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name: "Ian Fitzgibbon"
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born: "1 January 1962"
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average_as: "actor"
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updated: "2026-09-18T07:42:06.746735+00:00"
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# Ian Fitzgibbon

Actor. Born 1 January 1962 in Dublin, Ireland.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 1 January 1962, Dublin, Ireland
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Fitzgibbon, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5981519, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0280416/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/109978

## Streaming the US now

- **Apple TV:** [*Prime Suspect*](https://film.one/tv/prime-suspect.md) (88)

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## Biography

Ian Fitzgibbon is an Irish film and television director, screenwriter and actor. Born in Dublin in 1962, he graduated from Trinity College Dublin with a degree in French and Spanish and trained as an actor at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London.

He began his career as an actor, appearing as DC Jones in the 1991 series *Prime Suspect* and as Father Jessup in *Father Ted* (1998). As a director, his feature films include *Spin the Bottle* (2003), *A Film with Me in It* (2008), *Perrier's Bounty* (2010), *Death of a Superhero* (2011) and *Dark Lies the Island* (2019). His television directing credits include *Threesome* (2011–2012), *Moone Boy* (2014), for which he won an IFTA for best director of television drama, *People of Earth* (2016–2017) and *Hullraisers* (2022–2023). He has also received a BAFTA nomination.

*Sources: imdb.com, en.wikipedia.org, curtisbrown.co.uk.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Prime Suspect* (1991), Fi1m 88, as DC Jones — [page](https://film.one/tv/prime-suspect.md)

## Complete filmography (26)

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

- *The Walsh Sisters* (2025), series, as Mitch
- *Christmas Carole* (2022), Director
- *Stuck* (2022), series, Interviewer, Director
- *Dark Lies the Island* (2019), Director
- *Crazy Wonderful* (2018), Director
- *People of Earth* (2016), series, Director
- *Raised by Wolves* (2015), series, Director
- *Nurse* (2015), series, Director
- *Breakfast Wine* (2013), Director, Writer
- *Moone Boy* (2012), series, Director
- *Threesome* (2011), series, Director
- *Death of a Superhero* (2011), Shrink #2, Director
- *Vexed* (2010), series, Director
- *Perrier's Bounty* (2010), Director
- *A Film with Me in It* (2008), Director
- *Showbands* (2005), Director
- *Tommy Tiernan: Cracked* (2004), Director
- *Spin the Bottle* (2003), Producer, Director, Writer
- *Best* (2000), Acting
- *Vicious Circle* (1999), as David
- *Midsomer Murders* (1997), series, as David Smy
- *The Informant* (1997), as Joey McGillivary
- *Circles of Deceit: Sleeping Dogs* (1996), as Tony Lynch
- *Dalziel and Pascoe* (1996), series, as Stilltoe
- *A Fine Romance* (1991), as Bobby Piquet
- *Prime Suspect* (1991), series, as DC Jones — Fi1m 88, [page](https://film.one/tv/prime-suspect.md)

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