Adrian Dunbar

Date of Birth: 01 Aug 1958
Country: UK
Total Credits at Criticker: 29 (Actor)
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An unlikely kind of friendship develops between Fergus, an Irish Republican Army volunteer, and Jody, a kidnapped British soldier lured into an IRA trap by Jude, another IRA member. When the hostage-taking ends up going horribly wrong, Fergus escapes and heads to London, where he seeks out Jody's lover, a hairdresser named Dil. Fergus adopts the name "Jimmy" and gets a job as a day laborer. He also starts seeing Dil, who knows nothing about Fergus' IRA background. But there are some things about Dil that Fergus doesn't know, either... (imdb)
The story of Christy Brown, who was born with cerebral palsy. He learned to paint and write with his only controllable limb - his left foot. (imdb)
One of two deadly hired kilers switches places with one of a duo of conmen in order to pursue love. (imdb)
The real-life story of Dublin folk hero and criminal Martin Cahill, who pulled off two daring robberies in Ireland with his team, but attracted unwanted attention from the police, the IRA, the UVF and members of his own team. (imdb)
Based on the play of the same name the film tells the story of two boys who become friends at the start of the Troubles in 1970. The boys share an obsession with Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, with the consequence that they run away to Australia. (imdb)
A depressed father in 1920s Ireland decides to give his life meaning by randomly picking on a local pub owner to be his number one enemy. (Yahoo! Movies)
The Quatermass Experiment (2005) - TV Movie
A contemporary adaptation of Nigel Kneale's seminal 1953 science fiction serial. (imdb)
The Blue Boy (1994) - TV Movie
Marie is an insecure housewife whose husband, Joe, is having an affair. The two of them take a holiday to rural Scotland, but by sheer bad luck, end up at the hotel Joe uses for his "getaways." There, Marie is told the story of a young boy who drowned in a nearby lake long ago, and finds herself becoming more and more obsessed with his ghost.
Eight men escape from the most isolated prison on earth. Only one man survives and the story he recounts shocks the British establishment to the core. This story is the last confession of Alexander Pearce (imdb)
A man searches for Josef Locke after his life starts to fall apart due to his business failing.
Child of Mine (2005) - TV Movie
Tess and Alfie illegally adopt half-siblings Heather and Grace from Canada, whose mother was murdered. Heather' troubled behaviour worries Tess, and as she digs deeper into her past, she starts suspecting that she may have had something to do with the death of her mother.
Edwina has just moved into the neighborhood known as "Widows' Peak," so called due to the prevalent marital status of the residents. They are all curious about their new neighbor, but no one can seem to get much information about her, including queen bee Mrs. DC, whose son is busy wooing Edwina. Miss O'Hare and Edwina have an immediate dislike for each other, however, and it begins to look like Edwina is trying to ruin her new rival. The problems escalate and the town is in an uproar. (imdb)
Mo (2010) - TV Movie
The life and times of British politician Mo Mowlam, the darling of the Northern Ireland peace process and one of the foremost members of the New Labour movement, as she struggles with political strife and a life-threatening brain tumour.
An ex-convict with a drug problem, who lacks the skills to be anything other than a flim-flam man, has gotten his friend Gilly into a tight spot the minute he's out of jail, by putting Gilly's money into gun-buying proposition. Soon the pair must tangle with a variety of nefarious types in order to get their lives straightened out. (allmovieguide.com)
A sleazy chef is forced to face the truth about the man he has become and realizes that he has the chance to begin again. (imdb)
A chronicle of Terri Hooley's life, a record-store owner instrumental in developing Belfast's punk-rock scene. (imdb)
Walter (2014) - TV Movie
After DI Dick Romney is killed under the wheels of a tube train DI Walter Gambon, a widower with a teenage daughter Lily and DS Anne Hopkins are charged by naïve young CS Addison to locate the undercover officer in Dick'sdrug investigation. Fifty grand has also gone missing which Dick gave to his informant though Walter himself has debts of his own and when Dick's widow tells Walter her late husband was expecting a windfall from an American uncle Walter suspects corruption.
Ashes to Ashes (2008) - TV Series
Alex has rapidly risen through the ranks of the Met and, in the modern world of 2008, skillfully uses psychological profiling to capture suspects. When Alex and her daughter are kidnapped, she makes a daring attempt at escape, resulting in a horrific incident. Alex suddenly finds herself in 1981, interacting with familiar characters, not just from her own lifetime, but also from the detailed reports logged by none other than Sam Tyler, which Alex previously spent months poring over. (imdb)
Line of Duty (2012) - TV Series
DS Steve Arnott is transferred to the police anti-corruption unit after the death of a man in a mistaken shooting during a counter-terrorist operation.
Broken (2017) - TV Mini-Series
Father Michael, a Catholic priest presiding over a Northern urban parish who is Modern, maverick, and reassuringly flawed; must be confidant, counsellor and confessor to a congregation struggling to reconcile its beliefs with the challenges of daily life. (imdb)
Blood (2018) - TV Series
Cat Hogan returns to West Meath upon her mother's sudden death - she has an accident at home and died (or was it an accident?). Blood is about old secrets, older betrayals, mind games and the lies family tell each other. (imdb)
The London branch of Whitney Paine, a major American investment bank, is in the midst of a crisis; after the loss of $100 million, one of their leading traders, Tony Eisner commits suicide by putting a slug through his head while seated at his place in the board room. Despite the high stakes, many of the firm's staff are eager to step into Tony's now-vacated shoes and get credit for saving the company. Daniel Pascoe, the leading trader at the firm, is convinced that he's first in line for the as
Innocent Lies (1995) - TV Movie
In September 1938 a British detective comes to a small French coastal town in order to investigate the death of a colleague. Prime suspects are the members of English aristocratic family with plenty of skeletons in the closet. This is a loose adaptation of the Agatha Christie novel Towards Zero.
Ridley (2022) - TV Series
Retired Detective Alex Ridley is lured back into service as a consultant detective when his former protégée, Carol Farman, needs help cracking a complex murder case.
Emily imagines the transformative, exhilarating, and uplifting journey to womanhood of a rebel and a misfit, one of the world's most famous, enigmatic, and provocative writers who died too soon at the age of 30.