Barry McGovern

Actor Jan 1 (age 78) Dublin, Ireland 1979–2026 (47 year career)

6.5 avg rating

Highest Rated

Searching for Sam: Adrian Dunbar on Samuel Beckett

2019 · as Self

10.0

Game of Thrones

2011 · as Dying Man

8.5

Vikings

2013 · as French Archbishop

8.1

Known For

Film

Braveheart

King's Advisor

Film

Far and Away

McGuire

Film

Joe Versus the Volcano

Luggage Salesman

Film

The Cured

Patrick Ryan

Film

The General

IRA Man 1

Film

Billy Bathgate

5.8 1991

Film

Rebellion

Archbishop William Walsh

Film

Wild Mountain Thyme

Cleary

Filmography

Acting (44)

Movies (32)

A Sunken Place

2026 Upcoming

Sep 4

Blue Fiddle

2025

At Sea

2024

as Whale (Voice)

Apocalypse Clown

as DuCoque

Sprachlos in Irland

as Mr. O'Toole

Wild Mountain Thyme

as Cleary

Searching for Sam: Adrian Dunbar on Samuel Beckett

as Self

Penance

as The Commandant

Royally Ever After

as King Edmond

Citizen Lane

as William Martin Murphy

7.0

Cecelia Ahern: Dich zu lieben

2018

as Direktor Russell

The Cured

as Patrick Ryan

My Name Is Emily

as Dr. Golding

Gift of the Magi

as Gary Janardi

Studs

as Secret Agent Smart

5.0

Check the Gate: Putting Beckett on Film

2003

as Self - Vladimir ("Waiting for Godot")

Waiting for Godot

as Vladimir

The General

as IRA Man 1

Miracle at Midnight

as Rabbi Ben Abrams

The Informant

as Courtroom Judge

Driftwood

as McTavish

Braveheart

as King's Advisor

Far and Away

as McGuire

Blind Alley

Billy Bathgate

The Treaty

as Eamon de Valera

Joe Versus the Volcano

1990

as Luggage Salesman

5.8

Dear Sarah

1990

as Giuseppe Conlon

August Saturday

1990

as Desmond

Riders to the Sea

1987

as Bartley

Katie: The Year of a Child

1979

as Sean

Forgiveness

as Erskine Childers

Television (12)

Bodkin

as Beckett

Blackshore

as Dr. James Whelan

Boglands

as Art Ó Suilleabháin

5.1

The Woman in the Wall

as Dr. Gabriel

Obituary

as Sandy Benson

Foundation

as Orlio

Critters TV

as Narrator (voice)

Rebellion

2016

as Archbishop William Walsh

Vikings

as French Archbishop

Game of Thrones

as Dying Man

The Tudors

as Bishop Bonnivet

Foreign Bodies

as Dermot