Anecdotes

His eldest son is named Jack 'Django', after the 1966 Spaghetti Western 'Django'. His youngest son is name Max after 'Mad Max'.

Studied Fine Art Sculpture, working as a sculptor for several years before moving into directing.

Once managed to get the Italian movie star Franco Nero attached to a short Horror/Spaghetti Western, but funding proved elusive for the fledgling Director.

Offered job as sculptor on Alien Resurrection but chose to pursue a career in Directing instead.

Learned how to Direct by watching Sergio Leone's 'Once Upon a Time in the West'.

Won the Hartley Merrill International Screenwriting Prize for his screenplay 'SISK, alongside writers Terry McMahon and Mark O'Rowe. The film was to star Liam Cunningham but failed to go into production. O'Malley redressed the balance by casting Liam in his debut film 'Let Us Prey'.

Obsessed with electronic music since a young age, Brian has a large collection of vintage analogue synthesizers, with which he produces electronic music under the names PolyDROID and KuBO. This obsession led him to commission an electronic score for his first film 'Let Us Prey', by collaborator Steve Lynch.

He designed the poster for his feature film The Lodgers.