the 'real…
 
Get Him to the Greek (2010) 
- Dir. Nicholas Stoller
Feat. Jonah Hill, Russell Brand, Rose Byrne… 
- The director and star of FORGETTING SARAH MARSHALL reunite in this loosely connected follow–up about a record company intern who's hired to…
 
Conspirator, The (2010) 
- Dir. Robert Redford
Feat. James McAvoy, Robin Wright, Tom Wilkinson… 
- Timely retelling of the aftermath of the Abraham Lincoln's assassination when boardinghouse owner Mary Surratt (Wright) was placed on trial for…
 
Hell on Wheels (TV Series) (2011) 
- Feat. Anson Mount, Common , Colm Meaney…
 
- The building of the transcontinental railroad serves as the backdrop for this ambitious western that centres on the efforts of a Confederate soldier…
 
Bel Ami (2012) 
- Dir. Declan Donnellan, Nick Ormerod
Feat. Robert Pattinson, Uma Thurman, Kristin Scott Thomas… 
- Parisian set bodice–ripper with Robert Pattinson brooding his way through the boudoirs of the city's wealthy women.
 
One Chance (2013) 
- Dir. David Frankel
Feat. James Corden, Alexandra Roach, Julie Walters… 
- The Paul Potts story is brought to a crescendo, beginning with his hard–life as a bullied shop assistant to his breakout performance as a…
 
Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa (2013)
 
- Dir. Declan Lowney
Feat. Steve Coogan, Colm Meaney, Sean Pertwee 
- Steve Coogan's bumbling DJ from his popular 90's TV show gets a big screen outing with this belly–aching farce situated around a corporate…
 
Free Birds (2013) 
- Dir. Jimmy Hayward
Feat. Owen Wilson, Woody Harrelson, Amy Poehler… 
- Owen Wilson and Woody Harrelson voice two turkeys fighting to avoid their species' traditional Thanksgiving fate in this broad animated comedy.…
 
Journey, The (2016) 
- Dir. Nick Hamm
Feat. Timothy Spall, Colm Meaney, Toby Stephens… 
- A fictionalised account of the unlikely alliance that developed between Unionists and Republicans in Ireland in 2006, when the two principle…
 
Tolkien (2019) 
- Dir. Dome Karukoski
Feat. Nicholas Hoult, Lily Collins, Colm Meaney… 
- An accomplished dramatisation of the formative years of the orphaned author J.R.R. Tolkien (LORD OF THE RINGS) as he finds friendship, love and…