Liam Neeson
Glory days
Best movie
9.0
Schindler's List (1993)
Worst movie
4.9
Blacklight (2022)
First 5 to latest 5
−1.3
6.9 → 5.6 on average
Average rating
6.5
13.6M votes in total
IMDb rating per movie
Cameos
The best rated of the 73 movies Liam Neeson starred in is Schindler's List (1993), at 9.0 on IMDb, and the worst is Blacklight (2022), at 4.9. The first 5 average 6.9 and the latest 5 5.6, down by 1.3. Together they average 6.5, from 13.6M votes in total. 9 cameos, like The Dark Knight Rises (2012), aren't counted.
Movie by movie
| Movie | Role | Released | Votes | Rating | Change | Rating bar |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Excalibur | as Gawain | 1981 | 75.1K | 7.3 | ||
| Krull | as Kegan | 1983 | 39.9K | 6.1 | −1.2 | |
| The Bounty | as Charles Churchill | 1984 | 35.5K | 7.1 | +1.0 | |
| The Delta ForceCameo | as Delta Force Member (uncredited) | 1986 | 24.8K | 5.7 | ||
| The Mission | as Father John Fielding | 1986 | 70.6K | 7.4 | +0.3 | |
| Suspect | as Carl Wayne Anderson | 1987 | 13.3K | 6.6 | −0.8 | |
| The Dead Pool | as Peter Swan | 1988 | 51.8K | 6.3 | −0.3 | |
| High Spirits | as Martin Brogan | 1988 | 12.5K | 5.8 | −0.5 | |
| Next of Kin | as Briar Gates | 1989 | 12.7K | 5.9 | +0.1 | |
| Darkman | as Peyton Westlake / Darkman | 1990 | 75.8K | 6.4 | +0.5 | |
| Husbands and Wives | as Michael Gates | 1992 | 33.3K | 7.5 | +1.1 | |
| Leap of Faith | as Sheriff Will Braverman | 1992 | 15.9K | 6.2 | −1.3 | |
| Shining Through | as Franze-Otto Dietrich | 1992 | 11.7K | 6.4 | +0.2 | |
| Schindler's ListBest | as Oskar Schindler | 1993 | 1.6M | 9.0 | +2.6 | |
| Nell | as Dr. Lovell | 1994 | 32.8K | 6.5 | −2.5 | |
| Rob Roy | as Robert Roy MacGregor | 1995 | 50K | 6.9 | +0.4 | |
| Before and After | as Ben Ryan | 1996 | 11.6K | 6.1 | −0.8 | |
| Michael Collins | as Michael Collins | 1996 | 36.6K | 7.1 | +1.0 | |
| Les Misérables | as Jean Valjean | 1998 | 44.8K | 7.4 | +0.3 | |
| Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace | as Qui-Gon Jinn | 1999 | 941.1K | 6.5 | −0.9 | |
| The Haunting | as Dr. David Marrow | 1999 | 85.7K | 5.1 | −1.4 | |
| Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the ClonesCameo | as Qui-Gon Jinn (voice) | 2002 | 833.4K | 6.6 | ||
| Gangs of New York | as 'Priest' Vallon | 2002 | 511.9K | 7.5 | +2.4 | |
| K-19: The Widowmaker | as Mikhail Polenin | 2002 | 73.1K | 6.7 | −0.8 | |
| Love Actually | as Daniel | 2003 | 585.4K | 7.5 | +0.8 | |
| Kinsey | as Alfred Kinsey | 2004 | 52.9K | 7.0 | −0.5 | |
| Kingdom of Heaven | as Godfrey de Ibelin | 2005 | 363K | 7.3 | +0.3 | |
| The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe | as Aslan (voice) | 2005 | 463.5K | 6.9 | −0.4 | |
| Batman Begins | as Ducard | 2005 | 1.7M | 8.2 | +1.3 | |
| Breakfast on Pluto | as Father Liam | 2005 | 26.8K | 7.2 | −1.0 | |
| Seraphim Falls | as Carver | 2006 | 37.1K | 6.6 | −0.6 | |
| The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian | as Aslan (voice) | 2008 | 242.2K | 6.5 | −0.1 | |
| Taken | as Bryan Mills | 2008 | 679.8K | 7.7 | +1.2 | |
| The Other Man | as Peter | 2008 | 13.3K | 5.4 | −2.3 | |
| After.Life | as Eliot Deacon | 2009 | 43.4K | 5.9 | +0.5 | |
| Five Minutes of Heaven | as Alistair Little | 2009 | 13.6K | 6.5 | +0.6 | |
| Chloe | as David Stewart | 2009 | 84.2K | 6.2 | −0.3 | |
| The A-Team | as Hannibal | 2010 | 278.9K | 6.7 | +0.5 | |
| Clash of the Titans | as Zeus | 2010 | 308.3K | 5.8 | −0.9 | |
| The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader | as Aslan (voice) | 2010 | 179.9K | 6.3 | +0.5 | |
| The Next Three Days | as Damon | 2010 | 217.1K | 7.3 | +1.0 | |
| Unknown | as Dr. Martin Harris | 2011 | 277.9K | 6.8 | −0.5 | |
| The Grey | as John Ottway | 2011 | 276.5K | 6.7 | −0.1 | |
| The Dark Knight RisesCameo | as Ra's Al Ghul | 2012 | 2M | 8.4 | ||
| Taken 2 | as Bryan Mills | 2012 | 339.8K | 6.2 | −0.5 | |
| Battleship | as Admiral Shane | 2012 | 272.2K | 5.8 | −0.4 | |
| Wrath of the Titans | as Zeus | 2012 | 205.4K | 5.7 | −0.1 | |
| Anchorman 2: The Legend ContinuesCameo | as History Channel Host (uncredited) | 2013 | 203.9K | 6.3 | ||
| Third Person | as Michael | 2013 | 30.5K | 6.3 | +0.6 | |
| A Walk Among the Tombstones | as Matthew Scudder | 2014 | 132.6K | 6.5 | +0.2 | |
| The Lego Movie | as Bad Cop / Good Cop / Pa Cop (voice) | 2014 | 422.3K | 7.7 | +1.2 | |
| The Nut Job | as Raccoon (voice) | 2014 | 32.9K | 5.7 | −2.0 | |
| Non-Stop | as Bill Marks | 2014 | 289.7K | 6.9 | +1.2 | |
| Taken 3 | as Bryan Mills | 2014 | 217.1K | 6.0 | −0.9 | |
| A Million Ways to Die in the West | as Clinch | 2014 | 212.6K | 6.1 | +0.1 | |
| EntourageCameo | as Liam Neeson | 2015 | 86.6K | 6.5 | ||
| Run All Night | as Jimmy Conlon | 2015 | 120.7K | 6.6 | +0.5 | |
| Ted 2 | as Customer | 2015 | 266.9K | 6.3 | −0.3 | |
| Silence | as Ferreira | 2016 | 136.5K | 7.2 | +0.9 | |
| The Huntsman: Winter's WarCameo | as Narrator (voice) (uncredited) | 2016 | 128.3K | 6.1 | ||
| A Monster Calls | as The Monster (voice) | 2016 | 100.1K | 7.4 | +0.2 | |
| Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down the White House | as Mark Felt | 2017 | 16.3K | 6.4 | −1.0 | |
| Daddy's Home 2Cameo | as Liam Neeson (voice) (uncredited) | 2017 | 94.2K | 6.1 | ||
| The Commuter | as Michael MacCauley | 2018 | 135.5K | 6.3 | −0.1 | |
| Widows | as Harry Rawlings | 2018 | 110K | 6.8 | +0.5 | |
| The Ballad of Buster ScruggsCameo | as Impresario (segment "Meal Ticket") | 2018 | 187.7K | 7.2 | ||
| Men in Black: International | as Agent High T | 2019 | 163.2K | 5.6 | −1.2 | |
| Star Wars: Episode IX - The Rise of SkywalkerCameo | as Qui-Gon Jinn (voice) | 2019 | 552.5K | 6.3 | ||
| Cold Pursuit | as Nels Coxman | 2019 | 85.4K | 6.2 | +0.6 | |
| Honest Thief | as Tom Dolan | 2020 | 64.4K | 6.0 | −0.2 | |
| Made in Italy | as Robert | 2020 | 13K | 6.0 | ±0.0 | |
| The Ice Road | as Mike McCann | 2021 | 58K | 5.7 | −0.3 | |
| The Marksman | as Jim | 2021 | 49.9K | 5.7 | ±0.0 | |
| Memory | as Alex Lewis | 2022 | 43K | 5.8 | +0.1 | |
| BlacklightWorst | as Travis Block | 2022 | 29.3K | 4.9 | −0.9 | |
| Marlowe | as Philip Marlowe | 2022 | 15.2K | 5.4 | +0.5 | |
| In the Land of Saints and Sinners | as Finbar Murphy | 2023 | 33.2K | 6.4 | +1.0 | |
| Retribution | as Matt Turner | 2023 | 29.4K | 5.4 | −1.0 | |
| Absolution | as Thug | 2024 | 11.4K | 5.2 | −0.2 | |
| Ice Road: Vengeance | as Mike McCann | 2025 | 19.2K | 4.9 | −0.3 | |
| The Naked Gun | as Frank Drebin Jr. | 2025 | 136.4K | 6.3 | +1.4 | |
| Cold Storage | as Robert Quinn | 2026 | 31.1K | 6.0 | −0.3 |
Movies with at least 10,000 votes on IMDb. Cameos, billed after the first 20 or uncredited, are listed but not counted.
Worked with
Morgan Freeman
Lost the touch
First 5 7.2−1.2Latest 5 6.0
Ralph Fiennes
One for the ages
First 5 7.5−0.6Latest 5 6.9
Christopher Markus
Up, up and away
First 5 6.6+0.8Latest 5 7.4
Stephen McFeely
Getting better with age
First 5 6.6+0.8Latest 5 7.4
Luc Besson
Glory days
First 5 7.5−1.5Latest 5 6.0
Martin Scorsese
Like a fine wine
First 5 7.0+0.8Latest 5 7.8