Directing
Colm McCarthy
Feb 16, 1973 (53 years) Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
Colm McCarthy is a director best known for his work on Peaky Blinders, Sherlock and Endeavour. He was born in Edinburgh and has lived there as well as in Dublin and London. He is happily married and plays a grand total of eight musical instruments all appallingly badly. He did not formally train in film making, instead he just watched loads of films, read a bunch of books and then started shooting stuff with friends. They borrowed film stock and filmed short films, music videos and random "cool shots" to go into montage sequences.
Known for
8.5
Peaky Blinders
Director
8.3
Black Mirror
Director
7.6
Doctor Who
Director
8.5
Sherlock
Director
7.8
The Tudors
Director
6.6
The Girl with All the Gifts
Director
7.1
Krypton
Director, Co-Executive Producer
8.1
Endeavour
Director, Producer
7.7
Spooks
Director
7.7
Hustle
Director
7.8
Young Sherlock
Director
7.4
Ripper Street
Director
6.0
Bagman
Director
7.3
The Bastard Son & the Devil Himself
Executive Producer, Director
5.8
Bergerac
Director
Filmography
7.8
Young Sherlock
2026 · Director
4.7
Fightland
2026 · Director
5.8
Bergerac
2025 · Director
6.0
Bagman
2024 · Director
4.9
Curfew
2024 · Executive Producer, Creator
7.3
The Bastard Son & the Devil Himself
2022 · Executive Producer, Director
Lesson 7
2020 · Producer
5.6
Curfew
2019 · Director
7.1
Krypton
2018 · Director, Co-Executive Producer
6.6
The Girl with All the Gifts
2016 · Director
8.5
Peaky Blinders
2013 · Director
8.1
Endeavour
2013 · Director, Producer
7.4
Ripper Street
2012 · Director
8.3
Black Mirror
2011 · Director
7.1
Injustice
2011 · Director
8.5
Sherlock
2010 · Director
5.0
Outcast
2010 · Writer, Director
6.0
The Deep
2010 · Director
7.3
Hunter
2009 · Director
7.8
The Tudors
2007 · Director
6.8
Single-Handed
2007 · Director
7.6
Doctor Who
2005 · Director
10.0
Footballers' Wives: Extra Time
2005 · Director
7.7
Hustle
2004 · Director
7.7
Spooks
2002 · Director
7.6
Murphy's Law
2001 · Director
7.5
Dream Team
1997 · Director