Mark Doherty

Mark Doherty is an Irish actor and writer.

Disco Pigs (2001)

Pig and Runt born on the same day, in the same hospital, moments apart. Twins, all but by bloodline. Inseparable from birth, they are almost telepathic. They are one, needing no one else, inhabiting a delicate, insular and dangerous world where they make their own ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Kirsten Sheridan
CAST:  Elaine Cassidy  •  Cillian Murphy  •  Brían F. O'Byrne  •  Eleanor Methven

Pig and Runt born on the same day, in the same hospital, moments apart. Twins, all but by bloodline. Inseparable from birth, they are almost telepathic. They are one, needing no one else, inhabiting a delicate, insular and dangerous world where they make their own ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Kirsten Sheridan
CAST:  Elaine Cassidy  •  Cillian Murphy  •  Brían F. O'Byrne  •  Eleanor Methven

Albert Nobbs (2011)

DepressingHeartbreakingEmotionalThought provoking

Albert Nobbs struggles to survive in late 19th century Ireland, where women aren't encouraged to be independent. Posing as a man, so she can work as a butler in Dublin's most posh hotel, Albert meets a handsome painter and looks to escape the lie she has been living.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Rodrigo García
CAST:  Glenn Close  •  Mia Wasikowska  •  Aaron Taylor-Johnson  •  Pauline Collins

Albert Nobbs struggles to survive in late 19th century Ireland, where women aren't encouraged to be independent. Posing as a man, so she can work as a butler in Dublin's most posh hotel, Albert meets a handsome painter and looks to escape the lie she has been living.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Rodrigo García
CAST:  Glenn Close  •  Mia Wasikowska  •  Aaron Taylor-Johnson  •  Pauline Collins

Fear of Flying (2012)

A small bird with a fear of flying tries to avoid heading South for the winter.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Conor Finnegan
CAST:  Mark Doherty  •  Aoife Duffin  •  Steven Courtney

A small bird with a fear of flying tries to avoid heading South for the winter.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Conor Finnegan
CAST:  Mark Doherty  •  Aoife Duffin  •  Steven Courtney

A Film with Me in It (2008)

A dissolute scriptwriter and a dejected actor become unwittingly drawn into a labyrinthine mess when several people experience bizarre accidental deaths in their flat. Though the men didn't deliberately cause any of the incidents, they fear that they will be ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Ian Fitzgibbon
CAST:  Dylan Moran  •  Mark Doherty  •  Amy Huberman  •  Keith Allen

A dissolute scriptwriter and a dejected actor become unwittingly drawn into a labyrinthine mess when several people experience bizarre accidental deaths in their flat. Though the men didn't deliberately cause any of the incidents, they fear that they will be ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Ian Fitzgibbon
CAST:  Dylan Moran  •  Mark Doherty  •  Amy Huberman  •  Keith Allen

Mr Foley (2009)

A man wakes up in a hospital bed and has his head bandages unwrapped to find he is not alone in the room as it seems there is now no noise unless it is provided by a pair of Foley artists and a small musical troupe providing a score.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Mike Ahern  •  Enda Loughman
CAST:  Mark Doherty

A man wakes up in a hospital bed and has his head bandages unwrapped to find he is not alone in the room as it seems there is now no noise unless it is provided by a pair of Foley artists and a small musical troupe providing a score.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Mike Ahern  •  Enda Loughman
CAST:  Mark Doherty

Handsome Devil (2017)

A music-mad 16-year-old outcast at a rugby-mad boarding school forms an unlikely friendship with his dashing new roommate.  (more)

DIRECTION:  John Butler
CAST:  Fionn O'Shea  •  Nicholas Galitzine  •  Andrew Scott  •  Michael McElhatton

A music-mad 16-year-old outcast at a rugby-mad boarding school forms an unlikely friendship with his dashing new roommate.  (more)

DIRECTION:  John Butler
CAST:  Fionn O'Shea  •  Nicholas Galitzine  •  Andrew Scott  •  Michael McElhatton

The Ballad of Kid Kanturk (2009)

The film of the song immortalizing Kid Kanturk, the infamous rockabilly singing sensation. A child prodigy, Kid's story encompasses the highs of sell-out shows and the lows of incarceration for an act of cannibalism.  (more)

DIRECTION:  John Butler
CAST:  Mark Doherty  •  Garrett Keogh  •  Mikel Murfi  •  Eileen Walsh

The film of the song immortalizing Kid Kanturk, the infamous rockabilly singing sensation. A child prodigy, Kid's story encompasses the highs of sell-out shows and the lows of incarceration for an act of cannibalism.  (more)

DIRECTION:  John Butler
CAST:  Mark Doherty  •  Garrett Keogh  •  Mikel Murfi  •  Eileen Walsh

The Tree (2013)

A weary man struggles through an arid world, desperate for food, until he finds a distant apple tree.  (more)

DIRECTION:  David Freyne
CAST:  Mark Doherty  •  Jane McGrath

A weary man struggles through an arid world, desperate for food, until he finds a distant apple tree.  (more)

DIRECTION:  David Freyne
CAST:  Mark Doherty  •  Jane McGrath

100 Years of Ulysses (2022)

Paris, France, February 2, 1922. The novel Ulysses, by Irish writer James Joyce (1882-1941), is published by US poet Sylvia Beach (1887-1962), owner of the small bookstore Shakespeare & Co. The book, whose writing consumed seven years of Joyce's life, years in ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Ruán Magan
CAST:  Ann Skelly  •  Valérie Bénéjam  •  Frank Callanan  •  Geert Lernout

Paris, France, February 2, 1922. The novel Ulysses, by Irish writer James Joyce (1882-1941), is published by US poet Sylvia Beach (1887-1962), owner of the small bookstore Shakespeare & Co. The book, whose writing consumed seven years of Joyce's life, years in ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Ruán Magan
CAST:  Ann Skelly  •  Valérie Bénéjam  •  Frank Callanan  •  Geert Lernout