John Lynch
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 | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 1.3907 |
| Birthday | 1961-12-26 |
| Place of Birth | Corrinshego, Northern Ireland, UK |
| Also Known As | 존 린치 분, جان لینچ, |
1998
Sliding Doors
6.552/1448
Helen, a London ad executive, is fired from her job and rushes out to catch a train, but, as she runs down, her life suddenly splits off. In one versi...
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Sliding Doors
1995
Angel Baby
6.8/27
Two schizophrenics meet during therapy and fall in love. Unfortunately they are on a road to nowhere...
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Angel Baby
2003
Alien Hunter
5.147/153
Government agents find evidence of extraterrestrial life at the South Pole.
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Alien Hunter
1990
Hardware
5.931/357
Mark 13 is a government-built killing machine programmed with artificial intelligence, able to repair and recharge itself from any energy source. Thro...
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Hardware
2009
The Tournament
5.948/696
Every seven years, in an unsuspecting town, The Tournament takes place. A battle royale between 30 of the world's deadliest assassins. The last man s...
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The Tournament
1993
In the Name of the Father
7.887/2041
A small-time Belfast thief, Gerry Conlon, is wrongly convicted of an IRA bombing in London, along with his father and friends, and spends 15 years in...
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In the Name of the Father
2008
In Tranzit
5.475/80
Nazi POWs suspected of heinous acts are locked up in a Soviet women's prison run by vengeful female guards. To weed out the guilty, the innocent must...
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In Tranzit
2005
Isolation
5.544/206
On a remote Irish farm, five people become unwilling participants in an experiment that goes nightmarishly wrong.
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Isolation
2010
Black Death
6.075/998
As the plague decimates medieval Europe, rumours circulate of a village immune from the plague. There is talk of a necromancer who leads the village a...
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Black Death
1984
Cal
5.8/38
Cal, a young man on the fringes of the IRA, falls in love with Marcella, a Catholic woman whose husband, a Protestant policeman, was killed one year e...
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Cal
1994
The Secret of Roan Inish
6.715/100
Ten-year-old Fiona is sent to live with her grandparents in a small fishing village in Donegal, Ireland. She soon learns the local legend that an ance...
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The Secret of Roan Inish
2005
Lassie
6.435/147
A family in financial crisis is forced to sell Lassie, their beloved dog. Hundreds of miles away from her true family, Lassie escapes and sets out on...
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Lassie
1991
Edward II
6.3/68
England, 14th century. King Edward II falls in love with Piers Gaveston, a young man of humble origins, whom he honors with favors and titles of nobil...
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Edward II
2009
Holy Water
5.725/71
The village of Kilcoulins Leap was once a thriving spa town, and was home to a famous Holy Well, but now offers little by way of employment for its pe...
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Holy Water
1997
This Is the Sea
6/8
The film is set in Northern Ireland shortly after 1994 cease-fire. Hazel is a Protestant and Malachy a Catholic. Romance between them is threatened by...
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This Is the Sea
2023
Starting Tomorrow I'll Get Up Late
5/2
Massimo Troisi, away for a long time, reappears silently without anyone knowing. He contacts his friend Gaetano, and Anna, the woman of his life. Anna...
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Starting Tomorrow I'll Get Up Late
2010
13Hrs
4.333/78
Sarah Tyler returns to her troubled family home in the isolated countryside, for a much put-off visit. As a storm rages outside, Sarah, her family and...
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13Hrs
1991
Out of the Blue
4.2/4
Alan makes films in the warehouse studio where he lives, with the help of his friends Rudy and Liz. Even Rudy's girlfriend, Julie, finds herself caugh...
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Out of the Blue
2003
Conspiracy of Silence
4.8/12
When a priest commits suicide and two trainees are expelled from a seminary, a journalist starts to investigate the Vatican’s silence on broken vows o...
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Conspiracy of Silence
2011
Ghosted
5.2/23
‘GHOSTED’ tells a story of survival inside a British Prison. Jack a model prisoner, has kept his head down and done his time. After his wife confirms...
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Ghosted
2000
Best
6.167/48
Pulling no punches in its depiction of soccer legend George Best's slow descent from the heights of his Manchester United career, the man once dubbed...
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Best
1998
The Quarry
5.45/10
This thriller investigates the mysterious assassination of a gay pastor in rural South Africa. Without witnesses or explanations, the crime appears to...
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The Quarry
2007
The Yellow House
7.4/4
John Simm stars as Vincent Van Gogh in The Yellow House, a feature-length drama that tells the moving human story of the most influential and explosiv...
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The Yellow House
2012
Private Peaceful
6.6/46
Set in the fields of Devon and the WW1 battlefields of Flanders, two brothers fall for the same girl while contending with the pressures of their feud...
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Private Peaceful
2013
Möbius
5.694/253
An FSB officer falls in love with his agent, an American woman who works as a trader in a Russian bank.
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Möbius
1990
1871
4.8/10
A young actress becomes politically aware within the Paris Commune of 1871.
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1871
1996
Moll Flanders
6.102/85
The daughter of a thief, young Moll is placed in the care of a nunnery after the execution of her mother. However, the actions of an abusive priest le...
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Moll Flanders
2014
Scintilla
4.917/48
From a torturous cell in Africa, Abel Powell is released and given the chance to regroup his team of skilled mercenaries for one last job. A top scien...
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Scintilla
1992
Monkey Boy
0/0
Half man, half monkey, Chad was born in a lab and kept hidden from the world. A journalist, investigating a macabre mass-murder, discovers the mutant...
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Monkey Boy
1996
Some Mother's Son
6.768/41
Based on the true story of the 1981 hunger strike in a British prison, in which IRA prisoner Bobby Sands led a protest against the treatment of IRA pr...
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Some Mother's Son
2025
Sew Torn
6.495/61
A seamstress gets tangled in her own thread after stealing a briefcase from a drug deal gone bad. In an escalating game of cat and mouse, her differen...
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Sew Torn
2017
Pilgrimage
6.037/308
In 13th century Ireland a group of monks must escort a sacred relic across a landscape fraught with peril.
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Pilgrimage
2011
Night of the Hunt
8/1
Using the latest advances in camera technology, NGC penetrates the nocturnal hunting behaviors of the lion. Often asleep during the day, at night thes...
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Night of the Hunt
2017
Detour
6.201/206
A young law student, grieving for his dying mother, struggles to decide whether he should kill his unfaithful step-father.
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Detour
1990
Who Bombed Birmingham?
8.5/2
Docudrama film exploring the efforts of World in Action researchers Ian MacBride and Chris Mullin in proving that the "Birmingham Six" only admitted t...
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Who Bombed Birmingham?
1993
The Secret Garden
7.4/1008
A young British girl born and reared in India loses her neglectful parents in an earthquake. She is returned to England to live at her uncle's castle....
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The Secret Garden
2024
The Watchers
6.352/1712
A young artist gets stranded in an extensive, immaculate forest in western Ireland, where, after finding shelter, she becomes trapped alongside three...
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The Watchers
2016
Alleycats
5.056/54
When bike courier Chris witnesses what looks like a murder, his first instinct is to cut and run. But when his curiosity draws him back in, he's soon...
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Alleycats
2017
Upstream
6.2/5
Homer and Joé trace the rivers of Croatia aboard a small boat. In spite of being fifty years old each one, none of them knew of the existence of the o...
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Upstream
2004
The Bridge of San Luis Rey
5.235/68
In 1714 Peru, a friar is tried by the Spanish Inquisition for questioning God's intentions when five die in the collapse of an Andean rope bridge.
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The Bridge of San Luis Rey
1996
Nothing Personal
4.846/13
A raw depiction of the Belfast 'troubles' as savage tribal warfare. Set shortly after the 1975 cease fire, the film focuses on the tribulations of Ken...
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Nothing Personal
1988
James Joyce's 'Ulysses'
0/0
From the series "The Modern World: Ten Great Writers", this playful documentary introduces James Joyce's most famous work "Ulysses". It includes fanta...
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James Joyce's 'Ulysses'
2001
The Seventh Stream
7.25/6
She's a beautiful stranger lost in his world. Can they find a place in each other's hearts?
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The Seventh Stream
1992
The Railway Station Man
6.1/9
Northern Irishwoman Helen Cuffe (Julie Christie) is overwhelmed with sadness when her husband is killed by the Irish Republican Army. She and her teen...
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The Railway Station Man
2010
Mo
5.8/10
A docudrama about the life of the former UK Secretary of state for Northern Ireland, Mo Mowlam.
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Mo
2018
Kissing Candice
5.5/10
Candice longs to escape the boredom of her seaside town, but when a boy she dreams about turns up in real life, she becomes involved with a dangerous...
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Kissing Candice
2017
Number One
6.138/65
A brilliant and determined female engineer is approached by a network of powerful women with an offer to help become the head of a CAC 40 firm. The co...
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Number One
2002
Puckoon
6.286/7
Spike Milligan's book about the divided Irish village of Puckoon comes to the big screen.
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Puckoon
2018
Paul, Apostle of Christ
7.613/420
Luke risks his life to visit Paul in a Roman prison, where the apostle awaits execution under Nero. As Paul reflects on his past and the Christian com...
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Paul, Apostle of Christ
2000
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Love's Sweet Song
5.235/17
Ireland's bloody 1916 Easter Uprising, the suffragette movement in England, a Zeppelin raid, and a meeting with a rising young British cabinet member...
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The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Love's Sweet Song
1986
Waiting Tables
9/1
Interviews with people whom Gloria Steinem calls "pink collar" workers--those who wait tables.
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Waiting Tables
1994
Words Upon the Window Pane
9/1
In 1928 Dublin, during séances concerning Jonathan Swift, the spirits of his former lovers, Stella and Vanessa, emerge to resume their ancient quarrel...
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Words Upon the Window Pane
2021
Boys from County Hell
5.583/78
A crew of hardy road workers, led by a bickering Father and Son, must survive the night when they accidentally awaken an ancient Irish vampire.
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Boys from County Hell
1994
Princess Caraboo
5.531/32
Bristol, England, early 19th century. A beautiful young stranger who speaks a weird language is tried for the crime of begging. But when a man claims...
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Princess Caraboo
2021
The Banishing
5.138/167
In the 1930s, a young reverend and his family are forced to confront their worst fears when they discover their new home holds a horrifying secret.
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The Banishing
2020
Caravan
0/0
The film centers on an outcast in a rural English community who draws the attention of a vengeful mother after a chance encounter with her two young b...
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Caravan
2002
Evelyn
6.4/117
Desmond Doyle is devastated when his wife abandons their family on the day after Christmas. His unemployment, and the fact that there is no woman in t...
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