Date of birth: 1913-08-15
Place of birth: Bray, County Wicklow, Ireland
Known for: Acting
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1961-09-26
Miss Marple believes she's seen a murder in a passing-by train, yet when the police find no evidence

1948-03-01
A convict sentenced to three years for killing a detective escapes from a prison and goes on the run

1955-12-01
A man tells his wife that the police are after him for having killed a bookie during an alcoholic bi

1955-06-06
A newspaper reporter finds himself drawn into the aftermath of a racetrack robbery.

1950-01-19
P.C. George Dixon is a long-serving traditional copper who is due to retire shortly. He takes a new

1954-03-19
When a beautiful young woman suddenly offers inebriated Casey Morrow a lot of money for a quick and

1960-12-11
When Fred Watson's wife and landlady disappear, and he is seen papering over two cupboards in his be

1948-09-28
Set in post Second World War Britain, Noose is the story of black market racketeers who face attempt

1946-12-23
Novelist and amateur sleuth, Paul Temple, meets a newspaper woman called "Steve." Together they inve

1952-10-23
The relationship between brothers Terry and Matt, both active in the IRA, comes under strain when Te

1954-12-01
When young reporter and amateur biker Jerry Marsh investigates a mysterious hooded figure on a motor

1951-02-20
Jewel thieves, murder, and a manhunt swirl around a sailor off a cargo ship in post-war London.

1947-01-07
Life becomes a tragedy for the wife of an Irish heir to a 19th-century family feud and fortune.

1958-01-01
A car salesman and suspected safecracker Miles saves his fiancee Sue from those who would kidnap her

1953-12-01
A physician is forced to operate on a mystery figure under shady circumstances.

1973-09-16
A BBC television adaptation of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's novel. The prisoner Nemov is an honest man s

1953-12-04
When his wife stops writing to him and his letters are returned unanswered, Dan becomes extremely co

1952-12-02
The Toff solves the mystery of a missing employer. One of the BFi's most wanted films.

1948-11-24
A young Irishman comes up with an unusual plan to get the money to emigrate to Tahiti. One of the E

1944-08-21
Three modern-day pilgrims investigate a bizarre crime in a small town while on their way to Canterbu

1951-11-16
In the back country of South Africa, black minister Stephen Kumalo journeys to the city to search fo

1955-09-29
Charter-boat owner "Tex" Parker is framed on a murder rap by a gang of jewel-and-American currency s

1953-07-13
Boxing drama following the lives of 5 different fighters and their reasons for becoming boxers.

1961-02-01
Story of a young U.S. Army officer, stationed in England during World War II, who is suddenly consci

1979-01-02
A self-made man finds his building firm in trouble as a new office block nears completion.

1956-06-01
In love with a man who wants to marry her after he returns from a trip to sea, chorus girl Angela Bo

1957-05-01
A wealthy business man discovers he has a brain tumor and seeks medical help. The business man finds

1973-01-07
A self-proclaimed "knight" and his hapless squire travel the Spanish countryside, attacking "giants"

1971-11-18
Under stress, Irish tenant farmer Michael Regan, suddenly snaps one day and locks himself in his hom

1958-08-15
Unable to pay his bookie, a man returns to his hometown where his embezzler brother and girlfriend p

1956-12-06
Norman is a window cleaner who has to clean a manor house with hundreds of windows. He is distracted

1957-11-14
Norman works in a jewellers workshop and fantasises (in the nicest way) about meeting the window dre