Charles Kearney

Movies

The Priest and the Pirate
Cardinal
A priest is transferred to Edinburgh where he becomes involved with a pirate television station supporting Scottish independence.
Zahrat al-Qindul
In this award-winning documentary, directors Masri and Chamoun focus on the women who played a crucial role in fighting the Israeli invasion of southern Lebanon. Preserving their stories on camera, Wild Flowers: Women of South Lebanon is a poignant documentary about courage, resistance, and hope.
Comfort and Joy
All-Night DJ
Radio host Alan 'Dickie' Bird witnesses how an icecream van is attacked and destroyed by angry competitors. This leads him into the struggle between two Italian families over the icecream market of Glasgow.
Local Hero
Peter
An American oil company sends a man to Scotland to buy up an entire village where they want to build a refinery. But things don't go as expected.
Aliens
Sergeant
In June 1940 Italy entered the war alongside Germany. With Britain threatened by a German invasion, thousands of ordinary Italians living in the UK were arrested and thrown into internment camps.
The Good Time Girls
Drunk
The oil rigs provide rich pickings for those who work on them, but for wives isolated from husbands affluence is not enough.
Nosey Dobson
Set in the beautiful Isle of Arran where an over enthusiastic amateur detective becomes involved in a plot to rob Brodick Castle of its collection of antique silver.
The Cheviot, the Stag and the Black, Black Oil
Sellar
The "ceilidh play", as writer John McGrath styled it, is presented in the BBC's 1974 "Play for Today" production to a live audience intercut with filmed reconstructions of the Highland Clearances and the Victorian obsession with hunting stags. Restored in high definition from the original film masters held in the BBC Archives.
The Wicker Man
Butcher (uncredited)
Police sergeant Neil Howie is called to an island village in search of a missing girl whom the locals claim never existed. Stranger still, however, are the rituals that take place there.