Adrian Dunbar
Acting
Biography
Adrian Dunbar (born 1 August 1958) is an actor from Northern Ireland, best known for his television and theatre work. Dunbar co-wrote and starred in the 1991 film, Hear My Song, nominated for Best Original Screenplay at the BAFTA awards. Description above from the Wikipedia article Adrian Dunbar, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Born: August 1, 1958
Place of Birth: Enniskillen, County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland, UK
Known For
Searching for Sam: Adrian Dunbar on Samuel Beckett
Samuel Beckett has fascinated Adrian Dunbar since he was a young student. Now, 30 years after Beckett's death in Paris, Dunbar explores what made the man who made Waiting for Godot.
Murder in Mind
Murder in Mind is a British television thriller drama anthology series of self-contained stories with a murderous theme seen from the perspective of the murderer.
Line of Duty
A drama about the investigations of AC-12, a controversial police anticorruption unit.
Inside No. 9
An anthology of darkly comic twisted tales, each one taking place behind a door marked 'number 9'.
Pleasure
Alan Bleasdale's modern re-telling of Madame Bovary. A tale of passion, greed, revenge, and of course pleasure, set in France. Starring Line of Duty's Adrian Dunbar, Jennifer Ehle and James Larkin. In the French city of Rouen, the beautiful, young but bored Emma seeks to escape her dull married life. Her dreams are answered, and her comfortable, peaceful existence soon tarnished when she answers a lonely-hearts ad. She meets Gustave, a unsuccessful toy salesman, and potential con man. Together they begin a passionate affair, where they indulge in illicit sex and illegal scams. But parallel to their exhilarating affair, the police are on the hunt for a mysterious masked robber known only as Le Terroriste. As the stakes rise, and a betrayal means Emma finding herself alone, her own talents for deception develop into an overwhelming and obsessive desire for her to get her revenge.
Inspector Morse
Inspector Morse is a detective drama based on Colin Dexter's series of Chief Inspector Morse novels. The series starred John Thaw as Chief Inspector Morse and Kevin Whately as Sergeant Lewis, as well as a large cast of notable actors and actresses.
Murphy's Law
Detective Sergeant Tommy Murphy is a maverick cop with a dark past. After failing a psychiatric assessment, he is given one last chance by his boss and given a dangerous undercover assignment. Murphy is a loner with little to lose and deals with everything on his own terms. This time around, however, Murphy has an ally in Detective Inspector Annie Guthrie.
Ashes to Ashes
Crime drama series featuring Life On Mars' DCI Gene Hunt. After being shot in 2008, DI Alex Drake lands in 1981, where she finds herself in familiar company.
My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown
No one expects much from Christy Brown, a boy with cerebral palsy born into a working-class Irish family. Though Christy is a spastic quadriplegic and essentially paralyzed, a miraculous event occurs when, at the age of 5, he demonstrates control of his left foot by using chalk to scrawl a word on the floor. With the help of his steely mother — and no shortage of grit and determination — Christy overcomes his infirmity to become a painter, poet and author.
Silk
Silk is a British television drama series produced by the BBC and first shown in 2011. Written by Peter Moffat, the series follows a set of barristers, and what they do to attain the rank of Queen's Counsel, known as 'taking silk'. Passionate defence barrister Martha Costello faces challenging cases and surprising clients, which test her faith in the criminal justice system. Gifted colleague Clive Reader is called to the bar with her. They work hard with pupils, Nick Slade and Niamh Cranitch, but ultimately only one can eventually be taken on as a member of chambers.
Filmography
as Fred Graham / Petruchio
as Otto
as Presenter
as Patrick Brontë
as DI Alex Ridley
as Self - Presenter
as Jim Hogan
as Frederik Aasen
as Father Peter Flaherty
as Sam Thompson
as Himself
as DI Walter Gambon
as Adrian
as Frankie
as Ralph Nickleby
as Damien Vull
as Plantagenet
as SI Ted Hastings
as Andy
as Dr. Russell
as Aidan Miles
as Self - Narrator
as Joe Gillespie QC
as David Trimble
as Philip Conolly
as Frank O'Connor
as Florence Wycherley
as Martin Summers
as Dr. James Hawk
as Self
as Alfie Palmer
as Detective Lomax
as Mickybo's Da
as Alexander Balfour/Ebenezer Balfour
as Narrator
as Mark Finnegan
as Andy Jarrett
as George
as Max Bell
as Tom Robbins
as J. J. MacMahon
as Mr. Mac
as Noel Curley
as Graeme Hepburn
as Charlie Colquhoun
as James Tyrrell
as Jack Dando
as Alan Cross
as Gustave Coudray
as Joe
as Godfrey Doyle-Counihan
as Michael
as Kelly
as Maguire
as Mick
as Micky O'Neill
as Martin Deeley
as DS Billy McCourbrey
as Self - Host
as John
as Andy
as Lennon Mayhew
as Norris McWhirter
as Capt. Rankin
as Con
as John Marriat
as Mechanic
as Willy
as Willy
as Joe
as Peter Douglas
as Colm
as Fred Graham/Petruchio
as Self - Presenter