Gerard McSorley

Gerard McSorley

出生 : 1950-09-14, Omagh, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland

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Gerard McSorley (born 1950) is a theatre, television and an Irish film actor. Description above from the Wikipedia article  Gerard McSorley, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Aithrí
Murray
Father Eion O'Donnell is unambiguous about the need to use violence to force Britain out of Ireland. He influences a young impressionable boy, Antaine to fight in the 1916 Rising. Fifty years later Antaine arrives in Derry as an experienced gunman. This appearance throws Eoin back to the cause of his breakdown in 1916. Eoin's influence on young Antaine echoes in Antaine's dark influence on an Altar boy, Feidhlim.
Lift
Granddad Eddy
Sean's vicious attack leaves a man unconscious and him stranded in an elevator with five others. In the confines of the lift, love has a chance of blossoming - violence has a chance of erupting - Sean has little chance of escape. With his freedom hanging in the balance can the people who fear him offer him one last chance of redemption?
戦火の馬
Market Auctioneer
友情で結ばれていた少年と引き離され、軍馬として第1次大戦の最前線に送られた1頭の馬。国境など知らぬ馬が戦火を潜り抜け、さまざまな出会いを繰り広げていくさまをスピルバーグ監督が描き上げた感動作。
ロビン・フッド
Baron Fitzrobert
12世紀末、ロビンは十字軍の兵士としてフランスでの戦闘に加わっていた。ある日、イングランドの騎士ロバートの暗殺現場に居合わせた彼はその遺言を受け、ロバートの父に遺品の剣を届けると約束する。やがてノッティンガムの地を踏んだロビンは、ロバートの身代わり役を頼まれる。
Blood Creek
Mr. Marshall
A man and his brother on a mission of revenge become trapped in a harrowing occult experiment dating back to the Third Reich.
Wide Open Spaces
Hingerty
Have you ever had a best friend you couldn't stand? Myles (Ardal O'Hanlon) has one - Austin (Ewen Bremner) - only he's too much of a slacker to do anything about it. In fact, each one of these layabouts is as useless as the other: a pair of thirty-somethings who laze around watching their lives flutter past. Fate, however, has plans to remedy their lack of motivation. Up to their necks in debt, they decide to help a dodgy entrepreneur, Gerard (Owen Roe), to create a new landmark in Irish tourism: a Famine Theme Park.
Swansong: Story of Occi Byrne
Michael Byrne
Born in London to single mum Bridget, Austin Byrne returns with her to her hometown in Ireland as a very young boy and learns that, from family to neighbours to the Church, no-one has a good word to say about either of them.
Trapped
Lynch
When Anton O'Neill returns home after five years at sea, he finds that 1970's Ireland is a radically different place to the one he left behind. Northern Ireland is in flames, and civil unrest has spilled south of the border to his beloved home in County Cavan. Blinded by hatred and misguided patriotism 'Anton' is led into an illicit world of violence and is forced to choose between his family and his country. Hunted and on the run, Anton is drawn into a battle of wills with the law and his former accomplices, ending in a showdown in which he must risk everything to protect the woman he loves.
Middletown
An overzealous priest returns to his home town and ends up battling against his brother for the heart of the locals.
Tell It to the Fishes
Jack
The tide is slowly coming in and Finn, a worthless low-rent hood, has been dropped on an isolated beach, his feet set in concrete. Finn's misery is compounded when Jack, a hard and edgy minor gangster responsible for his predicament, lands a few yards away, feet also set in concrete.
ナイロビの蜂
Sir Kenneth Curtiss
レイフ・ファインズ主演の社会派サスペンス。ナイロビに駐留する英国外交官ジャスティンは、慈善活動に熱心な妻を殺されてしまう。その後、彼は独自に調査を開始。やがて薬物実験や汚職など、多国籍企業による陰謀が浮き彫りになっていく。
Omagh
Michael Gallagher
The movie starts at the 1998 bomb attack by the Real IRA at Omagh, Northern Ireland. The attack killed 31 people. Michael Gallagher one of the relatives of the victims starts an examination to bring the people responsible to court.
The Halo Effect
O'Grady
Fatso is the proprietor of what may be the worst eaterie in the city, and is struggling to keep a sinking ship afloat. His compulsive gambling is getting the better of him and he has to contend with an endless succession of loan sharks and debt collectors. He employs hopelessly incompetent staff and generally manages to keep the entire community around him ticking over. However just as Fatso seems to be getting everything under control, he is faced with a dilemma that could destroy him for good.
Inside I'm Dancing
Fergus Connolly
Michael is a 24-year-old who has cerebral palsy and long-term resident of the Carrigmore Residential Home for the Disabled, run by the formidable Eileen. His life is transformed when the maverick Rory O'Shea moves in.
Veronica Guerin
John Gilligan
In this true story, Veronica Guerin is an investigative reporter for an Irish newspaper. As the drug trade begins to bleed into the mainstream, Guerin decides to take on and expose those responsible. Beginning at the bottom with addicts, Guerin then gets in touch with John Traynor, a paranoid informant. Not without some prodding, Traynor leads her to John Gilligan, the ruthless head of the operation, who does not take kindly to Guerin's nosing.
Dead Bodies
Gordon Ellis
The return of a vengeful ex-girlfriend sets into motion a series of gruesome events for a hapless Irish bachelor in director Robert Quinn's grim black comedy. Tommy (Andrew Scott) had thought he had seen the last of Jean (Katy Davis) after their recent breakup, but when she returns to stake her claim on Tommy's apartment, the confrontation that ensues makes their previous quarrels look petty by comparison. After leaving the apartment in the head of the fight to cool his head and gather his thoughts, he returns only to find that Jean has died and enlists the aid of his friend Noel (Darren Healy) in ditching the body and ensuring that no one ever finds out what happened.
Bloody Sunday
Chief Supt. Lagan
The dramatised story of the Irish civil rights protest march on January 30 1972 which ended in a massacre by British troops.
私が愛したギャングスター
Harrison
強盗団のボス・マイケルの目的は金ではなく、スリル。そんな彼にも2人の妻と子供がいるが、彼はさらに大きなヤマにトライし……。実在の大泥棒をモデルにしたアクション・エンタテイメント。
アンジェラの灰
Father Gregory
ピュリッツァー賞を受賞したベスト・セラーをアラン・パーカーが映画化。30年代のアイルランド、貧しい時代の生きた少年フランクの実話に世界中の人が涙。
Agnes Browne
Mr. Aherne
Set in Dublin in 1967, the story of feisty woman, who along with her seven children, learns to cope with adversity after the unexpected death of her husband.
Felicia's Journey
Felicia's Father
A solitary middle-aged bachelor and a naive Irish teenager transform one another's lives to arrive at a place of recognition, redemption and wisdom in Atom Egoyan's adaptation of William Trevor's celebrated 1994 novel. Seventeen and pregnant, Felicia travels to England in search of her lover and is found instead by Joseph Ambrose Hilditch, a helpful catering manager whose kindness masks a serial killer. Hilditch has murdered several young women, but he has no conscious awareness of the crimes; like Felicia, he doesn't see his true self. Felicia's Journey is a story of innocence lost and regained: Felicia awakens to the world's dangers and duplicities; and Hilditch, who grew up lonely and unloved, comes to realize what was taken from him, and what he himself has taken.
ディープエンド・オブ・オーシャン
Father Cleary
3歳の息子が突然失踪し、必死で捜索を続ける母親。ところがその9年後、見つからないまま一家で引っ越した先で、失踪した息子と再会することになるが...。
Vicious Circle
Crowley
Criminal Martin Cahill gets in trouble when a major robbery succeeds. He aims for more trouble when he tries to do a large art robbery
The Butcher Boy
Psychiatrist #2
Francie and Joe live the usual playful, fantasy filled childhoods of normal boys. However, with a violent, alcoholic father and a manic depressive, suicidal mother the pressure on Francie to grow up are immense. When Francie's world turns to madness, he tries to counter it with further insanity, with dire consequences.
The Boxer
Harry
Nineteen-year-old Danny Flynn is imprisoned for his involvement with the I.R.A. in Belfast. He leaves behind his family and his sixteen-year-old girlfriend, Maggie Hamill. Fourteen years later, Danny is released from prison and returns to his old working class neighborhood to resume his life as a boxer.
The Serpent's Kiss
Mr. Galmoy
A man sends a young architect to build an extravagant garden to bankrupt the husband of the woman he once loved.
マイケル・コリンズ
Cathal Brugha
イギリス支配下にあったアイルランド700年の歴史を、わずか31年で自由へと導いた男がいた! アイルランド独立の闘士、英雄マイケル・コリンズの波乱の生涯を浮き彫りにした、96年公開の感動大作。
Nothing Personal
Cecil
A raw depiction of the Belfast 'troubles' as savage tribal warfare. Set shortly after the 1975 cease fire, the film focuses on the tribulations of Kenny, Protestant leader of a group of Shankill Road Loyalists, and his one-time friend Liam, a Catholic.
Some Mother's Son
Father Daly
Based on the true story of the 1981 hunger strike in a British prison, in which IRA prisoner Bobby Sands led a protest against the treatment of IRA prisoners as criminals rather than as prisoners of war. The film focuses on the mothers of two of the strikers, and their struggle to save the lives of their sons.
Runway One
Manning
An Irish Garda finds himself involved in a complex smuggling operation.
An Awfully Big Adventure
George
Liverpool. 1947. Right after World War II, a star struck naive teenage girl joins a shabby theatre troupe in Liverpool. During a winter production of Peter Pan, the play quickly turns into a dark metaphor for youth as she becomes drawn into a web of sexual politics and intrigue and learns about the grown-up world of the theater.
ブレイブハート
Cheltham
イングランド王の圧制に家族を殺された、スコットランド人のウォーレス。愛する家族の仇を討つため、多くの民衆とともに立ち上がった……。中世スコットランドに実在した、伝説のヒーローの激闘を描いた歴史スペクタクル・アクション。
The Hanging Gale
Coulter
In this historical miniseries created for BBC Northern Ireland, four brothers struggle to survive during the Irish potato famine of the 1840s while facing persecution from an agent (Michael Kitchen) of their indifferent English landlord. Looking on in horror as their primary food source dwindles, the Phelan brothers (portrayed by real-life siblings Joe, Mark, Paul and Stephen McGann) are torn between nonviolent protest and bloody revolt.
Words Upon the Window Pane
Abraham Johnson
In 1928 Dublin, during séances concerning Jonathan Swift, the spirits of his former lovers, Stella and Vanessa, emerge to resume their ancient quarrel.
Widows' Peak
Gaffney
Scandal and mystery reign following the arrival of Edwina in a small Irish town populated entirely by widows. Edwina quickly falls out with the locals while also falling in with the son of the community's leader
父の祈りを
Belfast Detective Pavis
爆破テロ事件の犯人という冤罪を受け、親族まで逮捕された男。父は「冤罪をそそげ」と遺言を残して獄死してしまう……。世界的な関心を集めたジェリー・コンロンの手記を映画化した作品。
Who Bombed Birmingham?
Paddy Mcllkenny
Docudrama film exploring the efforts of World in Action researchers Ian MacBride and Chris Mullin in proving that the "Birmingham Six" only admitted to the bombing under extreme duress, and that the five IRA members were in fact responsible for the deadly attacks
Taffin
Ed
When a small Irish town is terrorized by a corrupt business syndicate, a lone hero wages an all out war.
The Rockingham Shoot
Garda Casey
Rigid nationalist Reilly’s frustration at the last remains of British rule draws him to the Rockingham Shoot, where a violent incident occurs.
Angel
Assistant
Saxophonist Danny witnesses the murder of his band manager and a deaf-mute girl after a gig. Questioned by the police, he remembers only the orthopedic shoes of the killers' leader. So begins his quest to avenge her. He seeks an answer to the simple question 'Why?' but finds only more, and deeper, questions which resonate with the wider context of 'the Troubles', the inter-communal strife gripping the modern-day Northern Ireland which is the film's setting.
Easter 2016
John Bingham
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.
S.O.S. Titanic
Martin Gallagher
The Titanic disaster as seen through the eyes of one couple in each of the three classes on board.