Brendan Dillon

Brendan Dillon

Birth : 1918-10-24, Dublin, Ireland

Death : 2011-03-15

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Brendan Dillon

Movies

Carnival of Souls
Henry
A young woman is pursued in reality and in her subconscious by the sadistic carnival clown who raped and murdered her mother.
Raging Angels
Protestor
Two musicians are unknowingly drawn into a supernatural scheme.
Voices Within: The Lives of Truddi Chase
Shannon
A woman who suffers from multiple personality disorder is found during therapy to have suffered child abuse in this fact-based story.
The Dead
Cabman
After a convivial holiday dinner party, things begin to unravel when a husband and wife address some prickly issues concerning their marriage.
Vampire
Father Devlin
Vampire Anton Voytek's lair is disturbed by the ground breaking for a new church. Anton attempts to start a modern life using his hoarded wealth, but finds it's been confiscated by the authorities. He takes revenge on the architect responsible, who in turn, aided by a retired detective, tries to hunt down and destroy Anton.
Movie Movie
Jury Foreman ("Dynamite Hands")
Three movie genres of the 1930s, boxing films, WWI aviation dramas, and backstage Broadway musicals, are satirized using the same cast.
The 3,000 Mile Chase
Ambrose Finn
Secret courier Matt Considine accepts the mission to escort chief witness Dvorak and his wife from San Francisco to a trial in New York. They have to cover 3,000 dangerous miles, because the drug mob wants to kill them at any price.
Young Pioneers' Christmas
Doyle
A young couple and their neighbours celebrate Christmas in 1874 on the Dakota prairie. Despite tragedy and an ongoing battle with the Railway company, Christmas is a homespun and overly sentimental affair.
Bug
Charlie
An earthquake releases a strain of mutant cockroaches with the ability to start fires, which proceed to cause destructive chaos in a small town. The studies carried out by scientist James Parmiter, however, reveal an intent with much more far-reaching consequences.
The Dead Don't Die
Prison Chaplain
In the 1930s, a sailor trying to prove that his brother was wrongly executed for murder finds himself becoming drawn into the occult world.
The Island at the Top of the World
The Factor
A Victorian gentleman hopes to find his long-lost son, who vanished whilst searching for a mysterious Viking community in a volcanic valley somewhere in uncharted Arctic regions. The gentleman puts together an expedition team to go on the search, but when they reach their destination they must escape from some Viking descendants who will kill to keep their existence a secret.
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Victor
Adaptation of the novel by Oscar Wilde.
The Hound of the Baskervilles
Barrymore
Holmes and Dr. Watson tackle the case of a curse on the Baskerville bloodline in this ABC Movie of the Week adaptation.
The Molly Maguires
Mr. Raines
Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, 1876. A secret society of Irish coal miners, bond by a sacred oath, put pressure on the greedy and ruthless company they work for by sabotaging mining facilities in the hope of improving their working conditions and the lives of their families.
The Killing of Sister George
When June Buckridge arrives at her London flat and announces 'They are going to murder me', her long-time lover and doll-cuddling flat mate Alice 'Childie' McNaught realizes that things are going to change. For June is referring to her character 'Sister George', a lovable nurse she portrays in a popular daytime serial. To make matters worse, the widowed executive at the BBC responsible for the decision to kill off Sister George - Mercy Croft is also a predatory lesbian who is after Childie and will stop at nothing to get what she wants.
My Fair Lady
Leading Man (uncredited)
A snobbish phonetics professor agrees to a wager that he can take a flower girl and make her presentable in high society.
The Unsinkable Molly Brown
Murphy
The buoyant Molly Brown has survived the first crisis of her life—a flood. Sixteen years later she sets out to make her way in the world. She assures the Leadville saloon keeper that she can sing and play the piano, and learns quickly. Soon she marries Johnny Brown, who in a few years will be able to replace the original cigar wrapper wedding ring with a replica in gold and gemstones. The Browns head for Europe and bring a few crowned heads back to Denver for a party that turns into a ballroom brawl. Molly goes to Europe alone, returning on the Titanic. She didn't survive a flood as a baby for the story to end here.
Hero's Island
Thomas Mainwaring
A family shipwrecked on an island must deal with escaped convicts and pirates.
The Premature Burial
Minister
An artist grows distant from his new wife as an irrational horror of premature burial consumes him.
Flaming Frontier
Store Clerk
Army officer whose parents are white and Indian tries to avert an Indian war.