Liam Gaffney
Also Known As: Liam Gafney
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Dublin, Ireland
Adult: No
Birthday: June 22, 1911
Age: 113 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: July 01, 1994
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Street of Shadows
Overview: A saloon owner falls in love with the abused wife of a heavy gambler. He is snared into a web of intrigue when an ex-girlfriend is found murdered in his apartment.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-10-16
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My Death Is a Mockery
Overview: A fisherman cannot make a decent living from his trawler so he decides to turn his hand to smuggling.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-08-01
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The Villiers Diamond
Overview: A man is threatend with scandal when he accidentally acquires a stolen diamond.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-01-01
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Irish and Proud of It
Overview: An Irish-born businessman based in London is kidnapped by colleagues as a joke and flown back to the small village of his birth. There he finds that American gangsters are forcing the local publicans to buy illegally-produced raw spirit with which to adulterate branded products.
Genres: Crime Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-11-01
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Captain Boycott
Overview: Based on real events, this historical drama is set in 19th-century Ireland, when poverty-stricken tenants dispossessed by greedy landowner Capt. Boycott (Cecil Parker) band together to assert their rights. Patriotic farmer Hugh Davin (Stewart Granger) leads the rebels. Choosing nonviolent resistance, the villagers ostracize their nemesis, who squanders his fortune to repair his ruined reputation and wagers what's left on a horse race.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-08-26
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Island of Terror
Overview: A small island community is overrun with creeping, blobbish, tentacled monsters which liquefy and digest the bones from living creatures. The community struggles to fight back.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-06-20
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The Four Just Men
Overview: The Four Men of the title are British WWI veterans who decide to work secretly against enemies of the country. They aren't above a bit of murder or sabotage to serve their ends, but they consider themselves to be true patriots.
Genres: Thriller Mystery Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-06-01
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The Trials of Oscar Wilde
Overview: England, 1890s. The brutal and embittered Marquis of Queensberry, who believes that his youngest son, Bosie, has an inappropriate relationship with the famous Irish writer Oscar Wilde, maintains an ongoing feud with the latter in order to ruin his reputation and cause his fall from grace.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-05-28
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Ireland, Mother Ireland
Overview: A story of the timeless futility of war and death by war, of men who fought for their country, killed for a dream of freedom and died because they were betrayed.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-08-03
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The Bad Lord Byron
Overview: Injured and on his deathbed in Greece, Lord Byron imagines a celestial trial with witnesses to determine the worth of his character.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-04-18
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Curtain Up
Overview: In a small town in the 1950s a repertory company meets on Monday morning to start rehearsing the following week's play. This is a ghastly thing written by the aunt of one of the theatre's directors. The producer doesn't try to hide his annoyance about it, and is further exercised when the authoress herself arrives to help. The cast have to try and sort out real-life problems that keep intruding as they wrestle with the play's dire dialogue.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-03-12
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Dr. O'Dowd
Overview: Marius O'Dowd is an Irish doctor who is often drunk. His daughter-in-law Moira dies during a serious operation which O'Dowd is performing. Although O'Dowd is not to blame, his son Stephen suspects that Moira died due to O'Dowd operating while under the influence of alcohol, and accuses him of criminal neglect.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-06-22
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Macushla
Overview: Released in the US in 1940 while a drive was being staged in Ireland to stop the smuggling of munitions across the Ulster border. The story involves a family, the Muldoons, living in a village on the Ulster border. Pamela Wood, the daughter, is being romanced (and romancing back) border-guard Lian Gaffney. A damper is dumped on the romance when her brother, Max Adrian, is recognized as one of the rebels. He is caught by the guards, but manages to escape after saving the life of Gaffney.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-01-01
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Jazz Boat
Overview: A bumbling gang of thieves crash a jazz party.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-06-01
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The Lady with a Lamp
Overview: Based on the Reginald Berkeley stage play, this compelling historical drama offers a depiction of the life story of Florence Nightingale, the young 19th-century Englishwoman famously drawn to a career in nursing. Traveling to Turkey during the Crimean War, Florence gains a reputation for being devoted to the care of wounded soldiers and for pioneering higher standards for sanitary hospital conditions.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-09-22
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Women of Twilight
Overview: When a nightclub singer is arrested for murder, his pregnant girlfriend moves into a boarding house for women, but the mother-to-be soon discovers that her new lodgings harbors a horrific secret.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-01-16
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