Joan O'Hara

Joan O'Hara

Born: October 11, 1930
Died: July 23, 2007
in Dublin, Ireland

Movies for Joan O'Hara...

How About You...
Title: How About You...
Character: Alice Peterson
Released: November 16, 2007
Type: Movie
A young woman, struggling with the direction of her life, spends Christmas watching over a retirement home filled with demanding residents.
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Footfalls
Title: Footfalls
Character: Voice
Released: April 24, 2000
Type: Movie
May, wrapped in tatters, paces back and forth engaging in conversation with the disembodied voice of her mother. In the second scene, May's voice becomes subsumed into her mother's. She paces ever more slowly as the play progresses, and the light dims so that by the fourth and final scene there is no trace of her
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Her Own Rules
Title: Her Own Rules
Character: Mabel Carter
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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A Man of No Importance
Title: A Man of No Importance
Character: Mrs Crowe
Released: December 24, 1994
Type: Movie
Alfie Byrne is a middle-aged bus conductor in Dublin in 1963. He would appear to live a life of quiet desperation: he's gay, but firmly closeted, and his sister is always trying to find him "the right girl". His passion is Oscar Wilde, his hobby is putting on amateur theatre productions in the local church hall. We follow him as he struggles with temptation, friendship, disapproval, and the conservative yet oddly lyrical world of Ireland in the early 1960s.
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Far and Away
Title: Far and Away
Character: Lady
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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Fatal Inheritance
Title: Fatal Inheritance
Character: Mrs. Gibney
Released: October 1, 1991
Type: Movie
Jack Carnegie is an American 'heir-hunter', whose job it is to trace unknown family members who should rightly inherit unassigned fortunes. He arrives in Ireland to find the sole heir to a fortune.
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Journey to Knock
Title: Journey to Knock
Character: Dr. Reynolds
Released: September 17, 1991
Type: Movie
Journey to Knock humourously follows three disabled men on their pilgrimage from the North of England to Knock shrine in Co. Mayo.
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The Dawning
Title: The Dawning
Character: Maurya
Released: June 8, 1988
Type: Movie
An IRA gunman on the run from the government meets an idealistic young woman and attempts to win her support for his cause.
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Langrishe, Go Down
Title: Langrishe, Go Down
Character: Mrs. Langrishe
Released: September 20, 1978
Type: Movie
In the late 1930s, three reclusive middle-aged spinster sisters live on their run down family estate in Ireland. Otto Beck, a perpetual graduate student from Bavaria with a habit of making pompous declamations, rents the back lodge to work on his esoteric thesis. Imogen Langrishe, the least repressed of the sisters, begins an affair with Otto. Imogen takes the love affair seriously, but Otto just enjoys the cheap lodging and the comfort of Imogen.
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Home Is the Hero
Title: Home Is the Hero
Character: Josie O'Reilly
Released: March 3, 1959
Type: Movie
This well-acted drama about an Irishman just released from jail is filled with rich characterization. The story is adapted from a stage play by Walter Macken who also plays the role of the ex-convict Paddo in this screen version. Direction is by J. Fielder Cook. Once Paddo returns home after being sentenced to five years for killing a man, his old friends try to put him back in their niche of local hero but Paddo will have none of it. He is disillusioned and changed. His son Willie (Arthur Kennedy) walks with a limp that keeps him too self-conscious to assert himself as he would like with the young woman of his dreams. While other people come in and out of Paddo's life, from his taciturn friend the trapper to the local tinker, it is Paddo's son Willie suffering from his own disability who makes the difference in his father's life.
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She Didn't Say No!
Title: She Didn't Say No!
Character: Mrs. Bates
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.