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Acting

Simon McBurney

Career: Active from 1992 to 2025, with up to 2 main titles a year.

Leading roles: 9
top three billing

Average score: 66/100

Highest rated: Wolfwalkers
88/100

What stands out

Compared with the average well-known movie, over 42 of their titles. Select a trait to filter titles.

Simon McBurney Catalog average

Rarely in their work

Contemporary Realism
3.8, average 5.4
Pop Culture
1.1, average 2.2
Situational Comedy
2.0, average 2.7
Physical Comedy
1.6, average 2.4

Main genres

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Recurring tags

Character Study 4
Character-Driven 3
Political Intrigue 2
Social Commentary 2
Non-Linear Storytelling 2
Atmospheric 2
Moral Dilemma 2
Medical Drama 2

Works often with

People in at least two of their main titles.

Movies and TV shows

62

Type

Role

Score

Decade

Genre

Group by

2020s

12 titles · average score 67

The Actor

67

as Doctor Croft / Doctor Edgarton

Gardening

as Detective Danforth

Nosferatu

75

as Herr Knock

National Theatre Live: Mnemonic

Director, Writer

A Mistake

60

as Andrew McGrath

Hijack

67

TV show · as Edgar Janssen

Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead

Director

The Metropolitan Opera: The Magic Flute

Art Direction

The Pale Blue Eye

62

as Captain Hitchcock

Can I Live?

Co-Director

Siberia

51

as Magician

Wolfwalkers

88

as Lord Protector (voice)

2010s

20 titles · average score 69

Carnival Row

64

TV show · as Runyan Millworthy

The Loudest Voice

66

TV show · as Rupert Murdoch

Allied

63

as S.O.E. Official

The Conjuring 2

73

as Maurice Grosse

Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation

80

as Atlee

The Theory of Everything

76

as Frank Hawking

For Those Who Can Tell No Tales

70

as Tim Clancy

Jane Eyre

77

as Mr. Brocklehurst

The Borgias

78

TV show · as Johannes Burchart

Rev.

78

TV show · as Robert

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1

74

as Kreacher (voice)

Robin Hood

54

as Father Tancred

2000s

13 titles · average score 62

Body of Lies

60

as Garland

The Duchess

65

as Charles Fox

Mr. Bean's Holiday

57

Story, Executive Producer

The Golden Compass

52

as Fra Pavel

The Last King of Scotland

79

as British Diplomat

Friends with Money

61

as Aaron

The Manchurian Candidate

71

as Dr. Atticus Noyle

The Reckoning

51

as Stephen

Sweet Dreams

62

as Thomas

Bright Young Things

64

as Sneath

The Elephant Vanishes

Director

Eisenstein

61

as Sergei Eisenstein

1990s

14 titles · average score 58

Inside-Out

64

as Market researcher

Onegin

58

as Triquet

Cousin Bette

47

as Vauvinet

Midsomer Murders

80

TV show · as Henry Carstairs

The Ogre

78

as Brigadier

Mesmer

58

as Franz Mesmer junior

Being Human

48

as Hermas

Tom & Viv

48

as Dr. Reginald Miller

Gregory: Diary of a Nutcase

as Madman

The Crying Game

as Mick

Performance

TV show · as Pistol

Kafka

56

as Assistant Oscar

1980s

2 titles

Burning Ambition

as Martin

ScreenPlay

TV show · as Martin

1970s

1 title

Friday Night, Saturday Morning

TV show