Eileen Colgan

Eileen Colgan

Born: January 20, 1934
Died: March 10, 2014
in Enniskerry, County Wicklow, Ireland

Movies for Eileen Colgan...

A Film with Me in It
Title: A Film with Me in It
Character: Neighbor
Released: October 17, 2008
Type: Movie
A dissolute scriptwriter and a dejected actor become unwittingly drawn into a labyrinthine mess when several people experience bizarre accidental deaths in their flat. Though the men didn't deliberately cause any of the incidents, they fear that they will be unfairly pegged as murderers if they relay information to the cops, and promptly set about disposing of the corpses in gruesome ways.
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I Sell the Dead
Title: I Sell the Dead
Character: Maisey O'Connell
Released: August 7, 2008
Type: Movie
18th century justice catches up with a pair of grave robbers. With only a few hours to go before his date with the guillotine, Arthur Blake tells his life story to Father Francis Duffy. Before long, Arthur spills the beans on how he got started in the grim corpse peddling business with seasoned ghoul Willie Grimes.
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Tara Road
Title: Tara Road
Character: Nora
Released: May 11, 2005
Type: Movie
A grieving Connecticut mother temporarily switches houses with a woman in Dublin, Ireland.
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The Return
Title: The Return
Character: Fee Cullen
Released: December 30, 2003
Type: Movie
A former alcoholic returns home after ten years in prison for the murder of her husband. As her recollection of the murder returns, things take a different turn.
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Angela's Ashes
Title: Angela's Ashes
Character: Philomena
Released: December 25, 1999
Type: Movie
Based on the best selling autobiography by Irish expat Frank McCourt, Angela's Ashes follows the experiences of young Frankie and his family as they try against all odds to escape the poverty endemic in the slums of pre-war Limerick. The film opens with the family in Brooklyn, but following the death of one of Frankie's siblings, they return home, only to find the situation there even worse. Prejudice against Frankie's Northern Irish father makes his search for employment in the Republic difficult despite his having fought for the IRA, and when he does find money, he spends the money on drink.
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Durango
Title: Durango
Character: Mrs. Hinds
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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Oliver Twist
Title: Oliver Twist
Character: Mrs. Bedwin
Released: May 15, 1997
Type: Movie
Charles Dickens' classical story about the young orphan boy in 1837 England is again re-filmed in grand fashion. Richard Dreyfuss portrays Fagin, the unscrupulous leader of the young pick-pockets Oliver (Alex Trench) initially falls in with after escaping from a sweat shop and going to London to find his relatives. Written by John Sacksteder
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The Secret of Roan Inish
Title: The Secret of Roan Inish
Character: Tess
Released: May 14, 1994
Type: Movie
Ten-year-old Fiona is sent to live with her grandparents in a small fishing village in Donegal, Ireland. She soon learns the local legend that an ancestor of hers married a Selkie – a seal who can turn into a human. Years earlier, her baby brother was washed out to sea and never seen again, so when Fiona spies a naked little boy on the abandoned Isle of Roan Inish, she is compelled to investigate.
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Far and Away
Title: Far and Away
Character: Lady
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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Fools of Fortune
Title: Fools of Fortune
Character: Mrs Woodcombe
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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The Lilac Bus
Title: The Lilac Bus
Character: Mrs. Ryan
Released: January 1, 1990
Type: Movie
The lives of seven friends who share a bus from their village to Dublin every day get complicated as the reasons for their discontent are revealed.
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My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown
Title: My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown
Character: Nan
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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Title: Foreign Bodies
Character: Mrs Fogerty
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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Title: Crown Court
Character: Sister Joanna Forbush
Released: October 11, 1972
Type: TV
Crown Court is an afternoon television courtroom drama produced by Granada Television for the ITV network that ran from 1972, when the Crown Court system replaced Assize courts and Quarter sessions in the legal system of England and Wales, to 1984.
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Quackser Fortune Has a Cousin in the Bronx
Title: Quackser Fortune Has a Cousin in the Bronx
Character: Betsy Bourke
Released: June 13, 1970
Type: Movie
In Dublin, a working class family has been unsuccessful in convincing their son to get a real job: the son prefers his job of scooping up horse's dung and selling it for flower gardens. An American exchange student almost runs him over and gets to know him. The dung man has ignored warnings from his family and suddenly the horses have been banned from Dublin. His new love is leaving for America and he must find a way to cope with the new reality.
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Mrs. Lawrence Will Look After It
Title: Mrs. Lawrence Will Look After It
Character: Katie Nolan
Released: August 21, 1968
Type: Movie
When an elderly woman is hospitalised, the truth behind her illegal adoption of 14 children is revealed.
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Captain Busby: The Even Tenour of Her Ways
Title: Captain Busby: The Even Tenour of Her Ways
Character: Mother
Released: June 1, 1967
Type: Movie
The first half of Ann Wolff's BFI-funded short sees the eponymous captain (played by O'Connor) enacting the bizarre actions of the verse, chewing his beard, bouncing through a window and "frowning at a passing ceiling". In the second half, a curious interplay involving a carrot unfolds at a railway station.
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In Two Minds
Title: In Two Minds
Character: Sister
Released: March 1, 1967
Type: Movie
Kate, a young girl under psychiatric examination, suffers from a lack of confidence, self-esteem and self-control – telling of the “bad Kate” who commits immoral acts. Could the hypocrisy, selfishness and weakness of those around her have led to this state of mind or can Kate simply be diagnosed and dismissed as a schizophrenic?