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
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 Date:2024-11-07
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:3
Vote Count:495
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.
Release Date:2023-04-27
Department:Production
Job:Executive Producer
Episode Count:6
Vote Count:422
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 Date:2019-10-24
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:1981
Hard Sun
Two detectives with opposing viewpoints are partnered together five years before the Apocalypse.
Release Date:2018-01-06
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:2
Vote Count:58
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 Date:2014-05-11
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:4
Vote Count:1378
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 Date:2013-05-02
Department:Directing
Job:Director
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 Date:2013-04-03
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:1
Vote Count:56
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 Date:2012-01-29
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:2
Vote Count:62
Great Expectations
The life of an orphan is changed by the providential intervention of a mysterious benefactor.
Release Date:2011-12-27
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:3
Vote Count:93
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 Date:2011-04-17
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Character:Self
Episode Count:3
Vote Count:24637
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 Date:2010-09-19
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:1
Vote Count:1099
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 Date:2010-05-04
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:2
Vote Count:1059
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 Date:2009-07-20
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:4
Vote Count:6
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 Date:2009-02-08
Department:Production
Job:Producer
Vote Count:114
My Boy Jack
Author Rudyard Kipling and his wife search for their 17-year-old son after he goes missing during WWI.
Release Date:2007-11-11
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:75
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 Date:2007-04-01
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:2
Vote Count:740
The Riches
A family of crooks assume the identity of an upper-middle-class suburban clan in the Deep South.
Release Date:2007-03-12
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:2
Vote Count:53
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 Date:2006-10-01
Department:Crew
Job:Compositor
Vote Count:13
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 Date:2006-07-09
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:2
Vote Count:49
Middletown
An overzealous priest returns to his home town and ends up battling against his brother for the heart of the locals.
Release Date:2006-04-28
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:4
When Billie Beat Bobby
The historic 1973 tennis match between middle-aged champion Bobby Riggs and young feminist Billie Jean King.
Release Date:2001-04-16
Department:Sound
Job:Original Music Composer
Vote Count:15
The Fisherwoman
A widowed fisherman, while trapped in a Minnesota blizzard, interrupts the kidnapping of a teenager and soon finds she is the young victim’s only hope.
Department:Directing
Job:Director
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 Date:2006-10-01
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:1
Vote Count:4517
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 Date:2005-10-23
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:11
Vote Count:5
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 Date:2003-09-23
Department:Sound
Job:Music
Episode Count:1
Vote Count:2320
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 Date:2002-12-12
Department:Directing
Job:Director
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 Date:2002-05-20
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:2
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 Date:2001-09-24
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:4
Vote Count:14
Billy and Zorba
In a Scottish fishing village squeezed between sea and bluffs, a single mom 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 Date:1999-08-22
Department:Directing
Job:Director
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 Date:1998-01-01
Department:Directing
Job:Director