---
name: "Brendan Dempsey"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/brendan-dempsey"
fi1m_id: "brendan-dempsey"
imdb_id: "nm0218712"
tmdb_id: 147054
roles: ["Actor"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-10-05T01:32:03.887562+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."
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# Brendan Dempsey

## Identity

Brendan Dempsey

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/brendan-dempsey
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** brendan-dempsey
- **IMDb ID:** nm0218712
- **TMDB ID:** 147054
- **Same entity:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0218712/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/147054

Actor.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Also known as:**  Brendan F. Dempsey
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0218712/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/147054

## Biography

Brendan Dempsey is an Irish actor, also credited as Brendan F. Dempsey. He is known for his role as Jim Kelly in the 1998 film *Waking Ned* (also known as *Waking Ned Devine*).

His other film credits include the Provost Marshal Registrar in *Gangs of New York* (2002), Martin Rooney in *About Adam* (2001) and Victor in *Perrier's Bounty* (2010). Dempsey has appeared in television series such as *Val Falvey TD* (2009) as Councillor Dessie Clinch and *The Revenge Files of Alistair Fury* (2008) as Sean Fury. He has also worked as a writer and producer, including on the 2019 short film *If at first...*.

On stage, he played Chief Bromden in a production of *One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest* at the Garrick Theatre in London.

*Sources: imdb.com, jessicacarneyassociates.co.uk.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Waking Ned* (1998), Fi1m 73, as Jim Kelly — [page](https://film.one/film/waking-ned.md)

## Complete filmography (9)

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

- *Royal-ish* (2025), as Lionel Varon
- *Perrier's Bounty* (2010), as Victor
- *Val Falvey, TD* (2009), series, as Dessie Clinch
- *Gobshite* (2006), as The Gov
- *Gangs of New York* (2002), as Provost Marshal Registrar — Fi1m 74, [page](https://film.one/film/gangs-of-new-york.md)
- *About Adam* (2001), as Martin Rooney
- *Waking Ned* (1998), as Jim Kelly — Fi1m 73, [page](https://film.one/film/waking-ned.md)
- *My Dinner With Oswald* (1997), Actor
- *Separation Anxiety* (1997), as Brian

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