Date of birth: 1910-02-14
Place of birth: Dublin, Ireland
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Joseph O'Connor


1969-12-18
Henry VIII of England discards his wife, Katharine of Aragon, who has failed to produce a male heir,

1972-03-01
The waters surrounding an island become contaminated by chemical dumping, and people who eat fish ca

1961-02-02
Greedy sailors capture a giant lizard off the coast of Ireland and sell it to a London circus. Then

1964-10-18
In the early 20th century a village experienced a series of inexplicable murders. All the victims we

1964-08-01
A pirate ship, fighting in 1588 on the side of the Spanish Armada, suffers damage and must put into

1968-09-26
Musical adaptation of Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist, a classic tale of an orphan who runs away from

1973-12-25
A young orphan, Stephen, is sent to go and live with his strange, much older cousin at his remote co

1969-10-05
During France’s Hundred Years’ War, a Parisian student seeks refuge by the sea and falls in love wit

2001-01-01
Anthony Sher and Harriet Walter star in a highly-acclaimed screen version of William Shakespeare's c

1973-05-25
After divorcing his wife, Patrick Glover decides it is time to remarry, and chooses his literary age

1973-08-11
A Japanese cop is sent to join the London police force on a secret investigation.

1964-01-01
Having pulled off the smallest ever train robbery, Little Walter and his crew decide to get out of L

1959-09-27
An elderly man living on his own in Belfast rouses the suspicions of his neighbors.

1998-09-13
The story of the ascension to the throne and the early reign of Queen Elizabeth the First, the endle

1999-10-27
In 1429, a French teenager stood before her King with a message she claimed came from God; that she

1993-04-08
In 1941, an Irish documentary filmmaker hears of a man named J.C. Sullivan, who may know the fate of

1974-05-17
A British agent's son is kidnapped and held for a ransom of diamonds. The agent finds out that he ca

1965-11-28
Early adaption of Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four as part of the Theatre 625 series.

2020-03-25
Down the road from Woodstock in the early 1970s, a revolution blossomed in a ramshackle summer camp

1980-10-07
A dramatization of the story of noted writer/journalist Cornelius Ryan, author of "The Longest Day,"

1975-08-11
J. M. Barrie has an evening with George Bernard Shaw. Later, alone at home, he hears the voice of hi
1961-10-08
A young woman befriends a lonely millionaire with a disfigured face whose ruthless business practice
1970-07-13
In a fictitious English parliament, various tactics are employed in the pursuit of power, even to th

1973-06-22
While investigating a murder case, a detective stumbles upon a rare-stamp swindle involving the vict
1965-10-04
Earth is no more, destroyed by nuclear war; but itinerant handyman Bert Foster, wandering the canals

1981-12-29
William Jones runs away from home, haunted by the memory of his father. To lay this ghost, he must s

1969-05-02
Adaptation of Dostoevsky's novel about liberal discussion versus revolutionary action in a provincia

1994-04-15
The story of the marriage of the poet T. S. Eliot to socialite Vivienne Haigh-Wood, which had to cop

1983-01-02
The life of King Henry the Sixth, in three parts.

1978-12-03
Two households, both alike in dignity, in fair Verona where we lay our scene, from ancient grudge br

1981-10-04
Iago and a comrade-in-arms are outside the Venice home of Desdemona's father, who does not yet know

1950-05-31
A husband-and-wife detective team look into the murder of one of her friends, whose father--a promin
1961-09-06
"In Jan Carew’s explosive drama, Sammy Davis Jr gives a memorable performance as a proud but disillu

1982-12-17
On another planet in the distant past, a Gelfling embarks on a quest to find the missing shard of a

1978-05-24
A fateful day in the life of a great composer. A play with music

1960-01-17
A diva of the Paris stage transforms her mousy daughter-in-law into an attractive ingenue to spite h

1998-11-27
A vampire in London is searching for the ideal woman to 'redeem' him.