---
name: "Alan Boyle"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/alan-boyle-89390"
fi1m_id: "alan-boyle-89390"
imdb_id: "nm0102185"
tmdb_id: 89390
wikidata_id: "Q94634728"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "25 May 1984"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-26T02:53:32.765635+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Alan Boyle

## Identity

Alan Boyle

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/alan-boyle-89390
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** alan-boyle-89390
- **IMDb ID:** nm0102185
- **TMDB ID:** 89390
- **Wikidata ID:** Q94634728
- **Same entity:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q94634728, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0102185/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/89390

Actor. Born 25 May 1984 in Ireland.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 25 May 1984, Ireland
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q94634728, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0102185/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/89390

## Biography

Alan Boyle is an Irish actor born on 25 May 1984. He is known for his role as Joe Purcell in Neil Jordan's film *The Butcher Boy* (1997).

Boyle and Eamonn Owens, who played the lead character, were both discovered at a primary school in Killeshandra, County Cavan, during casting and had no previous acting experience.

His other credited screen role is as Harry in the short film *The Hard Case* (1995).

*Sources: imdb.com, en.wikipedia.org, nytimes.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *The Butcher Boy* (1998), Fi1m 74, as Joe Purcell — [page](https://film.one/film/the-butcher-boy.md)

## Complete filmography (2)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *The Butcher Boy* (1998), as Joe Purcell — Fi1m 74, [page](https://film.one/film/the-butcher-boy.md)
- *The Hard Case* (1995), as Harry

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