Tony Quinn

Tony Quinn

Born: June 27, 1899
Died: June 1, 1967
in Naas, County Kildare, Ireland

Movies for Tony Quinn...

No Apologies
Title: No Apologies
Character: Tim
Released: January 1, 1990
Type: Movie
As a family of siblings and their spouses gathers at their father's deathbed, old jealousies and new angers and liaisons lead to an inevitable climax.
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The Runaway
Title: The Runaway
Character: Prof. Hawkley
Released: November 1, 1964
Type: Movie
In this espionage film, set just before the Germans invaded France, a chemist in Paris moonlights as a Soviet spy. To escape the Nazi invaders, the chemist and his wife steal government money and try to escape to South America.
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Murder Ahoy
Title: Murder Ahoy
Character: Tramp
Released: September 22, 1964
Type: Movie
During an annual board of trustees meeting, one of the trustees dies. Miss Marple thinks he’s been poisoned after finding a chemical on him. She sets off to investigate at the ship where he had just come from. The fourth and final film from the Miss Marple series starring Margaret Rutherford as the quirky amateur detective.
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The Unstoppable Man
Title: The Unstoppable Man
Character: Casey
Released: June 21, 1961
Type: Movie
Mitchell is a rich American businessman whose son is kidnapped in England. Naturally, there's a huge ransom demand, but Scotland Yard tells Mitchell to butt out.
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Alive and Kicking
Title: Alive and Kicking
Character: Villager
Released: July 13, 1959
Type: Movie
Three elderly residents of a nursing home, fed up with their monotonous existence, engineer an escape from their drab surroundings and head for an impromptu holiday on an Irish island.
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The Great Van Robbery
Title: The Great Van Robbery
Character: Mercer
Released: January 16, 1959
Type: Movie
Interpol detective Caesar Smith tracks robbers of the Royal Mint van. He travels to Rio de Janeiro, Rome and Paris and establishes the guilt of a London coffee importer.
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Title: Quatermass and the Pit
Character: News Editor
Released: December 22, 1958
Type: TV
A team of scientists search for the origin and purpose of a mysterious capsule found on a building site.
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Undercover Girl
Title: Undercover Girl
Character: Mike O'Sullivan
Released: January 1, 1958
Type: Movie
Nightclub employee Joan Foster (Kay Callard) assists the brother of a murdered reporter to expose a drug ring.
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The Rising of the Moon
Title: The Rising of the Moon
Character: Andrew Rourke, Station Master (segment 'A Minute's Wait')
Released: August 10, 1957
Type: Movie
Three vignettes of old Irish country life, based on a series of short stories. In "The Majesty of the Law," a police officer must arrest an old-fashioned, traditional fellow for assault. The man's principles have the policeman and the whole village, including the man he slugged, sympathizing with him. "One Minute's Wait" is about a little train station and glimpses into the lives of the passengers, with a series of comic setups. The third piece, "1921," is about a condemned Irish nationalist and his daring escape.
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Booby Trap
Title: Booby Trap
Character: Prof. Hasdane
Released: July 1, 1957
Type: Movie
An absent minded professor invents a pen that will explode on the sound of bells, then leaves it in a taxi
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The Man Without a Body
Title: The Man Without a Body
Character: Dr. Brandon
Released: May 1, 1957
Type: Movie
A wealthy business man discovers he has a brain tumor and seeks medical help. The business man finds a scientist experimenting with transplanting monkey heads on different monkey bodies. The business man decides to steal the head of Nostradamus from the prophet's crypt.
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Title: The Adventures of Sir Lancelot
Character: King Anguish
Released: September 15, 1956
Type: TV
The Adventures of Sir Lancelot is a British television series first broadcast in 1956, produced by Sapphire Films for ITC Entertainment and screened on the ITV network. The series starred William Russell as the eponymous Sir Lancelot, a Knight of the Round Table in the time of King Arthur at Camelot.
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The Last Man to Hang
Title: The Last Man to Hang
Character: Nywood
Released: August 1, 1956
Type: Movie
A man is tried for the murder of his neurotic wife by means of a sedative overdose.
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Satellite in the Sky
Title: Satellite in the Sky
Character: Jack the Barman
Released: July 21, 1956
Type: Movie
A bomb dooms the first space satellite, manned by a selfless crew, a stowaway reporter (Lois Maxwell) and a mad scientist (Donald Wolfit).
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Satellite in the Sky
Title: Satellite in the Sky
Character: Jack the Barman (uncredited)
Released: July 21, 1956
Type: Movie
A bomb dooms the first space satellite, manned by a selfless crew, a stowaway reporter (Lois Maxwell) and a mad scientist (Donald Wolfit).
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Tons of Trouble
Title: Tons of Trouble
Character: Cracknell
Released: April 9, 1956
Type: Movie
An apartment handyman is unusually attached to a pair of boilers he names "Mavis" and "Ethel."
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Shadow of a Man
Title: Shadow of a Man
Character: Inspector Gates
Released: March 1, 1955
Type: Movie
After a fight, a drunk is found dead, but is the cause of death heart failure or murder?
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The Beachcomber
Title: The Beachcomber
Character: Ship Captain
Released: August 10, 1954
Type: Movie
Mr. Gray is the new Resident in Charge of the Welcome Islands in the Indian Ocean. The Islands are full of life, but the only other Europeans are the "sanctimonious, psalm-singing" brother-sister missionary team of Martha and Owen Jordans, and the Honourable Ted - a hard-drinking, womanizing social outcast whose English family pays him to stay away. Martha and Ted become an unlikely team when cholera threatens the islands and they must do their best to stop its spread.
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They Got What They Wanted
Title: They Got What They Wanted
Character: Owny Tubridy
Released: March 30, 1954
Type: Movie
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The Gentle Gunman
Title: The Gentle Gunman
Character: Ambulance Attendant (uncredited)
Released: October 23, 1952
Type: Movie
The relationship between brothers Terry and Matt, both active in the IRA, comes under strain when Terry begins to question the use of violence.
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Song of Paris
Title: Song of Paris
Character: Syme
Released: February 10, 1952
Type: Movie
An archetypal Englishman returns from a jaunt abroad to face a dastardly foreign count in a screwball duel for the hand of a beautiful mademoiselle.
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The Lavender Hill Mob
Title: The Lavender Hill Mob
Character: Deputy Commander
Released: June 28, 1951
Type: Movie
A meek bank clerk who oversees the shipments of bullion joins with an eccentric neighbor to steal gold bars and smuggle them out of the country.
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The Long Dark Hall
Title: The Long Dark Hall
Character: Joe
Released: February 6, 1951
Type: Movie
A devoted family man tries to help a beautiful alcoholic showgirl with her life, and becomes the the only suspect when someone else murders her.
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Boys in Brown
Title: Boys in Brown
Character: Mr. Knight
Released: December 1, 1949
Type: Movie
Jackie lives in poverty with his widowed mother. In a bid to escape poverty he gets involved in a robbery that sees him sentenced to three years in Borstal where he meets a tough crowd, tougher than anything on the outside.
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Diamond City
Title: Diamond City
Character: Vanderbyl
Released: September 20, 1949
Type: Movie
Set in the diamond fields of South Africa, Stafford Parker is a lawman trying to maintain a semblance of law and order in the "Wild South".
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Saints and Sinners
Title: Saints and Sinners
Character: Berry
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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Uneasy Terms
Title: Uneasy Terms
Character: Patrick
Released: July 6, 1948
Type: Movie
Private eye Slim Callaghan is summoned to the country home of a Colonel Stenhurst, but the latter is murdered before he can talk to the detective. Was one of the Colonel's three daughters responsible?
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Bond Street
Title: Bond Street
Character: Club Doorman
Released: May 12, 1948
Type: Movie
Charts the events occurring during a typical 24-hour period on London’s thoroughfare Bond Street. Linking the four stories together is the impending wedding of society girl Hazel Court and Robert Flemyng.
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Hungry Hill
Title: Hungry Hill
Character: Denny Donovan
Released: January 7, 1947
Type: Movie
Life becomes a tragedy for the wife of an Irish heir to a 19th-century family feud and fortune.
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I See a Dark Stranger
Title: I See a Dark Stranger
Character: Galley Guide
Released: July 4, 1946
Type: Movie
Determined, independent Bridie Quilty comes of age in 1944 Ireland thinking all Englishmen are devils. Her desire to join the IRA meets no encouragement, but a German spy finds her easy to recruit. We next find her working in a pub near a British military prison, using her sex appeal in the service of the enemy. But chance puts a really vital secret into her hands, leading to a chase involving Bridie, a British officer who's fallen for her, a German agent unknown to them both, and the police...paralleled by Bridie's own internal conflicts.
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Wanted for Murder
Title: Wanted for Murder
Character: Mugsy Knight
Released: June 17, 1946
Type: Movie
The son of a notorious hangman is gradually becoming insane and he finds himself unable to resist the urge to strangle women to death.
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Read All About It
Title: Read All About It
Character: Norris
Released: April 8, 1945
Type: Movie
An account of the technique of reading the tabloid press in an intelligent manor via differing editorial techniques that leads to three styles of newspapers giving varying accounts of a strip-tease act.
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It's in the Bag
Title: It's in the Bag
Character: Prendergast
Released: February 7, 1944
Type: Movie
Gert and Daisy attempt to retrieve an old dress containing £2,000. They have to impersonate two thespians, and bring all sorts of trouble to a stage-play.
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Thunder Rock
Title: Thunder Rock
Character: Office Clerk
Released: December 4, 1942
Type: Movie
David Charleston, once a world renowned journalist, now lives alone maintaining the Thunder Rock lighthouse in Lake Michigan. He doesn't cash his paychecks and has no contact other than the monthly inspector's visit. When alone, he imagines conversations with those who died when a 19th century packet ship with some 60 passengers sank. He imagines their lives, their problems, their fears and their hopes. In one of these conversations, he recalls his own efforts in the 1930s when he desperately tried to convince first his editors, and later the public, of the dangers of fascism and the inevitability of war. Few would listen. One of the passengers, a spinster, tells her story of seeking independence from a world dominated by men. There's also the case of a doctor who is banished for using unacceptable methods. David has given up on life, but the imaginary passengers give him hope for the future.
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Unpublished Story
Title: Unpublished Story
Character: Lance Corporal
Released: August 10, 1942
Type: Movie
Morale-boosting story released in the middle of World War II. A journalist uncovers a peace organisation at the centre of disreputable dealings.
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Danny Boy
Title: Danny Boy
Character: Maloney
Released: August 25, 1941
Type: Movie
A remake of Oswald Mitchell's own 1934 production, a story of Jayne Kaye (Ann Todd), a successful singer in America who returns to Britain during the Blitz to find her ex-husband and son who have fallen on hard times.
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The Arsenal Stadium Mystery
Title: The Arsenal Stadium Mystery
Character: Concierge (uncredited)
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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The Moon in the Yellow River
Title: The Moon in the Yellow River
Character: Willie
Released: December 28, 1938
Type: Movie
Television broadcast of The Moon in the Yellow River by Denis Johnston.
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Non-Stop New York
Title: Non-Stop New York
Character: Harrigan
Released: September 13, 1937
Type: Movie
A young woman finds herself as the intended victim of a murder plot on a transatlantic flight from London to New York.
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Ourselves Alone
Title: Ourselves Alone
Character: Maloney
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.