Release CalendarTop 250 MoviesMost Popular MoviesBrowse Movies by GenreTop Box OfficeShowtimes & TicketsMovie NewsIndia Movie Spotlight
    What's on TV & StreamingTop 250 TV ShowsMost Popular TV ShowsBrowse TV Shows by GenreTV News
    What to WatchLatest TrailersIMDb OriginalsIMDb PicksIMDb SpotlightIMDb Podcasts
    OscarsCannes Film FestivalStar WarsAsian Pacific American Heritage MonthSummer Watch GuideSTARmeter AwardsAwards CentralFestival CentralAll Events
    Born TodayMost Popular CelebsCelebrity News
    Help CenterContributor ZonePolls
For Industry Professionals
  • Language
  • Fully supported
  • English (United States)
    Partially supported
  • Français (Canada)
  • Français (France)
  • Deutsch (Deutschland)
  • हिंदी (भारत)
  • Italiano (Italia)
  • Português (Brasil)
  • Español (España)
  • Español (México)
Watchlist
Sign In
  • Fully supported
  • English (United States)
    Partially supported
  • Français (Canada)
  • Français (France)
  • Deutsch (Deutschland)
  • हिंदी (भारत)
  • Italiano (Italia)
  • Português (Brasil)
  • Español (España)
  • Español (México)
Use app
  • Biography
  • Trivia
IMDbPro

Frankie McCafferty

  • Actor
  • Director
  • Writer
IMDbProStarmeterSee rank
Frankie McCafferty
Based on Martin McGartland's shocking real life story, Martin is a young lad from west Belfast in the late 1980s who is recruited by the British Police to spy on the IRA. Film stars Jim Sturgess, Ben Kingsley, Kevin Zegers and Rose McGowan.
Play trailer1:44
Fifty Dead Men Walking (2008)
2 Videos
16 Photos
Frankie McCafferty was born in 1967 in County Donegal, Ireland. He is an actor and director, known for Philomena (2013), Vikings (2013) and Ripper Street (2012).
Born1967
  • More at IMDbPro
    • Contact info
    • Agent info
    • Resume
Born1967
IMDbProStarmeterSee rank
  • View contact info at IMDbPro

    • Photos16

    View Poster
    View Poster
    View Poster
    View Poster
    View Poster
    View Poster
    View Poster
    + 9
    View Poster

    Known for

    Judi Dench and Steve Coogan in Philomena (2013)
    Philomena
    7.6
    • Barman
    • 2013
    Travis Fimmel in Vikings (2013)
    Vikings
    8.5
    TV Series
    • Sinric
    Jerome Flynn and Matthew Macfadyen in Ripper Street (2012)
    Ripper Street
    8.1
    TV Series
    • Hotel Manager
    Hugh Bonneville, Amelia Bullmore, Vincent Franklin, Jessica Hynes, Olivia Colman, and Karl Theobald in Twenty Twelve (2011)
    Twenty Twelve
    7.7
    TV Series
    • Brian McLoughlin

    Credits

    Edit
    IMDbPro

    Actor

    • Paddy Considine and Christina Hendricks in Small Town, Big Story (2025)
      Small Town, Big Story
      6.1
      TV Series
      • Patient Rory
      • 2025
    • Say Nothing (2024)
      Say Nothing
      8.2
      TV Mini Series
      • Squire
      • 2024
    • Nathan Braniff, Katherine Devlin, and Sian Brooke in Blue Lights (2023)
      Blue Lights
      8.1
      TV Series
      • Barney
      • 2023–2024
    • Tamera Mowry-Housley, Risteard Cooper, and Marco Grazzini in Haunted Harmony Mysteries: Murder in G Major (2023)
      Haunted Harmony Mysteries: Murder in G Major
      7.1
      TV Movie
      • Coroner
      • 2023
    • Clean Sweep (2023)
      Clean Sweep
      6.5
      TV Series
      • Voice of Adam Vance (voice)
      • 2023
    • End You (2022)
      End You
      Short
      • Fergal
      • 2022
    • Nicola Coughlan, Louisa Harland, and Saoirse-Monica Jackson in Derry Girls (2018)
      Derry Girls
      8.5
      TV Series
      • Jackie
      • 2022
    • Ruthless (2021)
      Ruthless
      6.6
      Short
      • Scoby
      • 2021
    • Olivia Cooke, Ben Hardy, and Daryl McCormack in Pixie (2020)
      Pixie
      5.9
      • Father McGinley
      • 2020
    • Brian Gleeson in Resistance (2019)
      Resistance
      7.4
      TV Mini Series
      • Father Gabriel Leonard
      • 2019
    • The Invention (2018)
      The Invention
      7.5
      Short
      • Charlie
      • 2018
    • Matthew Rhys, Liam Ward, Ann Skelly, and Billy Winters in Death and Nightingales (2018)
      Death and Nightingales
      6.4
      TV Mini Series
      • Tommy Martin
      • 2018
    • The Mean and the Greene (2018)
      The Mean and the Greene
      • Security
      • 2018
    • Jessie Buckley, Carl Tibbetts, Olivia Vinall, and Ben Hardy in The Woman in White (2018)
      The Woman in White
      6.8
      TV Mini Series
      • Proprietor
      • 2018
    • Travis Fimmel in Vikings (2013)
      Vikings
      8.5
      TV Series
      • Sinric
      • 2015–2017

    Director

    • The Devil
      Short
      • Director
      • 2005
    • Cillian Murphy in Filleann an Feall (2000)
      Filleann an Feall
      6.7
      Short
      • Director
      • 2000
    • Brood, a Poem by Ian Kilroy
      TV Movie
      • Director
      • 1997

    Videos2

    Season 2 Trailer
    Trailer 0:33
    Season 2 Trailer
    Fifty Dead Men Walking
    Trailer 1:44
    Fifty Dead Men Walking
    Fifty Dead Men Walking
    Trailer 1:44
    Fifty Dead Men Walking

    Personal details

    Edit
    • Alternative names
      • Pronsias MacEachantaig
    • Born
      • 1967
      • County Donegal, Ireland

    Did you know

    Edit
    • Trivia
      He is one of ten children - he has five brothers and four sisters.

    Related news

    Contribute to this page

    Suggest an edit or add missing content
    • Learn more about contributing
    Edit page

    More to explore

    Recently viewed

    Please enable browser cookies to use this feature. Learn more.
    Get the IMDb app
    Sign in for more accessSign in for more access
    Follow IMDb on social
    Get the IMDb app
    For Android and iOS
    Get the IMDb app
    • Help
    • Site Index
    • IMDbPro
    • Box Office Mojo
    • License IMDb Data
    • Press Room
    • Advertising
    • Jobs
    • Conditions of Use
    • Privacy Policy
    • Your Ads Privacy Choices
    IMDb, an Amazon company

    © 1990-2025 by IMDb.com, Inc.