Sergeant Gerry Boyle

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Sergeant Gerry Boyle is the cynical, sharp-witted small-town Irish police sergeant at the center of the dark comedy crime film "The Guard."

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instanceOf fictional character
film character
allyOf Agent Wendell Everett NERFINISHED
appearsInLanguageVersion The Guard (English-language film) NERFINISHED
caresAbout his elderly mother
characterIn The Guard NERFINISHED
countryOfCitizenship Ireland
createdBy John Michael McDonagh NERFINISHED
employer Garda Síochána NERFINISHED
ethnicGroup Irish
filmGenreContext buddy cop film
filmReleaseYear 2011
genreOfWork crime film
dark comedy
hasColleague Agent Wendell Everett NERFINISHED
hasVice drinking
soliciting prostitutes
hasWorldview nihilistic
skeptical of authority
languageOfCharacter English
moralAlignment antihero
narrativeFunction comic relief
investigator of central crime
narrativeRole protagonist
nationalityInFiction Irish
notableFor blunt honesty
unconventional policing methods
witty one-liners
occupation Garda sergeant
police sergeant
opponentOf drug traffickers
international drug smuggling ring
personalityTrait cynical
irreverent
morally ambiguous
sarcastic
sharp-witted
unorthodox
world-weary
policeRank sergeant
portrayedBy Brendan Gleeson NERFINISHED
settingOfActivities Galway NERFINISHED
usesHumorStyle dark humor
deadpan
workLocation rural County Galway
small-town Ireland

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Brendan Gleeson playedCharacter Sergeant Gerry Boyle