Milo O’Shea
Nacimiento : 1926-06-02, Dublin, Irish Free State
Muerte : 2013-04-02
Locky
A black comedy about two old-time conmen who pretend to be able to communicate with the dead.
Sgt. McGillikuddie
Spike Milligan's book about the divided Irish village of Puckoon comes to the big screen.
B
An old blind beggar and an old cripple in a wheelchair meet on a desolate street corner. The latter proposes that the two form an alliance, but the men are not destined to get along together.
Justice Harlan Greene
A newly-appointed Supreme Court Justice must settle a controversial moral and legal dilemma with his tie-breaking decision which may also have serious implications on his own family's harmony.
Father Sullivan
Francie Brady (Eamonn Owens) es un adolescente que vive en un ambiente familiar que frustra todos sus deseos y sus sueños. En pie de guerra contra la realidad que lo rodea, y dominado por un padre alcohólico (Stephen Rea) y una madre depresiva, Francie busca desesperadamente un refugio para olvidarse de su vida.
Dermot O'Brien
Marcy Tizard es la asesora del senador John McGlory, que está teniendo problemas en su campaña de reelección. Buscando el voto irlandés su jefe Nick la manda a Irlanda para encontrar a sus parientes o ancestros. Marcy llega a la villa de Ballinagra cuando se está preparando el Festival Anual de parejas. Allí conocerá el amor de dos hombres. (FILMAFFINITY)
Freddie
Una mujer joven, Tara Maguire (Robin Wright) escandaliza a su pueblo irlandés en la década de 1950 al tener un bebé fuera de matrimonio y negarse a nombrar al padre. Ella tiene una rara belleza y todos los hombres de la ciudad la desean, especialmente el sargento Hegarty (Albert Finney). La llegada de una compañía dramática agita aún más las cosas, especialmente cuando se enamora de uno de los "Playboys", Tom Casey (Aidan Quinn).
Doyle
Danny Muldoon (John Candy) es un policía de Chicago de 38 años de edad que se enamora de la hija del director de una funeraria, pero la relación choca con el firme rechazo de la madre de él, una irlandesa de ideas fijas.
Max
Eddie and Lou are a couple of two-bit con men on the lam from a loan shark. They hide out in someone's house and they hear on the answering machine that (A) the owner of the house is out of the country for a month or two and (B) the housesitter supposed to watch the house for the absent owner won't be able to watch the house due to a new job in another part of the country. This provides for a pretty nifty arrangement for Eddie and Lou...until the relatives of the house owner drop by to visit. Eddie quickly adopts the guise of the person supposedly housesitting for the owner, and the shenanigans start from there.
Dr. Newald
El doctor Weitzman trabaja en un sanatorio mental de New Jersey, siendo de la opinión que los enfermos deberían salir del psiquiátrico de vez en cuando. A tal efecto, el Dr. Weitzman convence al director de que algunos pacientes podrían asistir, bajo su responsabilidad como terapeuta, a ver partido de béisbol en Nueva York. Una vez en la calle todo va bien, pero el Doctor tiene un pequeño accidente y ha de ser conducido a un hospital, quedando solos los enfermos por la ciudad.
Father Mahon
Mientras un grupo de Fuerzas Especiales entrena a una aldea para defenderse de los terroristas, el Capitán del grupo conoce a una monja americana.
Monsignor Casey
Cuando el padre Joseph Hennessey visita la casa de uno de sus feligreses para ofrecerle los últimos derechos, se ve envuelto en un complot que finalmente sacude su fe hasta sus cimientos. Intrigado por la mención del moribundo de "Nim", y fascinado por el comportamiento santo del hombre, la curiosidad del padre Joseph se redobla cuando una hermosa joven entra en su iglesia para interrogar al joven sacerdote acerca del difunto. El padre Joseph y la mujer, a quien descubre que es el "Nim" en cuestión, se embarcan en una investigación sobre las circunstancias que rodearon la muerte del hombre.
Abner Bevis
In a world gone mad, one man lives to turn wrong to right, bad to good, and despicable to black-and-blue. One man lives to beat back the forces of evil with a legendary arsenal of superpowers. One man lives to kiss the babies, impress the ladies, and make grown men weep. He is Captain Justice, and this is his story. The Cicero Gang, the dregs of society, a vicious pack of power-hungry psychopaths, has taken Captain Justice's number one fan, Woody, and his mom hostage. Once again, evil reigns and innocent lives lay in danger. Can anyone survive? Is this really curtains for rosy cheeks, bubble gum and mom's apple pie? But wait! What is that speck on the horizon, blasting through the Forbidden Zone like a rocket? It's a force beyond the imagination. The man, the myth, the ultimate comic book superhero - it's Captain Justice, speeding towards perilous adventure and various acts of bravery. 74-minute movie is an assembly edit of various episodes from the TV show.
Father Donnelly
EE.UU., Gran Depresión. Mientras Cecilia trabaja como camarera en Nueva Jersey, su marido se dedica a hacer el vago. Su única vía de escape es el cine, al que acude una y otra vez para evadirse de la realidad y soñar con un mundo de champagne, trajes de noche y fiestas elegantes. Una noche, el protagonista de su película favorita, "La rosa púrpura de El Cairo", se fija en ella y atraviesa la pantalla para conocerla.
Dr. Duran Duran
Call my name, and I'll be there. Dr. Duran Duran escapes the punishment of the Matmos at the height of British rock group Duran Duran's 1980s popularity. Mistaking the cries of teenage girls at crowded concerts for devotees screaming his name, the Doctor makes his way to Earth so he can lead his faithful masses. Once he discovers the kids don't want an evil Doctor, he goes about trying to destroy the source of the real desires a rock concert taking place at the Oakland (Calif.) Colesium.
Judge Hoyle
Un abogado que ha tenido una carrera profesional llena de fracasos contempla la posibilidad de rehabilitarse mediante un fácil caso de éxito. Se trata de un juicio promovido por la familia de una mujer que ha sido sometida a una intervención quirúrgica sin aparente peligro en un famoso hospital. El resultado de la operación ha sido que ella está clínicamente muerta. De cualquier forma, el caso no es tan fácil como en un principio parece, ya que la clínica ha contratado a los abogados de mayor prestigio dentro del ámbito judicial.
Elizabeth Bayley Seton es una mujer episcopaliana de alta sociedad felizmente casada y madre de cinco. Pero todo cambia abruptamente cuando su esposo, William Seton fallece en Italia después de que su negocio de barcos quebrara. Fallecen también dos de sus hijas. Como viuda con cinco hijos abre un pequeño colegio para financiar a su familia.
Decide convertirse al catolicismo, a pesar de las protestas de sus familiares y amigos. La exilian socialmente, se queda sin nada, así que ella y sus hijas se refugian en Baltimore. Bajo el alero de John Carroll, el primer Obispo Católico estadounidense, abre un colegio, establece una rutina religiosa y toma votos religiosos, convirtiéndose en la `Madre Seton.' Fundará un convento y luego a las Hermanas de la Caridad.
Fue la fundadora del primer colegio católico de Estados Unidos.
Canonizada en 1975.
Fuente: peliculasdesantoscatolicos
Doctor O'Brian
Un piloto de aviación tiene problemas con el alcohol, que intenta superar con la ayuda de una compañera.
Michael Higgins
The dramatized biography of Margaret Sanger, the crusader who founded America's first birth control clinic during World War I and was tried in court under obscenity laws.
Khasim
Alquazar, el dictador de Jadur, le ofrece al Príncipe Hasan la mano de su hija, a condición de que le traiga una rosa sagrada de la isla de Elil. Hasan emprende el viaje en una alfombra mágica, acompañado de un servidor de Alquazar y de un muchacho huérfano que posee un zafiro mágico. Al llegar a la isla tendrán que enfrentarse a innumerables peligros.
Brisly
A teenage boy gets a job as a Pony Express rider in the Nebraska Territory not long before the Civil War breaks out.
Clown
Happenings in a small Irish traveling circus.
Dr. Klein
Percy, el primer hombre de la historia con un pene trasplantado, descubre que un producto químico en el agua de la ciudad produce impotencia.
An adventure story for children involving a professor's efforts to discover an antidote to some 'shrinking' pills, and the attempted theft of his formula by two crooks
An adventure story for children involving a professor's efforts to discover an antidote to some 'shrinking' pills, and the attempted theft of his formula by two crooks
An adventure story for children involving a professor's efforts to discover an antidote to some 'shrinking' pills, and the attempted theft of his formula by two crooks
An adventure story for children involving a professor's efforts to discover an antidote to some 'shrinking' pills, and the attempted theft of his formula by two crooks
An adventure story for children involving a professor's efforts to discover an antidote to some 'shrinking' pills, and the attempted theft of his formula by two crooks
An adventure story for children involving a professor's efforts to discover an a ntidote to some 'shrinking' pills, and the attempted theft of his formula by two crooks
Professor Popper develops a shrinking formula which he and a group of school kids take by accident, ending up trapped in his laboratory. But that's not the only problem that faces the professor and his friends.
Dr. Jameson
Digby, el perro de Bill ingiere accidentalmente un formula para agrandar vegetales y acaba teniendo el tamaño de una avión de pasajeros. (FILMAFFINITY)
Doctor Popplewell
Albert Steptoe and his son Harold are rag-and-bone men, complete with horse and cart to tour the neighbourhood. They also live amicably together at the junk yard. Always on the lookout for ways to improve his lot, Harold invests his father's life savings in a greyhound who is almost blind and can't see the hare. When the dog loses a race and Harold has to pay off the debt, he comes up with another bright idea. Collect his father's life insurance. To do this his father must pretend to be dead.
Inspector Boot
Edward Lionheart (Vincent Price), prestigioso actor de teatro inglés, especializado en los personajes de Shakespeare, se siente muy humillado, cuando el Círculo de Críticos de Londres se niega a concederle un prestigioso galardón. Lleno de ira, planea meticulosamente una insólita venganza: eliminar, uno a uno, a todos los críticos que despreciaron su talento, eligiendo en cada caso un tipo distinto de muerte, todas ellas inspiradas en las obras de Shakespeare.
Patrick Dooley
The life of young newlywed, Fern O'Neil, is turned upside-down when her husband is called home to visit his dying father in Ireland. When she fails to receive a phone call from her husband, she contacts the airline and discovers he was not on the plane. Further investigation reveals that her husband is not who she thought he was. Her search ultimately takes her all the way to Ireland, where her sanity and, of course, her story come into question.
Father Andrew
The story of a Catholic family's dilemma about the pill.
Fred Moore
Basada en hechos reales. En 1920, en Massachusets, Nicola Sacco y Bartolomeo Vanzetti, dos inmigrantes italianos de ideología anarquista, fueron acusados de un atraco a mano armada y del asesinato de dos personas.
Dr. Arnold Berg
Morris Mishkin is a elderly religious Jew in New York. His wife Fanny is very ill. He's a tailor, but he can't work because his back has given out. He doesn't even have enough money for Fanny's medicine. Finally, a black fellow appears from nowhere in the Mishkin kitchen. He says he's an angel from God, sent to help Mishkin. The black angel is even Jewish, named Alex Levine? But will Morris believe in the angel? And can the angel perform the miracle that he promises?
Mr. McLeavy
Two bank robbers, Dennis and Hal, are on the run from the police after a successful heist. Needing somewhere to hide the loot, they turn to a funeral parlour where they stash the cash in Hal's recently-deceased mother's coffin. Taking the coffin, they turn to Hal's father and hide it in the bathroom of his hotel. Before long the hotel is host to the eccentric Inspector Truscott.
Harry Redmond
An Irish lover tries to juggle varied sexual encounters with uninspired home life in ordinary comedy-drama.
Mr. Zero
An accountant whose job is about to be taken over by a computer starts to re-examine his life and his priorities.
Concierge / Durand-Durand
Año 40.000. Planeta Lythion. La intrépida Barbarella aterriza en un misterioso planeta donde vivirá toda clase de aventuras, peligros y placeres.
Friar Laurence
Adaptación del clásico de Shakespeare. Dos familias de Verona, los Montesco y los Capuleto, llevan enfrentadas durante años. El joven Romeo Montesco va junto con sus amigos a causar problemas en una fiesta en la que los Capuleto son los anfitriones. Allí conoce a Julieta Capuleta, e inmediatamente se enamora de ella.
Self
Various international presentions are featured through satellite uplink.
Leopold Bloom
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.
Danny O'Toole
Len
Speedee Taxis is a great success, which means its workaholic owner Charlie starts neglecting Peggy, his wife. Suddenly a fleet of rival taxis appears from nowhere and start pinching all the fares. The rivals are Glamcabs, and they have a secret weapon. All their drivers are very attractive women! Who's behind Glamcabs? It's open warfare and only one fleet can survive!
Walter 'Wally' Street
The plot focuses on a man returning home from prison to find his room being rented out to a tenant.
Pat Tweedy
A small town plans to erect a monument in memory of an IRA rebel killed during the 1920's. The son of the English Colonel who killed the rebel objects to this.
Hurling Fan
The life of James Ignatius Rooney, a Dublin rubbish collector during the week and a Gaelic sportsman at the weekends.
Signwriter
A family reduced to imminent poverty by the father's disinclination to work; an American lawyer looking for the heir to half a million pounds; the scene is set for a hilarious tale of creative deception!
Air Raid Warden
When a neutral Danish merchant ship is forced to put into port after trying to evade British wartime contraband control, its captain becomes involved in a beautiful British Naval Intelligent agent's efforts to capture a group of German spies operating from a London cinema.