Des McAleer

Des McAleer

Born: May 25, 1952
in Belfast, Northern Ireland
Des McAleer is a Belfast born actor of film, TV and stage.

Movies for Des McAleer...

Handmade - A tale of stop-motion
Title: Handmade - A tale of stop-motion
Character: Narrator
Released: May 5, 2023
Type: Movie
A documentary about an old animation technique and the film studio that tries to carry on the legacy. The worlds oldest animation studio still making film with stop motion technique is Nukufilm located in Tallinn, Estland. Here we can follow the work in the studio which was founded in the Soviet era and has survived heavy censorship and global competition.
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Title: Hope Street
Character: Barry Pettigrew
Released: November 24, 2021
Type: TV
The arrival of DC Leila Hussain sets tongues wagging – what brings this big city girl to a sleepy Northern Irish seaside town? Warm-hearted detective drama in a stunning setting.
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Out of Innocence
Title: Out of Innocence
Character: Père O'Reilly
Released: April 12, 2019
Type: Movie
After a police investigation, a young mother, confused and scared, confesses to a crime she did not commit and is charged with murder.
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Title: Death and Nightingales
Character: Jim Rutledge
Released: November 28, 2018
Type: TV
Fermanagh, Irish countryside, 1885. On her 23rd birthday, Beth, who lives on a remote farm with Billy Winters, her tyrannical stepfather, whom she can barely stand, prepares to flee from such a suffocating life with the help of the seductive Liam Ward, without being aware that her decision will unearth deeply buried secrets a long time ago.
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The Children Act
Title: The Children Act
Character: Jim the Porter
Released: August 1, 2018
Type: Movie
In the midst of a marital crisis, a High Court judge must decide if she should order a life-saving blood transfusion for a teen with cancer despite his family's refusal to accept medical treatment for religious reasons.
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Title: My Mother and Other Strangers
Character: Ned Hanlon
Released: November 13, 2016
Type: TV
Drama series set in 1943 following the Coyne family and their neighbours as they struggle to maintain a normal life after a US Army Air Force base is set up in the middle of their rural parish.
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Title: The Crown
Character: Philip Kinghorn Burbidge
Released: November 4, 2016
Type: TV
The gripping, decades-spanning inside story of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and the Prime Ministers who shaped Britain's post-war destiny. The Crown tells the inside story of two of the most famous addresses in the world – Buckingham Palace and 10 Downing Street – and the intrigues, love lives and machinations behind the great events that shaped the second half of the 20th century. Two houses, two courts, one Crown.
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National Theatre Live: The Seagull
Title: National Theatre Live: The Seagull
Character: Shamrayev
Released: October 8, 2016
Type: Movie
On a summer’s day in a makeshift theatre by a lake, Konstantin’s cutting-edge new play is performed, changing the lives of everyone involved forever. Chekhov’s masterly meditation on how the old take revenge on the young is both comic and tragic, and marks the birth of the modern stage. Adapted by David Hare whose stage plays include Skylight, Pravada and screenplays include The Hours and The Reader, directed by Jonathan Kent (Gypsy, Private Lives).
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North
Title: North
Character: Richard
Released: November 19, 2014
Type: Movie
Isolated on a farm and fighting against his family's decision, Aaron struggles to be heard as he watches his mother willingly die.
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How I Live Now
Title: How I Live Now
Character: Major McEvoy
Released: September 10, 2013
Type: Movie
An American girl, sent to the English countryside to stay with relatives, finds love and purpose while fighting for her survival as war envelops the world around her.
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My Week with Marilyn
Title: My Week with Marilyn
Character: Senior Policeman
Released: November 23, 2011
Type: Movie
London, 1956. Genius actor and film director Laurence Olivier is about to begin the shooting of his upcoming movie, premiered in 1957 as The Prince and the Showgirl, starring Marilyn Monroe. Young Colin Clark, who dreams on having a career in movie business, manages to get a job on the set as third assistant director.
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Title: Wuthering Heights
Character: Joseph
Released: August 30, 2009
Type: TV
Foundling Heathcliff is raised by the wealthy Earnshaws in Yorkshire but in later life launches a vendetta against the family.
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Hunger
Title: Hunger
Character: Mr Sands
Released: May 15, 2008
Type: Movie
The story of Bobby Sands, the IRA member who led the 1981 hunger strike during The Troubles in which Irish Republican prisoners tried to win political status.
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Nuremberg: Goering's Last Stand
Title: Nuremberg: Goering's Last Stand
Character: Col. Burton C. Andrus
Released: August 24, 2006
Type: Movie
The Nuremberg trials, 1946 Goering and the Nazi high command stand trial. Within the prison a dangerous mind game is being conducted by Goering and the prison guards who stand watch over the perpetrators of the Holocaust.
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Deadlines
Title: Deadlines
Character: Jim Prager
Released: June 8, 2005
Type: Movie
Alex Randal (Stephen Moyer), a young reporter on the make, decides, without knowing anything about the situation, to go to Beirut on October 23, 1983, when he hears a radio report about suicide trucks exploding on both an American base and a French base, resulting in the deaths of hundreds of soldiers. Seduced by a gifted and enigmatic photographer, Julia Muller (Anne Parillaud), Randal finds a capitol torn by civil war, where political, financial and strategic interests intertwine.
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An Everlasting Piece
Title: An Everlasting Piece
Character: Mr. Black
Released: December 22, 2000
Type: Movie
Colin is a Catholic and George is a poetry-loving Protestant. In Belfast in the 1980s, they could have been enemies, but instead they became business partners. After persuading a mad wig salesman, known as the Scalper, to sell them his leads, the two embark on a series of house calls
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When the Sky Falls
Title: When the Sky Falls
Released: June 26, 2000
Type: Movie
Fact-based story about Irish crime-investigating reporter Sinead Hamilton, who invaded the Irish underworld and attempted to expose the illegitimate activities she found. Hampered by the system, a police consort is ineffectual at aiding her despite trying to step outside of the normal bounds. Kevin McNally plays her husband, who hates her activities and the danger in which she places herself. Nonetheless, he grudgingly admires her persistence and encourages her investigation.
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Angela's Ashes
Title: Angela's Ashes
Character: Mr. Benson
Released: December 25, 1999
Type: Movie
Based on the best selling autobiography by Irish expat Frank McCourt, Angela's Ashes follows the experiences of young Frankie and his family as they try against all odds to escape the poverty endemic in the slums of pre-war Limerick. The film opens with the family in Brooklyn, but following the death of one of Frankie's siblings, they return home, only to find the situation there even worse. Prejudice against Frankie's Northern Irish father makes his search for employment in the Republic difficult despite his having fought for the IRA, and when he does find money, he spends the money on drink.
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Titanic Town
Title: Titanic Town
Character: Finbar
Released: August 8, 1998
Type: Movie
Belfast 1972: The politically naive Bernie is trying to bring up a normal family in less than normal surroundings. Her best friend is accidentally shot dead by the IRA, and her neighbours are constantly raided by the army. In this climate of fear she stands up and condemns the murders. Criticising both factions, her call for a ceasefire is interpreted as an attack against the IRA, and as her peace movement takes momentum, she and her family are placed in the frontline.
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I Want You
Title: I Want You
Character: Flowers Salesman
Released: February 15, 1998
Type: Movie
A young boy and his sister are drawn into one man's obsessive pursuit of his former lover.
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This Is the Sea
Title: This Is the Sea
Character: Inspector Wilson
Released: September 15, 1997
Type: Movie
The film is set in Northern Ireland shortly after 1994 cease-fire. Hazel is a Protestant and Malachy a Catholic. Romance between them is threatened by Rohan (leader in militant underground and pal of Malachy's brother Padhar), who wants Malachy to be recruited and fight for the cause and by Hazel's brother Jef, who spies on her meetings.
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Title: Touching Evil
Character: DCI Frank Dolland
Released: April 29, 1997
Type: TV
Follow the exploits of the Organized and Serial Crime Unit (OSC). Maverick Detective Inspector Dave Creegan is the newest member of the unit, an elite, rapid-response crime squad. The OSC uses their diverse crime-fighting skills to bring justice to society.
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Title: Safe And Sound
Character: Tommy Delaney
Released: August 9, 1996
Type: TV
Belfast-set comedy series about best mates and colleagues, Catholic Tommy and protestant Dougy, who own and run the Safe And Sound garage
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Title: Silent Witness
Released: February 21, 1996
Type: TV
Silent Witness is a British crime thriller series focusing on a team of forensic pathology experts and their investigations into various crimes.
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Butterfly Kiss
Title: Butterfly Kiss
Character: Eric McDermott
Released: August 18, 1995
Type: Movie
Deeply mentally unbalanced drifter Eunice roams grim northern Britain committing psychosexual serial murders of both men and women while ostensibly searching for an unknown woman named Judith. She spares the life of lonely but kind-hearted gas station cashier Miriam, who abandons her dismal life to follow her damaged new lover. While attempting to hide the evidence of her multiple crimes, Miriam tries to understand Eunice's bizarre quest.
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Life After Life
Title: Life After Life
Character: Paddy John O'Neill
Released: April 2, 1995
Type: Movie
Leo Doyle, a convicted IRA murderer, is released into the community after 14 years in prison on a scheme to rehabilitate former terrorists. He soon finds that the ceasefire has robbed him of both purpose and identity. Relationships with his family are difficult and reach boiling point when they find that he has rekindled his affair with a former fiancee Roisin, now married with three children.
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Family
Title: Family
Character: Ray Harris
Released: May 8, 1994
Type: Movie
This four-part made-for-TV drama focuses up close on a Dublin couple with four children. Charlo is a hustler, a head-first footballer, a thief, abusive. Paula drinks, objects to Charlie's thievery and adultery without the will to chuck him out. John Paul worships his father who's initiating him into the world of beer and football but recoils at Charlo's treatment of mum; asthma and misbehavior at school follow. Daughter Nicola is a young woman, starting work in a garment factory. When Charlo begins to stare at her, she's frightened and Paula's furious.
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Title: Between the Lines
Released: September 4, 1992
Type: TV
Detective Superintendent Tony Clark is an ambitious member of the Complaints Investigation Bureau, an internal organisation that investigates claims of corruption inside the police in England and Wales. Along the way Clark overcomes strong influence from his superiors and problems in his private life, most notably the break-up of his marriage following an affair with WPC Jenny Dean.
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Title: Heartbeat
Character: Matt Rawlings
Released: April 10, 1992
Type: TV
Set during the 1960s in the fictional North Yorkshire village of Aidensfield, this enduringly popular series interweaves crime and medical storylines.
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Hidden Agenda
Title: Hidden Agenda
Character: Sgt Kennedy
Released: November 21, 1990
Type: Movie
In Ireland, American lawyer Ingrid Jessner and her activist partner, Paul Sullivan, struggle to uncover atrocities committed by the British government against the Northern Irish during the "Troubles." But when Sullivan is assassinated in the streets, Jessner teams up with Peter Kerrigan, a British investigator acting against the will of his own government, and struggles to uncover a conspiracy that may even implicate one of Kerrigan's colleagues.
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Shoot to Kill
Title: Shoot to Kill
Character: CID Supt. Jimmy Richards
Released: June 3, 1990
Type: Movie
Shoot to Kill is a four-hour drama documentary reconstruction of the events that led to the 1984–86 Stalker Inquiry into the shooting of six terrorist suspects in Northern Ireland in 1982 by a specialist unit of the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC), allegedly without warning (the so-called shoot-to-kill policy); the organised fabrication of false accounts of the events; and the difficulties created for the inquiry team in their investigation.
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Title: The Paradise Club
Character: DCS Flemyng
Released: September 19, 1989
Type: TV
The Paradise Club is a BBC television drama starring Don Henderson and Leslie Grantham as Frank & Danny Kane. Two series were produced and were broadcast between 1989 and 1990. The show focuses upon two brothers, Frank & Danny Kane. Their mother, Ma Kane, is the matriarch of a criminal gang in South London, helped by her son Danny. Frank has become a priest but leaves the church; he inherits The Paradise Club on the death of their mother and returns to London to try and steer Danny away from crime.
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Coppers
Title: Coppers
Released: October 16, 1988
Type: Movie
Two bored twentysomethings buy a Vauxhall Cavalier kit it out with a siren and spend their evenings masquerading as police officers in this Screen One TV movie
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No Man's Land
Title: No Man's Land
Released: October 24, 1986
Type: Movie
The graduation movie of Niall Leonard
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Title: Casualty
Character: Dave McGann
Released: September 6, 1986
Type: TV
Drama series about the staff and patients at Holby City Hospital's emergency department, charting the ups and downs in their personal and professional lives.
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Four Days in July
Title: Four Days in July
Character: Eugene
Released: November 29, 1984
Type: Movie
Two couples, one Catholic, one Protestant, exist on two sides of the chasm that is everyday life in Northern Ireland.
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Title: The Bill
Released: October 16, 1984
Type: TV
The daily lives of the men and women at Sun Hill Police Station as they fight crime on the streets of London. From bomb threats to armed robbery and drug raids to the routine demands of policing this ground-breaking series focuses as much on crime as it does on the personal lives of its characters.
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Anne Devlin
Title: Anne Devlin
Character: James Hope
Released: October 1, 1984
Type: Movie
The story of Anne Devlin, who was caught up in the revolt of the Irish under Robert Emmett in 1803, told exclusively from the woman's point of view.
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The Writing on the Wall
Title: The Writing on the Wall
Character: Major Bond
Released: June 15, 1983
Type: Movie
A youth workshop in Derry is mounting various projects, including a dramatized enquiry into the death of a soldier. But when a squaddie is shot on the doorstep, then real life intrudes in the shape of the police and security forces.