Des McAleer is a Belfast born actor of film, TV and stage.

Filmography

• How to Get to Heaven from Belfast — Father William
• 2023Handmade - A Tale of Stop-motion — Narrator
• Hope Street — Barry Pettigrew
• 2019Out of Innocence — Père O'Reilly
• Death and Nightingales — Jim Rutledge
• 2018The Children Act — Jim the Porter
• My Mother and Other Strangers — Ned Hanlon
• 2016National Theatre Live: The Seagull — Shamrayev
• The Crown — Philip Kinghorn Burbidge
• 2014North — Richard
• 2013How I Live Now — Major McEvoy
• 2011My Week with Marilyn — Senior Policeman
• Wuthering Heights — Joseph
• 2008Hunger — Mr Sands
• 2006Nuremberg: Goering's Last Stand — Col. Burton C. Andrus
• 2006The Penalty King — Denis Cleghorn
• 2005Deadlines — Jim Prager
• 2000An Everlasting Piece — Mr. Black
• 2000When the Sky Falls
• 1999Angela's Ashes — Mr. Benson
• 1998I Want You — Flowers Salesman
• Picking Up the Pieces — Bill Tansey
• 1998Titanic Town — Finbar
• 1997This Is the Sea — Inspector Wilson
• Touching Evil — DCI Frank Dolland
• Safe And Sound — Tommy Delaney
• Silent Witness
• 1995Butterfly Kiss — Eric McDermott
• 1995Life After Life — Paddy John O'Neill
• 1994Family — Ray Harris
• Between the Lines
• Heartbeat — Matt Rawlings
• Roy's Raiders — Gavin Bailey
• Trainer — Joe Hogan
• 1990Hidden Agenda — Sgt Kennedy
• 1990Shoot to Kill — CID Supt. Jimmy Richards
• The Paradise Club — DCS Flemyng
• 1988Coppers
• 1988Crossfire — Dermot Shea
• Casualty — Dave McGann
• 1986No Man's Land
• Screen Two — Paddy John O'Neill
• 1984Anne Devlin — James Hope
• 1984Four Days in July — Eugene
• The Bill
• 1983The Schooner — Boatman
• 1983The Writing on the Wall — Major Bond
• 1980Juno and the Paycock — 1st Furniture Removal Man

Appearances as themselves (1)

• 2019Lost Lives — Self (voice)