Cast & creator
Des McAleer
Best known for The Crown, Casualty, Silent Witness
Des McAleer is a Belfast born actor of film, TV and stage.
Also known as: دِس مکآلیر
31
film credits
18
television credits
49
1980–2026 · acting roles
7.0
average across scored titles
Signature credits
Known for
Across film & television
Filmography (49)
Showing 49 of 49 credits
The Crown
Philip Kinghorn Burbidge
2016
Casualty
Dave McGann
1986
Silent Witness
1996
The Bill
1984
Heartbeat
Matt Rawlings
1992
Screen Two
Paddy John O'Neill
1985
Between the Lines
1992
How to Get to Heaven from Belfast
Father William
2026
Hope Street
Barry Pettigrew
2021
The Paradise Club
DCS Flemyng
1989
My Week with Marilyn
Senior Policeman
2011
Hunger
Mr Sands
2008
Touching Evil
DCI Frank Dolland
1997
How I Live Now
Major McEvoy
2013
Wuthering Heights
Joseph
2009
The Children Act
Jim the Porter
2018
Angela's Ashes
Mr. Benson
1999
My Mother and Other Strangers
Ned Hanlon
2016
Death and Nightingales
Jim Rutledge
2018
I Want You
Flowers Salesman
1998
Trainer
Joe Hogan
1991Safe And Sound
Tommy Delaney
1996
Hidden Agenda
Sgt Kennedy
1990
Butterfly Kiss
Eric McDermott
1995Picking Up the Pieces
Bill Tansey
1998
This Is the Sea
Inspector Wilson
1997
When the Sky Falls
2000Roy's Raiders
Gavin Bailey
1991
The Writing on the Wall
Major Bond
1983
Lost Lives
Self (voice)
2019
National Theatre Live: The Seagull
Shamrayev
2016
Four Days in July
Eugene
1984
Nuremberg: Goering's Last Stand
Col. Burton C. Andrus
2006The Schooner
Boatman
1983
Titanic Town
Finbar
1998
North
Richard
2014
An Everlasting Piece
Mr. Black
2000
The Penalty King
Denis Cleghorn
2006
Handmade - A Tale of Stop-motion
Narrator
2023
Coppers
1988
Life After Life
Paddy John O'Neill
1995
Juno and the Paycock
1st Furniture Removal Man
1980
Shoot to Kill
CID Supt. Jimmy Richards
1990
Anne Devlin
James Hope
1984
Family
Ray Harris
1994
Out of Innocence
Père O'Reilly
2019
Deadlines
Jim Prager
2005
Crossfire
Dermot Shea
1988