Derrick O'Connor

Derrick O'Connor

Nascimento : 1941-01-03, Dublin, Ireland

Morte : 2018-06-29

História

Derrick O'Connor was born in Dublin, Ireland, and raised in London, UK. He performed with the Royal Shakespeare Company and the Scottish National Theatre, with many leading stage performances in Edinburgh, Stratford-on-Avon and London's West End. His long and successful career included numerous starring roles in U.S., British and Australian film and television. He spent much of the latter half of his life living with his family in Santa Barbara where he died on 29th June, 2018 at the age of 77.

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Derrick O'Connor
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Filmes

Pagando para Viver
Sidewalk Salesman
When a struggling writer, HIV positive for 20+ years, accidentally deposits a $100 birthday check, he is dropped from his health plan for earning too much. In this new era of sort-of universal care, can he take on a helpless bureaucracy or come up with $3000 a month to buy meds on his own?
Cadáveres
Dr. Blackwell
Uma jovem estudante de medicina em patologia suspeita que o espírito de um cadáver morto no necrotério do hospital onde ela trabalha está matando todos que manipulam ou profanam o corpo.
Demolidor: O Homem Sem Medo
Father Everett
O advogado Matt Murdock é cego, mas os seus outros quatro sentidos funcionam com uma nitidez sub-humana. De dia, Murdock representa os oprimidos e à noite, ele é o Demolidor, um vigilante mascarado e vingador implacável da justiça.
Fim dos Dias
Thomas Aquinas
Jericho Cane é um amargurado guarda-costas que perdeu a mulher e a filha em um ataque terrorista. Nos últimos dias de 1999 um de seus clientes, um banqueiro, sofre uma emboscada. Na investigação que se segue, Cane descobre a macabra trama de uma seita que espera pela chegada de satã e escolheu Christine York para gerar o filho das trevas. Ele agora deve fazer de tudo para protegê-la e evitar o fim dos tempos.
Tentáculos
Captain Atherton
O Argonautica, um transatlântico recém-inaugurado, sai para o seu primeiro cruzeiro, encontrando perigo a bordo e nas profundezas do oceano. Quando a bela ladra Trillian ameaça roubar os passageiros ricos, o navio encontra problemas maiores, uma notável gigante criatura do mar com tentáculos. Um barco comandado por John Finnegan vai ao encontro do Argonautica e todos lutam para sobreviver.
Colcha de Retalhos
Dean
Enquanto elabora sua tese e se prepara para se casar Finn Dodd (Winona Ryder), uma jovem mulher, vai morar na casa da sua avó (Ellen Burstyn). Lá estão várias amigas da família, que preparam uma elaborada colcha de retalhos como presente de casamento. Enquanto o trabalho é feito ela ouve o relato de paixões e envolvimentos, nem sempre moralmente aprováveis mas repletos de sentimentos, que estas mulheres tiveram. Neste meio tempo ela se sente atraída por um desconhecido, criando dúvidas no seu coração que precisam ser esclarecidas.
Soul Survivors
Dave
Otis Cooke is a DJ with a late-night American soul music programme in Liverpool. His favorite band, The Tallahassees, disbanded years ago, but their biggest hit, "Pickin' Up the Pieces," was never released in England. The film recounts Cooke's adventures and misadventures as he travels to the U.S., finds the band members, and convinces them to get back together for a reunion tour of the U.K and the release of their old songs on CD.
A Question of Guilt
Geoffrey Bailey
The brutal murder of a woman appears to be an open and shut case. But while there is a suspect and a signed confession, the lack of a credible motive still nags the investigating officer and prosecuting lawyer.
Happy Feet
Clifford
The pupils of the Dora Jackson School of Dancing compete in the 1960 Classical Dance Festival in Scarborough. Fifties rock 'n' roll meets classical ballet with the arrival of Dora's ex-boyfriend Clifford and a mysterious ghost.
Dealers
Robby Barrell
The London branch of Whitney Paine, a major American investment bank, is in the midst of a crisis; after the loss of $100 million, one of their leading traders, Tony Eisner commits suicide by putting a slug through his head while seated at his place in the board room. Despite the high stakes, many of the firm's staff are eager to step into Tony's now-vacated shoes and get credit for saving the company. Daniel Pascoe, the leading trader at the firm, is convinced that he's first in line for the assignment, but the firm imports a new trader from America, Anna Schuman. Daniel is enraged and makes a point of trying to dig up as much dirt on Anna as he can, but things are going to take another turn.
Máquina Mortífera 2
Pieter 'Adolph' Vorstedt
Martin Riggs e Roger Murtaugh são dois policiais que trabalham juntos para combater um traficante de drogas. A dupla é encarregada de proteger Leo Getz, uma atrapalhada testemunha que admite estar fazendo negócios com os sul-africanos. Eles descobrem que um membro do corpo diplomático da África do Sul está usando sua imunidade para poder cometer seus crimes.
Esperança e Glória
Mac
Londres. Todo o horror da II Guerra Mundial é transformado, em uma grande aventura, pela sensibilidade e imaginação de um garoto de nove anos de idade. A mudança para a casa da avó, no interior, causada pela destruição de sua casa durante um dos bombardeios alemães, o levará a desenvolver uma perspectiva completamente nova sobre a vida. Um projeto semi-autobiográfico de John Boorman. (e 14 - Estimado 14 Anos)
Honest Decent & True
Mike Selby
Trendy employees of a small London ad agency try to market beer for an old-fashioned client.
Brazil: O Filme
Dowser
Sam Lowry vive num Estado totalitário, controlado pelos computadores e pela burocracia. Neste Estado, que lida com o terrorismo, todos são governados por fichas e cartões de crédito e ainda precisam pagar por tudo, até mesmo a permanência na prisão. Neste mundo opressivo, Sam acaba se apaixonando por Jill, uma terrorista.
Knockback: 2
Alan
Alan and Sylvia fall in love and Alan gains a renewed sense of purpose. He begins to hope for an eventual release on licence. However both he and Sylvia have to face the fact that, for the foreseeable future, they cannot enjoy any physical intimacy. They decide to treat their affair as a long Victorian courtship.
Knockback: 1
Alan
In 1965, at the age of 25, Alan Ackland is sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of a business associate. In 1971, Sylvia Barker, lonely and depressed after a failed marriage and with two young children to bring up alone, seeks a new direction in her life and applies to become a voluntary prison visitor. Several years later their paths cross.
Flying Into the Wind
Barry Wyatt
The Wyatts wish to educate their children at home, but the education authorities have other ideas. Moving between 1969 and 1980, we see how this affects the various individuals and attitudes.
O Padre Apaixonado
Gym Trainer
In 1905, after 10 years of missionary work in Africa, the Rev. Charles Fortesque is recalled to England, where his bishop gives him his new assignment - to minister to London's prostitutes.
Easter 2016
Lennie North
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.
Psy-Warriors
Richards
Soldiers are captured and interrogated by terrorists: but is it real or only a sadistic form of psychological training exercise?
Os Bandidos do Tempo
Robber Leader
Seis anões, perseguidos por um certo Ser Supremo, escoltam um adolescente inglês através do tempo. Usando um mapa, eles viajam no tempo ao mesmo tempo em que fogem dos perigos. Ótimo roteiro, repleto de idéias originais e engraçadas, com direção brilhante de Terry Gilliam e o humor típico do grupo Monty Python.
Hawk the Slayer
Ralf
Hawk the Slayer, after seeing both his father and bride die at the hands of his malevolent brother, Voltan, sets out for revenge and the chance to live up to his title. Tooling himself up with the "mind-sword" and recruiting a motley band of warriors: a giant, a dwarf, a one-armed man with a machine-crossbow and an elf with the fastest bow in the land; Hawk leads the battle against Voltan to free the land from the forces of evil and avenge his loved ones.
Bloody Kids
Detective Ritchie
The slender premise springs from the actions of two listless 11-year-old boys, the cold, manipulative Leo, and his weaker, more impressionable friend, Mike. Contemptuous of the fallible police force (Mike has already filched a police hat from an accident scene), the boys arrange a staged knife fight outside a football stadium with the aid of a bag of stage blood and a real blade.
Fox
Ray Fox
The thirteen-part series recounted the lives of the titular Fox family, who lived in Clapham in South London and had gangland connections.
Comedians
George McBrain
Comedians is a TV movie/play by Trevor Griffiths, set in a Manchester evening class for aspiring working-class comedians.
Sweeney 2
Llewellyn
The plot is set on a group of bank robbers, who are both violent and successful, strangely getting away each time with an amount around the £60,000 mark, and often leaving behind cash in excess of this sum. The robbers are willing to kill their own team, to get away. As Jack Regan himself puts it after the first raid in the film: "I've never seen so many dead people". Armed with gold-plated Purdey shotguns, they evaded Regan and the Flying Squad for quite some time, before Regan finds encouragement from his Detective Chief Superintendent who was sent down for corruption because Jack wouldn't testify in court for him.
Jabberwocky
Flying Hogfish Peasant
A medieval tale with Pythonesque humour: After the death of his father the young Dennis Cooper goes to town where he has to pass several adventures. The town and the whole kingdom is threatened by a terrible monster called 'Jabberwocky'. Will Dennis make his fortune? Is anyone brave enough to defeat the monster?
Keep an Eye on Albert
Albert
Pubs, pigeons, weight-lifting - that's Terry's life, and his wife Glenda feels neglected. But now Terry's best mate, Albert, is on leave from the Merchant Navy, and Albert knows how to treat a lady. 'Fireworks assured,' says the wrestling poster.
Butley
Butley is set in Queen Mary’s College, London and focuses on two English instructors, Ben Butley, a middle-aged former T. S. Eliot expert whose life is now in a shambles, and his protégé, Joey, a homosexual. With both Joey and his wife leaving, Butley faces a life alone, fighting back with wit, obscenity and booze.
The Final Programme
Frank
After the death of his Nobel Prize-winning father, billionaire physicist Jerry Cornelius becomes embroiled in the search for the mysterious "Final Programme", developed by his father. The programme, a design for a perfect, self-replicating human being, is contained on microfilm. A group of scientists, led by the formidable Miss Brunner (who consumes her lovers), has sought Cornelius's help in obtaining it. After a chase across a war-torn Europe on the verge of anarchy, Brunner and Cornelius obtain the microfilm from Jerry's loathsome brother Frank. They proceed to an abandoned underground Nazi fortress in the Arctic to run the programme, with Jerry and Miss Brunner as the subjects.