Burn Gorman

Biography

Burn Hugh Gorman (born 1 September 1974) is an English actor and musician. He is known for his television roles as Owen Harper in the BBC series Torchwood (2006–2008), Karl Tanner in the HBO series Game of Thrones (2013–14), Major Edmund Hewlett in the AMC series Turn: Washington's Spies (2014–2017), 'The Marshal' in the Prime Video series The Man in the High Castle (2015), and Adolphus Murtry in Prime Video series The Expanse (2019). His film roles include Phillip Stryver in Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight Rises (2012), Hermann Gottlieb in Guillermo del Toro’s Pacific Rim (2013) and its sequel Pacific Rim: Uprising (2018), Commander Hoff in The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, and Father Damien in Tim Burton's Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (2024). Description above from the Wikipedia article Burn Gorman, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known For

Game of Thrones

The Expanse

It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia

Agatha Christie's Marple

Revenge

Halo

The Man in the High Castle

Pacific Rim

All Movies (46)

• Jumanji: Open World2026
• Digger2026
• Frankenstein2025 · as Executioner
• All the Devils Are Here2025 · as Numbers
• Beetlejuice Beetlejuice2024 · as Father Damien
• Lift2024 · as Cormac
• The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes2023 · as Commander Hoff
• Ransomed2023 · as Carter
• Ghosted2023 · as English Cabbie
• Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio2022 · as Priest (voice)
• Watcher2022 · as Watcher
• Undergods2021 · as Tim
• Enola Holmes2020 · as Linthorn
• The Good Traitor2020 · as Berle
• Pacific Rim: Uprising2018 · as Dr. Hermann Gottlieb
• In a Valley of Violence2016 · as Priest
• Imperium2016 · as Morgan
• Guernica2016 · as Consul
• Crimson Peak2015 · as Holly
• Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day2014 · as Mr. Brand
• Walking with the Enemy2014 · as Lt. Colonel Otto Skorzeny
• Low Down2014 · as Wiggenhern
• Jimi: All Is by My Side2013 · as Michael Jeffery
• The Other Man2013 · as Simon
• Pacific Rim2013 · as Dr. Hermann Gottlieb
• Up There2012 · as Martin
• Heroes and Demons2012 · as Jason (16) (voice) (segment "Some Safe Place")
• The Dark Knight Rises2012 · as Stryver
• Red Lights2012 · as Benedict Cohen
• Johnny English Reborn2011 · as Slater
• Cemetery Junction2010 · as Renwick
• The Curse of Steptoe2008 · as Ray Galton
• The Oxford Murders2008 · as Yuri Podorov
• Penelope2007 · as Larry
• Fred Claus2007 · as Elf
• Sex, the City and Me2007 · as Lawrence
• Low Winter Sun2006 · as Kenny Morton
• Colour Me Kubrick2005 · as Willie
• The Best Man2005 · as Bus Driver
• Layer Cake2004 · as Gazza
• A Good Thief2002 · as DC Fairchild
• Love Is Not Enough— · as Al Weisburger
• The Bully Boys— · as Taff
• A Colt Is My Passport—
• Brides—
• Dr. Mason Miller— · as Lance Dawson

All TV Shows (22)

• The Offer2022 · as Charles Bluhdorn
• Halo2022 · as Vinsher Grath
• Cheat2019 · as Ben Jarvis
• Jamestown2017 · as Nicholas Farlow
• And Then There Were None2015 · as D.S. William Blore
• The Expanse2015 · as Adolphus Murtry
• The Man in the High Castle2015 · as The Marshal
• Forever2014 · as Adam
• TURN: Washington's Spies2014 · as Major Hewlett
• Spies of Warsaw2013 · as Jourdain
• Revenge2011 · as Trask
• The Hour2011 · as Thomas Kish
• Game of Thrones2011 · as Karl Tanner
• The Runaway2011 · as Richard Gates
• Wuthering Heights2009 · as Hindley Earnshaw
• Bonekickers2008
• Lark Rise to Candleford2008
• Torchwood Declassified2006
• Torchwood2006 · as Owen Harper
• Bleak House2005 · as William Guppy
• It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia2005 · as The Scientist
• Agatha Christie's Marple2004 · as Jacko Argyle