Colum Convey
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Biography: Colum Convey is a Northern Irish actor.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Belfast, Northern Ireland
Birthday: Not available
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Gender: Male
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As the Beast Sleeps
Overview: Kyle is loyal to his wife, his best mate and his boss in the Ulster Defence Union – and they love him as a husband, a brother and a son – but, with changing times and the emerging peace process, Kyle finds himself lost in the shadows of transition, uncertainty, and betrayal. In a world turned upside down, peace and brutality walk side-by-side, while love and loyalty are sacrificed to the new order. "As the Beast Sleeps" is set in Belfast's Protestant Rathcoole housing estate and explores with an up-to-the-minute urgency, the fragmentation within an extended family of loyalists in the context of the current cease-fire.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-02-03
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Circle of Deceit
Overview: John is a special forces operative who retires after his family is killed in a terrorist bombing, but his former bosses have other plans. He is re-activated for duty and is given orders to infiltrate the organization responsible for his family's murder.
Genres: TV Movie Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-10-16
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Hostages
Overview: True account of the six men held hostage by religious extremists in Beirut during the Reagan-Bush era.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-09-23
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Mosley
Overview: Jonathan Cake, Jemma Redgrave and Hugh Bonneville lead an outstanding cast in this mini-series tracing the turbulent political career and tempestuous private life of Oswald Mosley, leader of the British Union of Fascists during the 1930s. The mini series charts Mosley's rise to political notoriety through his personal life – from youthful rising star of the Conservative Party to potential leader of the Labour Party, and later abandonment of conventional party politics to become a figurehead of burgeoning fascism.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-02-12
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Titanic Town
Overview: Belfast 1972: The politically naive Bernie is trying to bring up a normal family in less than normal surroundings. Her best friend is accidentally shot dead by the IRA, and her neighbours are constantly raided by the army. In this climate of fear she stands up and condemns the murders. Criticising both factions, her call for a ceasefire is interpreted as an attack against the IRA, and as her peace movement takes momentum, she and her family are placed in the frontline.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-08-08
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A Matter of Choice for Billy
Overview: Belfast 1978: the Martin family, a year on. Norman is away in England, and his eldest son, Billy, and daughter, Lorna, are in charge of their younger sisters, Ann and Maureen. Second in the trilogy.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-05-10
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Too Late to Talk to Billy
Overview: Relationships are strained in a Belfast family, particularly between a father and his son. First in a multi-year trilogy.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-02-16
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A Coming to Terms for Billy
Overview: Belfast, 1980: July, the marching season ... Norman Martin, away for two years, returns with his 'English woman', Mavis. How will the family - particularly Billy - react? And has she achieved the impossible in mellowing the man? Third in the trilogy.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-02-21
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Lorna
Overview: In the follow-up to Graham Reid’s trilogy of ‘Billy’ plays, Billy's sister Lorna Martin is left to care for their Uncle Andy. Lorna feels trapped, but Andy wishes to give her the freedom she desires.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-06-02
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Holy Cross
Overview: Violence erupts in north Belfast when the residents of Glenbyrn, a predominantly Protestant suburb, object to schoolgirls walking through their neighbourhood from the Catholic area of Ardoyne to the Holy Cross primary school.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-10-10
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Rat in the Skull
Overview: In a cell in a London police station, a suspected I.R.A. bomber, Roche, has been detained for questioning. To help them in the interrogation, the London coppers have summoned Nelson, a detective from Northern Ireland's predominantly Protestant police force, the Royal Ulster Constabulary.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-01-01
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An Everlasting Piece
Overview: Colin is a Catholic and George is a poetry-loving Protestant. In Belfast in the 1980s, they could have been enemies, but instead they became business partners. After persuading a mad wig salesman, known as the Scalper, to sell them his leads, the two embark on a series of house calls
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-12-22
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Seconds Out
Overview: When boxer Murray Ritchie is framed for rape, he loses his chance of a long-awaited title fight. Released too late by the police, he blames Jack, his veteran trainer and manager, and goes over to rival promoter Tony Farrington. Needing the money, Murray is encouraged to turn to the rough and seedy unlicensed circuit for a fight that would see him banned from professional bouts.
Genres: Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-10-04
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A Man You Don't Meet Every Day
Overview: It's the mid-nineties in London and a couple meet through a lonely hearts column. She is an middle class English married woman, he is an lonely Irish mechanic. Despite the gulf between them they start an affair.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-11-09
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