Gerard McSorley
Bio: Born in County Tyrone in Northern Ireland, character actor Gerard McSorley has played a lot of bad guys during his prolific acting career. He started with a theater background working with Jim Sheridan at the Project Theater. In 1981 he joined Dublin's Abbey Players, Ireland's national theater company. After a small role in the TV movie S.O.S. Titanic, he made his… More Bio: Born in County Tyrone in Northern Ireland, character actor Gerard McSorley has played a lot of bad guys during his prolific acting career. He started with a theater background working with Jim Sheridan at the Project Theater. In 1981 he joined Dublin's Abbey Players, Ireland's national theater company. After a small role in the TV movie S.O.S. Titanic, he made his film debut in Neil Jordan's debut film, Danny Boy. He went on to appear in Jordan's later film work Michael Collins and The Butcher Boy. In 1993 he appeared in In the Name of the Father, directed by Jim Sheridan. He would continue to work with the director at his Hell's Kitchen production company in Dublin on the films Some Mother's Son, The Boxer, Agnes Browne, and Bloody Sunday. He was also in Atom Egoyan's Felicia's Journey, Alan Parker's Angela's Ashes, and Thaddeus O'Sullivan's Ordinary Decent Criminal. As a voice actor, he narrated the film Dancing at Lughnasa as well as the television documentary series In Search of Ancient Ireland. He's also worked extensively on Irish television. In 2003 he can be seen as the psychotic gangster John Gilligan in Joel Schumacher's Veronica Guerin. ~ Andrea LeVasseur, Rovi
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Filmography
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War Horse (2011)
- Market Auctioneer
- 77%
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Robin Hood (2010)
- Baron Fitzrobert
- 43%
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Swansong: Story Of Occi Byrne (2010)
- Actor
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Blood Creek (2009)
- Mr. Marshall
- 33%
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Wide Open Spaces (2009)
- Actor
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Gerard McSorley Videos
Bloody Sunday
2 minutes 6 seconds
Michael Collins
2 minutes 45 seconds
Rory O'shea Was Here
2 minutes 59 seconds
The Boxer
1 minutes 40 seconds
The Serpent's Kiss
5 minutes 48 seconds
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