Dermot Kelly

Dermot Kelly

Born: May 15, 1917
Died: February 18, 1980
in County Laois, Irish Republic

Movies for Dermot Kelly...

Title: Spooner's Patch
Character: Kelly
Released: July 9, 1979
Type: TV
Comedy set in a small Police Station filled with self serving corrupt coppers!
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Staircase
Title: Staircase
Character: Gravedigger
Released: August 20, 1969
Type: Movie
An aging gay couple owns a barber shop in the East End of London. One of them is a part-time actor about to go on trial for propositioning a police officer. The action takes place over the course of one night as they discuss their loving but often volatile past together and possible future without each other.
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Title: The Champions
Character: Hogan
Released: September 25, 1968
Type: TV
The Champions is a British espionage/science fiction/occult detective fiction adventure series consisting of 30 episodes broadcast on the UK network ITV during 1968–1969, produced by Lew Grade's ITC Entertainment production company. The series was broadcast in the US on NBC, starting in summer 1968.
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Headline Hunters
Title: Headline Hunters
Released: September 1, 1968
Type: Movie
Children decide to keep the local newspaper running while their father is ill.
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Mrs. Brown, You've Got a Lovely Daughter
Title: Mrs. Brown, You've Got a Lovely Daughter
Character: Con Man
Released: January 22, 1968
Type: Movie
Herman inherits a greyhound and decides to make his fortune by dog racing. After traveling from Manchester to London in the hope of entering a national invitational, Herman and his friends find work in a pop group, and Herman falls in love.
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Gold is Where You Find It
Title: Gold is Where You Find It
Character: Mad Mike
Released: January 1, 1968
Type: Movie
A millionaire returns to Ireland and loses his gold nuggets before disappearing and sparking a gold rush.
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The Plank
Title: The Plank
Character: Milkman
Released: May 18, 1967
Type: Movie
A slapstick comedy about two workmen delivering planks to a building site. This is done with music and a sort of "wordless dialogue" which consists of a few mumbled sounds to convey the appropriate emotion.
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Cup Fever
Title: Cup Fever
Character: Bodger
Released: July 21, 1965
Type: Movie
The children of Barton United are trying to win the cup in their local football (soccer) league. Nasty councillor Mr Bates doesn't like them and wants the team his son plays for to win instead so he makes life as difficult as he can for them. But Barton United are offered help by the local professional team that just happens to be Manchester United with boss man Matt Busby.
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Title: Gideon's Way
Character: Fingers
Released: March 18, 1965
Type: TV
Gideon's Way is a British television crime series made by ITC Entertainment in 1964/65, based on the novels by John Creasey. The series was made at Elstree in twin production with The Saint TV series. It starred Liverpudlian John Gregson in the title role as Commander George Gideon of Scotland Yard, with Alexander Davion as his assistant, Detective Chief Inspector David Keen, Reginald Jessup as Det. Superintendent LeMaitre, Ian Rossiter as Detective Chief Superintendent Joe Bell and Basil Dignam as Commissioner Scott-Marle. The show did not acknowledge any help from Scotland Yard, any other police force or advisor. Daphne Anderson starred as his wife, Kate with Giles Watling as young son, Malcolm, Richard James as older son, Matthew who seemed to have a lot of new girlfriends and Andrea Allan as daughter, Pru. Unusually for police stories, Gideon was shown as a family man at home though urgent phone calls from his bosses tend to disrupt family plans too often. However, he did admit in "State Visit" that his wife had walked out on him for a while years ago when he put the job first and her second. They live in an expensive detached house in Chelsea.
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The Yellow Rolls-Royce
Title: The Yellow Rolls-Royce
Character: Marquess of Frinton's Jockey (uncredited)
Released: December 31, 1964
Type: Movie
One Rolls-Royce belongs to three vastly different owners, starting with Lord Charles, who buys the car for his wife as an anniversary present. The next owner is Paolo Maltese, a mafioso who purchases the car during a trip to Italy and leaves it with his girlfriend while he returns to Chicago. Finally, the car is owned by American widow Gerda, who joins the Yugoslavian resistance against the invading Nazis.
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The Quare Fellow
Title: The Quare Fellow
Character: Donnelly
Released: October 2, 1962
Type: Movie
Thomas Crimmins is a new warder, or guard, in an Irish prison. He is young, naive, and idealistic, determined to serve his country by his part in meting out justice to criminals. His superior, Regan, however, realizes that even prisoners are human beings, and Regan is sick of the eye-for-an-eye attitude that leads the state to execute condemned men, or "quare fellows." Crimmins begins to see that not all is black and white in his new world, and when he becomes involved with Kathleen, the wife of one of the condemned men, his attitude begins to change. When new evidence arises to suggest that Kathleen's husband may not deserve his fate, Crimmins is torn between his duty and his humanity.
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Crooks Anonymous
Title: Crooks Anonymous
Character: Stanley
Released: March 31, 1962
Type: Movie
A former burglar trying to go straight joins a rehabilitation scheme using much the same methods as AA. Through the process, he takes work as a department store Santa, where the endless parade of goods and money, not to mention the pretty young shop hands have him like a moth to a flame in no time flat.
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Title: Maigret
Released: October 31, 1960
Type: TV
BBC series based on the novels by Georges Simenon which starred Rupert Davies as Inspector Maigret, a French police detective who preferred to watch and listen in order to solve crimes. The series ran from 1960-63 on British television.
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Title: International Detective
Character: O'Grady
Released: December 26, 1959
Type: TV
The global adventures of Ken Franklin, ace operative of the William J. Burns Detective Agency, qualify as a pop-culture curio if only for star Arthur---later Art---Fleming, who hosted the original `Jeopardy!'
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Devil's Bait
Title: Devil's Bait
Character: Mr. Alfred Love
Released: December 1, 1959
Type: Movie
The police, with the help of a baker, try to find the owner a loaf of bread accidentally poisoned with potassium cyanide.
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Cover Girl Killer
Title: Cover Girl Killer
Character: Pop
Released: September 26, 1959
Type: Movie
A madman is on the loose... killing fashion models that appear on the cover of magazines. The police start a manhunt in an attempt to capture the killer.
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Breakout
Title: Breakout
Character: O'Quinn
Released: March 1, 1959
Type: Movie
A local government official leads a double life when organising a breakout from a prison.
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Broth of a Boy
Title: Broth of a Boy
Character: Tim
Released: February 6, 1959
Type: Movie
An Irish codger, 110, wants a piece of the action for doing a British producer's TV show.
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The Criminals
Title: The Criminals
Character: Fred Ellis
Released: December 28, 1958
Type: Movie
A small construction company's new year's eve party is taken over by a crook who has intricate knowledge of the men's private lives, forcing them into an incredible bank robbery plot.
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Malta Story
Title: Malta Story
Character: British Soldier at Airport
Released: June 1, 1953
Type: Movie
Malta, 1942, during World War II. While the German air force is relentlessly bombing the island, a British pilot falls in love with a young Maltese girl.
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Another Shore
Title: Another Shore
Character: Her Nephew
Released: November 24, 1948
Type: Movie
A young Irishman comes up with an unusual plan to get the money to emigrate to Tahiti. One of the Ealing comedies.