Tony Doyle

Tony Doyle

Born: January 1, 1942
Died: January 28, 2000
in Ballyfarnon, Co. Roscommon, Ireland
Tony Doyle was an Irish television and film actor best known for his roles in the BBC TV drama series Ballykissangel and Between the Lines.

Movies for Tony Doyle...

Title: Kin
Character: Gary Wright
Released: September 9, 2021
Type: TV
The lives of a Dublin family embroiled in a gangland war and the consequences of their choices.
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Title: Amongst Women
Character: Moran
Released: July 15, 1998
Type: TV
Based on the novel by John McGahern and set in Ireland in the 1950s, the series tells the story of Moran and his children. Especially the girls find it difficult to get away from the influence of their despotic father and start living their own lives.
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I Went Down
Title: I Went Down
Character: Tom French
Released: October 3, 1997
Type: Movie
Fresh out of prison, Git rescues a former best friend (now living with Git's girlfriend) from a beating at the hands of loan sharks. He's now in trouble with the mob boss, Tom French, who sends Git to Cork with another debtor, Bunny Kelly, to find a guy named Frank Grogan, and take him to a man with a friendly face at a shack across a bog. It's a tougher assignment than it seems: Git's a novice, Bunny's prone to rash acts, Frank doesn't want to be found (and once he's found, he has no money), and maybe Tom's planning to murder Frank, which puts Git in a moral dilemma. Then, there's the long-ago disappearance of Sonny Mulligan. What's a decent and stand-up lad to do?
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Title: Ballykissangel
Character: Brian Quigley
Released: February 11, 1996
Type: TV
Ballykissangel is a BBC television drama set in Ireland, produced in-house by BBC Northern Ireland. The original story revolved around a young English Roman Catholic priest as he became part of a rural community. It ran for six series, which were first broadcast on BBC One in the United Kingdom from 1996 to 2001.
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Circle of Friends
Title: Circle of Friends
Character: Dr. Foley
Released: April 7, 1995
Type: Movie
Three girlhood friends now at college share first loves, first kisses and first betrayals. At the center of it all is the best-looking boy on campus. Can a self-conscious dreamer hook the biggest fish in the pond?
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Band of Gold
Title: Band of Gold
Character: George Ferguson
Released: March 12, 1995
Type: Movie
A mother leads a life of prostitution after separating from her abusive boyfriend in order to support her family.
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Title: Band of Gold
Character: George Ferguson
Released: March 12, 1995
Type: TV
Band of Gold is a British drama series written by Kay Mellor and produced by Granada Television. It was originally shown on ITV between 1995 and 1997. Starring Geraldine James, Cathy Tyson, Barbara Dickson and Samantha Morton, the series revolves around the lives of a group of women who live and work in Bradford's red-light district. Three seasons of Band of Gold were produced (the third under the moniker of Gold, with only a small number of characters from the first two series).
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Circle of Deceit
Title: Circle of Deceit
Character: Graham
Released: October 16, 1993
Type: Movie
John is a special forces operative who retires after his family is killed in a terrorist bombing, but his former bosses have other plans. He is re-activated for duty and is given orders to infiltrate the organization responsible for his family's murder.
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Love Lies Bleeding
Title: Love Lies Bleeding
Character: Geordie Wilson
Released: June 14, 1993
Type: Movie
Conn, a member of the IRA and a former hunger striker, is serving a life sentence for murder. During peace talks, he is released on a 24-hour parole and uses the time to search for his girlfriend Leyla’s killer. He finds only lies and intrigue surrounding her death, and he begins to realize that his lover was not what she seemed.
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Title: Peak Practice
Character: Bob Massey
Released: May 10, 1993
Type: TV
Peak Practice is a British drama series about a GP surgery in Cardale — a small fictional town in the Derbyshire Peak District — and the doctors who worked there. It ran on ITV from 10 May 1993 to 30 January 2002 and was one of their most successful series at the time. It originally starred Kevin Whately as Dr Jack Kerruish, Amanda Burton as Dr Beth Glover and Simon Shepherd as Dr Will Preston, though the roster of doctors would change many times over the course of the series. Cardale was based on the Staffordshire village of Longnor for the final series, but was previously based in the Derbyshire village of Crich, although certain scenes were filmed at other nearby Derbyshire towns and villages, most notably Matlock, Belper and Ashover.
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Damage
Title: Damage
Character: Prime Minister
Released: December 2, 1992
Type: Movie
The life of a respected British politician at the height of his career crumbles when he becomes obsessed with his son's lover.
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You, Me & Marley
Title: You, Me & Marley
Character: Police Inspector
Released: September 30, 1992
Type: Movie
A group of bored Roman Catholic teens from Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom steal cars and joyride around the city, causing havoc among the nearby Protestants and local Irish Republican Army members, all of who are outraged by the youths' nihilism. The gang, led by ace thief Sean (Marc O'Shea), is connected with the IRA but couldn't care less about the group's politics. But things turn serious when an IRA member captures one of the boys, Marley (Michael Liebmann), in an effort to end the mayhem.
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Hostages
Title: Hostages
Character: Badraig Murphy
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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Title: Between the Lines
Character: Chief Supt. John Deakin
Released: September 4, 1992
Type: TV
Detective Superintendent Tony Clark is an ambitious member of the Complaints Investigation Bureau, an internal organisation that investigates claims of corruption inside the police in England and Wales. Along the way Clark overcomes strong influence from his superiors and problems in his private life, most notably the break-up of his marriage following an affair with WPC Jenny Dean.
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Title: Maigret
Released: February 9, 1992
Type: TV
Based on the novels by Georges Simenon, Michael Gambon plays the eponymous detective from the Sûreté in this 1992 revival of the 1960s BBC drama series. Maigret is an intuitutive detective, who investigates his cases by watching and listening, getting to know everyone on his list of suspects until someone makes a slip or breaks down and confesses.
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The Treaty
Title: The Treaty
Character: Arthur Griffith
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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Children of the North
Title: Children of the North
Character: John Axton
Released: October 30, 1991
Type: Movie
The murders of two MI6 agents in Northern Ireland add up to an explosive political situation.
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Arise and Go Now
Title: Arise and Go Now
Character: The Chief
Released: September 4, 1991
Type: Movie
Exploding poets, randy bishops and bungling IRA hoodlums are causing havoc in a small town in Northern Ireland. Kevin, an IRA recruit, and Father Dade, the local priest, try to drive some sanity into their world
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Title: Murder in Eden
Character: Tim Roarty
Released: July 19, 1991
Type: TV
Murder in Eden is a British television series directed by Nicholas Renton and featuring Ian Bannen, Peter Firth and Alun Armstrong. It was first aired on the BBC in 1991 in three episodes of 55 minutes. It was set in a remote part of rural County Donegal where a landlord of a pub murders his barmen. He is blackmailed by one of the other inhabitants, while the police are busy hunting for the killer. It was based on the novel Bogmail by Patrick McGinley.
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Secret Friends
Title: Secret Friends
Character: Martin
Released: June 21, 1991
Type: Movie
During a train ride, an anxiety attack leads middle-aged illustrator John into an identity crisis. As his marital problems merge and blur into his fantasy life with prostitutes and call girls, a long-dormant secret friend of his childhood surfaces in his delusions.
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Who Bombed Birmingham?
Title: Who Bombed Birmingham?
Character: Richard Ferguson QC
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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Pride and Extreme Prejudice
Title: Pride and Extreme Prejudice
Character: Hoffman
Released: January 17, 1990
Type: Movie
The CIA and the KGB both pursue a former operative (Dennehy) who seemingly has become unstable.
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Title: Stay Lucky
Released: December 8, 1989
Type: TV
Drama about a small-time gangster Thomas Gynn (Dennis Waterman) from London who discovers a new life up north in Yorkshire. Helping widowed, self-sufficient businesswoman Sally Hardcastle (Jan Francis) when her car breaks down on the motorway, Thomas reluctantly accepts an offer of a lift to Leeds. Over the coming months, the two become involved in a series of misadventures that soon find them being drawn closer together.
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The Nightwatch
Title: The Nightwatch
Character: John Healey
Released: November 19, 1989
Type: Movie
Dark and brooding thriller. A group of mercenaries are assembled in Amsterdam by a British intelligence officer. Believing they are awaiting the details of a new mission, they decide to spend their free time in the sleazy bars and brothels. Over the course of the weekend it gradually becomes clear that all is not what it seems. Unknown to them their paths have all crossed before, and the deceit and violence of the past is about to become their own downfall.
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The Hen House
Title: The Hen House
Character: McCloskey
Released: September 6, 1989
Type: Movie
Lily lives on a remote smallholding in County Donegal. She keeps herself to herself. But a game of hide-and-seek exposes a secret.
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Here Is the News
Title: Here Is the News
Character: Editor
Released: March 5, 1989
Type: Movie
Freelance journalist David Dunhill stumbles onto the biggest story of his career - but his personal eccentricities seem likely to thwart him.
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The Venus de Milo Instead
Title: The Venus de Milo Instead
Character: Courier
Released: September 9, 1987
Type: Movie
A group of children and their teachers from a Protestant school in Northern Ireland go on a trip to Paris.
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Devil's Paradise
Title: Devil's Paradise
Character: Quinn
Released: May 7, 1987
Type: Movie
At the start of the 20th century, a man lives in solitude on an island. One day on the mainland, he saves a young woman from some nasty folk and takes her with him to his island. Her former captors soon find the island as well.
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Samuel Beckett: Silence to Silence
Title: Samuel Beckett: Silence to Silence
Character: narrator
Released: April 15, 1987
Type: Movie
The elusive author of Waiting for Godot cooperated in the production of this portrait, which traces Beckett’s artistic life through his prose, plays, and poetry. Billie Whitelaw, Jack McGowran, and Patrick Magee—Beckett’s great dramatic interpreters—appear in selected extracts from the plays; Beckett specialist David Warrilow narrates a variety of texts.
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Eat the Peach
Title: Eat the Peach
Character: Sean Murtagh
Released: March 14, 1986
Type: Movie
Two young Irish men are watching an old Elvis Presley movie in which a carnival cyclist performs an act called the Wall of Death. Transfixed, they decide to put together their own "Wall of Death."
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Frankie and Johnnie
Title: Frankie and Johnnie
Released: February 2, 1986
Type: Movie
When two teenagers commit suicide the police and the press assume the motive to be some kind of love pact. But Allan Blakeston, a local reporter, has too many unanswered questions. As he digs deeper into the case, he learns why the kids really died and his knowledge puts his own life at risk.
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Title: Boon
Released: January 14, 1986
Type: TV
Boon is a British television drama and modern-day western series starring Michael Elphick, David Daker, and later Neil Morrissey. It was created by Jim Hill and Bill Stair and filmed by Central Television for ITV. It revolved around the life of a modern-day Lone Ranger and ex-firefighter, Ken Boon.
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Moving on the Edge
Title: Moving on the Edge
Character: Hugo
Released: March 6, 1984
Type: Movie
A woman in a state of personal crisis finds it hard to communicate with her husband and family.
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A Woman Calling
Title: A Woman Calling
Character: Professor Broderick
Released: January 1, 1984
Type: Movie
Professor Broderick, a famous professor of Psychology, returns to his house by Belfast Lough to discover a woman waiting for him.
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Macbeth
Title: Macbeth
Character: Macduff
Released: November 5, 1983
Type: Movie
Macbeth and his wife murder Duncan in order to gain his crown, but the bloodbath doesn't stop there, and things supernatural combine to bring the Macbeths down.
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Title: Taggart
Released: September 6, 1983
Type: TV
Taggart is a Scottish detective television programme.The series revolves around a group of detectives initially in the Maryhill CID of Strathclyde Police, though various storylines have happened in other parts of the Greater Glasgow area, and as of the most recent series the team have operated out of the fictional John Street police station across the street from the City Chambers.
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Walter and June
Title: Walter and June
Character: Clive
Released: April 30, 1983
Type: Movie
Sequel to the TV film "Walter". In the United States, the two films have been released together on DVD as a package, called "Loving Walter".
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Soft Targets
Title: Soft Targets
Character: Kirby
Released: October 19, 1982
Type: Movie
Stephen Poliakoff's parody of the spy-thriller genre. A Russian diplomat becomes convinced that he is at the centre of a Foreign Office plot.
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Who Dares Wins
Title: Who Dares Wins
Character: Col. Hadley
Released: August 26, 1982
Type: Movie
When SAS Captain Peter Skellen is thrown out of the service for gross misconduct due to unnecessary violence and bullying, he is soon recruited by The People's Lobby, a fanatical group aiming to hold several US dignitaries hostage. But Skellen's dismissal is a front to enable him to get close to the terrorist group. Can he get close enough to stop the Lobby from creating an international incident?
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Loophole
Title: Loophole
Character: Nolan
Released: June 25, 1981
Type: Movie
When architect Stephen Booker loses his partnership, he finds jobs hard to come by, and with money in short supply, he unwittingly becomes involved in a daring scheme to rob one of London's biggest bank vaults.
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The Sin Bin
Title: The Sin Bin
Character: Eddie Peters
Released: March 17, 1981
Type: Movie
TV play set in an experimental self-rehabilitations unit at a British Prison, where six lifers participate in group therapy.
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Beloved Enemy
Title: Beloved Enemy
Character: Blake
Released: February 10, 1981
Type: Movie
A cool hard study of 'the art of the deal' on a global scale. Sir Peter, the chillingly affable chief exec of big British multi-national UKM, learns that the Soviet Union's chief scientists are in London with government credit to spend. He's keen to flog them a tyre-production plant. based in the Ukraine, which will unshackle UKM from bothersome unions at home. But at the negotiating table, it fast becomes apparent that the Soviets are more interested in the laser technology UKM employs to vulcanise their tyres; and Peter starts to foresee a new future in military aerospace for his ever fiexible firm.
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Murphy's Stroke
Title: Murphy's Stroke
Character: Darrer
Released: May 21, 1980
Type: Movie
The horse Gay Future is at the centre of an Irish betting syndicate in 1974 which saw trainer Antony Collins present a poor performing horse at his stables. The betting stakes were subsequently raised, before the real horse was entered in the race.
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Title: The Enigma Files
Released: April 15, 1980
Type: TV
The Enigma Files is a British television detective drama that ran for one series of fifteen episodes in 1980.
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The Long March
Title: The Long March
Character: Fergus Sloan
Released: January 1, 1980
Type: Movie
A woman returns to Belfast after ten years in England and becomes involved in the Maze prison protest.
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Title: Minder
Character: Irishman
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: The Aphrodite Inheritance
Character: Martin Preece
Released: January 3, 1979
Type: TV
A man visiting Cyprus to investigate the death of his brother is drawn into a strange conspiracy.
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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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Stronger Than the Sun
Title: Stronger Than the Sun
Character: London Journalist
Released: March 11, 1978
Type: Movie
Kate works in the nuclear industry. She is concerned about the way things are being run. So she smuggles out some Plutonium to prove how easy it is. She tries to pass it on to protest groups, but nobody is interested as they have their own agendas.
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Title: 1990
Character: Dave Brett
Released: September 18, 1977
Type: TV
The series is set in a dystopian future in which Britain is under the grip of the Home Office's Department of Public Control (PCD), a tyrannically oppressive bureaucracy riding roughshod over the population's civil liberties. Edward Woodward plays Jim Kyle, a journalist on the last independent newspaper called The Star, who turns renegade and begins to fight the PCD covertly. The officials of the PCD, in turn, try to provide proof of Kyle's subversive activities.
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Your Man from Six Counties
Title: Your Man from Six Counties
Character: Father Nolan
Released: October 26, 1976
Type: Movie
When his father becomes a bomb victim, Jimmy leaves Belfast for his uncle’s farm in remote west Ireland. But even here there are links to the past.
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Title: Rumpole of the Bailey
Released: December 17, 1975
Type: TV
Rumpole of the Bailey is a British television series created and written by the British writer and barrister John Mortimer. It stars Leo McKern as Horace Rumpole, an aging London barrister who defends any and all clients, and has been spun off into a series of short stories, novels, and radio programmes.
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Title: The Legend of Robin Hood
Released: November 23, 1975
Type: TV
The Legend of Robin Hood was a 1975 BBC television serial that told the story of the life of Robin Hood.
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The Dandelion Clock
Title: The Dandelion Clock
Character: Eddie
Released: May 15, 1975
Type: Movie
Belfast: 'On the hike' from school, her day controlled by the unreal time of the dandelion clock, Suzy embarks on an increasingly desperate search for her absent father.
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Title: Crown Court
Character: Martin Thornton
Released: October 11, 1972
Type: TV
Crown Court is an afternoon television courtroom drama produced by Granada Television for the ITV network that ran from 1972, when the Crown Court system replaced Assize courts and Quarter sessions in the legal system of England and Wales, to 1984.
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Title: Crown Court
Released: October 11, 1972
Type: TV
Crown Court is an afternoon television courtroom drama produced by Granada Television for the ITV network that ran from 1972, when the Crown Court system replaced Assize courts and Quarter sessions in the legal system of England and Wales, to 1984.
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Title: Crown Court
Character: Bob Hammond
Released: October 11, 1972
Type: TV
Crown Court is an afternoon television courtroom drama produced by Granada Television for the ITV network that ran from 1972, when the Crown Court system replaced Assize courts and Quarter sessions in the legal system of England and Wales, to 1984.
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Quackser Fortune Has a Cousin in the Bronx
Title: Quackser Fortune Has a Cousin in the Bronx
Character: Mike
Released: June 13, 1970
Type: Movie
In Dublin, a working class family has been unsuccessful in convincing their son to get a real job: the son prefers his job of scooping up horse's dung and selling it for flower gardens. An American exchange student almost runs him over and gets to know him. The dung man has ignored warnings from his family and suddenly the horses have been banned from Dublin. His new love is leaving for America and he must find a way to cope with the new reality.
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Ulysses
Title: Ulysses
Character: Lt Stanley G Gardiner
Released: March 14, 1967
Type: Movie
Dublin; June 16, 1904. Stephen Dedalus, who fancies himself as a poet, embarks on a day of wandering about the city during which he finds friendship and a father figure in Leopold Bloom, a middle-aged Jew. Meanwhile, Bloom's day, illuminated by a funeral and an evening of drinking and revelry that stirs paternal feelings toward Stephen, ends with a rapprochement with Molly, his earthy wife.
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Title: Z-Cars
Character: Patrick Dougan
Released: January 2, 1962
Type: TV
Z-Cars or Z Cars is a British television drama series centred on the work of mobile uniformed police in the fictional town of Newtown, based on Kirkby, Merseyside. Produced by the BBC, it debuted in January 1962 and ran until September 1978.