Martin McCann

Martin McCann

Martin McCann grew up with a brother and sister in the Divis Flats area of Falls Road in Belfast. In 2006 Lord Richard Attenborough cast McCann in his film after seeing him play Alex in a stage production of A Clockwork Orange. Attenborough called Spielberg and recommended McCann. He was invited to LA to audition for 'The Pacific' HBO miniseries, Attenborough sent along scenes from his film for Spielberg to view. McCann was cast in The Pacific as R.V. Burgin. In early 2010 he filmed in Belfast for the new music-comedy Killing Bono, a film about the life of one of Bono's classmates who tries to make it in the music business, only to have his failures and frustrations magnified by the continued rise U2. McCann plays the role of Bono. He has performed on stage in Ireland and on tour. In 2011 Martin won the Irish Film and Television Award for best male performance in a feature film, the nominees in the category were fellow northern Irish man Liam Neeson, Cillian Murphy and Colm Meaney. Martin has become Patron of the charity YouthAction Northern Ireland.

  • Popularity : 4.269
  • Known For : Acting
  • Birthday : 1983-07-20
  • Place of Birth : Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK
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Martin McCann Movies

  • 2009
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    Swansong: Story of Occi Byrne

    Swansong: Story of Occi Byrne

    6.3 2009 HD

    Born in London to single mum Bridget, Austin Byrne returns with her to her hometown in Ireland as a very young boy and learns that, from family to...

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  • 2007
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    Closing the Ring

    Closing the Ring

    6.1 2007 HD

    During the 1940s, a group of young men go off to war, leaving behind Ethel Ann, who is in love with one of them, Teddy. In modern-day Belfast, a man...

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  • 2011
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    Killing Bono

    Killing Bono

    6.3 2011 HD

    The true story of Neil and Ivan McCormick, two Irish brothers who attempt to become rock stars but can only look on as their high school friends U2...

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  • 2012
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    Shadow Dancer

    Shadow Dancer

    5.9 2012 HD

    In 1990s Belfast, a woman is forced to betray all she believes in for the sake of her son.

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  • 2021
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    Just Johnny

    Just Johnny

    1 2021 HD

    Maria, Dermot, and their son Johnny live in West Belfast. Their conventional, straightforward family life is jolted when Johnny tells his Mum that he...

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  • 2012
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    Jump

    Jump

    6 2012 HD

    The lives of four twenty-somethings collide one fateful New Year's Eve in this twisty, blackly comic crime thriller set amidst the ancient walls of...

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  • 2011
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    Whole Lotta Sole

    Whole Lotta Sole

    5.3 2011 HD

    In a misguided attempt to protect his family and pay back gambling debts to the local Mobster, Jimbo robs a fish market, which is coincidentally...

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  • 2012
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    Coward

    Coward

    6.9 2012 HD

    Coward is a 28 minute film set during World War 1 that brings to light some of the brutal treatment soldiers received for suffering what would now be...

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  • 1970
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    The Fight

    The Fight

    1 1970 HD

    Two men, who live in the same city but experience vastly different struggles, are drawn into a fight.

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  • 2021
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    Wolf

    Wolf

    5.2 2021 HD

    Jacob, a man who believes he is a wolf trapped in a human body, is sent to a clinic by his family where he is forced to undergo increasingly extreme...

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  • 2014
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    X+Y

    X+Y

    6.7 2014 HD

    A socially awkward teenage math prodigy finds new confidence and new friendships when he lands a spot on the British squad at the International...

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  • 2014
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    '71

    '71

    6.794 2014 HD

    A young British soldier must find his way back to safety after his unit accidentally abandons him during a riot in the streets of Belfast.

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  • 2014
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    Boogaloo and Graham

    Boogaloo and Graham

    6.4 2014 HD

    In 1970's Belfast two young boys discover the facts of life aided by the help of their pet chickens.

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  • 2007
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    My Boy Jack

    My Boy Jack

    6.6 2007 HD

    Author Rudyard Kipling and his wife search for their 17-year-old son after he goes missing during WWI.

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  • 2015
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    The Survivalist

    The Survivalist

    6.226 2015 HD

    In a time of starvation, a survivalist lives off a small plot of land hidden deep in forest. When two women seeking food and shelter discover his...

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  • 2015
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    The Rezort

    The Rezort

    5.5 2015 HD

    The ReZort, a post apocalyptic safari, offers paying guests the opportunity to kill zombies in the wake of an outbreak.

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  • 2023
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    Last Sentinel

    Last Sentinel

    5.488 2023 HD

    Set in the future on a war-ravaged Earth, four exhausted soldiers man Sentinel - a remote military base in a vast ocean that separates two warring...

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  • 2014
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    Magpie

    Magpie

    5.8 2014 HD

    A man lives in a forest, surviving through murder and deceit. When he finds himself drawn to two strangers, his strict code of self-preservation is...

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  • 2016
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    My Name Is Emily

    My Name Is Emily

    6.8 2016 HD

    Packed off to a foster home after her father is insti­tu­tion­al­ized, a rebellious young Irish girl resolves to bust her dad out of...

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  • 2017
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    Lost in London

    Lost in London

    5.948 2017 HD

    Within the course of a night, Woody Harrelson finds himself in a misadventure in London that winds him up in prison.

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  • 2017
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    Maze

    Maze

    5.812 2017 HD

    Inspired by the true events of the infamous 1983 prison breakout of 38 IRA prisoners from HMP Maze, which was to become the biggest prison escape in...

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  • 2010
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    Hollow

    Hollow

    1 2010 HD

    Award winning director Rob Sorrenti's latest short film 'Hollow' is a sensitive observation about the nature of addiction.

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  • 2017
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    Red Light

    Red Light

    3.3 2017 HD

    Having to move away due to his job, a kind man tries to convince his friend, a young prostitute, to stop working and run away with him - But all may...

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  • 2018
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    Calibre

    Calibre

    6.5 2018 HD

    Two lifelong friends head up to an isolated Scottish Highlands village for a weekend hunting trip that descends into a never-ending nightmare as they...

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  • 2016
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    Bobby Sands: 66 Days

    Bobby Sands: 66 Days

    7.1 2016 HD

    By the early 1980s, after two decades of violence and unrest, the situation in Northern Ireland took a sudden and profound turn inside the infamous...

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  • 2019
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    The Informer

    The Informer

    6.524 2019 HD

    In New York, former convict Pete Koslow, related to the Polish mafia, must deal with both Klimek the General, his ruthless boss, and the twisted...

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  • 2017
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    Cry Rosa

    Cry Rosa

    1 2017 HD

    A music obsessed mixed-race girl questions her identity when she becomes the victim of bullying in 1980s Belfast.

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  • 2009
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    Scapegoat

    Scapegoat

    1 2009 HD

    This is the fascinating true life story of one of Ireland's most famous unsolved murders. It is the tale of how an innocent man was found guilty but...

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  • 2016
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    Property of the State

    Property of the State

    7.3 2016 HD

    A woman must deal with the devastating effects of having a murderer for a brother.

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  • 2018
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    Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea

    Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea

    1 2018 HD

    After his best friend disappears following a violent argument, a troubled marine must wrestle with his identity and guilty conscience.

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  • 2018
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    Justice Dot Net

    Justice Dot Net

    4.3 2018 HD

    Jake De Long is one of the top computer programmers in the world. Hiding in an abandoned warehouse in Luxembourg, he is working on a secret website...

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  • 2019
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    Lost Lives

    Lost Lives

    6 2019 HD

    This poignant testament to the physical and emotional cost of war, centres on the Troubles in Northern Ireland.

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  • 2019
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    Stalker

    Stalker

    1 2019 HD

    In the remote Scottish Highlands an aging stalker sets his wits and grit against a poacher who is taking the heads of his best stags.

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  • 2021
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    Wildfire

    Wildfire

    6.5 2021 HD

    The story of two sisters who grew up on the fractious Irish border. When one of them, who has been missing, finally returns home, the intense bond...

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  • 2019
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    Father Father

    Father Father

    1 2019 HD

    Father James must decide what kind of a "Father" God wants him to be?

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  • 2022
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    Here Before

    Here Before

    5.8 2022 HD

    Haunted by the death of her young daughter, a distraught woman develops an all-consuming obsession with a girl she believes is her reincarnated child.

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  • 2010
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    Clash of the Titans

    Clash of the Titans

    5.909 2010 HD

    Born of a god but raised as a man, Perseus is helpless to save his family from Hades, vengeful god of the underworld. With nothing to lose, Perseus...

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  • 1970
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    The Way of the Wind

    The Way of the Wind

    1 1970 HD

    A dramatization of several episodes in the life of Christ.

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  • 2012
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    Titanic: Blood and Steel

    Titanic: Blood and Steel

    7 2012 HD

    Belfast, 1909. The Harland and Wolff shipyard has been handed the greatest project in its history. It will build a great, unsinkable ship. And it...

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  • 2023
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    Blue Lights

    Blue Lights

    7.5 2023 HD

    Follows rookie police officers working in Belfast, a city in which being a frontline response cop comes with unique pressures and dangers.

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  • 2011
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    Vera

    Vera

    7.4 2011 HD

    A sharp detective with a messy life, DCI Vera Stanhope patrols her “patch” of northeast England, pursuing the truth in cases of murder,...

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  • 2012
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    Ripper Street

    Ripper Street

    7.394 2012 HD

    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...

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  • 2010
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    The Pacific

    The Pacific

    7.8 2010 HD

    Track the intertwined real-life stories of three U.S. Marines – Robert Leckie, John Basilone, and Eugene Sledge – across the vast canvas...

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  • 2018
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    Death and Nightingales

    Death and Nightingales

    6.222 2018 HD

    Fermanagh, Irish countryside, 1885. On her 23rd birthday, Beth, who lives on a remote farm with Billy Winters, her tyrannical stepfather, whom she...

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  • 2018
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    On the Edge

    On the Edge

    1 2018 HD

    Drama anthology championing new film-making talent that serves up a raw slice of real life in modern Britain.

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  • 2010
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    Republic of Doyle

    Republic of Doyle

    7 2010 HD

    Jake Doyle and his ex-cop father, Malachy, run a Newfoundland detective agency. Their rugged seaside town never lacks for intriguing cases, and the...

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