---
name: "Arthur Lappin"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/arthur-lappin"
fi1m_id: "arthur-lappin"
imdb_id: "nm0487791"
tmdb_id: 43143
wikidata_id: "Q710309"
roles: ["Producer"]
born: "1 January 2000"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 3
average_fi1m_score: 79
average_as: "producer"
average_over: 3
updated: "2026-10-03T21:27:43.785791+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."
---

# Arthur Lappin

## Identity

Arthur Lappin

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/arthur-lappin
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** arthur-lappin
- **IMDb ID:** nm0487791
- **TMDB ID:** 43143
- **Wikidata ID:** Q710309
- **Same entity:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q710309, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0487791/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/43143

Producer. Born 1 January 2000.

## Details

- **Work:** Producer
- **Born:** 1 January 2000
- **Active:** 1989–1997
- **Average Fi1m score:** 79, as producer, over 3 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1980s 85 (1), 1990s 76 (2)
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 79 to 80 across 3 titles
- **Score spread:** 2 at 80+, 1 at 60–79, 0 under 60
- **Genres:** Drama 3, Romance 1
- **Screen time:** 6 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $97m across 3 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q710309, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0487791/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/43143

## Biography

Arthur Lappin is an Irish film, television and stage producer. He began his feature film work as line producer on *Now I Know* (1988) and established a long collaboration with director Jim Sheridan, serving as line producer on *My Left Foot* (1989) and *The Field* (1990), co-producer on *In the Name of the Father* (1993), and producer on *Some Mother's Son* (1996), *The Boxer* (1997) and *In America* (2002).

He is managing director of the production company Hell's Kitchen, which he founded with Sheridan in 1992. Earlier in his career he was Drama and Dance director of the Irish Arts Council and, with Ben Barnes, co-founded the theatrical production company Groundwork Productions in 1988. He has also produced documentaries and over twenty stage productions.

Lappin was founding chairman of Screen Training Ireland and of The Ark children's cultural centre in Dublin (1994–2002). He received the Stanley Kramer Award from the Producers Guild of America in 2004.

*Sources: rottentomatoes.com, imdb.com, de.wikipedia.org, iftn.ie.*

## On Fi1m (3)

- *The Boxer* (1997), Fi1m 68, Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/the-boxer.md)
- *In the Name of the Father* (1993), Fi1m 83, Co-Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/in-the-name-of-the-father.md)
- *My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown* (1989), Fi1m 85, Line Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/my-left-foot-the-story-of-christy-brown.md)

## Complete filmography (13)

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

- *Get Rich or Die Tryin'* (2005), Executive Producer
- *Omagh* (2005), Executive Producer
- *Laws of Attraction* (2004), Executive Producer
- *In America* (2003), Producer
- *On the Edge* (2001), Producer
- *Borstal Boy* (2001), Producer
- *Agnes Browne* (1999), Producer
- *The Boxer* (1997), Producer — Fi1m 68, [page](https://film.one/film/the-boxer.md)
- *Some Mother's Son* (1996), Producer
- *In the Name of the Father* (1993), Co-Producer — Fi1m 83, [page](https://film.one/film/in-the-name-of-the-father.md)
- *The Field* (1990), Line Producer
- *My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown* (1989), Line Producer — Fi1m 85, [page](https://film.one/film/my-left-foot-the-story-of-christy-brown.md)
- *The Dubliner's Dublin* (1988), Executive Producer

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