Joseph Tomelty

Joseph Tomelty

Born: March 5, 1911
Died: June 7, 1995

Movies for Joseph Tomelty...

The Black Torment
Title: The Black Torment
Character: Sir Giles Fordyke
Released: October 19, 1964
Type: Movie
A lord returns to his manor with his new wife, to hear rumours that he had already secretly returned and had committed several murders. Has he lost his mind, or is something dark afoot ?
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Lancelot and Guinevere
Title: Lancelot and Guinevere
Character: Sir Kaye
Released: June 2, 1963
Type: Movie
In and around the castle Camelot, brave Cornel Wilde (as Lancelot) and virtuous Brian Aherne (as King Arthur) vie for the affections of lovely Jean Wallace (as Guinevere).
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The Day They Robbed the Bank of England
Title: The Day They Robbed the Bank of England
Character: Cohoun
Released: September 4, 1960
Type: Movie
London at the turn of the century. Three men are on a mission from the IRA to steal all the gold in the vaults of the Bank of England. Norgate, their leader, discovers the bank's weak spot: an old forgotten sewer straight under the vaults.
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Hell Is a City
Title: Hell Is a City
Character: Furnisher Steele
Released: April 10, 1960
Type: Movie
Set in Manchester, heartland of England's industrial north, Don Starling escapes from jail becoming England's most wanted man. Ruthless villain Starling together with his cronies engineered a robbery that resulted in the violent death of a young girl. Detective Inspector Martineau has been assigned to hunt him down and bring him in. From seedy barrooms, through gambling dens the trail leads to an explosive climax high on the rooftops of the city.
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Life Is a Circus
Title: Life Is a Circus
Character: Joe Winter
Released: February 16, 1960
Type: Movie
Encompassing three hugely popular double acts, The Crazy Gang were one of Britain's best-loved, most enduring variety troupes – their antics delighting audiences for over three decades from the early 1930s and their career taking in numerous Royal Command performances. Their efforts to save a struggling circus provide the laughs in this uproarious comedy, also starring Goldfinger icon Shirley Eaton and featuring Flanagan and Allen's rendition of their greatest hit, Underneath the Arches. The Crazy Gang have been jacks-of-all-trades with Joe Winter's Monster Circus for almost as long as Joe has been on the road, and they're still hoping for a big break. But Joe has hit hard times: his equipment is mortgaged, most of his acts have deserted him and even the elephants have walked out. So the Gang set about finding a way to save the circus... and come up with a typically novel solution!
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Upstairs and Downstairs
Title: Upstairs and Downstairs
Character: Arthur Farringdon
Released: November 2, 1959
Type: Movie
On marrying the boss's daughter, Richard takes his father-in-law's advice to hire a live-in domestic. He soon finds good help is hard to come by. Run-ins follow with dipsomaniacs, bank robbers, a Welsh lass who takes one look at London and runs, and an Italian charmer who turns the place into a bawdy house. Then when Ingrid arrives from Sweden things actually start to get complicated.
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Worm in the Bud
Title: Worm in the Bud
Character: Jimsey Barner
Released: September 27, 1959
Type: Movie
An elderly man living on his own in Belfast rouses the suspicions of his neighbors.
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Tread Softly Stranger
Title: Tread Softly Stranger
Character: Joe Ryan
Released: August 15, 1958
Type: Movie
Unable to pay his bookie, a man returns to his hometown where his embezzler brother and girlfriend plot a robbery that ends in tragedy.
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A Night to Remember
Title: A Night to Remember
Character: Dr. William O'Loughlin
Released: July 3, 1958
Type: Movie
The sinking of the Titanic is presented in a highly realistic fashion in this tense British drama. The disaster is portrayed largely from the perspective of the ocean liner's second officer, Charles Lightoller. Despite numerous warnings about ice, the ship sails on, with Capt. Edward John Smith keeping it going at a steady clip. When the doomed vessel finally hits an iceberg, the crew and passengers discover that they lack enough lifeboats, and tragedy follows.
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The Adventurous Hen
Title: The Adventurous Hen
Character: Bobby Greer
Released: January 1, 1957
Type: Movie
Animated cinema ad for E.T. Green's feeds. Bella is a farmer who is as mean as get out so her livestock find their own way to help themselves. One hungry hen improves her lot by shoplifting and starts an animal crime wave. While the adventurous hen grows fat the other livestock conspire to burgle a nearby farm.
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Moby Dick
Title: Moby Dick
Character: Peter Coffin
Released: June 27, 1956
Type: Movie
In 1841, young Ishmael signs up for service aboard the Pequod, a whaler sailing out of New Bedford. The ship is under the command of Captain Ahab, a strict disciplinarian who exhorts his men to find Moby Dick, the great white whale. Ahab lost his his leg to that creature and is desperate for revenge. As the crew soon learns, he will stop at nothing to gain satisfaction.
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Timeslip
Title: Timeslip
Character: Detective Inspector Cleary
Released: November 1, 1955
Type: Movie
An atomic scientist is found floating in a river with a bullet in his back and a radioactive halo around his body. The radioactivity has put him seven-and-a-half seconds ahead of us in time. He teams up with a reporter to stop his evil double from destroying his experiments in artificial tungsten.
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A Prize of Gold
Title: A Prize of Gold
Character: Uncle Dan
Released: October 14, 1955
Type: Movie
A U.S. sergeant, a British sergeant and a British pilot hijack gold for a German refugee's war orphans.
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A Kid for Two Farthings
Title: A Kid for Two Farthings
Character: Vagrant
Released: August 15, 1955
Type: Movie
Joe is a young boy who lives with his mother, Joanna, in working-class London. The two reside above the tailor shop of Mr. Kandinsky, who likes to tell Joe stories. When Kandinsky informs Joe that a unicorn can grant wishes, the hopeful lad ends up buying a baby goat with one tiny horn, believing it to be a real unicorn. Undaunted by his rough surroundings, Joe sets about to prove that wishes can come true.
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John and Julie
Title: John and Julie
Character: Mr. Davidson
Released: July 26, 1955
Type: Movie
The adventures of two children who runaway to London to see the coronation of Queen Elizabeth.
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Bedevilled
Title: Bedevilled
Released: April 28, 1955
Type: Movie
A seminary student (Steve Forrest) helps a nightclub singer (Anne Baxter) sought by Paris police for killing her married lover.
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Simba
Title: Simba
Character: Doctor Hughes
Released: January 7, 1955
Type: Movie
A European family in East Africa finds itself caught up in an uprising by local black Africans against their white colonial masters. Based on the Mau-Mau rebellion in Kenya in the early 1950s.
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The Young Lovers
Title: The Young Lovers
Character: Moffatt
Released: August 24, 1954
Type: Movie
A young employee of the British State Department falls in love with the daughter of a top Russian diplomat, much to the panic of their respective countries' officials, who suspect espionage. The cast includes David Knight, Odile Versois, Theodore Bikel and David Kossoff.
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Happy Ever After
Title: Happy Ever After
Character: Dooley
Released: June 29, 1954
Type: Movie
The whole village mourns when General O'Leary, owner of a hunting estate in South Ireland, is killed in an accident. His nephew, Jasper O'Leary, takes over the state and soon has aroused the displeasure of all, with the exception of Serena McGluskey, as much a schemer as he is a cad. Led by Thady O'Heggarty, the villagers plot to drive Jasper away. They use the occasion of "O'Leary Night", when the ghost of the first O'Leary walks the halls, to create general chaos.
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Devil Girl from Mars
Title: Devil Girl from Mars
Character: Prof. Arnold Hennessy
Released: May 1, 1954
Type: Movie
Eight people at a remote Scottish inn find themselves confronted by a woman from Mars, who has landed her flying saucer for repairs but intends to soon conquer the Earth and enslave its men for breeding purposes.
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Hobson's Choice
Title: Hobson's Choice
Character: Jim Heeler
Released: April 19, 1954
Type: Movie
Henry Hobson owns and tyrannically runs a successful Victorian boot maker’s shop in Salford, England. A stingy widower with a weakness for overindulging in the local Moonraker Public House, he exploits his three daughters as cheap labour. When he declares that there will be ‘no marriages’ to avoid the expense of marriage settlements at £500 each, his eldest daughter Maggie rebels.
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Hell Below Zero
Title: Hell Below Zero
Character: Capt. McPhee
Released: January 13, 1954
Type: Movie
Duncan Craig signs on a whaling ship, partly because his own business deal has fallen through, partly to help Judie Nordhall find her father. Rumor has it that her father may have been murdered by Erik Bland, son of her father's partner and her one-time lover. Duncan and Erik find themselves on rival whaleboats and, ultimately, on an ice floe.
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Meet Mr. Lucifer
Title: Meet Mr. Lucifer
Character: Mr. Pedelty
Released: November 30, 1953
Type: Movie
A TV set given as a retirement present is sold on to different households causing misery each time.
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Melba
Title: Melba
Character: Thomas Mitchell
Released: August 7, 1953
Type: Movie
Rural Australian Nellie Melba becomes an opera star in 1900s Europe and the United States.
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The Oracle
Title: The Oracle
Character: Terry Roche
Released: June 1, 1953
Type: Movie
An Irish "oracle" foretells the next day's track results to a newspaperman, resulting in a national uproar.
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The Gentle Gunman
Title: The Gentle Gunman
Character: Dr Brannigan
Released: October 23, 1952
Type: Movie
The relationship between brothers Terry and Matt, both active in the IRA, comes under strain when Terry begins to question the use of violence.
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The Sound Barrier
Title: The Sound Barrier
Character: Will
Released: October 10, 1952
Type: Movie
Fictionalized story of British aerospace engineers solving the problem of supersonic flight.
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Treasure Hunt
Title: Treasure Hunt
Character: Tim O'Leary
Released: June 1, 1952
Type: Movie
Short of money the owners of Ballyroden Hall must attempt to run it as a guest house, but not everyone is happy about the plan.
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You're Only Young Twice
Title: You're Only Young Twice
Character: Dan McEntee
Released: July 1, 1951
Type: Movie
Seeking her long lost uncle, Ada Shore arrives at Skerryvore University to find him working under another name as the Gate Keeper. Ada is mistaken by the Principal as his new secretary so she jumps headlong into the role
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Odd Man Out
Title: Odd Man Out
Character: 'Gin' Jimmy, the cabbie
Released: January 30, 1947
Type: Movie
Belfast police conduct a door-to-door manhunt for an IRA gunman wounded in a daring robbery.