John Hewitt

John Hewitt

Born: May 15, 1951
Died: November 29, 2008
in Belfast, Northern Ireland
John Hewitt was a veteran Northern Irish actor best known for his role as John Fletcher in the Billy plays and for the Mike Leigh drama Four Days in July.

Movies for John Hewitt...

H3
Title: H3
Character: PO in Van
Released: April 10, 2001
Type: Movie
'H3' is a universal story of endurance and courage set inside Europe's most secure prison, the Maze prison in Northern Ireland. Here, in H3 - the bleakest of all the H-blocks - a group of young republican prisoners hold out for what they believe in, refusing to be labeled as criminals or co-operate with prison authorities. However, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher is determined that these Republican prisoners will be treated like all the other common criminals in British jails, ending a special regime which allowed the inmates political status to organise life inside the jail along POW lines. The republican prisoners immediately start a 'no-wash' protest, refusing to wear prison-issue clothes or perform work duties, a protest which results in their being locked in their cells for hours on end without exercise, recreation, reading materials and with only blankets to wear for heat...
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The Cake
Title: The Cake
Character: First Orangeman
Released: October 6, 1995
Type: Movie
Josephine puts the finishing touches to her cake - commissioned by the Orange Order for the Twelfth of July celebrations - but things go awry when she attempts to deliver it.
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Life After Life
Title: Life After Life
Character: Malachy Doyle
Released: April 2, 1995
Type: Movie
Leo Doyle, a convicted IRA murderer, is released into the community after 14 years in prison on a scheme to rehabilitate former terrorists. He soon finds that the ceasefire has robbed him of both purpose and identity. Relationships with his family are difficult and reach boiling point when they find that he has rekindled his affair with a former fiancee Roisin, now married with three children.
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Henri
Title: Henri
Character: George Begley
Released: April 20, 1994
Type: Movie
A ten year old Protestant girl travels to Belfast to take part in a music festival, and is billetted with a Catholic family.
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Children of the North
Title: Children of the North
Character: Moran
Released: October 30, 1991
Type: Movie
The murders of two MI6 agents in Northern Ireland add up to an explosive political situation.
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Title: So You Think You've Got Troubles
Character: Head Waiter
Released: October 17, 1991
Type: TV
Six-part comedy series about a Londoner, and non-practising Jew, is sent by his boss to Northern Ireland to run a tobacco company.
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Lorna
Title: Lorna
Character: John Fletcher
Released: June 2, 1987
Type: Movie
In the follow-up to Graham Reid’s trilogy of ‘Billy’ plays, Billy's sister Lorna Martin is left to care for their Uncle Andy. Lorna feels trapped, but Andy wishes to give her the freedom she desires.
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Title: Foreign Bodies
Character: Harry
Released: March 5, 1987
Type: TV
Roisin and Septa are two young nurses from Dublin who go to work at a hospital in Belfast. Roisin meets and falls in love with Tom, a young Protestant car mechanic. This causes a series of problems for the young couple, their families and friends.
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Four Days in July
Title: Four Days in July
Character: Mr Roper
Released: November 29, 1984
Type: Movie
Two couples, one Catholic, one Protestant, exist on two sides of the chasm that is everyday life in Northern Ireland.
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A Coming to Terms for Billy
Title: A Coming to Terms for Billy
Character: John Fletcher
Released: February 21, 1984
Type: Movie
Belfast, 1980: July, the marching season ... Norman Martin, away for two years, returns with his 'English woman', Mavis. How will the family - particularly Billy - react? And has she achieved the impossible in mellowing the man? Third in the trilogy.
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A Woman Calling
Title: A Woman Calling
Character: Man in Shop
Released: January 1, 1984
Type: Movie
Professor Broderick, a famous professor of Psychology, returns to his house by Belfast Lough to discover a woman waiting for him.
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A Matter of Choice for Billy
Title: A Matter of Choice for Billy
Character: John Fletcher
Released: May 10, 1983
Type: Movie
Belfast 1978: the Martin family, a year on. Norman is away in England, and his eldest son, Billy, and daughter, Lorna, are in charge of their younger sisters, Ann and Maureen. Second in the trilogy.
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Too Late to Talk to Billy
Title: Too Late to Talk to Billy
Character: John Fletcher
Released: February 16, 1982
Type: Movie
Relationships are strained in a Belfast family, particularly between a father and his son. First in a multi-year trilogy.