Known for Acting
Jim Norton (born 4 January 1938) is an Irish stage, film and television character actor, known for his work in the theatre, most notably in Conor McPherson's The Seafarer, and on television as Bishop Brennan in the sitcom Father Ted.
Born
January 4, 1938 (age 88)
Birthplace
Dublin, Ireland
Filmography
50 films, 56 shows


The Secret Garden: The Musical
2021 · 2h
country: United States
Come spirit, come charm, and join us for a magical experience as we present a behind the scenes look at The Secret Garden. This 2018 workshop, originally presented for top Broadway professionals and theatre owners, features a new revision of the musical reimagined by the original creators.


The Dead Hands of Dublin
2020 · 8m
country: Ireland
A failed pianist comes into possession of a pair of enchanted gloves. Upon wearing them, he finds himself playing the piano like a maestro and all his dreams come true. Just when he thinks he has everything, fate intervenes.


The Last Right
2019 · 1h 46m
country: Canada
Daniel Murphy is lumbered with a corpse that has the same last name as his, who dies on his flight from Boston to County Cork. Travelling back to Ireland to attend his mother’s funeral, Daniel also checks on his autistic brother. What follows is an unconventional road trip with his brother and the mortuary assistant as they take the coffin from Clonakilty to Rathlin Island.


Prisoners of the Moon
2019 · 1h 15m
country: Ireland
Was Arthur Rudolph, a central figure in the first Moon Landing, also involved in war crimes involving the death of 20,000 slave labourers in World War 2?


Mary Poppins Returns
2018 · 2h 11m
country: United States
Mary Poppins returns to the Banks family and helps them evade grave dangers by taking them on magical, musical adventures.


The Boy
2016 · 1h 38m
country: United States
A young American woman takes a job as a nanny in a remote English village, soon discovering that the family's eight-year-old son is a life-sized doll that comes with a list of strict rules.


National Theatre Live: Hamlet
2015 · 3h 37m
country: United Kingdom
As a country arms itself for war, a family tears itself apart. Forced to avenge his father's death but paralyzed by the task ahead, Hamlet rages against the impossibility of his predicament, threatening both his sanity and the security of the state.


National Theatre Live: Of Mice and Men
2014 · 2h 23m
country: United Kingdom
A powerful portrait of the American spirit and a heartbreaking testament to the bonds of friendship.


Jimmy's Hall
2014 · 1h 46m
country: United Kingdom
In Depression-era Ireland, Jimmy Gralton returns home after a decade's exile in America. Witnessing the levels of poverty and oppression, his inner activist reawakens and he seeks to reopen the dance hall that led to his deportation.


Homemade
2013 · 6m
country: Ireland
Pensioner Tommy Fogarty wants to impress his new lady friend by baking a cake, but finds a gang of feral teenage girls have other ideas…


Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
2011 · 2h 9m
country: United States
A year after his father's death, Oskar, a troubled young boy, discovers a mysterious key he believes was left for him by his father and embarks on a scavenger hunt to find the matching lock.


Water for Elephants
2011 · 2h 2m
country: United States
In this captivating Depression-era melodrama, impetuous veterinary student Jacob Jankowski joins a celebrated circus as an animal caretaker but faces a wrenching dilemma when he's transfixed by angelic married performer Marlena.


Small, Far Away: The World of Father Ted
2011 · 48m
country: United Kingdom
On the 15th anniversary of its launch, this documentary follows Father Ted creators Graham Linehan and Arthur Mathews on a return trip to Craggy Island to take in its location and discuss how the series was made with cast and crew.


The Eclipse
2009 · 1h 28m
country: Ireland
Michael is a widower who is struggling to adjust to his new role as the sole caretaker of his two children. Still reeling from the death of his wife, he has been plagued by terrifying apparitions. When he volunteers at a local literary festival, he finds himself drawn to Lena, an empathetic author of supernatural fiction. While Lena tries to help Michael with the mystery of his nightmarish visions, she must contend with problems of her own, as she’s being jealously pursued by self-obsessed novelist Nicholas, her one-time lover. As the festival progresses, the three adults’ lives converge and collide.
Uncle Bill's Barrel
Uncle Bill's Barrel
2008 · 10m
country: Ireland
A rural family contends with a deceased uncle who refuses to stay in his grave.


The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
2008 · 1h 34m
country: United Kingdom
When his family moves from their home in Berlin to a strange new house in Poland, young Bruno befriends Shmuel, a boy who lives on the other side of the fence where everyone seems to be wearing striped pajamas. Unaware of Shmuel's fate as a Jewish prisoner or the role his own Nazi father plays in his imprisonment, Bruno embarks on a dangerous journey inside the camp's walls.


Driving Lessons
2006 · 1h 38m
country: United Kingdom
A shy teenage boy trying to escape the influence of his domineering mother, has his world changed when he begins to work for a retired actress.


Stan
2006 · 59m
country: United Kingdom
Stanley Laurel's last visit to Oliver Hardy, as originally told in Neil Brand's radio play.


Oyster Farmer
2004 · 1h 31m
country: Australia
A love story about a young man who runs away up an isolated Australian river and gets a job with eighth generation oyster famers.


Conspiracy of Silence
2003 · 1h 30m
country: Ireland
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 of celibacy. A thriller examining the internal conflicts in the modern Catholic church.


The Hound of the Baskervilles
2002 · 1h 45m
country: United Kingdom
Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson are called in to unravel a mysterious curse that has plagued the Baskerville family for generations. When Sir Charles Baskerville is found dead, his heir, Sir Henry, begs Holmes to save him from the terrifying supernatural hound that has brought fear and death to his household.


Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
2002 · 2h 41m
country: United Kingdom
Cars fly, trees fight back, and a mysterious house-elf comes to warn Harry Potter at the start of his second year at Hogwarts. Adventure and danger await when bloody writing on a wall announces: The Chamber Of Secrets Has Been Opened. To save Hogwarts will require all of Harry, Ron and Hermione's magical abilities and courage.


Boxed
2002 · 1h 18m
country: United Kingdom
The thriller Boxed addresses the little-known fact that the Irish Republican Army would bring in sympathetic priests to administer last rites to those they were about to execute. The film analyzes the fallout that occurs when one of these priests ha a change of heart, deciding to fight for the life of the captive.


On the Nose
2001 · 1h 44m
country: Canada
Robbie Coltrane stars as Delaney, a university janitor and reformed gambler whose past habits come back to haunt him. Having squandered the savings set aside for his daughter’s education through ill-judged horse-race bets, Delaney has promised his wife to give up gambling for good. But when his daughter Sinead is accepted into Trinity College in Ireland and the tuition money is suddenly needed, desperation sets in. While carrying out his duties at the university, Delaney makes an extraordinary discovery: the preserved head of an Aboriginal tribesman which, under the right conditions, can accurately predict racehorse winners. As Delaney is tempted back into gambling to secure his daughter’s future, he must fend off the mob and a determined representative from an Australian university intent on reclaiming the head and returning it home, pushing Delaney’s morality, resolve, and luck to their absolute limits.


Aladdin and the Adventure of All Time
2000 · 1h 21m
country: Philippines
Aladdin and his new friend Paige visit English kings, Egyptian queens, come face to face with a Tyrannosaurus Rex, and walk the gangplank with Blackbeard the Pirate, in search of a stolen magic lamp.


Mad About Mambo
2000 · 1h 32m
country: Ireland
High school student tries to improve soccer skills by practicing dance and falls for his dance partner.


Rough for Theatre II
2000 · 29m
country: United Kingdom
Two bureaucrats discuss the potential suicide of a man standing perfectly still in front of a door that opens into the night sky and a fatal drop.


Sunset Heights
1999 · 1h 33m
country: Ireland
Irish thriller starring Toby Stephens. Belfast of the near future finds the city ruled by two rival law-enforcing punishment squads. When Luke Bradley (Stephens)'s son is found murdered, suspicion falls upon the local preacher (Jim Norton). Taken to Sunset Heights, a druid's circle on a hill overlooking the city, the accused is summarily executed by the boy's father. However, when another child goes missing, it appears that they have killed the wrong man - or that the preacher has come back from the dead to wreak his revenge...


A Love Divided
1999 · 1h 38m
country: United Kingdom
The dramatic true story of a marriage between a Catholic man and a Protestant woman in 1950s Ireland.


American History X
1998 · 1h 59m
country: United States
Derek Vineyard is paroled after serving 3 years in prison for killing two African-American men. Through his brother, Danny Vineyard's narration, we learn that before going to prison, Derek was a skinhead and the leader of a violent white supremacist gang that committed acts of racial crime throughout L.A. and his actions greatly influenced Danny. Reformed and fresh out of prison, Derek severs contact with the gang and becomes determined to keep Danny from going down the same violent path as he did.


Into the West
1992 · 1h 37m
country: Ireland
Accused of a crime they didn't commit, two city kids and a magical horse are about to become the coolest outlaws ever to ride Into The West.


Midnight's Child
1992 · 1h 29m
country: United States
Spooky tale of a lawyer who sees Satan in the Swiss au pair she and her artist husband have hired for their young daughter.


Memoirs of an Invisible Man
1992 · 1h 39m
country: United States
After a freak accident, an invisible yuppie runs for his life from a treacherous CIA official while trying to cope with his new life.


Even Hitler Had a Girlfriend
1991 · 1h 38m
country: United States
A lonely Omaha, Nebraska security guard named Marcus dreams of establishing some human connection, when he isn't watching cable porn in his apartment and obsessing over his weight.


Hidden Agenda
1990 · 1h 48m
country: United Kingdom
In Ireland, American lawyer Ingrid Jessner and her activist partner, Paul Sullivan, struggle to uncover atrocities committed by the British government against the Northern Irish during the "Troubles." But when Sullivan is assassinated in the streets, Jessner teams up with Peter Kerrigan, a British investigator acting against the will of his own government, and struggles to uncover a conspiracy that may even implicate one of Kerrigan's colleagues.


The Temptation of Eileen Hughes
1988 · 1h 10m
country: United Kingdom
The McAuleys are local celebrities and Eileen Hughes, a young shop assistant, is flattered to be taken under their wing. Then she accepts their invitation to join them for a week's holiday in London ...


Home Cooking
1986 · 53m
country: Unknown
The abused neglected wife of a loutish hotelier begins to suspect that her husband is the serial rapist that has been terrorizing the area.


Sakharov
1984 · 1h 58m
country: United Kingdom
Biography of Russian physicist & dissident Andrei Sakharov focuses on his first acts in his civil rights.
Grass
Grass
1982 · 47m
country: United Kingdom
A petty criminal decides to turn into an informant, a grass, after he learns about a crooked chief inspector. But instead of getting paid all he gets is trouble for himself and his family.


Cry of the Innocent
1980 · 1h 33m
country: Ireland
An American insurance executive, who sees his wife and children die when a plane crashes into their vacation cottage on the Irish coast, uncovers a series of suspicious clues indicating that it was no accident after a pretty financial reporter who resembles his dead wife turns up.


Juno and the Paycock
1980 · 1h 55m
country: Unknown
During the Irish Civil War in 1922, a family earns a big inheritance. They start leading a rich life, forgetting what the most important values are. In the 1980 BBC adaptation of "Juno and the Paycock," Dudley Sutton played the role of Captain Jack Boyle, alongside Frances Tomelty as Juno. The play, written by Seán O'Casey, is set in Dublin during the Irish Civil War and centers on the Boyle family's experiences with an anticipated inheritance and the subsequent fallout.


Light
1979 · 1h 20m
country: Unknown
In a Cheshire village, Jack, an electrician, is rewiring the house where a dissident Russian professor is staying. From mutual dislike and suspicion they move towards tolerance and eventually mutual respect.


The Legion Hall Bombing
1978 · 1h 15m
country: United Kingdom
The story of the trial of Willie Gallagher, convicted of bombing the Strabane British Legion Hall in Northern Ireland, 1976. The transmission of this film was postponed by the BBC several times, and when it did finally air, it was shown with cuts; the writer, Caryl Churchill, and director, Roland Joffé, had their names removed from the credits in protest.


Waiting at the Field Gate
1975 · 30m
country: Unknown
Lightning Gallat is the village slaughterer and a man of distinction. Where does he draw the line?


Screamer
1974 · 1h 5m
country: Unknown
A young American girl on her way to visit friends in rural England is brutally attacked and raped. After spending the next few months in a mental institution trying to recover from her ordeal, she is released into the care of her friends. The police assure her that they have the man responsible in custody, and she begins to rest easy. That is until she sees her attacker wandering the streets of the town. After planning her revenge she follows the man and kills him. This, she thinks, is the end of her ordeal. That is until the man she thinks she has killed arrives at the house she is staying in.


Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall
1973 · 1h 42m
country: United Kingdom
London, 1940. Aspiring jazz musician and future comedy legend Terence 'Spike' Milligan reluctantly obeys his call-up and joins the Royal Artillery regiment at Bexhill, where he begins training to take part in the War. But along the way Spike and his friends get involved in many amusing — and some not-so amusing — scrapes.
The Death of Captain Doughty
The Death of Captain Doughty
1973 · 37m
country: United Kingdom
Captain Doughty is accused by Francis Drake of acts of piracy and of allowing his crew to get drunk. Drake questions the crew to determine the facts.


George
1972 · 53m
country: United Kingdom
Crime drama told from the perspective of one of the participants of a bank heist.


Straw Dogs
1971 · 1h 56m
country: United States
David Sumner, a mild-mannered academic from the United States, marries Amy, an Englishwoman. In order to escape a hectic stateside lifestyle, David and his wife relocate to the small town in rural Cornwall where Amy was raised. There, David is ostracized by the brutish men of the village, including Amy's old flame, Charlie. Eventually the taunts escalate.


The Face of Fu Manchu
1965 · 1h 36m
country: Germany
Grisly strangulations in London alert Nayland Smith of Scotland Yard to the possibility that fiendish Fu Manchu may not after all be dead, even though Smith witnessed his execution. A killer spray made from Tibetan berries seems to be involved and clues keep leading back to the Thames.