Kieron Moore
Also Known As: Keiron Moore, Keiron O'Hanrahan, Ciarán Ó hAnnracháin
Biography: Kieron Moore (born Ciarán Ó hAnnracháin Anglicised Kieron O’Hanrahan) (5 October 1924 – 15 July 2007) was an Irish film and television actor whose career was at its peak in the 1950s and 1960s. He may be best remembered for his role as Count Vronsky in the 1948 film adaptation of Anna Karenina opposite Vivien Leigh.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Skibbereen, County Cork, Ireland
Birthday: October 05, 1924
Deathday: July 15, 2007
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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The Day of the Triffids
Overview: After an unusual meteor shower leaves most of the human population blind, a merchant navy officer must find a way to conquer tall, aggressive plants which are feeding on people and animals.
Genres: Science Fiction Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-04-24
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Crack in the World
Overview: Dr. Steven Sorenson plans to tap the geothermal energy of the Earth's interior by means of a thermonuclear device detonated deep within the Earth. This experiment causes a crack to form and grow within the Earth's crust, which threatens to split the earth in two if it is not stopped in time.
Genres: Science Fiction Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-04-15
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Arabesque
Overview: When a plot against a prominent Middle Eastern politician is uncovered, David Pollock, a professor of ancient hieroglyphics at Oxford University, is recruited to help expose the scheme. Pollock must find information believed to be in hieroglyphic code and must also contend with a mysterious man called Beshraavi. Meanwhile, Beshraavi's lover, Yasmin Azir, seems willing to aid Pollock -- but is she really on his side?
Genres: Thriller Comedy Mystery Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-05-04
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Satellite in the Sky
Overview: A bomb dooms the first space satellite, manned by a selfless crew, a stowaway reporter (Lois Maxwell) and a mad scientist (Donald Wolfit).
Genres: Drama Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-07-21
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Anna Karenina
Overview: Stefan and Dolly Oblonsky have had a spat and Stefan has asked his sister, Anna Karenina, to come down to Moscow to help mend the rift. Anna's companion on the train from St. Petersburg is Countess Vronsky who is met at the Moscow station by her son. Col. Vronsky looks very dashing in his uniform and it's love at first sight when he looks at Anna and their eyes meet.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-01-22
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David and Bathsheba
Overview: King David enters into an adulterous affair with the beautiful Bathsheba, which has tragic consequences for his family and Israel.
Genres: Drama Romance History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-08-10
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The League of Gentlemen
Overview: Involuntarily-retired Colonel Hyde recruits seven other dissatisfied ex-servicemen for a special project. Each of the men has a skeleton in the cupboard, is short of money, and is a service-trained expert in his field. The job is a bank robbery, and military discipline and planning are imposed by Hyde and second-in-command Race on the team, although civilian irritations do start getting in the way.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-04-15
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Darby O'Gill and the Little People
Overview: A wily old codger matches wits with the King of the Leprechauns and helps play matchmaker for his daughter and the strapping lad who has replaced him as caretaker.
Genres: Adventure Family Fantasy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-06-24
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Doctor Blood's Coffin
Overview: After being thrown out of medical school for ethical violations, Dr. Peter Blood returns home to a small Cornish village, where he sets up a research laboratory in a secluded cave. There, he attempts to revive the dead, using kidnapped humans -- who he views as unworthy of life -- for their body parts, specifically, their hearts.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-01-01
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Custer of the West
Overview: Biopic of General George Armstrong Custer from his rise to prominence in the Civil War through to his "last stand" at the Battle of the Little Big Horn.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-11-09
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Mantrap
Overview: Branded as criminally insane and incarcerated for a murder he did not commit, Speight escapes from the asylum, determined to clear his name. He befriends private detective Hugo Bishop who, convinced that the wrong man has been convicted, agrees to help find the real killer. They begin their search for the murderer closest to home where both Thelma Speight and her employer Maurice Jerrard were visibly distressed by the news of her husband's jailbreak. More than Speight's 'insanity' fuels their worries.
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-03-10
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Creepy Classics
Overview: A compilation of trailers for various horror and sci-fi films, narrated and hosted by Vincent Price.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-10-01
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Mine Own Executioner
Overview: Fearing her husband could become a killer, a woman seeks a psychiatrist's help.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-11-22
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Three Sundays to Live
Overview: Band leader Frank Martin is convicted and sentenced to death for murdering the owner of a club in which he had performed. Frank's innocent of the crime, and singer Ruth Chapman can provide him with an alibi. But Ruth is missing, and records show she died years before. As Frank awaits execution, he enlists the help of his heiress girlfriend and his lawyer to clear his name.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-10-01
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Girl in the Headlines
Overview: Called in to investigate the murder of a model, Chief Inspector Birkett and Sergeant Saunders soon discover that the victim had been leading somewhat of an immoral life.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-11-15
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The Day They Robbed the Bank of England
Overview: London at the turn of the century. Three men are on a mission from the IRA to steal all the gold in the vaults of the Bank of England. Norgate, their leader, discovers the bank's weak spot: an old forgotten sewer straight under the vaults.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-09-04
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I Thank a Fool
Overview: After mercifully killing her terminally ill lover, Dr. Christine Allison loses her medical license and spends two years in prison. Once she has completed her sentence, the lawyer who prosecuted Christine, Stephen Dane, hires her to care for his emotionally unstable wife, Liane. Christine takes the job, but when Liane's allegedly dead father reappears, Christine sets out to reveal the family's dark secrets.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-09-14
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The Steel Bayonet
Overview: Tunis, 1943. Battle-weary troops of Company C have orders to occupy a derelict Tunisian farmhouse. They are to establish an artillery observation post, reporting on enemy movements before the imminent offensive to liberate Tunis. However German infantrymen discover their operations. The ensuing battle for control of this small piece of land will decide who controls Tunis but more critically, the victors in the battle of democracy versus fascism.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-02-01
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Recoil
Overview: A jeweller is killed in a gang robbery leaving the daughter as the only witness. When the police can't build a case against him she decides to go undercover to infiltrate the home of the killer's brother. Slowly she is drawn into the world of the rival gangs.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-08-01
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Son of a Gunfighter
Overview: A young man stalks his mother's killers.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-08-16
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Ten Tall Men
Overview: Sgt. Mike Kincaid of the French Foreign Legion learns, from a Riff prisoner, that an attack will soon be made by the villainous Hussin on the Legion's outpost of Tarfa. Kincaid volunteers to lead nine other Legionnaires on a mission to delay Hussin's attack till reinforcements arrive. When he discovers that Hussin plans to marry Mahla, a girl from a rival tribe, in order to build a coalition against the French, Kincaid kidnaps Mahla. Hussin forcefully takes her back, but by now his planned attack on Tarfa is crumbling and Mahla has begun to fall in love with Kincaid.
Genres: Action Adventure Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-10-26
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Hide and Seek
Overview: A professor of astronomy helping on a missile development program. An old friend of his is a Russian chess champion. The Russian is working with shady businessman Marek and they plan to kidnap the professor and make it look as though he has defected to the Soviet Union.
Genres: Action Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-06-21
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The Siege of Sidney Street
Overview: A police inspector (Donald Sinden) tracks down Russian anarchist Peter the Painter (Peter Wyngarde) and his gang in circa-1911 London.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-10-11
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The Naked Heart
Overview: At the beginning of the 20th century, in the North of the Province of Quebec. After five years spent in a boarding school, Maria Chapdelaine comes back to the family farm. Robert Gagnon, a villager and childhood friend, loves her secretly but Maria is wooed by Lorenzo Surprenant, a man who has fled his home town to escape the police. The one she is really in love with is François Paradis, a handsome trapper. The latter promises to marry her in the spring, as soon as he is back from the Far North. Robert, who is aware of how miserable Maria is, writes a letter to François , asking him to come back at once. Unfortunately, the young trapper is buried under the snow during a storm. As for Lorenzo he gets gunned down by the police. Finally understanding that Robert has sacrificed himself out of love for her, Maria accepts to become his wife.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1950-11-16
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The Green Scarf
Overview: A deaf, dumb and blind man, Jacques Vauthier (Kieron Moore), confesses to committing a murder, apparently without motive. He depends on his defense attorney, Delfot (Michael Redgrave), to unravel the mystery behind his actions.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-08-25
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The Main Attraction
Overview: An affable drifter on the lam for a murder he didn't commit hides out in a circus.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-11-01
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The Voice Within
Overview: Dennis O'Shea joins a gang of smugglers in order to raise the money to pay for his brother, who is fleeing from the IRA, to move to the USA. But after he accidentally kills a constable during a smuggling trip, the policeman's dog begins to follow him.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-01-08
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A Man About the House
Overview: Handsome Italian laborer Kieron Moore works as caretaker of the Neopolitan villa inherited by plain-Jane Englishwomen Margaret Johnston and Dulcie Gray. Johnston is swept off her feet by the raffishly charming Moore, and before long they are wed.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-10-03
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Wuthering Heights
Overview: Tale of love and revenge set against the backdrop of the Yorkshire Moors.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-03-07
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Conflict of Wings
Overview: In rural Norfolk, villagers are spurred to action when it is announced that the nearby RAF station is taking over the Island of Children, a much-loved and untouched bird sanctuary, for rocket practice.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-03-29
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Honeymoon Deferred
Overview: After World War 2, a newly married couple travel to Italy on their honeymoon and visit the town where the husband fought. The town, however, holds some secrets.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1951-09-06
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The Blue Peter
Overview: A Merchant Navy hero of the Korean War returns to England after three years of captivity in Communist hands, his mind confused by brain-washing and indoctrination at the hands of his captors, and accepts a post as an instructor at the Outward Bound Sea School.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-11-01
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The 300 Spartans
Overview: Essentially true story of how Spartan king Leonidas led an extremely small army of Greek Soldiers (300 of his personal body guards from Sparta) to hold off an invading Persian army now thought to have numbered 250,000.
Genres: Adventure History War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-08-01
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The Key
Overview: In wartime England, circa 1941, poorly-armed tugs are sent into "U-Boat Alley" to rescue damaged Allied ships. An American named David Ross arrives to captain one of these tugs. He's given a key by a fellow tugboat-man -- a key to an apartment and its pretty female resident. Should something happen to the friend, Ross can use the key.
Genres: Drama Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-05-28
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The Angry Hills
Overview: In 1941 Greece, on the eve of German occupation, cynical American foreign correspondent Michael Morrison arrives in Athens, intending to depart for London the following day. While there he is tricked into smuggling a list of resistance leaders out of the country and is pursued by the Germans.
Genres: Drama War Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-07-29
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Saints and Sinners
Overview: What happens to the saints and sinners of a small Irish village on the day the world is supposed to end.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-08-15
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The Thin Red Line
Overview: Set during the Allied invasion of the island of Guadalcanal in the Pacific theater during WWII, this film is based on the novel by James Jones. Keir Dullea is Private Doll, who dreads the invasion and steals a pistol to help him protect himself. Sergeant Welsh (Jack Warden), a caustic, battle-scarred veteran, hates Doll, whom he considers a coward. In battle, Doll kills a Japanese soldier and is filled with remorse, which further angers the sergeant. The next day, an emboldened Doll wipes out an entire enemy machine gun post and begins to feel as sadistic as Welsh. The two must work together to clear away some mines, but as they do, their platoon is surprised by a Japanese raid.
Genres: War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-05-02
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Run Like a Thief
Overview: The theft of a fortune in diamonds and the attempt by soldier of fortune Johnny Dent to outwit his pursuers who would stop at nothing to get their hands on the treasure forms the story-line. The chase reaches across the continent as Dent eludes the diamond syndicate police, a ruthless gangster, and a scheming girl in his attempt to escape.
Genres: Crime Comedy Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-10-11
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Bikini Paradise
Overview: A pair of U.S. Navy officers are marooned on a South Pacific island with a group of women whom want to use them for marriage and mating purposes.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-05-03
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La demoiselle et son revenant
Overview: Rosette is young and charming but she is crippled so she cannot make the most of her life. Which upsets Jules Petitpas, a single inventor, her eccentric but kind-hearted neighbor. Jules pledges to help her by creating a potion that will cure her. Unfortunately he dies before being able to achieve his aim. But a promise is a promise, and the good man comes back to the land of the living as an ... ectoplasm! And he manages to involve a whole tribe of ghosts to assist him in the noble task of saving the young lady. All is well that ends well.
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1952-09-03
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Another Island: A Portrait of the Blasket Islands
Overview: An Blascaod Mór, Great Blasket Island, is an islet off the southwest coast of the Irish mainland. For years, a declining population and treacherous waters had made life there risky. In 1953, the Irish government evacuated the 22 remaining residents of An Blascaod Mór to the nearby village of Dún Chaoin. This documentary examines aspects of the island's history and literary legacy, and features interviews with former islanders.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-01-06
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I Captured the King of the Leprechauns
Overview: Behind the scenes of Darby O'Gill and the Little People.
Genres: Family Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-05-29
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