Jim Sheridan

Jim Sheridan

Born: February 6, 1949
in Dublin, Ireland
Jim Sheridan (born 6 February 1949) is an Irish film director. A six-time Academy Award nominee, Sheridan is perhaps best known for his films My Left Foot, In the Name of the Father, Get Rich or Die Tryin' and In America.

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The Ghost of Richard Harris
Title: The Ghost of Richard Harris
Character: Self
Released: August 31, 2022
Type: Movie
A candid and revealing insight into the private life and public career of Richard Harris. One of the most remarkable actors of his generation, the documentary explores Harris’s complex and, at times, contradictory character. Each of his three sons — Jared, Jamie and Damian — brings their own perspective to bear as they summon the ghost of their late father to the screen.
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Title: Murder at the Cottage: The Search for Justice for Sophie
Character: Self. Presenter. Storyteller. Filmmaker
Released: June 20, 2021
Type: TV
A five part Sky Original documentary series that will look into the unsolved case of Sophie Toscan du Plantier who was brutally murdered in West Cork in 1996. Using original evidence, never-before-seen footage and interviews with those closest to the case, including Sophie’s family and key suspect Ian Bailey, the series aims to unravel the unsolved case that has haunted West Cork for decades.
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And the Oscar Goes To...
Title: And the Oscar Goes To...
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: February 1, 2014
Type: Movie
The story of the gold-plated statuette that became the film industry's most coveted prize, AND THE OSCAR GOES TO... traces the history of the Academy itself, which began in 1927 when Louis B. Mayer, then head of MGM, led other prominent members of the industry in forming this professional honorary organization. Two years later the Academy began bestowing awards, which were nicknamed "Oscar," and quickly came to represent the pinnacle of cinematic achievement.
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Hannah Cohen's Holy Communion
Title: Hannah Cohen's Holy Communion
Character: Father O'Brien
Released: November 4, 2012
Type: Movie
A spirited 7-year-old, growing up in Dublin in the 1970's, can't wait to make her Catholic Holy Communion. The only problem is - she's a Jew.
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John Ford: Dreaming the Quiet Man
Title: John Ford: Dreaming the Quiet Man
Character: Self
Released: June 15, 2012
Type: Movie
Dreaming the Quiet Man’ includes interviews with aficionados of Ford like, Martin, Scorsese, Peter Bogdanovicz, Jim Sheridan, William Dowling, and Joe McBride. There is mesmeric archive and rare photographs of the making of the film. The main location of the documentary is Ford’s ancestral homeland of Connemara, on the west coat of Ireland, where his parents were born. We meet Ford’s cousins, the Feeney’s who tell the story of Ford’s parent’s departure from Ireland after the Great Famine and the young Ford’s return to Ireland in 1922 to visit his cousins the Thornton’s and saw their house being burned down by the infamous Black and Tans. Ford, under the pretense of scouting locations for a movie, gave money to the IRA. We travel to Portland Maine where Ford grew up and went on to become a director in the first bloom of Hollywood. The boy made it good but Ireland was always on his mind.
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The Bridge of San Luis Rey
Title: The Bridge of San Luis Rey
Character: The King of Spain
Released: December 22, 2004
Type: Movie
The Bridge of San Luis Rey is American author Thornton Wilder's second novel, first published in 1927 to worldwide acclaim. It tells the story of several interrelated people who die in the collapse of an Inca rope-fiber suspension bridge in Peru, and the events that lead up to their being on the bridge. A friar who has witnessed the tragic accident then goes about inquiring into the lives of the victims, seeking some sort of cosmic answer to the question of why each had to die.
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The Carpenter and His Clumsy Wife
Title: The Carpenter and His Clumsy Wife
Character: Narrator (voice)
Released: September 10, 2004
Type: Movie
A carpenter repairs what he believes to be his wife's inadequacies.
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The General
Title: The General
Character: CPAD Leader
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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This Is the Sea
Title: This Is the Sea
Character: Station Master
Released: September 15, 1997
Type: Movie
The film is set in Northern Ireland shortly after 1994 cease-fire. Hazel is a Protestant and Malachy a Catholic. Romance between them is threatened by Rohan (leader in militant underground and pal of Malachy's brother Padhar), who wants Malachy to be recruited and fight for the cause and by Hazel's brother Jef, who spies on her meetings.
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Moll Flanders
Title: Moll Flanders
Character: le prêtre
Released: June 14, 1996
Type: Movie
The daughter of a thief, young Moll is placed in the care of a nunnery after the execution of her mother. However, the actions of an abusive priest lead Moll to rebel as a teenager, escaping to the dangerous streets of London. Further misfortunes drive her to accept a job as a prostitute from the conniving Mrs. Allworthy. It is there that Moll first meets Hibble, who is working as Allworthy's servant but takes a special interest in the young woman's well-being. With his help, she retains hope for the future, ultimately falling in love with an unconventional artist who promises the possibility of romantic happiness.
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Words Upon the Window Pane
Title: Words Upon the Window Pane
Character: Jonathan Swift / Dean Swift
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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Mobile Homes
Title: Mobile Homes
Character: Shea
Released: January 1, 1979
Type: Movie
Shea, a young artist, is fighting for habitants of a trailer parking to have access to essential public commodities.
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Shelter me: Apollo House
Title: Shelter me: Apollo House
Character: self
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
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Re-Creation
Title: Re-Creation
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
In a fictitious trial, twelve members of a jury must decide whether journalist Ian Bailey is guilty of the murder of French filmmaker Sophie Toscan Du Plantier in 1996. Based on real events, the film reconstructs, through the discussions between these twelve people, a case that ultimately invites the viewer to draw their own conclusions.