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The Grass Widows (1971)
Character: Car Driver
Newlyweds Jackson and Daphne are on honeymoon when they find themselves in the same hotel as Jackson's old headmaster.
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Ireland, Mother Ireland (1971)
Character: Hercules
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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The Patriot Game (1969)
Character: Kimmage
Dominic Behan's play concerning the IRA’s bombing campaign in London in 1939
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Bloomsday (1964)
Character: Bantam Lyons
One day in the life of assorted Dubliners, in the summer of 1904.
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The Lump (1967)
Character: Rooney
The Lump is an uncompromising exploration of exploitation and resistance within the building trade.
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Last Bus (1968)
Character: Bus Conductor
Late at night a gang of young men refuse to pay their bus fares, and assault the conductor. None of the other passengers or the driver intervene. After the incident everybody involved is interviewed in the studio about why they behaved as they did. Scene’s first play, specially commissioned for the series, was repeated late at night for an adult audience in December 1968, and shown again for schools to mark 25 years of Scene in 1993.
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The Chain (1984)
Character: Carpet Layer
Comedy featuring interweaving stories of seven households caught up in a property chain on moving day, each one dependent on the other.
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Rooney (1958)
Character: Michael
The life of James Ignatius Rooney, a Dublin rubbish collector during the week and a Gaelic sportsman at the weekends.
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The Falklands Factor (1983)
Character: Press Gang
Is there nothing new under the sun? 1770. The South Atlantic. A fleet sets sail from Buenos Aires to expel the British forces and reconquer the Falkland Islands. A major international crisis explodes. What follows may sound strangely familiar, but is firmly based on the historical record and the actual speeches and writings of the time.
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S.O.S. Titanic (1980)
Character: Irish Priest (uncredited)
The Titanic disaster as seen through the eyes of one couple in each of the three classes on board.
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Oh! What a Lovely War (1969)
Character: Irish Soldier
The working-class Smiths change their initially sunny views on World War I after the five boys of the family witness the harsh reality of trench warfare.
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Alice in Wonderland (1999)
Character: Bill The Gardener
Alice follows a white rabbit down a rabbit-hole into a whimsical Wonderland, where she meets characters like the delightful Cheshire Cat, the clumsy White Knight, a rude caterpillar, and the hot-tempered Queen of Hearts and can grow ten feet tall or shrink to three inches. But will she ever be able to return home?
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Cover Girl Killer (1959)
Character: Stagehand
A madman is on the loose... killing fashion models that appear on the cover of magazines. The police start a manhunt in an attempt to capture the killer.
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Knockback: 1 (1985)
Character: Dobbs
In 1965, at the age of 25, Alan Ackland is sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of a business associate. In 1971, Sylvia Barker, lonely and depressed after a failed marriage and with two young children to bring up alone, seeks a new direction in her life and applies to become a voluntary prison visitor. Several years later their paths cross.
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Made (1972)
Character: Engineer
This compelling emotional drama stars Carol White as a young single mother who finds herself caught between two people – a local priest and a folk singer – each of whom wants to convert her to his own worldview. An elegy to a younger generation looking for something to believe in, Made co-stars hugely influential folk-rock musician Roy Harper in his screen debut. Produced by Joseph Janni – who previously made the astonishingly successful Poor Cow with White – directed by The Long Good Friday's John Mackenzie and featuring new songs specially composed by Harper.
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The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne (1987)
Character: Drunk in Pub
A penniless middle-aged spinster scrapes by giving piano lessons in the Dublin of the 1950s. She makes a sad last bid for love with a fellow resident of her rundown boarding house, who imagines she has the money to bankroll the business he hopes to open.
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Sparrows Can't Sing (1963)
Character: Barman
Charlie returns to the East End after two years at sea to find his house demolished and wife Maggie gone. Everyone else knows she is now shacked up with married bus driver Bert and a toddler, and they all watch with more than a little interest at the trail of mayhem Charlie leaves as he goes about sorting things out.
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The Big Flame (1969)
Character: Docker
After a prolonged industrial dispute in the Liverpool Docks, the striking workers reject management demands of a return to work and decide instead to occupy the docks and run the operation themselves.
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Poor Cow (1967)
Character: Photo Studio Guvnor
A young woman lives a life filled with bad choices. At a young age she marries and has a child--with an abusive thief who quickly ends up in prison. Left alone, she takes up with the guy's mate, another thief, who seems to give her some happiness but who also ends up locked up. She then takes up with a series of seedy types who offer nothing but momentary pleasure--if that.
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The Grass Arena (1992)
Character: Kelly
The Grass Arena is based on the autobiography of John Healy. Raised in an strongly religious family, with an abusive father, John soon learns that he has to defend himself. Growing into adulthood he takes up boxing, but soon falls victim to alcoholism. His boxing career over, John takes to the Grass Arena (the park) where he lives with other alcoholics. Prison time introduces him to a new and unexpected path.
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Erik the Viking (1989)
Character: Prisoner
Erik the Viking gathers warriors from his village and sets out on a dangerous journey to Valhalla, to ask the gods to end the Age of Ragnorok and allow his people to see sunlight again. A Pythonesque satire of Viking life.
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The Girl in the Picture (1957)
Character: Jack Bates
A crime reporter investigating a murder discovers the case hinges on a mysterious woman he had photographed earlier.
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The Cruel Sea (1953)
Character: Sonar Operator (uncredited)
At the start of World War II, Cmdr. Ericson is assigned to convoy escort HMS Compass Rose with inexperienced officers and men just out of training. The winter seas make life miserable enough, but the men must also harden themselves to rescuing survivors of U-Boat attacks, while seldom able to strike back. Traumatic events afloat and ashore create a warm bond between the skipper and his first officer
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Dublin Nightmare (1958)
Character: Customer
Loot goes missing in robbery double-cross. Gang members, an ex-lover and a handsome stranger are left to sort it out.
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The Steel Bayonet (1958)
Character: Cpl. Ames R.A.
Tunis, 1943. Battle-weary troops of Company C have orders to occupy a derelict Tunisian farmhouse. They are to establish an artillery observation post, reporting on enemy movements before the imminent offensive to liberate Tunis. However German infantrymen discover their operations. The ensuing battle for control of this small piece of land will decide who controls Tunis but more critically, the victors in the battle of democracy versus fascism.
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Lady Caroline Lamb (1972)
Character: Irish housekeeper
Lady Caroline Lamb, dissatisfied in her marriage, has an affair with the dashing Romantic poet Lord Byron.
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Red Monarch (1983)
Character: Akhmet
British comedy satirising Stalin's inner circle as an absolute monarchs court. In the face of rampant abuse of power and poisonous distrust some still manage to keep faith with the Bolshevist creed until the very end. In front of the firing squad a stalwart bolshevist of the first hour exclaims: "Even in the best democracy errors are being made!"
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Captured (1959)
Character: N/A
Directed by cult British director John Krish, the film was sponsored by the Army Kinematograph Corporation. This tightly plotted drama shows British POWs enduring brainwashing and torture during the Korean War, thereby revealing what a soldier could expect if he was ever captured by enemy forces.
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Queen Kong (1976)
Character: Man in Aeroplane (uncredited)
A female film crew journeys to Africa where a giant ape, Queen Kong, falls in love with the crew's male star.
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Britannia Hospital (1982)
Character: Feeney: The Workers
Britannia Hospital, an esteemed English institution, is marking its gala anniversary with a visit by the Queen Mother herself. But when investigative reporter Mick Travis arrives to cover the celebration, he finds the hospital under siege by striking workers, ruthless unions, violent demonstrators, racist aristocrats, an African cannibal dictator, and sinister human experiments.
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The Cat Gang (1959)
Character: Banks
The Cat Gang is a group of precocious British kids. They have a habit of hanging around a grown-up customs official who wishes that they'd beat it. But the Gang comes in handy when a smuggling gang arrives on the scene.
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