T. P. McKenna
Born in Mullagh, County Cavan, Ireland, Thomas Patrick 'T. P.' McKenna was a distinguished character actor of film and TV and a prolific stage actor. He made his stage debut in "Summer and Smoke" by Tennessee Williams at the Pike Theatre in Dublin in 1954 and his film debut in the 1960 film The Night Fighters. Film credits included Straw Dogs, Ulysses, Perfect Friday, Villain, The Charge of the Light Brigade, Red Scorpion and Valmont, whilst his TV credits included Bleak House, Inspector Morse, Doctor Who, Casualty, Ballykissangel and Lovejoy.
The Charge of the Light Brigade
as William RusselDuring the Crimean War between Britain and Russia in the 1850s, a British cavalry division, led...
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Valmont
as BaronSet in Baroque France, a scheming widow and her lover make a bet regarding the corruption of a...
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Straw Dogs
as Maj. John ScottDavid Sumner, a mild-mannered academic from the United States, marries Amy, an Englishwoman. In...
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Anne of the Thousand Days
as NorrisHenry VIII of England discards his wife, Katharine of Aragon, who has failed to produce a male...
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Britannia Hospital
as Theatre SurgeonBritannia Hospital, an esteemed English institution, is marking its gala anniversary with a...
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The Libertine
as Black RodThe story of John Wilmot, a.k.a. the Earl of Rochester, a 17th century poet who famously drank...
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A Russian KGB agent is sent to Africa to kill an anti-Communist black revolutionary. However, he...
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Memed My Hawk
as DursanIn 1920s Turkey, a young peasant is smitten with a beautiful young girl, who has been promised...
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The Scarlet and the Black
as HimmlerFr. Hugh O'Flaherty is a Vatican official in 1943-45 who has been hiding downed pilots, escaped...
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Perfect Friday
as SmithThe deputy manager of a London bank has worked out a way to rob the branch of £200,000. When he...
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Villain
as Frank FletcherIn 1970s London, Scotland Yard orchestrates the downfall of mob boss Vic Dakin after he crosses...
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Longitude
as Edmund BurkeParallel stories: 18th century Harrison builds the marine chronometer for safe navigation at...
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Miss Marple: A Caribbean Mystery
as Dr. GrahameWhile on vacation at a resort hotel in the West Indies, Miss Marple correctly suspects that the...
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All Creatures Great and Small
as SoamesJames Herriot is a vet in Yorkshire, England, during the 1940's. He is assigned to the practice...
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Silver Dream Racer
as Bank ManagerDavid Essex stars as Nick Freeman, a motorcycle racer who, following the death of his brother,...
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The Boys & Girl from County Clare
as The AnnouncerIn Ireland in the mid 1960s, two feuding brothers and their respective Ceilidh bands compete at...
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Pascali's Island
as Dr. Hogan1908: Pascali, a spy for the Sultan, sends reports to Istanbul that nobody reads. His suspicions...
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The Quare Fellow
as WalshThomas Crimmins is a new warder, or guard, in an Irish prison. He is young, naive, and...
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The Beast in the Cellar
as Det. Chief Sup. PaddickTwo spinsters have kept their mad brother locked up in their cellar for 30 years. Then he...
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The Doctor and the Devils
as O'ConnorIn Victorian England, two grave robbers supply a wealthy doctor with bodies to research anatomy...
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To the Lighthouse
as Augustus CarmichaelA faithful dramatization of Virginia Woolf's novel. A lecturer, his family, the spinster Aunt...
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Girl with Green Eyes
as The PriestA naive young country girl moves to Dublin and finds herself drawn to a sophisticated author...
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The Changeling
as Tomazo de PiracquoSexual passion breeds violence in the Thomas Middleton and William Rowley written tale of a...
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The Outsider
as John RussellMichael Flaherty (Craig Wasson), an American Vietnam veteran of Irish descent, returns to...
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Young Cassidy
as TomIn Dublin circa 1911, John Cassidy (Rod Taylor), an impoverished idealist, whose ambitions are...
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Percy's Progress
as London News EditorPercy, the man with the world's first penis transplant, discovers that there is a chemical in...
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The Siege of Sidney Street
as LapidosA police inspector (Donald Sinden) tracks down Russian anarchist Peter the Painter (Peter...
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The Next Victim
as FramptonA woman confined to a wheelchair is terrorized by a killer.
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Ulysses
as Buck MulliganDublin; June 16, 1904. Stephen Dedalus, who fancies himself as a poet, embarks on a day of...
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Percy
as Meet The People CompereEdwin Antony (Hywel Bennett) is emasculated in an accident which kills a young philanderer....
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A Warm December
as Man (uncredited)Widower Dr. Matt Younger and his daughter go to London for a month of dirt-bike racing. While...
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The 5th Day of Peace
as NickBased on a true story. Near the end of World War II, two German deserters are put in an Allied...
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
as Simon DedalusBosco Hogan plays Joyce's alter-ego, Stephen Daedelus, growing up in Ireland in the early part...
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Stones
as Harvey Fenton-JonesFrom BBC2 Playhouse's The Mind Beyond series. Professor Reeve wonders about strange events that...
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Freedom to Die
as MikePaul Maxwell plays Craig Owen, an incarcerated criminal whose cellmate holds the secret to the...
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Moving on the Edge
as LiamA woman in a state of personal crisis finds it hard to communicate with her husband and family.
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Strong Medicine
as Dr. SweetingTV Movie A woman starts working for a prestigious pharmaceutical company that's developing a...
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Random Moments in a May Garden
as DigbyA middle-aged couple give a dinner party to their friends. In the room is a photograph of...
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Give Us a Break: Hustle Bustle Toil and Muscle
as Dennis NaylorMickey and Mo head to Liverpool for the chance of a big score
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Shoot to Kill
as Chief Constable Sir John HarmonShoot to Kill is a four-hour drama documentary reconstruction of the events that led to the...
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Monarch
as Henry VIIIFrom double BAFTA nominated Writer and Director John Walsh. Monarch is part fact, part fiction...
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Ferry Cross the Mersey
as Jack HansonGerry and Fred Marsden, Les McGuire, and Les "Chad" Chadwick portray themselves in a romp...
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Downfall
as uncreditedHarold Crossley is a barrister and respected intellectual, but proves no match to his scheming...
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Doctor Who: The Greatest Show in the Galaxy
as Captain CookThe Doctor and Ace head for the Psychic Circus on the planet Segonax, where they meet a...
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Mantrap – Straw Dogs: The Final Cut
as Self - Actor / Major John ScottDocumentary about the making of Sam Peckinpah's 1971 film "Straw Dogs."
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Events at Drimaghleen
as Father SallinsThe painful memories of the tragedy that awaited the people of Drimaghleen on 2/11/88 have just...
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A Child's Voice
as Ainsley Rupert MacreadieA popular radio personality writes and broadcasts ghost stories over the air. He receives a...
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Beasts: Baby
as Dick PummeryA young couple move to the countryside and discover a strange mummified animal in the wall of...
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Lady Killer
as Jack HardistyA shy, lonely American girl marries a charming man she meets while on vacation in England,...
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Pasmore
as Helen's husbandColin Pasmore tests his strength against his family ties but finds them stronger than he ever...
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Deasey
as FGDeasey is a dreamer - torn between earning his precarious living as reporter on the London end...
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Crimes
as Melvyn2002: In a paranoid UK, with the threat of nuclear war ever closer and prisons full to bursting,...
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Unreported Incident
as MichaelJack Lawrence and Jimmy Dunne were once, briefly, enemies at opposite ends of a gun on the Irish...
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The Law Lord
as Judge SelwynA new government takes power with a drastically reduced majority. But the ambitious young Home...
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Minder
as J.J.MooneyThis comedy drama series featured Terry McCann, a former boxer with a conviction for G.B.H., and...
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The Avengers
as GrantThe Avengers is a British television series created in the 1960s. It initially focused on Dr....
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Casualty
as Arthur JacksonDrama series about the staff and patients at Holby City Hospital's emergency department,...
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Casualty
as Dr. Archie WhitlockDrama series about the staff and patients at Holby City Hospital's emergency department,...
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Doctor Who
as The CaptainThe adventures of The Doctor, a time-traveling humanoid alien known as a Time Lord. He explores...
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Heartbeat
as Michael O'LearySet during the 1960s in the fictional North Yorkshire village of Aidensfield, this enduringly...
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The Saint
as TonySimon Templar is The Saint, a handsome, sophisticated, debonair, modern-day Robin Hood who...
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Inspector Morse
as Professor Sir Lionel PhelpsInspector Morse is a detective drama based on Colin Dexter's series of Chief Inspector Morse...
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Crown Court
as uncreditedCrown Court is an afternoon television courtroom drama produced by Granada Television for the...
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Crown Court
as Henry BurnettCrown Court is an afternoon television courtroom drama produced by Granada Television for the...
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Waking the Dead
as Phil BrownA detective team apply new techniques to old crimes as they solve cold cases.
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Rumpole of the Bailey
as uncreditedRumpole of the Bailey is a British television series created and written by the British writer...
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The Sweeney
as Det. Supt. GrantJack Regan, an unethical officer of the Flying Squad, uses unorthodox methods to pursue...
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No Hiding Place
as uncreditedNo Hiding Place is a British television series that was produced at Wembley Studios by...
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Dr. Finlay's Casebook
as uncreditedDr Finlay's Casebook is a television series that was broadcast on the BBC from 1962 until 1971....
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Callan
as uncreditedCallan is the title of a British television series set in the murky world of espionage....
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BBC Play of the Month
as Sir Lucius O'TriggerPlay of the Month is a BBC television anthology series featuring productions of classic and...
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BBC Play of the Month
as KommissarovPlay of the Month is a BBC television anthology series featuring productions of classic and...
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The Wednesday Play
as John Joe MoranThe Wednesday Play is an anthology series of British television plays which ran on BBC1 from...
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Blake's 7
as SarkoffA group of convicts and outcasts fight a guerrilla war against the totalitarian Terran...
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Justice
as Supt. George LesterJustice is a British drama television series which originally aired on ITV in 39 hour-long...
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Thriller
as Jack HardistyThriller is a British television series, originally broadcast in the UK from 1973 to 1976. It is...
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Thriller
as FramptonThriller is a British television series, originally broadcast in the UK from 1973 to 1976. It is...
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Lovejoy
as Bertram MontserratThe adventures of the eponymous Lovejoy, a likeable but roguish antiques dealer based in East...
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Holocaust
as BlobelBerlin, Germany, 1935. The day Karl Weiss, a Jewish painter, and Inga Helms, a Christian woman,...
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Fall of Eagles
as Count Conrad von Hotzendorf"Fall of Eagles" is a 13-part British television drama aired by the BBC in 1974. The series...
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Man in a Suitcase
as uncreditedAccused of treason, a former U.S. intelligence officer based in London tries to clear his name,...
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Jack the Ripper
as O'ConnorJack the Ripper is a 1988 two-part television film/miniseries portraying a fictionalized account...
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Miss Marple
as Dr. GrahameMiss Marple, the spinster detective who is one of the most famous characters created by English...
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Manhunt
as Louis SampereManhunt is a World War II drama series consisting of 26 episodes, produced by London Weekend...
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Lady Killers
as Sir Hardinge Giffard Q.C.Compelling crime anthology looks at some of Britain's most notorious murder trials, in which...
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Agatha Christie's Partners in Crime
as uncreditedSpirited dialogue, posh Roaring '20s style, and devious mysteries abound as Tommy and Tuppence...
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Jason King
as uncreditedJason King - a suavely sophisticated former secret agent turned novelist - travels the world...
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Beasts
as Dick PummeryBeasts is a series of six television plays by Manx writer Nigel Kneale, unconnected but for a...
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Longitude
as Edmund BurkeThe fascinating story of John Harrison who, in the 18th century, believed he could make a clock...
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The Duchess of Duke Street
as uncreditedSet in London between 1900 and 1925, the story follows Louisa Leyton/Trotter, the eponymous...
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Father Brown
as uncreditedFather Brown was a Catholic priest who doubled as an amateur detective in order to solve mysteries.
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Hallmark Hall of Fame
as SoamesHallmark Hall of Fame is an anthology program on American television, sponsored by Hallmark...
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The Modern World: Ten Great Writers
as CitizenThis documentary series uses drama and commentary to shed light on the lives and works of Joseph...
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Testament: The Bible in Animation
as God (voice)A nine-part series of Old Testament stories for younger viewers using various animation...
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Target
as uncreditedA crime drama set in Southampton following a team of detectives and the cases they solve.
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Quiller
as BuchananQuiller is a British drama television . Quiller is the alias of a fictional spy created by...
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The Play on One
as Michael FlynnA series of plays specially written for television.
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Napoleon and Love
as uncreditedNapoleon and Love was a 1974 British television series originally aired on ITV and lasting for 9...
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Bleak House
as Harold SkimpoleBleak House is BBC television drama first broadcast in 1985. The serial was adapted by Arthur...
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Kings in Grass Castles
as Lord DunravenThe life of an Irish immigrant family in Australia in the second half of the 19th century.
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The Manions of America
as Harry ClementEpic mini-series chronicling the lives of two 19th-century families -- one Irish, the other...
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Scarlet and Black
as Marquis de la MoleAn ambitious young man seduces women of high social standing in order to improve his prospects.
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Levkas Man
as HolroydLevkas Man is a 1981 mini series about a doctor who goes to the Greek island of Levkas to prove...
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Shoot to Kill
as Chief Constable Sir John HermonA reconstruction of the events that led to the 1984–86 Stalker Inquiry into the shooting of six...
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