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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
August 19, 1948
Place of Birth
Belfast, Northern Ireland
Also Known As
- Ίαν ΜακΕλχίνεϊ
- 이안 매켈리니
Ian McElhinney
0.9 Popularity
Biography
Ian McElhinney (born 19 August 1948) is a Northern Irish actor and director. He has appeared in many television series in a career spanning more than forty years; notable appearances include Taggart, Hornblower, Cold Feet, and The Tudors. In recent times his best known roles are as Barristan Selmy in Game of Thrones, Morgan Monroe in The Fall, and Granda Joe in Derry Girls.
Known For
7.9
Reverend Patterson
Small Town, Big Story
2025
0.0
Narrator
Secrets of The Christmas Market
2024
6.5
Sam Dryson
High Country
2024
7.3
Elderly Joe Rantz
The Boys in the Boat
2023
6.6
Tom Malcolmson
The Last Rifleman
2023
7.9
Johannes Kleiman
A Small Light
2023
6.9
General Jan Dodonna (archive footage) (uncredited)
Andor: A Disney+ Day Special Look
2022
0.0
Mr. Deasy / Barrister JJ Molloy
The Ulysses Project
2022
6.8
Grandad
Suspicion
2022
7.4
John Snr
The Outlaws
2021
Credits
Small Town, Big Story
as Reverend Patterson
2025
7.9
Secrets of The Christmas Market
as Narrator
2024
0.0
High Country
as Sam Dryson
2024
6.5
The Boys in the Boat
as Elderly Joe Rantz
2023
7.3
The Last Rifleman
as Tom Malcolmson
2023
6.6
A Small Light
as Johannes Kleiman
2023
7.9
Andor: A Disney+ Day Special Look
as General Jan Dodonna (archive footage) (uncredited)
2022
6.9
The Ulysses Project
as Mr. Deasy / Barrister JJ Molloy
2022
0.0
Suspicion
as Grandad
2022
6.8
The Outlaws
as John Snr
2021
7.4
Bloodlands
as Adam Corry
2021
6.8
🎬
Father Father
2019
0.0
Mrs Wilson
as Father Timothy
2018
7.0
Zoo
as Mr. Shawcross
2018
6.7
Dave Allen at Peace
as Priest
2018
4.4
Krypton
as Val-El
2018
7.1
Derry Girls
as Granda Joe
2018
8.1
To Be Frank Carson
as Self
2017
0.0
Bad Day for the Cut
as Eamon
2017
6.5
Kat & Alfie: Redwater
as Lance
2017
6.0
The Journey
as Rory O'Suaird
2017
6.3
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
as General Dodonna
2016
7.5
Sacrifice
as D.I. McKie
2016
5.3
The Truth Commissioner
as James Fenton
2016
4.5
Rebellion
as Edward Butler
2016
7.0
The Frankenstein Chronicles
as Dr. Lenox
2015
7.0
Unforgotten
as Lord Tony Hume
2015
7.6
A Patch of Fog
as Freddie Clarke
2015
6.5
The Death of a Projectionist
as Gerry
2015
0.0
Game of Thrones: A Day in the Life
as Self
2015
7.6
Game of Thrones The IMAX Experience
as Barristan Selmy
2015
8.6
Quirke
as Bill Latimer
2014
5.8
The Fall
as Morgan Monroe
2013
7.7
Wodehouse In Exile
as Major Cussen
2013
7.2
Ripper Street
as Theodore Swift
2012
7.4
Titanic: Blood and Steel
as Sir Henry Carlton
2012
7.1
🎬
Bomb Squad Men: The Long Walk
as Narrator
2012
0.0
Titanic: Born in Belfast
as Narrator
2012
0.0
Celebrity Antiques Road Trip
as Self - Participant
2011
5.0
Game of Thrones
as Barristan Selmy
2011
8.5
Brendan Smyth: Betrayal of Trust
as Abbot Smith
2011
4.0
Three Wise Women
as David
2010
4.6
An Old Fashioned Christmas
as Sean
2010
5.2
Leap Year
as Priest
2010
6.9
🎬
Make it New John
as John
2010
0.0
Triage
as Ivan
2009
6.0
🎬
Scapegoat
as H. A. McVeigh QC
2009
0.0
City of Ember
as Builder
2008
6.3
Clay
as Father O'Mahoney
2008
5.2
Fairy Tales
2008
0.0
Closing the Ring
as Cathal Thomas
2007
6.1
The Tudors
as Pope Clement VII
2007
7.8
Single-Handed
as Ex-Garda Sergeant Gerry Driscoll
2007
6.8
The Front Line
as Mikey
2006
6.3
Doctor Who
as Ko Sharmus
2005
7.5
Omagh
as Stanley McCombe
2005
6.3
Hornblower: Loyalty
as Captain Hammond
2003
7.1
No Tears
as Padraig McFadden
2002
0.0
Mapmaker
as Sergeant Devlin
2001
0.0
Hornblower: Retribution
as Captain Hammond
2001
7.4
Borstal Boy
as Verreker
2001
6.2
🎬
In Defence
as DCS David Dillne
2000
4.0
🎬
The King's Wake
as Athairne
2000
0.0
Durango
as Vestor McCarthy
1999
5.0
Queer as Folk
as Clive Jones
1999
8.0
Hornblower: The Examination for Lieutenant
as Captain Hammond
1998
7.4
Cold Feet
1998
7.8
Hornblower
as Captain Hammond
1998
7.6
Touch and Go
as Clive Bevan
1998
7.0
Maisie Raine
as C.S. Jack Freeman
1998
0.0
🎬
Silicone Valerie
1998
0.0
The Boxer
as Reggie Bell
1997
6.7
This Is the Sea
as Da Stokes
1997
5.7
🎬
Wokenwell
1997
0.0
Hamlet
as Barnardo
1996
7.3
The Boy from Mercury
as Brother Dowdall
1996
6.0
Michael Collins
as Belfast Detective
1996
6.9
🎬
Safe And Sound
as Higgins
1996
0.0
Small Faces
1996
6.3
Life After Life
as Working out governor
1995
0.0
Hearts and Minds
as Alex
1995
8.0
Beyond Reason
as Smythe QC
1995
0.0
A Breed of Heroes
as Father O'Browne
1994
1.0
Blind Justice
as Father Malone
1994
5.1
A Woman's Guide to Adultery
as Martin
1993
0.0
🎬
Circle of Deceit
as Father Fergal
1993
7.5
You, Me & Marley
as Reggie Devine
1992
6.0
The Playboys
as Joe Cassidy
1992
6.0
Children of the North
as O'Hare
1991
7.0
Hidden Agenda
as Jack Cunnigham
1990
6.9
Fools of Fortune
as Stranger
1990
5.3
Shoot to Kill
as ACC Trevor Forbes
1990
0.0
Who Bombed Birmingham?
as Sinn Fein leader
1990
7.0
🎬
The Lilac Bus
as Billy
1990
7.0
The Grasscutter
as Brian Deeds
1990
5.0
Reefer and the Model
as Reefer
1988
5.2
A Prayer for the Dying
as Lodger
1987
5.8
The Rockingham Shoot
as John Reilly
1987
0.0
Naming the Names
as Mr McBride
1987
0.0
Lamb
as Maguire
1986
5.6
Casualty
as Robert Finch
1986
6.1
Shergar
as Damien
1986
0.0
🎬
The End of the World Man
as Architect
1986
3.0
Lovejoy
as Ceiran Stow
1986
7.3
Anne Devlin
as Maj. Sirr
1984
5.0
🎬
A Woman Calling
as Mr Burke
1984
0.0
Acceptable Levels
as Andy
1983
0.0
Potatohead Blues
as Mousey
1982
0.0
Angel
as Groom
1982
5.6
🎬
Mutant: Year Zero
as (voice)
N/A
0.0