Brian Kirk
Brian Kirk was born in 1968 in Armagh, Ireland. He is a director and producer, known for Game of Thrones (2011), My Boy Jack (2007) and Luther (2010).
Works
NCIS
From murder and espionage to terrorism and stolen submarines, a team of special agents investigates any crime that has a shred of evidence connected to Navy and Marine Corps personnel, regardless of rank or position.
Release Date2003-09-23
DepartmentSound
JobMusic
Episode Count1
Vote Count2376
Game of Thrones
Seven noble families fight for control of the mythical land of Westeros. Friction between the houses leads to full-scale war. All while a very ancient evil awakens in the farthest north. Amidst the war, a neglected military order of misfits, the Night's Watch, is all that stands between the realms of men and icy horrors beyond.
Release Date2011-04-17
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count3
Vote Count25243
Dexter
Dexter Morgan, a blood spatter pattern analyst for the Miami Metro Police also leads a secret life as a serial killer, hunting down criminals who have slipped through the cracks of justice.
Release Date2006-10-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count1
Vote Count4738
The Day of the Jackal
An unrivalled and highly elusive lone assassin, the Jackal, makes his living carrying out hits for the highest fee. But following his latest kill, he meets his match in a tenacious British intelligence officer who starts to track down the Jackal in a thrilling cat-and-mouse chase across Europe, leaving destruction in its wake.
Release Date2024-11-07
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count3
Vote Count677
Boardwalk Empire
Atlantic City at the dawn of Prohibition is a place where the rules don't apply. And the man who runs things -- legally and otherwise -- is the town's treasurer, Enoch "Nucky" Thompson, who is equal parts politician and gangster.
Release Date2010-09-19
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count1
Vote Count1146
Rogue
Grace, a morally and emotionally-conflicted undercover detective, is tormented by the possibility that her own actions contributed to her son’s death. Grace’s search for the truth is further complicated by her forbidden relationship with Jimmy, the crime boss who may have played a hand in the crime.
Release Date2013-04-03
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count1
Vote Count57
Luther
A dark psychological crime drama starring Idris Elba as Luther, a man struggling with his own terrible demons, who might be as dangerous as the depraved murderers he hunts.
Release Date2010-05-04
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count2
Vote Count1101
Citadel
What if you lost your memory? What if a spy didn’t know they were a spy? Years ago, the top agents of Citadel, Mason Kane and Nadia Sinh, had their minds wiped. But, they’re called back to action as sinister forces emerge from the past. With the help of spymaster Bernard Orlick, these former lovers must remember the past to save the future. Part 2 of the Citadel Universe (1. Honey Bunny, 2. Citadel S1, 3. Citadel:Diana)
Release Date2023-04-27
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Episode Count6
Vote Count445
The Tudors
The Tudors is a history-based drama series following the young, vibrant King Henry VIII, a competitive and lustful monarch who navigates the intrigues of the English court and the human heart with equal vigor and justifiable suspicion.
Release Date2007-04-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count2
Vote Count765
Penny Dreadful
Some of literature's most terrifying characters, including Dr. Frankenstein, Dorian Gray, and iconic figures from the novel Dracula are lurking in the darkest corners of Victorian London. Penny Dreadful is a frightening psychological thriller that weaves together these classic horror origin stories into a new adult drama.
Release Date2014-05-11
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count4
Vote Count1407
The Riches
A family of crooks assume the identity of an upper-middle-class suburban clan in the Deep South.
Release Date2007-03-12
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count2
Vote Count54
Brotherhood
A working-class Irish family rules a city built on loyalty and corruption. The Caffee brothers, Tommy, a rising politician desperate for reelection, and Michael, a hardened criminal returning from seven years on the run and eager to reclaim his turf, fight for survival on opposite sides of the law. In their ruthless quest for power, the entire Caffee family is driven to lies, betrayal and infidelity -- threatening to tear them and the city of Providence, RI apart.
Release Date2006-07-09
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count2
Vote Count53
Hard Sun
Two detectives with opposing viewpoints are partnered together five years before the Apocalypse.
Release Date2018-01-06
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count2
Vote Count59
Great Expectations
The life of an orphan is changed by the providential intervention of a mysterious benefactor.
Release Date2011-12-27
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count3
Vote Count100
Murphy's Law
Detective Sergeant Tommy Murphy is a maverick cop with a dark past. After failing a psychiatric assessment, he is given one last chance by his boss and given a dangerous undercover assignment. Murphy is a loner with little to lose and deals with everything on his own terms. This time around, however, Murphy has an ally in Detective Inspector Annie Guthrie.
Release Date2001-09-24
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count4
Vote Count16
Luck
A drama set in the world of horse racing focusing on lives of owners, jockeys, trainers and gamblers who are all tied to the same horse track.
Release Date2012-01-29
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count2
Vote Count65
21 Bridges
An embattled NYPD detective, is thrust into a citywide manhunt for a pair of cop killers after uncovering a massive and unexpected conspiracy. As the night unfolds, lines become blurred on who he is pursuing, and who is in pursuit of him.
Release Date2019-10-24
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count2025
Funland
Funland is a comedy thriller serial, produced by the BBC, about a detective who arrives in Blackpool to find the killer of his mother with only the flimsiest of clues to go on. It was first screened from 23 October 2005 to 7 November 2005, on the digital channel BBC Three. Created by Jeremy Dyson and Simon Ashdown, the series consists of a fifty-minute opening episode followed by ten half-hour installments.
Release Date2005-10-23
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count11
Vote Count6
Father & Son
Ex-gangland boss Michael O'Connor, now happily settled in rural Ireland, is forced to go back to Manchester when his son Sean is found guilty of the murder of a gang member.
Release Date2009-07-20
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count4
Vote Count7
Cherrybomb
Teenagers Luke, Malachy, and Michelle embark on a wild weekend of drink, drugs, shop-lifting and stealing cars. But what starts out as a game turns deadly serious when the three discover that they can't get off the wild ride they've set in motion.
Release Date2009-02-08
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Vote Count116
My Boy Jack
Author Rudyard Kipling and his wife search for their 17-year-old son after he goes missing during WWI.
Release Date2007-11-11
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count76
Any Time Now
Nora, Kate, and Stevie have made it into their thirties, they live in Dublin, and they are all aware that the new Millennium has hurtled past, nothing much has changed, and it's about time they got a life. They have a combined age of 99. Between them they have slept with 47 men, broken 11 hearts, drunk approximately 5,000 pints, bought one house, buried two parents, failed one marriage, and produced one baby. They've been friends long enough to think they always will be...
Release Date2002-05-20
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count2
Max Steel: Countdown
Max Steel and Dr. Roberto "'Berto" Martinez, working for the global anti-terrorist organization N-Tek, have finally managed to locate their former enemy Psycho's base. Once inside, Max finds a device called the "Imploder": A machine that condenses all surrounding matter into a miniature black hole. Before Max can retrieve the machine, he's ambushed by hundreds of androids. A battle ensues, but 'Berto manages to remotely shut the androids down, saving Max's life.
Release Date2006-10-01
DepartmentCrew
JobCompositor
Vote Count13
The Dead of Winter
A widowed fisherwoman, while trapped in a Minnesotan blizzard, interrupts the kidnapping of a teenager and soon finds she is the young victim's only hope.
Release Date2025-08-08
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
When Billie Beat Bobby
The historic 1973 tennis match between middle-aged champion Bobby Riggs and young feminist Billie Jean King.
Release Date2001-04-16
DepartmentSound
JobOriginal Music Composer
Vote Count15
Gilded Lilys
Set in 1895, show revolves around the opening of the first luxury hotel in New York City and all the intermingling of love, treachery, and disdain between the classes set against a backdrop of vicious family rivalries, scandalous secrets, and conflict and co-mingling of classes.
Release Date2013-05-02
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Middletown
Having spent most of his life in religious instruction, Gabriel returns to his hometown as its new preacher. The town is full of drinkers and gamblers, including Jim and Caroline, his younger brother and sister-in-law. Gabriel believes he must save the townspeople, especially Jim and Caroline and their unborn child. In the battle to save their souls, some amazing revelations take place.
Release Date2007-03-02
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count4
Baby Doll
1973, Heather is a 14-year old girl who is impatient to be a woman. She has one eye on her mother's baby doll nightie and the other on her best friend's dad. However, on a holiday weekend, she discovers the difference between dressing up and growing up and is forced to make a choice about what she really wants.
Release Date1998-01-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Billy and Zorba
In a Scottish fishing village squeezed between sea and bluffs, a single mum named Mhairi has accepted an offer from her boyfriend Black to move to the city to live with him: more opportunities for her and for her son Billy.
Release Date1999-08-22
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Here's Johnny
Camping out by a disused tunnel. Kirsty winds Jamie up with horror stories about the mysterious hunter Johnny. A nasty shock lies in wait for both of them when Kirsty lures Jamie into the tunnel to look for the bodies of Johnny’s victims.
Release Date1996-08-18
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Do Armed Robbers Have Love Affairs?
An aging criminal, about to pull an armed robbery,reflects on a friend of his: a fellow criminal, who lost his life in a recent robbery attempt,on a woman whom he's been seeing and for whom he has strong feelings and whether or not he should go ahead with the present crime.
Release Date2002-12-12
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector