Alan Barry

Alan Barry


Died: July 13, 2005
in Dublin, Ireland

Movies for Alan Barry...

The Return
Title: The Return
Character: Dr. Brian Cullen
Released: December 30, 2003
Type: Movie
A former alcoholic returns home after ten years in prison for the murder of her husband. As her recollection of the murder returns, things take a different turn.
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Evelyn
Title: Evelyn
Character: Justice McLaughlin
Released: September 30, 2002
Type: Movie
Desmond Doyle is devastated when his wife abandons their family on the day after Christmas. His unemployment, and the fact that there is no woman in the house to care for the children—Evelyn, Dermot and Maurice—make it clear to the authorities this is an untenable situation. The Catholic Church and the Irish courts decide to put the Doyle children into Church-run orphanages.
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The General
Title: The General
Character: Judge 2
Released: May 1, 1998
Type: Movie
The real-life story of Dublin folk hero and criminal Martin Cahill, who pulled off two daring robberies in Ireland with his team, but attracted unwanted attention from the police, the I.R.A., the U.V.F., and members of his own team.
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The Brylcreem Boys
Title: The Brylcreem Boys
Character: Mr Guerin
Released: November 14, 1996
Type: Movie
In 1941, as part of an effort to remain strictly neutral, the Dublin government made a deal with both Berlin and London whereby any soldier, sailor or pilot captured on Irish soil, whether of German or Allied forces, would be interned for the duration of the war. What the Irish failed to tell was that they would intern everybody in the same camp. It is here that Canadian pilot Miles Keogh and German pilot Rudolph Von Stegenbeck meet after a fight in which both their planes were downed.
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Some Mother's Son
Title: Some Mother's Son
Character: Judge
Released: September 13, 1996
Type: Movie
Based on the true story of the 1981 hunger strike in a British prison, in which IRA prisoner Bobby Sands led a protest against the treatment of IRA prisoners as criminals rather than as prisoners of war. The film focuses on the mothers of two of the strikers, and their struggle to save the lives of their sons.
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The Old Curiosity Shop
Title: The Old Curiosity Shop
Character: Groves
Released: March 19, 1995
Type: Movie
1839. The young Nell Trent is leading a happy life with her grandfather in his curiosity shop. Wharf owner Daniel Quilp has given large amounts of money to Nell's grandfather as an investment, expecting a large profit. But when Quilp finds out the old man has lost all the money with playing cards, he is determined to get the man in a madhouse as revenge. Nell and her grandfather are forced to leave their house and to start traveling across the country. But Quilp isn't sitting still, his spies are everywhere. Meanwhile a stranger is also looking for Nell's grandfather.
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In the Name of the Father
Title: In the Name of the Father
Character: Archivist Jenkins
Released: December 12, 1993
Type: Movie
A small time thief from Belfast, Gerry Conlon, is falsely implicated in the IRA bombing of a pub that kills several people while he is in London. He and his four friends are coerced by British police into confessing their guilt. Gerry's father and other relatives in London are also implicated in the crime. He spends fifteen years in prison with his father trying to prove his innocence.
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And the Band Played On
Title: And the Band Played On
Character: Hemophiliac Patient
Released: September 11, 1993
Type: Movie
The story of the discovery of the AIDS epidemic and the political infighting of the scientific community hampering the early fight with it.
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The Treaty
Title: The Treaty
Character: Austen Chamberlain
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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Back to the Beach
Title: Back to the Beach
Character: Salesman
Released: August 7, 1987
Type: Movie
Cowabunga! The surfing '60s ride into the new wave as Frankie and Annette star in this hip update of their old-time, good-time beach movies. With special appearances by Bob Denver, Tony Dow, Pee-Wee Herman, Jerry Mathers and other familiar faces. Frankie and Annette grow up and have kids in the midwest. They return to LA to visit their daughter who is shacked up with her boyfriend and tries to hide the fact. They begin to have marriage problems when Frankie runs into Connie, who has erected a shrine to him in her night club. Their punk son has joined up with the local surf toughs, and things all come to a head when the toughs challenge the good guys to a surfing duel
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Title: Bergerac
Character: Photographer
Released: October 18, 1981
Type: TV
Bergerac is a British television show set on Jersey. Produced by the BBC in association with the Seven Network, and first screened on BBC1, it stars John Nettles as the title character Detective Sergeant Jim Bergerac, a detective in Le Bureau des Étrangers, part of the States of Jersey Police.
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Hennessy
Title: Hennessy
Character: Sgt Duggan
Released: December 31, 1975
Type: Movie
Former Irish Republican Army member Niall Hennessy lives in Belfast, Ireland, with his wife and daughter amid the ongoing Irish-British conflict. Though he still knows people in the IRA, including fugitive leader Tobin, Niall has given up his violent ways. One day his family is caught in a chaotic street shootout and killed by British forces. Overwhelmed with rage and hunted by a Scotland Yard inspector, Niall heads to London to exact his deadly revenge.
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Fugitive
Title: Fugitive
Character: John
Released: December 5, 1974
Type: Movie
After 18 years as a friar, Peter is no longer sure of his vocation. It is a happy life, maybe too much so, and now he has met Clare. Will his doubts run away with him? Runaway friars are officially "fugitives" who must be persuaded back to their order. Author Sean Walsh fled the Franciscan order to become first a journalist, then a playwright and is now a radio drama producer in Ireland.
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Achilles Heel
Title: Achilles Heel
Character: Ted
Released: March 18, 1973
Type: Movie
A professional footballer suffers an injury which could jeopardise his career.
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Title: Crown Court
Character: Gordon Ainsworth
Released: October 11, 1972
Type: TV
Crown Court is an afternoon television courtroom drama produced by Granada Television for the ITV network that ran from 1972, when the Crown Court system replaced Assize courts and Quarter sessions in the legal system of England and Wales, to 1984.
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Captain Nemo and the Underwater City
Title: Captain Nemo and the Underwater City
Character: Sailor
Released: December 19, 1969
Type: Movie
Survivors of a sinking ship are rescued by Captain Nemo and his submarine crew. They are taken to an underwater city where they may spend the rest of their lives.
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Dead Man's Evidence
Title: Dead Man's Evidence
Character: Airport Clerk
Released: August 1, 1962
Type: Movie
When a British secret agent's body washes up on the coast of Ireland, evidence implies that he was a traitor providing information to the Russians.
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The Hard Knock
Title: The Hard Knock
Character: Derek
Released: July 8, 1962
Type: Movie
Tough merchant seaman Pat Greevey returns to his family in Liverpool to find the key to a recent death.