Early life and education

Born in Bristol, McNally spent his early years in Birmingham, attending Redhill Junior School on Redhill Road in Hay Mills and Mapledene Junior School (now Mapledene Primary School) on Mapledene Road in Sheldon. He went to Central Grammar School for Boys on Gressel Lane in Tile Cross.

Career

His first professional job, at the age of 16, was at the Birmingham Rep. In 1973 he was awarded a scholarship to attend the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art where, in 1975, he won the Best Actor Bancroft Gold Medal.

From 1991 to 1994, he wrote nine episodes of Minder under the pseudonym Kevin Sperring with writing partner Bernard Dempsey. He played Joshamee Gibbs in the Pirates of the Caribbean films, and is one of the three actors who starred in all four films.

In 2011, he was cast in the American television series Supernatural, as Frank. In 2012, he performed as a voice actor for the best-selling video game Assassin's Creed III, providing the likeness and voice of the character of Robert Faulkner.

In 2013 he began working on a science-fiction animation project called Sam Sweetmilk.

Personal life

McNally lives in Chiswick and is married to the actress Phyllis Logan. They have a son, David, born in June 1996.

Filmography

Year	Title	Role
1977	The Spy Who Loved Me	HMS Ranger Crewman
1980	The Long Good Friday	Irish Youth
1982	Enigma	Bruno
1985	Not Quite Paradise	Pete
1985	The Berlin Affair	Heinz von Hollendorf
1987	Cry Freedom	Ken
1990	Jekyll & Hyde	Sergeant Hornby
1992	Stalin	Sergey Kirov
1997	Spice World	Policeman
1998	Sliding Doors	Paul
1999	Entrapment	Haas
2000	When the Sky Falls
2001	Conspiracy	Martin Luther
2001	High Heels and Low Lifes	Mason
2003	Johnny English	Prime Minister
2003	Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl	Joshamee Gibbs
2004	De-Lovely	Gerald Murphy
2004	The Phantom of the Opera	Joseph Buquet
2005	Irish Jam	Lord Hailstock
2006	Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest	Joshamee Gibbs
2006	Scoop	Mike Tinsley
2007	Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End	Joshamee Gibbs
2008	Tuesday	Jerry
2008	Valkyrie	Carl Goerdeler
2011	Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides	Joshamee Gibbs
2012	Hamilton: In the Interest of the Nation	Harold Smith
2012	The Raven	Maddux
2013	Bounty Killer	Daft Willy
2015	Legend	Harold Wilson
2016	The Man Who Knew Infinity	Percy Alexander MacMahon
2017	Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales	Joshamee Gibbs

Along with fellow British actors Ian McNeice and Kenneth Branagh, McNally appeared in two Second World War films, Valkyrie and Conspiracy that depict behind-the-scenes activities of high-ranking officials in Nazi Germany.

Television credits

Year	Title	Role
1976	I, Claudius	Castor
1976	Survivors (Parasites)	Kane
1977	The Duchess of Duke Street (A Lesson in Manners)	Tom Prince
1977	Poldark series II	Drake Carne
1981	Masada	Norbanus
1984	Diana	Jan
1984	Doctor Who (The Twin Dilemma)	Hugo Lang
1991	Bottom (Smells)	Sex shop owner
1995	A Bit of Fry and Laurie	Himself/Various
1997	Underworld (TV series)	Mr Jezzard
1997-1999	Dad	Alan Hook
1999	Rab C. Nesbitt (Commons)	MP Tony Welthorpe
1999	Midsomer Murders (Blood Will Out)	Orville Tudway
2000	The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles	Walter Burton Harris
2002	Shackleton	Captain Frank Worsley
2002	Spooks	Robert Osborne
2002	Bedtime	Simon
2005	Bloodlines	James Hopkin
2007	Life on Mars	Supt. Harry Woolf
2007	The Minister of Divine	Wesley
2009	Demons	Mr Tibbs
2009	Margaret	Kenneth Clarke
2009	Wuthering Heights	Mr Earnshaw
2009	Law & Order: UK	Harry Morgan
2010	New Tricks (Left Field)	Fred Blackledge
2010	Marple (The Blue Geranium)	Inspector Sumerset
2010	Midsomer Murders (The Noble Art)	Gerald Farquaharson
2011	CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (Freaks & Geeks)	Major Willie
2011-2012	Supernatural (Slash Fiction) (Adventures in Babysitting) (The Girl with the Dungeons and Dragons Tattoo)	Frank Devereaux
2011	Downton Abbey	Horace Bryant
2012	Burn Notice ("Odd Man Out")	James Vanek
2013	The Challenger	Lawrence Mulloy
2013	The Mill	Mr. Timperley
2014-present	Turn: Washington's Spies	Richard Woodhull
2014	24: Live Another Day (Day 9: 10:00PM - 11:00AM)	Russian agent

Other TV credits include: Z-Cars, The Bill, Casualty, The New Statesman and Murder Most Horrid. McNally also co-wrote several episodes of the television series Minder and Boon in the 1980s.

Selected stage roles

Title	Role	Theatre	Notes
Hamlet	Claudius	Donmar at Wyndham's Theatre	opposite Jude Law, Ron Cook and Penelope Wilton
Ivanov	Lebedev	Donmar at Wyndham's Theatre	opposite Kenneth Branagh, Malcolm Sinclair and Gina McKee Nominated - Laurence Olivier Award for Best Performance in a Supporting Role
Boeing Boeing	Bernard	Comedy Theatre
The Lady in the Van	Alan Bennett 2	Queen's Theatre	opposite Maggie Smith and Alan Bennett
Naked	Grotti	Almeida Theatre	opposite Juliette Binoche
Dead Funny	Richard	Savoy Theatre
The Iceman Cometh	Paritt	National Theatre

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