Brendan Dillon
Also Known As: Brendan Dillan, Brendan Thomas Dillion, Barney Dillon, Brandan Dillon, Brendan Thomas Dillon, Brendon Dillon
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Dublin, Ireland
Birthday: October 24, 1918
Deathday: March 15, 2011
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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The Killing of Sister George
Overview: When June Buckridge arrives at her London flat and announces 'They are going to murder me', her long-time lover and doll-cuddling flat mate Alice 'Childie' McNaught realizes that things are going to change. For June is referring to her character 'Sister George', a lovable nurse she portrays in a popular daytime serial. To make matters worse, the widowed executive at the BBC responsible for the decision to kill off Sister George - Mercy Croft is also a predatory lesbian who is after Childie and will stop at nothing to get what she wants.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-09-01
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The Premature Burial
Overview: An artist grows distant from his new wife as an irrational horror of premature burial consumes him.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-03-07
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The Dead Don't Die
Overview: In the 1930s, a sailor trying to prove that his brother was wrongly executed for murder finds himself becoming drawn into the occult world.
Genres: Horror Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-01-14
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The Island at the Top of the World
Overview: A Victorian gentleman hopes to find his long-lost son, who vanished while searching for a mysterious Viking community in a volcanic valley somewhere in uncharted Arctic regions. The gentleman puts together an expedition team to go on the search, but when they reach their destination they must escape from some Viking descendants who will kill to keep their existence a secret.
Genres: Adventure Family Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-12-16
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The Unsinkable Molly Brown
Overview: The buoyant Molly Brown has survived the first crisis of her life—a flood. Sixteen years later she sets out to make her way in the world. She assures the Leadville saloon keeper that she can sing and play the piano, and learns quickly. Soon she marries Johnny Brown, who in a few years will be able to replace the original cigar wrapper wedding ring with a replica in gold and gemstones. The Browns head for Europe and bring a few crowned heads back to Denver for a party that turns into a ballroom brawl. Molly goes to Europe alone, returning on the Titanic. She didn't survive a flood as a baby for the story to end here.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-06-11
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The Shadow of a Gunman
Overview: Is a sensitive and mysterious poet really an IRA gunman in hiding? Set in a Dublin tenement in the 1920s, this was the first part of Sean O'Casey's celebrated "Dublin Trilogy." Equal parts comedy and tragedy, this classic play is brilliantly performed by a stellar cast.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-12-04
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The Prisoner of Zenda
Overview: Anthony Hope's classic tale gets a decidedly 'un-classic' treatment at the hands of Peter Sellers. Following the story somewhat, friends of the new King Rudolph of Ruritania fear for his life, and switch him with a look-a-like London cabby. Throw in two(!) lovely blondes, treachery, and a battle for life and honour, and enjoy life at its zaniest.
Genres: Action Adventure Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-08-17
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Voices Within: The Lives of Truddi Chase
Overview: A woman who suffers from multiple personality disorder is found during therapy to have suffered child abuse in this fact-based story.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-05-20
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Hero's Island
Overview: A family shipwrecked on an island must deal with escaped convicts and pirates.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-09-16
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Fugitive Nights: Danger in the Desert
Overview: A lady private eye on her first job working a routine divorce case teams up with a cynical, heavy-drinking police detective after inadvertently stumbling upon a much bigger caper involving a mysterious fugitive.
Genres: Comedy Mystery Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-11-19
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Vampire
Overview: Vampire Anton Voytek's lair is disturbed by the ground breaking for a new church. Anton attempts to start a modern life using his hoarded wealth, but finds it's been confiscated by the authorities. He takes revenge on the architect responsible, who in turn, aided by a retired detective, tries to hunt down and destroy Anton.
Genres: TV Movie Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-10-07
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The Telltale Heart
Overview: Canadian adaptation of Edgar Allen Poe’s story “The Tell-Tale Heart”.
Genres: TV Movie Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-03-27
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Carnival of Souls
Overview: A young woman is pursued in reality and in her subconscious by the sadistic carnival clown who raped and murdered her mother.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-08-21
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
Overview: Adaptation of the novel by Oscar Wilde.
Genres: Horror TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-04-22
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The Molly Maguires
Overview: Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, 1876. A secret society of Irish coal miners, bond by a sacred oath, put pressure on the greedy and ruthless company they work for by sabotaging mining facilities in the hope of improving their working conditions and the lives of their families.
Genres: Drama History Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-02-08
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Young Pioneers' Christmas
Overview: A young couple and their neighbors celebrate Christmas in 1874 on the Dakota prairie. Despite tragedy and an ongoing battle with the railway company, Christmas is a homespun and overly sentimental affair.
Genres: Western TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-12-17
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Raging Angels
Overview: Two musicians are unknowingly drawn into a supernatural scheme.
Genres: Fantasy Horror Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-11-10
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Bug
Overview: An earthquake releases a strain of mutant cockroaches with the ability to start fires, which proceed to cause destructive chaos in a small town. The studies carried out by scientist James Parmiter, however, reveal an intent with much more far-reaching consequences.
Genres: Science Fiction Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-06-06
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The 3,000 Mile Chase
Overview: Secret courier Matt Considine accepts the mission to escort chief witness Dvorak and his wife from San Francisco to a trial in New York. They have to cover 3,000 dangerous miles, because the drug mob wants to kill them at any price.
Genres: Action Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-06-16
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My Fair Lady
Overview: A snobbish phonetics professor agrees to a wager that he can take a flower girl and make her presentable in high society.
Genres: Music Comedy Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-10-21
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Flaming Frontier
Overview: Army officer whose parents are white and Indian tries to avert an Indian war.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-08-01
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The Dead
Overview: After a convivial holiday dinner party, things begin to unravel when a husband and wife address some prickly issues concerning their marriage.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-09-03
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The Hound of the Baskervilles
Overview: Holmes and Dr. Watson tackle the case of a curse on the Baskerville bloodline in this ABC Movie of the Week adaptation.
Genres: Mystery Crime Horror TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-02-12
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Movie Movie
Overview: Three movie genres of the 1930s, boxing films, WWI aviation dramas, and backstage Broadway musicals, are satirized using the same cast.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-11-01
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