Paddy Joyce

Paddy Joyce

Nascimento : 1923-05-31, Trieste, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Italy

Morte : 2000-07-27

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Paddy Joyce

Filmes

Alice no País das Maravilhas
Bill The Gardener
A heroína Alice é uma jovem curiosa que, ao seguir um coelho, cai num buraco e vai parar num mundo fantástico, o País das Maravilhas
The Grass Arena
The Grass Arena is based on the autobiography of John Healy. Raised in an strongly religious family, with an abusive father, John soon learns that he has to defend himself. Growing into adulthood he takes up boxing, but soon falls victim to alcoholism. His boxing career over, John takes to the Grass Arena (the park) where he lives with other alcoholics. Prison time introduces him to a new and unexpected path.
As Aventuras de Erik, o Viking
Prisoner
Erik, o Viking, reúne guerreiros de sua aldeia e parte em uma jornada perigosa para Valhalla, para pedir aos deuses que acabem com a Era de Ragnorok e permitam que seu povo veja a luz do sol novamente. Uma sátira pitonista da vida viking.
Paixão Solitária
Drunk in Pub
A penniless middle-aged spinster scrapes by giving piano lessons in the Dublin of the 1950s. She makes a sad last bid for love with a fellow resident of her rundown boarding house, who imagines she has the money to bankroll the business he hopes to open.
Knockback: 1
Dobbs
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.
The Chain
Carpet Layer
Comedy featuring interweaving stories of seven households caught up in a property chain on moving day, each one dependent on the other.
Red Monarch
Akhmet
British comedy satirising Stalin's inner circle as an absolute monarchs court. In the face of rampant abuse of power and poisonous distrust some still manage to keep faith with the Bolshevist creed until the very end. In front of the firing squad a stalwart bolshevist of the first hour exclaims: "Even in the best democracy errors are being made!"
The Falklands Factor
Press Gang
Is there nothing new under the sun? 1770. The South Atlantic. A fleet sets sail from Buenos Aires to expel the British forces and reconquer the Falkland Islands. A major international crisis explodes. What follows may sound strangely familiar, but is firmly based on the historical record and the actual speeches and writings of the time.
Hospital dos Malucos
Feeney: The Workers
Britannia Hospital, an esteemed English institution, is marking its gala anniversary with a visit by the Queen Mother herself. But when investigative reporter Mick Travis arrives to cover the celebration, he finds the hospital under siege by striking workers, ruthless unions, violent demonstrators, racist aristocrats, an African cannibal dictator, and sinister human experiments.
S.O.S. Titanic
Irish Priest (uncredited)
S.O.S. Titanic é um filme de drama com David Janssen na pele de John Jacob Astor, David Warner como Lawrence Beesley, passageiro de segunda-classe, Ian Holm como J. Bruce Ismay e Cloris Leachman retratando Molly Brown que conta a história de um dos maiores naufrágios do século 20 dirigido por William Hale no ano de 1979. Filme com David Janssen na pele de John Jacob Astor, David Warner como Lawrence Beesley, passageiro de segunda-classe, Ian Holm como J. Bruce Ismay e Cloris Leachman retratando Molly Brown. O filme foi feito a bordo do Queen Mary.
Queen Kong
Man in Aeroplane (uncredited)
A female film crew journeys to Africa where a giant ape, Queen Kong, falls in love with the crew's male star.
Never Mind the Quality: Feel the Width
Riley
Two London tailors horse around, wind up robbed, go to Rome and disrupt the Vatican.
Lady Caroline Lamb
Irish housekeeper
Lady Caroline Lamb, dissatisfied in her marriage, has an affair with the dashing Romantic poet Lord Byron.
Made
Engineer
This compelling emotional drama stars Carol White as a young single mother who finds herself caught between two people – a local priest and a folk singer – each of whom wants to convert her to his own worldview. An elegy to a younger generation looking for something to believe in, Made co-stars hugely influential folk-rock musician Roy Harper in his screen debut. Produced by Joseph Janni – who previously made the astonishingly successful Poor Cow with White – directed by The Long Good Friday's John Mackenzie and featuring new songs specially composed by Harper.
Oh! Que Bela Guerra!
Irish Soldier
Satire about the First World War based on a stage musical of the same name, portraying the "Game of War" and focusing mainly on the members of one family (last name Smith) who go off to war. Much of the action in the movie revolves around the words of the marching songs of the soldiers, and many scenes portray some of the more famous (and infamous) incidents of the war, including the assassination of Duke Ferdinand, the Christmas meeting between British and German soldiers in no-mans-land, and the wiping out by their own side of a force of Irish soldiers newly arrived at the front, after successfully capturing a ridge that had been contested for some time.
The Big Flame
Docker
After a prolonged industrial dispute in the Liverpool Docks, the striking workers reject management demands of a return to work and decide instead to occupy the docks and run the operation themselves.
Poor Cow
Photo Studio Guvnor
A young woman lives a life filled with bad choices. At a young age she marries and has a child--with an abusive thief who quickly ends up in prison. Left alone, she takes up with the guy's mate, another thief, who seems to give her some happiness but who also ends up locked up. She then takes up with a series of seedy types who offer nothing but momentary pleasure--if that.
The Lump
Rooney
The Lump is an uncompromising exploration of exploitation and resistance within the building trade.
Cover Girl Killer
Stagehand
A madman is on the loose... killing fashion models that appear on the cover of magazines. The police start a manhunt in an attempt to capture the killer.
The Cat Gang
Banks
The Cat Gang is a group of precocious British kids. They have a habit of hanging around a grown-up customs official who wishes that they'd beat it. But the Gang comes in handy when a smuggling gang arrives on the scene.
Captured
Directed by cult British director John Krish, the film was sponsored by the Army Kinematograph Corporation. This tightly plotted drama shows British POWs enduring brainwashing and torture during the Korean War, thereby revealing what a soldier could expect if he was ever captured by enemy forces.
Dublin Nightmare
Customer
Loot goes missing in robbery double-cross. Gang members, an ex-lover and a handsome stranger are left to sort it out.
Rooney
Michael
The life of James Ignatius Rooney, a Dublin rubbish collector during the week and a Gaelic sportsman at the weekends.
The Steel Bayonet
Cpl. Ames R.A.
Tunis, 1943. Battle-weary troops of Company C have orders to occupy a derelict Tunisian farmhouse. They are to establish an artillery observation post, reporting on enemy movements before the imminent offensive to liberate Tunis. However German infantrymen discover their operations. The ensuing battle for control of this small piece of land will decide who controls Tunis but more critically, the victors in the battle of democracy versus fascism.
The Girl in the Picture
Jack Bates
A crime reporter investigating a murder discovers the case hinges on a mysterious woman he had photographed earlier.
Tim Driscoll's Donkey
Bill
Story of how a young Irish boy loses the donkey he has reared from birth.
Mar Cruel
Sonar Operator (uncredited)
The Cruel Sea é um filme britânico de 1953, do gênero drama de guerra, dirigido por Charles Frend e estrelado por Jack Hawkins e Donald Sinden. O filme, no estilo docudrama, é uma das produções mais subestimadas e comoventes entre aquelas ambientadas na Segunda Guerra Mundial.