Liam Gaffney

Liam Gaffney

Born: June 22, 1911
Died: July 1, 1994
in Dublin, Ireland

Movies for Liam Gaffney...

Ireland, Mother Ireland
Title: Ireland, Mother Ireland
Character: Governor
Released: August 3, 1971
Type: Movie
A story of the timeless futility of war and death by war, of men who fought for their country, killed for a dream of freedom and died because they were betrayed.
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Island of Terror
Title: Island of Terror
Character: Ian Bellows
Released: June 20, 1966
Type: Movie
A small island community is overrun with creeping, blobbish, tentacled monsters which liquefy and digest the bones from living creatures. The community struggles to fight back.
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Title: Sir Francis Drake
Character: Lord O'Neill
Released: November 12, 1961
Type: TV
Sir Francis Drake was a British adventure television series starring Terence Morgan as Sir Francis Drake, commander of the sailing ship the Golden Hind. As well as battles at sea, sword fights, the series also deals with intrigue at Elizabeth's court, often caused by Spaniard, Mendoza.
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Jazz Boat
Title: Jazz Boat
Character: Spider's Father
Released: June 1, 1960
Type: Movie
A bumbling gang of thieves crash a jazz party.
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The Trials of Oscar Wilde
Title: The Trials of Oscar Wilde
Character: Willie Wilde
Released: May 28, 1960
Type: Movie
England, 1890s. The brutal and embittered Marquis of Queensberry, who believes that his youngest son, Bosie, has an inappropriate relationship with the famous Irish writer Oscar Wilde, maintains an ongoing feud with the latter in order to ruin his reputation and cause his fall from grace.
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Street of Shadows
Title: Street of Shadows
Character: Constable Fred Roberts
Released: October 16, 1953
Type: Movie
A saloon owner falls in love with the abused wife of a heavy gambler. He is snared into a web of intrigue when an ex-girlfriend is found murdered in his apartment.
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Women of Twilight
Title: Women of Twilight
Character: Minor Role (uncredited)
Released: January 16, 1953
Type: Movie
When a nightclub singer is arrested for murder, his pregnant girlfriend moves into a boarding house for women, but the mother-to-be soon discovers that her new lodgings harbors a horrific secret.
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My Death Is a Mockery
Title: My Death Is a Mockery
Character: Father Matthews
Released: August 1, 1952
Type: Movie
A fisherman cannot make a decent living from his trawler so he decides to turn his hand to smuggling.
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Curtain Up
Title: Curtain Up
Character: Norwood Beverley
Released: March 12, 1952
Type: Movie
In a small town in the 1950s a repertory company meets on Monday morning to start rehearsing the following week's play. This is a ghastly thing written by the aunt of one of the theatre's directors. The producer doesn't try to hide his annoyance about it, and is further exercised when the authoress herself arrives to help. The cast have to try and sort out real-life problems that keep intruding as they wrestle with the play's dire dialogue.
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The Lady with a Lamp
Title: The Lady with a Lamp
Released: September 22, 1951
Type: Movie
Based on the Reginald Berkeley stage play, this compelling historical drama offers a depiction of the life story of Florence Nightingale, the young 19th-century Englishwoman famously drawn to a career in nursing. Traveling to Turkey during the Crimean War, Florence gains a reputation for being devoted to the care of wounded soldiers and for pioneering higher standards for sanitary hospital conditions.
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The Bad Lord Byron
Title: The Bad Lord Byron
Character: Tom Moore
Released: April 18, 1949
Type: Movie
Injured and on his deathbed in Greece, Lord Byron imagines a celestial trial with witnesses to determine the worth of his character.
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Captain Boycott
Title: Captain Boycott
Character: Michael Fagan
Released: August 26, 1947
Type: Movie
Based on real events, this historical drama is set in 19th-century Ireland, when poverty-stricken tenants dispossessed by greedy landowner Capt. Boycott (Cecil Parker) band together to assert their rights. Patriotic farmer Hugh Davin (Stewart Granger) leads the rebels. Choosing nonviolent resistance, the villagers ostracize their nemesis, who squanders his fortune to repair his ruined reputation and wagers what's left on a horse race.
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Dr. O'Dowd
Title: Dr. O'Dowd
Character: Stephen O'Dowd
Released: June 22, 1940
Type: Movie
Marius O'Dowd is an Irish doctor who is often drunk. His daughter-in-law Moira dies during a serious operation which O'Dowd is performing. Although O'Dowd is not to blame, his son Stephen suspects that Moira died due to O'Dowd operating while under the influence of alcohol, and accuses him of criminal neglect.
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The Four Just Men
Title: The Four Just Men
Character: Taxi driver (uncredited)
Released: June 1, 1939
Type: Movie
The Four Men of the title are British WWI veterans who decide to work secretly against enemies of the country. They aren't above a bit of murder or sabotage to serve their ends, but they consider themselves to be true patriots.
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The Villiers Diamond
Title: The Villiers Diamond
Character: Alan O'Connel
Released: January 1, 1938
Type: Movie
A man is threatend with scandal when he accidentally acquires a stolen diamond.
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Macushla
Title: Macushla
Character: Jim O'Grady
Released: January 1, 1937
Type: Movie
A film Directed by Alex Bryce.
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Irish and Proud of It
Title: Irish and Proud of It
Character: Sean Casey
Released: November 1, 1936
Type: Movie
An Irish-born businessman based in London is kidnapped by colleagues as a joke and flown back to the small village of his birth. There he finds that American gangsters are forcing the local publicans to buy illegally-produced raw spirit with which to adulterate branded products.