P.H. Moriarty

P.H. Moriarty

Nascimento : 1939-01-27, Deptford, London, UK

História

P.H. Moriarty is a British actor best known for playing hard men and gangsters. He began acting late in life, having worked for many years in several professions including a boxer and a longshoresman. It was whilst working in the latter role that his film career started; a production company, shooting on the docks spotted him one day and asked him to act in their film. Moriarty's film credits include Guy Ritchie's feature film debut Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, The Long Good Friday, Jaws 3-D and the Western-inspired sci-fi film Outland (1981). He also has starred in various British television programmes and TV movies.

Perfil

P.H. Moriarty

Filmes

Rise of the Footsoldier: Origins
Ian Jarvis
A brutal account of how real-life, hard-as-nails Falklands War veteran Tony Tucker came to be involved in one of the most notorious gangland murders in British history.
Evil Never Dies
Ex-gangster Harry Payne confronts his violent past and vengeance from beyond the grave.
The Riddle
D.I. Willis / Constable Frederick (as P H Moriarty)
A journalist investigates a series of murders that follows the discovery of an unpublished novel by Charles Dickens in the cellar of an old Thames pub.
Manilla Envelopes
Also known as The Battersea Ripper, this is a comic crime thriller set in London concerning a young girl's kidnapping and the hapless police and reporters trying to get to the truth. It has never been released to DVD and has only ever had a limited theatrical screening in 2006.
Lado a Lado com o Inimigo
Chief
Chris Cody (Seagal), o melhor mercenário do mundo, é tirado da sua cela de prisão militar com a promessa de perdão presidencial - mas isso tem uma preço. Uma embaixadora americana foi assassinada...pelo serviço secreto americano. Agora a CIA precisa que Cody descubra e acabe com esta operação mortal, mas eles não contaram a ele toda a verdade. Para conseguir cumprir a sua missão, ele precisará usar suas armas mortais e seus golpes marciais e fica LADO A LADO COM O INIMIGO muito mais poderoso do que ele pode imaginar.
Jogos, Trapaças e Dois Canos Fumegantes
'Hatchet' Harry Lonsdale
Eddy convence três amigos a ajudá-lo com dinheiro para uma aposta muito alta de pôquer contra o chefão do crime local, Hatchet Harry. Harry trapaceia, e Eddy perde. Harry, então, dá um prazo a ele de uma semana para pagar 500 mil libras ou entregar o bar de seu pai. Desesperado, Eddy e seus amigos começam a roubar e vivem em constante perigo.
Chaplin
Workhouse Official
"Chaplin" é um filme biográfico baseado na autobiografia do artista e no livro "A Vida de Charles Chaplin", escrito por David Robinson, que traz a história da vida de Charles Chaplin, um dos maiores gênios do cinema, interpretado por Robert Downey Jr. Indicado ao Oscar de Melhor Ator, Melhor Direção de Arte e Melhor Canção Original em 1993. O filme dá a oportunidade aos admiradores do grande artista de refletir sobre a sua vida, desde a sua sofrida infância na Inglaterra, até o recebimento de um Oscar Especial.
Jogos Patrióticos
Court Guard
Jack Ryan, um ex-agente da CIA, frustra uma tentativa de assassinato, ficando sujeito à fúria de um maníaco. Depois de neutralizar os vilões e decidir celebrar a ocasião, tudo parece estar de volta ao normal, mas não é assim que as coisas acontecem.
Dear Sarah
Warder Deans
Giuseppe Conlon and his son Gerry are convicted of an IRA bombing as part of the Maguire Seven in 1976. Giuseppe diligently writes his wife Sarah as she works to free her family members from prison.
The Accountant
London middle class Jewish accountant Lionel is preparing for his son's bar mitzvah when he does a little favour for a friend, and ends up getting mixed up with the Mafia.
Number One
Mike the Throat
A down on his luck Irishman in London decides to play snooker for money.
Alugado Para Matar
Seeley
Stone (Peter Coyote) hits an armored truck without his usual driver. The ensuing getaway leads to the death of an innocent. The payback is swift and brutal. The wronged father hires a twisted, sociopathic assassin to avenge his loss. One by one the offenders are punished through grisly executions. Stone uses his wits to find a reclusive friend Terry (Mel Smith) just in time for a psychedelic funhouse showdown with his stalker.
Tubarão 3
Jack Tate
O tubarão mais famoso de todos os tempos está de volta... Maior e mais assustador do que nunca nesta nova aventura.
The Making of Jaws 3-D: Sharks Don't Die
Academy Award winner Lou Gossett Jr. takes you underwater on the trail of the great white shark and behind the scenes on the production of Jaws 3-D.
Outland: Comando Titânio
Hitman #1
William O'Niel é um delegado espacial enviado a uma base de coleta de titânio. Ele investiga uma série de mortes misteriosas de mineradores e descobre que a produtividade dos trabalhadores está sendo estimulada por drogas perigosas.
Caçada na Noite
Razors
In the late 1970s, Cockney crime boss Harold Shand, a gangster trying to become a legitimate property mogul, has big plans to get the American Mafia to bankroll his transformation of a derelict area of London into the possible venue for a future Olympic Games. However, a series of bombings targets his empire on the very weekend the Americans are in town. Shand is convinced there is a traitor in his organization, and sets out to eliminate the rat in typically ruthless fashion.
Bloody Kids
Police 1
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
Wesley
The thirteen-part series recounted the lives of the titular Fox family, who lived in Clapham in South London and had gangland connections.
A Sense of Freedom
Prison Warder
The true story of Jimmy Boyle, who was reputed to be Scotland's most violent man.
Quadrophenia
Barman at Villain's Pub
Na Londres de 1964 Jimmy Cooper é um membro de uma gangue Mod - jovens bem vestidos que dirigem vespas Lambretta. Os mods estão sempre brigando com os Rockers, que vestem jaquetas de couro e dirigem motocicletas. Desiludido com seus pais e seu emprego, Jimmy só encontra uma válvula de escape para sua angústia adolescente quando está com seus amigos mods Dave, Chalky e Spider. Um feriado de três dias é a desculpa para a rivalidade entre as duas gangues chegar às vias de fato, enquanto ambas descem para a cidade litorânea de Brighton para o confronto definitivo.Quadrophenia é uma reflexão sobre a Grã-Bretanha pré-Tatcher, documentando o narcisismo movido a anfetaminas da cultura jovem dos anos 60. Em 2004 a revista Total Film elegeu Quadrophenia o 35º melhor filme britânico de todos os tempos.
Scum
Mr. Hunt
Powerful, uncompromising drama about two boys' struggle for survival in the nightmare world of Britain's notorious Borstal Reformatory. [This is the feature film version Alan Clarke made after the BBC banned the original before its scheduled TV broadcast (see Scum (1977)].
Law & Order
Four-part drama serial about the British juicidal system, dealing with an investigation presented from the perspectives of the police force, the criminal, the solicitor and the prison system.
The Chelsea Cowboy
Justice Mars-Jones
The rise and fall of underworld hard-man turned actor Bindon, who despite a successful acting career and passionate romantic liaisons with various socialites, was unable to leave his criminal past behind.