Tom Hickey

Tom Hickey

Born: January 1, 1944
Died: May 1, 2021
in Kildare, County Kildare, Ireland
Tom Hickey (1944 – May 1, 2021) was an Irish actor who appeared on stage and screen in a career that began in the early 1960s. He was best known for playing Benjy Riordan in the long-running television series, The Riordans.

Movies for Tom Hickey...

What Richard Did
Title: What Richard Did
Character: Priest
Released: September 9, 2012
Type: Movie
What Richard Did is a striking portrait of the fall of a Dublin golden-boy and high school rugby star whose world unravels one summer night.
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Stella Days
Title: Stella Days
Character: Bishop Hegarty
Released: March 9, 2012
Type: Movie
A priest stationed in Tipperary, Ireland, is eager to return to Rome. Told he cannot do so until he has raised enough money for the building of a new church, he decides to open a cinema in the local town.
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Alarm
Title: Alarm
Character: Frank
Released: July 11, 2008
Type: Movie
A grieving woman leaves Dublin to the Irish countryside for a fresh start. Soon her new life is disturbed by a vendetta and her own suspicion towards her new neighbors and her old friends
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Garage
Title: Garage
Character: Mr Skerrit
Released: October 5, 2007
Type: Movie
Due to a learning disability, Josie's life in a tiny town revolves around a menial job taking care of a garage that could close at any day. Things start to change, however, when David, the son of his boss' girlfriend, comes to work with him. Josie hangs out with David and his teenage friends, bringing them beer, and despite being a grown man himself, finds that the new company lifts his spirits. But his simple-mindedness blinds him to some potential legal dangers.
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Breakfast on Pluto
Title: Breakfast on Pluto
Character: Bishop
Released: November 16, 2005
Type: Movie
In the 1970s, a young transgender woman called “Kitten” leaves her small Irish town for London in search of love, acceptance, and her long-lost mother.
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Inside I'm Dancing
Title: Inside I'm Dancing
Character: Con O'Shea
Released: October 15, 2004
Type: Movie
Michael is a 24-year-old who has cerebral palsy and long-term resident of the Carrigmore Residential Home for the Disabled, run by the formidable Eileen. His life is transformed when the maverick Rory O'Shea moves in.
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Possession
Title: Possession
Character: Blackadder
Released: August 16, 2002
Type: Movie
Maud Bailey, a brilliant English academic, is researching the life and work of poet Christabel La Motte. Roland Michell is an American scholar in London to study Randolph Henry Ash, now best-known for a collection of poems dedicated to his wife. When Maud and Roland discover a cache of love letters that appear to be from Ash to La Motte, they follow a trail of clues across England, echoing the journey of the couple over a century earlier.
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Coney Island Baby
Title: Coney Island Baby
Character: Mr. Hayes
Released: July 13, 2002
Type: Movie
After spending time in New York City, Billy Hayes returns to his Ireland hometown. He wants to get back together with his ex-girlfriend and take her to America in hopes of opening up a gas station. But everything isn't going Billy's way — the townspeople aren't happy to see him, and his ex-girlfriend is engaged and pregnant. Then, Billy runs into his old friends who are planning a scam.
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Black Day at Black Rock
Title: Black Day at Black Rock
Released: December 12, 2001
Type: Movie
Satirical take on the reactions of the inhabitants of an Irish village when they learn that a group of thirty asylum seekers is to be relocated to their village.
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The Last September
Title: The Last September
Character: O'Brien
Released: April 28, 2000
Type: Movie
In 1920s Ireland, an elderly couple reside over a tired country estate. Living with them are their high-spirited niece, their Oxford student nephew, and married house guests, who are trying to cover up that they are presently homeless. The niece enjoys romantic frolics with a soldier and a hidden guerrilla fighter. All of the principals are thrown into turmoil when one more guest arrives with considerable wit and unwanted advice.
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The Butcher Boy
Title: The Butcher Boy
Character: Gardener
Released: February 20, 1998
Type: Movie
Francie and Joe live the usual playful, fantasy filled childhoods of normal boys. However, with a violent, alcoholic father and a manic depressive, suicidal mother the pressure on Francie to grow up are immense. When Francie's world turns to madness, he tries to counter it with further insanity, with dire consequences.
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All Souls' Day
Title: All Souls' Day
Released: October 18, 1997
Type: Movie
The date was November 2nd, All Soul's Day, when Nicole's naked body was found on the beach. Seven years on, Nicole's mother Madie, obsessed with finding out what really happened on that fateful day, visits her daughter's boyfriend Jim in prison. As memories unfold and secrets are unveiled in the search for truth and redemption, Madie and Jim stumble upon something more sinister. Shot in different formats, in colour and black and white, fragments of a tragic story emerge from this rich, visual film.
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Gold In The Streets
Title: Gold In The Streets
Character: Mr Costello
Released: March 19, 1997
Type: Movie
An Irish illegal immigrant (Karl Geary) works for a bartender (James Belushi) while struggling to survive and adapt to life in the Bronx.
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The Cake
Title: The Cake
Character: Second Orangeman
Released: October 6, 1995
Type: Movie
Josephine puts the finishing touches to her cake - commissioned by the Orange Order for the Twelfth of July celebrations - but things go awry when she attempts to deliver it.
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An Awfully Big Adventure
Title: An Awfully Big Adventure
Character: Freddie Reynalde
Released: July 21, 1995
Type: Movie
Liverpool. 1947. Right after World War II, a star struck naive teenage girl joins a shabby theatre troupe in Liverpool. During a winter production of Peter Pan, the play quickly turns into a dark metaphor for youth as she becomes drawn into a web of sexual politics and intrigue and learns about the grown-up world of the theater.
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Moondance
Title: Moondance
Released: January 1, 1995
Type: Movie
The close relationship between two fun-loving brothers comes under threat when a beautiful, sensitive girl arrives on the scene. As the younger brother comes of age, the inevitable jealousy, confusion, rivalry and lust place their brotherly love in jeopardy.
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Family
Title: Family
Character: Dean
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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Raining Stones
Title: Raining Stones
Character: Father Barry
Released: September 9, 1993
Type: Movie
Proud, though poor, Bob wants his little girl to have a beautiful (and costly) brand-new dress for her First Communion. His stubbornness and determination get him into trouble as he turns to more and more questionable measures, in his desperation to raise the needed money. This tragic flaw leads him to risk all that he loves and values, his beloved family, indeed even his immortal soul and salvation, in blind pursuit of that goal.
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Title: Unnatural Pursuits
Character: Blossom
Released: December 7, 1992
Type: TV
An English playwright sacrifices his health waiting for his play's make-or-break opening on Broadway.
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Unnatural Pursuits
Title: Unnatural Pursuits
Character: Blossom
Released: January 1, 1992
Type: Movie
An English playwright sacrifices his health waiting for his play's make-or-break opening on Broadway.
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The Treaty
Title: The Treaty
Character: Eamonn Duggan
Released: December 5, 1991
Type: Movie
How the Anglo-Irish Treaty between the unrecognised Irish Republic, represented by Michael Collins, and the British government was concluded after high-stakes negotiations in 1921.
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The Miracle
Title: The Miracle
Character: Tommy
Released: April 5, 1991
Type: Movie
Two teenagers Jimmy and Rose spend their vacation at the small Irish sea-resort Bray. Out of boredom they observe other people and imagine wild stories about them. One day they observe the blonde Renee, and Jimmy is immediately fascinated by her and even follows her home. She, too, seems to like him, but for a mysterious reason keeps him at a distance.
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Fools of Fortune
Title: Fools of Fortune
Character: Father Kilgarrif
Released: June 20, 1990
Type: Movie
A Protestant Irish family is caught up in a conflict between Irish Republicans and the British army.
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Nuns on the Run
Title: Nuns on the Run
Character: Father Seamus
Released: March 16, 1990
Type: Movie
Brian and Charlie work for a gangster. When the boss learns they want to "leave" he sets them up to be killed, after they help rob the local Triads of their drug dealing profits. B&C decide to steal the money for themselves, but when their escape doesn't go to plan, they have to seek refuge in a Nuns' teacher training school.
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My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown
Title: My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown
Character: Priest
Released: April 7, 1989
Type: Movie
No one expects much from Christy Brown, a boy with cerebral palsy born into a working-class Irish family. Though Christy is a spastic quadriplegic and essentially paralyzed, a miraculous event occurs when, at the age of 5, he demonstrates control of his left foot by using chalk to scrawl a word on the floor. With the help of his steely mother — and no shortage of grit and determination — Christy overcomes his infirmity to become a painter, poet and author.
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High Spirits
Title: High Spirits
Character: Sampson
Released: November 18, 1988
Type: Movie
When a hotelier attempts to fill the chronic vacancies at his castle by launching an advertising campaign that falsely portrays the property as haunted, two actual ghosts show up and end up falling for two guests.
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Gothic
Title: Gothic
Character: Tour Guide
Released: November 30, 1986
Type: Movie
Living on an estate on the shores of Lake Geneva, Lord Byron is visited by Percy and Mary Shelley. Together with Byron's lover Claire Clairmont, and aided by hallucinogenic substances, they devise an evening of ghoulish tales. However, when confronted by horrors, ostensibly of their own creation, it becomes difficult to tell apparition from reality.
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Cal
Title: Cal
Character: Preacher
Released: August 24, 1984
Type: Movie
Cal, a young man on the fringes of the IRA, falls in love with Marcella, a Catholic woman whose husband, a Protestant policeman, was killed one year earlier by the IRA.
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Title: Les Roses de Dublin
Character: Peter O'Reilly
Released: November 10, 1981
Type: TV
TV mini series
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Katie: The Year of a Child
Title: Katie: The Year of a Child
Character: Pub manager
Released: December 13, 1979
Type: Movie
Katie, the 14-year-old daughter of a travelling family, is left in charge of an ailing mother and her nine brothers and sisters in Dublin whilst her father is in England seeking his fortune.
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Horowitz in Dublin
Title: Horowitz in Dublin
Character: (uncredited)
Released: December 12, 1973
Type: Movie
A New York cop, Dan Horowitz, arrives in Dublin to pay respects to the Irish parents of his young wife who had recently died. He suddenly finds himself called upon by the police to help solve a recent murder case. A character driven comedy-suspense feature entertainment, starring Harvey Lembeck, Sinead Cusack, Al Lettieri, Cesare Danova and Cyril Cusack.
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Flight of the Doves
Title: Flight of the Doves
Character: Pat Flynn
Released: April 2, 1971
Type: Movie
While fleeing across the Irish countryside, two orphans are pursued by their villainous uncle, a master of disguises.