---
name: "John Bell"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/john-bell-126667"
fi1m_id: "john-bell-126667"
imdb_id: "nm2686004"
tmdb_id: 126667
wikidata_id: "Q1699301"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "20 October 1997"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 3
average_fi1m_score: 64
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 3
updated: "2026-09-23T10:50:33.888173+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."
---

# John Bell

## Identity

John Bell

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/john-bell-126667
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** john-bell-126667
- **IMDb ID:** nm2686004
- **TMDB ID:** 126667
- **Wikidata ID:** Q1699301
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Bell_(Scottish_actor), https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1699301, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2686004/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/126667

Actor. Born 20 October 1997 in Paisley, Scotland, UK.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 20 October 1997, Paisley, Scotland, UK
- **Active:** 2013–2014
- **Also known as:** جان بل
- **Average Fi1m score:** 64, as actor, over 3 titles
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 64 to 67 across 3 titles
- **Score spread:** 0 at 80+, 2 at 60–79, 1 under 60
- **Lead roles:** 0 of 1 acting credits billed first or second
- **Genres:** Action 2, Adventure 2, Fantasy 2, Drama 1, Sci-Fi & Fantasy 1
- **Screen time:** 5 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $1,914m across 2 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Bell_(Scottish_actor), https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1699301, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2686004/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/126667

## Streaming the US now

- **Apple TV:** [*Outlander*](https://film.one/tv/outlander.md) (74)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

John Bell (born 20 October 1997) is a Scottish actor. He made his television debut as Creet in the 2007 *Doctor Who* episode 'Utopia', after winning a Blue Peter competition. Early roles include Toby Coleman in *Tracy Beaker Returns* (2010–2011) and appearances in *Life of Riley* (2009–2010).

Bell played Bain in *The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug* (2013) and *The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies* (2014). Other film credits include Angus in *Battleship* (2012) and Helius in *Wrath of the Titans* (2012). He has portrayed Young Ian Murray (Ian Fraser Murray) in the series *Outlander* since 2017.

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

## On Fi1m (3)

- *Outlander* (2014), Fi1m 74, as Young Ian Murray — [page](https://film.one/tv/outlander.md)
- *The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies* (2014), Fi1m 54, as Bain — [page](https://film.one/film/the-hobbit-the-battle-of-the-five-armies.md)
- *The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug* (2013), Fi1m 65, as Bain — [page](https://film.one/film/the-hobbit-the-desolation-of-smaug.md)

## Complete filmography (15)

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

- *Lollipop Man* (2025), Gaffer
- *Miss Temperance* (2023), Executive Producer
- *The Levelling* (2017), as Fire Performer
- *T2 Trainspotting* (2017), as Spud (aged 20)
- *The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies* (2014), as Bain — Fi1m 54, [page](https://film.one/film/the-hobbit-the-battle-of-the-five-armies.md)
- *Outlander* (2014), series, as Ian Fraser Murray, Young Ian Murray — Fi1m 74, [page](https://film.one/tv/outlander.md)
- *The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug* (2013), as Bain — Fi1m 65, [page](https://film.one/film/the-hobbit-the-desolation-of-smaug.md)
- *Hatfields & McCoys* (2012), series, as Audie
- *Battleship* (2012), as Angus
- *Wrath of the Titans* (2012), as Helius
- *Hattie* (2011), as Robin Le Mesurier
- *Tracy Beaker Returns* (2010), series, as Toby Coleman
- *A Shine of Rainbows* (2009), as Tomás
- *Doctor Who* (2005), series, as Creet — Fi1m 78, [page](https://film.one/tv/doctor-who-2005.md)
- *Midsomer Murders* (1997), series, as Jamie Carr — Fi1m 66, [page](https://film.one/tv/midsomer-murders.md)

## Gallery

- ![John Bell](https://film.one/media/person/1078718/gallery-04a360b3e4e7.jpg) John Bell — Alexandr Polnikov, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e0/JohnBell_%28cropped%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![John Bell](https://film.one/media/person/1078718/gallery-4b57c6c636f6.jpg) John Bell — Image via TMDB

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