Gerard McSorley

Gerard McSorley

Born: September 14, 1950
in Omagh, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland
Gerard McSorley (born 1950) is a theatre, television and an Irish film actor.

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Penance
Title: Penance
Character: Murray
Released: May 1, 2018
Type: Movie
Unequivocal about the need for violence to force Britain out of Ireland, Father Eoin O’Donnell seals the fate of the young and impressionable Antaine by convincing him to fight in the 1916 Rising. Fifty years later, the reappearance of the now-experienced gunman Antaine in a divided Derry throws Father O’Donnell into turmoil. Once allies, the pair are now placed on opposite sides of the same agenda.
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Lift
Title: Lift
Character: Granddad Eddy
Released: September 11, 2016
Type: Movie
Sean's vicious attack leaves a man unconscious and him stranded in an elevator with five others. In the confines of the lift, love has a chance of blossoming - violence has a chance of erupting - Sean has little chance of escape. With his freedom hanging in the balance can the people who fear him offer him one last chance of redemption?
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War Horse
Title: War Horse
Character: Market Auctioneer
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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Robin Hood
Title: Robin Hood
Character: Baron Fitzrobert
Released: May 12, 2010
Type: Movie
When soldier Robin happens upon the dying Robert of Loxley, he promises to return the man's sword to his family in Nottingham. There, he assumes Robert's identity; romances his widow, Marion; and draws the ire of the town's sheriff and King John's henchman, Godfrey.
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Blood Creek
Title: Blood Creek
Character: Mr. Marshall
Released: October 9, 2009
Type: Movie
A man and his brother on a mission of revenge become trapped in a harrowing occult experiment dating back to the Third Reich.
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Wide Open Spaces
Title: Wide Open Spaces
Character: Hingerty
Released: July 19, 2009
Type: Movie
Have you ever had a best friend you couldn't stand? Myles has one - Austin - only he's too much of a slacker to do anything about it. In fact, each one of these layabouts is as useless as the other: a pair of thirty-somethings who laze around watching their lives flutter past. Fate, however, has plans to remedy their lack of motivation. Up to their necks in debt, they decide to help a dodgy entrepreneur, Gerard, to create a new landmark in Irish tourism: a Famine Theme Park.
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Swansong: Story of Occi Byrne
Title: Swansong: Story of Occi Byrne
Character: Michael Byrne
Released: July 11, 2009
Type: Movie
Born in London to single mum Bridget, Austin Byrne returns with her to her hometown in Ireland as a very young boy and learns that, from family to neighbours to the Church, no-one has a good word to say about either of them.
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Trapped
Title: Trapped
Character: Lynch
Released: October 10, 2008
Type: Movie
When Anton O'Neill returns home after five years at sea, he finds that 1970's Ireland is a radically different place to the one he left behind. Northern Ireland is in flames, and civil unrest has spilled south of the border to his beloved home in County Cavan. Blinded by hatred and misguided patriotism 'Anton' is led into an illicit world of violence and is forced to choose between his family and his country. Hunted and on the run, Anton is drawn into a battle of wills with the law and his former accomplices, ending in a showdown in which he must risk everything to protect the woman he loves.
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Hesitation
Title: Hesitation
Character: Paul
Released: January 1, 2007
Type: Movie
A middle aged man, on a package holiday in France with his wife, focuses all his frustrations and discontent onto a local boy who has got under his skin.
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The Front Line
Title: The Front Line
Character: Detective Insp. Harbison
Released: July 16, 2006
Type: Movie
An African immigrant bank security guard turns the tables on Dublin's nastiest criminals when they force him to be the "inside man" on a bank robbery.
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Middletown
Title: Middletown
Released: April 28, 2006
Type: Movie
An overzealous priest returns to his home town and ends up battling against his brother for the heart of the locals.
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Tell It to the Fishes
Title: Tell It to the Fishes
Character: Jack
Released: January 1, 2006
Type: Movie
The tide is slowly coming in and Finn, a worthless low-rent hood, has been dropped on an isolated beach, his feet set in concrete. Finn's misery is compounded when Jack, a hard and edgy minor gangster responsible for his predicament, lands a few yards away, feet also set in concrete.
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The Constant Gardener
Title: The Constant Gardener
Character: Sir Kenneth Curtiss
Released: August 31, 2005
Type: Movie
Justin Quayle is a low-level British diplomat who has always gone about his work very quietly, not causing any problems. But after his radical wife Tessa is killed he becomes determined to find out why, thrusting himself into the middle of a very dangerous conspiracy.
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Omagh
Title: Omagh
Character: Michael Gallagher
Released: March 23, 2005
Type: Movie
The movie starts at the 1998 bomb attack by the Real IRA at Omagh, Northern Ireland. The attack killed 31 people. Michael Gallagher one of the relatives of the victims starts an examination to bring the people responsible to court.
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The Halo Effect
Title: The Halo Effect
Character: O'Grady
Released: November 19, 2004
Type: Movie
Fatso is the proprietor of what may be the worst eaterie in the city, and is struggling to keep a sinking ship afloat. His compulsive gambling is getting the better of him and he has to contend with an endless succession of loan sharks and debt collectors. He employs hopelessly incompetent staff and generally manages to keep the entire community around him ticking over. However just as Fatso seems to be getting everything under control, he is faced with a dilemma that could destroy him for good.
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Inside I'm Dancing
Title: Inside I'm Dancing
Character: Fergus Connolly
Released: October 15, 2004
Type: Movie
Michael is a 24-year-old who has cerebral palsy and long-term resident of the Carrigmore Residential Home for the Disabled, run by the formidable Eileen. His life is transformed when the maverick Rory O'Shea moves in.
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Veronica Guerin
Title: Veronica Guerin
Character: John Gilligan
Released: July 11, 2003
Type: Movie
In this true story, Veronica Guerin is an investigative reporter for an Irish newspaper. As the drug trade begins to bleed into the mainstream, Guerin decides to take on and expose those responsible. Beginning at the bottom with addicts, Guerin then gets in touch with John Traynor, a paranoid informant. Not without some prodding, Traynor leads her to John Gilligan, the ruthless head of the operation, who does not take kindly to Guerin's nosing.
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Dead Bodies
Title: Dead Bodies
Character: Gordon Ellis
Released: April 25, 2003
Type: Movie
The return of a vengeful ex-girlfriend sets into motion a series of gruesome events for a hapless Irish bachelor in director Robert Quinn's grim black comedy. Tommy (Andrew Scott) had thought he had seen the last of Jean (Katy Davis) after their recent breakup, but when she returns to stake her claim on Tommy's apartment, the confrontation that ensues makes their previous quarrels look petty by comparison. After leaving the apartment in the head of the fight to cool his head and gather his thoughts, he returns only to find that Jean has died and enlists the aid of his friend Noel (Darren Healy) in ditching the body and ensuring that no one ever finds out what happened.
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Do Armed Robbers Have Love Affairs?
Title: Do Armed Robbers Have Love Affairs?
Character: Eddy
Released: December 12, 2002
Type: Movie
An aging criminal, about to pull an armed robbery,reflects on a friend of his: a fellow criminal, who lost his life in a recent robbery attempt,on a woman whom he's been seeing and for whom he has strong feelings and whether or not he should go ahead with the present crime.
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Title: In Search of Ancient Ireland
Character: Himself - Narrator
Released: June 12, 2002
Type: TV
An exploration of Ancient Ireland, from 2000 B.C., when Stone Age farmers built some of Europe's largest and most spectacular Neolithic monuments, to 1167 A.D., when invading Normans seized Ireland for England's king.
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Bloody Sunday
Title: Bloody Sunday
Character: Chief Supt. Lagan
Released: January 16, 2002
Type: Movie
The dramatised story of the Irish civil rights protest march on January 30 1972 which ended in a massacre by British troops.
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Ordinary Decent Criminal
Title: Ordinary Decent Criminal
Character: Harrison
Released: January 7, 2000
Type: Movie
Michael Lynch is a notorious criminal with two wives and a flair for showmanship. He's also a huge embarrassment to the local police, who are determined to bring him down once and for all.
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Angela's Ashes
Title: Angela's Ashes
Character: Father Gregory
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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Agnes Browne
Title: Agnes Browne
Character: Mr. Aherne
Released: November 8, 1999
Type: Movie
Set in Dublin in 1967, the story of feisty woman, who along with her seven children, learns to cope with adversity after the unexpected death of her husband.
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Felicia's Journey
Title: Felicia's Journey
Character: Felicia's Father
Released: October 8, 1999
Type: Movie
Seventeen and pregnant, Felicia travels to England in search of her lover and is found instead by Joseph Ambrose Hilditch, a helpful catering manager whose kindness masks unsettling secret.
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The Deep End of the Ocean
Title: The Deep End of the Ocean
Character: Father Cleary
Released: March 12, 1999
Type: Movie
A three-year-old boy disappears during his mother's high school reunion. Nine years later, by chance, he turns up in the town in which the family has just relocated.
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Vicious Circle
Title: Vicious Circle
Character: Crowley
Released: February 9, 1999
Type: Movie
Criminal Martin Cahill gets in trouble when a major robbery succeeds. He aims for more trouble when he tries to do a large art robbery
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The Butcher Boy
Title: The Butcher Boy
Character: Psychiatrist #2
Released: February 20, 1998
Type: Movie
Francie and Joe live the usual playful, fantasy filled childhoods of normal boys. However, with a violent, alcoholic father and a manic depressive, suicidal mother the pressure on Francie to grow up are immense. When Francie's world turns to madness, he tries to counter it with further insanity, with dire consequences.
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Just in Time
Title: Just in Time
Released: January 1, 1998
Type: Movie
Frank is a confident, charming author with a secret mistress in London; a relationship he wants to keep casual. Frank's secret is a burden he bears lightly, but he finds himself increasingly drawn into examining his unworthiness which ultimately horrifies him. Maria, an artist, is his good humoured wife putting a brave face on his neglect. Feeling increasingly emotional and isolated as she approaches middle age, she eventually breaks down admitting her loneliness at Frank's absences. The cathartic point of the film is when Michael, the co-owner of the cottage where they're staying, pays a visit with a woman other than his wife. Not knowing that he has left his wife and has moved in with this other woman, embarrassment and awkwardness increase, straining this social setting. With the illicit couple hot-footing it back to the city, Frank and Maria are left feeling threatened trying to reason the situation, at the midst of which lies Frank's secret.
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The Boxer
Title: The Boxer
Character: Harry
Released: December 31, 1997
Type: Movie
Nineteen-year-old Danny Flynn is imprisoned for his involvement with the I.R.A. in Belfast. He leaves behind his family and his sixteen-year-old girlfriend, Maggie Hamill. Fourteen years later, Danny is released from prison and returns to his old working class neighborhood to resume his life as a boxer.
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The Serpent's Kiss
Title: The Serpent's Kiss
Character: Mr. Galmoy
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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Michael Collins
Title: Michael Collins
Character: Cathal Brugha
Released: October 25, 1996
Type: Movie
Michael Collins plays a crucial role in the establishment of the Irish Free State in the 1920s, but becomes vilified by those hoping to create a completely independent Irish republic.
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Nothing Personal
Title: Nothing Personal
Character: Cecil
Released: October 18, 1996
Type: Movie
A raw depiction of the Belfast 'troubles' as savage tribal warfare. Set shortly after the 1975 cease fire, the film focuses on the tribulations of Kenny, Protestant leader of a group of Shankill Road Loyalists, and his one-time friend Liam, a Catholic.
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Some Mother's Son
Title: Some Mother's Son
Character: Father Daly
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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Runway One
Title: Runway One
Character: Manning
Released: August 28, 1995
Type: Movie
An Irish Garda finds himself involved in a complex smuggling operation.
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An Awfully Big Adventure
Title: An Awfully Big Adventure
Character: George
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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Braveheart
Title: Braveheart
Character: Cheltham
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: Father Ted
Character: Father Todd Unctious
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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The Hanging Gale
Title: The Hanging Gale
Character: Coulter
Released: January 1, 1995
Type: Movie
In this historical miniseries created for BBC Northern Ireland, four brothers struggle to survive during the Irish potato famine of the 1840s while facing persecution from an agent (Michael Kitchen) of their indifferent English landlord. Looking on in horror as their primary food source dwindles, the Phelan brothers (portrayed by real-life siblings Joe, Mark, Paul and Stephen McGann) are torn between nonviolent protest and bloody revolt.
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Words Upon the Window Pane
Title: Words Upon the Window Pane
Character: Abraham Johnson
Released: June 10, 1994
Type: Movie
In 1928 Dublin, during séances concerning Jonathan Swift, the spirits of his former lovers, Stella and Vanessa, emerge to resume their ancient quarrel.
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Widows' Peak
Title: Widows' Peak
Character: Gaffney
Released: May 13, 1994
Type: Movie
Scandal and mystery reign following the arrival of Edwina in a small Irish town populated entirely by widows. Edwina quickly falls out with the locals while also falling in with the son of the community's leader
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In the Name of the Father
Title: In the Name of the Father
Character: Belfast Detective Pavis
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: Shakespeare: The Animated Tales
Character: Iago (voice)
Released: November 9, 1992
Type: TV
An animated adaptation of twelve of Shakespeare's best-known plays. The series was produced by S4C for the BBC, but animated by some of the foremost artists of Soyuzmultfilm, the former Soviet Union's main animation studio. Each 26-minute play is directed by a different animator, in a wide variety of styles: cel animation for Macbeth, stop-motion puppets in Twelfth Night, and paint on glass for Hamlet.
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Who Bombed Birmingham?
Title: Who Bombed Birmingham?
Character: Paddy Mcllkenny
Released: April 22, 1990
Type: Movie
Docudrama film exploring the efforts of World in Action researchers Ian MacBride and Chris Mullin in proving that the "Birmingham Six" only admitted to the bombing under extreme duress, and that the five IRA members were in fact responsible for the deadly attacks
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Title: Act of Betrayal
Character: Brendan
Released: September 18, 1988
Type: TV
An IRA informer and his family are given new identities and new lives in Australia but the IRA are still determined to track them down.
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Taffin
Title: Taffin
Character: Ed
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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The Rockingham Shoot
Title: The Rockingham Shoot
Character: Garda Casey
Released: September 10, 1987
Type: Movie
Rigid nationalist Reilly’s frustration at the last remains of British rule draws him to the Rockingham Shoot, where a violent incident occurs.
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Angel
Title: Angel
Character: Assistant
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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Easter 2016
Title: Easter 2016
Character: John Bingham
Released: May 18, 1982
Type: Movie
Set in 2016 prior to the centennial of the Easter Rising at Northern Ireland's only integrated teacher training college. A struggle develops between the principal and the security director who values security more than education.
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Title: Bergerac
Character: Doctor
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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S.O.S. Titanic
Title: S.O.S. Titanic
Character: Martin Gallagher
Released: February 29, 1980
Type: Movie
The Titanic disaster as seen through the eyes of one couple in each of the three classes on board.
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Withdrawal
Title: Withdrawal
Character: Gerry
Released: December 12, 1973
Type: Movie
Based on the writings of David Chapman and Jimmy Brennan, Withdrawal is about Jimmy, a heroin user in a Dublin psychiatric hospital. His thoughts and observations dominate, his subjective voice-over speculating on the lives of his companions. Jimmy leaves the hospital, returning to the city to reconcile with his loved ones, but his withdrawal leads ultimately to a dead end.