Pat Laffan
Nascimento : 1939-06-08, County Meath, Ireland
Morte : 2019-03-14
História
Pat Laffan was an Irish actor best known for his roles as Georgie Burgess in The Snapper and the milkman Pat Mustard in the Father Ted episode Speed 3. Laffan grew up on a farm in Co. Meath and began his career as an actor after graduating from Engineering in UCD. A prolific theatre actor, Laffan was a member of the Abbey Theatre Company in the 1960s and 1970s, and was the Director of the Peacock Theatre for most of the 1970s. He directed in the Gate Theatre from 1979 to 1982. Laffan had around 40 film credits to his name - including turns in Steven Spielberg's War Horse (2011), Intermission (2003), The General (1998) and Leap Year (2010) - and 30 credits on TV, Moone Boy, EastEnders and Ripper Street, to name a few. He died on March 14th, 2019 at the age of 79.
Frank
A feuding father and son must put aside their differences and get morbidly creative in order to dispose of a burglar's dead body.
Devon Farmer #2
Albert vive com o pai e a mãe no campo e tem uma intensa ligação com seu cavalo. Depois de ser vendido para a cavalaria inglesa durante a Primeira Guerra Mundial, Albert se alista para recuperar o animal e acaba conhecendo o major.
Manus
The Runway is inspired by the true story of a South American pilot who landed his plane near Mallow, in 1983. Against all odds, the people of the town came together to build a runway to get him home and briefly caught the imagination of the nation. It is the story of Paco, a young boy without a father who adopts the pilot and convinces the town to build a runway to get him home.
Donal
Anna (Amy Adams) viaja a Dublin, Irlanda, para pedir o namorado Jeremy (Adam Scott) em casamento. Segundo a tradição local, o homem não pode recusar um pedido feito no dia 29 de fevereiro. Após contratempos na viagem, Anna vê-se obrigada a pegar carona com o charmoso e grosseiro Declan (Matthew Goode), dono de uma hospedaria. Logo, o que deveria ser uma simples travessia ganha rumos inesperados.
Judge
Sometimes, when you're in the autumn of your days, you'll try anything just to put a smile on your face again. And so in this funny, sad (and sometimes wobbly) tale we meet two pensioners who manage to re-ignite the love they'd almost forgotten about. Unfortunately, soon the law comes knocking at their door
Head Ghillie
A notícia da morte da princesa Diana se espalha rapidamente pelo mundo. Incapaz de compreender a reação emocional do público britânico, a rainha Elizabeth II (Helen Mirren) se fecha com a família real no palácio Balmoral. Tony Blair (Michael Sheen), o recém-apontado primeiro-ministro britânico, percebe que os líderes do país precisam tomar medidas que os reaproximem da população e é com essa missão que ele procura a rainha.
Gerry - The Customs Officer
Uma competição de música irlandesa tradicional atrai os melhores músicos da Irlanda. Os dois principais rivais nessa disputa são John Joe (Bernard Hill) – que, com sua banda, interpreta temas folclóricos e representa o condado de Clare – e Jimmy (Colin Meaney). O detalhe é que, não bastando, os dois líderes são irmão que não se falam há muito tempo.
Charlie O'Brien
A partir do fim do relacionamento de John (Cillian Murphy) e Deirdre (Kelly Macdonald), o filme avança misturando amor, roubo a banco, sequestro e vingança. Surpreendente e imprevisível, "Dias Selvagens" foge do lugar comum e conquista o espectador por sua originalidade. Investigando o poder que cada um tem em interferir na vida dos outros, o filme é um passatempo inventivo e inquieto, qualidades que não costumam caminhar juntas.
Father O'Connor
Set in rural Ireland. Believing that "a man is measured by his enemies", Harry Maloney (Colm Meany) sets out to ruin George O'Flaherty – the most powerful man in town, who not only owns the local pub and most of the businesses in the area, but is also the local matchmaker. When Harry's son Gus (Cillian Murphy) – upon whom Harry regularly heaps abuse (mostly mental and verbal) – falls for the lovely Eileen, George helps get the two together. During this time, Harry quietly mobilizes his dastardly plans.
Police Sergeant Patrick Higgins
The real-life story of Dublin folk hero and criminal Martin Cahill, who pulled off two daring robberies in Ireland with his team, but attracted unwanted attention from the police, the I.R.A., the U.V.F., and members of his own team.
Sgt. Patrick Higgins
The real-life story of Dublin folk hero and criminal Martin Cahill, who pulled off two daring robberies in Ireland with his team, but attracted unwanted attention from the police, the I.R.A., the U.V.F., and members of his own team.
Pritchard
O jovem arquiteto holandês Meneer Chrome é contratado para um projeto muito ousado, construir, para Thomas Smithers, um enorme e luxuoso jardim em sua mansão no interior da Inglaterra. Mas toda a extravagância tem o objetivo secreto de levar Smithers à falência, e tem como mentor um próprio membro da família dele.
Catholic Priest
Simon Templar é contratado pelo magnata do petróleo russo Ivan Tretiak para roubar uma fórmula secreta. Ele seduz a cientista Emma Russell e consegue a informação, mas a fórmula estava incompleta. Agora, Tretiak quer matar Templar e sequestrar Emma.
Matt
Trojan Eddie sells stolen goods for John Power, aging godfather of a local network of Irish gypsies, known as "travelers." Having done time rather than inform on his partner in a failed burglary, Eddie now struggles to raise his two daughters alone. Power falls for and marries traveler girl Kathleen, but when she runs off with Power's nephew Dermot — and takes the $11,000 dowry with her — Eddie must track the couple down.
Scummy
No ano de 2196,John Canyon,ganha a vida transportando mercadorias com a sua pequena nave.Em uma de suas paradas,ele compra uma briga com a Companhia,uma organização dirigida com rédeas de aço.Para sair ileso do conflito,ele concorda em se associar ao jovem Mike Pucci para transportar um contêiner lacrado,cujo conteúdo é um grande mistério.Não demora muito para Canyon perceber que entrou numa fria.
Mr Harcourt
Liverpool. 1947. Right after World War II, a star struck naive teenage girl joins a shabby theatre troupe in Liverpool. During a winter production of Peter Pan, the play quickly turns into a dark metaphor for youth as she becomes drawn into a web of sexual politics and intrigue and learns about the grown-up world of the theater.
Mr Connor
Grupos rivais de crianças se preparam para uma guerra, na qual o troféu são os botões dos adversários. Mentiras, amizades, lealdade e traições fazem parte de um conflito que preocupa os pais, professores e policiais. Refilmagem do clássico francês de 1961, baseado na obra de Louis Pergaud.
George Burgess
Morando na Irlanda, Sharon Curley tem 20 anos e vive com seus pais e muitos irmãos e irmãs. Quando ela fica grávida e se recusa a dizer quem é o pai, ela se torna o assunto da cidade.
Duffy
A young woman, Tara Maguire (Robin Wright) scandalizes her provincial Irish village in the 1950s by having a baby out of a wedlock, and refusing to name the father. She has a rare beauty and every man in town desires her, especially Sergeant Hegarty (Albert Finney). The arrival of a dramatic troupe stirs things up even more, especially when she falls in love with one f the "Playboys", Tom Casey (Aidan Quinn).
Taxi Driver 1
Singer Josef Locke fled to Ireland 25 years ago to escape the clutches of the tax man and police Chief Jim Abbott. What he also left behind was the love of his life Cathleen Doyle. Now, Micky O’Neill is desperate to save both his ailing Liverpool nightclub ‘Heartly’s’ and his failing relationship with the beautiful Nancy, Cathleen’s daughter. The solution? Book the infamous Josef Locke.
Bishop
How the Anglo-Irish Treaty between the unrecognised Irish Republic, represented by Michael Collins, and the British government was concluded after high-stakes negotiations in 1921.
Father Mallory
Journey to Knock humourously follows three disabled men on their pilgrimage from the North of England to Knock shrine in Co. Mayo.
Mr. McDowd
The painful memories of the tragedy that awaited the people of Drimaghleen on 2/11/88 have just begun to fade; Hetty Fortune and her TV documentary team travel there to piece those memories together into a story of horror.
Head Chef
An alcoholic night watchman in a Dublin hotel redeems himself with the help of a new assistant.
Barman
Christy Brown (Daniel Day-Lewis), o filho de uma humilde família irlandesa, nasce com uma paralisia cerebral que lhe tira todos os movimentos do corpo, com a exceção do pé esquerdo. Com apenas este movimento Christy consegue, no decorrer de sua vida, se tornar escritor e pintor.
Detective 2
Grim tale of marginalized souls in an apocalyptic Dublin inner city. Jimmy takes up residence in a derelict and once elegant house in a no-go inner area. He is soon joined by other squatters, George a business man trying to retain some dignity, Ronnie a drug dealer, Tom a paranoiac, Orwell a Jamaican pimp and his prostitute Mary
Um trapaceiro irlandês conquista o coração de uma viúva rica e assume a posição aristocrárica do seu falecido marido na Inglaterra do século 18.
A Protestant and a Catholic family's friendship is threatened by the sectarian violence in Belfast. When the daughter of the Catholic family falls in love a British soldier the situation worsens ...
Dr. Farnum (as Patrick Laffan)
The tale of a young Irish Catholic bride who is devastated when her pregnant mother miscarries and dies on her wedding day. The young woman, one of seven children, blames her father’s lust for the death. When her own wedding night arrives she is terrified and refuses to consummate the marriage with her husband. Her parish priest forbids her to accept her doctor’s suggestion that she should use contraception and she is driven to desperate measures.
Bertie Counham
Catholic-Irish farm girl Kate, along with her gregarious best friend Baba, moves to Dublin to pursue a more exciting life.
