Ray McAnally

Ray McAnally

Born: March 30, 1926
Died: June 15, 1989
in Buncrana, County Donegal, Ireland
Ray McAnally was an Irish actor famous for his performances in films such as The Mission, My Left Foot, and A Very British Coup.

Movies for Ray McAnally...

Title: Great Expectations
Character: Mr. Jaggers
Released: June 21, 1991
Type: TV
Miniseries based on Charles Dickens' novel of the same title.
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We're No Angels
Title: We're No Angels
Character: Warden
Released: June 2, 1989
Type: Movie
Two escaped cons' only prayer to escape is to pass themselves off as priests and pass by the police blockade at the border into the safety of Canada.
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My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown
Title: My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown
Character: Mr. Brown
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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Venus Peter
Title: Venus Peter
Character: Grandpa
Released: March 5, 1989
Type: Movie
Produced for Scottish television, Venus Peter was financed by the Orkney Islands Council. The title character is transformed into a "sea child" when he is baptized with salt water. Though his family tries hard to accustom him to life on land, Peter (Gordon R. Strachan) yearns to go to sea -- or, at the very least, to escape his cloistered community. He finds a kindred spirit in Princess Paloma (Juliet Cadzow), the village "looney," who, alas, is eventually carted away to an institution. Briefly fascinated by poetry and music, thanks to his lovely teacher Miss Balsibie (Sinead Cusack), Peter is disillusioned when he finds his teacher in the arms of her lover (and out of her clothing). The final blow to Peter's idealism comes when his grandfather's ship is repossessed. Despite the bleakness of his surroundings and his seemingly dead-end existence, however, Peter never completely lets go of his dreams, and the film ends on a positive note.
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High Spirits
Title: High Spirits
Character: Plunkett Senior
Released: November 18, 1988
Type: Movie
When a hotelier attempts to fill the chronic vacancies at his castle by launching an advertising campaign that falsely portrays the property as haunted, two actual ghosts show up and end up falling for two guests.
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Title: Jack the Ripper
Character: Sir William Gull
Released: October 11, 1988
Type: TV
Jack the Ripper is a 1988 two-part television film/miniseries portraying a fictionalized account of the hunt for Jack the Ripper, the unidentified serial killer responsible for the Whitechapel murders of 1888. The series coincided with the 100th anniversary of the murders.
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Title: A Very British Coup
Character: Harry Perkins
Released: June 19, 1988
Type: TV
A Very British Coup is a British political thriller series based on the novel by Chris Mullin. It stars Ray McAnally as the newly elected left-wing prime minister Harry Perkins, who soon finds himself up to his neck in conspiracy.
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Taffin
Title: Taffin
Character: O'Rourke
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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White Mischief
Title: White Mischief
Character: Morris
Released: November 10, 1987
Type: Movie
A millionaire past his prime and his young wife arrive in Kenya circa 1940 to find that the other affluent British expatriates are living large as the homefront gears up for war. They are busy swapping partners, doing drugs, and attending lavish parties and horse races. She begins a torrid affair with one of the bon vivants, and her husband finds out and confronts them. The husband and wife decide to break up peacefully, but the bon vivant is murdered and all the evidence points to the husband.
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Title: A Perfect Spy
Character: Rick Pym
Released: November 4, 1987
Type: TV
The life of British MI6 spy Magnus Pym, from his school days to his mysterious disappearance.
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The Sicilian
Title: The Sicilian
Character: Trezza
Released: October 7, 1987
Type: Movie
Egocentric bandit Salvatore Giuliano fights the Church, the Mafia, and the landed gentry while leading a populist movement for Sicilian independence.
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The Fourth Protocol
Title: The Fourth Protocol
Character: General Karpov
Released: March 20, 1987
Type: Movie
Led by Kim Philby, Plan Aurora is a plan that breaches the top-secret Fourth Protocol and turns the fears that shaped it into a living nightmare. A crack Soviet agent, placed under cover in a quiet English country town, begins to assemble a nuclear bomb, whilst an MI5 agent attempts to prevent it's detonation.
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Empire State
Title: Empire State
Character: Frank
Released: March 1, 1987
Type: Movie
In the docklands of East London stands the Empire State, a nightclub full of magic and mystery. Designed like an ocean liner, it's become a battle ground where anything can happen. In the midst of the action, a young boy stows aboard to search for his friend who has disappeared in the entrails of the club.
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Scout
Title: Scout
Character: Palmer
Released: January 1, 1987
Type: Movie
Drama about a Northern Irish football scout by Frank McGuinness and directed by Danny Boyle.
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The Mission
Title: The Mission
Character: Cardinal Altamirano
Released: September 24, 1986
Type: Movie
When a Spanish Jesuit goes into the South American wilderness to build a mission in the hope of converting the Indians of the region, a slave hunter is converted and joins his mission. When Spain sells the colony to Portugal, they are forced to defend all they have built against the Portuguese aggressors.
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No Surrender
Title: No Surrender
Character: Billy McRacken
Released: September 11, 1985
Type: Movie
It's New Year's Eve in Thatcher's de-industrialising Britain. The scene is set at a seedy bar in Liverpool where a group of Irish Protestant and Irish Catholic pensioners will gather to clash and bash the new year in.
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Cal
Title: Cal
Character: Cyril Dunlop
Released: August 24, 1984
Type: Movie
Cal, a young man on the fringes of the IRA, falls in love with Marcella, a Catholic woman whose husband, a Protestant policeman, was killed one year earlier by the IRA.
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Angel
Title: Angel
Character: Bloom
Released: September 18, 1982
Type: Movie
Saxophonist Danny witnesses the murder of his band manager and a deaf-mute girl after a gig. Questioned by the police, he remembers only the orthopedic shoes of the killers’ leader. So begins his quest to avenge her.
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The Sleep of Death
Title: The Sleep of Death
Character: Inspector Carmingac
Released: November 1, 1980
Type: Movie
Set in 1815, a young Englishman touring Europe encounters more than he bargained for. His pursuit of the beautiful Countess St. Alyre brings him into contact with the Marquis D'Armanville and other odd characters. A series of bizarre murders occur, bringing our hero to the borderland of nightmare.
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Invasion
Title: Invasion
Character: Smrkovsky
Released: August 19, 1980
Type: Movie
Docu-drama surrounding the events leading to the Soviet Union's invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968.
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The Outsider
Title: The Outsider
Character: MacWhirter
Released: June 2, 1980
Type: Movie
Michael Flaherty (Craig Wasson), an American Vietnam veteran of Irish descent, returns to Belfast to join the cause of his grandfather, Seamus (Sterling Hayden). Soon he finds that he is not as welcomed in his home country as he imagined he would be. Even worse, he's the target of an IRA assassination plot designed to make the British forces look bad in order to elicit financial support from wealthy Americans.
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Title: Pollyanna
Character: John Pendleton
Released: October 7, 1973
Type: TV
After her father’s death, young Pollyanna moves east to live with her aunt Polly. Once there, the “Glad Game” her father taught her, begins to change the lives of the town’s residents. Based on the classics children’s book by Eleanor H. Porter.
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The Death of Adolf Hitler
Title: The Death of Adolf Hitler
Character: Dr. Gebhardt
Released: January 7, 1973
Type: Movie
The final days in the Bunker, with Hitler becoming more and more paranoid, plumbing the depths of his madness and reaching his well deserved fate.
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Title: Last of the Summer Wine
Character: The Tramp
Released: January 4, 1973
Type: TV
Unencumbered by wives, jobs or any other responsibilities, three senior citizens who've never really grown up explore their world in the Yorkshire Dales. They spend their days speculating about their fellow townsfolk and thinking up adventures not usually favored by the elderly. Last of the Summer Wine premiered as an episode of Comedy Playhouse in 1973. The show ran for 295 episodes until 2010. It is the longest running comedy Britain has produced and the longest running sitcom in the world.
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Fear Is the Key
Title: Fear Is the Key
Character: Ruthven
Released: December 26, 1972
Type: Movie
A deep-sea salvage expert enacts an elaborate plan to infiltrate and take revenge on a criminal organization that dealt him a foul misdeed.
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Title: Crown Court
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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Title: Justice
Character: Captain Bell
Released: October 8, 1971
Type: TV
Justice is a British drama television series which originally aired on ITV in 39 hour-long episodes between 8 August 1971 and 16 October 1974. Margaret Lockwood stars as Harriet Peterson a female barrister in the North of England. It was made by Yorkshire Television and was based loosely on Justice Is a Woman, an episode of ITV Playhouse broadcast in 1969 in which Lockwood had previously also played a barrister. The theme music was Crown Imperial by William Walton.
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Title: Barlow
Released: September 15, 1971
Type: TV
Barlow at Large is a British television programme broadcast in the 1970s, starring Stratford Johns in the title role. Johns had previously played Barlow in the Z-Cars, Softly, Softly and Softly, Softly: Taskforce series on BBC television during the 1960s and early 1970s. Barlow at Large began as a three-part self-contained spin-off from Softly, Softly: Taskforce in 1971 with Barlow co-opted by the home office to investigate police corruption in Wales. Johns left Softly, Softly for good in 1972, but returned for a further series of Barlow at Large in the following year, Barlow having gone on full-time secondment to the Home Office. This second series, rather than telling one story in serial form, as the 1971 series had, was instead ten 50-minute episodes, each with a self-contained story. In this series, Barlow was supported by Norman Comer as Detective Sergeant Rees, who had been helpful to him during the first series. He also had to deal with the political machinations of the senior civil servant Fenton. In 1974 the series was renamed Barlow and a further two series of eight episodes each followed, introducing the character of Detective Inspector Tucker, played by Derek Newark. The final episode was transmitted in February 1975. The Barlow character was seen again in the series Second Verdict in which he, along with his former colleague John Watt, looked into unsolved cases and unsafe convictions from history.
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Quest for Love
Title: Quest for Love
Character: Jack Kahn
Released: June 6, 1971
Type: Movie
After a scientific experiment goes horribly wrong during a demonstration, a scientist finds himself trapped in an alternate reality that bears some similarities to our own, but also has some striking differences. In this other reality the Second World War had never occurred, mankind had not yet traveled into Space and Mt. Everest had not yet been conquered, just to name a few things. Also in this other reality he is no longer a scientist but rather a well known author. After a personal tragedy in this alternate world, he finds himself back in his own world and desperately trying to locate the woman he fell in love with in the other world. Little does she know, however, that her life depends on him finding her.
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The Looking Glass War
Title: The Looking Glass War
Character: Undersecretary of State
Released: January 2, 1970
Type: Movie
When a Polish sailor jumps ship in Britain, a couple of local intelligence operatives keep him under surveillance. Soon, he’s recruited to infiltrate a missile installation outside of East Berlin and bring back photos of the new rockets.
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Title: Man in a Suitcase
Released: September 27, 1967
Type: TV
Accused of treason, a former U.S. intelligence officer based in London tries to clear his name, taking on freelance jobs around Europe as he searches for answers.
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Brendan Behan's Dublin
Title: Brendan Behan's Dublin
Character: Narrator
Released: September 20, 1966
Type: Movie
A documentary in which Brendan Behan acts as guide to Dublin.
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Title: Insurrection
Character: Studio co-ordinator
Released: April 10, 1966
Type: TV
The events of the Easter Rising, told in the style contemporary news broadcasts and a series of dramatic reconstructions
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He Who Rides a Tiger
Title: He Who Rides a Tiger
Character: Orphanage Superintendent
Released: October 1, 1965
Type: Movie
Peter Rayston, has been in and out of prison most of his life. At 30, he is released for the eighth time, after serving a sentence for housebreaking. Immediately, he goes back to his old life, providing for his expensive tastes by executing a series of daring burglaries
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Title: Gideon's Way
Character: Mickey Keston
Released: March 18, 1965
Type: TV
Gideon's Way is a British television crime series made by ITC Entertainment in 1964/65, based on the novels by John Creasey. The series was made at Elstree in twin production with The Saint TV series. It starred Liverpudlian John Gregson in the title role as Commander George Gideon of Scotland Yard, with Alexander Davion as his assistant, Detective Chief Inspector David Keen, Reginald Jessup as Det. Superintendent LeMaitre, Ian Rossiter as Detective Chief Superintendent Joe Bell and Basil Dignam as Commissioner Scott-Marle. The show did not acknowledge any help from Scotland Yard, any other police force or advisor. Daphne Anderson starred as his wife, Kate with Giles Watling as young son, Malcolm, Richard James as older son, Matthew who seemed to have a lot of new girlfriends and Andrea Allan as daughter, Pru. Unusually for police stories, Gideon was shown as a family man at home though urgent phone calls from his bosses tend to disrupt family plans too often. However, he did admit in "State Visit" that his wife had walked out on him for a while years ago when he put the job first and her second. They live in an expensive detached house in Chelsea.
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Title: Public Eye
Character: Tyson
Released: January 23, 1965
Type: TV
Public Eye is a British television series that ran from 1965 to 1975. It was produced by ABC Television for three series, and Thames Television for a further four series. The series depicted the investigations and cases handled by the unglamorous enquiry agent Frank Marker, an unmarried loner who is in his early forties when the series begins. In the words of an ABC trailer for the third series: "Marker isn't a glamorous detective and he doesn't get glamorous cases—he doesn't even get glamorous girls. What he does get is people who are in trouble—the sort of trouble you can't go to the police about, even if you are innocent."
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Title: The Human Jungle
Character: Alan Prescott
Released: March 30, 1963
Type: TV
The Human Jungle is a British TV series about a psychiatrist, made for ABC Television by the small production company Independent Artists for transmission on ITV. Starring Herbert Lom, it ran for two series which were first transmitted during 1963 and 1965.
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Billy Budd
Title: Billy Budd
Character: William O'Daniel, Maintopman
Released: November 12, 1962
Type: Movie
Billy is an innocent, naive seaman in the British Navy in 1797. When the ship's sadistic master-at-arms is murdered, Billy is accused and tried.
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The Naked Edge
Title: The Naked Edge
Character: Donald Heath
Released: June 28, 1961
Type: Movie
Five years after George Radcliffe was the chief witness in a high profile murder case, his wife receives a blackmailing letter accusing him of the crime.
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Murder in Eden
Title: Murder in Eden
Character: Inspector Sharkey
Released: April 7, 1961
Type: Movie
Max Varnel’s British mystery thriller. After discovering a famous painting is a forgery, a noted art critic is killed by a hit-and-run driver. Starring Ray McAnally, Catherine Feller and Yvonne Buckingham.
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Title: The Avengers
Character: Arcos
Released: January 7, 1961
Type: TV
The Avengers is a British television series created in the 1960s. It initially focused on Dr. David Keel and his assistant John Steed. Hendry left after the first series and Steed became the main character, partnered with a succession of assistants. His most famous assistants were intelligent, stylish and assertive women: Cathy Gale, Emma Peel and Tara King. Later episodes increasingly incorporated elements of science fiction and fantasy, parody and British eccentricity.
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Title: The Avengers
Character: Creswell
Released: January 7, 1961
Type: TV
The Avengers is a British television series created in the 1960s. It initially focused on Dr. David Keel and his assistant John Steed. Hendry left after the first series and Steed became the main character, partnered with a succession of assistants. His most famous assistants were intelligent, stylish and assertive women: Cathy Gale, Emma Peel and Tara King. Later episodes increasingly incorporated elements of science fiction and fantasy, parody and British eccentricity.
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Shake Hands with the Devil
Title: Shake Hands with the Devil
Character: Paddy Nolan
Released: June 24, 1959
Type: Movie
In 1921 Dublin, the IRA battles the "Black & Tans," special British forces given to harsh measures. Irish-American medical student Kerry O'Shea hopes to stay aloof, but saving a wounded friend gets him outlawed, and inexorably drawn into the rebel organization...under his former professor Sean Lenihan, who has "shaken hands with the devil" and begun to think of fighting as an end in itself. Complications arise when Kerry falls for a beautiful English hostage, and the British offer a peace treaty that is not enough to satisfy Lenihan.
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Sea of Sand
Title: Sea of Sand
Character: Sgt. Hardy
Released: November 4, 1958
Type: Movie
A small British army team is sent deep behind enemy lines to destroy a German petrol dump as part of the preparation for a major attack in the North African campaign. Sea of Sand was distributed in the US in a shortened version, Desert Patrol.
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She Didn't Say No!
Title: She Didn't Say No!
Character: Jim Power
Released: September 30, 1958
Type: Movie
Bridget Monaghan, a single mother who has had six children by different fathers, shocks the conservative inhabitants of an Irish village.
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Professor Tim
Title: Professor Tim
Character: Hugh O'Cahan
Released: January 1, 1957
Type: Movie
Comedy about an Irishman, Professor Tim, who returns to Ireland after twenty years of wandering the world and conceals from his family the fact that he has come into an inheritance. The Scallys and the Kllroys provide some complications.
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Title: Armchair Theatre
Released: July 8, 1956
Type: TV
Armchair Theatre is a British television drama anthology series of single plays that ran on the ITV network from 1956 to 1974. It was originally produced by Associated British Corporation, and later by Thames Television from mid-1968.