Niall Tóibín

Niall Tóibín

Born: November 21, 1929
Died: November 13, 2019
in Cork, County Cork, Ireland
Niall Toibin was born in Cork, Ireland in 1929. Married Judy Kenny (1931-2001) in 1957. Five children and six grand-children. He had an illustrious acting career spanning over four decades. On October 29 2002 he received the CFT Excellence Award for Best Actor. He died in 2019.

Movies for Niall Tóibín...

Teeth
Title: Teeth
Character: Paddy
Released: February 27, 2007
Type: Movie
A last laugh tale of two old friends, their teeth and a fishing trip that leaves them lost for words.
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Rat
Title: Rat
Character: Father Geraldo
Released: April 1, 2001
Type: Movie
After a night of drinking Guiness at the local watering hole, an ordinary, working-class, family man in Dublin's life is turned upside-down when he wakes up as a rat.
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The Nephew
Title: The Nephew
Character: Sean
Released: August 28, 1998
Type: Movie
Twenty years ago, Tony Egan's sister went to America. Nobody ever heard of her again. But now, the message of her death arrives in her town of birth. Only days later, her only son Chad arrives, too. Obviously, his mother took a black husband. Soon, Chad falls for Aislin, who has a bit of a crush on him too. But there is an old conflict going on between her father and Chad's uncle. This conflict resurfaces and begins to draw circles, wider and wider.
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Title: Ballykissangel
Character: Father Mac
Released: February 11, 1996
Type: TV
Ballykissangel is a BBC television drama set in Ireland, produced in-house by BBC Northern Ireland. The original story revolved around a young English Roman Catholic priest as he became part of a rural community. It ran for six series, which were first broadcast on BBC One in the United Kingdom from 1996 to 2001.
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Frankie Starlight
Title: Frankie Starlight
Character: Handy Paige
Released: November 22, 1995
Type: Movie
The quirky story of a young boy's adventures growing up with his stunningly beautiful mother and the two very different men who love her.
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Far and Away
Title: Far and Away
Character: Joe Donnelly
Released: May 22, 1992
Type: Movie
A young man leaves Ireland with his landlord's daughter after some trouble with her father, and they dream of owning land at the big giveaway in Oklahoma ca. 1893. When they get to the new land, they find jobs and begin saving money. The man becomes a local barehands boxer, and rides in glory until he is beaten, then his employers steal all the couple's money and they must fight off starvation in the winter, and try to keep their dream of owning land alive. Meanwhile, the woman's parents find out where she has gone and have come to America to find her and take her back.
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Dream On
Title: Dream On
Character: The Spirit
Released: November 13, 1991
Type: Movie
A magical realist feature drama exploring the lives of a women’s darts team on North Shields’ Meadow Well Estate.
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Title: G.B.H.
Character: Michael Murray Snr
Released: June 6, 1991
Type: TV
GBH was a seven-part British television drama written by Alan Bleasdale shown in the summer of 1991 on Channel 4. The protagonists were Michael Murray, the Militant tendency-supporting Labour leader of a city council in the North of England and Jim Nelson, the headmaster of a school for disturbed children. The series was controversial partly because Murray appeared to be based on Derek Hatton, former Deputy Leader of Liverpool City Council — in an interview in the G.B.H. DVD Bleasdale recounts an accidental meeting with Hatton before the series, who indicates that he has caught wind of Bleasdale's intentions but does not mind as long as the actor playing him is "handsome". In normal parlance, the initials "GBH" refer to the criminal charge of grievous bodily harm - however, the actual intent of the letters is that it is supposed to stand for Great British Holiday.
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The Love She Sought
Title: The Love She Sought
Character: Preston Warner
Released: October 21, 1990
Type: Movie
An aging school teacher (Lansbury) at a Catholic grammar school in Minnesota questions her life's existence when she has to start battling a new bishop (Prosky). As a result she retires and moves to Ireland where she seeks an admirer (Elliott) with whom she has been corresponding for five years.
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Fools of Fortune
Title: Fools of Fortune
Character: Lanigan
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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Who Bombed Birmingham?
Title: Who Bombed Birmingham?
Character: Paddy Joe Hill
Released: April 22, 1990
Type: Movie
Docudrama film exploring the efforts of World in Action researchers Ian MacBride and Chris Mullin in proving that the "Birmingham Six" only admitted to the bombing under extreme duress, and that the five IRA members were in fact responsible for the deadly attacks
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Dick Francis: Twice Shy
Title: Dick Francis: Twice Shy
Character: Martin Fitzgerald
Released: December 14, 1989
Type: Movie
A fool-proof formula for picking winning horses on a computer disc is the Maguffin sought by Cleveland and others.
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Title: Stay Lucky
Character: John Lively
Released: December 8, 1989
Type: TV
Drama about a small-time gangster Thomas Gynn (Dennis Waterman) from London who discovers a new life up north in Yorkshire. Helping widowed, self-sufficient businesswoman Sally Hardcastle (Jan Francis) when her car breaks down on the motorway, Thomas reluctantly accepts an offer of a lift to Leeds. Over the coming months, the two become involved in a series of misadventures that soon find them being drawn closer together.
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Title: Confessional
Character: Sean Gallagher
Released: October 4, 1989
Type: TV
A secretive terrorist commits crimes to disrupt the peace process between the Irish and the Brits. Both sides want him dead. When he decides to assassinate the Pope and blame it on the U.K., only a musician with a secret past can stop him.
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The Rockingham Shoot
Title: The Rockingham Shoot
Character: Canon
Released: September 10, 1987
Type: Movie
Rigid nationalist Reilly’s frustration at the last remains of British rule draws him to the Rockingham Shoot, where a violent incident occurs.
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Rawhead Rex
Title: Rawhead Rex
Character: Reverend Coot
Released: October 1, 1986
Type: Movie
Ireland will never be the same after Rawhead Rex, a particularly nasty demon, is released from his underground prison by an unwitting farmer. The film follows Rex's cross country rampage, while a man struggles to stop it.
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Title: Casualty
Character: Desi Lavers
Released: September 6, 1986
Type: TV
Drama series about the staff and patients at Holby City Hospital's emergency department, charting the ups and downs in their personal and professional lives.
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Shergar
Title: Shergar
Character: Malachy
Released: March 23, 1986
Type: Movie
Malachy: "Who do you kidnap? You can't touch children, women, no sons of Irish mothers. What's left?" When Frankie is released from Portlaoise Prison, his old comrades are expecting some action. He hits on a plan for raising £2 million, but his plan goes wrong.
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Eat the Peach
Title: Eat the Peach
Character: Boots
Released: March 14, 1986
Type: Movie
Two young Irish men are watching an old Elvis Presley movie in which a carnival cyclist performs an act called the Wall of Death. Transfixed, they decide to put together their own "Wall of Death."
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Title: Dempsey and Makepeace
Character: Assist. Com. Webb
Released: January 11, 1985
Type: TV
Dempsey and Makepeace is a British television crime drama made by London Weekend Television for ITV, created and produced by Ranald Graham. The leading roles were played by Michael Brandon and Glynis Barber, who later married each other on 18 November 1989. The series combined elements of previous series such as the mis-matching of British and American crime-fighters from different classes as seen in The Persuaders! and the action of The Professionals.
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Children in the Crossfire
Title: Children in the Crossfire
Character: Vincent Lavery
Released: December 3, 1984
Type: Movie
For the children of Northern Ireland, violence and hatred are a way of life passed from one generation to the next. In "Children in the Crossfire" four children from both sides of the conflict come to America through a special project, and discover each other away from the ravages of their homeland.
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Title: Oxbridge Blues
Character: The Minister
Released: November 14, 1984
Type: TV
An anthology series of seven linked plays about the lives of people connected with the universities of Oxford and Cambridge.
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Title: Mitch
Released: August 31, 1984
Type: TV
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The Country Girls
Title: The Country Girls
Character: Jack Holland
Released: April 1, 1984
Type: Movie
The lifelong friendship of two rural Irish girls is put on the test when they grow up and leave for the big city, each with different life goals in mind.
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Reflections
Title: Reflections
Character: Mr. Prunty
Released: April 1, 1984
Type: Movie
A historian writing a biography of Isaac Newton spends a Summer with a dysfunctional family in Co. Cork, Ireland.
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Title: The Irish R.M.
Released: January 6, 1983
Type: TV
The Irish R.M. refers to a series of books by the Anglo-Irish novelists Somerville and Ross, and the television comedy-drama series based on them. They are set in turn of the 20th century west of Ireland.
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The Glory Hole
Title: The Glory Hole
Character: Mick Higgins
Released: August 10, 1982
Type: Movie
Cathy and Noel are a Catholic and a protestant soldier. They fall in love, to their cost.
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The Ballroom of Romance
Title: The Ballroom of Romance
Character: Eyes Horgan
Released: January 1, 1982
Type: Movie
A lonely farmer's daughter hopes to find love at the village ballroom.
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Lovespell
Title: Lovespell
Character: Andred
Released: December 31, 1981
Type: Movie
Romantic tragedy, the story of Tristan and Isolde.
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Title: Brideshead Revisited
Character: Father Mackay
Released: October 12, 1981
Type: TV
Charles Ryder, an agnostic man, becomes involved with members of the Flytes, a Catholic family of aristocrats, over the course of several years between the two world wars.
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Miss Morison's Ghosts
Title: Miss Morison's Ghosts
Character: Lord Kavanaugh
Released: May 10, 1981
Type: Movie
Two British women claim to have been thrown into a time warp where they saw Marie Antoinette as they were strolling through the gardens at Versailles Palace in France. After they tell their story to a psychic society, they find themselves the objects of derision and their jobs are threatened. - Written by frankfob2@yahoo.com
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The Man of Destiny
Title: The Man of Destiny
Character: Giuseppe
Released: May 5, 1981
Type: Movie
One of Shaw's "pleasant plays", The Man of Destiny is a one-act lighthearted comedy of egos and social hypocrisy. Set in 1796 in northern Italy, it features a battle of wits between Napoleon Bonaparte and a mysterious, daring woman who has stolen his documents. Can she really challenge the strategic mind of a general still celebrating a famous victory?
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The Sleep of Death
Title: The Sleep of Death
Character: Sean
Released: November 1, 1980
Type: Movie
Set in 1815, a young Englishman touring Europe encounters more than he bargained for. His pursuit of the beautiful Countess St. Alyre brings him into contact with the Marquis D'Armanville and other odd characters. A series of bizarre murders occur, bringing our hero to the borderland of nightmare.
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The Outsider
Title: The Outsider
Character: The Farmer
Released: June 2, 1980
Type: Movie
Michael Flaherty (Craig Wasson), an American Vietnam veteran of Irish descent, returns to Belfast to join the cause of his grandfather, Seamus (Sterling Hayden). Soon he finds that he is not as welcomed in his home country as he imagined he would be. Even worse, he's the target of an IRA assassination plot designed to make the British forces look bad in order to elicit financial support from wealthy Americans.
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Murphy's Stroke
Title: Murphy's Stroke
Character: Tony Murphy
Released: May 21, 1980
Type: Movie
The horse Gay Future is at the centre of an Irish betting syndicate in 1974 which saw trainer Antony Collins present a poor performing horse at his stables. The betting stakes were subsequently raised, before the real horse was entered in the race.
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Title: Bracken
Released: January 6, 1980
Type: TV
Bracken is an Irish television soap opera broadcast from 1978 to 1982 on RTÉ One in Ireland. It mainly centred about rural life in and around County Wicklow in the Republic of Ireland. The main stars of the show were Gabriel Byrne and Niall Tóibín. The show was created and written by Wesley Burrowes. The show is chiefly known for being the link between two long standing RTÉ series, in that Gabriel Byrne's character, Pat Barry, had first appeared in The Riordans, towards the end of that show's run. The characters of Dinny and Miley Byrne, played by Joe Lynch and Mick Lally, first appeared on this series, they were later to become the central stars of Glenroe. Each of the three series were created by Wesley Burrowes.
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Title: Minder
Character: Priest
Released: October 29, 1979
Type: TV
This comedy drama series featured Terry McCann, a former boxer with a conviction for G.B.H., and Arthur Daley, a second-hand car dealer with an eye for a nice little earner. Alongside his many business ventures, Arthur would regularly hire Terry out as a minder or bodyguard, later replaced by nephew, Ray Daley.
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The Legion Hall Bombing
Title: The Legion Hall Bombing
Character: Defence Counsel
Released: August 22, 1978
Type: Movie
The story of the trial of Willie Gallagher, convicted of bombing the Strabane British Legion Hall in Northern Ireland, 1976. The transmission of this film was postponed by the BBC several times, and when it did finally air, it was shown with cuts; the writer, Caryl Churchill, and director, Roland Joffé, had their names removed from the credits in protest.
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Poitín
Title: Poitín
Character: Sleamhnan
Released: February 25, 1978
Type: Movie
A moonshiner in the west of Ireland tries to avoid the Gardaí.
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The Thin End of the Wedge
Title: The Thin End of the Wedge
Character: Irishman
Released: December 20, 1977
Type: Movie
A student faced with an ultimatum to find £5 by morning - or lose his girlfriend - searches for friends he can tap and discovers that the crises in their lives are even greater than his own.
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Philadelphia, Here I Come
Title: Philadelphia, Here I Come
Character: Con Sweeney
Released: June 1, 1975
Type: Movie
Friel contrasts Gar's cloistered emotional life with his gregarious social persona by portraying him as two distinct characters, a public self (Donal McCann) and a private self (Des Cave).
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The Iguana with the Tongue of Fire
Title: The Iguana with the Tongue of Fire
Character: Doctor (uncredited)
Released: August 24, 1971
Type: Movie
In Dublin, the acid-scarred, razor-slashed corpse of a young woman is discovered in the boot of the Swiss Ambassador's limousine. The Ambassador, his family and employees all become immediate suspects. Faced with the problem of diplomatic immunity, the police officer in charge of the case brings in John Norton, an ex-Inspector known for his brutal methods, to carry out an "unoffical" investigation. While Norton develops a relationship with the Ambassdor's attractive daughter, several more gruesome murders occur...
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Flight of the Doves
Title: Flight of the Doves
Character: Sergeant O'Casey
Released: April 2, 1971
Type: Movie
While fleeing across the Irish countryside, two orphans are pursued by their villainous uncle, a master of disguises.
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Ryan's Daughter
Title: Ryan's Daughter
Character: O'Keefe
Released: March 19, 1970
Type: Movie
The wife of an Irish school teacher is branded a traitor when she falls for a British officer who is part of an occupying force in 1917 Ireland.
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A Jar With Brendan Behan
Title: A Jar With Brendan Behan
Character: Brendan Behan
Released: January 1, 1970
Type: Movie
1970 short starring Niall Toibin as Behan.
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Guns in the Heather
Title: Guns in the Heather
Character: Kettering
Released: July 7, 1969
Type: Movie
An American foreign exchange student in Ireland, Rich Evans (Kurt Russell), gets caught up in espionage when a dying man gives him a message to pass to his older brother, who is an American intelligence agent unbeknownst to Rich. Rich and his friend are then kidnapped by an Eastern Bloc agent pretending to be from the American Embassy in the hopes that they will lead him to a scientist who is attempting to defect to the West. Originally aired in 3 parts on 'Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color' TV series, then re-edited into a theatrical feature in Europe under the title, 'The Secret of Boyne Castle.'
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Title: Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color
Character: Kettering
Released: October 27, 1954
Type: TV
Walt Disney Productions has produced an anthology television series under several different titles since 1954. The original version of the series premiered on ABC, Wednesday night, October 27, 1954. The same basic show has since appeared on several networks, with its latest revival debuting in 2012 on Disney Junior. The show is the second longest showing prime-time program on American television, behind its rival, Hallmark Hall of Fame. However, Hallmark Hall of Fame was a weekly program only during its first five seasons, while Disney remained a weekly program for more than forty years.