Cyril Cusack
Date of birth: 1910-11-26
Place of birth: Durban, Natal, South Africa
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Cyril James Cusack
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Cyril James Cusack (26 November 1910 – 7 October 1993) was an Irish actor, who appeared in more than 90 films. Description above from the Wikipedia article Cyril Cusack, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Harold and Maude
1971-12-20
The young Harold lives in his own world of suicide-attempts and funeral visits to avoid the misery o
All the Way Boys
1972-12-22
The "Trinity" crew makes another modern era film. Plata and Salud are pilots ditching aircraft for i
Les Misérables
1978-12-27
In 19th century France, Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless po
Where the Spies Are
1966-01-26
A local doctor is recruited as a cold war spy to fulfill a very important secret mission in the Midd
The Day of the Jackal
1973-05-16
An international assassin known as ‘The Jackal’ is employed by disgruntled French generals to kill P
Far and Away
1992-05-22
A young couple escapes Ireland, dreaming of a new life during the land giveaway in Oklahoma. As they
The Power and the Glory
1963-05-31
Based on Graham Greene's novel about a flawed but devoted priest in 1930s Mexico who attempts to per
True Confessions
1981-09-25
A cop clashes with his priest brother while investigating the brutal murder of a young prostitute.
The Taming of the Shrew
1967-03-08
Italy, 16th century. Petruchio, a choleric, lying and poor rural landowner from Verona, arrives in P
Nineteen Eighty-Four
1984-11-09
Imagine a world where absolute conformity rules, and word and thought, including loyalty to Big Brot
The Spy Who Came In from the Cold
1965-12-16
British agent Alec Leamas refuses to come in from the Cold War during the 1960s, choosing to face an
The Secret of Convict Lake
1951-07-29
After a group of convicts escapes from prison, they take refuge in the wilderness. While most of the
Escape
1948-03-01
A convict sentenced to three years for killing a detective escapes from a prison and goes on the run
King Lear
1970-07-10
King Lear is a proud man who solicits praise from his three daughters in return for inheritance of t
Waltz of the Toreadors
1962-04-12
General Fitzhugh, an ageing Lothario has an over-active eye for a pretty woman. Despite a long and s
Odd Man Out
1947-01-30
Belfast police conduct a door-to-door manhunt for an IRA gunman wounded in a daring robbery.
The Man Who Never Was
1956-04-03
The true story of a British effort to trick the Germans into weakening Sicily's defenses before the
Gideon's Day
1958-03-25
Scotland Yard Inspector George Gideon starts his day off on the wrong foot when he gets a traffic-vi
The Small Back Room
1949-02-21
As the Germans drop explosive booby-traps on 1943 Britain, the embittered expert who'll have to disa
Little Dorrit
1987-12-11
Amy Dorrit spends her days earning money for the family and looking after her proud father who is a
Sacco & Vanzetti
1971-03-16
Boston, 1920. Italian immigrants Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti are charged and unfairly tried
Danny the Champion of the World
1989-07-28
Somewhere in England, in the Autumn of 1955, a widowed father and his son live an idyllic life toget
Ill Met by Moonlight
1957-01-31
Led by British officers, partisans on Crete plan to kidnap the island's German commander and smuggle
Floods of Fear
1958-11-18
A man framed for murder escapes from prison during a flood and helps a young woman in distress.
Gone to Earth
1950-11-06
Hazel Woods, a beautiful and young Welsh girl, lives a wild, rustic life and loves animals — in part
Execution Squad
1972-02-25
Bertone is a moderately honest homicide cop. Unfortunately, the court system is so inept and corrupt
I Thank a Fool
1962-09-14
After mercifully killing her terminally ill lover, Dr. Christine Allison loses her medical license a
The Comedy of Errors
1983-12-24
Aegeon of Syracuse has come to Ephesus to seek his son, who went in search of his missing twin and m
The Homecoming
1973-10-29
In a dreary North London flat, the site of perpetual psychological warfare, a philosophy professor v
The Spanish Gardener
1956-12-25
Harrington Brande, a British diplomat who recently broke up with his wife, is stationed in a small c
The Man in the Road
1956-03-01
A brilliant scientist who has lost his memory is hunted by Communist agents out to obtain a secret f
The Ballad of Tam Lin
1970-12-01
Based upon the Celtic legend Tam Lin, a young man is bewitched by a beautiful, heartless, aging sorc
Lovespell
1981-12-31
Romantic tragedy, the story of Tristan and Isolde.
Brotherly Love
1970-01-07
Having left her husband, Hilary moves in with her unbalanced brother, Pink, who uses wit and humor t
The Blue Veil
1951-10-26
A World War I widow loses her only child and spends the rest of her life as a children's nurse.
David Copperfield
1969-12-01
A young man journeys from a difficult childhood to maturity, exploring social injustice, personal de
Once a Crook
1941-08-23
Once a Crook is a 1941 British crime film directed by Herbert Mason and featuring Gordon Harker, Syd
Esther Waters
1948-09-28
Esther goes into service in Victorian England, only to be seduced by the sweet talking groom William
Galileo
1968-09-07
A humble scientist from Padua proves that the Earth revolves and that it is not the center of the un
The Elusive Pimpernel
1950-11-07
A British aristocrat goes in disguise to France to rescue people from The Terror of the guillotine.
Soldiers Three
1951-04-01
Kiplingesque tale of British forces in 19th-century India.
The Rising of the Moon
1957-08-10
Three vignettes of old Irish country life, based on a series of short stories. In "The Majesty of th
Andrina
1981-11-22
Captain Bill Torvald has retired to his quiet home in Orkney after fifty years at sea. When a young
Deirdre
1965-01-01
The ancient story of the ill-fated Deirdre and the Sons of Usnach. Building on the many earlier lite
Inspector Hornleigh Goes to It
1941-05-17
Third and final film in the 'Inspector Hornleigh’ series of comedy-thrillers. Inspector Hornleigh (G
Knocknagow
1918-01-30
The agent of an absentee landlord resorts to underhand means in order to evict tenants from land tha
The Blue Lagoon
1949-03-01
In the Victorian period, two British children survive a shipwreck in the South Pacific. After days a
Miracle in Soho
1957-07-09
In London's colourful but seedy Soho, Michael Morgan is working mending the road. He is unhappy, wit
As You Like It
1992-10-09
Hiding out in an industrial wasteland from the murderous wrath of a regional ruler, a woman, disguis
All Over the Town
1949-04-25
Newspaper reporter Nat Hearn returns home after serving in the Royal Air Force during World War II.
Passage Home
1955-03-17
Set in 1931, the film takes place aboard a merchant ship, briefly harboured in South America. A youn
The Fool
1990-12-07
A costume drama / satire about financial skull-duggery, and confidence tricksters in both the upper
80,000 Suspects
1963-08-15
A doctor's already-shaky marriage is tested to an even greater extent when he has to contend with a
Run, Run, Joe!
1974-04-11
When a don who they were suppose to protect ends up dead, his bodyguard and bodyguard's friend must
The Italian Connection
1972-09-02
When a shipment of heroin disappears between Italy and New York, a small-time pimp in Milan is frame
I Was Happy Here
1966-04-01
Cass followed the bright lights to London and was quickly disillusioned. She met and married Doctor
The Balloon Vendor
1974-12-21
A young boy tries to make living out of a puppet show when his mother abandons him and his father.
Shake Hands with the Devil
1959-06-24
In 1921 Dublin, the IRA battles the "Black & Tans," special British forces given to harsh measures.
Horowitz in Dublin
1973-12-12
A New York cop, Dan Horowitz, arrives in Dublin to pay respects to the Irish parents of his young w
My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown
1989-04-07
No one expects much from Christy Brown, a boy with cerebral palsy born into a working-class Irish fa
A Passage to India
1965-11-16
The BBC's 1965 adaptation of E.M. Forster's novel, screened as part of their Play of the Month stran
W. B. Yeats: A Tribute
1950-08-13
Yeats poems set to visuals of Sligo, Dublin and London. One of the series of non-fction films produc
Jacqueline
1956-06-04
Jacqueline is the daughter of Belfast shipyard worker Mike McNeil. The worker's worth is compromised
The Outcasts
1983-10-10
In pre-famine Ireland, when poverty and magic were rife, introverted farm girl Maura discovers a mag
Cry of the Innocent
1980-06-15
An American insurance executive, who sees his wife and children die when a plane crashes into their
The Ballroom of Romance
1982-01-01
A lonely farmer's daughter hopes to find love at the village ballroom.
The Abdication
1974-10-03
Queen Christina of Sweden abdicates and travels to Rome to embrace the Catholic church.
The March Hare
1956-01-01
Sir Charles Hare, a young Irish baronet, gambles his all on one of his horses at Ascot. But the hors
Don Juan in Hell
1962-11-06
The third act of George Bernard Shaw's philosophical comedy Man and Superman. This dream episode dep
The Tenth Man
1988-12-04
During World War 2 the Germans arrested people at random off the streets of Paris and in retaliation
Saadia
1953-12-01
Saadia is a wild, strange Arab girl whose life has been dominated by a local sorceress, a vengeful o
The Kingfisher
1983-01-01
An elderly couple are reunited after fifty years.
Cradle of Genius
1960-11-11
Longtime playwrights and performers of the Abbey Theatre share colourful reminiscences of the nation
The Wedding Dress
1963-02-22
Mr. Berry starts to sell his wife's clothes. His wife, not being dead, is alarmed and upset.
Poet Game
1972-03-14
Mercurial, hard-drinking poet Hugh Saunders (Sir Anthony Hopkins) awaits his fortieth birthday, tryi
Juggernaut
1974-09-25
A terrorist demands a huge ransom in exchange for information on how to disarm the seven bombs he ha
Oedipus the King
1968-06-01
This classic Greek tale tells how a noble youth accidentally marries his own mother, kills his own f
Johnny Nobody
1961-10-01
When the atheistic ranting of Irish-American author James Mulcahy upsets the inhabitants of the Iris
Children of Rage
1975-05-28
The viscous conflict between Israel and the Palestinians is now a generation old. For many of the ch
Don Camillo
1984-02-08
A priest helps the small town he's stationed in to resolve conflicts by working together.
The Ghost Downstairs
1982-12-26
British TV-Drama
The Bloody Hands of the Law
1973-03-11
When a crime boss is murdered while in hospital, a young woman sees the killers, but her room mate c
Rainy Day Women
1984-04-10
In 1940, during World War II, an officer is sent to investigate rumours of German spies in a sleepy
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Winds of Change
2000-09-20
Following World War I, Indy - now fluent in several languages - works as a translator at the controv
The Catholics
1973-11-29
Set in the near future. As a consequence of an ecumenical movement (Vatican Council IV), the Catholi
Theban Plays: Oedipus the King
1986-09-16
Plagues are ravaging Thebes, and the blind fortune-teller Tieresias tells Oedipus, the King, that th
Dial M for Murder
1967-11-15
A made-for-television remake of Alfred Hitchcock’s 1954 film.
The Man with the Power
1976-11-03
Boysie discovers he has 'second sight' but neither his girlfriend Gloria nor his work-mate Brian wil
Guests of The Nation
1935-01-01
During the Irish War of Independence in 1921, a pair of IRA soldiers are ordered to guard two Britis
Poitín
1978-02-25
A poitín (moonshine) maker attempts to avoid the attentions of the Gardaí (police) in Connemara in t
Memento Mori
1992-04-19
Several elderly friends and acquaintances in 1950s London are disturbed to receive mysterious teleph
Once Upon a Tram
1960-11-09
Take a nostalgic trip along the beautiful Dublin coast, escaping the hustle and bustle of the city w
A Terrible Beauty
1960-06-17
In 1941, the IRA plans a campaign to coincide with the planned German invasion of England. Dermott O
Fahrenheit 451
1966-09-07
In the future, the government maintains control of public opinion by outlawing literature and mainta
Dr. Fischer of Geneva
1984-10-08
Dr. Fischer has an unusual hobby — to expose human greed. How much humiliation will his fellow man e
Once a Jolly Swagman
1949-02-02
A factory worker quits his job to become a motorcycle racer.
The Moon and Sixpence
1959-10-30
A staid, dull Englishman abruptly deserts his wife and children to become a painter in the South Sea
The Hands of Cormac Joyce
1972-11-17
A savage storm wreaks havoc on a small Irish fishing village.
The Monkey's Paw
1973-11-10
An old army sergeant, back in England after long service in India, shows some old friends a strange
Danny and the Dirty Dog: The Making of 'Roald Dahl's Danny the Champion of the World'
1989-09-01
An overview of the making of Danny the Champion of the World (1989)
Fear in the City
1976-09-14
The film focuses on Murri; the token maverick cop. He is called in after a bunch of criminals pull o