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Gold Is Where You Find It (1968)
Character: Steve Lenihan
A millionaire returns to Ireland and loses his gold nuggets before disappearing and sparking a gold rush.
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Danger! Men Working (1961)
Character: Scanling
In Ulster, Major Trumbull is put in charge of overseeing the completion of a hospital on time. As the pressure increases, he replaces well-liked foreman Desmond Doherty with brash Scanling, which angers the men.
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Ireland, Mother Ireland (1971)
Character: Fitzpatrick
A story of the timeless futility of war and death by war, of men who fought for their country, killed for a dream of freedom and died because they were betrayed.
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Black Ice (1957)
Character: Mick
The crew of a deep-sea trawler face a series of life-threatening challenges on the open ocean. While the ship battles brutal weather and treacherous icy conditions (the metaphorical "black ice" of the sea), the plot centers on the internal and external conflicts of the sailors.
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Jacqueline (1956)
Character: Bob Quinton
Jacqueline is the daughter of Belfast shipyard worker Mike McNeil. The worker's worth is compromised by his crippling fear of heights. Dismissed from his job, he finds solace in the bottle. All seems hopeless until Jacqueline breaks through her father's self-imposed gloom and helps him to regenerate. An adaptation of the novel 'A Grand Man', by Catherine Cookson.
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In the Nick (1960)
Character: Screw Jenkins
A gang of small-time criminals is sent to an experimental prison where inmates are to be reformed, not punished. The gang leader wields his manipulative charm to take control.
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A Prize of Arms (1962)
Character: Supt. Cooper
A criminal gang sets out to pull off the heist of a large army payroll.
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Wrong Number (1959)
Character: Max
Because she dials the wrong number, an old lady hears information which enables the police to solve a robbery and murder.
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The Summer in Gossensass (1964)
Character: Herr Holst
'To the May sun of a September life', wrote Henrik Ibsen on the photograph of himself that he gave to 19-year-old Emilie Bardach in Gossensass in September 1889. This is a documentary about the sixty-second year in the life of the great Norwegian dramatist.
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Billy Budd (1962)
Character: N/A
Billy is an innocent, naive seaman in the British Navy in 1797. When the ship's sadistic master-at-arms is murdered, Billy is accused and tried.
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Above Us the Waves (1955)
Character: Sailor on Towing Sub (uncredited)
In World War II, the greatest threat to the British navy is the German battleship Tirpitz. While anchored in a Norwegian fjord, it is impossible to attack by conventional means, so a plan is hatched for a special commando unit to attack it, using midget submarines to plant underwater explosives.
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A Walk with Love and Death (1969)
Character: Peasant Leader
During France’s Hundred Years’ War, a Parisian student seeks refuge by the sea and falls in love with an aristocrat. As they find shelter in a monastery, their romance is overshadowed by the ongoing conflict between peasants and noblemen.
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In Search of the Castaways (1962)
Character: Irish claimant
Two teenagers, Mary (Hayley Mills) and Robert (Keith Hamshere) are lead by Professor Paganel (Maurice Chevalier) on a search expedition for the children's shipwrecked sea captain father. This Disney film was based upon Jules Verne's 1868 adventure novel Captain Grant's Children.
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The Long Arm (1956)
Character: Detective Constable in Hospital Ward
Scotland Yard detectives attempt to solve a spate of safe robberies across England beginning with clues found at the latest burglary in London. The film is notable for using a police procedural style made popular by Ealing in their 1950 film The Blue Lamp. It is known in the US as The Third Key.
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Payroll (1961)
Character: Bert Langridge
A vicious gang of crooks plan to steal the wages of a local factory, but their carefully laid plans go wrong, when the factory employs an armoured van to carry the cash. The gang still go ahead with the robbery, but when the driver of the armoured van is killed in the raid, his wife plans revenge, and with the police closing in, the gang start to turn on each other.
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The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)
Character: Patterson (uncredited)
An American doctor and his wife, a former singing star, witness a murder while vacationing in Morocco, and are drawn into a twisting plot of international intrigue when their young son is kidnapped.
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Flight of the Doves (1971)
Character: Powder
While fleeing across the Irish countryside, two orphans are pursued by their villainous uncle, a master of disguises.
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Hand in Hand (1961)
Character: Mr. O'Malley
Seven-year-olds Michael and Rachel are best friends who do everything together and who have vowed to remain friends "forever and ever and can't be parted for never and never". Unfortunately, the society that Michael and Rachel live in is one of religious intolerance. The fact that Michael is Irish Catholic and Rachel is Jewish is a point of conflict for just about everyone in the community.
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King of Kings (1961)
Character: Bad Thief
Who is Jesus, and why does he impact all he meets? He is respected and reviled, emulated and accused, beloved, betrayed, and finally crucified. Yet that terrible fate would not be the end of the story.
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Gorgo (1961)
Character: Mate
When an underwater volcanic eruption tears up the sea bed off the coast of Ireland, two treasure hunters make the discovery of a lifetime when they encounter a gigantic prehistoric monster that’s been unleashed from the earth’s crust. After capturing the beast, the pair transport the creature down to London where it’s given the name of “Gorgo” and put on display to an avid public. Little do they realize that Gorgo is just an infant, and that his exponentially larger mother is about to emerge from the depths to avenge the capture of her offspring.
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Frenzy (1972)
Character: Hospital Patient (uncredited)
London is terrorized by a vicious sex killer known as The Necktie Murderer. Following the brutal slaying of his ex-wife, down-on-his-luck Richard Blaney is suspected by the police of being the killer. He goes on the run, determined to prove his innocence.
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Flat Two (1962)
Character: Charles Berry
A victim's boyfriend sneaks into a blackmailer's flat to sort him out, but another man's already there, and both don't realise the crook has been murdered before they got there. The police soon arrive, tipped off in advance.
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The July Plot (1964)
Character: SS General Count von Helidorf
Dramatisation of the failed plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler in July 1944 by a conspiracy of high-ranking German Army officers.
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Footsteps in the Fog (1955)
Character: Constable Burke
A Victorian-era murder mystery about a parlour maid who discovers that her employer may have killed his first wife.
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Satellite in the Sky (1956)
Character: Lefty
A bomb dooms the first space satellite, manned by a selfless crew, a stowaway reporter (Lois Maxwell) and a mad scientist (Donald Wolfit).
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The Naked Truth (1957)
Character: 2nd Irishman (uncredited)
Nigel Dennis publishes a scandal magazine. But for each story he writes, he first approaches the person whose scandalous behavior is described (or rather implied, to avoid any libel suit) and says he will suppress the story in return for money. Several of his victims first decide individually to kill him instead of paying, but fail in amusing ways. Then they find that to protect their various secrets they must now join forces for a rather different purpose...
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The Wrong Arm of the Law (1963)
Character: Alf
The crooks in London know how it works. No one carries guns and no one resists the police. Then a new gang appears that go one better. They dress as police and steal from the crooks. This upsets the natural order of the police/criminal relationship and the police and the crooks join forces to catch the IPOs (Impersonating Police Officers), including an armoured car robbery in which the police must help the gangs to set a trap.
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The Barber of Stamford Hill (1963)
Character: N/A
Mr. Figg, the barber, is fond of telling customers about his family, but he hasn’t really got one – he’s a bachelor quite alone in the world. But that may change.
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Gideon's Day (1958)
Character: Riley
Scotland Yard Inspector George Gideon starts his day off on the wrong foot when he gets a traffic-violation ticket from a young police officer. From there, his 'typical day" consists in learning that one of his most-trusted detectives has accepted bribes; hunts an escaped maniac who has murdered a girl; tracks a young girl suspected of involvement in a payroll robbery and then helps break up a bank robbery.
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The Birthday Present (1957)
Character: Junior Reception Officer (uncredited)
Returning from a business trip, toy salesman Simon Scott is caught attempting to smuggle a wristwatch bought for his wife's birthday through Customs. He is arrested and, due to a bungled defence by his solicitor, obliged to serve a three-month prison sentence. It is only the beginning of his woes; his employer, Colonel Wilson, is understanding, but he is ultimately forced to sack Simon, who discovers that finding another job under such circumstances is extremely difficult. But Colonel Wilson is determined to help his former employee find a solution.
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The MacKintosh Man (1973)
Character: Pub Customer (uncredited)
A member of British Intelligence assumes a fictitious criminal identity and allows himself to be caught, imprisoned, and freed in order to infiltrate a spy organization and expose a traitor; only, someone finds him out and exposes him to the gang...
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