David Kelly
Also Known As: 大衛·凱利
Biography: David Kelly (July 11, 1929 – February 12, 2012) was an Irish actor who had regular roles in several film and television works from the 1950s onwards. One of the most recognisable voices and faces of Irish stage and screen, Kelly was known for his roles as Rashers Tierney in Strumpet City, Cousin Enda in Me Mammy, the builder Mr O'Reilly in Fawlty Towers, Albert Riddle in Robin's Nest, and Grandpa Joe in the film Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005). Another notable role was as Michael O'Sullivan in Waking Ned Devine.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Dublin, Ireland
Birthday: July 11, 1929
Deathday: February 12, 2012
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Gender: Male
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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Overview: A young boy wins a tour through the most magnificent chocolate factory in the world, led by the world's most unusual candy maker.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Family Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-07-13
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Waking Ned
Overview: When a lottery winner dies of shock, his fellow townsfolk attempt to claim the money.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-09-15
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Billy Budd
Overview: A version of Benjamin Britten's opera based on the Melville story. Will the virtuous young sailor Billy Budd be hanged for murder?
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-12-11
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Joyriders
Overview: The growing relationship of two people who travel through Ireland in a series of stolen cars.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-10-14
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The Matchmaker
Overview: Marcy, a worker in the reelection campaign of bumbling Senator John McGlory, is sent to Ireland on a quest to find the Irish ancestry of Sen. McGlory, to help him win the Irish vote. But when Marcy arrives in the small village of Ballinagra, she finds herself in the middle of a matchmaking festival, and the local matchmaker is determined to pair her off with one of the local bachelors.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-10-03
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Into the West
Overview: Accused of a crime they didn't commit, two city kids and a magical horse are about to become the coolest outlaws ever to ride Into The West.
Genres: Adventure Drama Family Fantasy Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-10-23
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Greenfingers
Overview: Clive Owen stars as a prison inmate who goes into an experimental "open" prison where the inmates walk around freely and get job training for their impending releases. While there, he discovers he has a talent for growing flowers. His talent is recognized by a gardening guru who encourages him and four other inmates to enter a national gardening competition
Genres: Comedy Drama Action Crime Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-07-27
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Mean Machine
Overview: Disgraced ex-England football captain, Danny 'Mean Machine' Meehan, is thrown in jail for assaulting two police officers. He keeps his head down and has the opportunity to forget everything and change the lives of the prisoners. When these prisoners have the chance to put one over the evil guards during a prison football match, Danny takes the lead.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-12-26
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The Kovak Box
Overview: David Norton is used to being in control. As a best-selling author, he decides the fate of his characters, their lives and their deaths. But what happens when his fictional world becomes all too real?
Genres: Science Fiction Thriller Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-07-18
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Girl with Green Eyes
Overview: A naive young country girl moves to Dublin and finds herself drawn to a sophisticated author twice her age.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-05-14
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Moondance
Overview: The close relationship between two fun-loving brothers comes under threat when a beautiful, sensitive girl arrives on the scene. As the younger brother comes of age, the inevitable jealousy, confusion, rivalry and lust place their brotherly love in jeopardy.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-01-01
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The Wrong Man
Overview: In 1953, an innocent man named Christopher Emmanuel "Manny" Balestrero is arrested after being mistaken for an armed robber.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-12-22
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The Purple Taxi
Overview: With his mauve taxi, the old philosopher Dr. Seamus Scully runs around the small green roads of the south of Ireland, becoming confident of his patients, while trying to help them find their way.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1977-05-25
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Overview: Bosco Hogan plays Joyce's alter-ego, Stephen Daedelus, growing up in Ireland in the early part of the 20th century, and at odds with the strictures of his Catholic home and family. The film charts his search for knowledge and understanding, during a decline in his family's circumstances, that leads him to revelations on the nature of art, beauty and politics. However his personal renaissance makes him feel unwelcome in his own country, and forces him to make a choice between exile as artist or staying and facing personal defeat.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-09-01
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Mystics
Overview: A black comedy about two old-time conmen who pretend to be able to communicate with the dead.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-12-12
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Rough for Theatre I
Overview: An old blind beggar and an old cripple in a wheelchair meet on a desolate street corner. The latter proposes that the two form an alliance, but the men are not destined to get along together.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-01-01
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The Run of the Country
Overview: An Irish lad who fled from his oppressive, widowed father falls for a girl from an affluent family.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-09-22
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Stardust
Overview: In a countryside town bordering on a magical land, a young man makes a promise to his beloved that he'll retrieve a fallen star by venturing into the magical realm. His journey takes him into a world beyond his wildest dreams and reveals his true identity.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy Romance Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-08-10
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A Man of No Importance
Overview: Alfie Byrne is a middle-aged bus conductor in Dublin in 1963. He would appear to live a life of quiet desperation: he's gay, but firmly closeted, and his sister is always trying to find him "the right girl". His passion is Oscar Wilde, his hobby is putting on amateur theatre productions in the local church hall. We follow him as he struggles with temptation, friendship, disapproval, and the conservative yet oddly lyrical world of Ireland in the early 1960s.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-12-24
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Fawlty Towers: Re-Opened
Overview: 30 years after Fawlty Towers (1975) ended, Stephen Fry narrates a documentary about the making of this classic sitcom.
Genres: Documentary Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-05-10
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The Calcium Kid
Overview: When milkman Jimmy Connelly accidentally puts Britain's contender for the World title out of action, he is propelled from amateur boxer to the world stage and announced as the replacement contender for the championship fight.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-04-30
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The Jigsaw Man
Overview: Philip Kimberly, the former head of the British Secret Service who defected to Russia, is given plastic surgery and sent back to Britain by the KGB to retrieve some vital documents. With the documents in hand, he instead plays off MI6 and the KGB against each other.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-11-11
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Young Man in Trouble
Overview: A problem for Frank and Margaret turns out to be a false alarm, or even a blessing in disguise.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-07-06
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The Virgins
Overview: Three middle-aged Irish bachelors - Shemm, Cloggy and Ambrose - put drinks before sex. Even Mrs Ryder can't shatter their celibacy.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-06-24
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Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London
Overview: With all-new gadgets, high-flying action, exciting chases and a wisecracking new handler, Derek (Anthony Anderson), Cody has to retrieve the device before the world's leaders fall under the evil control of a diabolical villain.
Genres: Comedy Action Adventure Family Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-03-12
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The Last
Overview: A short film about a shoemaker who pledged his fiancé he would make her the most beautiful pair of shoes for their wedding. Now, some fifty years later he is finally fulfilling his promise. But his business has fallen away and his rent is in arrears.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-01-01
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The McKenzie Break
Overview: A German U-Boat commander plans a daring escape from a PoW camp in Scotland.
Genres: Action War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-10-28
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Pirates
Overview: The adventures of pirate Captain Red and his first mate Frog.
Genres: Adventure Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-05-08
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Quackser Fortune Has a Cousin in the Bronx
Overview: In Dublin, a working class family has been unsuccessful in convincing their son to get a real job: the son prefers his job of scooping up horse's dung and selling it for flower gardens. An American exchange student almost runs him over and gets to know him. The dung man has ignored warnings from his family and suddenly the horses have been banned from Dublin. His new love is leaving for America and he must find a way to cope with the new reality.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-06-13
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The Italian Job
Overview: Charlie's got a 'job' to do. Having just left prison he finds one of his friends has attempted a high-risk job in Torino, Italy, right under the nose of the mafia. Charlie's friend doesn't get very far, so Charlie takes over the 'job'. Using three Mini Coopers, a couple of Jaguars, and a bus, he hopes to bring Torino to a standstill, steal a fortune in gold and escape in the chaos.
Genres: Action Crime Comedy Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-06-02
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Ordinary Decent Criminal
Overview: Michael Lynch is a notorious criminal with two wives and a flair for showmanship. He's also a huge embarrassment to the local police, who are determined to bring him down once and for all.
Genres: Comedy Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-01-07
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Ulysses
Overview: Dublin; June 16, 1904. Stephen Dedalus, who fancies himself as a poet, embarks on a day of wandering about the city during which he finds friendship and a father figure in Leopold Bloom, a middle-aged Jew. Meanwhile, Bloom's day, illuminated by a funeral and an evening of drinking and revelry that stirs paternal feelings toward Stephen, ends with a rapprochement with Molly, his earthy wife.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-03-14
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Red Monarch
Overview: British comedy satirising Stalin's inner circle as an absolute monarchs court. In the face of rampant abuse of power and poisonous distrust some still manage to keep faith with the Bolshevist creed until the very end. In front of the firing squad a stalwart bolshevist of the first hour exclaims: "Even in the best democracy errors are being made!"
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-06-16
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Puckoon
Overview: Spike Milligan's book about the divided Irish village of Puckoon comes to the big screen.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-01-01
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The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Overview: Quasimodo, the hunchback bellringer of Notre Dame's cathedral, meets a beautiful gypsy dancer, Esmeralda, and falls in love with her. So does Quasimodo's guardian, the archdeacon of the cathedral, and a poor street poet. But Esmeralda's in love with a handsome soldier. When a mob mistakes her for a witch, it's up to Quasimodo to rescue her and claim sanctuary for her in the cathedral.
Genres: Drama Romance TV Movie Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-02-02
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The Light Princess
Overview: Based on a short story by George MacDonald, a princess experiences constant weightlessness.
Genres: Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-12-24
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The Quare Fellow
Overview: Thomas Crimmins is a new warder, or guard, in an Irish prison. He is young, naive, and idealistic, determined to serve his country by his part in meting out justice to criminals. His superior, Regan, however, realizes that even prisoners are human beings, and Regan is sick of the eye-for-an-eye attitude that leads the state to execute condemned men, or "quare fellows." Crimmins begins to see that not all is black and white in his new world, and when he becomes involved with Kathleen, the wife of one of the condemned men, his attitude begins to change. When new evidence arises to suggest that Kathleen's husband may not deserve his fate, Crimmins is torn between his duty and his humanity.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-10-02
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Anne Devlin
Overview: The story of Anne Devlin, who was caught up in the revolt of the Irish under Robert Emmett in 1803, told exclusively from the woman's point of view.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-10-01
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The Comedy of Errors
Overview: Aegeon of Syracuse has come to Ephesus to seek his son, who went in search of his missing twin and mother months ago. Too bad that Ephesus has just declared war on Syracuse, and will instantly put to death any Syracusean found within their borders unless a ransome's paid. Meanwhile, the son, Antipholus, and his servant, Dromio (also an identical twin), keep running into strangers who seem to know them...
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-12-24
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The Legion Hall Bombing
Overview: The story of the trial of Willie Gallagher, convicted of bombing the Strabane British Legion Hall in Northern Ireland, 1976. The transmission of this film was postponed by the BBC several times, and when it did finally air, it was shown with cuts; the writer, Caryl Churchill, and director, Roland Joffé, had their names removed from the credits in protest.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-08-22
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Laws of Attraction
Overview: Amidst a sea of litigation, two New York City divorce lawyers find love.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-04-04
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Fugitive
Overview: After 18 years as a friar, Peter is no longer sure of his vocation. It is a happy life, maybe too much so, and now he has met Clare. Will his doubts run away with him? Runaway friars are officially "fugitives" who must be persuaded back to their order. Author Sean Walsh fled the Franciscan order to become first a journalist, then a playwright and is now a radio drama producer in Ireland.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-12-05
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Philadelphia, Here I Come
Overview: Friel contrasts Gar's cloistered emotional life with his gregarious social persona by portraying him as two distinct characters, a public self (Donal McCann) and a private self (Des Cave).
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-06-01
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Never Mind the Quality, Feel the Width
Overview: Two London tailors horse around, wind up robbed, go to Rome and disrupt the Vatican.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-01-03
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Dublin Nightmare
Overview: Loot goes missing in robbery double-cross. Gang members, an ex-lover and a handsome stranger are left to sort it out.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-10-01
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