P.H. Moriarty

P.H. Moriarty

Born: January 27, 1939
in Deptford, London, UK
P.H. Moriarty is a British actor best known for playing hard men and gangsters. He began acting late in life, having worked for many years in several professions including a boxer and a longshoresman. It was whilst working in the latter role that his film career started; a production company, shooting on the docks spotted him one day and asked him to act in their film. Moriarty's film credits include Guy Ritchie's feature film debut Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, The Long Good Friday, Jaws 3-D and the Western-inspired sci-fi film Outland (1981). He also has starred in various British television programmes and TV movies.

Movies for P.H. Moriarty...

Rise of the Footsoldier: Origins
Title: Rise of the Footsoldier: Origins
Character: Ian Jarvis
Released: September 3, 2021
Type: Movie
A brutal account of how real-life, hard-as-nails Falklands War veteran Tony Tucker came to be involved in one of the most notorious gangland murders in British history.
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Evil Never Dies
Title: Evil Never Dies
Released: January 13, 2014
Type: Movie
Ex-gangster Harry Payne confronts his violent past and vengeance from beyond the grave.
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The Riddle
Title: The Riddle
Character: D.I. Willis / Constable Frederick (as P H Moriarty)
Released: October 14, 2007
Type: Movie
A journalist investigates a series of murders that follows the discovery of an unpublished novel by Charles Dickens in the cellar of an old Thames pub.
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Manilla Envelopes
Title: Manilla Envelopes
Released: January 1, 2006
Type: Movie
Also known as The Battersea Ripper, this is a comic crime thriller set in London concerning a young girl's kidnapping and the hapless police and reporters trying to get to the truth. It has never been released to DVD and has only ever had a limited theatrical screening in 2006.
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Submerged
Title: Submerged
Character: Chief
Released: May 6, 2005
Type: Movie
Chris Kody, imprisoned member of the US military, is released from prison and reunited with his old team in order to pursue a renegade scientist. The catch, the scientist has developed mind control technology that can make even your friends into heartless killers.
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Title: Frank Herbert's Children of Dune
Character: Gurney Halleck
Released: March 16, 2003
Type: TV
Frank Herbert's Children of Dune is a three-part miniseries written by John Harrison and directed by Greg Yaitanes, based on Frank Herbert's novels Dune Messiah and Children of Dune. First broadcast in the United States on March 16, 2003, Children of Dune is the sequel to the 2000 miniseries Frank Herbert's Dune and produced by the Sci Fi Channel. As of 2004, this miniseries and its predecessor were two of the three highest-rated programs ever to be broadcast on the Sci-Fi Channel.
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Title: Judge John Deed
Released: November 26, 2001
Type: TV
Judge John Deed is a British legal drama television series produced by the BBC in association with One-Eyed Dog for BBC One. It was created by G.F. Newman and stars Martin Shaw as Sir John Deed, a High Court judge who tries to seek real justice in the cases before him. It also stars Jenny Seagrove as the barrister Jo Mills, frequently the object of Deed's desire. A pilot episode was broadcast on 9 January 2001, followed by the first full series on 26 November 2001. The sixth and last series concluded on 18 January 2007. The programme then went on an indefinite break after Shaw became involved in another television programme, and he and Seagrove expressed a wish for the format of the series to change before they filmed new episodes. By 2009, the series had officially been cancelled. The six series produced make it the longest-running BBC legal drama. The factual accuracy of the series is often criticised by legal professionals and journalists; many of the decisions taken by Deed are unlikely to happen in a real court. The romanticised vision of the court system created by Newman caused a judge to issue a warning to a jury not to let the series influence their view of trials—referring to an episode where Deed flouts rules when called up for jury duty. Another episode led to complaints about biased and incorrect information about the MMR vaccine, leading the BBC to ban repeats of it in its original form. All six series have been released on DVD in the UK.
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Title: Frank Herbert's Dune
Character: Gurney Halleck
Released: December 3, 2000
Type: TV
Frank Herbert's Dune is a three-part miniseries written and directed by John Harrison and based on Frank Herbert's 1965 novel Dune.
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Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
Title: Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
Character: 'Hatchet' Harry Lonsdale
Released: August 28, 1998
Type: Movie
A card shark and his unwillingly-enlisted friends need to make a lot of cash quick after losing a sketchy poker match. To do this they decide to pull a heist on a small-time gang who happen to be operating out of the flat next door.
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Chaplin
Title: Chaplin
Character: Workhouse Official
Released: December 17, 1992
Type: Movie
An aged Charlie Chaplin narrates his life to his autobiography's editor, including his rise to wealth and comedic fame from poverty, his turbulent personal life and his run-ins with the FBI.
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Patriot Games
Title: Patriot Games
Character: Court Guard
Released: June 4, 1992
Type: Movie
When CIA Analyst Jack Ryan interferes with an IRA assassination, a renegade faction targets Jack and his family as revenge.
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Dear Sarah
Title: Dear Sarah
Character: Warder Deans
Released: February 7, 1990
Type: Movie
Giuseppe Conlon and his son Gerry are convicted of an IRA bombing as part of the Maguire Seven in 1976. Giuseppe diligently writes his wife Sarah as she works to free her family members from prison.
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The Accountant
Title: The Accountant
Character: Anthony James May
Released: September 24, 1989
Type: Movie
London middle class Jewish accountant Lionel is preparing for his son's bar mitzvah when he does a little favour for a friend, and ends up getting mixed up with the Mafia.
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Title: The Paradise Club
Character: Evil Jim Dalton
Released: September 19, 1989
Type: TV
The Paradise Club is a BBC television drama starring Don Henderson and Leslie Grantham as Frank & Danny Kane. Two series were produced and were broadcast between 1989 and 1990. The show focuses upon two brothers, Frank & Danny Kane. Their mother, Ma Kane, is the matriarch of a criminal gang in South London, helped by her son Danny. Frank has become a priest but leaves the church; he inherits The Paradise Club on the death of their mother and returns to London to try and steer Danny away from crime.
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Number One
Title: Number One
Character: Mike the Throat
Released: March 1, 1985
Type: Movie
A down on his luck Irishman in London decides to play snooker for money.
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Title: The Bill
Released: October 16, 1984
Type: TV
The daily lives of the men and women at Sun Hill Police Station as they fight crime on the streets of London. From bomb threats to armed robbery and drug raids to the routine demands of policing this ground-breaking series focuses as much on crime as it does on the personal lives of its characters.
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Slayground
Title: Slayground
Character: Seeley
Released: December 1, 1983
Type: Movie
Stone (Peter Coyote) hits an armored truck without his usual driver. The ensuing getaway leads to the death of an innocent. The payback is swift and brutal. The wronged father hires a twisted, sociopathic assassin to avenge his loss. One by one the offenders are punished through grisly executions. Stone uses his wits to find a reclusive friend Terry (Mel Smith) just in time for a psychedelic funhouse showdown with his stalker.
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Title: The Nation's Health
Character: Chris Hogan
Released: October 6, 1983
Type: TV
The Nation's Health is a 4 episode series written by G.F.Newman based on his book of the same name, originally broadcast on the fledgling Channel 4 UK TV channel in 1983. The series consists of four episodes that are, in order, titled: Acute, Decline, Chronic, and Collapse. In it we are faced with a maelstrom of political issues, illnesses, fatalities, personal greed and professional vanities. As may be clear from these titles, the series draws a relentlessly bleak view of the NHS in 1980s Britain. The protagonist of the series is a newly-qualified doctor, Jessie Marvill (Vivienne Ritchie). The series follows Jessie through four different sectors of the NHS, although the episodes are not focused entirely through Jessie: the NHS is seen from a variety of different perspectives, from doctors and patients to administrators and kitchen staff.
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Jaws 3-D
Title: Jaws 3-D
Character: Jack Tate
Released: July 22, 1983
Type: Movie
This third film in the series follows a group of marine biologists attempting to capture a young great white shark that has wandered into Florida's Sea World Park. However, later it is discovered that the shark's 35-foot mother is also a guest at Sea World. What follows is the shark wreaking havoc on the visitors in the park.
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The Making of Jaws 3-D: Sharks Don't Die
Title: The Making of Jaws 3-D: Sharks Don't Die
Released: July 15, 1983
Type: Movie
Academy Award winner Lou Gossett Jr. takes you underwater on the trail of the great white shark and behind the scenes on the production of Jaws 3-D.
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Outland
Title: Outland
Character: Hitman #1
Released: May 22, 1981
Type: Movie
An honest marshal in a corrupt mining colony on Io, Jupiter's sunless third moon, is determined to confront a violent drug ring even though it may cost him his life. After his wife angrily deserts him, he waits alone for the arrival of killers hired by the company to eliminate him.
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Title: The Chinese Detective
Released: April 30, 1981
Type: TV
Chinese British Detective Sergeant John Ho solves cases in the East End of London. Ho fits the pattern of the maverick detective, prepared to use unorthodox methods to solve his cases, which emerged in series like Z Cars and The Sweeney.
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The Long Good Friday
Title: The Long Good Friday
Character: Razors
Released: November 1, 1980
Type: Movie
In the late 1970s, Cockney crime boss Harold Shand, a gangster trying to become a legitimate property mogul, has big plans to get the American Mafia to bankroll his transformation of a derelict area of London into the possible venue for a future Olympic Games. However, a series of bombings targets his empire on the very weekend the Americans are in town. Shand is convinced there is a traitor in his organization, and sets out to eliminate the rat in typically ruthless fashion.
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Bloody Kids
Title: Bloody Kids
Character: Police 1
Released: March 22, 1980
Type: Movie
The slender premise springs from the actions of two listless 11-year-old boys, the cold, manipulative Leo, and his weaker, more impressionable friend, Mike. Contemptuous of the fallible police force (Mike has already filched a police hat from an accident scene), the boys arrange a staged knife fight outside a football stadium with the aid of a bag of stage blood and a real blade.
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Fox
Title: Fox
Character: Wesley
Released: March 10, 1980
Type: Movie
The thirteen-part series recounted the lives of the titular Fox family, who lived in Clapham in South London and had gangland connections.
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A Sense of Freedom
Title: A Sense of Freedom
Character: Prison Warder
Released: October 19, 1979
Type: Movie
The true story of Jimmy Boyle, who was reputed to be Scotland's most violent man.
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Quadrophenia
Title: Quadrophenia
Character: Barman at Villain's Pub
Released: September 14, 1979
Type: Movie
Based on the 1973 rock opera album of the same name by The Who, this is the story of 60s teenager Jimmy. At work he slaves in a dead-end job. While after, he shops for tailored suits and rides his scooter as part of the London Mod scene.
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Scum
Title: Scum
Character: Mr. Hunt
Released: September 12, 1979
Type: Movie
Powerful, uncompromising drama about two boys' struggle for survival in the nightmare world of Britain's notorious Borstal Reformatory.
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Title: The Professionals
Character: Harris
Released: December 30, 1977
Type: TV
The lives of Bodie and Doyle, top agents for Britain's CI5 (Criminal Intelligence 5), and their controller, George Cowley. The mandate of CI5 was to fight terrorism and similar high-profile crimes. Cowley, a hard ex-MI5 operative, hand-picked each of his men. Bodie is a cynical ex-SAS paratrooper and mercenary whose nature ran to controlled violence, while his partner, Doyle, comes to CI5 from the regular police force, and is more of an open minded liberal. Their relationship is often contentious, but they are the top men in their field, and the ones to whom Cowley always assigned to the toughest cases.
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The Chelsea Cowboy
Title: The Chelsea Cowboy
Character: Justice Mars-Jones
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
The rise and fall of underworld hard-man turned actor Bindon, who despite a successful acting career and passionate romantic liaisons with various socialites, was unable to leave his criminal past behind.