T. P. McKenna
Nacimiento : 1929-09-07, Mullagh, County Cavan, Ireland
Muerte : 2011-02-13
Historia
Born in Mullagh, County Cavan, Ireland, Thomas Patrick 'T. P.' McKenna was a distinguished character actor of film and TV and a prolific stage actor. He made his stage debut in "Summer and Smoke" by Tennessee Williams at the Pike Theatre in Dublin in 1954 and his film debut in the 1960 film The Night Fighters. Film credits included Straw Dogs, Ulysses, Perfect Friday, Villain, The Charge of the Light Brigade, Red Scorpion and Valmont, whilst his TV credits included Bleak House, Inspector Morse, Doctor Who, Casualty, Ballykissangel and Lovejoy.
Black Rod
Londres, 1660, Época de la Restauración. En un periodo en el que tienen lugar constantes descubrimientos y progresos en el mundo de la ciencia, la religión y las artes, vive el decadente John Wilmot (Johnny Depp), Conde de Rochester, amigo y confidente del rey Carlos II de Inglaterra (John Malkovich). Wilmot, destacado poeta, dramaturgo, soldado y cortesano, mujeriego, hedonista y libertino, es uno de los personajes más peculiares e influyentes del siglo XVII.
The Announcer
In Ireland in the mid 1960s, two feuding brothers and their respective Ceilidh bands compete at a music festival.
Self - Actor / Major John Scott
Documentary about the making of Sam Peckinpah's 1971 film "Straw Dogs."
Henry VIII
From double BAFTA nominated Writer and Director John Walsh. Monarch is part fact, part fiction and unfolds around one night when the injured ruler arrives at a manor house closed for the season.
Edmund Burke
Parallel stories: 18th century Harrison builds the marine chronometer for safe navigation at sea; 20th century Gould is obsessed with restoring it.
Chief Constable Sir John Harmon
Shoot to Kill is a four-hour drama documentary reconstruction of the events that led to the 1984–86 Stalker Inquiry into the shooting of six terrorist suspects in Northern Ireland in 1982 by a specialist unit of the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC), allegedly without warning (the so-called shoot-to-kill policy); the organised fabrication of false accounts of the events; and the difficulties created for the inquiry team in their investigation.
Dr. Grahame
While on vacation at a resort hotel in the West Indies, Miss Marple correctly suspects that the apparently natural death of a retired British major is actually the work of a murderer planning yet another killing.
Baron
Nadie puede resistirse a los intentos de seducción de la Marquesa de Merteuil y del Vizconde de Valmont. Unidos en sus complots y sus secretos, ambos reinan en los salones y los gabinetes de la aristocracia. Como dos cazadores en el mismo territorio, estos perversos especialistas de la intriga amorosa acabarán por enfrentarse. En este duelo sin piedad, un sentimiento sincero es un error mortal. (FILMAFFINITY)
General Vortek
Nikolai es un agente soviético que se desplaza a un pais africano con objeto de eliminar al jefe de un grupo guerrillero opuesto al gobierno de la nación. Una vez allí contactará con los rebeldes, para los que se convertirá en un héroe.
Captain Cook
The Doctor and Ace head for the Psychic Circus on the planet Segonax, where they meet a disparate group of performers and visitors, including a self-centred explorer named Captain Cook, his companion Mags and a biker known as Nord.
Dr. Hogan
1908: Pascali, un espía del Sultán, envía informes a Estambul que nadie lee. Sus sospechas se despiertan cuando aparece un arqueólogo británico, que puede no ser lo que parece.
Dr. Sweeting
Una mujer empieza a trabajar para una prestigiosa compañía farmacéutica que está desarrollando una nueva cura milagrosa. Pronto descubre lo retorcida y despiadada que puede ser la industria farmacéutica.
Dursan
In 1920s Turkey, a young peasant is smitten with a beautiful young girl, who has been promised in marriage to the fat, dullard cousin of the province's powerful and corrupt governor. When an assassination attempt is made against the official, the young man flees his village and joins up with a group of outlaws fighting against the wealthy and powerful landowners who control the lives of the locals and make life miserable for them. The outlaws' successes prompt the governor to call in the Turkish army to capture or kill them.
Liam
A woman in a state of personal crisis finds it hard to communicate with her husband and family.
Augustus Carmichael
A faithful dramatization of Virginia Woolf's novel. A lecturer, his family, the spinster Aunt Lily, an old friend, and a student, Charles Tansley, spend a summer in an isolated house in Cornwall just before World War I. The stern Mr. Ramsay scolds everybody, while Mrs. Ramsay is the linchpin in keeping the family together. Aunt Lily paints, and the family talk about sailing to the lighthouse, but the trip is always postponed.
Himmler
Historia del padre Hugh O'Flaherty, un sacerdote destinado en el Vaticano durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial (1939-1945), que acogió y escondió a judíos, prisioneros de guerra huidos y a familiares de los partisanos italianos
Theatre Surgeon
Comedia que trata sobre el personal de un hospital que, atemorizado, se prepara para la visita de nada más y nada menos que la reina de Inglaterra. El centro Britannia Hospital va a inaugurar un nuevo ala en su edificio y la soberana del país decide estar presente ese día. El pánico se extiende por todo el hospital, ante la visión de todo lo que puede ocurrir durante el esperado acontecimiento. La cocinera se niega a preparar el menú del día, los pintores se resisten a terminar su trabajo y los manifestantes que quieren derrocar a un dictador que se encuentra hospitalizado en el centro serán los encargados de crispar los ánimos al máximo nivel.
Mick Travis (Malcolm McDowell) es un periodista que comienza un documental sobre un hospital. (FILMAFFINITY)
2002: In a paranoid UK, with the threat of nuclear war ever closer and prisons full to bursting, four convicts tell of the ‘crimes’ they have committed, some seemingly innocuous by today’s standards… at least, at first.
Helen's husband
Colin Pasmore tests his strength against his family ties but finds them stronger than he ever imagined.
Bank Manager
David Essex stars as Nick Freeman, a motorcycle racer who, following the death of his brother, inherits a revolutionary prototype motorcycle, and is determined to race it at the British Grand Prix at Silverstone.
John Russell
Michael Flaherty (Craig Wasson), an American Vietnam veteran of Irish descent, returns to Belfast to join the cause of his grandfather, Seamus (Sterling Hayden). Soon he finds that he is not as welcomed in his home country as he imagined he would be. Even worse, he's the target of an IRA assassination plot designed to make the British forces look bad in order to elicit financial support from wealthy Americans.
Ainsley Rupert Macreadie
A popular radio personality writes and broadcasts ghost stories over the air. He receives a strange call warning him not to finish his latest story, which is about a child who dies assisting in a magician's show.
Simon Dedalus
Bosco Hogan plays Joyce's alter-ego, Stephen Daedelus, growing up in Ireland in the early part of the 20th century, and at odds with the strictures of his Catholic home and family. The film charts his search for knowledge and understanding, during a decline in his family's circumstances, that leads him to revelations on the nature of art, beauty and politics. However his personal renaissance makes him feel unwelcome in his own country, and forces him to make a choice between exile as artist or staying and facing personal defeat.
Harvey Fenton-Jones
From BBC2 Playhouse's The Mind Beyond series. Professor Reeve wonders about strange events that seem to be connected to Stonehenge (Source: BBC).
Soames
En 1937 el veterinario recién titulado James Herriot (Simon Ward) viaja a Yorkshire para solicitar el puesto de ayudante en la consulta de Siegfried Farnon (Anthony Hopkins), donde aprenderá a adaptarse a la vida rural mientras se esfuerza en superar el escepticismo con que la comunidad local contempla sus habilidades.
London News Editor
Percy, el primer hombre de la historia con un pene trasplantado, descubre que un producto químico en el agua de la ciudad produce impotencia.
Tomazo de Piracquo
Sexual passion breeds violence in the Thomas Middleton and William Rowley written tale of a beautiful woman who falls in love with a sea-captain. Filmed with lush production values and at a leisurely, very British pace, Helen Mirren is riveting as Beatrice-Joanna, a young lass already torn by love and commitment.Beatrice-Joanna (Helen Mirren) is betrothed to Lord Alonzo de Piraquo (Malcolm Reynolds) but is in love with Alsemero (Brian Cox). She hires her father's manservant, De Flores (Stanley Baker), to kill Alonzo but after he has done so, she realises De Flores wants her as a reward.The Changeling was an instalment of the BBC's Play of the Month series and is a production for television of a 1622 Jacobean tragedy of the same name, written by Thomas Middleton and William Rowley.
Jack Hardisty
A shy, lonely American girl marries a charming man she meets while on vacation in England, unaware that he has sinister plans for her.
Maj. John Scott
El astrofísico americano David Sumner (Hoffman) se traslada a vivir al pueblo de su mujer, en Gran Bretaña. Es un hombre reservado y tímido que vive absorto en sus investigaciones y procura evitar cualquier disputa. Sin embargo, la violencia de ciertos individuos del pueblo llega a tal extremo que Sumner, situado entre la espada y la pared, reacciona con las mismas armas que sus agresores para defender a su mujer y su hogar... Obra clave en la filmografía de Peckinpah, "Perros de paja" es un estudio sobre la violencia del ser humano basado en la novela "The Siege of Trencher's Farm", de Gordon M. Williams.
Frank Fletcher
Cuenta la historia de un bandido despiadado, Vic Dakin, y de sus planes para robar la nómina de una fábrica de plástico. El modo en que se lleva a cabo el golpe no es el modus operandi habitual de Dakin y el asunto se complicará aún más porque tendrá que colaborar con otro delincuente, Frank Fletcher.
Meet The People Compere
Edwin Antony (Hywel Bennett) is emasculated in an accident which kills a young philanderer. Doctors successfully replace his member with that of the dead man, but refuse to tell him the full story of the organ's origin. So Edwin begins a search which takes him to the philanderer's wife - and also to his many, many girlfriends...
Smith
El director general de un banco londinense ha urdido, por puro entretenimiento, un plan para robar 200.000 libras; pero, cuando se enamora de una atractiva mujer de la alta sociedad, decide llevar a la práctica su proyecto.
Nick
Unos días antes del final de la II Guerra Mundial (1939-1945), en un campo de prisioneros alemanes situado en Canadá, dos presuntos desertores son juzgados por sus oficiales y condenados a morir fusilados.
Det. Chief Sup. Paddick
Dos viejas hermanas han ocultado a un hermano deforme en el sótano, durante los últimos treinta años. Pero un día se escapa e inicia una serie de asesinatos.
William Russel
El capitán Nolan, procedente de la India, se incorpora al regimiento de Lord Cardigan. Considerado un oficial de inferior categoría por sus compañeros, Nolan mantendrá continuos enfrentamientos con Lord Cardigan a causa de su despótica actitud. En la guerra de Crimea (1854-1856), en pleno asedio de Sebastopol, tendrá lugar una terrible batalla. (FILMAFFINITY)
Buck Mulligan
Stephen Dedalus , quien se imagina a sí mismo como un poeta , se embarca en un día de vagar por la ciudad durante el cual encuentra una amistad y una figura paterna en Leopold Bloom , un Judio de mediana edad. Mientras tanto , el día de Bloom , iluminado por un funeral y una noche de beber que despierta sentimientos paternales hacia Stephen , termina con un reconciliación con Molly , su esposa terrenal.
Tom
A pesar de hacer los trabajos más duros y humildes, John Cassidy es un idealista que sueña con ser escritor. Pero le ha tocado vivir en Dublín, una ciudad que vive tiempos turbulentos por los motines y las huelgas de 1911, así que se dedica a repartir octavillas sediciosas. Por fin, llega el día en que termina de escribir un libro titulado "Historia del ejército popular irlandés", que, no sin dificultad, consigue publicar.
Jack Hanson
The ancient story of the ill-fated Deirdre and the Sons of Usnach. Building on the many earlier literary retellings of the story, W. B. Yeats deliberately frames his 1906 play as an extension of the legend, writing a new death-tale for Deirdre that is also a personal statement about love, death, and the making of art. Goodreads
The Priest
Kate Brady, una tímida y solitaria chica de un pequeño pueblo irlandés, se traslada a Dublín para ganarse la vida. Allí comparte piso con Babe, una antigua compañera de estudios. Ambas adoran el bullicio y el desenfreno de la gran ciudad. Un día Kate conoce a Eugene Gaillard, un maduro escritor, con el que mantiene una conflictiva relación sentimental. (FILMAFFINITY)
Harold Crossley is a barrister and respected intellectual, but proves no match to his scheming young wife
Walsh
Thomas Crimmins is a new warder, or guard, in an Irish prison. He is young, naive, and idealistic, determined to serve his country by his part in meting out justice to criminals. His superior, Regan, however, realizes that even prisoners are human beings, and Regan is sick of the eye-for-an-eye attitude that leads the state to execute condemned men, or "quare fellows." Crimmins begins to see that not all is black and white in his new world, and when he becomes involved with Kathleen, the wife of one of the condemned men, his attitude begins to change. When new evidence arises to suggest that Kathleen's husband may not deserve his fate, Crimmins is torn between his duty and his humanity.
Mike
Paul Maxwell plays Craig Owen, an incarcerated criminal whose cellmate holds the secret to the valuable contents within a safe deposit box. When the cellmate dies, Owen breaks out of jail in search of the stash. Unable to open the box, the fugitive abducts Linda (Felicity Young), the dead man's daughter. Tension mounts as the girl plays for time to prevent her own demise.
Lapidos
A police inspector (Donald Sinden) tracks down Russian anarchist Peter the Painter (Peter Wyngarde) and his gang in circa-1911 London.