Michael Smiley
Birthday: Born in 1963-01-29 in Belfast, Ireland
Deathday: Alive
Michael Smiley (born 1963) is a Northern Irish comedian and actor. He is perhaps best known for his roles in the films Kill List (2011) and The Lobster (2015).
TV Credits
Spaced
Character: Tyres O'Flaherty
Spaced: the anti-Friends, in that it examines the lives of common 20 somethings, but in a way that is more down to earth and realistic. Here we have Daisy and Tim; two 'young' adults with big dreams just trying to get by in this crazy world. They are thrown together in a common pursuit of tenancy, which they find by posing as a couple. The house has a landlady and an oddball artist living there. The series explores the ins and outs of London living....
Luther
Character: Benny Silver
A dark psychological crime drama starring Idris Elba as Luther, a man struggling with his own terrible demons, who might be as dangerous as the depraved murderers he hunts....
Bloodlands
Character: Dinger
Northern Irish police officer DCI Tom Brannick connects a suicide note with an infamous cold case with enormous personal significance....
Edge of Heaven
Character: Snowy
Edge of Heaven is a British sitcom centred around a 1980s-themed guest house in Margate. The show is produced by Hartswood Films for ITV and began airing on 21 February 2014 for six episodes. In March and April it was repeated on Thursday nights. The first episode featured Margate’s beach, shops and landmarks and attracted 12.5% of the UK TV audience despite mixed reviews....
Doctor Who
Character: Colonel Morgan Blue
The Doctor is a Time Lord: a 900 year old alien with 2 hearts, part of a gifted civilization who mastered time travel. The Doctor saves planets for a living—more of a hobby actually, and the Doctor's very, very good at it....
Ragdoll
Character: DS Finlay
Detectives look to untangle the case of the Ragdoll Killer, who has killed six people and sewn their bodies into the shape of one grotesque body nicknamed the Ragdoll....
Murder
Character: Whitmore Harris
Three different deaths. Three unique stories. Who is lying and who is telling the truth?...
Hustle
Character: Max
A motley group of London con artists pull of a series of daring and intricate stings....
The Aliens
Character: Antoine
Nearly 40 years ago aliens crash-landed in the UK. They look like us, but are forced to live in a ghetto. Border control officer Lewis falls in love with one....
Rose and Maloney
Character:
Rose and Maloney investigate old criminal cases, seeking to rectify miscarriages of justice....
ShakespeaRe-Told
Character: Peter
Four of Shakespeare's plays are dramatically relocated to the modern day....
Utopia
Character: Detective Inspector Joshua Reynolds
The Utopia Experiments is a legendary graphic novel shrouded in mystery. When a group of strangers find themselves in possession of an original manuscript, their lives suddenly and brutally implode....
Burnside
Character:
Burnside is a British television police procedural drama, broadcast on ITV in 2000. The series, a spin-off from ITV's long-running police drama The Bill, focused on DCI Frank Burnside, formerly a detective at Sun Hill and now working for the National Crime Squad. Burnside ran for one series of six episodes, structured as three two-part stories....
Would I Lie to You?
Character: Self
A comedic panel show featuring team captains Lee Mack and David Mitchell plus two guests per side, hosted by Rob Brydon (formerly Angus Deayton). Each person must reveal embarrassing facts and outrageous lies during a series of different rounds including "Home Truths", "This Is My..." and "Quickfire Lies". It is up to the opposing team to tell tall tales from fantastic facts....
The Curse
Character: Ronnie Gatlin
In 1980s East London, a gang of hopeless crooks become embroiled in a major gold heist....
Father Figure
Character: Roddy
Father Figure is a British comedy television series that was first broadcast on BBC One on 18 September 2013. In Ireland the series first aired on RTÉ Two in September 2013. The six-part series was written by Jason Byrne and directed by Nick Wood....
Black Mirror
Character: Baxter
Over the last ten years, technology has transformed almost every aspect of our lives before we've had time to stop and question it. In every home; on every desk; in every palm - a plasma screen; a monitor; a smartphone - a black mirror of our 21st Century existence....
Obituary
Character: Ward Clancy
When Elvira’s editor informs her that she will be paid per article, she begins murdering people to avoid going broke. Her plans are shaken when she falls for the crime reporter....
Ripper Street
Character: George Lusk
A drama set in the East End of London in 1889, during the aftermath of the "Ripper" murders. The action centres around the notorious H Division – the police precinct from hell – which is charged with keeping order in the chaotic streets of Whitechapel. Ripper Street explores the lives of characters trying to recover from the Ripper's legacy, from crimes that have not only irretrievably altered their lives, but the very fabric of their city. At the drama's heart our detectives try to bring a litt...
Ambassadors
Character: Jackson
Comedy-drama series set in the fictional Central Asian Republic of Tazbekistan where newly arrived British Ambassador Keith Davies is set the task of trying to secure a £2 billion helicopter contract for the United Kingdom....
Death and Nightingales
Character: Dummy McGonnell
Fermanagh, Irish countryside, 1885. On her 23rd birthday, Beth, who lives on a remote farm with Billy Winters, her tyrannical stepfather, whom she can barely stand, prepares to flee from such a suffocating life with the help of the seductive Liam Ward, without being aware that her decision will unearth deeply buried secrets a long time ago....
Talking to the Dead
Character: David Penry
Rookie inspector Fiona Griffiths has a brilliant mind - and a secret history of mental illness called Cotard's Syndrome that has left her with a deep and peculiar empathy for the dead. A two-part crime drama for Sky Living which aired as part of the Drama Matters season. Based on the novel by Harry Bingham....
Bad Sisters
Character: Roger Muldoon
The tight-knit Garvey sisters have always looked out for one another. But when the toxic brother-in-law they all wanted dead actually dies, it turns their lives upside down and tests their bond like nothing before....
Dead Still
Character: Brock Blennerhasset
Memorial photographer Brock Blennerhasset makes a living out of photographing the dead in Victorian Ireland. When a series of murders threatens to sully Blennerhasset's reputation, a tenacious detective drags him into an investigation of Dublin's criminal underbelly....
Movie Credits
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
Character: Porter
Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, born in the stench of 18th century Paris, develops a superior olfactory sense, which he uses to create the world's finest perfumes. However, his work takes a dark turn as he tries to preserve scents in the search for the ultimate perfume....
Seats
Character: Driver
An overnight coach driver talks to his passengers. However, tonight, one of them is awake....
The Other Boleyn Girl
Character: Physician
A sumptuous and sensual tale of intrigue, romance and betrayal set against the backdrop of a defining moment in European history: two beautiful sisters, Anne and Mary Boleyn, driven by their family's blind ambition, compete for the love of the handsome and passionate King Henry VIII....
Outpost
Character: McKey
In a seedy bar in a town ravaged by war, scientist and businessman Hunt hires mercenary and former Royal Marine D.C. to assemble a crack team of ex-soldiers to protect him on a dangerous journey into no-man's land. Their mission is to scope out an old military bunker in Eastern Europe. It should be easy – 48 hours at the most. Lots of cash for little risk. Or so he says......
Down Terrace
Character: Pringle
After serving jail time for a mysterious crime, Bill and Karl get out of jail and become preoccupied with figuring out who turned them in to the police. On top of that, the "family business" is on the rocks, and the motley crew of criminals who operate out of Down Terrace aren't feeling terribly trusting of one another. It might look like an ordinary house, but at Down Terrace, the walls are closing in.....
In the Spider's Web
Character: Phil
When a team of backpackers sets out to explore the Indian jungles, one of them is bitten by a poisonous spider and killed....
Blue Song
Character: Bank Robber
An optimistic getaway driver waits for a trio of bank robbers in the parking lot....
Two Angry Men
Character: Frank Reynolds
Short film telling the story of James Ellis and Sam Thompson as they battle against the establishment to stage a controversial play in Belfast in 1959....
Kill List
Character: Gal
Nearly a year after a botched job, a hitman takes a new assignment with the promise of a big payoff for three killings. What starts off as an easy task soon unravels, sending the killer into the heart of darkness....
The World's End
Character: Reverend Green
Five friends who reunite in an attempt to top their epic pub crawl from 20 years earlier unwittingly become humankind's only hope for survival....
Shell
Character: Hugh
Abandoned by her mother when she was a child, Shell has stayed to take care of her dying father but now feels trapped within the beautiful but desolate landscape that surrounds her. With only her routine of running the decaying petrol station, taking care of her father, and spending afternoons in her bedroom with a local mechanic, life is passing Shell by with every passing truck that rattles her walls. One day a salesman stops to re-fuel and offers Shell a taste of the outside world that takes ...
U Is for Unearthed
Character: Father
On this short film shot entirely from a POV perspective, a vampire rises out of its coffin as a small mob attempts to sedate and kill it....
Orthodox
Character: Reg Shannon
Orthodox tells the story of Benjamin, an Orthodox Jewish man who alienated himself from his community by becoming a boxer. When his life took a wrong turn he ended up in prison, losing his wife and children in the process. Now he is out and desperate to reintegrate, he finds that acceptance harder than he ever imagined. He turns back to his old boxing coach thinking there he has an ally, but a truth about the past emerges which leaves him even more isolated than he once thought. Benjamin must ma...
Svengali
Character: Irish Pierre
Svengali tells the story of Dixie, a postman from South Wales, and a music fanatic. All his life he’s dreamed of discovering a great band and then one day, trawling through YouTube, he finds them… ‘The Premature Congratulations’. He hunts them down and offers them his management services. They are young, arrogant, sexy and utterly magnificent. Putting their demo on a cassette tape, Dixie heads out onto the streets of London…...
For Those in Peril
Character: Frank
Aaron, a young misfit living in a remote Scottish fishing community, is the lone survivor of a strange fishing accident that claimed the lives of five men including his older brother. Spurred on by sea-going folklore and local superstition, the village blames Aaron for this tragedy, making him an outcast amongst his own people. Steadfastly refusing to believe that his brother has died, he sets out to recover him and the rest of men....
A Field in England
Character: O'Neil
During the Civil War in 17th-Century England, a small group of deserters flee from a raging battle through an overgrown field. They are captured by an alchemist, who forces the group to aid him in his search to find a hidden treasure that he believes is buried in the field. Crossing a vast mushroom circle, which provides their first meal, the group quickly descend into a chaos of arguments, fighting and paranoia, and, as it becomes clear that the treasure might be something other than gold, they...
Pieces
Character: Father
An unspoken incident unravels the lives of two families into nightmare, fracturing time and memory....
Spaced: Skip to the End
Character: Self
A feature documentary about the making of and influence of the British television series Spaced. It also features an epilogue to the series....
The Silent Twins
Character: Tim Thomas
June and Jennifer Gibbons are twins from the only Black family in a small town in Wales in the 1970s and '80s. Feeling isolated from the community, the pair turn inward and reject communication with everyone but each other, retreating into their own fantasy world of inspiration and adolescent desires. After a spree of vandalism, the girls are sentenced to Broadmoor, an infamous psychiatric hospital, where they face the choice to separate and survive or die together....
Lost Lives
Character:
This poignant testament to the physical and emotional cost of war, centres on the Troubles in Northern Ireland....
The Devil Went Down To Islington
Character: Father Crowley
An underachieving music teacher and his dodgy colleague end a big night out by unwittingly selling their souls to the devil for three days' good fortune. Soon realising their grave mistake they find themselves in a race against the clock to break the deal and save their futures. But do the useless pair, aided by an unhinged priest, stand any real chance? As obstacles, and bodies, start piling up, the hour of reckoning grows near......
We Are the Freaks
Character: Killer Colin
Three misfits embark on a weekend they will never forget....
Believe
Character: Lewis
The story of one man's grief following the death of his wife. The film captures a desperate journey, played out against isolated highland landscapes....
Stolen
Character: Sean
A fast-paced thriller about a vital and terrifying subject - the trafficking of children - with the heart-stopping vibrancy, compassion and energy that only the fate of children inspires. This is a story that touches all our lives. And it's happening now....
Glassland
Character: Jim
In a desperate attempt to reunite his broken family, a young taxi driver becomes entangled in the criminal underworld....
Free Fire
Character: Frank
Set in Boston in 1978, a meeting in a deserted warehouse between two gangs turns into a shoot-out and a game of survival....
Blood
Character:
Danny is a champion amateur boxer about to compete in his first professional fight. Years of coaching by his father Issac and trainer Geoff are about to pay off. All Danny has to do is win. But as everyone is soon to discover, sometimes you have to lose to win....
The Lobster
Character: Loner Swimmer
In a dystopian near future, single people, according to the laws of The City, are taken to The Hotel, where they are obliged to find a romantic partner in forty-five days or are transformed into animals and sent off into The Woods....
My Name Is Emily
Character: Robert
Packed off to a foster home after her father is institutionalized, a rebellious young Irish girl resolves to bust her dad out of the hospital where he's been confined....
Tank 432
Character: Capper
With nowhere else to hide, a group of mercenaries and their prisoners take cover inside a long abandoned Bulldog tank. But, while they try to keep the forces outside at bay, the real enemy is already among them, locked inside the 'Belly of the Bulldog'. After collaborating closely with Ben Wheatley on FREE FIRE, HIGH-RISE, A FIELD IN ENGLAND and KILL LIST, director Nick Gillespie makes his feature debut....
Black Sea
Character: Reynolds
A rogue submarine captain pulls together a misfit crew to go after a sunken treasure rumored to be lost in the depths of the Black Sea. As greed and desperation take control on-board their claustrophobic vessel, the increasing uncertainty of the mission causes the men to turn on each other to fight for their own survival....
The Hallow
Character: Garda Davey
Deep within the darkness of secluded forest land in rural Ireland dwells an ancient evil. Feared by the nearby superstitious villagers as cursed creatures who prey upon the lost, their secrets have been kept from civilization and remain on their hallowed ground. But when a conservationist from London moves in with his wife and infant child in order to survey the land for future construction, his actions unwittingly disturb the horde of demonic forces. Alone in a remote wilderness, he must now en...
Burke & Hare
Character: Patterson
Two 19th-century opportunists become serial killers so that they can maintain their profitable business supplying cadavers to an anatomist....
Bookworm
Character: Arnold
Eleven-year-old Mildred’s life is turned upside down when her mother lands in hospital and estranged, American magician father, Strawn Wise, comes to look after her. Hoping to entertain the bookish tween, Strawn takes Mildred camping in the notoriously rugged New Zealand wilderness, and the pair embark on the ultimate test of family bonding – a quest to find the mythological beast known as the Canterbury Panther....
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
Character: Dr. Evazan
A rogue band of resistance fighters unite for a mission to steal the Death Star plans and bring a new hope to the galaxy....
Jawbone
Character: Eddie
A former youth boxing champion, Jimmy McCabe is a man in search of hope but looking in all the wrong places. When he hits rock bottom he turns to his childhood boxing club and the only family he has left: gym owner Bill corner man Eddie and promoter Joe. Back in training, years after anyone thought he was a contender, he risks his life, as he tries to stand tall and regain his place in the world....
Madame
Character: David Reville
Anne and Bob, a well-to-do American couple, have just moved to a beautiful manor house in romantic Paris. To impress their sophisticated friends, they decide to host a lavish dinner party, but must disguise their maid as a noblewoman to even out the number of guests. When the maid runs off with a wealthy guest, Anne must chase her around Paris to thwart the joyous and unexpected love affair....
Birthmarked
Character: Gertz
Two scientists raise three children contrarily to their genetic tendencies in order to prove the ultimate power of nurture over nature....
Tulip Fever
Character: Pieter
An artist falls for a married young woman while he's commissioned to paint her portrait. The two invest in the risky tulip market in hopes to build a future together....
A Pornographer Woos
Character: The Writer
A man on holiday attempts to seduce his wife by writing her a pornographic poem, despite his mother-in-law and children's constant attention....
Don't
Character: Molester
In 2007, Wright directed a fake trailer insert for Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez's Grindhouse, called "Don't", it was a plotless trailer that mocked horror clichés....
Land of the Blind
Character: Thorne's Lieutenant
A soldier recounts his relationship with a famous political prisoner attempting to overthrow their country's authoritarian government....
Group B
Character: Martin Kelly
It is 1986, the peak of high-octane Group B rally driving. Known for its incredibly dangerous off-road races, notorious for lack of crowd control, and some of the most powerful and sophisticated cars the world has ever seen, this is the golden era of rallying. Rally driver Shane Hunter is facing his comeback to Group B competition after a long and troubled absence....
The Nun
Character: Father Pasquale
A priest with a haunted past and a novice on the threshold of her final vows are sent by the Vatican to investigate the death of a young nun in Romania and confront a malevolent force in the form of a demonic nun....
Shaun of the Dead
Character: Bicycle Courier Zombie (uncredited)
Shaun lives a supremely uneventful life, which revolves around his girlfriend, his mother, and, above all, his local pub. This gentle routine is threatened when the dead return to life and make strenuous attempts to snack on ordinary Londoners....
Otzi and the Mystery of Time
Character: Otzi
Kip is an intelligent and sensitive boy with a great passion for anthropology, thanks to his mother who is studying the glacier mummy Ötzi, displayed in the South Tyrol Museum of Archaeology in Bolzano. When a tragic accident changes Kip’s life, he has to leave Bolzano and his best friends. On his last days in the city, Kip a final time goes to the museum to say goodbye to the mummy, as something magical happens and Ötzi wakes up ......
The Belly of the Whale
Character: Gits Hegarty
Two down-and-outs bonded together in misfortune devise a plan to rob a small town amusement arcade....
Rialto
Character: Noel
Colm is in his mid-forties, married, with two teenage children. Still grieving the death of his father, a destructive figure in his life, Colm struggles with his relationship to his own son, whilst at work a recent takeover threatens his job. Unable to share his vulnerability with his wife, Colm’s world is falling apart around him. In the midst of this crisis, Colm finds a comfort that no one else can provide but Jay....
Come to Daddy
Character: Jethro
After receiving a cryptic letter from his estranged father, Norval travels to his dad’s oceanfront home for what he hopes will be a positive experience. If only he’d known the dark truth about his old man beforehand....
Much Ado About Nothing
Character: Peter
Tensions mount in the TV studio when a take-charge anchor is reunited with a man she has a "history" with....
Censor
Character: Doug Smart
A screener at the British Board of Film Classification (BBFC), who has earned an unsavory reputation for being the strictest censor of violent films, begins to spiral out of control after viewing a low-budget horror with similarities to the disappearance of her sister....
1500 Words
Character: Narrator (voice)
What would you do if you went to the doctors and discovered that you only had 1500 words left to live? What would you say? Are some words more important than others? '1500 Words' is a funny and moving short film about one man trying to keep his marriage and himself alive whilst using the fewest words possible....
The Toll
Character: Toll Booth
Brendan works solo shifts in the quietest toll booth in Wales, hiding from a criminal past where nobody would ever look. When he finally gets rumbled, word of his whereabouts gets out and his enemies head west for revenge. Meanwhile, local traffic cop Catrin’s investigation into a simple robbery finds her heading for the booth at exactly the wrong time....
Grindhouse
Character: (segment "Don't") (uncredited)
Grindhouse combines Robert Rodriguez's Planet Terror, a horror comedy about a group of survivors who battle zombie-like creatures, and Quentin Tarantino's Death Proof, an action thriller about a murderous stuntman who kills young women with modified vehicles. It is presented as a double feature with fictitious exploitation trailers before each segment....
Evie
Character: Father Robert
A young girl discovers a bewitched necklace on the beach, unaware of the malevolent force linked to it. As she falls under its dark influence, she unwittingly releases a lethal water demon intent on ensnaring her and her loved ones....
Gunpowder Milkshake
Character: Dr. Ricky
To protect an 8-year-old girl, a dangerous assassin reunites with her mother and her lethal associates to take down a ruthless crime syndicate and its army of henchmen....