Cyril Cusack

Cyril Cusack

Born: November 26, 1910
Died: October 7, 1993
in Durban, Natal, South Africa
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Cyril James Cusack (26 November 1910 – 7 October 1993) was an Irish actor, who appeared in more than 90 films.

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The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Winds of Change
Title: The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Winds of Change
Character: Clemenceau
Released: September 20, 2000
Type: Movie
In the nineteenth film in the series, in May 1919, Indy is working as a translator at the historic Paris Peace Conference. He meets up with T.E. Lawrence once more, but finds his ideals have changed a lot since the start of the war. Indy then decides to finally head home to Princeton - even though it means having to face his father. He gets reacquainted with his childhood friend Paul Robeson, who becomes the target of racism when they visit New York City.
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As You Like It
Title: As You Like It
Character: Adam
Released: October 9, 1992
Type: Movie
Hiding out in an industrial wasteland from the murderous wrath of a regional ruler, a woman, disguised as a boy, gives wooing lessons to the edgy lad who proclaims he loves her.
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Far and Away
Title: Far and Away
Character: Danty Duff
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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Memento Mori
Title: Memento Mori
Character: Percy Mannering
Released: April 19, 1992
Type: Movie
Several elderly friends and acquaintances in 1950s London are disturbed to receive mysterious telephone calls predicting their impending deaths...
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The Fool
Title: The Fool
Character: The Ballad Seller
Released: December 7, 1990
Type: Movie
A costume drama / satire about financial skull-duggery, and confidence tricksters in both the upper and lower classes in Victorian London. A working class man impersonates a lord who is supposedly very rich and a financial wizard. As such he is invited to all the best peoples' parties.
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Danny the Champion of the World
Title: Danny the Champion of the World
Character: Doc Spencer
Released: April 29, 1989
Type: Movie
Somewhere in England, in the Autumn of 1955, a widowed father and his son live an idyllic life together. Only their gas station happens to sit on a piece of land that a local developer wants to buy. And when he won't take no for an answer, and sets government inspectors and social works onto Danny and his father, Danny and his father decide to get even with Hazell and his pheasant- shooting friends in a manner in keeping with their own family tradition.
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My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown
Title: My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown
Character: Lord Castlewelland
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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The Tenth Man
Title: The Tenth Man
Character: The Priest
Released: December 4, 1988
Type: Movie
During World War 2 the Germans arrested people at random off the streets of Paris and in retaliation to sabotage by the resistance announced the execution of one in ten prisoners. Chosen as one of the victims, lawyer Chavel trades his place with another man in return for all his possessions. At the end of the war he returns to his house and tries to integrate himself with the family of the man who traded places with him, all the while hiding his true identity. However matters are complicated when a stranger arrives claiming to be Chavel.
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Little Dorrit
Title: Little Dorrit
Character: Frederick Dorrit
Released: December 11, 1987
Type: Movie
A drama based on the novel by Charles Dickens which tells the story of Arthur Clennam who is thrown into a debtor's prison. There he meets a young seamstress whose father has been imprisoned for twenty-five years. A film in originally released in two parts.
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Theban Plays: Oedipus the King
Title: Theban Plays: Oedipus the King
Character: Priest
Released: September 16, 1986
Type: Movie
Plagues are ravaging Thebes, and the blind fortune-teller Tieresias tells Oedipus, the King, that the gods are unhappy. The murder of the former king has gone unavenged, and Oedipus sets out to find the killer.
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Title: The Ray Bradbury Theater
Character: Doctor Jeffers
Released: May 21, 1985
Type: TV
A Canadian-produced fantastic anthology series scripted by famed science-fiction author Ray Bradbury. Many of the teleplays were based upon Bradbury's novels and short stories.
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Nineteen Eighty-Four
Title: Nineteen Eighty-Four
Character: Charrington
Released: November 9, 1984
Type: Movie
George Orwell's novel of a totalitarian future society in which a man whose daily work is rewriting history tries to rebel by falling in love.
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Dr. Fischer of Geneva
Title: Dr. Fischer of Geneva
Character: Steiner
Released: October 8, 1984
Type: Movie
Dr. Fischer has an unusual hobby — to expose human greed. How much humiliation will his fellow man endure enticed by valuable presents? Dignity for money! Death for money?
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Title: Six Centuries of Verse
Character: Himself - Reader
Released: May 2, 1984
Type: TV
Sir John Gielgud is joined by an outstanding repertory of actors in this pioneering, imaginative series demonstrating the immense variety and emotional impact of English-language poetry, from the fourteenth century to the contemporary era.
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Title: Robin of Sherwood
Character: Agrivaine
Released: April 28, 1984
Type: TV
Robin of Sherwood was a British television series, based on the legend of Robin Hood. Created by Richard Carpenter, it was produced by HTV in association with Goldcrest, and ran from 1984 to 1986 on the ITV network. In America it was retitled Robin Hood and shown on the premium cable TV channel Showtime and on PBS. The show starred Michael Praed and Jason Connery as two different incarnations of the title character. Unlike previous adaptations of the Robin Hood legend, Robin of Sherwood combined a gritty, authentic production design with elements of real-life history, 20th century fiction, and pagan myth. The series is also notable for its haunting title music by Clannad, which won a BAFTA award.
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Rainy Day Women
Title: Rainy Day Women
Character: Mr Reed
Released: April 10, 1984
Type: Movie
In 1940, during World War II, an officer is sent to investigate rumours of German spies in a sleepy village where various people are the victims of war hysteria.
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Don Camillo
Title: Don Camillo
Character: vescovo
Released: February 8, 1984
Type: Movie
A priest helps the small town he's stationed in to resolve conflicts by working together.
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The Comedy of Errors
Title: The Comedy of Errors
Character: Aegeon
Released: December 24, 1983
Type: Movie
Aegeon of Syracuse has come to Ephesus to seek his son, who went in search of his missing twin and mother months ago. Too bad that Ephesus has just declared war on Syracuse, and will instantly put to death any Syracusean found within their borders unless a ransome's paid. Meanwhile, the son, Antipholus, and his servant, Dromio (also an identical twin), keep running into strangers who seem to know them...
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Title: Dalgliesh
Character: Mr. Lorrimer
Released: April 8, 1983
Type: TV
Centred on the cases of P. D. James' gentleman detective Adam Dalgliesh. In addition to his career as a policeman, Dalgliesh is also a published poet and an intensely private man.
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The Kingfisher
Title: The Kingfisher
Character: Hawkins
Released: January 1, 1983
Type: Movie
An elderly couple are reunited after fifty years.
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The Ghost Downstairs
Title: The Ghost Downstairs
Character: Mr. Fishbane
Released: December 26, 1982
Type: Movie
British TV-Drama
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The Outcasts
Title: The Outcasts
Character: Myles Keenan
Released: November 12, 1982
Type: Movie
In 1810 Ireland, a man whose wife has died finds that his daughter is accused of being a witch. A magic fiddler comes to her aid.
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The Ballroom of Romance
Title: The Ballroom of Romance
Character: Mr. Dwyer
Released: January 1, 1982
Type: Movie
A lonely farmer's daughter hopes to find love at the village ballroom.
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Lovespell
Title: Lovespell
Character: Gormond of Ireland
Released: December 31, 1981
Type: Movie
Romantic tragedy, the story of Tristan and Isolde.
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Andrina
Title: Andrina
Character: Captain Bill Torvald
Released: November 22, 1981
Type: Movie
Captain Bill Torvald has retired to his quiet home in Orkney after fifty years at sea. When a young woman, Andrina, begins visiting him through the dark winter, he is grateful for her kindness and company. But as she starts to enquire about his past, he worries about the long-held secret he'll have to reveal to her.
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True Confessions
Title: True Confessions
Character: Cardinal Danaher
Released: September 25, 1981
Type: Movie
A cop clashes with his priest brother while investigating the brutal murder of a young prostitute.
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Cry of the Innocent
Title: Cry of the Innocent
Character: Tom Moloney
Released: June 15, 1980
Type: Movie
An American insurance executive, who sees his wife and children die when a plane crashes into their vacation cottage on the Irish coast, uncovers a series of suspicious clues indicating that it was no accident after a pretty financial reporter who resembles his dead wife turns up.
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Title: Strumpet City
Released: March 16, 1980
Type: TV
Strumpet City was a 1980 television miniseries produced by Irish broadcaster RTÉ, based on James Plunkett's 1969 novel Strumpet City. It was RTÉ's most ambitious and expensive production to date. The script was written by Hugh Leonard, and Peter O'Toole played James Larkin, the union leader.
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Title: Tales of the Unexpected
Character: Michael Fish
Released: March 24, 1979
Type: TV
A British television anthology of stories, often with sinister and wryly comedic undertones, and a twist at the end. With early episodes written and presented by Roald Dahl, the series featured a plethora of big name guest stars.
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Title: Tales of the Unexpected
Character: Percy Hampton
Released: March 24, 1979
Type: TV
A British television anthology of stories, often with sinister and wryly comedic undertones, and a twist at the end. With early episodes written and presented by Roald Dahl, the series featured a plethora of big name guest stars.
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Les Misérables
Title: Les Misérables
Character: Fauchlevent
Released: December 27, 1978
Type: Movie
In 19th century France, Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless policeman named Javert. The pursuit consumes both men's lives, and soon Valjean finds himself in the midst of the student revolutions in France.
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Title: BBC Television Shakespeare
Released: December 3, 1978
Type: TV
The BBC Television Shakespeare is a series of British television adaptations of the plays of William Shakespeare, created by Cedric Messina and produced by BBC Television. It was transmitted in the UK from 3 December 1978 to 27 April 1985 and spanned seven series. Development of the series began in 1975 when Messina saw that Glamis Castle would make a perfect location for an adaptation of Shakespeare's play As You Like It. On returning to London, he envisioned an entire series devoted exclusively to the dramatic works of Shakespeare. After encountering numerous problems trying to produce the series, Messina eventually pitched the idea to the BBC’s departmental heads and the series was greenlighted. The series as a whole received generally negative reviews from critics.
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The Man with the Power
Title: The Man with the Power
Character: Adler
Released: November 3, 1978
Type: Movie
Boysie discovers he has 'second sight' but neither his girlfriend Gloria nor his work-mate Brian will accept his 'gift'. He sets out on a spiritual voyage that leads to Adler, a 'sensitive', and finally to the devil himself.
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Poitín
Title: Poitín
Character: Michil
Released: February 25, 1978
Type: Movie
A moonshiner in the west of Ireland tries to avoid the Gardaí.
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Title: Jesus of Nazareth
Character: Yehuda the Rabbi
Released: March 27, 1977
Type: TV
Dramatizes the Birth, Life, Ministry, Crucifixion, and Resurrection of Jesus Christ, largely according to the Holy Bible's New Testament Gospels.
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Fear in the City
Title: Fear in the City
Character: Giacomo Masoni
Released: September 14, 1976
Type: Movie
The film focuses on Murri; the token maverick cop. He is called in after a bunch of criminals pull off a successful prison break and spend the night picking off various informers and people they don't like. Murri investigates; hooking up with one of the criminal's nieces along the way. He uses his own methods; which mostly involve breaking all the rules, and thus comes under a lot of scrutiny from his superiors who don't take too kindly to the cop's way of working.
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Children of Rage
Title: Children of Rage
Character: David's father
Released: May 28, 1975
Type: Movie
The viscous conflict between Israel and the Palestinians is now a generation old. For many of the children of the region, the terrorist war has been going on for their entire lifetimes, killing their family and friends, and overshadowing their lives. They are the Children of Rage
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The Balloon Vendor
Title: The Balloon Vendor
Character: Balloon Vendor
Released: December 21, 1974
Type: Movie
A young boy tries to make living out of a puppet show when his mother abandons him and his father.
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The Abdication
Title: The Abdication
Character: Oxenstierna
Released: October 3, 1974
Type: Movie
Queen Christina of Sweden abdicates and travels to Rome to embrace the Catholic church.
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Juggernaut
Title: Juggernaut
Character: Major O'Neill
Released: September 25, 1974
Type: Movie
A terrorist demands a huge ransom in exchange for information on how to disarm the seven bombs he has planted aboard a trans-Atlantic cruise ship.
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Run, Run, Joe!
Title: Run, Run, Joe!
Character: Parkintosh
Released: April 11, 1974
Type: Movie
When a don who they were suppose to protect ends up dead, his bodyguard and bodyguard's friend must go under cover to escape the wrath of mob.
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Horowitz in Dublin
Title: Horowitz in Dublin
Character: Tom
Released: December 12, 1973
Type: Movie
A New York cop, Dan Horowitz, arrives in Dublin to pay respects to the Irish parents of his young wife who had recently died. He suddenly finds himself called upon by the police to help solve a recent murder case. A character driven comedy-suspense feature entertainment, starring Harvey Lembeck, Sinead Cusack, Al Lettieri, Cesare Danova and Cyril Cusack.
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The Catholics
Title: The Catholics
Character: Father Manus
Released: November 29, 1973
Type: Movie
Set in the near future. As a consequence of an ecumenical movement (Vatican Council IV), the Catholic Church has joined other religions and has eliminated much of the original dogma of Catholicism. A group of Irish monks rebel against this situation and react back to the past: they begin to say Mass in Latin and act according to traditional Catholic dogma. So, Rome decides to send a representative to investigate what is happening
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The Homecoming
Title: The Homecoming
Character: Sam
Released: October 29, 1973
Type: Movie
In a dreary North London flat, the site of perpetual psychological warfare, a philosophy professor visits his family after a nine-year absence and introduces the four men - father, uncle and two brothers - to his wife.
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Title: Orson Welles' Great Mysteries
Character: Mr. White
Released: September 1, 1973
Type: TV
Orson Welles' Great Mysteries was a British television series The series was an anthology of different tales. Each episode was introduced by Orson Welles, who was the only regular actor in the series. In the opening titles, Welles would be shown in silhouette as he walked through a hallway towards the camera, smoking a cigar and outfitted in a broad-brimmed hat and a huge cloak, the outfit itself being a nod to his having provided the voice of The Shadow in the radio program. When he actually appeared on-screen to introduce the episodes, his face would be all that would be shown, in extreme close-up and very low lighting.
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The Day of the Jackal
Title: The Day of the Jackal
Character: Gunsmith
Released: May 16, 1973
Type: Movie
An international assassin known as ‘The Jackal’ is employed by disgruntled French generals to kill President Charles de Gaulle, with a dedicated gendarme on the assassin’s trail.
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The Bloody Hands of the Law
Title: The Bloody Hands of the Law
Character: The Judge
Released: March 11, 1973
Type: Movie
When a crime boss is murdered while in hospital, a young woman sees the killers, but her room mate convinces her not to tell the police, fearing the consequences. Unfortunately the murderers realize that they have been seen, and kill both women. Catching the killers proves difficult as anyone who knows anything dies in unexplained circumstances. It becomes evident that a large and powerful criminal organization is behind the murders, and that they have links within the police force. It is up to Lt. Carmine to see that justice prevails, using any means necessary.
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All the Way Boys
Title: All the Way Boys
Character: Matto
Released: December 22, 1972
Type: Movie
The "Trinity" crew makes another modern era film. Plata and Salud are pilots ditching aircraft for insurance money. They wind up crashing for real in the jungles of South America. The plot involves "Mr. Big", who is buying the diamonds from the miners for much too little, and has thugs who keep the price down. Of course, Plata and Salud side with the miners
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The Italian Connection
Title: The Italian Connection
Character: Corso
Released: September 2, 1972
Type: Movie
When a shipment of heroin disappears between Italy and New York, a small-time pimp in Milan is framed for the theft. Two professional hitmen are dispatched from New York to find him, but the real thieves want to get rid of him before the New York killers get to him to eliminate any chance of them finding out he's the wrong man.
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Title: Shirley's World
Released: April 7, 1972
Type: TV
Shirley's World is a television series aired first by American Broadcasting Company during the U.S. 1971-72 television season. The sitcom was co-produced by the British ITC Entertainment and American producer Sheldon Leonard; it starred Shirley MacLaine as a photojournalist and John Gregson as her editor. Immediately after the ABC broadcasts ended, the seventeen-episode series was aired in its entirety on ITV in the United Kingdom.
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Execution Squad
Title: Execution Squad
Character: Stolfi
Released: February 25, 1972
Type: Movie
Bertone is a moderately honest homicide cop. Unfortunately, the court system is so inept and corrupt that many more-or-less honest policemen have begun taking the law into their own hands. Between his efforts to thwart the growth of crime and to control his vengeful co-workers, homicide-chief Bertone has his hands full
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Title: Clochemerle
Character: Mayor Barthelemy Piechut
Released: February 18, 1972
Type: TV
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Harold and Maude
Title: Harold and Maude
Character: Glaucus
Released: December 20, 1971
Type: Movie
The young Harold lives in his own world of suicide-attempts and funeral visits to avoid the misery of his current family and home environment. Harold meets an 80-year-old woman named Maude who also lives in her own world yet one in which she is having the time of her life. When the two opposites meet they realize that their differences don’t matter and they become best friends and love each other.
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Sacco & Vanzetti
Title: Sacco & Vanzetti
Character: Frederick Katzmann
Released: March 16, 1971
Type: Movie
Boston, 1920. Italian immigrants Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti are charged and unfairly tried for murder on the basis of their anarchist political beliefs.
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King Lear
Title: King Lear
Character: Albany
Released: February 4, 1971
Type: Movie
King Lear, old and tired, divides his kingdom among his daughters, giving great importance to their protestations of love for him. When Cordelia, youngest and most honest, refuses to idly flatter the old man in return for favor, he banishes her and turns for support to his remaining daughters. But Goneril and Regan have no love for him and instead plot to take all his power from him. In a parallel, Lear's loyal courtier Gloucester favors his illegitimate son Edmund after being told lies about his faithful son Edgar. Madness and tragedy befall both ill-starred fathers.
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Tam Lin
Title: Tam Lin
Character: Vicar Julian Ainsley
Released: December 1, 1970
Type: Movie
Based upon the Celtic legend Tam Lin, a young man is bewitched by a beautiful, heartless, aging sorceress to become her lover. When his attention wanders to a lovely girl, he is doomed to ritual sacrifice by the sorceress.
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Title: Play for Today
Released: October 15, 1970
Type: TV
Play for Today is a British television anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC1 from 1970 to 1984. During the run, more than three hundred programmes, featuring original television plays, and adaptations of stage plays and novels, were transmitted. The individual episodes were between fifty and a hundred minutes in duration.
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Brotherly Love
Title: Brotherly Love
Character: Dr. Maitland
Released: January 7, 1970
Type: Movie
Having left her husband, Hilary moves in with her unbalanced brother, Pink, who uses wit and humor to hide his amorous yearnings.
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David Copperfield
Title: David Copperfield
Character: Barkis
Released: December 1, 1969
Type: Movie
A made for TV movie of the Charles Dickens' classic novel, turns Dickens' picaresque tale into an extended flashback, with David Copperfield Robin Phillips as a young man, brooding on a deserted beach, recalling his youth. The characters are all trotted out in choppy flashbacks as David remembers his life as a young orphan, brought to London and passed around from relatives, to guardians, to boarding school.
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Galileo
Title: Galileo
Character: Galileo
Released: September 7, 1968
Type: Movie
A humble scientist from Padua proves that the Earth revolves and that it is not the center of the universe.
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Oedipus the King
Title: Oedipus the King
Character: Messenger
Released: June 1, 1968
Type: Movie
This classic Greek tale tells how a noble youth accidentally marries his own mother, kills his own father and ends up paying a terrible price for invoking the wrath of the Gods.
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Dial M for Murder
Title: Dial M for Murder
Character: Chief Insp. Hubbard
Released: November 15, 1967
Type: Movie
A made-for-television remake of Alfred Hitchcock’s 1954 film.
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The Taming of the Shrew
Title: The Taming of the Shrew
Character: Grumio
Released: March 8, 1967
Type: Movie
Italy, 16th century. Petruchio, a choleric, lying and poor rural landowner from Verona, arrives in Padua in search of fortune and a wife, while Baptista, a wealthy merchant, announces that he will not allow Bianca, his youngest daughter, to marry until the temperamental and unruly Katherina, his eldest daughter, does.
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Fahrenheit 451
Title: Fahrenheit 451
Character: Captain Beatty
Released: September 7, 1966
Type: Movie
In the future, the government maintains control of public opinion by outlawing literature and maintaining a group of enforcers, known as “firemen,” to perform the necessary book burnings. Fireman Montag begins to question the morality of his vocation…
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I Was Happy Here
Title: I Was Happy Here
Character: Hogan
Released: April 1, 1966
Type: Movie
Cass followed the bright lights to London and was quickly disillusioned. She met and married Doctor Langdon, but soon realised she wanted to return to her home by the sea, and to her first love, Colin.
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Where the Spies Are
Title: Where the Spies Are
Character: Rosser
Released: January 26, 1966
Type: Movie
A local doctor is recruited as a cold war spy to fulfill a very important secret mission in the Middle East, only to experience that his mission is complicated by a sexy female double agent.
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The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
Title: The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
Character: Control
Released: December 16, 1965
Type: Movie
British agent Alec Leamas refuses to come in from the Cold War during the 1960s, choosing to face another mission, which may prove to be his final one.
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A Passage to India
Title: A Passage to India
Character: Mr Fielding
Released: November 16, 1965
Type: Movie
The BBC's 1965 adaptation of E.M. Forster's novel, screened as part of their Play of the Month strand, adapted by Santha Ramu Rau and John Maynard, and directed by Waris Hussein.
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Title: BBC Play of the Month
Character: Mr Fielding
Released: October 19, 1965
Type: TV
Play of the Month is a BBC television anthology series featuring productions of classic and contemporary stage plays which were usually broadcast on BBC1. Each production featured a different work, often using prominent British stage actors in the leading roles. The series was transmitted from October 1965 to September 1983; the producer most associated with the Play of the Month was Cedric Messina. Some of the 121 episodes are missing from the archives, having been junked in the 1960s and 1970s. Unless stated otherwise, the indication that the play is "lost" is taken from the lostshows.com website page as of 25 May 2013.
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Title: BBC Play of the Month
Character: Waiter
Released: October 19, 1965
Type: TV
Play of the Month is a BBC television anthology series featuring productions of classic and contemporary stage plays which were usually broadcast on BBC1. Each production featured a different work, often using prominent British stage actors in the leading roles. The series was transmitted from October 1965 to September 1983; the producer most associated with the Play of the Month was Cedric Messina. Some of the 121 episodes are missing from the archives, having been junked in the 1960s and 1970s. Unless stated otherwise, the indication that the play is "lost" is taken from the lostshows.com website page as of 25 May 2013.
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Deirdre
Title: Deirdre
Released: January 1, 1965
Type: Movie
The ancient story of the ill-fated Deirdre and the Sons of Usnach. Building on the many earlier literary retellings of the story, W. B. Yeats deliberately frames his 1906 play as an extension of the legend, writing a new death-tale for Deirdre that is also a personal statement about love, death, and the making of art. Goodreads
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Title: Festival
Character: Krapp
Released: October 9, 1963
Type: TV
An anthology of single plays offering up adaptations of either of prominent stage plays or novels.
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80,000 Suspects
Title: 80,000 Suspects
Character: Father Maguire
Released: August 15, 1963
Type: Movie
A doctor's already-shaky marriage is tested to an even greater extent when he has to contend with a smallpox epidemic.
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The Power and the Glory
Title: The Power and the Glory
Character: Tench
Released: May 31, 1963
Type: Movie
Based on Graham Greene's novel about a flawed but devoted priest in 1930s Mexico who attempts to perform his duties while eluding a police lieutenant determined to capture him.
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I Thank a Fool
Title: I Thank a Fool
Character: Captain Ferris
Released: September 14, 1962
Type: Movie
After mercifully killing her terminally ill lover, Dr. Christine Allison loses her medical license and spends two years in prison. Once she has completed her sentence, the lawyer who prosecuted Christine, Stephen Dane, hires her to care for his emotionally unstable wife, Liane. Christine takes the job, but when Liane's allegedly dead father reappears, Christine sets out to reveal the family's dark secrets.
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Waltz of the Toreadors
Title: Waltz of the Toreadors
Character: Dr. Grogan
Released: April 12, 1962
Type: Movie
General Fitzhugh, an ageing Lothario has an over-active eye for a pretty woman. Despite a long and satisfying career as a seducer extraordinaire, something always seems to get in the way of his bedding the breathtakingly lovely Ghislaine, a more-than-willing town local.
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Johnny Nobody
Title: Johnny Nobody
Character: Prosecuting Counsel O'Brien
Released: October 1, 1961
Type: Movie
When the atheistic ranting of Irish-American author James Mulcahy upsets the inhabitants of the Irish village to which he has retired, a mob threatens him. But moments after he has dared God to strike him dead, a stranger appears and does so. The man, dubbed "Johnny Nobody" by the press, claims no knowledge of Mulcahy or even of himself. He asks the help of the village priest, Father Carey, in his upcoming trial for Mulcahy's murder. While the amnesiac Johnny goes to trial, Father Carey mulls questions of belief raised by the case. And then, the good father learns a little more about Johnny Nobody...
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Once Upon a Tram
Title: Once Upon a Tram
Character: Self - Narrator (voice)
Released: November 9, 1960
Type: Movie
Take a nostalgic trip along the beautiful Dublin coast, escaping the hustle and bustle of the city while enjoying the clatter and clang of the old Howth tram. This film records one of the last journeys of the Howth Tram, as it passes through the village, past the golf club, and along the coast – a most elegant form of transport from a bygone era.
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A Terrible Beauty
Title: A Terrible Beauty
Character: Jimmy Hannafin
Released: June 17, 1960
Type: Movie
In 1941, the IRA plans a campaign to coincide with the planned German invasion of England. Dermott O'Neil finds it easy to get into the IRA, but can he get out?
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The Moon and Sixpence
Title: The Moon and Sixpence
Character: Dr. Coutras
Released: October 30, 1959
Type: Movie
A staid, dull Englishman abruptly deserts his wife and children to become a painter in the South Seas.
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Shake Hands with the Devil
Title: Shake Hands with the Devil
Character: Chris Noonan
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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Floods of Fear
Title: Floods of Fear
Character: Peebles
Released: November 18, 1958
Type: Movie
A man framed for murder escapes from prison during a flood and helps a young woman in distress.
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Gideon's Day
Title: Gideon's Day
Character: Herbert 'Birdie' Sparrow
Released: March 25, 1958
Type: Movie
Scotland Yard Inspector George Gideon starts his day off on the wrong foot when he gets a traffic-violation ticket from a young police officer. From there, his 'typical day" consists in learning that one of his most-trusted detectives has accepted bribes; hunts an escaped maniac who has murdered a girl; tracks a young girl suspected of involvement in a payroll robbery and then helps break up a bank robbery.
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The Rising of the Moon
Title: The Rising of the Moon
Character: Inspector Michael Dillon (segment 'The Majesty of the Law')
Released: August 10, 1957
Type: Movie
Three vignettes of old Irish country life, based on a series of short stories. In "The Majesty of the Law," a police officer must arrest an old-fashioned, traditional fellow for assault. The man's principles have the policeman and the whole village, including the man he slugged, sympathizing with him. "One Minute's Wait" is about a little train station and glimpses into the lives of the passengers, with a series of comic setups. The third piece, "1921," is about a condemned Irish nationalist and his daring escape.
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Miracle in Soho
Title: Miracle in Soho
Character: Sam Bishop
Released: July 9, 1957
Type: Movie
In London's colourful but seedy Soho, Michael Morgan is working mending the road. He is unhappy, with little hope of finding happiness. Then he meets Julia Gozzi, a barmaid, and "The Miracle" happens.
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Ill Met by Moonlight
Title: Ill Met by Moonlight
Character: Captain Sandy Rendel
Released: January 31, 1957
Type: Movie
Led by British officers, partisans on Crete plan to kidnap the island's German commander and smuggle him to Cairo to embarrass the occupiers.
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The Spanish Gardener
Title: The Spanish Gardener
Character: Garcia
Released: December 25, 1956
Type: Movie
Harrington Brande, a British diplomat who recently broke up with his wife, is stationed in a small coastal town in Spain with his son, Nicholas. Harrington is unreasonably possessive of Nicholas and becomes jealous when he begins to form a close friendship with Jose, their gentle gardener.
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Jacqueline
Title: Jacqueline
Character: John Flannagan
Released: June 4, 1956
Type: Movie
Jacqueline is the daughter of Belfast shipyard worker Mike McNeil. The worker's worth is compromised by his crippling fear of heights. Dismissed from his job, he finds solace in the bottle. All seems hopeless until Jacqueline breaks through her father's self-imposed gloom and helps him to regenerate. An adaptation of the novel 'A Grand Man', by Catherine Cookson.
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The Man Who Never Was
Title: The Man Who Never Was
Character: Taxi Driver
Released: April 3, 1956
Type: Movie
The true story of a British effort to trick the Germans into weakening Sicily's defenses before the 1943 attack. A dead soldier is dressed as a British officer and outfitted with faked papers showing that the Allies were intending to invade occupied Greece. His body is put into the sea where it will ultimately drift ashore and the papers be passed along to German Intelligence.
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The Man in the Road
Title: The Man in the Road
Character: Dr. Kelly
Released: March 1, 1956
Type: Movie
A brilliant scientist who has lost his memory is hunted by Communist agents out to obtain a secret formula.
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The March Hare
Title: The March Hare
Character: Lazy Mangan
Released: January 1, 1956
Type: Movie
Sir Charles Hare, a young Irish baronet, gambles his all on one of his horses at Ascot. But the horse is 'pulled', and Sir Charles is forced to sell his Irish estate. His aunt, however, has some surprises in store for him.
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Passage Home
Title: Passage Home
Character: Bohannon der Steward
Released: March 17, 1955
Type: Movie
Set in 1931, the film takes place aboard a merchant ship, briefly harboured in South America. A young woman (Diane Cilento) boards the ship as a passenger, resulting in disharmony among the superstitious crew members. Virtuous seaman Anthony Steel protects the girl from the lecherous advances of captain Peter Finch.
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Saadia
Title: Saadia
Character: Khadir
Released: December 1, 1953
Type: Movie
Saadia is a wild, strange Arab girl whose life has been dominated by a local sorceress, a vengeful outcast in the community, who has convinced her she has the "evil eye" and brings disaster to all who love her. French doctor Henrik takes her to his clinic, for rehabilitation purposes, and falls in love with her as does his friend, Si Lahssen, the reigning prince of this small Moroccan state. When a plague falls on the town, Saadia is convinced she is responsible, and rides alone into the mountain country to retrieve the plague serum being held for ransom by bandits. The love triangle dominates most of the rest of the film.
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Title: Hallmark Hall of Fame
Character: Mr. Reece
Released: December 24, 1951
Type: TV
Hallmark Hall of Fame is an anthology program on American television, sponsored by Hallmark Cards, a Kansas City based greeting card company. The longest-running primetime series in the history of television, it has a historically long run, beginning during 1951 and continuing into 2013. From 1954 onward, all of its productions have been shown in color, although color television video productions were extremely rare in 1954. Many television movies have been shown on the program since its debut, though the program began with live telecasts of dramas and then changed to videotaped productions before finally changing to filmed ones. The series has received eighty Emmy Awards, twenty-four Christopher Awards, eleven Peabody Awards, nine Golden Globes, and four Humanitas Prizes. Once a common practice in American television, it is the last remaining television program such that the title includes the name of the sponsor. Unlike other long-running TV series still on the air, it differs in that it broadcasts only occasionally and not on a weekly broadcast programming schedule.
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Title: Hallmark Hall of Fame
Character: Priest
Released: December 24, 1951
Type: TV
Hallmark Hall of Fame is an anthology program on American television, sponsored by Hallmark Cards, a Kansas City based greeting card company. The longest-running primetime series in the history of television, it has a historically long run, beginning during 1951 and continuing into 2013. From 1954 onward, all of its productions have been shown in color, although color television video productions were extremely rare in 1954. Many television movies have been shown on the program since its debut, though the program began with live telecasts of dramas and then changed to videotaped productions before finally changing to filmed ones. The series has received eighty Emmy Awards, twenty-four Christopher Awards, eleven Peabody Awards, nine Golden Globes, and four Humanitas Prizes. Once a common practice in American television, it is the last remaining television program such that the title includes the name of the sponsor. Unlike other long-running TV series still on the air, it differs in that it broadcasts only occasionally and not on a weekly broadcast programming schedule.
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The Blue Veil
Title: The Blue Veil
Character: Frank Hutchins
Released: October 26, 1951
Type: Movie
A World War I widow loses her only child and spends the rest of her life as a children's nurse.
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The Secret of Convict Lake
Title: The Secret of Convict Lake
Character: Edward "Limey" Cockerell
Released: July 29, 1951
Type: Movie
After a group of convicts escapes from prison, they take refuge in the wilderness. While most of the crew are ruthless sociopaths, Jim Canfield is an innocent man who was jailed under false pretenses. When Canfield and his fellow fugitives reach an isolated farming settlement where the men are all away, it creates tension with the local women. Things get direr when rumors of hidden money arise, and Canfield discovers that the man who framed him is part of the community.
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Soldiers Three
Title: Soldiers Three
Character: Pvt. Dennis Malloy
Released: April 1, 1951
Type: Movie
Kiplingesque tale of British forces in 19th-century India.
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The Elusive Pimpernel
Title: The Elusive Pimpernel
Character: Chauvelin
Released: November 7, 1950
Type: Movie
A British aristocrat goes in disguise to France to rescue people from The Terror of the guillotine.
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Gone to Earth
Title: Gone to Earth
Character: Edward Marston
Released: November 6, 1950
Type: Movie
Jennifer Jones plays Hazel Woods, a beautiful young English Gypsey girl who loves animals and in particular her pet fox. She is hotly desired by Jack Reddin a fox hunting squire who vies for her affection and pursues her even after her marriage to the local pastor.
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W. B. Yeats: A Tribute
Title: W. B. Yeats: A Tribute
Released: August 13, 1950
Type: Movie
Yeats poems set to visuals of Sligo, Dublin and London. One of the series of non-fction films produced by the National Film Institute.
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All Over the Town
Title: All Over the Town
Character: Gerald Vane
Released: April 25, 1949
Type: Movie
Newspaper reporter Nat Hearn returns home after serving in the Royal Air Force during World War II. When one of the paper's owners dies, the man's partner and son offers Nat a position as editor in return for his financial backing. But Nat's reluctance to shy away from controversial issues raises more than a few eyebrows.
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The Blue Lagoon
Title: The Blue Lagoon
Character: James Carter
Released: March 1, 1949
Type: Movie
In the Victorian period, two British children survive a shipwreck in the South Pacific. After days afloat, they are marooned on a lush tropical island in the company of kindly old sailor. Together they survive solely on their resourcefulness and the bounty of their remote paradise.
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The Small Back Room
Title: The Small Back Room
Character: Cpl. Taylor
Released: February 21, 1949
Type: Movie
At the height of World War II, the Germans begin dropping a new type of booby-trapped bomb on England. Sammy Rice, a highly-skilled but haunted bomb-disposal officer, must overcome his personal demons to defeat this new threat.
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Once a Jolly Swagman
Title: Once a Jolly Swagman
Character: Duggie
Released: February 2, 1949
Type: Movie
A factory worke quits his job to become a motorcycle racer.
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Esther Waters
Title: Esther Waters
Character: Fred
Released: September 28, 1948
Type: Movie
Esther goes into service in Victorian England, only to be seduced by the sweet talking groom William, who then takes off with his employer's daughter. Left alone to bring up the child, Esther manages and after 7 years has a chance at happiness. Then William turns up again...
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Escape
Title: Escape
Character: Rodgers
Released: March 1, 1948
Type: Movie
A convict sentenced to three years for killing a detective escapes from a prison and goes on the run aided by a local girl.
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Odd Man Out
Title: Odd Man Out
Character: Pat
Released: January 30, 1947
Type: Movie
Belfast police conduct a door-to-door manhunt for an IRA gunman wounded in a daring robbery.
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Once a Crook
Title: Once a Crook
Character: Bill Hopkins
Released: August 23, 1941
Type: Movie
Once a Crook is a 1941 British crime film directed by Herbert Mason and featuring Gordon Harker, Sydney Howard, Bernard Lee, Kathleen Harrison, and Raymond Huntley.
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Inspector Hornleigh Goes to It
Title: Inspector Hornleigh Goes to It
Character: Postal Sorter
Released: May 17, 1941
Type: Movie
Third and final film in the 'Inspector Hornleigh’ series of comedy-thrillers. Inspector Hornleigh (Gordon Harker), disappointed at not being handed an important spy case, is assigned by Scotland Yard to an army barracks to investigate the mundane thefts of supplies from the stores. This accidentally leads Hornleigh and Sergeant Bingham (Alastair Sim) to a nest of fifth columnists when his dim-witted assistant carelessly talks to a girl in the cafeteria – and that night, news of Hornleigh and Bingham’s arrival is embarrassingly transmitted back to Germany.
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Guests of The Nation
Title: Guests of The Nation
Character: IRA member
Released: January 1, 1935
Type: Movie
During the Irish War of Independence in 1921, a pair of IRA soldiers are ordered to guard two British prisoners, but face a dilemma when they bond with their captives.
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Knocknagow
Title: Knocknagow
Character: Brian's child
Released: January 30, 1918
Type: Movie
The agent of an absentee landlord resorts to underhand means in order to evict tenants from land that could be more profitably used for cattle. Adapted from the 1879 novel of the same name.