Kevin McNally

ActorDirectorWriterCrew Apr 27 (age 69) Bristol, England, UK 1962–2025 (63 year career)

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Biography

Kevin McNally (born 27 April 1956) is an English actor. He is best known for his role in the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise (2003–2017). He grew up in Birmingham where he attended Redhill and Mapledene Junior schools and Central Grammar School for Boys. At the age of 16, he got his first job at Birmingham Repertory Theatre. A year later he received a scholarship to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. In 1975 he won the Best Actor Bancroft Gold Medal for his stage performance. McNally's most …

Known For

Film

Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl

Joshamee Gibbs

Film

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest

Gibbs

Film

Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End

Gibbs

Film

Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides

Joshamee Gibbs

Film

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales

Joshamee Gibbs

Film

Legend

Harold Wilson

Film

Valkyrie

Carl-Friedrich Goerdeler

Film

The Phantom of the Opera

Buquet

Filmography

Acting (156)

Movies (82)

The Wingfeather Saga: The Journey Begins

2025

as Podo Helmer

Fudge Sundae

2025

as David

Frayed

2025

as George

Largo

as Angus

Apartment 7A

as Roman Castevet

Bottom: Exposed

as Self

Hancock: Very Nearly an Armful

2023

as Self

8.0

Bloody Fury

2023

as Bloody Fury (voice)

Curse of the Macbeths

as Duncan

Musketeer

as Porthos

On Your Behalf

as Detective McHendry

You Really Got Me

as Older James

Decrypted

as Colonel Pike

Painted Beauty

as Det. Greene

Robert the Bruce

2019

as Old Sean

5.5

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales

2017

as Joshamee Gibbs

6.7

King Lear: Live at Shakespeare's Globe

2017

as Lear

The Man Who Knew Infinity

as Major MacMahon

Macbeth Unhinged

as Duncan

Legend

as Harold Wilson

Marked

as Brian Cruft

1946

as Karl

The Challenger Disaster

as Lawrence Mulloy

Bounty Killer

as Daft Willy

Mel Smith: I've Done Some Things

as Self

The Raven

as Maddux

Hamilton: In the Interest of the Nation

2012

as Harold Smith

6.1

Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides

as Joshamee Gibbs

Poe

as Kyle Kilpatrick

Margaret

as Kenneth Clarke

Valkyrie

as Carl-Friedrich Goerdeler

7.0

Tu£sday

2008

as Jerry

5.6

Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End

2007

as Gibbs

7.3

The Murder of Princess Diana

2007

as Charles Davis

5.7

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest

as Gibbs

Scoop

as Mike Tinsley

Irish Jam

as Lord Hailstock

According to Plan: The Harrowing and True Story of Dead Man's Chest

2006

as Self

8.4

Dead Fish

2005

as Frank Rosenheim (as Kevin R. McNally)

5.4

The Phantom of the Opera

as Buquet

De-Lovely

as Gerald Murphy

Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl

as Joshamee Gibbs

Johnny English

as Prime Minister

Crust

as Bill Simmonds

Conspiracy

as Martin Luther

High Heels and Low Lifes

2001

as Mason

6.1

The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: My First Adventure

2000

as Walter Harris (archive footage)

When the Sky Falls

as Tom Hamilton

Entrapment

as Haas

Sliding Doors

as Paul

Spice World

as Policeman

The Precious Blood

as Billy McVea

The Smiths

1995

as Clive Smith

Eleven Men Against Eleven

1995

as Jake Leach

6.3

Return to Blood River

1994

as Terry

All Things Bright and Beautiful

as Tommy O'Neill

Abraham

as Nahor

A Masculine Ending

as Andrew Gardner

Common Pursuit

Stalin

as Kirov

Jekyll & Hyde

as Sergeant Hornby

Murder East - Murder West

1990

as Regine's Boyfriend in the East

6.0

The Robbie Coltrane Special

1989

as Self

6.0

Dream Baby

1989

as Slick

The Hangover

1989

as Colin

Thin Air

1988

as Mark Gentian

Cry Freedom

1987

as Ken

7.0

The Berlin Affair

1985

as Heinz von Hollendorf

5.2

Not Quite Paradise

1985

as Pete

4.8

Doctor Who: The Twin Dilemma

as Hugo Lang

The Bad Sister

as Tony

Enigma

as Bruno

Commitments

as Hugh

Praying Mantis

as Bernard

The Long Good Friday

as Irish Youth

Where the Heart Is

as Paul

The Spy Who Loved Me

1977

as HMS Ranger Crewman

6.8

The Paradise Run

1976

as Johnny

The Chester Mystery Plays

1976

Reflections

as Sid

Death on the Dearborn

as Sheriff Wilson

The Devil Is In The Detail

as Apollyon

Television (74)

Miss Austen

as Mr. Austen

Stonehouse

as Harold Wilson

The Wingfeather Saga

as Podo Helmer

Alex Rider

as Max Grendel

Catherine the Great

as Alexei Orlov

Das Boot

as Jack Greenwood

Das Boot

as Greenwood Senior

The Outpost

as The Blacksmith

The ABC Murders

as Inspector Japp

The Good Fight

as Franz Mendelssohn

Designated Survivor

as Harris Cochrane

The Crown

as Bernard Ingham

Fleabag

as Older Man

Power Monkeys

as Spencer

Unforgotten

as James Hollis

TURN: Washington's Spies

2014

as Judge Richard Woodhull

7.1

Endeavour

2013

as Kenny / Superintendent Jolliphant

The Mill

as Mr. Timperley

Count Arthur Strong

as Ernest

Room at the Top

as Mr. Brown

Last Man Standing

Celebrity Antiques Road Trip

2011

as Self - Participant

Downton Abbey

as Horace Bryant

Wuthering Heights

as Mr Earnshaw

Demons

Big Top

as Dad

Burn Notice

as James Vanek

The Alan Titchmarsh Show

2007

as Self

3.7

Movie Connections

2007

as Self

Life on Mars

as Harry Woolf

Supernatural

as Frank Devereaux

Doctor Who

as Professor Jericho

Bloodlines

as James Hopkin

New Tricks

as Fred Blackledge

American Idol

as Self

Spooks

as Robert Osborne

Shackleton

as Frank Worsley

as Russian Agent

Bedtime

as Simon

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation

as Steven Watt

Up Rising

Midsomer Murders

as Orville Tudway

Dad

as Alan Hook

Underworld

Silent Witness

as Professor Peter Cherry

7.5

Frontiers

1996

as Supt. Graham Kirsten

Ghosts

as Craig Byatt

Chiller

as Jack Taylor

Jo Brand Through the Cakehole

Abraham

as Nahor

Full Stretch

as Baz Levick

Pebble Mill

as Self

Bottom

as Sex Shop Assistant

Murder Most Horrid

as Inspector Turner

Tygo Road

as Adam Hartley

A Bit of Fry & Laurie

Act of Will

as Vincent Crowther

This Morning

as Self

The Contract

as Johnny Donoghue

Hard Cases

1988

as Richard Pearce

The New Statesman

as Colonel Gromyko

Casualty

as Tom Bennod

Screen Two

as Stuart Thorn

Diana

as Jan (John) Leigh

Masada

as Norbanus

Minder

as Richards

I, Claudius

as Castor

I, Claudius

as Castor

The Duchess of Duke Street

Poldark

as Drake Carne

Survivors

as Jeff Kane

BBC Play of the Month

Doctor Who

as Hugo Lang

Z-Cars

Crew (4)

Movies (2)

Exterminate

2023

Director

Pirates of the Caribbean: Secrets of the Lamp

Thanks

Television (2)

Lock, Stock...

Writer

Minder

Writer