John Lynch
Biography
John Lynch (born 26 December 1961) is an Irish actor and novelist from Northern Ireland. He won the AFI (AACTA) Award for Best Actor for the 1995 film Angel Baby. His other film appearances include Cal (1984), The Secret Garden (1993), In the Name of the Father (1993), Sliding Doors (1998), The Fall (2013–2016), Medici (2019), The Head (2020), and The Banishing (2021). Lynch has also written two novels, Torn Water (2005) and Falling Out of Heaven (2010).
Known For
All Movies (57)
- Sew Torn2025 · as Hudson Armitage
- The Watchers2024 · as Kilmartin
- Starting Tomorrow I'll Get Up Late2023
- Boys from County Hell2021 · as George Bogue
- The Banishing2021 · as Malachi
- Caravan2020 · as Sam
- Kissing Candice2018 · as Donal
- Paul, Apostle of Christ2018 · as Aquila
- Number One2017 · as Gary
- Upstream2017 · as Sean
- Pilgrimage2017 · as The Herbalist - Brother Ciaran
- Detour2017 · as Frank Malone
- Alleycats2016 · as Redman
- Scintilla2014 · as Powell
- Möbius2013 · as Joshua
- Private Peaceful2012 · as Sergeant Hanley
- Ghosted2011 · as Jack
- Night of the Hunt2011 · as Narrator (voice)
- 13Hrs2010 · as McRae
- Black Death2010 · as Wolfstan
- Mo2010 · as Gerry Adams
- Holy Water2009 · as Tom Gaffney
- The Tournament2009 · as Gene Walker
- In Tranzit2008 · as Yakov
- The Yellow House2007 · as Paul Gaugin
- Lassie2005 · as Sam Carraclough
- Isolation2005 · as Dan
- The Bridge of San Luis Rey2004 · as Captain Alvarado
- Alien Hunter2003 · as Dr. Michael Straub
- Conspiracy of Silence2003
- Evelyn2002 · as Senior Counsel Mr. Wolfe
- Puckoon2002 · as O'Brien
- The Seventh Stream2001 · as Tomas Dunhill
- The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Love's Sweet Song2000 · as Sean O'Casey
- Best2000 · as George Best
- The Quarry1998 · as The Man
- Sliding Doors1998 · as Gerry
- This Is the Sea1997 · as Padhar McAliskey
- Nothing Personal1996 · as Liam
- Some Mother's Son1996 · as Bobby Sands
- Moll Flanders1996 · as Fielding
- Angel Baby1995 · as Harry
- Princess Caraboo1994 · as Amon McCarthy
- Words Upon the Window Pane1994 · as John Corbet
- The Secret of Roan Inish1994 · as Tadhg
- In the Name of the Father1993 · as Paul Hill
- The Secret Garden1993 · as Lord Archibald Craven
- Monkey Boy1992 · as Peter Carson
- The Railway Station Man1992 · as Damian Sweeney
- Edward II1991 · as Spencer
- Out of the Blue1991 · as Rudy
- Hardware1990 · as Shades
- 18711990 · as O'Brien
- Who Bombed Birmingham?1990 · as IRA man in cottage
- James Joyce's 'Ulysses'1988 · as Stephen Dedalus
- Waiting Tables1986
- Cal1984 · as Cal
All TV Shows (28)
- Blue Lights2023 · as James McIntyre
- The Head2020 · as Arthur Wilde
- One of Us2016 · as Bill Douglas
- The Trials of Jimmy Rose2015 · as DI Steve McIntyre
- The Assets2014 · as Vitaly Yurchenko
- Crossing Lines2013 · as Frankie
- The Fall2013 · as Jim Burns
- Shetland2013 · as Frank Blake
- Labyrinth2012 · as Simeon de Montfort
- Vera2011 · as Edmund Fulwell
- Merlin2008 · as Balinor
- The Passion2008 · as Sagan
- Movie Connections2007 · as Self
- Bleak House2005 · as Nemo / Captain James Hawdon
- Spooks2002 · as Davie King
- The Jury2002 · as Alan Lane
- Boston Public2000 · as Jerry
- Silent Witness1996 · as Tom Flannery
- Peak Practice1993 · as Father Mel Davey
- Chimera1991 · as Peter Carson
- All Good Things1991 · as Vincent Gibney
- Making Out1989
- The Play on One1988 · as Rudy
- The Modern World: Ten Great Writers1988 · as Stephen Dedalus
- Screen Two1985 · as Spencer
- Screen Two1985 · as Damian Sweeney
- Natural World1983 · as Narrator
- Hallmark Hall of Fame1951 · as Tomas Dunhill