Donal McCann

Donal McCann

Born: May 7, 1943
Died: July 17, 1999
in Dublin, Ireland
Donal McCann (7 May 1943 – 17 July 1999) was an Irish stage, film, and television actor best known for his roles in the works of Brian Friel and for his lead role in John Huston's last film, The Dead.

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The Nephew
Title: The Nephew
Character: Tony Egan
Released: August 28, 1998
Type: Movie
Twenty years ago, Tony Egan's sister went to America. Nobody ever heard of her again. But now, the message of her death arrives in her town of birth. Only days later, her only son Chad arrives, too. Obviously, his mother took a black husband. Soon, Chad falls for Aislin, who has a bit of a crush on him too. But there is an old conflict going on between her father and Chad's uncle. This conflict resurfaces and begins to draw circles, wider and wider.
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The Serpent's Kiss
Title: The Serpent's Kiss
Character: Physician
Released: May 14, 1997
Type: Movie
A man sends a young architect to build an extravagant garden to bankrupt the husband of the woman he once loved.
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Stealing Beauty
Title: Stealing Beauty
Character: Ian Grayson
Released: March 29, 1996
Type: Movie
Lucy Harmon, an American teenager is arriving in the lush Tuscan countryside to be sculpted by a family friend who lives in a beautiful villa. Lucy visited there four years earlier and exchanged a kiss with an Italian boy with whom she hopes to become reacquainted.
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The Bishop's Story
Title: The Bishop's Story
Character: Priest
Released: January 1, 1994
Type: Movie
During a conversation he has with a young priest, a bishop reveals to him a love story that turned his beliefs upside down.
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Title: Peak Practice
Character: Michael
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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Hedda Gabler
Title: Hedda Gabler
Character: Judge Brack
Released: March 27, 1993
Type: Movie
Hedda Gabler is a beautiful woman married to the solid and respectable academic George Tesman. Then an old flame, the dreamer Eilert Lovborg, turns up on the scene with tragic results
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The Donner Party
Title: The Donner Party
Character: voice
Released: October 28, 1992
Type: Movie
Doomed attempt to get to California in 1846. More than just a riveting tale of death, endurance and survival. The Donner Party's nightmarish journey penetrated to the very heart of the American Dream at a crucial phase of the nation's "manifest destiny." Touching some of the most powerful social, economic and political currents of the time, this extraordinary narrative remains one of the most compelling and enduring episodes to come out of the West.
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Saints and Scholars
Title: Saints and Scholars
Character: Priest
Released: July 15, 1992
Type: Movie
A Catholic priest's fantasies of pomp and supernatural power seem to come true.
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Force of Duty
Title: Force of Duty
Character: DI Simon Gabby
Released: July 8, 1991
Type: Movie
RUC detective Simon Gabby is consumed by guilt after he fails to act decisively in a moment of terror. As the pressure on him builds, Gabby gradually loses control of his life
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The Miracle
Title: The Miracle
Character: Sam
Released: April 5, 1991
Type: Movie
Two teenagers Jimmy and Rose spend their vacation at the small Irish sea-resort Bray. Out of boredom they observe other people and imagine wild stories about them. One day they observe the blonde Renee, and Jimmy is immediately fascinated by her and even follows her home. She, too, seems to like him, but for a mysterious reason keeps him at a distance.
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December Bride
Title: December Bride
Character: Hamilton Echlin
Released: May 17, 1990
Type: Movie
At the beginning of the 20th century, a young servant provokes an independent Irish farm community by her relationship with two brothers. Pregnant, she refuses to reveal the name of the father.
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Who Bombed Birmingham?
Title: Who Bombed Birmingham?
Character: N
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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High Spirits
Title: High Spirits
Character: Eamon
Released: November 18, 1988
Type: Movie
When a hotelier attempts to fill the chronic vacancies at his castle by launching an advertising campaign that falsely portrays the property as haunted, two actual ghosts show up and end up falling for two guests.
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The Dead
Title: The Dead
Character: Gabriel Conroy
Released: September 3, 1987
Type: Movie
After a convivial holiday dinner party, things begin to unravel when a husband and wife address some prickly issues concerning their marriage.
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Budawanny
Title: Budawanny
Character: Priest
Released: March 2, 1987
Type: Movie
During a conversation he has with a young priest, a bishop reveals to him a love story that turned his beliefs upside down. Remade as "The Bishop's Story" in 1994.
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Rawhead Rex
Title: Rawhead Rex
Character: Tom Garron
Released: October 1, 1986
Type: Movie
Ireland will never be the same after Rawhead Rex, a particularly nasty demon, is released from his underground prison by an unwitting farmer. The film follows Rex's cross country rampage, while a man struggles to stop it.
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Out of Africa
Title: Out of Africa
Character: Doctor
Released: December 20, 1985
Type: Movie
Tells the life story of Danish author Karen Blixen, who at the beginning of the 20th century moved to Africa to build a new life for herself. The film is based on her 1937 autobiographical novel.
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Summer Lightning
Title: Summer Lightning
Character: Dr Lestrange
Released: May 30, 1985
Type: Movie
Sir Robert Clarke looks back on his life and the summer when as a 16-year-old he first fell in love with Louise St. Leger.
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Mr. Love
Title: Mr. Love
Character: Leo
Released: January 1, 1985
Type: Movie
An fifty-year-old mild-mannered gardener becomes a lovable legend in his town for his talent to romantically please every woman that fancies him.
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Cal
Title: Cal
Character: Shamie
Released: August 24, 1984
Type: Movie
Cal, a young man on the fringes of the IRA, falls in love with Marcella, a Catholic woman whose husband, a Protestant policeman, was killed one year earlier by the IRA.
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Reflections
Title: Reflections
Character: Edward Lawless
Released: April 1, 1984
Type: Movie
A historian writing a biography of Isaac Newton spends a Summer with a dysfunctional family in Co. Cork, Ireland.
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Angel
Title: Angel
Character: Bonner
Released: September 18, 1982
Type: Movie
Saxophonist Danny witnesses the murder of his band manager and a deaf-mute girl after a gig. Questioned by the police, he remembers only the orthopedic shoes of the killers’ leader. So begins his quest to avenge her.
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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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The Hard Way
Title: The Hard Way
Character: Ryan
Released: February 19, 1980
Type: Movie
John Connor is a soon-to-retire hitman that agrees to take on one last job. After years plying his deadly trade, he has finally had enough. Seeking to retire to Dublin and maybe salvage his dying marriage, Connor wants to leave the lonely world of the marksman behind him and melt into the background. Unfortunately, his handler O'Neal is reluctant to let him go, and, after much coertion, manages to talk him into accepting one final job.
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Katie: The Year of a Child
Title: Katie: The Year of a Child
Character: Big Jim Collins
Released: December 13, 1979
Type: Movie
Katie, the 14-year-old daughter of a travelling family, is left in charge of an ailing mother and her nine brothers and sisters in Dublin whilst her father is in England seeking his fortune.
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Poitín
Title: Poitín
Character: Labhras
Released: February 25, 1978
Type: Movie
A moonshiner in the west of Ireland tries to avoid the Gardaí.
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Your Man from Six Counties
Title: Your Man from Six Counties
Character: Danny
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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Philadelphia, Here I Come
Title: Philadelphia, Here I Come
Character: Public Gar
Released: June 1, 1975
Type: Movie
Friel contrasts Gar's cloistered emotional life with his gregarious social persona by portraying him as two distinct characters, a public self (Donal McCann) and a private self (Des Cave).
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Title: The Venturers
Released: January 7, 1975
Type: TV
The Venturers is a British television series produced by the BBC in 1975. The series, created by Donald Bull, had started out as an edition of Drama Playhouse in 1972 before being commissioned as an ongoing series. The Venturers took place in the high pressure world of Prince's Merchant Bank and dealt with the intricacies of high finance amongst its millionaire clients. Geoffrey Keen starred as director Gerald Lang, in a virtual reprise of his role as oil executive Brian Stead in Mogul / The Troubleshooters. Other major cast members included James Kerry, David Buck, Cyril Luckham and William Squire. The Venturers lasted for a single series of ten episodes.
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The Wood Demon
Title: The Wood Demon
Character: Theodore
Released: November 17, 1974
Type: Movie
A luncheon party gathers to celebrate a wealthy unmarried man's birthday; his sister hopes he'll marry Sonya, the daughter of a selfish gout-ridden old professor who makes life Hell for his son George and his young wife, Helen. At the luncheon is Khrushchov, a passionate environmentalist, called "the Wood Demon" by all, in love with Sonya and she with him, but neither will say it. Two weeks later there's a family meeting at the professor's estate; two weeks after that, a supper at the cabin of Dyadin, who's cheerful to all. George, Helen, Sonya, and Khrushchov are each suffocating. Can any of them take action?
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Screamer
Title: Screamer
Character: Jeff Holt
Released: November 2, 1974
Type: Movie
A young American girl on her way to visit friends in rural England is brutally attacked and raped. After spending the next few months in a mental institution trying to recover from her ordeal, she is released into the care of her friends. The police assure her that they have the man responsible in custody, and she begins to rest easy. That is until she sees her attacker wandering the streets of the town. After planning her revenge she follows the man and kills him. This, she thinks, is the end of her ordeal. That is until the man she thinks she has killed arrives at the house she is staying in.
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Title: The Pallisers
Released: January 19, 1974
Type: TV
This sprawling BBC saga follows an aristocratic family through three generations of power, wealth, intrigue, and scandal in Victorian England. Based on Anthony Trollope’s “political” novels .
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The MacKintosh Man
Title: The MacKintosh Man
Character: 1st Fireman
Released: November 8, 1973
Type: Movie
A member of British Intelligence assumes a fictitious criminal identity and allows himself to be caught, imprisoned, and freed in order to infiltrate a spy organization and expose a traitor; only, someone finds him out and exposes him to the gang...
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Title: Thriller
Character: Jeff Holt
Released: April 14, 1973
Type: TV
Thriller is a British television series, originally broadcast in the UK from 1973 to 1976. It is an anthology series: each episode has a self-contained story and its own cast. As the title suggests, each story is a thriller of some variety, from tales of the supernatural to down-to-earth whodunits.
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Miss Julie
Title: Miss Julie
Character: Jean
Released: January 1, 1972
Type: Movie
A televised Royal Shakespeare Company production of August Strindberg's classic play. Miss Julie, a nineteenth century aristocrat's daughter, is attracted to one of the servants in her father's house.
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Brown Skin Gal, Stay Home and Mind Bay-Bee
Title: Brown Skin Gal, Stay Home and Mind Bay-Bee
Character: Roger
Released: September 7, 1971
Type: Movie
In this sad world where words unspoken do more damage than words spoken too much, a woman and her lodger are destined to stay on separate paths.
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Young Man in Trouble
Title: Young Man in Trouble
Character: Frank
Released: July 6, 1970
Type: Movie
A problem for Frank and Margaret turns out to be a false alarm, or even a blessing in disguise.
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Sinful Davey
Title: Sinful Davey
Character: Sir James Campbell
Released: February 10, 1969
Type: Movie
Davey Haggart is quite certain of his paternity (even if nobody else is) and determined to emulate his father, a notorious rogue and highwayman. This includes breaking a man out of Stirling jail, holding up the stagecoach, and robbing the Duke of Argyll, among other feats. Unfortunately, he is handicapped by the fact that his childhood playmate Annie is equally determined to track him down and save his soul...
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The Fighting Prince of Donegal
Title: The Fighting Prince of Donegal
Character: Sean O'Toole
Released: October 1, 1966
Type: Movie
Ireland 1587. Hugh O'Donnell inherits the title of The O'Donnell, the prince of Donegal, and tries to unite Ireland to make war on England. But then Hugh is kidnapped and imprisoned by the Viceroy of Ireland and held ransom for the Clans' good behavior. Hugh must escape prison and the Viceroy's villainous henchman, Captain Leeds, before he can fight.