Francis Magee (born 7 June 1959) is an Irish actor. He portrayed Liam Tyler in British soap opera EastEnders from 1993 to 1995. He has also appeared in numerous television shows and feature films, including Sahara (2005), Layer Cake (2004) and The Calling (2000). He played the part of Ordgar, the Housecarl who led the Crowhurst contingent, in 1066 The Battle for Middle Earth (2009), a reconstruction of the year of the three battles from the English perspective. He was raised in Ireland and on the Isle of Man. He spent eight years as a fisherman before becoming an actor and has also been a member of several music groups including Namoza - who released four singles and an album - and Disco D'Oro. He studied acting at the Poor School at London's Kings Cross.

Filmography

• 2027Villains — Victor Toomey
• 2026Banshee — Pádraig
• 2026Rose of Nevada — Murgey
• 2026Wrath of the Gods — Tulloch
• Murder Before Evensong — Edgy
• Pushers — Lennie
• 2025The Damned — Skuli
• 2024Kiss of the Con Queen — Cillian Donahill
• 2023My House — Don
• 2023The Licensed Fool — The Man With Tiny Eyes
• Then You Run — Turi
• 2022As a Prelude to Fear — Detective Barnbrook
• Desperate Measures — Mal Taylor
• 2022Pedro, Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea — Talbot
• The Tourist — Frank McDonnell
• Kin — Bren Kinsella
• 2021The Tide — Skipper
• 2021Zack Snyder's Justice League — Ancient King of Men
• White Lines — Clint Collins
• Brassic — Big Joe Blane
• 2019Extinction
• 2019The Dig — Murphy
• The Witcher — Yurga
• Death and Nightingales — Mickey Dolphin
• 2018I Made This For You — Dad
• 2018Winterlong — Francis
• Absentia — Lester Nowicki
• 2017Bless Me Father — Michael
• GameFace — Dad
• 2017Justice League — Ancient King of Men
• 2016Rogue One: A Star Wars Story — Grizzly Rebel
• Witless — Willy Whelan
• 2015Casanova — Balbi
• Casanova — Balbi
• Humans — Tex
• No Offence — Shane Mercy
• The Bastard Executioner — Absolon
• The Coroner — George James
• The Frankenstein Chronicles — Spence
• X Company — Thierry
• 2014Blood Cells — Cormac
• 2014Glory Days — Jake Murphy
• 2014Good People — Ben Tuttrie
• 2014Jimmy's Hall — Mossie
• Outlander — Crenshaw
• The Musketeers — Hubert
• 2013House of Anubis: The Touchstone of Ra — Victor Rodenmaar Jr.
• The Bible — Saul
• WPC 56 — Brendan McCormack
• Ripper Street — Davies
• Black Mirror — Parn Heidekker
• Death in Paradise — Stevie Smith
• Game of Thrones — Yoren
• House of Anubis — Victor Rodenmaar Jr.
• 2011If You Have No Place to Cry — Luis
• The Body Farm — Barney Quinn
• The Fades — Dr. Tremlett
• Vera — Benny
• Zen — Giulio / Avel Vasko
• 2010Amphibious Creature of the Deep — Jimmy Kudrow
• 2010Brighton Rock — Pavement Photographer
• 2010Cemetery Junction — Mr. Pearson
• 2010Perrier's Bounty — Hank
• 2010Worried About the Boy — Jerry O'Dowd
• 1066: The Battle for Middle Earth — Ordgar
• 2009London River — Inspecteur anglais
• Misfits — Dan
• 2009The Last Breath — Paul Kelvin
• City of Vice — Saunders Welch
• Inspector George Gently — Chief Constable Lilley
• 2008The Crew — Dermot
• 2006A Harlot's Progress — James Dalton
• New Street Law — Frank Halcroft
• 2005Sahara — Fuse Cutter
• 2005Trafalgar Battle Surgeon — William Beatty
• Hustle — Journalist
• 2004Layer Cake — Paul
• No Angels — Leslie McManus
• 2003Alibi — Sgt. Powell
• Buried — Ronaldo
• 2003Holy Cross — Flag Man
• 2003I'll Sleep When I'm Dead — Algar, Foreman
• Peep Show — Russell
• The Royal — Alex Heath
• Born and Bred — James Falkner
• 2002Butterfly Man — Joey
• Footballers' Wives — DC Simmonds
• Lenny Blue — Connor
• 2002Stranded — Pickles
• Stranded — Pickles
• In Deep — Ronnie Sharkey
• Murphy's Law — DCS Warren
• 2001The Bombmaker — O'Keefe
• Waking the Dead — Gordon Christie
• 2000Britannic — Reilly
• 2000Don Quixote — Ginisella de Parapille
• 2000The Calling — Carmac
• 2000Undertaker's Paradise
• 1999All the King's Men — Able Seaman
• Bad Girls — Rob Skelton
• 1998Still Crazy — Hockney
• 1998Written in Blood — Dr McRayer
• Midsomer Murders — Smudgepot
• 1995The Hurting — Wease
• 99-1 — Balaclava
• Moving Story — Scurve
• Time After Time — Villian
• A Touch of Frost — Rod Bainbridge
• Heartbeat — Stannard, Ken Rawson
• Casualty — Norris
• The Bill — David Crossley
• Dog & Bull
• The Resonance — Benny

Appearances as themselves (1)

• Anubis Unlocked — Self