Maire O'Neill

Maire O'Neill

Born: January 11, 1886
Died: November 2, 1952
in Dublin, Ireland

Movies for Maire O'Neill...

Cry of the Innocent
Title: Cry of the Innocent
Character: Hotel Manageress
Released: June 15, 1980
Type: Movie
An American insurance executive, who sees his wife and children die when a plane crashes into their vacation cottage on the Irish coast, uncovers a series of suspicious clues indicating that it was no accident after a pretty financial reporter who resembles his dead wife turns up.
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The Fighting Prince of Donegal
Title: The Fighting Prince of Donegal
Character: Moire's Sister
Released: October 1, 1966
Type: Movie
Ireland 1587. Hugh O'Donnell inherits the title of The O'Donnell, the prince of Donegal, and tries to unite Ireland to make war on England. But then Hugh is kidnapped and imprisoned by the Viceroy of Ireland and held ransom for the Clans' good behavior. Hugh must escape prison and the Viceroy's villainous henchman, Captain Leeds, before he can fight.
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The Oracle
Title: The Oracle
Character: Mrs. Lenham
Released: June 1, 1953
Type: Movie
An Irish "oracle" foretells the next day's track results to a newspaperman, resulting in a national uproar.
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Treasure Hunt
Title: Treasure Hunt
Character: Bridgid O'Keefe
Released: June 1, 1952
Type: Movie
Short of money the owners of Ballyroden Hall must attempt to run it as a guest house, but not everyone is happy about the plan.
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Scrooge
Title: Scrooge
Character: Alice's Patient
Released: November 28, 1951
Type: Movie
Ebenezer Scrooge malcontentedly shuffles through life as a cruel, miserly businessman; until he is visited by three spirits on Christmas Eve who show him how his unhappy childhood and adult behavior has left him a selfish, lonely old man.
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The Clouded Yellow
Title: The Clouded Yellow
Character: Nora
Released: November 21, 1950
Type: Movie
After leaving the British Secret Service, David Somers (played by Trevor Howard) finds work cataloging butterflies at the country house of Nicholas and Jess Fenton. After the murder of a local gamekeeper, suspicion (wrongfully) falls on their niece, Sophie Malraux (Jean Simmons). Somers helps Sophie to escape arrest and they go on the run together. After a cross-country chase they arrive at a coastal city with the intention of leaving the country by ship. All's well that ends well after the true identity of the murderer is revealed.
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Someone at the Door
Title: Someone at the Door
Character: Undetermined Role (uncredited) (unconfirmed)
Released: April 30, 1950
Type: Movie
A man and his sister live in a country home, not knowing that there is stolen loot hidden there. A gang of criminals attempts to get them to move so they can get the loot for themselves.
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Saints and Sinners
Title: Saints and Sinners
Character: Ma Murnaghan
Released: August 15, 1949
Type: Movie
What happens to the saints and sinners of a small Irish village on the day the world is supposed to end.
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The Hills of Donegal
Title: The Hills of Donegal
Character: Hannah
Released: September 1, 1947
Type: Movie
Eileen Hannay (Dinah Sheridan) is the singing star of an Irish operatic society but gives up to marry Terry O'Keefe (John Bentley).
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Send for Paul Temple
Title: Send for Paul Temple
Character: Mrs. Neddy
Released: December 23, 1946
Type: Movie
Novelist and amateur sleuth, Paul Temple, meets a newspaper woman called "Steve." Together they investigate a gang of diamond robbers.
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Piccadilly Incident
Title: Piccadilly Incident
Character: Mrs. Milligan
Released: August 24, 1946
Type: Movie
A newly married WREN, presumed drowned when her ship is torpedoed, spends three years on a tropical island before returning to England to find her husband remarried with a baby son.
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Gaiety George
Title: Gaiety George
Character: Mrs. Murphy
Released: July 15, 1946
Type: Movie
The life of Irishman George Howard who buys an English theatre and strives to improve the standard of musical entertainment. Set in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and loosely based on fact.
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Murder in Reverse?
Title: Murder in Reverse?
Character: Mrs Moore
Released: October 21, 1945
Type: Movie
Tom Masterick, a dock worker, is wrongfully convicted of a murder charge. His death sentence is commuted to a long prison term. When released as an old man, he vows to find the real killer.
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Great Day
Title: Great Day
Character: Mrs. Bridget Walsh
Released: July 9, 1945
Type: Movie
An impending V.I.P. visit causes bustle in an English village, while the Ellis family struggles with private problems.
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Theatre Royal
Title: Theatre Royal
Character: Mrs. Cope
Released: July 26, 1943
Type: Movie
The Theatre Royal is a struggling London venue battling to keep its doors open. When the bank threatens to close it, the workers fear that they will soon be forced out of their jobs. The Royal's property master, Bob Parker (Bud Flanagan), recruits the rest of the staff to stage a benefit gala. They hope their show, featuring songs and dances, can raise enough cash to stave off the end. Meanwhile, they seek investors who can keep the Theatre Royal and its staff in business permanently.
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Let the People Sing
Title: Let the People Sing
Character: Mrs. Mitterley
Released: August 11, 1942
Type: Movie
An out-of-work comedian persuades a drunken nobleman to join a protest against the closing of a village hall.
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Penn of Pennsylvania
Title: Penn of Pennsylvania
Character: Cook
Released: January 24, 1942
Type: Movie
Penn of Pennsylvania is a 1941 British historical drama film directed by Lance Comfort and starring Deborah Kerr, Clifford Evans, Dennis Arundell, Henry Oscar, Herbet Lomas and Edward Rigby. The film depicts the life of the Quaker founder of Pennsylvania, William Penn. It portrays his struggle to be granted a colonial charter in London and attracting settlers to his new colony as well as his adoption a radical new approach with regard to the treatment of the Native Americans. It is also known by the alternative title Courageous Mr. Penn.
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Love on the Dole
Title: Love on the Dole
Character: Mrs. Dorbell
Released: June 28, 1941
Type: Movie
Depressing and realistic family drama about the struggles of unemployment and poverty in 1930s Lancashire. The 20-year-old Kerr gives an emotionally charged performance as Hardcastle, one of the cotton workers trying to make life better. Interlaced with humour that brings a ray of sunshine to the pervasive bleakness, this remains a powerful social study of life between the wars, and was a rare problem picture to come out of Britain at the time.
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You Will Remember
Title: You Will Remember
Character: Mrs. Barrett
Released: February 8, 1941
Type: Movie
Biography of popular English composer Leslie Stuart (Robert Morley), who rose to fame through performances of his songs by the tenor Ellaline Terriss (Dorothy Hyson). The peak of Stuart's success in the early 1900s is followed by poverty and obscurity with the arriving Jazz Age. In debtor's prison, Stuart is rescued by friends from happier times, and achieves a comeback in British music halls shortly before his death.
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Convoy
Title: Convoy
Character: Mary Hogan
Released: September 28, 1940
Type: Movie
A tale of life on board a Royal Navy cruiser assigned to protect the vital convoys between America and England during WWII.
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The Arsenal Stadium Mystery
Title: The Arsenal Stadium Mystery
Character: Housekeeper
Released: November 1, 1939
Type: Movie
During a charity football match between Arsenal and touring amateur side Trojans, the Trojan's new star player collapses and dies. Inspector Slade of Scotland Yard is called in and declares it was murder. It takes all his ingenuity and another death before the motive is discovered and the killer revealed.
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On The Night Of The Fire
Title: On The Night Of The Fire
Character: Neighbour
Released: October 26, 1939
Type: Movie
A barber gives in to temptation and steals some money, leading to blackmail and murder.
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Sword of Honour
Title: Sword of Honour
Character: Biddy
Released: August 13, 1939
Type: Movie
A recruit at Sandhurst initially makes a poor impression, but goes on to prove himself by riding in the Grand National.
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The Insect Play
Title: The Insect Play
Character: Mrs. Beetle / Philanthropist
Released: May 29, 1939
Type: Movie
A tramp falls asleep in the woods. He dreams of observing a range of insects that stand in for various human characteristics in terms of their lifestyle and morality: the flighty, vain butterfly, the obsequious, self-serving dung beetle, the ants, whose increasingly mechanized behavior leads to a militaristic society.
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The Missing People
Title: The Missing People
Character: Housekeeper
Released: May 1, 1939
Type: Movie
27 well-to-do people have all vanished under similar circumstances. J.G. Reeder, an elderly gentleman who fancies himself a detective, decides to investigate the matter.
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My Irish Molly
Title: My Irish Molly
Character: Mrs O'Shea
Released: December 5, 1938
Type: Movie
Binkie Stuart, a child star whose career briefly flourished before the outbreak of war in 1939, takes the titular role in this heart-warming musical charting the adventures of a little orphan girl in the difficult days of pre-war Ireland. Starring alongside Hollywood siren Maureen O Hara in an early role, Britain's answer to Shirley Temple plays a spirited young girl left in the clutches of a cruel guardian aunt.
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St. Martin's Lane
Title: St. Martin's Lane
Character: Mrs. Such
Released: October 18, 1938
Type: Movie
On the sidewalks of the London theater district the buskers (street performers) earn enough coins for a cheap room. Charles, who recites dramatic monologues, sees that a young pickpocket, Libby, also has a talent for dancing and adds her to his act. Harley, the theater patron who never knew Libby took his gold cigarette case, is impressed by Libby's dancing and invites her to bring Charles and the other buskers in his group to an after-the-play party. Libby comes alone. A theatrical career is launched.
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Penny Paradise
Title: Penny Paradise
Character: Widow Clegg
Released: September 23, 1938
Type: Movie
A Liverpool tug boat captain finds he's won a fortune on the penny pools and it changes his life. However, after giving up his job and throwing a large expensive party, he discovers that he may not really have won after all.
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Oh, Boy!
Title: Oh, Boy!
Character: Mrs. Baggs
Released: March 1, 1938
Type: Movie
A mysterious scientist presents a timid chemist with an elixir which turns him from a weakling into a confident, vital male, able to defeat his rival and impress the girl of his choice. The only problem is that this mysterious substance has the unexpected result of causing him to revert gradually to babyhood...
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Spring Handicap
Title: Spring Handicap
Character: Meg Clayton
Released: October 17, 1937
Type: Movie
A wife tries to prevent her husband, a miner, from gambling away the money he receives as an inheritance.
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Bulldog Drummond at Bay
Title: Bulldog Drummond at Bay
Character: Norah
Released: May 1, 1937
Type: Movie
Drummond goes up against foreign agents who are trying to steal plans for a top-secret aircraft.
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Glamorous Night
Title: Glamorous Night
Character: Phoebe
Released: April 28, 1937
Type: Movie
Based on Ivor Novello's hit stage play: an opera singer and her gypsy friends try to rescue their king from the clutches of a would-be dictator.
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Farewell Again
Title: Farewell Again
Character: Mrs. Brough
Released: January 5, 1937
Type: Movie
Farewell Again is a multiplotted British comedy/drama about soldiers on leave and the people they've left. Given a six-hour pass after a tour of duty in India, several British Tommies (among them Robert Newton, Sebastian Shaw and Anthony Bushell) try to unravel their domestic tribulations before having to ship out again. American expatriate Tim Whelan was the directorial hand who kept the various plot threads from entangling, while another Hollywood vet, James Wong Howe, manned the cameras. The film became instantly dated with the advent of World War II, but in its own time Farewell Again was a box-office smash. The film was issued in the US as Troopship.
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Ourselves Alone
Title: Ourselves Alone
Character: Nanny
Released: April 27, 1936
Type: Movie
One of the most significant films ever made about the Troubles in Ireland, a powerful story of love and conflicting loyalties set against the battle for Ireland's independence.
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Come Out of the Pantry
Title: Come Out of the Pantry
Character: Mrs Gore
Released: November 22, 1935
Type: Movie
A Duke's son plays the part of a footman and shows himself amusing in the pantry.
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Peg of Old Drury
Title: Peg of Old Drury
Character: Mrs. Woffington - Peg's Mother
Released: August 27, 1935
Type: Movie
a biopic of eighteenth-century Irish actress Peg Woffington. It was based on the play Masks and Faces.
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Riders to the Sea
Title: Riders to the Sea
Character: First Woman
Released: May 30, 1935
Type: Movie
In this story of Western Ireland, the most famous work of Irelands greatest dramatist JOHN MILLINGTON SYNGE is brought to the screen by Ulsters greatest film director BRIAN DESMOND HURST.
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Something Always Happens
Title: Something Always Happens
Character: Tenement Mother
Released: December 10, 1934
Type: Movie
Unemployed car salesman Peter is encouraged by his girlfriend Cynthia to approach the head of a petrol company with his plan for making petrol stations more attractive to customers. When the man rejects the idea Peter joins a rival company and becomes a great success.
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Sing As We Go
Title: Sing As We Go
Character: Madame Osiris
Released: September 13, 1934
Type: Movie
When the textile mill closes, putting her out of work, Gracie finds herself experiencing all of the amusements of Blackpool.
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Juno and the Paycock
Title: Juno and the Paycock
Character: Maisie Madigan
Released: December 30, 1929
Type: Movie
During the Irish revolution, a family earns a big inheritance. They start leading a rich life, forgetting what the most important values of life really are. At the end, they discover they will not receive that inheritance; the family is destroyed and penniless. They must sell their home and start living like vagabonds.