
Ian Fitzgibbon
Biography
Ian Fitzgibbon (born 1962) is an Irish film and television director, screenwriter and occasionally actor. He is perhaps best known for directing Spin the Bottle, A Film with Me in It and the Comedy Central UK show Threesome, and for the role of Fr. Jessup in Father Ted. In 2014, he won an IFTA for director television drama for the Sky sitcom Moone Boy.
Known For & Full Filmography11 Titles

Drama Series - 1997, 16 episodes • as David Smy
The peacefulness of the Midsomer community is shattered by violent crimes, suspects are placed under suspicion, and it is up to a veteran DCI and his young sergeant to calmly and diligently eliminate the innocent and ruthlessly pursue the guilty.

Drama Series - 1996, 16 episodes • as Stilltoe
In the fictional Yorkshire town of Wetherton, the unlikely duo of politically incorrect elephant-in-a-China-shop-copper DS Andrew Dalziel (pronounced Dee-ell) and his more sensitive and university educated sidekick DS, later DI, Peter Pascoe is always on hand to solve the classic murder mystery, while maintaining down-to-Earth wit and humour.

Drama Series - 1991, 16 episodes • as DC Jones
Highly skilled Detective Inspector Jane Tennison battles to prove herself in a male dominated world.

Drama Series - 2025, 16 episodes • as Mitch
Set in their Dublin hometown, Anna, Rachel, Maggie, Claire and Helen navigate the peaks and troughs of their late 20s and 30s. This is a sisterhood full of in-jokes, hand-me-down resentments and more than a few old wounds. But their DNA, history and shared love of power ballads keep the Walsh sisters together in the face of heartbreak, grief, addiction and parenthood.

Drama Series - 2022, 16 episodes • as Interviewer
It is based on a relationship between Dan and Carla with an age gap who are at a cross-roads. Dan has been made redundant, When Carla's ex-girlfriend Maya re-appears, things start to get even more tricky.

Movie - 2011, 2h 15m • as Shrink #2
A dying 15-year-old boy draws stories of an invincible superhero as he struggles with his mortality.

Movie - 1997, 2h 15m • as Joey McGillivary
A former Irish Republican Army fighter, Gingy McAnally (Anthony Brophy), is reluctant about being called back into service after serving time in prison. He executes the grisly task but ends up captured by a sympathetic British police lieutenant named Ferris (Cary Elwes). The intimidating Chief Inspector of the Belfast Police (Timothy Dalton) convinces Gingy that his best hope is to become an informant and turn in other IRA operatives. As Gingy's marriage unravels under the stress, he is forced to come to terms with the fact that in this war both sides lose. Three men, three political circles, each fighting for their lives, each with their own agenda in the battle for Northern Ireland.

Movie - 1999, 2h 15m • as David
Criminal Martin Cahill gets in trouble when a major robbery succeeds. He aims for more trouble when he tries to do a large art robbery

Movie - 2000, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
Pulling no punches in its depiction of soccer legend George Best's slow descent from the heights of his Manchester United career, the man once dubbed the fifth Beatle for his glamorous lifestyle and good looks.

Movie - 1991, 2h 15m • as Bobby Piquet
An Italian gentleman and a doctor's wife plot to break up their spouses' tryst in Paris.

Movie - 2003, 2h 15m • as Producer
Rats is released from prison and needs to make some money; fast. To his dismay, things have changed dramatically during his absence; his mother no longer has time for him and his ex-bandmates alike. He wishes to help donate towards his obese aunt's trip to Lourdes. He struggles to find a job, yet never fails to find himself in a difficult situation.