Niall O'Brien

Niall O'Brien

Born: February 8, 1946
Died: February 25, 2009
in Dublin, Ireland

Movies for Niall O'Brien...

Title: Vikings: Valhalla
Character: Soldier
Released: February 25, 2022
Type: TV
In this sequel to "Vikings," a hundred years have passed and a new generation of legendary heroes arises to forge its own destiny — and make history.
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Teeth
Title: Teeth
Character: Joe
Released: February 27, 2007
Type: Movie
A last laugh tale of two old friends, their teeth and a fishing trip that leaves them lost for words.
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Conspiracy of Silence
Title: Conspiracy of Silence
Released: May 15, 2003
Type: Movie
When a priest commits suicide and two trainees are expelled from a seminary, a journalist starts to investigate the Vatican’s silence on broken vows of celibacy. A thriller examining the internal conflicts in the modern Catholic church.
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Title: The Royal
Character: Father Carroll
Released: January 19, 2003
Type: TV
Follows the staff and patients of a Yorkshire cottage hospital in the 60s, embroiled in tangled love lives and bitter power struggles.
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The Emperor's New Clothes
Title: The Emperor's New Clothes
Character: Bosun
Released: August 11, 2001
Type: Movie
Napoleon, exiled, devises a plan to retake the throne. He'll swap places with commoner Eugene Lenormand, sneak into Paris, then Lenormand will reveal himself and Napoleon will regain his throne. Things don't go at all well; first, the journey proves more difficult than expected, but more disastrously, Lenormand enjoys himself too much to reveal the deception. Napoleon adjusts somewhat uneasily to the life of a commoner while waiting, while Lenormand gorges on rich food.
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When Brendan Met Trudy
Title: When Brendan Met Trudy
Character: Judge
Released: December 14, 2000
Type: Movie
Brendan is an earnest, introverted schoolteacher who, aside from his participation in the local choir, has only one passion in his life -- the movies. That is until he meets Trudy, a woman who is gregarious and adventurous beyond his imagination. His entire persona changes as he becomes enveloped in her carefree and sometimes dangerous world.
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St. Patrick: The Irish Legend
Title: St. Patrick: The Irish Legend
Character: Longhaire
Released: March 12, 2000
Type: Movie
A young Christian boy attends a druid worship that is attacked by invading Irish tribes. Taken captive, he is taken back to Ireland to become a slave. Enduring many hardships, he finds comfort and eventually salvation in his faith. After several years, he escapes back to England, where he joins a convent to prove his faith. His greatest desire is to return to Ireland to convert the Irish to Christianity. Years later, he is given the opportunity. Upon setting foot on the Irish soil, all snakes are aitomatically driven from the land. He then overcomes many obstacles, including disagreements with the British Cardinal (Malcolm McDowell), to fulfill his destiny and ultimately being given Sainthood.
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The Legend of 1900
Title: The Legend of 1900
Character: Harbor Master
Released: October 28, 1998
Type: Movie
The story of a virtuoso piano player who lives his entire life aboard an ocean liner. Born and raised on the ship, 1900 (Tim Roth) learned about the outside world through interactions with passengers, never setting foot on land, even for the love of his life. Years later, the ship may be destroyed, and a former band member fears that 1900 may still be aboard, willing to go down with the ship.
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The Last Bus Home
Title: The Last Bus Home
Character: Jessop's Father
Released: October 17, 1997
Type: Movie
Though it is late in the punk rock movement, four Dublin youths get together in 1979 to form their own band. Accurately recounting the energy and rawness of the era, this drama follows their tumultuous and ill-fated journey on the rocky road to success. It takes three long years of unpaid performing for Reena, her lover Jessop, bassist Joe and drummer Petie to make a name for The Dead Patriots. Just as they are about to find real success, internal difficulties arise that leave each of them suspicious and mistrustful of the other.
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Braveheart
Title: Braveheart
Character: English General
Released: May 24, 1995
Type: Movie
Enraged at the slaughter of Murron, his new bride and childhood love, Scottish warrior William Wallace slays a platoon of the local English lord's soldiers. This leads the village to revolt and, eventually, the entire country to rise up against English rule.
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Broken Harvest
Title: Broken Harvest
Character: Josie McCarthy
Released: September 16, 1994
Type: Movie
Broken Harvest is set in 1950's Ireland framed by modern-day New York. It deals with a bitter feud between two farmers who had taken opposite sides in the Irish Civil War many years before and who had also fought for the love of the same woman. When the feud is reawakened in the '50s it causes a major upheaval with tragic consequences for the lives of the two men, their families and the community. As the story unfolds it embraces many of the great, lingering issues affecting Ireland in this century - the War of Independence, the Civil War, emigration, the links with America, the clash between traditional, conservative values and those of a new technological age.
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Title: A Touch of Frost
Character: Gerry Ryan
Released: December 6, 1992
Type: TV
Jack Frost is a gritty, dogged and unconventional detective with sympathy for the underdog and an instinct for moral justice who attracts trouble like a magnet. Despite some animosity with his superintendent, Norman “Horn-rimmed Harry” Mullett, Frost and his ever-changing roster of assistants manage to solve cases via his clever mind, good heart, and cool touch.
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The Playboys
Title: The Playboys
Character: Police Superintendant
Released: April 22, 1992
Type: Movie
A young woman, Tara Maguire (Robin Wright) scandalizes her provincial Irish village in the 1950s by having a baby out of a wedlock, and refusing to name the father. She has a rare beauty and every man in town desires her, especially Sergeant Hegarty (Albert Finney). The arrival of a dramatic troupe stirs things up even more, especially when she falls in love with one f the "Playboys", Tom Casey (Aidan Quinn).
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King Ralph
Title: King Ralph
Character: Tommy McGuire
Released: February 15, 1991
Type: Movie
As the only relative in line to ascend the Royal throne, a down-on-his-luck American slob must learn the ways of the English.
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Who Bombed Birmingham?
Title: Who Bombed Birmingham?
Character: Walker
Released: April 22, 1990
Type: Movie
Docudrama film exploring the efforts of World in Action researchers Ian MacBride and Chris Mullin in proving that the "Birmingham Six" only admitted to the bombing under extreme duress, and that the five IRA members were in fact responsible for the deadly attacks
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Rawhead Rex
Title: Rawhead Rex
Character: Det. Insp. Isaac Gissing
Released: October 1, 1986
Type: Movie
Ireland will never be the same after Rawhead Rex, a particularly nasty demon, is released from his underground prison by an unwitting farmer. The film follows Rex's cross country rampage, while a man struggles to stop it.
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Half Moon Street
Title: Half Moon Street
Character: Captain Twilley
Released: August 13, 1986
Type: Movie
Dr. Lauren Slaughter, a research fellow at the Arab-Anglo Institute in London is utterly frustrated by her job. To supplement her income, she starts moonlighting at the Jasmine Escort Service, where she has more control over men and money than she does at the office. On one of her 'dates', Lauren meets the politician Lord Bulbeck who is trying to mediate a peace accord between the Arabs and Israelis. Bulbeck falls in love with his escort, and unwittingly, Lauren becomes a pawn in some very dirty politics.
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Shergar
Title: Shergar
Character: Brendan
Released: March 23, 1986
Type: Movie
Malachy: "Who do you kidnap? You can't touch children, women, no sons of Irish mothers. What's left?" When Frankie is released from Portlaoise Prison, his old comrades are expecting some action. He hits on a plan for raising £2 million, but his plan goes wrong.
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Title: Lovejoy
Character: Declan Grady
Released: January 10, 1986
Type: TV
The adventures of the eponymous Lovejoy, a likeable but roguish antiques dealer based in East Anglia. Within the trade, he has a reputation as a “divvie”, a person with an almost supernatural powers for recognising exceptional items as well as distinguishing genuine antique from clever fakes or forgeries.
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Anne Devlin
Title: Anne Devlin
Character: Michael Dwyer
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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Gorky Park
Title: Gorky Park
Character: KGB Agent Rurik
Released: December 15, 1983
Type: Movie
Police Inspector Renko tries to solve the case of three bodies found in Moscow's Gorky Park but finds his attempts to solve the crime impeded by his superiors. Working on his own, Renko seeks out more information and stumbles across a conspiracy involving the highest levels of the government.
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John, Love
Title: John, Love
Released: January 1, 1983
Type: Movie
A BAFTA award nominated drama about a young boy's memories of his first communion, set in Dublin in 1950.
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Lovespell
Title: Lovespell
Character: Corvenal
Released: December 31, 1981
Type: Movie
Romantic tragedy, the story of Tristan and Isolde.
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Excalibur
Title: Excalibur
Character: Kay
Released: April 10, 1981
Type: Movie
A surreal adaptation of Sir Thomas Malory's "Le Morte d'Arthur", chronicling Arthur Pendragon's conception, his rise to the throne, the search by his Knights of the Round Table for the Holy Grail, and ultimately his death.
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The Outsider
Title: The Outsider
Character: Emmett Donovan
Released: June 2, 1980
Type: Movie
Michael Flaherty (Craig Wasson), an American Vietnam veteran of Irish descent, returns to Belfast to join the cause of his grandfather, Seamus (Sterling Hayden). Soon he finds that he is not as welcomed in his home country as he imagined he would be. Even worse, he's the target of an IRA assassination plot designed to make the British forces look bad in order to elicit financial support from wealthy Americans.
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Ryan's Daughter
Title: Ryan's Daughter
Character: Bernard
Released: March 19, 1970
Type: Movie
The wife of an Irish school teacher is branded a traitor when she falls for a British officer who is part of an occupying force in 1917 Ireland.