Maire O'Neill

Maire O'Neill

Nascimento : 1885-01-12, Dublin, Ireland

Morte : 1952-11-02

Perfil

Maire O'Neill

Filmes

Cry of the Innocent
Hotel Manageress
An American insurance executive, who sees his wife and children die when a plane crashes into their vacation cottage on the Irish coast, uncovers a series of suspicious clues indicating that it was no accident after a pretty financial reporter who resembles his dead wife turns up.
O Valente Príncipe de Donegal
Moire's Sister
Após herdar o título de seu pai, o jovem e nobre Hugh O'Connell é sequestrado pelo vice-rei inglês mas escapa e lidera uma rebelião.
The Oracle
Mrs. Lenham
An Irish "oracle" foretells the next day's track results to a newspaperman, resulting in a national uproar.
Treasure Hunt
Bridgid O'Keefe
Short of money the owners of Ballyroden Hall must attempt to run it as a guest house, but not everyone is happy about the plan.
Contos de Natal
Alice's Patient
Ebenezer Scrooge (Alastair Sim) é um velho rico, avarento e grosseiro. Na noite de Natal, ele recebe a visita de três espíritos, representando o passado, o presente e o futuro. Os espíritos mostram a Scrooge sua vida, os sonhos que já teve, seus erros e o que ele pode vir a ser. Com isso Scrooge percebe seu egoísmo e muda seu jeito de ser. Considerada a melhor dentre as adaptações do livro Contos de Natal, de Charles Dickens.
Nuvens de Desespero
Nora
After leaving the British Secret Service, David Somers (played by Trevor Howard) finds work cataloging butterflies at the country house of Nicholas and Jess Fenton. After the murder of a local gamekeeper, suspicion (wrongfully) falls on their niece, Sophie Malraux (Jean Simmons). Somers helps Sophie to escape arrest and they go on the run together. After a cross-country chase they arrive at a coastal city with the intention of leaving the country by ship. All's well that ends well after the true identity of the murderer is revealed.
Someone at the Door
Undetermined Role (uncredited) (unconfirmed)
A man and his sister live in a country home, not knowing that there is stolen loot hidden there. A gang of criminals attempts to get them to move so they can get the loot for themselves.
Saints and Sinners
Ma Murnaghan
What happens to the saints and sinners of a small Irish village on the day the world is supposed to end.
The Hills of Donegal
Hannah
Eileen Hannay (Dinah Sheridan) is the singing star of an Irish operatic society but gives up to marry Terry O'Keefe (John Bentley).
Send for Paul Temple
Mrs. Neddy
Novelist and amateur sleuth, Paul Temple, meets a newspaper woman called "Steve." Together they investigate a gang of diamond robbers.
Piccadilly Incident
Mrs. Milligan
A newly married WREN, presumed drowned when her ship is torpedoed, spends three years on a tropical island before returning to England to find her husband remarried with a baby son.
Gaiety George
Mrs. Murphy
The life of Irishman George Howard who buys an English theatre and strives to improve the standard of musical entertainment. Set in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and loosely based on fact.
Great Day
Mrs. Bridget Walsh
An impending V.I.P. visit causes bustle in an English village, while the Ellis family struggles with private problems.
Theatre Royal
Mrs. Cope
The Theatre Royal is a struggling London venue battling to keep its doors open. When the bank threatens to close it, the workers fear that they will soon be forced out of their jobs. The Royal's property master, Bob Parker (Bud Flanagan), recruits the rest of the staff to stage a benefit gala. They hope their show, featuring songs and dances, can raise enough cash to stave off the end. Meanwhile, they seek investors who can keep the Theatre Royal and its staff in business permanently.
Let the People Sing
Mrs. Mitterley
An out-of-work comedian persuades a drunken nobleman to join a protest against the closing of a village hall.
Penn of Pennsylvania
Cook
Penn of Pennsylvania is a 1941 British historical drama film directed by Lance Comfort and starring Deborah Kerr, Clifford Evans, Dennis Arundell, Henry Oscar, Herbet Lomas and Edward Rigby. The film depicts the life of the Quaker founder of Pennsylvania, William Penn. It portrays his struggle to be granted a colonial charter in London and attracting settlers to his new colony as well as his adoption a radical new approach with regard to the treatment of the Native Americans. It is also known by the alternative title Courageous Mr. Penn.
Love on the Dole
Mrs. Dorbell
Depressing and realistic family drama about the struggles of unemployment and poverty in 1930s Lancashire. The 20-year-old Kerr gives an emotionally charged performance as Hardcastle, one of the cotton workers trying to make life better. Interlaced with humour that brings a ray of sunshine to the pervasive bleakness, this remains a powerful social study of life between the wars, and was a rare problem picture to come out of Britain at the time.
You Will Remember
Mrs. Barrett
Biography of popular English composer Leslie Stuart (Robert Morley), who rose to fame through performances of his songs by the tenor Ellaline Terriss (Dorothy Hyson). The peak of Stuart's success in the early 1900s is followed by poverty and obscurity with the arriving Jazz Age. In debtor's prison, Stuart is rescued by friends from happier times, and achieves a comeback in British music halls shortly before his death.
Comboio
Mary Hogan
A tale of life on board a Royal Navy cruiser assigned to protect the vital convoys between America and England during WWII.
The Arsenal Stadium Mystery
Housekeeper
Durante uma partida de futebol beneficente, um dos atletas desmaia. Quando ele morre, o inspetor Slade da Scotland Yard é chamado e declara que foi um assassinato. É preciso toda a sua engenhosidade e mais uma morte antes que o motivo seja descoberto e o assassino revelado.
On the Night of the Fire
Neighbour
A barber gives in to temptation and steals some money, leading to blackmail and murder.
Sword of Honour
Biddy
A recruit at Sandhurst initially makes a poor impression, but goes on to prove himself by riding in the Grand National.
The Insect Play
Mrs. Beetle / Philanthropist
A tramp falls asleep in the woods. He dreams of observing a range of insects that stand in for various human characteristics in terms of their lifestyle and morality: the flighty, vain butterfly, the obsequious, self-serving dung beetle, the ants, whose increasingly mechanized behavior leads to a militaristic society.
The Missing People
Housekeeper
27 well-to-do people have all vanished under similar circumstances. J.G. Reeder, an elderly gentleman who fancies himself a detective, decides to investigate the matter.
My Irish Molly
Mrs O'Shea
Binkie Stuart, a child star whose career briefly flourished before the outbreak of war in 1939, takes the titular role in this heart-warming musical charting the adventures of a little orphan girl in the difficult days of pre-war Ireland. Starring alongside Hollywood siren Maureen O Hara in an early role, Britain's answer to Shirley Temple plays a spirited young girl left in the clutches of a cruel guardian aunt.
Nos Bastidores de Londres
Mrs. Such
On the sidewalks of the London theater district the buskers (street performers) earn enough coins for a cheap room. Charles, who recites dramatic monologues, sees that a young pickpocket, Libby, also has a talent for dancing and adds her to his act. Harley, the theater patron who never knew Libby took his gold cigarette case, is impressed by Libby's dancing and invites her to bring Charles and the other buskers in his group to an after-the-play party. Libby comes alone. A theatrical career is launched.
Penny Paradise
Widow Clegg
A Liverpool tug boat captain finds he's won a fortune on the penny pools and it changes his life. However, after giving up his job and throwing a large expensive party, he discovers that he may not really have won after all.
Oh, Boy!
Mrs. Baggs
A mysterious scientist presents a timid chemist with an elixir which turns him from a weakling into a confident, vital male, able to defeat his rival and impress the girl of his choice. The only problem is that this mysterious substance has the unexpected result of causing him to revert gradually to babyhood...
Spring Handicap
Meg Clayton
A wife tries to prevent her husband, a miner, from gambling away the money he receives as an inheritance.
Bulldog Drummond at Bay
Norah
Drummond goes up against foreign agents who are trying to steal plans for a top-secret aircraft.
Glamorous Night
Phoebe
Based on Ivor Novello's hit stage play: an opera singer and her gypsy friends try to rescue their king from the clutches of a would-be dictator.
Farewell Again
Mrs. Brough
Farewell Again is a multiplotted British comedy/drama about soldiers on leave and the people they've left. Given a six-hour pass after a tour of duty in India, several British Tommies (among them Robert Newton, Sebastian Shaw and Anthony Bushell) try to unravel their domestic tribulations before having to ship out again. American expatriate Tim Whelan was the directorial hand who kept the various plot threads from entangling, while another Hollywood vet, James Wong Howe, manned the cameras. The film became instantly dated with the advent of World War II, but in its own time Farewell Again was a box-office smash. The film was issued in the US as Troopship.
Ourselves Alone
Nanny
One of the most significant films ever made about the Troubles in Ireland, a powerful story of love and conflicting loyalties set against the battle for Ireland's independence.
Come Out of the Pantry
Mrs. Gore
A Duke's son plays the part of a footman and shows himself amusing in the pantry.
Peg of Old Drury
Mrs. Woffington - Peg's Mother
a biopic of eighteenth-century Irish actress Peg Woffington. It was based on the play Masks and Faces.
Riders to the Sea
First Woman
In this story of Western Ireland, the most famous work of Irelands greatest dramatist JOHN MILLINGTON SYNGE is brought to the screen by Ulsters greatest film director BRIAN DESMOND HURST.
Something Always Happens
Tenement Mother
Unemployed car salesman Peter is encouraged by his girlfriend Cynthia to approach the head of a petrol company with his plan for making petrol stations more attractive to customers. When the man rejects the idea Peter joins a rival company and becomes a great success.
Sing As We Go
Madame Osiris
When the textile mill closes, putting her out of work, Gracie finds herself experiencing all of the amusements of Blackpool.
Juno e o Pavão
Maisie Madigan
O filme enfoca os problemas de uma família típica da cidade de Dublin, capital da conturbada Irlanda, na década de 1920. A matriarca é Juno Boyle que, para manter sua família unida, deve "domar" o marido beberrão, o capitão Jack Boyle (Edward Chapman). Mas os esforços de Juno não impedem que sua filha engravide do namorado ou que seu filho mais novo seja baleado e acusado de espião.