Des McAleer

Des McAleer

Nascimento : 1952-05-25, Belfast, Northern Ireland

História

Des McAleer is a Belfast born actor of film, TV and stage.

Perfil

Des McAleer

Filmes

Out of Innocence
Père O'Reilly
After a police investigation, a young mother, confused and scared, confesses to a crime she did not commit and is charged with murder.
A Balada de Adam Henry
Jim the Porter
À medida que casamento com Jack se desmorona, a eminente Juíza do Supremo Tribunal, Fiona Maye, tem de tomar uma decisão difícil no seu trabalho – é seu dever forçar um adolescente, Adam, a receber a transfusão de sangue que lhe irá salvar a vida? A visita pouco ortodoxa da juíza ao hospital onde se encontra Adam tem um impacto profundo nos dois, provocando novas e fortes emoções no rapaz e sentimentos há muito esquecidos nela.
National Theatre Live: The Seagull
Shamrayev
On a summer’s day in a makeshift theatre by a lake, Konstantin’s cutting-edge new play is performed, changing the lives of everyone involved forever. Chekhov’s masterly meditation on how the old take revenge on the young is both comic and tragic, and marks the birth of the modern stage. Adapted by David Hare whose stage plays include Skylight, Pravada and screenplays include The Hours and The Reader, directed by Jonathan Kent (Gypsy, Private Lives).
North
Richard
Isolated on a farm and fighting against his family's decision, Aaron struggles to be heard as he watches his mother willingly die.
Essa é Minha Vida
Major McEvoy
Daisy (Saoirse Ronan) é uma garota americana, que visita o interior da Inglaterra com a sua família, durante o período de férias. Mas quando a guerra eclode, ela deve se esconder e aprender a sobreviver sozinha.
Sete Dias com Marilyn
Senior Policeman
A musa Marilyn Monroe (Michelle Williams) está em Londres pela primeira vez para filmar “O Príncipe Encantado” ao lado de Laurence Olivier (Kenneth Branagh). A história adapta o livro homônimo de Colin Clark, que na época trabalhava como assistente nas filmagens. Durante uma semana, ele teve a oportunidade de ciceronear a diva - desesperada para escapar das pressões da rotina hollywoodiana - e mostrar-lhe o melhor da vida britânica.
Fome
Mr Sands
Durante o ano de 1981, ocorreu um dos mais violentos motins no presídio Maze Prison, na Irlanda do Norte. O evento ganhou proporções alarmantes e no epicentro da rebelião estava o prisioneiro Bobby Sands (Michael Fassbender) que, disposto a levar a mente e o corpo aos limites da capacidade humana, inicia uma greve de fome.
Nuremberg: Goering's Last Stand
Col. Burton C. Andrus
The Nuremberg trials, 1946 Goering and the Nazi high command stand trial. Within the prison a dangerous mind game is being conducted by Goering and the prison guards who stand watch over the perpetrators of the Holocaust.
Deadlines
Jim Prager
Alex Randal (Stephen Moyer), a young reporter on the make, decides, without knowing anything about the situation, to go to Beirut on October 23, 1983, when he hears a radio report about suicide trucks exploding on both an American base and a French base, resulting in the deaths of hundreds of soldiers. Seduced by a gifted and enigmatic photographer, Julia Muller (Anne Parillaud), Randal finds a capitol torn by civil war, where political, financial and strategic interests intertwine.
A Guerra das Perucas
Mr. Black
Belfast, anos 80. O católico e falastrão Colm e o protestante e contido George são barbeiros numa prisão e vivem sem dinheiro. Ao saber que um preso era o único vendedor de perucas do país, decidem aventurar-se no negócio. Mas a acirrada disputa transforma a velha amizade em rivalidade.
As Cinzas de Ângela
Mr. Benson
Based on the best selling autobiography by Irish expat Frank McCourt, Angela's Ashes follows the experiences of young Frankie and his family as they try against all odds to escape the poverty endemic in the slums of pre-war Limerick. The film opens with the family in Brooklyn, but following the death of one of Frankie's siblings, they return home, only to find the situation there even worse. Prejudice against Frankie's Northern Irish father makes his search for employment in the Republic difficult despite his having fought for the IRA, and when he does find money, he spends the money on drink.
Titanic Town
Finbar
Belfast 1972: The politically naive Bernie is trying to bring up a normal family in less than normal surroundings. Her best friend is accidentally shot dead by the IRA, and her neighbours are constantly raided by the army. In this climate of fear she stands up and condemns the murders. Criticising both factions, her call for a ceasefire is interpreted as an attack against the IRA, and as her peace movement takes momentum, she and her family are placed in the frontline.
I Want You
Flowers Salesman
A young boy and his sister are drawn into one man's obsessive pursuit of his former lover.
Inocentes Pecadores
Inspector Wilson
The film is set in Northern Ireland shortly after 1994 cease-fire. Hazel is a Protestant and Malachy a Catholic. Romance between them is threatened by Rohan (leader in militant underground and pal of Malachy's brother Padhar), who wants Malachy to be recruited and fight for the cause and by Hazel's brother Jef, who spies on her meetings.
Butterfly Kiss
Eric McDermott
Deeply mentally unbalanced drifter Eunice roams grim northern Britain committing psychosexual serial murders of both men and women while ostensibly searching for an unknown woman named Judith. She spares the life of lonely but kind-hearted gas station cashier Miriam, who abandons her dismal life to follow her damaged new lover. While attempting to hide the evidence of her multiple crimes, Miriam tries to understand Eunice's bizarre quest.
Life After Life
Paddy John O'Neill
Leo Doyle, a convicted IRA murderer, is released into the community after 14 years in prison on a scheme to rehabilitate former terrorists. He soon finds that the ceasefire has robbed him of both purpose and identity. Relationships with his family are difficult and reach boiling point when they find that he has rekindled his affair with a former fiancee Roisin, now married with three children.
Family
Ray Harris
This four-part made-for-TV drama focuses up close on a Dublin couple with four children. Charlo is a hustler, a head-first footballer, a thief, abusive. Paula drinks, objects to Charlie's thievery and adultery without the will to chuck him out. John Paul worships his father who's initiating him into the world of beer and football but recoils at Charlo's treatment of mum; asthma and misbehavior at school follow. Daughter Nicola is a young woman, starting work in a garment factory. When Charlo begins to stare at her, she's frightened and Paula's furious.
Agenda Secreta
Sgt Kennedy
Paul Sullivan (Brad Dourif) e sua namorada Ingrid Jessner (Frances McDormand) são dois advogados norte-americanos que trabalham em Belfast, Irlanda do Norte, com um grupo de defensores dos direitos humanos. Paul descobre uma conspiração envolvendo o governo de Margaret Thatcher e acaba sendo assassinado. O inspetor Kerrigan (Brian Cox) fica com a tarefa de investigar o caso e para isso conta com a ajuda de Ingrid. Aos poucos, Kerrigan vai percebendo que está diante de uma complexa trama de traição, mentiras, violência e poder.
Shoot To Kill
CID Supt. Jimmy Richards
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.
Coppers
Two bored twentysomethings buy a Vauxhall Cavalier kit it out with a siren and spend their evenings masquerading as police officers in this Screen One TV movie
Four Days in July
Eugene
Two couples, one Catholic, one Protestant, exist on two sides of the chasm that is everyday life in Northern Ireland.
Anne Devlin
James Hope
The story of Anne Devlin, who was caught up in the revolt of the Irish under Robert Emmett in 1803, told exclusively from the woman's point of view.