Pat Laffan

Pat Laffan

Born: June 8, 1939
Died: March 14, 2019
in County Meath, Ireland
Pat Laffan was an Irish actor best known for his roles as Georgie Burgess in The Snapper and the milkman Pat Mustard in the Father Ted episode Speed 3. Laffan grew up on a farm in Co. Meath and began his career as an actor after graduating from Engineering in UCD. A prolific theatre actor, Laffan was a member of the Abbey Theatre Company in the 1960s and 1970s, and was the Director of the Peacock Theatre for most of the 1970s. He directed in the Gate Theatre from 1979 to 1982. Laffan had around 40 film credits to his name - including turns in Steven Spielberg's War Horse (2011), Intermission (2003), The General (1998) and Leap Year (2010) - and 30 credits on TV, Moone Boy, EastEnders and Ripper Street, to name a few. He died on March 14th, 2019 at the age of 79.

Movies for Pat Laffan...

Laid to Rest
Title: Laid to Rest
Character: Frank
Released: September 2, 2019
Type: Movie
A feuding father and son must put aside their differences and get morbidly creative in order to dispose of a burglar's dead body.
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Title: Quirke
Character: Costigan
Released: February 16, 2014
Type: TV
Quirke is the chief pathologist in the Dublin city morgue – a charismatic loner whose job takes him into fascinating places as he investigates sudden deaths in 1950s Dublin. His pleasures in life are raw and deep, a drink, a smoke, good food, a woman: With one woman in particular – his adoptive brother's wife Sarah and the forbidden love that has shaped and dominated Quirke's life.
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Title: Ripper Street
Character: Judge
Released: December 30, 2012
Type: TV
A drama set in the East End of London in 1889, during the aftermath of the "Ripper" murders. The action centres around the notorious H Division – the police precinct from hell – which is charged with keeping order in the chaotic streets of Whitechapel. Ripper Street explores the lives of characters trying to recover from the Ripper's legacy, from crimes that have not only irretrievably altered their lives, but the very fabric of their city. At the drama's heart our detectives try to bring a little light into the dark world they inhabit.
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War Horse
Title: War Horse
Character: Devon Farmer #2
Released: December 25, 2011
Type: Movie
On the brink of the First World War, Albert's beloved horse Joey is sold to the Cavalry by his father. Against the backdrop of the Great War, Joey begins an odyssey full of danger, joy, and sorrow, and he transforms everyone he meets along the way. Meanwhile, Albert, unable to forget his equine friend, searches the battlefields of France to find Joey and bring him home.
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The Runway
Title: The Runway
Character: Manus
Released: July 10, 2010
Type: Movie
The Runway is inspired by the true story of a South American pilot who landed his plane near Mallow, in 1983. Against all odds, the people of the town came together to build a runway to get him home and briefly caught the imagination of the nation. It is the story of Paco, a young boy without a father who adopts the pilot and convinces the town to build a runway to get him home.
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Leap Year
Title: Leap Year
Character: Donal
Released: January 8, 2010
Type: Movie
When yet another anniversary passes without a marriage proposal from her boyfriend, Anna decides to take action. Aware of a Celtic tradition that allows women to pop the question on Feb. 29, she plans to follow her lover to Dublin and ask him to marry her. Fate has other plans, however, and Anna winds up on the other side of the Emerald Isle with handsome, but surly, Declan -- an Irishman who may just lead Anna down the road to true love.
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The Wednesdays
Title: The Wednesdays
Character: Judge
Released: July 17, 2007
Type: Movie
Sometimes, when you're in the autumn of your days, you'll try anything just to put a smile on your face again. And so in this funny, sad (and sometimes wobbly) tale we meet two pensioners who manage to re-ignite the love they'd almost forgotten about. Unfortunately, soon the law comes knocking at their door
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The Queen
Title: The Queen
Character: Head Ghillie
Released: September 15, 2006
Type: Movie
The Queen is an intimate behind the scenes glimpse at the interaction between HM Elizabeth II and Prime Minister Tony Blair during their struggle, following the death of Diana, to reach a compromise between what was a private tragedy for the Royal family and the public's demand for an overt display of mourning.
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The Boys & Girl from County Clare
Title: The Boys & Girl from County Clare
Character: Gerry - The Customs Officer
Released: September 12, 2003
Type: Movie
In Ireland in the mid 1960s, two feuding brothers and their respective Ceilidh bands compete at a music festival.
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Intermission
Title: Intermission
Character: Charlie O'Brien
Released: August 29, 2003
Type: Movie
A raucous story of the interweaving lives and loves of small-town delinquents, shady cops, pretty good girls and very bad boys. With Irish guts and grit, lives collide, preconceptions shatter and romance is tested to the extreme. An ill-timed and poorly executed couple's break-up sets off a chain of events affecting everyone in town.
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How Harry Became a Tree
Title: How Harry Became a Tree
Character: Father O'Connor
Released: September 1, 2001
Type: Movie
Set in rural Ireland. Believing that "a man is measured by his enemies", Harry Maloney (Colm Meany) sets out to ruin George O'Flaherty – the most powerful man in town, who not only owns the local pub and most of the businesses in the area, but is also the local matchmaker. When Harry's son Gus (Cillian Murphy) – upon whom Harry regularly heaps abuse (mostly mental and verbal) – falls for the lovely Eileen, George helps get the two together. During this time, Harry quietly mobilizes his dastardly plans.
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Durango
Title: Durango
Character: Bill Gobberley
Released: April 25, 1999
Type: Movie
In 1939 Ireland, a young man decides to lead a forty mile cattle drive rather than selling his cattle to an unscrupulous local buyer.
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Park
Title: Park
Released: January 2, 1999
Type: Movie
Catherine goes to a local park to meet up with a school friend. The friend is not there, and Catherine spends the morning looking for her, with the help of the elderly park-keeper to whose stories she listens all the while. Several years later, Catherine is found hanging from a window in her home.
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The General
Title: The General
Character: Sgt. Patrick Higgins
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 General
Title: The General
Character: Police Sergeant Patrick Higgins
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 Serpent's Kiss
Title: The Serpent's Kiss
Character: Pritchard
Released: May 14, 1997
Type: Movie
A man sends a young architect to build an extravagant garden to bankrupt the husband of the woman he once loved.
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The Saint
Title: The Saint
Character: Catholic Priest
Released: April 3, 1997
Type: Movie
Simon Templar (The Saint), is a thief for hire, whose latest job to steal the secret process for cold fusion puts him at odds with a traitor bent on toppling the Russian government, as well as the woman who holds its secret.
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Trojan Eddie
Title: Trojan Eddie
Character: Matt
Released: September 9, 1996
Type: Movie
Trojan Eddie sells stolen goods for John Power, aging godfather of a local network of Irish gypsies, known as "travelers." Having done time rather than inform on his partner in a failed burglary, Eddie now struggles to raise his two daughters alone. Power falls for and marries traveler girl Kathleen, but when she runs off with Power's nephew Dermot — and takes the $11,000 dowry with her — Eddie must track the couple down.
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Space Truckers
Title: Space Truckers
Character: Scummy
Released: March 1, 1996
Type: Movie
John Canyon is one of the last independent space transport entrepreneurs. Rough times force him to carry suspicious cargo to Earth without questions being asked. During the flight the cargo turns out to be multitude of unstoppable and deadly killer robots.
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An Awfully Big Adventure
Title: An Awfully Big Adventure
Character: Mr Harcourt
Released: July 21, 1995
Type: Movie
Liverpool. 1947. Right after World War II, a star struck naive teenage girl joins a shabby theatre troupe in Liverpool. During a winter production of Peter Pan, the play quickly turns into a dark metaphor for youth as she becomes drawn into a web of sexual politics and intrigue and learns about the grown-up world of the theater.
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Sharpe's Sword
Title: Sharpe's Sword
Character: Connelly
Released: April 26, 1995
Type: Movie
Sharpe is tasked to protect the most important spy in Lord Wellington's network, but domestic issues, a traumatized young girl, and possible French spies all threaten his success
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Title: Father Ted
Character: Pat Mustard
Released: April 21, 1995
Type: TV
A crazy comedy about three rather strange parish priests exiled to Craggy Island, a remote island off the Irish west coast.
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War of the Buttons
Title: War of the Buttons
Character: Mr Connor
Released: September 29, 1994
Type: Movie
War between two Irish youth gangs consists of removing and retrieving buttons from each other's clothing.
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The Snapper
Title: The Snapper
Character: George Burgess
Released: August 6, 1993
Type: Movie
Sharon Curley is a 20-year-old living with her parents and many brothers and sisters in Dublin. When she gets pregnant and refuses to name the father, she becomes the talk of the town.
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The Playboys
Title: The Playboys
Character: Duffy
Released: April 22, 1992
Type: Movie
A young woman, Tara Maguire (Robin Wright) scandalizes her provincial Irish village in the 1950s by having a baby out of a wedlock, and refusing to name the father. She has a rare beauty and every man in town desires her, especially Sergeant Hegarty (Albert Finney). The arrival of a dramatic troupe stirs things up even more, especially when she falls in love with one f the "Playboys", Tom Casey (Aidan Quinn).
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Hear My Song
Title: Hear My Song
Character: Taxi Driver 1
Released: December 27, 1991
Type: Movie
Singer Josef Locke fled to Ireland 25 years ago to escape the clutches of the tax man and police Chief Jim Abbott. What he also left behind was the love of his life Cathleen Doyle. Now, Micky O’Neill is desperate to save both his ailing Liverpool nightclub ‘Heartly’s’ and his failing relationship with the beautiful Nancy, Cathleen’s daughter. The solution? Book the infamous Josef Locke.
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The Treaty
Title: The Treaty
Character: Bishop
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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Journey to Knock
Title: Journey to Knock
Character: Father Mallory
Released: September 17, 1991
Type: Movie
Journey to Knock humourously follows three disabled men on their pilgrimage from the North of England to Knock shrine in Co. Mayo.
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Events at Drimaghleen
Title: Events at Drimaghleen
Character: Mr. McDowd
Released: July 17, 1991
Type: Movie
The painful memories of the tragedy that awaited the people of Drimaghleen on 2/11/88 have just begun to fade; Hetty Fortune and her TV documentary team travel there to piece those memories together into a story of horror.
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After Midnight
Title: After Midnight
Character: Head Chef
Released: January 1, 1990
Type: Movie
An alcoholic night watchman in a Dublin hotel redeems himself with the help of a new assistant.
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My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown
Title: My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown
Character: Barman
Released: April 7, 1989
Type: Movie
No one expects much from Christy Brown, a boy with cerebral palsy born into a working-class Irish family. Though Christy is a spastic quadriplegic and essentially paralyzed, a miraculous event occurs when, at the age of 5, he demonstrates control of his left foot by using chalk to scrawl a word on the floor. With the help of his steely mother — and no shortage of grit and determination — Christy overcomes his infirmity to become a painter, poet and author.
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Pigs
Title: Pigs
Character: Detective 2
Released: September 28, 1984
Type: Movie
Grim tale of marginalized souls in an apocalyptic Dublin inner city. Jimmy takes up residence in a derelict and once elegant house in a no-go inner area. He is soon joined by other squatters, George a business man trying to retain some dignity, Ronnie a drug dealer, Tom a paranoiac, Orwell a Jamaican pimp and his prostitute Mary
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Barry Lyndon
Title: Barry Lyndon
Released: December 18, 1975
Type: Movie
An Irish rogue uses his cunning and wit to work his way up the social classes of 18th century England, transforming himself from the humble Redmond Barry into the noble Barry Lyndon.
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A War of Children
Title: A War of Children
Released: November 18, 1972
Type: Movie
A Protestant and a Catholic family's friendship is threatened by the sectarian violence in Belfast. When the daughter of the Catholic family falls in love a British soldier the situation worsens ...
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I Can't... I Can't...
Title: I Can't... I Can't...
Character: Dr. Farnum (as Patrick Laffan)
Released: November 1, 1969
Type: Movie
The tale of a young Irish Catholic bride who is devastated when her pregnant mother miscarries and dies on her wedding day. The young woman, one of seven children, blames her father’s lust for the death. When her own wedding night arrives she is terrified and refuses to consummate the marriage with her husband. Her parish priest forbids her to accept her doctor’s suggestion that she should use contraception and she is driven to desperate measures.
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Girl with Green Eyes
Title: Girl with Green Eyes
Character: Bertie Counham
Released: May 14, 1964
Type: Movie
Catholic-Irish farm girl Kate, along with her gregarious best friend Baba, moves to Dublin to pursue a more exciting life.