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Burn Gorman

Burn Gorman

Actor · Born September 1, 1974 (52) · Hollywood, California, U.S.A.

Burn Hugh Gorman (born 1 September 1974) is an English actor and musician. He is known for his television roles as Owen Harper in the BBC series Torchwood (2006–2008), Karl Tanner in the HBO series Game of Thrones (2013–14), Major Edmund Hewlett in the AMC series Turn: Washington's Spies (2014–2017), 'The Marshal' in the Prime Video series The Man in the High Castle (2015), and Adolphus Murtry in Prime Video series The Expanse (2019). His film roles include Phillip Stryver in Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight Rises (2012), Hermann Gottlieb in Guillermo del Toro’s Pacific Rim (2013) and its sequel Pacific Rim: Uprising (2018), Commander Hoff in The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, and Father Damien in Tim Burton's Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (2024). Description above from the Wikipedia article Burn Gorman, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Born
September 1, 1974 (52)
From
Hollywood, California, U.S.A.
Works as
Actor
Titles
55 on MovieCove · 69 credits in all
Links
IMDb (opens in a new tab)TMDB (opens in a new tab)Wikidata (opens in a new tab)

Known for

TMDB popularity, last 156 days to Oct 27Down 14% in 30 days

What are Burn Gorman's films like?

Across their 28 MovieCove titles with a thematic analysis, their films lean Morality and Bonds.

Genres

Action8 titlesTypical Midcredits score: 58th percentile, at or above their average across these genres
: browse their Action movies
Biography3 titlesTypical Midcredits score: 52nd percentile
: browse their Biography movies
Crime3 titlesTypical Midcredits score: 63rd percentile, at or above their average across these genres
: browse their Crime movies
Drama3 titlesTypical Midcredits score: 58th percentile, at or above their average across these genres
: browse their Drama movies

Their MovieCove films by primary genre. The badge is the typical Midcredits score of the genre's films, the median percentile; an up arrow marks a genre at or above their average across these genres.

Themes

share of theme weight
Morality
30%
Bonds
19%
Self
18%
Power
13%
Survival
13%
Society
5%
Ideas
2%
Loyalty6 titles, browse their movies with this themeSurvival5 titles, browse their movies with this themeJustice6 titles, browse their movies with this themeAmbition4 titles, browse their movies with this themeSacrifice5 titles, browse their movies with this themeCorruption3 titles, browse their movies with this themeIdentity4 titles, browse their movies with this themeDuty3 titles, browse their movies with this theme

What they feel like to watch

their average across 21 films
ToneFeelDemandtheir average · filled zone: the category
Serious: How heavy the subject matter and outlook get. Browse their serious movies.
Tone · Weight
lightdark

A split, not a type: Light 4 · Serious 3 · Dark 14

Stylized: How far its world departs from everyday reality. Browse their stylized movies.
Tone · Style
naturalisticheightened

Grounded 5 · Stylized 10 · Heightened 6

Intense: How hard the emotional peaks hit while you watch. Browse their intense movies.
Feel · Intensity
gentleintense

Gentle 1 · Charged 6 · Intense 14

Shifting: How much it swings between very different feelings. Browse their shifting movies.
Feel · Swings
steadyswings

Steady 5 · Shifting 16 · Whiplash 0

Straight-faced: How much of the runtime is played for laughs. Browse their straight-faced movies.
Feel · Humor
noneconstant

Straight-faced 16 · Some laughs 4 · Funny 1

Even-paced: How fast it moves from scene to scene. Browse their even-paced movies.
Demand · Pace
slowrelentless

Slow burn 3 · Even-paced 14 · Relentless 4

Engaged: How much focus it asks of you — look away and lose the thread? Browse their engaged movies.
Demand · Attention
casualfull focus

Casual 2 · Engaged 13 · Full focus 6

Affecting: How much it costs you emotionally; whether you need recovery time. Browse their affecting movies.
Demand · Emotional cost
easyheavy

A split, not a type: Easy watch 6 · Affecting 5 · Heavy 10

Resolved: How much is left for you to interpret. Browse their resolved movies.
Demand · Resolution
resolvedambiguous

Resolved 13 · Open-ended 7 · Ambiguous 1

Roles they play

10 analyzed roles

Usually the Shadow: 6 of 10 analyzed roles.

Shadow
6 of 10
Herald
2 of 10
Ally
1 of 10
Trickster
1 of 10
Show the 10 roles

Moods and endings

endings are an aggregate; no title is named

Dominant moods · mentions across their titles

Tense
20
Dread
9
Melancholic
11
Thrilling
7
Hopeful
9
Other
16

How their films linger

Thought-provoking8 titles, browse their movies with this aftertasteBittersweet8 titles, browse their movies with this aftertasteHaunting8 titles, browse their movies with this aftertasteHopeful8 titles, browse their movies with this aftertasteUnsettling7 titles, browse their movies with this aftertasteFun5 titles, browse their movies with this aftertaste

How their films end · 8 with a twist

  • Happy6
  • Bittersweet12
  • Tragic4
  • Ambiguous5
  • Other1

AI-generated from each title's plot synopsis and cast list, with extra plot summaries, reviews and Parents Guide notes for titles the model may not know, and the model's own knowledge of the ones it recognizes. Only analyzed titles count, so this covers part of the filmography; the feel axes count films only for now.

Where can I watch Burn Gorman's films?

As of October 24, 2026, 43 of their 55 MovieCove titles stream on a subscription or free service, most on Tubi (15).

Also on these channels

Subscription and free streaming for Burn Gorman's titles on MovieCove; rent and buy are not counted. Titles are listed by Midcredits score, highest first, at most 12 per service; a dashed chip is a producer credit or a minor one, such as a thanks. A service opens the browse page, which counts movies only, so its number can differ.

Filmography

69 credits, 55 with a MovieCove page.

  • Jumanji: Open World (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2026)

    Actor

  • Digger(2026)

    as Amos

    Midcredits score: 89th percentile of all films

  • Frankenstein(2025)

    as Executioner

    Midcredits score: 94th percentile of all films

  • All the Devils Are Here(2025)

    as Numbers

    Midcredits score: 25th percentile of all films

  • Beetlejuice Beetlejuice(2024)

    as Father Damien

    Midcredits score: 67th percentile of all films

  • Lift(2024)

    as Cormac

    Midcredits score: 24th percentile of all films

  • The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes(2023)

    as Commander Hoff

    Midcredits score: 72nd percentile of all films

  • Ransomed(2023)

    as Carter

    Midcredits score: 68th percentile of all films

  • Ghosted(2023)

    as English Cabbie

    Midcredits score: 33rd percentile of all films

  • Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio(2022)

    as Priest (voice)

    Midcredits score: 97th percentile of all films

  • Watcher(2022)

    as Watcher

    Midcredits score: 58th percentile of all films

  • The Offer(2022)

    Show 10 episodes · as Charles Bluhdorn

    Midcredits score: 98th percentile of all shows

  • Halo(2022)

    Show 5 episodes · as Vinsher Grath

    Midcredits score: 73rd percentile of all shows

  • Undergods(2020)

    as Tim

    Midcredits score: 26th percentile of all films

  • Enola Holmes(2020)

    as Linthorn

    Midcredits score: 72nd percentile of all films

  • The Good Traitor(2020)

    as Berle

    Midcredits score: 52nd percentile of all films

  • Cheat (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2019)

    Show 4 episodes · as Ben Jarvis

  • Pacific Rim: Uprising(2018)

    as Dr. Hermann Gottlieb

    Midcredits score: 21st percentile of all films

  • Jamestown(2017)

    Show 24 episodes · as Nicholas Farlow

    Midcredits score: 51st percentile of all shows

  • In a Valley of Violence(2016)

    as Priest

    Midcredits score: 46th percentile of all films

  • Imperium(2016)

    as Morgan

    Midcredits score: 63rd percentile of all films

  • Guernica(2016)

    as Consul

    Midcredits score: 38th percentile of all films

  • And Then There Were None(2015)

    Show 3 episodes · as D.S. William Blore

    Midcredits score: 86th percentile of all shows

  • The Expanse(2015)

    Show 10 episodes · as Adolphus Murtry

    Midcredits score: 97th percentile of all shows

  • Crimson Peak(2015)

    as Holly

    Midcredits score: 67th percentile of all films

  • The Man in the High Castle(2015)

    Show 2 episodes · as The Marshal

    Midcredits score: 86th percentile of all shows

  • Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day(2014)

    as Mr. Brand

    Midcredits score: 44th percentile of all films

  • Forever(2014)

    Show 5 episodes · as Adam

    Midcredits score: 95th percentile of all shows

  • Walking with the Enemy(2013)

    as Lt. Colonel Otto Skorzeny

    Midcredits score: 60th percentile of all films

  • Turn: Washington's Spies(2014)

    Show 40 episodes · as Major Hewlett

    Midcredits score: 90th percentile of all shows

  • Low Down(2014)

    as Wiggenhern

    Midcredits score: 46th percentile of all films

  • Jimi: All Is by My Side(2013)

    as Michael Jeffery

    Midcredits score: 32nd percentile of all films

  • The Other Man (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2013)

    as Simon

  • Pacific Rim(2013)

    as Dr. Hermann Gottlieb

    Midcredits score: 80th percentile of all films

  • Spies of Warsaw (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2013)

    Show 2 episodes · as Jourdain

  • Up There (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2012)

    as Martin

  • Heroes & Demons(2012)

    as Jason (16) (voice) (segment "Some Safe Place")

    Midcredits score: 12th percentile of all films (provisional, few ratings)

  • The Dark Knight Rises(2012)

    as Stryver

    Midcredits score: 99th percentile of all films

  • Red Lights(2012)

    as Benedict Cohen

    Midcredits score: 42nd percentile of all films

  • Revenge(2011)

    Show 4 episodes · as Trask

    Midcredits score: 84th percentile of all shows

  • Johnny English Reborn(2011)

    as Slater

    Midcredits score: 55th percentile of all films

  • The Hour(2011)

    Show 6 episodes · as Thomas Kish

    Midcredits score: 89th percentile of all shows

  • Game of Thrones(2011)

    Show 4 episodes · as Karl Tanner

    Midcredits score: 99th percentile of all shows

  • The Runaway (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2011)

    Show 6 episodes · as Richard Gates

  • Cemetery Junction(2010)

    as Renwick

    Midcredits score: 73rd percentile of all films

  • Wuthering Heights(2009)

    Show 2 episodes · as Hindley Earnshaw

    Midcredits score: 71st percentile of all shows

  • Bonekickers(2008)

    Show 1 episode · Actor

    Midcredits score: 5th percentile of all shows

  • The Curse of Steptoe(2008)

    as Ray Galton

    Midcredits score: 86th percentile of all films

  • The Oxford Murders(2008)

    as Yuri Podorov

    Midcredits score: 40th percentile of all films

  • Lark Rise to Candleford(2008)

    Show 1 episode · Actor

    Midcredits score: 94th percentile of all shows

  • Penelope(2006)

    as Larry

    Midcredits score: 69th percentile of all films

  • Fred Claus(2007)

    as Elf

    Midcredits score: 31st percentile of all films

  • Sex, the City and Me (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2007)

    as Lawrence

  • Torchwood Declassified (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2006)

    Show 26 episodes · Actor

  • Torchwood(2006)

    Show 26 episodes · as Owen Harper

    Midcredits score: 78th percentile of all shows

  • Low Winter Sun(2006)

    as Kenny Morton

    Midcredits score: 85th percentile of all films

  • Bleak House(2005)

    Show 15 episodes · as William Guppy

    Midcredits score: 94th percentile of all shows

  • Color Me Kubrick(2005)

    as Willie

    Midcredits score: 42nd percentile of all films

  • It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia(2005)

    Show 1 episode · as The Scientist

    Midcredits score: 97th percentile of all shows

  • The Best Man(2005)

    as Bus Driver

    Midcredits score: 41st percentile of all films

  • Agatha Christie's Marple(2004)

    Show 1 episode · as Jacko Argyle

    Midcredits score: 89th percentile of all shows

  • Layer Cake(2004)

    as Gazza

    Midcredits score: 88th percentile of all films

  • A Good Thief (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2002)

    as DC Fairchild

  • Dalziel and Pascoe(1996)

    Show 2 episodes · as Jerry Hart

    Midcredits score: 67th percentile of all shows

  • A Colt Is My Passport (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)

    Actor

  • Brides (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)

    Actor

  • Dr. Mason Miller (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)

    as Lance Dawson

  • Love Is Not Enough (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)

    as Al Weisburger

  • The Bully Boys (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)

    as Taff

Career shape

Star power in the 99th percentile of 239,109 people with a billed film role, over a full career of 69 titles, 63 of them dated from 1996 to 2026; peak year 2023.

Biggest box office

Pacific Rim (2013)

$411M worldwide

Highest rated

The Offer (2022)

Midcredits 98th

Most popular right now

Digger (2026)

Film career

19962026

Peak 2023 · at the high point of their film career. Top draw in 7 MovieCove titles. Film roles by billing, audience size and rating; 25+ votes. A show carries a single first-air date, so shows are not on the curve.

By role

only this rolewith another role
Acting69 of 69: 69 only acting, 0 with another role · typical Midcredits score69th

By decade

1990s1 · acting2000s18 · acting2010s29 · acting2020s15 · acting

Billing

usually 10th · top billed in 0% of 31 roles
04091419

Counts from TMDB across their full career, self appearances out; a title counts in every role they held on it. The ring is the typical Midcredits score (the median percentile) of the role's titles that are on MovieCove, shown from 5 scored. Billing is TMDB cast order for roles with 25+ votes, billed in the top 30; the columns are the share of top-billed roles in each era, 5-year spans from the year on the label, merged until each holds at least 5 roles.

How do Burn Gorman's films land?

Their typical MovieCove film has a Midcredits score in the 57th percentile, the median of all 36; across their 21 films with reception data, the typical film sits in the 63rd percentile for acclaim.

Acclaim · how much people like their films

63rdpercentile
Typical film, the median of 21

Approval · how many liked their films

59thpercentile
Typical film, the median of 21

Reach · how many have seen their films

90thpercentile
Typical film, the median of 21

Midcredits score across 55 titles, by percentile

  • 75th and up22
  • 50th to 74th16
  • 25th to 49th13
  • Below 25th4

Shape of the crowd

24 of their 55 titles are Crowd Pleasers.

  • Universally Loved14
  • Crowd Pleaser24
  • Broadly Agreed6
  • Mixed11

Most divisive · actor

Heroes & Demons (2012)

70th percentile spread · 59% rated it 4 or lower

Most loved · actor

The Dark Knight Rises (2012)

Midcredits 99th · 92% liked

Reviewers score the acting 70/100 in their films, across 21 reviewed titles; fans 79, detractors 41. The element that speaks to their work as an actor.

Percentiles are each film's standing among all films on MovieCove; the typical film is the median, so one outlier cannot drag it. Percentiles and reviewer scores count the films IMDb credits them on, for now; the Midcredits score bands, the shape of the crowd and the two cards count their MovieCove titles, shows included (a show ranked among shows), appearances as themselves left out. A descriptor is the shape of a title's IMDb rating distribution against the catalog; "most divisive" needs a spread wider than half of all titles, and a card names only a principal credit: a craft role, and on a show a crew role or a run of episodes, never a courtesy credit or a one-off guest spot.

Is Burn Gorman's work okay for kids?

Across up to 20 MovieCove titles with content scores, violence & gore and frightening / intense run heavier than most films.

Their medianMedian of all filmsMiddle 80% of their titles
Violence & Gore17 titles42–81 · median 59 · moderateheavier than most filmsMedian of all films: 44
Sex & Nudity20 titles8–58 · median 31 · mildnear the median of all filmsMedian of all films: 32
Profanity19 titles13–87 · median 42 · moderatenear the median of all filmsMedian of all films: 36
Alcohol & Drugs18 titles26–51 · median 36 · moderatenear the median of all filmsMedian of all films: 33
Frightening / Intense18 titles34–73 · median 54 · moderateheavier than most filmsMedian of all films: 39

Severity 0–100 from the Content Guide. Categories with under 10 votes on a title are not counted. The band's colour is the severity of their median, named beside it.

Who does Burn Gorman work with?

People who share at least 2 of Burn Gorman's MovieCove titles, grouped by what they did on them; Guillermo del Toro shares the most, 3.

Directors

Writers

Actors

Composers and cinematographers

Producers