Derrick O'Connor
Biography: Derrick O'Connor was born in Dublin, Ireland, and raised in London, UK. He performed with the Royal Shakespeare Company and the Scottish National Theatre, with many leading stage performances in Edinburgh, Stratford-on-Avon and London's West End. His long and successful career included numerous starring roles in U.S., British and Australian film and television. He spent much of the latter half of his life living with his family in Santa Barbara where he died on 29th June, 2018 at the age of 77.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: January 03, 1941
Deathday: June 29, 2018
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Brazil
1985-02-20
Brazil
Overview: Low-level bureaucrat Sam Lowry escapes the monotony of his day-to-day life through a recurring daydream of himself as a virtuous hero saving a beautiful damsel. Investigating a case that led to the wrongful arrest and eventual death of an innocent man instead of wanted terrorist Harry Tuttle, he meets the woman from his daydream, and in trying to help her gets caught in a web of mistaken identities, mindless bureaucracy and lies.
Genres: Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-02-20
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Lethal Weapon 2
1989-07-07
Lethal Weapon 2
Overview: In the opening chase, Martin Riggs and Roger Murtaugh stumble across a trunk full of Krugerrands. They follow the trail to a South African diplomat who's using his immunity to conceal a smuggling operation. When he plants a bomb under Murtaugh's toilet, the action explodes!
Genres: Action Adventure Comedy Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-07-07
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Unrest
2006-11-11
Unrest
Overview: A young pathology med student suspects that the spirit of a dead cadaver in the hospital morgue where she works is killing off all those who handle or desecrate the body.
Genres: Horror Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-11-11
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How to Make an American Quilt
1995-10-06
How to Make an American Quilt
Overview: Soon-to-be-wed graduate student Finn Dodd develops cold feet when she suspects her fiancé is cheating on her. In order to clear her head, Finn visits her grandmother, Hy, and great aunt, Glady Joe Cleary, in Grasse, Calif. There, Finn learns that Hy and Glady Joe are members of a group of passionate quilters, and over the course of her visit she is regaled with tales of love and life by women who have collected rich experiences and much wisdom.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-10-06
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Hope and Glory
1987-09-03
Hope and Glory
Overview: A middle-aged man recalls his childhood growing up in and around London during World War II.
Genres: Drama War Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-09-03
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Deep Rising
1998-01-30
Deep Rising
Overview: A group of heavily armed hijackers board a luxury ocean liner in the South Pacific Ocean to loot it, only to do battle with a series of large-sized, tentacled, man-eating sea creatures who have taken over the ship first.
Genres: Adventure Action Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-01-30
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Knockback: 1
1985-01-27
Knockback: 1
Overview: In 1965, at the age of 25, Alan Ackland is sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of a business associate. In 1971, Sylvia Barker, lonely and depressed after a failed marriage and with two young children to bring up alone, seeks a new direction in her life and applies to become a voluntary prison visitor. Several years later their paths cross.
Genres: Drama Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-01-27
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Knockback: 2
1985-02-03
Knockback: 2
Overview: Alan and Sylvia fall in love and Alan gains a renewed sense of purpose. He begins to hope for an eventual release on licence. However both he and Sylvia have to face the fact that, for the foreseeable future, they cannot enjoy any physical intimacy. They decide to treat their affair as a long Victorian courtship.
Genres: Drama Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-02-03
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Bloody Kids
1980-03-22
Bloody Kids
Overview: Contemptuous of the fallible police force (Mike has already filched a police hat from an accident scene), two 11-year-old boys - the cold, manipulative Leo, and his weaker, more impressionable friend, Mike - arrange a staged knife fight outside a football stadium with the aid of a bag of stage blood and a real blade.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-03-22
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Dealers
1989-11-03
Dealers
Overview: The London branch of Whitney Paine, a major American investment bank, is in the midst of a crisis; after the loss of $100 million, one of their leading traders, Tony Eisner commits suicide by putting a slug through his head while seated at his place in the board room. Despite the high stakes, many of the firm's staff are eager to step into Tony's now-vacated shoes and get credit for saving the company. Daniel Pascoe, the leading trader at the firm, is convinced that he's first in line for the assignment, but the firm imports a new trader from America, Anna Schuman. Daniel is enraged and makes a point of trying to dig up as much dirt on Anna as he can, but things are going to take another turn.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-11-03
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Easter 2016
1982-05-18
Easter 2016
Overview: Set in 2016 prior to the centennial of the Easter Rising at Northern Ireland's only integrated teacher training college. A struggle develops between the principal and the security director who values security more than education.
Genres: Science Fiction Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-05-18
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Pope John Paul II
1984-04-22
Pope John Paul II
Overview: Bio-drama tracing the life and career of Polish cardinal Karol Wojtyla from his days as a young activist in Poland to his rise and installation in 1978 as Pope of the Catholic world.
Genres: Drama History TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-04-22
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The Final Programme
1973-10-04
The Final Programme
Overview: After the death of his Nobel Prize-winning father, billionaire physicist Jerry Cornelius becomes embroiled in the search for the mysterious "Final Programme", developed by his father. The programme, a design for a perfect, self-replicating human being, is contained on microfilm. A group of scientists, led by the formidable Miss Brunner (who consumes her lovers), has sought Cornelius's help in obtaining it. After a chase across a war-torn Europe on the verge of anarchy, Brunner and Cornelius obtain the microfilm from Jerry's loathsome brother Frank. They proceed to an abandoned underground Nazi fortress in the Arctic to run the programme, with Jerry and Miss Brunner as the subjects.
Genres: Thriller Science Fiction Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-10-04
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Daredevil
2003-02-14
Daredevil
Overview: A man blinded in a childhood accident fights crime using his superhumanly-elevated remaining senses.
Genres: Fantasy Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-02-14
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Honest Decent & True
1986-02-09
Honest Decent & True
Overview: The launch of Chaser lager could be big for KFS if Alun shows some commitment; if Mike's lifestyle doesn't catch up with him; if the rest of the team concern themselves more with the product's image and less with their own - they might just have a winner on their hands.
Genres: Comedy Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-02-09
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Comedians
1979-10-25
Comedians
Overview: Comedians is a TV movie/play by Trevor Griffiths, set in a Manchester evening class for aspiring working-class comedians.
Genres: Drama Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-10-25
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End of Days
1999-11-24
End of Days
Overview: On 28 December 1999, the citizens of New York City are getting ready for the turn of the millennium. However, Satan decides to crash the party by coming to the city and searching for his chosen bride — a 20-year-old woman named Christine York. The world will end, and the only hope lies within an atheist named Jericho Cane.
Genres: Action Horror Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-11-24
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Psy-Warriors
1981-07-17
Psy-Warriors
Overview: Soldiers are captured and interrogated by terrorists: but is it real or only a sadistic form of psychological training exercise?
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-07-17
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Flying Into the Wind
1983-06-26
Flying Into the Wind
Overview: The Wyatts wish to educate their children at home, but the education authorities have other ideas. Moving between 1969 and 1980, we see how this affects the various individuals and attitudes.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-06-26
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On a Paving Stone Mounted
1978-12-12
On a Paving Stone Mounted
Overview: An impressionistic look at Irish emigrants in London, representing the emigrant's journey, a confusion of anticipation, memories and experience.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-12-12
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Flanagan
1974-01-01
Flanagan
Overview: Flanagan is an early film by Thaddeus O’Sullivan, devised when he was a postgraduate student at the Royal College of Art.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-01-01
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A Pint of Plain
1975-01-01
A Pint of Plain
Overview: 'A Pint of Plain' was filmed on location in and around Shepherd's Bush, here in West London. Because O'Sullivan enabled his actors to use improvisation and gave them no formal script, the film has a raw, gripping and truthful 'drama – documentary' feel about it.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-01-01
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Sweeney 2
1978-03-30
Sweeney 2
Overview: The plot is set on a group of bank robbers, who are both violent and successful, strangely getting away each time with an amount around the £60,000 mark, and often leaving behind cash in excess of this sum. The robbers are willing to kill their own team, to get away. As Jack Regan himself puts it after the first raid in the film: "I've never seen so many dead people". Armed with gold-plated Purdey shotguns, they evaded Regan and the Flying Squad for quite some time, before Regan finds encouragement from his Detective Chief Superintendent who was sent down for corruption because Jack wouldn't testify in court for him.
Genres: Action Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-03-30
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The Missionary
1982-11-02
The Missionary
Overview: In 1905, after 10 years of missionary work in Africa, the Rev. Charles Fortesque is recalled to England, where his bishop gives him his new assignment - to minister to London's prostitutes.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-11-02
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Soul Survivors
1995-09-10
Soul Survivors
Overview: Otis Cooke is a DJ with a late-night American soul music programme in Liverpool. His favorite band, The Tallahassees, disbanded years ago, but their biggest hit, "Pickin' Up the Pieces," was never released in England. The film recounts Cooke's adventures and misadventures as he travels to the U.S., finds the band members, and convinces them to get back together for a reunion tour of the U.K and the release of their old songs on CD.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-09-10
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Fox
1980-03-10
Fox
Overview: The thirteen-part series recounted the lives of the titular Fox family, who lived in Clapham in South London and had gangland connections.
Genres: Thriller Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-03-10
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Time Bandits
1981-07-13
Time Bandits
Overview: Young history buff Kevin can scarcely believe it when six dwarfs emerge from his closet one night. Former employees of the Supreme Being, they've purloined a map charting all of the holes in the fabric of time and are using it to steal treasures from different historical eras. Taking Kevin with them, they variously drop in on Napoleon, Robin Hood and King Agamemnon before the Supreme Being catches up with them.
Genres: Family Fantasy Science Fiction Adventure Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-07-13
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Jabberwocky
1977-03-28
Jabberwocky
Overview: A medieval tale with Pythonesque humour: After the death of his father the young Dennis Cooper goes to town where he has to pass several adventures. The town and the whole kingdom is threatened by a terrible monster called 'Jabberwocky'. Will Dennis make his fortune? Is anyone brave enough to defeat the monster?
Genres: Fantasy Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-03-28
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Hawk the Slayer
1980-08-27
Hawk the Slayer
Overview: Hawk the Slayer, after seeing both his father and bride die at the hands of his malevolent brother, Voltan, sets out for revenge and the chance to live up to his title. Tooling himself up with the "mind-sword" and recruiting a motley band of warriors: a giant, a dwarf, a one-armed man with a machine-crossbow and an elf with the fastest bow in the land; Hawk leads the battle against Voltan to free the land from the forces of evil and avenge his loved ones.
Genres: Fantasy Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-08-27
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Butley
1974-01-21
Butley
Overview: Butley is set in Queen Mary’s College, London and focuses on two English instructors, Ben Butley, a middle-aged former T. S. Eliot expert whose life is now in a shambles, and his protégé, Joey, a homosexual. With both Joey and his wife leaving, Butley faces a life alone, fighting back with wit, obscenity and booze.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-01-21
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A Question of Guilt
1993-05-23
A Question of Guilt
Overview: The brutal murder of a woman appears to be an open and shut case. But while there is a suspect and a signed confession, the lack of a credible motive still nags the investigating officer and prosecuting lawyer.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-05-23
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Keep an Eye on Albert
1975-11-11
Keep an Eye on Albert
Overview: Pubs, pigeons, weight-lifting - that's Terry's life, and his wife Glenda feels neglected. But now Terry's best mate, Albert, is on leave from the Merchant Navy, and Albert knows how to treat a lady. 'Fireworks assured,' says the wrestling poster.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-11-11
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Pushing Dead
2016-09-29
Pushing Dead
Overview: When a struggling writer, HIV positive for 20+ years, accidentally deposits a $100 birthday check, he is dropped from his health plan for earning too much. In this new era of sort-of universal care, can he take on a helpless bureaucracy or come up with $3000 a month to buy meds on his own?
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-09-29
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Happy Feet
1991-01-01
Happy Feet
Overview: The pupils of the Dora Jackson School of Dancing compete in the 1960 Classical Dance Festival in Scarborough. Fifties rock 'n' roll meets classical ballet with the arrival of Dora's ex-boyfriend Clifford and a mysterious ghost.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-01-01
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Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
2006-07-06
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
Overview: Captain Jack Sparrow works his way out of a blood debt with the ghostly Davy Jones to avoid eternal damnation.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-07-06
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Man from Reno
2014-06-15
Man from Reno
Overview: A mystery outside of San Francisco brings together small-town sheriff Paul Del Moral, Japanese author Aki Akahori, and a traveler from Reno who soon disappears, leaving behind his suitcase and a trail of questions.
Genres: Mystery Drama Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-06-15
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