Howard Linnane
Overview
- Ethnicity
- White / European Descent
- Age Range
- 50 - 65
- Height
- 6' 0" (1m 83cm)
- Weight
- 187lbs (85kg)
- Hair Colour
- Brown
- Eye Colour
- Blue
- Build
- Slim
Images
Credits
Year | Job Title Project Type |
Project Name Director / Company |
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2012 |
role of Father of a suicide
Film |
'Inspirations' student short (dir Grainne Keogh); Dundalk IT |
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2010 |
role of Old Man
Film |
‘Missed’ short film; commercial production (dir Maureen O’Connell) |
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2022 |
lead role of Eamonn Doyle who, with his wife, runs a garden centre where strange things are going on
Film |
'Dead and Buried' graduation film (dir Michael Coady); Dundalk IT (DkIT) |
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2008 |
role of Father
Film |
'Mother Nature's Son' TCD student short (dir Tom Rowley) |
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2018 |
role of Eamon, owner of rural roadside garage
Film |
'Pit Stop' graduation film (dir Rachel Smyth); DIT Media Arts degree |
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2017 |
lead role of Mr Bender
Film |
'Studio A' graduation film by students of Film, TV and Digital Media degree at Bath University |
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2015 |
role of Fr Michael (officiant at funeral Mass)
Film |
‘An Unlikely Obsession’ graduation film for Creative Digital Media degree, ITT (dir Alan O'Donoghue) |
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2014 |
role of husband Erik, at 42
Film |
'Denouement' NFS graduation film (dir Aaron Hennessy); National Film School (IADT-DL) |
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2011 |
role of Interviewer of job applicant
Film |
'Staff Wanted' student short (dir Emmet Dignam); Media Studies, Liberties College Dublin |
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2006 |
lead role of Walker
Film |
‘Bongo Bong' short film; commercial production (dir Ken Wardrop, for Venom Films Ltd) |
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2019 |
role of Father hugging his adult son
Music & Singing |
music vid for 'Someone Else' by Jackie Beverly (dir Siobhain Kehoe); TinyArk media agency |
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2016 |
role of Uncle Tom
Film |
'The Ladies' short film; commercial production (dir Jake McKone) for Alice Productions Ltd |
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2013 |
role of Judge
Film |
'Watch Her Disappear' short film; commercial production (dir George Hooker) |
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2021 |
role of Wallace, who is murdered on screen
Film |
'Southbound Skulls', online feature film (dir Adam Smith) |
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2020 |
Browser in public library disturbed by lead characters
Film |
'The New i', pilot episode for TV series (wr/dir Oluwafunmilayo Ayibiow, for Lafunentertainment LEL) |
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2009 |
role of Doctor
Film |
'Off My Cock’ student short (dir Ged Murray); 2nd year BA Film & Television Production, NFS/IADT-DL |
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2019 |
role of police detective in dramatised reconstruction
Film |
'Evidence of Evil' crime-doc series (Peninsula TV) |
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2012 |
role of Lecturer
Film |
'Zombie Holocaust’ student short (dir Max Ramsbottom); DIT Media Arts degree project |
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2010 |
role of Howard
Film |
‘The Holy Child of Oliver’ short film; commercial production (dir Craig C Kavanagh) |
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2021 |
role of Coroner examining human remains at crime scene in dramatised reconstruction
Film |
'Bloodline Detectives' crime-doc series (Peninsula TV) |
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2020 |
role of Frank (the father of one woman character and grandfather of the other)
Film |
'Ballcourt' graduation film (dir Heidi Kivikallio); Ballyfermot College of Further Education (BCFE) |
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2009 |
lead role of would-be time traveller Mr Who
Film |
'Mr Who?' graduation film (dir Tadeusz Cantwell): BIFE |
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2018 |
role of Enda
Film |
'Carmella' graduation short (dir Roisin Lowry); DCU MultiMedia Masters postgraduate degree project |
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2014 |
role of TV reporter
Film |
‘News Remake’ commercial short film (dir Ciaran O’Donnell) |
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2011 |
role of Tramp/Van Gogh
Film |
‘Vincent’s Picture’ short film; commercial production (dir Thomas Quain) |
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2016 |
role of Officiant at civil wedding ceremony
Film |
'Why I Married Karen' student short (dir Taofeeqat Olanlokun); 2nd year DIT Media Arts |
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2014 |
role of Doctor delivering diagnosis of Asperger's Syndrome in a small boy, to his parents
Film |
'Benjamin' DIT student short (dir Michelle Duong) |
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2012 |
role of Jessica's Father
Film |
‘Even Secret Agents Have a Bad Day’ short film; commercial production (dir Robert Browning) |
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2020 |
role of Newscaster
Film |
'News Story' graduation film (dir Conor Going); Bray Institute of Further Education (BIFE) |
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2019 |
role of plain-clothes cop in dramatised reconstruction
Film |
'Celebrity Obsession' documentary series (Peninsula TV) |
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2011 |
role of Ross (Manager)
Film |
‘Square Eyes’ TCD student short (dir Eoin Maher) |
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2010 |
role of the Laughing Pasta-eater
Film |
'The Meaning is in the Soup' short film; commercial production (dir Stephen Byrne) |
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2018 |
role of Dr Murray
Film |
'I am Conor' graduation short (dir Miriam Fitzsimons); Maynooth University |
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2011 |
lead role of Gangster
Film |
‘Grand Canal Docks’ (aka 'Shoes') TCD student short (dir Roxana Richters, Svea Haugwitz) |
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2010 |
lead role of Dr Freedman
Film |
‘Innocent Hand, Guilty Glove' student short (dir Martin Kilpatrick) for Digital Hub's Film/TV course |
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2012 |
role of Timmy (pub regular)
Film |
'No Messages' short film; commercial production (dir Cian McGarrigle) |
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2018 |
role of Referee in a soccer match
Film |
'Love Lane United' short film; commercial production (dir Jack Thornton) |
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2019 |
role of philanderer Kevin
Film |
'Burnt Out' student short (dir Rob Morton); Dun Laoghaire Further Education Institute (DFEi) |
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2019 |
role of member of small audience at concerto
Film |
'A Film', performance of Gluck's 'Melodie' (dir Bex Day, for Hot Potato Productions) |
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2012 |
role of Mordecai
Film |
‘President Jakobi (and the Unpopular Government Policy) student short (dir Alex Kavanagh); DBS Arts |
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2018 |
role of Sam (sexually abusive secondary schoolteacher)
Film |
'Into the Fog' graduation short (dir Mia Queiroz); Bray Institute of Further Education (BIFE) |
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2023 |
role of Nick, owner-manager of a small bar in Belfast city centre threatened with closure by a CPO
Film |
'The House Always Wins' (dir Eamonn O'Reilly) graduation film made by final-year students of University of Ulster BA degree in Screen Production |
on location at Madden's Bar, Berry St, Belfast |
2022 |
Diner
Film |
'The Date' (dir Miriam O’Neill Doherty) |
made by Dublin Film Makers on location in The Lord Edward, Christchurch Place, Dublin 2 |
Education
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About me
I began in filmmaking in 2004, having changed career direction in order to realise my original ambition from my student days to write and direct films after working as a lawyer both in practice and in legal education, research and training. Going the practical route to garner as much film-making experience as I could in different crewing positions in as many departments involved in the making of a film as possible, I worked on more than thirty film and tv productions - mainly short films - while doing over a dozen part-time courses in different areas of film production along the way and several courses in screen acting - initially only in order to help prepare me for directing actors later and to get on more sets, but I've since come to actually enjoy acting in interesting film projects and I've acted in over sixty so far including five in 2018, five in 2019, three in 2020, two in 2021 and one so far this year.Skills
Languages Spoken | English, French, Gaelic, German |
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Accents/Dialects | Canadian, English - London, Irish, New York, Welsh |
Additional Skills | Acting |
Highlights
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I trained properly in screen acting with John Cantwell at the Irish Film Actors Studio in Dublin (doing all his courses) and also with Vinny Murphy at Filmbase (doing his 1-day introductory workshop and later his six-week screen acting course) so as to better understand how to direct actors. I was also a participant in one of Graham Cantwell's intensive film acting workshops at The LAB. In May 2017 I was a participant on a workshop on the Michael Chekhov technique of acting at the DIT Conservatory of Music and Drama in Rathmines, given by the London-based American actress Gretchen Egolf. My most recent screen acting role was as the male lead in 'The House Always Wins' (dir Eamon O'Reilly), a graduation film made in Belfast in May 2023 by final-year students of the University of Ulster BA degree in Screen Production. I was the male lead in 'Dead and Buried' (dir Michael Coady), a pilot for a TV series made by film students on the four-year degree course in Creative Media at Dundalk IT as their graduation project between 28th March and 3rd April 2022: I played Eamonn Doyle, husband of Nuala: together they run a garden centre where strange things go on. In 2021, I was murder victim Wallace in online feature film 'Southbound Skulls' (dir Adam Smith); I also played a Coroner examining human remains at a crime scene in a dramatised reconstruction for crime-doc series 'Bloodline Detectives' (Peninsula TV). In August 2020 I played a browser in a public library disturbed by the lead characters in 'The New i', a pilot episode for a TV series (wr/dir Oluwafunmilayo Ayibiow) on which I was also the Assistant Director. In March 2020 I played father/grandfather Frank in 'Ballcourt' (wr/dir Heidi Kivikallio, prod Darragh Murphy), a graduation film by students on the film degree at Ballyfermot CFE. In January 2020 I was the newscaster in a graduation film made by BIFE students in Bray (dir Conor Going). In October 2019 I acted in a music video made by TinyArk media agency for 'Someone Else', a song written and performed by Dublin singer/musician Jackie Beverly (dir Siobhain Kehoe) . Earlier in 2019 I played plainclothes police detectives in dramatised reconstructions made by Peninsula TV for two different crime-doc series on US television: 'Celebrity Obsession' and 'Evidence of Evil' and I also had a screen role as philanderer Kevin in 'Burnt Out' (dir Rob Morton), a short film made by Media students of Dun Laoghaire Institute of Further Education that February. In November 2018 I played the role of Eamon, owner of a rural roadside garage in 'Pit Stop' (dir Rachel Smyth, prod Olivia McLoughlin), a DIT graduation short made by final-year students on the Media Arts degree course (screened at the IndieCork Festival 2019, the Ranelagh Arts Festival 2019 and the Fastnet Film Festival 2021). In July 2018 I played the role of Enda in 'Carmella', a graduation film by postgraduate students on the MultiMedia Masters degree course at DCU (dir Roisin Lowry, prod Ellie Boyle: running time 30 mins) satirising social media influencers. In April 2018 I played Dr Murray in 'I am Conor', a graduation film made by final-year Media students of Maynooth University (dir Miriam Fitzsimons) and also the Referee of a soccer match in 'Love Lane United' (dir Jack Thornton), a commercial short film. In February 2018 I played secondary schoolteacher (and convicted sex abuser) Sam in 'Into the Fog' (wr/dir Mia Queiroz), a graduation film made by final-year film students for the Diploma in the Moving Image at BIFE in Bray. In 2017 I was the male lead in 'Studio A', a graduation film by final-year students on Bath University's degree course in Film, TV and Digital Media. In July 2016 I played the role of Uncle Tom in 'The Ladies' (dir Jake McKone), a commercial short film produced by Liam Beatty for Alice Productions Ltd and filmed on location in a wine bar in Co Dublin; it won the Audience Award at the 9th Oddalenia Festival in 2017. I also acted in 2016 in 'Why I Married Karen', a short film made by 2nd year students on the Media Arts degree course at DIT in which I played the Officiant at a civil wedding (dir Taofeeqat Olanlokun, co-prods Jill Martin, Shauna Doyle). In December 2015 I played a priest officiating at a funeral Mass in 'An Unlikely Obsession' (wr/dir Alan O'Donoghue), a graduation film made by final-year students for the degree in Creative Digital Media at the Institute of Technology, Tallaght. In March 2015 I played husband Erik (at 42) in 'Denouement' (wr/dir Aran Hennessy, pr Coleman MacCionnaith), a graduation film by 4th year students on the BA degree course in Film and TV Production at the National Film School in IADT-DL. I'm a founder-member of our local community drama group Ranelagh Players (est September 2003) and from late in 2007 I began to take acting roles in our stage productions when asked, esp when they had a connection to film or tv. Among our more recent productions in which I've had a role was Bernard Shaw's 'Pygmalion', which we staged as our Spring play in 2013. I also had three different acting roles in 'Just for Laughs', our production for the 2013 Ranelagh Arts Festival made up of famous comedy sketches, taken mostly from television: I played the character originally created by John Cleese in the 'Dead Parrot' sketch from Monty Python and I played Peter Cook's part in 'Ahem - ask your father', his famous two-hander with Dudley Moore from one of the comedy television sketches the pair created back in the 'Sixties and early 'Seventies. I also played a near-senile senior citizen in another sketch, 'TV Quiz', that was originally created back in that era by Spike Milligan. In July 2014 I took my first stage role outside Ranelagh Players in 'Festen', staged by commercial production company Dizzytails Theatre Group over five nights at Players Theatre in TCD, in which I played the role of Grandfather in an adaptation for the stage by David Eldridge of the feature film of the same name that had been directed by Thomas Vinterberg under the 'dogme 95' charter with the assistance of Lars von Trier. I later performed three separate roles in a second 'external' production, 'The Caucasian Chalk Circle' by Bertolt Brecht, staged in the Teachers Club in Parnell Square, D1. More recent productions by Ranelagh Players in which I've had roles include Arthur Miller's 'The Crucible' and John B Keane's 'Big Maggie'.
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Experience as Background Actor and Extra in feature films: In late February 2019 I worked as a background actor on 'Who We Love' (dir Graham Cantwell, for Film Venture). I worked as extra (and sometimes as a featured extra) on a large number of feature films made in or near Dublin from 2004 onwards until about 2012 eg in November 2005 in 'The Front Line' (wr/dir David Gleeson for Wide Eye Films); in 2006 in 'Becoming Jane' (dir Julian Jarrold for HanWay Films); in 2007 in 'My Boy Jack' (dir Brian Kirk for Ecosse Films); in March 2009 on 'Leap Year' (dir Anand Tucker for Universal Pictures).
In TV series: I worked quite frequently as extra (and occasionally as a featured extra) on 'Fair City' from 2004 to 2010 (approx) and also once a year on 'The Clinic' ; I worked as extra on 'The Tudors' Series 1 in 2007 (very frequently) and also on Series 2 in 2008 (occasionally) - filming was usually done at Ardmore Studios but sometimes on location in County Wicklow or in Dublin. The most recent tv series I've worked on as an extra is 'Clean Sweep', for two scenes filmed on separate days during the summer of 2022.