Stephen Rea

Born: 1946-10-31

An Irish film and stage actor. Rea has appeared in a number of high profile films, both Irish and international, such as V for Vendetta, Michael Collins, Interview with the Vampire and Breakfast on Pluto. Rea was nominated for an Academy Award for his lead performance as Fergus in the 1992 film The Crying Game. Description above from the Wikipedia article Stephen Rea, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia


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V for Vendetta

as Chief Inspector Eric Finch
Released: 2006-02-23

In a world in which Great Britain has become a fascist state, a masked vigilante known only as...

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Interview with the Vampire

as Santiago
Released: 1994-11-11

A vampire relates his epic life story of love, betrayal, loneliness, and dark hunger to an...

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as Dr. Jacob Lane
Released: 2012-01-19

Having escaped years of imprisonment, vampire warrioress Selene finds herself in a changed world...

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The Miracle Club

as Frank Dunne
Released: 2023-07-14

Three close friends who have never left the outskirts of Dublin (much less Ireland) get the...

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Greta

as Brian Cody
Released: 2019-02-28

A young woman returns a lonely widow’s lost purse, leading to an unlikely relationship between...

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Blackthorn

as Mackinley
Released: 2011-07-01

In Bolivia, Butch Cassidy (now calling himself James Blackthorn) pines for one last sight of...

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The Reaping

as Father Costigan
Released: 2007-04-05

Katherine Morrissey, a former Christian missionary, lost her faith after the tragic deaths of...

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Citizen X

as Lt. Viktor Burakov
Released: 1995-02-25

Based on the true story of a Russian serial killer who, over many years, claimed victim to over...

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Black '47

as Conneely
Released: 2018-09-05

In 1847, when Ireland is in the grip of the Great Famine that has ravaged the country for two...

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Disclosure

as Fergus (archive footage)
Released: 2020-06-19

An investigation of how Hollywood's fabled stories have deeply influenced how Americans feel...

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Still Crazy

as Tony Costello
Released: 1998-10-30

In the seventies Strange Fruit were it. They lived the rock lifestyle to the max, groupies,...

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Breakfast on Pluto

as Bertie
Released: 2005-11-16

In the 1970s, a young transgender woman called “Kitten” leaves her small Irish town for London...

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Ready to Wear

as Milo O'Brannigan
Released: 1994-12-23

During Paris Fashion Week, models, designers and industry hot shots gather to work, mingle,...

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Michael Collins

as Ned Broy
Released: 1996-10-25

Michael Collins plays a crucial role in the establishment of the Irish Free State in the 1920s,...

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The End of the Affair

as Henry Miles
Released: 1999-12-03

On a rainy London night in 1946, novelist Maurice Bendrix has a chance meeting with Henry Miles,...

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Werewolf: The Beast Among Us

as Doc
Released: 2012-10-09

Set in a 19th century village, a young man studying under a local doctor joins a team of hunters...

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The Company of Wolves

as Young Groom
Released: 1984-09-21

An adaptation of Angela Carter's fairy tales. Young Rosaleen dreams of a village in the dark...

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Evelyn

as Michael Beattie
Released: 2002-09-30

Desmond Doyle is devastated when his wife abandons their family on the day after Christmas. His...

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FearDotCom

as Alistair
Released: 2002-08-09

When four bodies are discovered among the industrial decay and urban grime of New York City,...

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In Dreams

as Doctor Silverman
Released: 1999-01-15

A suburban housewife learns that she has psychic connections to a serial killer, and can predict...

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The Crying Game

as Fergus
Released: 1992-09-02

Irish Republican Army member Fergus forms an unexpected bond with Jody, a kidnapped British...

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Until Death

as Gabriel Callaghan
Released: 2007-01-19

Anthony Stowe is a dirty cop who is hooked on heroin—and everyone hates him. After a serious...

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Control

as Dr. Arlo Penner
Released: 2004-12-07

Lee Ray Oliver, a death row inmate, is given a second chance at life if he agrees to undergo a...

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Ondine

as Priest
Released: 2009-09-14

On the coast of Cork, Syracuse is a divorced fisherman who has stopped drinking. His precocious...

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The Musketeer

as Cardinal Richelieu
Released: 2001-09-07

Young D'Artagnan seeks to join the legendary musketeer brigade and avenge his father's death -...

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The Butcher Boy

as Da Brady
Released: 1998-02-20

Francie and Joe live the usual playful, fantasy filled childhoods of normal boys. However, with...

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Fever Pitch

as Ray, the Governor
Released: 1997-04-04

A romantic comedy about a man, a woman and a football team. Based on Nick Hornby's best selling...

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Angie

as Noel Riordan
Released: 1994-03-04

Angie lives in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, and dreams of a better life. When she finds out she's...

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Nothing Personal

as Martin
Released: 2009-08-14

Alone in her empty flat, from her window Anne observes the people passing by who nervously...

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Out of the Dark

as Jordan
Released: 2014-08-27

A couple and their daughter moves to Colombia to take over a family manufacturing plant, only to...

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The I Inside

as Doctor Newman
Released: 2004-01-15

Simon Cable wakes up in a hospital bed, confused and disoriented. He soon discovers from doctors...

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Stuck

as Thomas Bardo
Released: 2007-05-21

A young woman commits a hit-and-run, then finds her fate tied to her victim.

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River Queen

as Francis
Released: 2005-09-12

An intimate story set during the 1860s in which a young Irish woman Sarah and her family find...

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Life Is Sweet

as Patsy
Released: 1990-11-15

Just north of London live Wendy, Andy, and their twenty-something twins, Natalie and Nicola....

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Princess Caraboo

as Gutch
Released: 1994-09-16

Bristol, England, early 19th century. A beautiful young stranger who speaks a weird language is...

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Sixty Six

as Dr. Barrie
Released: 2006-11-03

A boy's Bar Mitzvah looks set to be a disaster when it coincides with the 1966 World Cup Final.

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Tara Road

as Colm
Released: 2005-05-11

A grieving Connecticut mother temporarily switches houses with a woman in Dublin, Ireland.

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Spy(ies)

as M. Palmer
Released: 2009-01-28

In London, an airport baggage handler is forced by French and British intelligence agents to...

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Sisters

as Dr. Philip Lacan
Released: 2006-11-10

A reporter witnesses a brutal murder, and becomes entangled in a mystery involving a pair of...

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Cry of the Banshee

as Villager
Released: 1970-07-22

In seventeenth century England Lord Whitman wages unending war on what he sees as the...

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Guinevere

as Connie Fitzpatrick
Released: 1999-09-12

A young girl from an affluent family rebels and becomes involved with a much older photographer.

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The Last of the High Kings

as Cab Driver
Released: 1996-12-06

It is 1977, Dublin rocks to the music of Thin Lizzy and the world is stunned by the death of...

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The Doctor and the Devils

as Timothy Broom
Released: 1985-10-04

In Victorian England, two grave robbers supply a wealthy doctor with bodies to research anatomy...

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The Good Shepherd

as McCaran
Released: 2004-03-21

When a clergyman is accused for the murder of a social worker, the parish priest recruits a...

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Double Tap

as Cypher
Released: 1997-09-05

A drug-lord targets an undercover FBI agent and the hit man she falls in love with while tracking.

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Kisses

as Down Under Dylan (uncredited)
Released: 2008-07-11

Two kids, Dylan and Kylie, run away from home at Christmas and spend a night of magic and terror...

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Lumière and Company

as uncredited
Released: 1995-12-20

40 international directors were asked to make a short film using the original Cinematographe...

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Tasting Menu

as Walter
Released: 2013-06-14

As one of the world's best restaurants opens for its final evening, a couple in the midst of a...

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Ruby Strangelove Young Witch

as Danforth
Released: 2015-10-05

Ruby Strangelove Young Witch: When Ruby, a young witch discovers her long lost mother was...

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Heidi 4 Paws

as Doctor (voice)
Released: 2008-11-10

"Heidi 4 Paws" is a live-action re-telling of Johanna Spyri's 1880 children's classic, "HEIDI",...

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Copenhagen

as Niels Bohr
Released: 2002-09-27

No one knows for sure what transpired when German physicist Werner Heisenberg met with his...

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Roadkill

as Seamus
Released: 2011-04-23

Six young friends on a road trip in Ireland run afoul of gypsies who curse them for accidentally...

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The Heavy

as Anawalt
Released: 2010-04-08

Sibling rivalry turned into betrayal between two brothers. One a prime candidate for Prime...

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Nightride

as Joe (voice)
Released: 2022-03-04

In this single shot thriller, we're in the driver's seat with small-time dealer Budge as he...

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On the Edge

as Dr. Figure
Released: 2001-08-10

A suicidal young man is committed to a Dublin psychiatric hospital where he meets new friends...

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Hacks

as Brian
Released: 1997-09-19

Brian is a television writer-producer who has to script a 22-episode anthology, but lacks...

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Crime of the Century

as Bruno Richard Hauptmann
Released: 1996-09-14

In 1932, the nation was shocked when the 14-month-old son of Charles Lindbergh was kidnapped,...

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This Is My Father

as Mission Priest
Released: 1999-05-07

When schoolteacher Kieran Johnson discovers that his father was not a French sailor (as he had...

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Bloom

as Leopold Bloom
Released: 2004-04-16

Adapted from James Joyce's Ulysses, Bloom is the enthralling story of June 16th, 1904 and a...

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The Life Before This

as Brian
Released: 1999-09-15

Several innocent persons are hurt after two robbers, fleeing from the police, run into a...

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Snow in August

as Rabbi Judah Hirsch
Released: 2001-08-12

When a young boy witnesses a crime, he turns to a rabbi, and the ancient mysteries of the...

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Angel

as Danny
Released: 1982-09-18

Saxophonist Danny witnesses the murder of his band manager and a deaf-mute girl after a gig....

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A Further Gesture

as Sean Dowd
Released: 1997-01-01

Dowd, an IRA prisoner in the H-blocks, is gloomily facing his sentence, until he joins a comrade...

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Harold Pinter: A Celebration

as Self
Released: 2010-01-24

In June 2009, a group Britain's leading actors gathered for one night only to perform a...

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Loose Connections

as Harry
Released: 1984-04-13

A woman enlists a man who claims he is gay to accompany her on a long drive to a feminist...

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Stella Days

as Brendan
Released: 2012-03-09

A priest stationed in Tipperary, Ireland, is eager to return to Rome. Told he cannot do so until...

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Asylum

as McGahey
Released: 2013-09-30

A veteran hostage negotiator's next call leads him to an overrun insane asylum. He soon finds...

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The Curse of Styria

as Dr. Hill
Released: 2014-08-21

In 1989, Lara Hill, accompanies her art historian father to an abandoned castle across the Iron...

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The Devil's Mercy

as Tyler
Released: 2008-01-01

A couple and their six-year-old son move into an old Connecticut house where the boy soon...

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Lost Lives

as uncredited
Released: 2019-10-10

This poignant testament to the physical and emotional cost of war, centres on the Troubles in...

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The Out of Town Boys

as Shay
Released: 1979-01-02

"This could be a bit special, Maggie. This could be the first case of an office block falling...

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I Could Read the Sky

as P.J.
Released: 1999-09-03

The film concerns an old Irish immigrant living in London who is looking back over his life. He...

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Shergar

as Frankie
Released: 1986-03-23

Malachy: "Who do you kidnap? You can't touch children, women, no sons of Irish mothers. What's...

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Samuel Beckett: As the Story Was Told

as Voice
Released: 1996-04-13

A two-part biography of the Irish writer Samuel Beckett. The first part covers the traumas of...

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Trojan Eddie

as Trojan Eddie
Released: 1996-09-09

Trojan Eddie sells stolen goods for John Power, aging godfather of a local network of Irish...

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The Halo Effect

as Fatso
Released: 2004-11-19

Fatso is the proprietor of what may be the worst eaterie in the city, and is struggling to keep...

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The Ghost of Richard Harris

as Self
Released: 2022-08-31

A candid and revealing insight into the private life and public career of Richard Harris. One of...

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All Men Are Mortal

as Fosca
Released: 1995-11-17

Melodrama about a man cursed with immortality, who tries to declare his undying love for a...

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The House

as The Soldier
Released: 1984-09-27

Set in 1884, and based on the assumption that Britain is one of the Baltic states between Russia...

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K is for Killing

as Arden Buckley
Released: 1974-03-02

A husband and wife team are hired to protect an eccentric millionaire from an assassin but a...

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Bad Behavior

as Gerry McAllister
Released: 1993-05-28

The McAllister family house is the setting for Gerry and Ellie's grapples with work, children...

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Shadow of a Gunman

as Seamus Shields
Released: 1995-10-07

The first part of O'Casey's "The Dublin Trilogy". Set in 1920, as the War of Independence rages,...

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Fugitive

as Peter
Released: 1974-12-05

After 18 years as a friar, Peter is no longer sure of his vocation. It is a happy life, maybe...

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Early Struggles

as Chas
Released: 1976-03-30

Kevin's wife walked out, and left him holding the baby. No sleep, dirty nappies - and a career...

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Four Days in July

as Dixie McConville
Released: 1984-11-29

Two couples, one Catholic, one Protestant, exist on two sides of the chasm that is everyday life...

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Cyprus Avenue

as Eric Miller
Released: 2019-09-15

David Ireland's award-winning dark comedy about sectarian hatred in Northern Ireland. Eric...

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Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea

as Nikos
Released: 1995-05-28

A Greek-Irish sailor becomes friends with a 10-year-old sampan girl while his freighter is...

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The Moonstone

as Major Frayne
Released: 1972-01-01

Adaptation of the classic novel. A priceless jewel, originally plundered from a Hindu shrine,...

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Unquiet Graves

as Narrator
Released: 2018-07-15

This feature-length documentary investigates the role the British government played in the...

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Searching for Sam: Adrian Dunbar on Samuel Beckett

as Himself
Released: 2019-12-22

Samuel Beckett has fascinated Adrian Dunbar since he was a young student. Now, 30 years after...

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Fluent Dysphasia

as Murph
Released: 2004-10-16

Starring Academy Award Nominee Stephen Rea as Murph, who has little to say to his teenage...

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Sadie

as Self - Lyric Theatre
Released: 2021-03-31

Filmed at the Lyric Theatre, Belfast for BBC's Lights Up season of theatrical films, David...

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Brian Friel: Shy Man, Showman

as Self
Released: 2022-01-06

The playwright Brian Friel stands among the giants of Irish literature. From the 1980s onwards,...

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Hedda Gabler

as Eilert Lovborg
Released: 1993-03-27

Hedda Gabler is a beautiful woman married to the solid and respectable academic George Tesman....

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Endgame

as Clov
Released: 1989-01-01

A performance of Samuel Beckett's 'Endgame', a play in which nothing happens, once - unlike...

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Secrets from Putumayo

as Narrator (voice)
Released: 2020-10-03

Documentary about the man who is currently considered the father of violation of human rights...

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Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

as Callum Donovan
First aired: 1999-09-20

In the criminal justice system, sexually-based offenses are considered especially heinous. In...

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Saturday Night Live

as Fergus (uncredited)
First aired: 1975-10-11

A late-night live television sketch comedy and variety show created by Lorne Michaels. The...

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Play for Today

as Shay
First aired: 1970-10-15

Play for Today is a British television anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and...

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Minder

as Roddy Allan
First aired: 1979-10-29

This comedy drama series featured Terry McCann, a former boxer with a conviction for G.B.H., and...

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A Scare at Bedtime

as uncredited
First aired: 1997-11-24

A Scare at Bedtime was an Irish television show, produced by Double Z Enterprises and broadcast...

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Thriller

as Arden Buckley
First aired: 1973-04-14

Thriller is a British television series, originally broadcast in the UK from 1973 to 1976. It is...

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The Professionals

as Pellin
First aired: 1977-12-30

The lives of Bodie and Doyle, top agents for Britain's CI5 (Criminal Intelligence 5), and their...

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The Oscars

as Self
First aired: 1953-03-19

An annual American awards ceremony honoring cinematic achievements in the film industry. The...

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Utopia

as Conran Letts
First aired: 2013-01-15

The Utopia Experiments is a legendary graphic novel shrouded in mystery. When a group of...

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I Didn't Know You Cared

as Carter Brandon
First aired: 1975-08-27

I Didn't Know You Cared is a British comedy series set in a working class household in South...

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The Hollywood Greats

as uncredited
First aired: 1977-08-04

Hollywood Greats was a BBC Television series, which began in 1977. The film critic Barry Norman...

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The Stranger

as Martin Killane
First aired: 2020-01-30

A web of secrets sends family man Adam Price on a desperate quest to uncover the truth about the...

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War and Peace

as Vassily Kuragin
First aired: 2016-01-03

A story that revolves around five aristocratic families, set during the reign of Alexander I,...

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The English

as Sheriff Robert Marshall
First aired: 2022-11-10

An aristocratic Englishwoman, Lady Cornelia Locke, arrives into the new and wild landscape of...

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Performance

as Ejlert Lovborg
First aired: 1991-02-22

An anthology series of various plays and dramatic performances.

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Performance

as Seamus Shields
First aired: 1991-02-22

An anthology series of various plays and dramatic performances.

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The Honourable Woman

as Hugh Hayden-Hoyle
First aired: 2014-07-03

Nessa Stein, the daughter of a Zionist arms procurer who as a child witnessed his assassination....

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Boon

as Frank Warren
First aired: 1986-01-14

Boon is a British television drama and modern-day western series starring Michael Elphick, David...

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The Shadow Line

as Gatehouse
First aired: 2011-05-05

A murder is investigated by both sides of the line, cops and criminals, using opposing methods....

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Days of Hope

as Reporter
First aired: 1975-09-11

Days of Hope is a BBC television drama serial produced in 1975. The series dealt with the lives...

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Father & Son

as Augustine Flynn
First aired: 2009-07-20

Ex-gangland boss Michael O'Connor, now happily settled in rural Ireland, is forced to go back to...

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10 Days to War

as General Tim Cross
First aired: 2008-03-10

A series of short dramas about the countdown to war in Iraq.

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Flesh and Blood

as Mark
First aired: 2020-02-24

Three adult siblings find their family thrown into disarray when their recently widowed mother,...

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Dickensian

as Inspector Bucket
First aired: 2015-12-26

Dickensian intertwines the realm of fictional characters in Charles Dickens’ novels—including...

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Not with a Bang

as Colin Garrity
First aired: 1990-03-25

Not with a Bang was a short-lived British television sitcom produced by London Weekend...

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Caleb Williams

as Tyrell
First aired: 1980-12-02

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Thanksgiving

as Melchior
First aired: 2019-02-28

Explore the evolution of a couple involved in industrial espionage.

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