Derrick O'Connor

Derrick O'Connor

Nacimiento : 1941-01-03, Dublin, Ireland

Muerte : 2018-06-29

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Derrick O'Connor was born in Dublin, Ireland, and raised in London, UK. He performed with the Royal Shakespeare Company and the Scottish National Theatre, with many leading stage performances in Edinburgh, Stratford-on-Avon and London's West End. His long and successful career included numerous starring roles in U.S., British and Australian film and television. He spent much of the latter half of his life living with his family in Santa Barbara where he died on 29th June, 2018 at the age of 77.

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Derrick O'Connor
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Derrick O'Connor

Películas

Pushing Dead
Sidewalk Salesman
When a struggling writer, HIV positive for 20+ years, accidentally deposits a $100 birthday check, he is dropped from his health plan for earning too much. In this new era of sort-of universal care, can he take on a helpless bureaucracy or come up with $3000 a month to buy meds on his own?
Unrest (Los que no descansan)
Dr. Blackwell
Mientras trabajan en un laboratorio con restos humanos, cuatro estudiantes de medicina no son conscientes de que están sobrepasando sus propios límites. Las disecciones y experimentos están llevándolos al filo de su estabilidad emocional. Uno de ellos comienza a ver imágenes de los cuerpos muertos. Y mientras se esfuerzan por mantener la ciencia a un nivel más superior que su propia cordura, comenten errores... y uno tras otro, los estudiantes comienzan a desaparecer...
Daredevil
Father Everett
Adaptación del legendario héroe de cómic de Marvel -conocido como el Hombre sin Miedo-. El abogado Matt Murdock es ciego a causa de un residuo radioactivo, pero sus otros cuatro sentidos están especialmente agudizados. De día, Murdock representa a los oprimidos. Por la noche, es Daredevil, un vigilante enmascarado que acecha las oscuras calles de la ciudad, un implacable vengador de justicia.
El fin de los días
Thomas Aquinas
Nueva York, 1979. En un hospital de Manhattan acaba de nacer Christine, una niña preciosa. Ese mismo día, en el Vaticano, un joven sacerdote informa al Papa del nacimiento de la niña, que lleva la marca del Anticristo. En 1999, Jericho Cane, un ex-policía amargado, salva a una joven del asalto de unos ladrones: es Christine. Desde entonces Cane será víctima de la persecución de terribles fuerzas sobrenaturales.
Deep Rising: El misterio de las profundidades
Captain Atherton
En el Mar de China, un trasatlántico de lujo ha sido atacado por misteriosos monstruos marinos que han devorado a la mayor parte de la tripulación y los pasajeros. Unos mercenarios que abordan el barco para atracarlo tendrán que enfrentarse a las feroces criaturas junto a los pocos supervivientes que encuentran.
Donde reside el Amor
Dean
Finn (Winona Ryder), una joven estudiante que está terminando su tesis de fin de carrera, se dedica, al mismo tiempo, a organizar su boda con Sam. Pero la idea de perder la libertad empieza a angustiarla. Decide entonces ir a casa de su abuela , donde, rodeada de excéntricos amigos y familiares como su tía Glady Jo , meditará sobre su futuro.
Soul Survivors
Dave
Otis Cooke is a DJ with a late-night American soul music programme in Liverpool. His favorite band, The Tallahassees, disbanded years ago, but their biggest hit, "Pickin' Up the Pieces," was never released in England. The film recounts Cooke's adventures and misadventures as he travels to the U.S., finds the band members, and convinces them to get back together for a reunion tour of the U.K and the release of their old songs on CD.
A Question of Guilt
Geoffrey Bailey
The brutal murder of a woman appears to be an open and shut case. But while there is a suspect and a signed confession, the lack of a credible motive still nags the investigating officer and prosecuting lawyer.
Happy Feet
Clifford
The pupils of the Dora Jackson School of Dancing compete in the 1960 Classical Dance Festival in Scarborough. Fifties rock 'n' roll meets classical ballet with the arrival of Dora's ex-boyfriend Clifford and a mysterious ghost.
Dealers
Robby Barrell
The London branch of Whitney Paine, a major American investment bank, is in the midst of a crisis; after the loss of $100 million, one of their leading traders, Tony Eisner commits suicide by putting a slug through his head while seated at his place in the board room. Despite the high stakes, many of the firm's staff are eager to step into Tony's now-vacated shoes and get credit for saving the company. Daniel Pascoe, the leading trader at the firm, is convinced that he's first in line for the assignment, but the firm imports a new trader from America, Anna Schuman. Daniel is enraged and makes a point of trying to dig up as much dirt on Anna as he can, but things are going to take another turn.
Arma letal 2
Pieter 'Adolph' Vorstedt
Una pareja de policías tiene como misión proteger a un individuo que va a testificar en contra de una organización de traficantes de droga. Las cosas se complican cuando uno de ellos decide iniciar la investigación por su cuenta sin comunicarlo a la comisaría.
Esperanza y gloria
Mac
Segunda Guerra Mundial (1939-1945). Un inocente niño inglés vive la guerra como una experiencia apasionante y llena de emociones que ponen fin a la rutina diaria. Basada en recuerdos de la infancia del director.
Honest Decent & True
Mike Selby
Trendy employees of a small London ad agency try to market beer for an old-fashioned client.
Brazil
Dowser
En un extraño y deprimente universo futurista donde reinan las máquinas, una mosca cae dentro de un ordenador y cambia el apellido del guerrillero Harry Tuttle (Robert de Niro) por el del tranquilo padre de familia Harry Buttle, que es detenido y asesinado por el aparato represor del Estado. El tranquilo burócrata Sam Lowry (Jonathan Pryce) es el encargado de devolver un talón a la familia de la víctima, circunstancia que le permite conocer a Jill Layton (Kim Greist), la mujer de sus sueños. Y, mientras la persigue, hace amistad con Harry Tuttle y se convierte en su cómplice.
Knockback: 2
Alan
Alan and Sylvia fall in love and Alan gains a renewed sense of purpose. He begins to hope for an eventual release on licence. However both he and Sylvia have to face the fact that, for the foreseeable future, they cannot enjoy any physical intimacy. They decide to treat their affair as a long Victorian courtship.
Knockback: 1
Alan
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.
Flying Into the Wind
Barry Wyatt
The Wyatts wish to educate their children at home, but the education authorities have other ideas. Moving between 1969 and 1980, we see how this affects the various individuals and attitudes.
The Missionary
Gym Trainer
In 1905, after 10 years of missionary work in Africa, the Rev. Charles Fortesque is recalled to England, where his bishop gives him his new assignment - to minister to London's prostitutes.
Easter 2016
Lennie North
Set in 2016 prior to the centennial of the Easter Rising at Northern Ireland's only integrated teacher training college. A struggle develops between the principal and the security director who values security more than education.
Psy-Warriors
Richards
Soldiers are captured and interrogated by terrorists: but is it real or only a sadistic form of psychological training exercise?
Los héroes del tiempo
Robber Leader
A Kevin, un chico con una imaginación desbordante, una noche lo despierta un grupo de enanos que sale de su propio armario. Estos personajes eran antiguos criados del "Ser Supremo", pero, cansados de trabajar para él, decidieron robarle un mapa para poder viajar a través del tiempo y del espacio con la intención de robar grandes tesoros en distintas épocas. Además, sus viajes les han permitido conocer a diversos personajes históricos: Napoleón, Agamenón, el rey de Micenas, e incluso Robin Hood.
La espada invencible
Ralf
Hawk, habiendo sufrido la ignominia de ver tanto a su padre como a su prometida morir a manos de su hermano, Voltan, se embarca en una búsqueda de compañeros de batalla para que le ayuden en su lucha por derrocar el reino del mal de su hermano y liberar a la abadesa.
Bloody Kids
Detective Ritchie
The slender premise springs from the actions of two listless 11-year-old boys, the cold, manipulative Leo, and his weaker, more impressionable friend, Mike. Contemptuous of the fallible police force (Mike has already filched a police hat from an accident scene), the boys arrange a staged knife fight outside a football stadium with the aid of a bag of stage blood and a real blade.
Fox
Ray Fox
The thirteen-part series recounted the lives of the titular Fox family, who lived in Clapham in South London and had gangland connections.
Comedians
George McBrain
Comedians is a TV movie/play by Trevor Griffiths, set in a Manchester evening class for aspiring working-class comedians.
Sweeney 2
Llewellyn
The plot is set on a group of bank robbers, who are both violent and successful, strangely getting away each time with an amount around the £60,000 mark, and often leaving behind cash in excess of this sum. The robbers are willing to kill their own team, to get away. As Jack Regan himself puts it after the first raid in the film: "I've never seen so many dead people". Armed with gold-plated Purdey shotguns, they evaded Regan and the Flying Squad for quite some time, before Regan finds encouragement from his Detective Chief Superintendent who was sent down for corruption because Jack wouldn't testify in court for him.
La bestia del reino
Flying Hogfish Peasant
Michael Palin interpreta a un campesino del medievo que tratará de matar a un monstruo que está arrasando los pueblos allá por donde pasa.
Keep an Eye on Albert
Albert
Pubs, pigeons, weight-lifting - that's Terry's life, and his wife Glenda feels neglected. But now Terry's best mate, Albert, is on leave from the Merchant Navy, and Albert knows how to treat a lady. 'Fireworks assured,' says the wrestling poster.
Butley
Butley cuenta la historia de un día en la vida universitaria de Don Ben Butley (Alan Bates). Desafortunadamente para él, este es el día en que su vida se desmorona.
El programa final
Frank
Jerry Cornelius es un físico multimillonario que trata de encontrar un proyecto de su padre, un físico que ha recibido el premio Nobel y que acaba de morir. Es el denominado “programa final”: se trata del diseño de un ser humano perfecto, capaz incluso de autorreproducirse. En una Europa en pleno caos, la Señora Brunner y otros científicos, piden ayuda a Cornelius para encontrarlo. Cuando lo consiguen se aplican a sí mismos el programa en una abandonada fortaleza nazi del Ártico.