Paddy Ryan

Nascimento : 1904-01-01, Greenwich, London, England, UK

Morte : 1990-01-01

História

He was an actor, known for An American Werewolf in London (1981), The Meaning of Life (1983) and Hell Below Zero (1954).

Filmes

Trieste
Music
Based on slides shot in 1978 of the Austrian aktion artist Hermann Nitsch. Put away for 24 years, the color transparencies are spread out on a light table. The images are examined with a macro lens and captured with digital video. Not so much a reconstruction, or documentary of an event but a process of re-imagining. A hundred frames record a 12-hour, noon to midnight performance in an Roman amphitheatre in the center of Trieste in Northern Italy. Hermann Nitsch has been creating his unique rituals since the early 1970’s. The blood flows over naked bodies strapped on crosses, carried blindfolded, senses are tweaked with percussion sounds and blaring brass instruments. Religious iconography, operatic orchestrations of cast, crew, friends, and the public who eat, dance, drink.
The Black and Blue Lamp
Satirical and surreal play by Arthur Ellis, dealing with the manner in which the British police force has been represented on TV for four decades. In 1949 Tom Riley is arrested for the murder of PC George Dixon. As he awaits interrogation at the station he is mysteriously transported into an episode of The Filth - a 1988 police series where the hard men rule, where he is told by the local CID that he'll be confessing to the murder or else his genitals are getting cut off ! This black comedy questions whether the police have changed or is it the way film and television present them.
Body Contact
George
Rock musical set in the future, around Tottenham and Hackney. Taxi driver, Smiley, helps beautiful Dominique Renoir, who is on the run from her violent Mafia boyfriend.
The Crimson Permanent Assurance
A group of down-and-out accountants mutiny against their bosses and sail their office building onto the high seas in search of a pirate's life.
Um Lobisomem Americano em Londres
First Werewolf
Dois jovens turistas americanos, David Kessler (David Naughton) e Jack (Griffin Dune) estão em excursão pela Europa, viajando a três meses. Passando por uma região rural da Inglaterra, são mal-vistos pelos habitantes locais quando adentram uma espécie de bar ou estalagem. Ao saírem, recebem os mais esquisitos avisos: “Mantenham-se na estrada e afastem-se dos pântanos” e “Cuidado com a lua”. Mesmo assim, os jovens embrenham-se na escuridão e não percebem que estão sendo seguidos por uma criatura terrível.
On the Game
Accomplice
Comic look at the history of prostitution.
Doomwatch
Grandfather Murray
The waters surrounding an island become contaminated by chemical dumping, and people who eat fish caught in those waters become deformed and violent.
Condessa Drácula
Man
Hungria, século XVII. Depois de ficar viúva, a velha Condessa Elizabeth Nádasdy, da linhagem Báthory, descobre fortuitamente uma maneira de se tornar jovem novamente; mas o preço a ser pago por aqueles ao seu redor será alto e sangrento.
Undercover Girl
Cash
Nightclub employee Joan Foster (Kay Callard) assists the brother of a murdered reporter to expose a drug ring.
Entre a Espada e a Rosa
Bargeman
Conta a história de Mary Tudor e sua problemática jornada até o amor verdadeiro. Henry VIII, por razões políticas, determina que ela case com o Rei da França. Ela tenta escapar para a América com seu amor mas é capturada quando sua identidade é revelada numa embarcação de navio. Em troca de seu consentimento quanto ao casamento com o rei, Henry concorda em deixar que ela escolha um segundo marido. Quando o Rei Louis da França morre, Mary é sequestrada pelo duque de Buckingham, que tenta forçá-la ao casamento.
Dick Barton at Bay
Fingers
David Phillips (Patrick Macnee) is running down the darkened streets of London's Limehouse district, pursued by two men with guns. He finds a public phone and puts a call through to Dick Barton (Don Stannard), but before he can report, a shot rings out. Barton must piece together what Phillips found out that got him killed. Phillips had been assigned to protect Professor Mitchell (Percy Walsh) and his new development, a ray capable of exploding any unstable element aboard an aircraft in flight. Mitchell has been targeted for kidnapping by Serge Volkoff (Meinhart Maur), a foreign agent from Eastern Europe, as part of a larger, much more sinister plot to destroy England and cripple Western Europe. Complicating matters further is that Mitchell's daughter (Joyce Linden) has also been kidnapped, and Barton must contend with Volkoff's crafty female companion Anna (Tamara Desni).