Brian McGrath

Brian McGrath

Born: August 23, 1943
Died: November 10, 2010
in Blackrock, County Dublin, Ireland

Movies for Brian McGrath...

Title: For All Mankind
Character: Sam
Released: November 1, 2019
Type: TV
Explore an aspirational world where NASA and the space program remained a priority and a focal point of our hopes and dreams as told through the lives of NASA astronauts, engineers, and their families.
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Title: Rush Hour
Character: Attendee #2
Released: March 31, 2016
Type: TV
The series follows Detective Carter, a radical LAPD detective, and Detective Lee, a by-the-book detective from Hong Kong, as they are forced into forming an unlikely partnership
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Title: 2 Broke Girls
Character: Fan Boy
Released: September 19, 2011
Type: TV
Comedy about the unlikely friendship that develops between two very different young women who meet waitressing at a diner in trendy Williamsburg, Brooklyn, and form a bond over one day owning their own successful cupcake business. Only one thing stands in their way – they’re broke.
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P.S. I Love You
Title: P.S. I Love You
Character: Martin Kennedy
Released: November 15, 2007
Type: Movie
A young widow discovers that her late husband has left her 10 messages intended to help ease her pain and start a new life.
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Alexander
Title: Alexander
Character: Doctor
Released: November 21, 2004
Type: Movie
Alexander, the King of Macedonia, leads his legions against the giant Persian Empire. After defeating the Persians, he leads his army across the then known world, venturing farther than any westerner had ever gone, all the way to India.
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Evelyn
Title: Evelyn
Character: Hugh Canning
Released: September 30, 2002
Type: Movie
Desmond Doyle is devastated when his wife abandons their family on the day after Christmas. His unemployment, and the fact that there is no woman in the house to care for the children—Evelyn, Dermot and Maurice—make it clear to the authorities this is an untenable situation. The Catholic Church and the Irish courts decide to put the Doyle children into Church-run orphanages.
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Title: No Tears
Character: Dr Hardaker
Released: January 14, 2002
Type: TV
Based on the hepatitis C scandal that rocked Ireland in the mid-1990s. Two very different women discover that they have been infected with hepatitis C by a contaminated anti-D injection years before. Despite the devastating effects on the women and their families, they unite in a campaign group to take on the health authorities and expose the evasions and lies of the political and bureaucratic establishment.
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Falling for a Dancer
Title: Falling for a Dancer
Character: St. John Sullivan
Released: September 13, 1998
Type: Movie
Romantic drama set in rural Ireland of the 1930s. The story begins when 19-year-old Elizabeth has a brief fling with an actor and falls pregnant. Community pressure forces her to marry a dull middle-aged man, but maybe there is hope on the horizon.
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The General
Title: The General
Character: Doctor
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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Her Own Rules
Title: Her Own Rules
Character: Jacob Stratton
Released: January 1, 1998
Type: Movie
Melissa Gilbert stars as Marygold/Meredith. A sad and lonely writer returning to her home town in England for the first time since she was about 6 or 7 years old,after being adopted and raised in America. While there she decides to look for her mother's grave,and finds out her memories are not exactly what she thought they were,her mother is alive. She then sets out to find her mother and some answers and finds both. She also falls in love, of course, but has a problem with long term commitments...
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Bogwoman
Title: Bogwoman
Released: June 13, 1997
Type: Movie
Bogwoman charts the experiences of a woman who moves to the city from Donegal in 1958. Down the years she copes with various personal and familiy pressures against the background of the emerging civil unrest and the redeployment of British troops into the area.
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Kidnapped
Title: Kidnapped
Character: James Stewart of The Glen
Released: November 5, 1995
Type: Movie
When Scottish young gentleman David Balfour's father dies, he leaves school to collect his inheritance from uncle Ebenezer, who in turn sells the boy as a future slave to a pirate ship. When staunch Stuart dynasty supporter Alan Breck Stewart accidentally boards the ship, he takes David along on his escape back to Edinburgh. They part and meet again repeatedly, mutually helpful against the Redcoats and respectful, although David is loyal to the English crown, but learns about its cruel oppression. Both ultimately face their adversaries.
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An Awfully Big Adventure
Title: An Awfully Big Adventure
Character: Vicar
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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After 68
Title: After 68
Released: October 1, 1994
Type: Movie
The story of Frieda, a young girl growing up in strife-torn late 1960's Derry, and her attempts to have a normal adolescence despite the violence which surrounds her.
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Bad Company
Title: Bad Company
Character: Fred Whelan
Released: May 17, 1993
Type: Movie
A dramatization of the circumstances surrounding the murder of Carl Bridgewater and the subsequent trial and imprisonment of four men.
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Hostages
Title: Hostages
Character: Connor
Released: September 23, 1992
Type: Movie
True account of the six men held hostage by religious extremists in Beirut during the Reagan-Bush era.
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Hear My Song
Title: Hear My Song
Character: Barman
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: Robert Barton
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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Title: Minder
Character: Mr. Fairchild
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.
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Title: All Creatures Great and Small
Character: Nick O'Brian
Released: January 8, 1978
Type: TV
All Creatures Great and Small is a British television series, based on the books of the British veterinary surgeon Alf Wight, who wrote under the pseudonym James Herriot. Ninety episodes were aired over two three-year runs. The first run was based directly on Herriot's books; the second was filmed with original scripts.
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Someone at the Top of the Stairs
Title: Someone at the Top of the Stairs
Character: John
Released: May 3, 1974
Type: Movie
A young woman and her friend rent a room in a boarding house. Soon they become aware of the fact that the other "renters" are a very strange lot, and that there are some very odd goings-on in the house that seem to be centered in the attic... Part of the ITV 'Thriller' anthology series.
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Black Beauty
Title: Black Beauty
Character: Mark Beauchamp
Released: April 1, 1971
Type: Movie
Anna Sewell's classic 1877 novel beautifully comes to life in this family drama set in England. Told from the point of view of Black Beauty himself, the story sheds light on the details surrounding the colt's birth and his perception of humans (he has various owners throughout his life). While some owners are compassionate -- none more than Joe Evans (Mark Lester), the boy who first owns the colt.