Bernard McKenna

Filmes

O Pirata da Barba Amarela
Askey
For years Yellowbeard had looted the Spanish Main, making men eat their lips and swallow their hearts. Caught and convicted for tax evasion, he's sentenced to 20 years in St. Victim's Prison for the Extremely Naughty. In a scheme to confiscate his fabulous treasure, the Royal Navy allows him to escape and follows him, where saucy tarts, lisping demigods and some awful puns and punishments await.
O Pirata da Barba Amarela
Writer
For years Yellowbeard had looted the Spanish Main, making men eat their lips and swallow their hearts. Caught and convicted for tax evasion, he's sentenced to 20 years in St. Victim's Prison for the Extremely Naughty. In a scheme to confiscate his fabulous treasure, the Royal Navy allows him to escape and follows him, where saucy tarts, lisping demigods and some awful puns and punishments await.
Group Madness
Self
A behind-the-scenes documentary of the making of 1983's Yellowbeard
Peter Cook & Co.
Writer
A TV Special consisting of various sketches with the titular comedian and fellow comics in guest appearances.
A Vida de Brian
Parvus / Official Stoners Helper / Giggling Guard
A produção é uma sátira aos filmes bíblicos e à intolerância religiosa. Na Palestina do ano 1 d.C., três reis magos trazem presentes à mãe de Brian, confundindo-o com Jesus que nasceu no mesmo dia, na manjedoura ao lado. Brian, depois de crescido, engaja-se em um dos muitos grupos revolucionários que se opõem ao domínio romano. Após tentar seqüestrar a mulher de Pôncio Pilatos com seu grupo, ele é visto como Messias pela uma multidão, ávida por lideranças religiosas.
Effects
Barney
Some crew members of a company shooting a horror film begin to suspect that the "killings" in the movie are real, and that they are actually making a "snuff" film.
Out of the Trees
Writer
Sketch comedy pilot from Douglas Adams and Graham Chapman.
My Ain Folk
Tommy's Father
When Jamie's maternal grandmother dies, he and his brother Tommy are separated - Tommy is taken off to a welfare home and Jamie goes to live with his other grandmother and uncle. His life is far from happy, filled with silence, rejection and bouts of violence.
My Childhood
Tommy's Father
The first part of Bill Douglas' influential trilogy harks back to his impoverished upbringing in early-'40s Scotland. Cinema was his only escape - he paid for it with the money he made from returning empty jam jars - and this escape is reflected most closely at this time of his life as an eight-year-old living on the breadline with his half-brother and sick grandmother in a poor mining village.
Who Sold You This, Then?
A BAFTA award nominated, light-hearted, documentary looking at the part the service engineer can play in making or destroying his company's reputation.