Des McAleer
Date of birth: 1952-05-25
Place of birth: Belfast, Northern Ireland
Known for: Acting
Also known as: دِس مکآلیر
Biography
Des McAleer is a Belfast born actor of film, TV and stage.
Movie Credits
I Want You
1998-02-15
A young boy and his sister are drawn into one man's obsessive pursuit of his former lover.
An Everlasting Piece
2000-12-22
Colin is a Catholic and George is a poetry-loving Protestant. In Belfast in the 1980s, they could ha
When the Sky Falls
2000-06-26
Fact-based story about Irish crime-investigating reporter Sinead Hamilton, who invaded the Irish und
The Writing on the Wall
1983-06-15
A youth workshop in Derry is mounting various projects, including a dramatized enquiry into the deat
Nuremberg: Goering's Last Stand
2006-08-24
The Nuremberg trials, 1946 Goering and the Nazi high command stand trial. Within the prison a danger
Four Days in July
1984-11-29
Two couples, one Catholic, one Protestant, exist on two sides of the chasm that is everyday life in
Handmade - A Tale of Stop-motion
2023-05-05
A documentary about an old animation technique and the film studio that tries to carry on the legacy
National Theatre Live: The Seagull
2016-10-08
On a summer’s day in a makeshift theatre by a lake, Konstantin’s cutting-edge new play is performed,
Butterfly Kiss
1995-08-18
Deeply mentally unbalanced drifter Eunice roams grim northern Britain committing psychosexual serial
No Man's Land
1986-10-24
North
2014-11-19
Isolated on a farm and fighting against his family's decision, Aaron struggles to be heard as he wat
Crossfire
1988-03-15
A police computer expert is seconded to Belfast to track down the identity of an IRA mole.
Hidden Agenda
1990-11-21
In Ireland, American lawyer Ingrid Jessner and her activist partner, Paul Sullivan, struggle to unco
Deadlines
2005-06-08
Alex Randal (Stephen Moyer), a young reporter on the make, decides, without knowing anything about t
Coppers
1988-10-16
Two bored twentysomethings buy a Vauxhall Cavalier kit it out with a siren and spend their evenings
Family
1994-05-08
This four-part made-for-TV drama focuses up close on a Dublin couple with four children. Charlo is a
Angela's Ashes
1999-12-25
An Irish Catholic family returns to 1930s Limerick after a child's death in America. The unemployed
Shoot to Kill
1990-06-03
Shoot to Kill is a four-hour drama documentary reconstruction of the events that led to the 1984–86
My Week with Marilyn
2011-11-23
London, 1956. Genius actor and film director Laurence Olivier is about to begin the shooting of his
Titanic Town
1998-08-08
Belfast 1972: The politically naive Bernie is trying to bring up a normal family in less than normal
How I Live Now
2013-09-10
An American girl, sent to the English countryside to stay with relatives, finds love and purpose whi
Anne Devlin
1984-10-01
The story of Anne Devlin, who was caught up in the revolt of the Irish under Robert Emmett in 1803,
Hunger
2008-05-15
The story of Bobby Sands, the IRA member who led the 1981 hunger strike during The Troubles in which
The Children Act
2018-08-01
In the midst of a marital crisis, a High Court judge must decide if she should order a life-saving b
Out of Innocence
2019-04-12
After a police investigation, a young mother, confused and scared, confesses to a crime she did not
This Is the Sea
1997-09-15
The film is set in Northern Ireland shortly after 1994 cease-fire. Hazel is a Protestant and Malachy
Life After Life
1995-04-02
Leo Doyle, a convicted IRA murderer, is released into the community after 14 years in prison on a sc
The Schooner
1983-12-26
8-year-old Terry comes to stay with his uncle and aunt on their farm on one of the magical Irish isl
Juno and the Paycock
1980-04-12
During the Irish Civil War in 1922, a family earns a big inheritance. They start leading a rich life