Brendan Dillon

Brendan Dillon

Born: October 24, 1918
Died: March 15, 2011
in Dublin, Ireland

Movies for Brendan Dillon...

Carnival of Souls
Title: Carnival of Souls
Character: Henry
Released: August 21, 1998
Type: Movie
A young woman is pursued in reality and in her subconscious by the sadistic carnival clown who raped and murdered her mother.
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Raging Angels
Title: Raging Angels
Character: Protestor
Released: November 10, 1995
Type: Movie
Two musicians are unknowingly drawn into a supernatural scheme.
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Fugitive Nights: Danger in the Desert
Title: Fugitive Nights: Danger in the Desert
Character: Priest
Released: November 19, 1993
Type: Movie
A lady private eye on her first job working a routine divorce case teams up with a cynical, heavy-drinking police detective after inadvertently stumbling upon a much bigger caper involving a mysterious fugitive.
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Voices Within: The Lives of Truddi Chase
Title: Voices Within: The Lives of Truddi Chase
Character: Shannon
Released: May 20, 1990
Type: Movie
A woman who suffers from multiple personality disorder is found during therapy to have suffered child abuse in this fact-based story.
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The Dead
Title: The Dead
Character: Cabman
Released: September 3, 1987
Type: Movie
After a convivial holiday dinner party, things begin to unravel when a husband and wife address some prickly issues concerning their marriage.
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Vampire
Title: Vampire
Character: Father Devlin
Released: October 7, 1979
Type: Movie
Vampire Anton Voytek's lair is disturbed by the ground breaking for a new church. Anton attempts to start a modern life using his hoarded wealth, but finds it's been confiscated by the authorities. He takes revenge on the architect responsible, who in turn, aided by a retired detective, tries to hunt down and destroy Anton.
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The Prisoner of Zenda
Title: The Prisoner of Zenda
Character: Joseph (uncredited)
Released: August 17, 1979
Type: Movie
Anthony Hope's classic tale gets a decidedly 'un-classic' treatment at the hands of Peter Sellers. Following the story somewhat, friends of the new King Rudolph of Ruritania fear for his life, and switch him with a look-a-like London cabby. Throw in two(!) lovely blondes, treachery, and a battle for life and honour, and enjoy life at its zaniest.
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Movie Movie
Title: Movie Movie
Character: Jury Foreman ("Dynamite Hands")
Released: November 1, 1978
Type: Movie
Three movie genres of the 1930s, boxing films, WWI aviation dramas, and backstage Broadway musicals, are satirized using the same cast.
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The 3,000 Mile Chase
Title: The 3,000 Mile Chase
Character: Ambrose Finn
Released: June 16, 1977
Type: Movie
Secret courier Matt Considine accepts the mission to escort chief witness Dvorak and his wife from San Francisco to a trial in New York. They have to cover 3,000 dangerous miles, because the drug mob wants to kill them at any price.
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Young Pioneers' Christmas
Title: Young Pioneers' Christmas
Character: Doyle
Released: December 17, 1976
Type: Movie
A young couple and their neighbours celebrate Christmas in 1874 on the Dakota prairie. Despite tragedy and an ongoing battle with the Railway company, Christmas is a homespun and overly sentimental affair.
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Title: Barbary Coast
Character: Rollins
Released: September 8, 1975
Type: TV
Barbary Coast is an American television series that aired on ABC. The pilot movie first aired on May 4, 1975 and the series itself premiered September 8, 1975; the last episode aired January 9, 1976. Barbary Coast was inspired by a similar 19th-century spy series, The Wild Wild West, and like the earlier program, Barbary Coast mixed the genres of Western and secret agent drama.
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Bug
Title: Bug
Character: Charlie
Released: June 6, 1975
Type: Movie
An earthquake releases a strain of mutant cockroaches with the ability to start fires, which proceed to cause destructive chaos in a small town. The studies carried out by scientist James Parmiter, however, reveal an intent with much more far-reaching consequences.
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Title: Baretta
Character: Father Connelly
Released: January 17, 1975
Type: TV
Baretta is an American detective television series which ran on ABC from 1975 to 1978. The show was a milder version of a successful 1973–74 ABC series, Toma, starring Tony Musante as chameleon-like, real-life New Jersey police officer David Toma. While popular, Toma received intense criticism at the time for its realistic and frequent depiction of police and criminal violence. When Musante left the series after a single season, the concept was retooled as Baretta, with Robert Blake in the title role.
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The Dead Don't Die
Title: The Dead Don't Die
Character: Prison Chaplain
Released: January 14, 1975
Type: Movie
In the 1930s, a sailor trying to prove that his brother was wrongly executed for murder finds himself becoming drawn into the occult world.
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The Island at the Top of the World
Title: The Island at the Top of the World
Character: The Factor
Released: December 16, 1974
Type: Movie
A Victorian gentleman hopes to find his long-lost son, who vanished whilst searching for a mysterious Viking community in a volcanic valley somewhere in uncharted Arctic regions. The gentleman puts together an expedition team to go on the search, but when they reach their destination they must escape from some Viking descendants who will kill to keep their existence a secret.
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
Title: The Picture of Dorian Gray
Character: Victor
Released: April 22, 1973
Type: Movie
Adaptation of the novel by Oscar Wilde.
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The Shadow of a Gunman
Title: The Shadow of a Gunman
Character: Grigson
Released: December 4, 1972
Type: Movie
Is a sensitive and mysterious poet really an IRA gunman in hiding? Set in a Dublin tenement in the 1920s, this was the first part of Sean O'Casey's celebrated "Dublin Trilogy." Equal parts comedy and tragedy, this classic play is brilliantly performed by a stellar cast.
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The Hound of the Baskervilles
Title: The Hound of the Baskervilles
Character: Barrymore
Released: February 12, 1972
Type: Movie
Holmes and Dr. Watson tackle the case of a curse on the Baskerville bloodline in this ABC Movie of the Week adaptation.
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Title: All in the Family
Character: Tommy Kelsey (uncredited)
Released: January 12, 1971
Type: TV
Archie Bunker, a working class bigot, constantly squabbles with his family over the important issues of the day.
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Title: All in the Family
Character: Tommy Kelsey
Released: January 12, 1971
Type: TV
Archie Bunker, a working class bigot, constantly squabbles with his family over the important issues of the day.
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Title: Night Gallery
Character: Quartermaster - Lusitania (segment "Lone Survivor")
Released: December 16, 1970
Type: TV
Rod Serling narrates an anthology of fantasy, horror and sci-fi stories from a set resembling a macabre museum. A chilling work of art serves as the connective link between the stories.
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The Molly Maguires
Title: The Molly Maguires
Character: Mr. Raines
Released: February 8, 1970
Type: Movie
Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, 1876. A secret society of Irish coal miners, bond by a sacred oath, put pressure on the greedy and ruthless company they work for by sabotaging mining facilities in the hope of improving their working conditions and the lives of their families.
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The Killing of Sister George
Title: The Killing of Sister George
Released: September 1, 1968
Type: Movie
When June Buckridge arrives at her London flat and announces 'They are going to murder me', her long-time lover and doll-cuddling flat mate Alice 'Childie' McNaught realizes that things are going to change. For June is referring to her character 'Sister George', a lovable nurse she portrays in a popular daytime serial. To make matters worse, the widowed executive at the BBC responsible for the decision to kill off Sister George - Mercy Croft is also a predatory lesbian who is after Childie and will stop at nothing to get what she wants.
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Title: The Time Tunnel
Character: Col. Fettretch
Released: September 9, 1966
Type: TV
The Time Tunnel is a 1966–1967 U.S. color science fiction TV series, written around a theme of time travel adventure. The show was creator-producer Irwin Allen's third science fiction television series, released by 20th Century Fox and broadcast on ABC. The show ran for one season of 30 episodes. Reruns are viewable on cable and by internet streaming. A pilot for a new series was produced in 2002, although it was not picked up.
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My Fair Lady
Title: My Fair Lady
Character: Leading Man (uncredited)
Released: October 21, 1964
Type: Movie
A snobbish phonetics professor agrees to a wager that he can take a flower girl and make her presentable in high society.
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Title: The Rogues
Character: Quimby
Released: September 13, 1964
Type: TV
The Rogues is an American television series that appeared on NBC from September 13, 1964, to April 18, 1965, starring David Niven, Charles Boyer, and Gig Young as a related trio of former conmen who could, for the right price, be persuaded to trick a very wealthy and heinously unscrupulous mark. Although it won the 1964 Golden Globe award for Best Television Series, the show was cancelled after one season consisting of thirty episodes.
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The Unsinkable Molly Brown
Title: The Unsinkable Molly Brown
Character: Murphy
Released: June 11, 1964
Type: Movie
The buoyant Molly Brown has survived the first crisis of her life—a flood. Sixteen years later she sets out to make her way in the world. She assures the Leadville saloon keeper that she can sing and play the piano, and learns quickly. Soon she marries Johnny Brown, who in a few years will be able to replace the original cigar wrapper wedding ring with a replica in gold and gemstones. The Browns head for Europe and bring a few crowned heads back to Denver for a party that turns into a ballroom brawl. Molly goes to Europe alone, returning on the Titanic. She didn't survive a flood as a baby for the story to end here.
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Title: The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
Character: Collins
Released: September 20, 1962
Type: TV
A continuation of the anthology series “Alfred Hitchcock Presents”, hosted by the master of suspense and featuring thrillers and mysteries.
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Title: The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
Character: The Bartender
Released: September 20, 1962
Type: TV
A continuation of the anthology series “Alfred Hitchcock Presents”, hosted by the master of suspense and featuring thrillers and mysteries.
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Title: The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
Character: Inspector Roberts
Released: September 20, 1962
Type: TV
A continuation of the anthology series “Alfred Hitchcock Presents”, hosted by the master of suspense and featuring thrillers and mysteries.
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Title: The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
Character: Sam
Released: September 20, 1962
Type: TV
A continuation of the anthology series “Alfred Hitchcock Presents”, hosted by the master of suspense and featuring thrillers and mysteries.
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Hero's Island
Title: Hero's Island
Character: Thomas Mainwaring
Released: September 16, 1962
Type: Movie
A family shipwrecked on an island must deal with escaped convicts and pirates.
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The Premature Burial
Title: The Premature Burial
Character: Minister
Released: March 7, 1962
Type: Movie
An artist grows distant from his new wife as an irrational horror of premature burial consumes him.
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Title: Checkmate
Character: Father Thomas
Released: September 17, 1960
Type: TV
Checkmate is an American detective television series starring Anthony George, Sebastian Cabot, and Doug McClure. The show aired on CBS Television from 1960 to 1962 for a total of 70 episodes and was produced by Jack Benny's production company, "JaMco Productions" in co-operation with Revue Studios. Guest stars included Charles Laughton, Peter Lorre, and Lee Marvin, among many other commensurately prominent performers.
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Flaming Frontier
Title: Flaming Frontier
Character: Store Clerk
Released: August 1, 1958
Type: Movie
Army officer whose parents are white and Indian tries to avert an Indian war.
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The Telltale Heart
Title: The Telltale Heart
Character: Guard
Released: March 27, 1958
Type: Movie
Canadian adaptation of Edgar Allen Poe’s story “The Tell-Tale Heart”.
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Title: Hawkeye and the Last of the Mohicans
Character: Travis
Released: April 3, 1957
Type: TV
Hawkeye and the Last of the Mohicans was set in New York's Hudson Valley during the French and Indian war in the 1750's and depicted the adventures of Hawkeye and his Indian blood brother Chingachgook, the last member of the Mohican tribe. The series based on stories by James Fenimore Cooper.
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Title: Hawkeye and the Last of the Mohicans
Character: Eben Cotten
Released: April 3, 1957
Type: TV
Hawkeye and the Last of the Mohicans was set in New York's Hudson Valley during the French and Indian war in the 1750's and depicted the adventures of Hawkeye and his Indian blood brother Chingachgook, the last member of the Mohican tribe. The series based on stories by James Fenimore Cooper.