Sean Lawlor

Sean Lawlor

Born: January 25, 1954
Died: October 10, 2009
in Dublin, Ireland
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Sean Lawlor (January 25, 1954 – October 10, 2009), was an Irish character actor and playwright. He was best known for his portrayal of Malcolm Wallace in Mel Gibson's Oscar-winning epic, Braveheart. In addition, he also appeared in James Cameron's Titanic and Jim Sheridan's In the Name of the Father. Other recent roles include Martin O Toole in "On Broadway" and Earl Leofric in "1066". Irish television viewers will know him from his role in RTE's 1980's series, "Bracken" as well as parts in many Irish films.

He produced plays for the stage include the one man play, "The Watchman", which he also wrote. As a stage actor his significant roles include Jap Kavanagh in "The Kings of the Kilburn High Road" for Waterford's Red Kettle Theatre company with whom he worked with on numerous occasions.

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The Black Waters of Echo's Pond
Title: The Black Waters of Echo's Pond
Character: Charles
Released: April 9, 2010
Type: Movie
Nine friends take a holiday at a Victorian home on a private island and uncover a game that when played brings out the worst in each of them. Jealously, greed, hatred, lust, all of the things they keep buried deep inside themselves rise to the surface and come to a boil.
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Mega Shark vs. Giant Octopus
Title: Mega Shark vs. Giant Octopus
Character: Lamar Sanders
Released: May 19, 2009
Type: Movie
The California coast is terrorized by two enormous prehistoric sea creatures as they battle each other for supremacy of the sea.
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Jack Hunter and the Lost Treasure of Ugarit
Title: Jack Hunter and the Lost Treasure of Ugarit
Character: Professor Frederick Shaffer
Released: December 23, 2008
Type: Movie
Jack Hunter, an adventurous treasure seeker, goes to Syria after his mentor and father figure Professor Fredrick Shaffer is killed. Professor Frederick Shaffer believed that the people of Ugarit, a town in Syria that existed during the Pharoah’s reign, had buried a treasure before they were wiped out by the Pharoahs. Jack Hunter is one of the few archaeologists in the world who can interpret Ugarit writings
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Live Fast, Die Young
Title: Live Fast, Die Young
Character: Sidney Blackstone
Released: January 1, 2008
Type: Movie
When a famous star is found dead at an exclusive Christmas Eve party filled with A-list Hollywood types, the police must hold for questioning a group of powerful entertainment industry players who are eager to leave the scene. As they reflect upon the death of their friend, apparently from a drug overdose, the witnesses begin to reflect upon their own life choices, triggering a profound discussion about life and spirituality.
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The Blue Rose
Title: The Blue Rose
Released: September 9, 2007
Type: Movie
Successful as a real estate agent, Vince Gallagher leads a second life as a casual drug user and small time dealer, getting his supply from a friend. While most would be considered an addict living the way he does, Vince's rationale is that since he feels he can quit at anytime on his own will, he doesn't have a "problem." Some of the folks he deals to though, have relatives, like "Junk", that deliver a message for Vince to stop dealing - or pay a price. Never strong with relationships or settling down, Vince meets Andrea, a recently divorced woman who walks into his office to request his services. Vince is more than eager to oblige, even offering to help her move. A relationship develops between the two that takes their lives into a total transformation when Andrea discovers Vince's hidden secret of drug addiction that will test their bond and love for one another.
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30,000 Leagues Under The Sea
Title: 30,000 Leagues Under The Sea
Character: Captain Nemo
Released: September 9, 2007
Type: Movie
Captain Nemo goes even deeper into insanity in this mesmerizing fantasy tale. Once again at the helm of his fearsome, wildly advanced vessel, the nautical madman endeavors to turn the world above the waves upside down.
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On Broadway
Title: On Broadway
Character: Martin O'Toole
Released: April 25, 2007
Type: Movie
On Broadway tells the story of Jack O'Toole, a 30-something Boston everyman, who writes a play about his dead uncle as a way to reconnect with his hard-nosed dad. With no money and just his gut to guide him, Jack quits his job as a carpenter so that he can mount a production of his play on the only stage he can afford: in the back room of his neighborhood pub, on a little street called Broadway.
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Club Soda
Title: Club Soda
Character: Man at Bar #1
Released: September 22, 2006
Type: Movie
A young man's dream to become a successful actor is threatened by the poor decisions he makes until a spiritual guide steps in and sets his conscience in motion.
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Red Roses and Petrol
Title: Red Roses and Petrol
Released: November 5, 2003
Type: Movie
A dysfunctional Irish family gathers after the death of their patriarch.
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Flush
Title: Flush
Character: Hobo
Released: January 15, 2003
Type: Movie
In a seedy downtown LA bar, four barfly's scheme to steal a $1,000,000 from a mortally wounded bank robber on the run.
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Titanic
Title: Titanic
Character: Charles Hendrickson (uncredited)
Released: November 18, 1997
Type: Movie
101-year-old Rose DeWitt Bukater tells the story of her life aboard the Titanic, 84 years later. A young Rose boards the ship with her mother and fiancé. Meanwhile, Jack Dawson and Fabrizio De Rossi win third-class tickets aboard the ship. Rose tells the whole story from Titanic's departure through to its death—on its first and last voyage—on April 15, 1912.
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The Disappearance of Finbar
Title: The Disappearance of Finbar
Character: Michael Flynn
Released: July 25, 1997
Type: Movie
A dissatisfied teen disappears from his small town, leaving friends to wonder about his whereabouts.
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Some Mother's Son
Title: Some Mother's Son
Character: Platoon Leader
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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Trojan Eddie
Title: Trojan Eddie
Character: Gerry
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: Mel
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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Title: JAG
Character: Jack Moore
Released: September 23, 1995
Type: TV
Harmon "Harm" Rabb Jr. is a former pilot turned lawyer working for the military's JAG (Judge Advocate General) division, the elite legal wing of officers that prosecutes and defends those accused of military-related crimes. He works closely with Lt. Col. Sarah Mackenzie, and together they do what needs to be done to find the truth.
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Braveheart
Title: Braveheart
Character: Malcolm Wallace
Released: May 24, 1995
Type: Movie
Enraged at the slaughter of Murron, his new bride and childhood love, Scottish warrior William Wallace slays a platoon of the local English lord's soldiers. This leads the village to revolt and, eventually, the entire country to rise up against English rule.
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Title: Chicago Hope
Released: September 18, 1994
Type: TV
Chicago Hope is an American medical drama television series, created by David E. Kelley. It ran on CBS from September 18, 1994, to May 4, 2000. The series is set in a fictional private charity hospital in Chicago, Illinois. The show is set to return in the fall of 2013 on TVGN in reruns.
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In the Name of the Father
Title: In the Name of the Father
Character: Remand Prison Officer
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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Title: Murder in Eden
Character: Rory Rua
Released: July 19, 1991
Type: TV
Murder in Eden is a British television series directed by Nicholas Renton and featuring Ian Bannen, Peter Firth and Alun Armstrong. It was first aired on the BBC in 1991 in three episodes of 55 minutes. It was set in a remote part of rural County Donegal where a landlord of a pub murders his barmen. He is blackmailed by one of the other inhabitants, while the police are busy hunting for the killer. It was based on the novel Bogmail by Patrick McGinley.
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The Love She Sought
Title: The Love She Sought
Character: Harold Fielding
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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Joyriders
Title: Joyriders
Character: Thug in Men's Room
Released: October 14, 1988
Type: Movie
The growing relationship of two people who travel through Ireland in a series of stolen cars.
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Reefer and the Model
Title: Reefer and the Model
Character: Spider
Released: August 5, 1988
Type: Movie
Comerford’s signature sharp realism infuses this drama about Reefer, an ex-IRA man who picks up hitch-hiker Teresa, a pregnant woman trying to overcome a drug addiction. They head to the trawler where he lives with friends Spider and Badger, that operates between Galway and the Aran Islands. The makeshift family are forced to turn to crime to make a living.
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Taffin
Title: Taffin
Character: Seamus
Released: February 26, 1988
Type: Movie
When a small Irish town is terrorized by a corrupt business syndicate, a lone hero wages an all out war.
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Shergar
Title: Shergar
Character: Frank
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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Title: Bergerac
Character: Martin O'Brien
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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Title: Minder
Character: Eddie
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.